Follow Here: I Cried Unto The Lord
Shelby Learns to Help
Others
Shelby needed some new clothes for the cooler weather. All her clothes from last year were too
small. Shelby and her mother went
shopping and bought everything Shelby needed. They bought shoes and boots, dresses, pants, shirts
and a coat, plus many other things. Shelby was enjoying all her new clothes tremendously,
when she looked at her new shoes, she remembered something. "Mom," she said, I remembered just now that my friend at school does not have very good
shoes. Her shoes are all beat up and
worn nearly to pieces." Her mother replied,
“The cool fall weather is soon going to change and many children need a new
size clothing. They can no longer fit in
last fall's clothing. Sometimes people need
a little help from each other.”
Shelby was quiet until dinner. They all gathered at the table to eat. Shelby asked her dad if he would pray for her
friend, Renea, and her need for some new shoes.
He prayed for Renea and asked for the blessing of their food.
Later that evening before bed, they had devotions as a
family and Shelby’s dad chose a very important topic, a topic we all should pay
very close attention to.
James 2:16 And one of
you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye
give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
---If you have the ability to give to someone in need then you should. If God brings someone into your life that needs clothing or needs food. Then we should do what we can because we can.
Sometimes God gives us what we need and sometimes others
give us what we need. We should be
humble enough to accept someone’s generosity of a helping hand or a gift from
them which is an answer to prayer. First
giving to God then giving to others. God
can show his love through us.
We also need to remember that giving to others or helping
others is being like God, however, we must ask direction as to whom we help and
for when we help.
Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do
good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Later, Shelby was trying to go to sleep but she couldn’t
stop thinking about her friend. She resized
after a while that God was telling her something. God was telling Shelby to buy her friends
shoes with her own allowance. She
finally went to sleep and slept all night.
That morning she got up and went to eat breakfast. "Dad, We prayed that God would give
Renea new shoes but God told me, in my heart, to buy them with my allowance. Mother said we will have to go shopping
together maybe even tonight." Her father
agreed, and they prayed over their breakfast.
They thanked the Lord for their food and all their many blessings.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
When people give to the poor it is called giving for charity. Charity in the bible means love in action.
God is an example of charity. God provides for our needs each day. We give thanks for those things and ask for
our needs. If our hearts are right with him.
He will provide.
He loved us so much
he sent us a very special gift. He sent
a gift that would change the heart of anyone who believes and accepts his gift. People
must be humble enough to ask and accept his gift of charity. The gift is his son. His only begotten son. Who laid down his life for you upon the
cross. Who shed his sinless blood in
your place. All because God wants to
save you from your sin and does not want you to go to hell. He tells us to ask, ask for what? ask him to
save you. Believe upon the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. Believe
upon his death, burial, and resurrection.
He has offered you a gift of charity are you humble enough to receive it? God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you.
Answers: To Don’t Get Gonged
(Hang Man)
Puzzle 1: Let Us Do Good
Puzzle 2: Household of Faith
Puzzle 3. James 2:15 and 16
Mark Off Letters as They Are Called.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Instead of calling this “Hangman” – I’m calling it – Don’t Get Gonged.
Questions:
1.
What was the name of the young girl in our story
today?
2.
God gave a gift to all people what was it?
3.
What does the word charity mean?
4.
What do people usually need in the fall season?
5.
True Or False – Sometimes God uses us to answer
our own prayers.
6.
God does not want us to be too ___________to
accept a gift of charity.
7.
What did Shelby use to purchase her friend a
gift?
8.
What was Shelby’s prayer Request?
9.
Shelby’s parents bought her some gifts what were
they?
10.
Who told Shelby she needed to buy a gift for her
friend?
11. Should we have devotions to God each day?
Print Two Of The Below:
1. One For The Memory Verse Chart.
Remove one word each time you recite the verse
until they can say the verse completely without the chart.
2. One to hold up in your hand to read and explain before the lesson.
Have them repeat after you as you say short phrases of the verse.
Then move into the story.
