Teaching Time

Make copies of the Moses Page on cardstock in color or black and white, one for each child. 

Cut each page in the middle so there are two separate pictures of Moses.

Today’s lesson is about Courage. Courage is trusting God to help you do something that may seem hard or difficult.

Like we learned in the video, God gives us the courage to do good things that may seem scary to us. But He doesn’t want us to make bad choices and do things that don’t please Him.

Now let’s watch our Bible story about how God called a man named Moses to do a very important thing that would require a lot of courage!

Play Video (Bible story)

Moses and the Burning Bush

Bible Story

Make two stacks of the pictures: one for the Happy Moses and one for Sad Moses.

 

Hold up the two pictures of Moses—one happy and one sad. 

Have the children sit in rows and place their Moses pictures in front of them

Tell the Bible story slowly using the bullets provided. Be expressive! Bring excitement and interest to the story by varying your facial expression, voice, and volume level. 

When God speaks, use a deep but not scary voice.  

Pause at any bold text, which indicates it is time for the children to select a picture of Moses to hold up

OPTIONAL: After each bullet point, ask, “Which picture of Moses do you think shows how he is feeling right now.”  

 

●      There was a man named Moses who lived in the desert and happily watched over his flock of sheep. Hold up the happy Moses picture.

●      Moses liked being a shepherd. He loved and cared for his sheep. Hold up the happy Moses picture

●      Suddenly a bush began to burn in the desert.

●      Moses was surprised; he had never seen anything like this before and he was afraid. Hold up the sad Moses picture. 

●      The bush burned brightly with fire, but it did not burn up!

●      The fire was God speaking to Moses in the bush!

●      God told Moses to take his shoes off because the ground was holy, which means it was very special and set apart for the Lord.

●      Then God said, “I see what Pharoah is doing in Egypt to my people, the Israelites. Pharoah makes them work too hard, and they are tired and hurting!” Moses was glad that God wanted to help the Israelites.  Hold up the happy Moses picture

●      God said: “I am going to send you to free them!”    

●      Moses was afraid. He wanted God to send someone, but NOT HIM!  Hold up the sad Moses picture

●      God said, “I will go with you to Pharaoh; you will not be alone!”   

●      Moses shook his head no. He did not think anyone would believe that God sent him. Hold up the sad Moses picture.

●      God said, “Moses, put your staff on the ground.”

●      Moses put his staff on the ground. The leader places the staff on the ground.

●      God did a miracle to give Moses courage. The staff turned into a living snake, right before his eyes! Pick up the staff and lay the snake on the ground.

●      Ask children to hiss like a snake. HISSSSSSSS       

●      God did even more miracles to prove He had sent Moses.

●      Moses shook his head no. He was STILL scared because he could not talk well to people. Hold up the sad Moses picture.

●      God told Moses that He created people with a mouth to talk and ears to listen. Let’s point to our mouths … and our ears. God would teach Moses what to say.  

●      But Moses shook his head no again. He was still afraid! Once more, Moses asked God to send someone else!  Hold up the sad Moses picture.

●      Moses had a brother named Aaron, and God sent Aaron to help Moses.

●      Moses was very happy to see his brother Aaron! Now Moses FINALLY had the courage to go to Pharaoh. Hold up the happy Moses picture.

●      Moses and Aaron were happy to be together again. They went to the Israelite people. Hold up the happy Moses picture.    

●      Moses told the Israelite people that God cared about them and wanted to free them from the hard work that Pharaoh made them do. 

●      This made the Israelite people happy. Let’s have our happy Moses jump up and down.

●      Then they bowed down and worshiped God! Let’s have our Moses bow down to the ground to worship God.

Moses was happy because he had the courage to make the right choice to trust God and obey Him. Hold up the happy Moses picture.