God Restores His Purpose For Me
Big Truth:
God Restores His Purpose For Me
Job 10:13; Psalm 57:2; 138:8; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 14:27; 55:11; Romans 5:10; 8:28; Ephesians 1:5, 9, 11; 3:11
Bible Verse:
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Big Ideas:
- God provides reconciliation.
- God restores our relationships with Him.
- God restores our relationships with others.
- God restores our relationships with ourselves.
- God restores our relationships with the lost.
Bible Story:
Nehemiah 1-13Nehemiah was a faithful follower of God and helped lead the Israelites back to their homeland after they had been in exile. Nehemiah always gave God the glory for the good things that he did. Even though the Israelites had been in exile because of their sin, God restored them back to their homeland as He promised He would. God is faithful and He restores His purposes for us.
Story:
Redemption: Review
Thankfully, God does not just leave us in the broken world, but is repairing the brokenness through His Son. From the very beginning of time, God promised He would fix creation, and He kept His promise by sending Jesus to rescue us from our sin. Jesus came to live on the earth and willingly died on the cross so that sin’s power over creation would be broken forever.
Every child should know that:
- When we are redeemed, we are given a new purpose.
Every child should:
- Talk about Jesus as the one who restores us back to right relationship with God and others.
Every child should feel:
- Thankful for the restored relationships that God gives us through Christ.
Every child should want:
- To rightly pursue God’s purpose for our lives.
