On the right track - Week 4
Racers, start your engines! In a race, you might need to navigate obstacles, pit stops, and tight turns in order to stay on the right track. As you’re zooming through the track, there’s so much to think about and it can be hard to stay focused on what’s most important! In this four-week series, our families will learn some important stories from Joshua about how obstacles are no problem for God and courage comes from knowing God’s words. No matter how long the race, God can use someone like you because with God, there is victory!
BIG IDEA: With God, there is victory!
BIBLE: Joshua 5:13–6:25; Psalm 100
MEMORY VERSE
Elementary: "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)
Toddler Twist: "God will always be there for me!" Hebrews 10:23
WATCH:
Preschool- teaching video
Elementary- teaching video
SONG: My Lighthouse and See A Victory
DISCIPLE:
Show this clip from “Cars” or this clip from Cars 3 (or both, if you have time).
FOR BIGS: You might want to pull a racing scene clip from movies like Speed Racer (2008), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), or The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).
Lightning McQueen in the Cars movies started out as a fresh rookie racecar whose only purpose was to race and win. But as his story went on, he started to care about others more than he cared about winning. So, even in those instances when he didn’t really win, he was still able to have some kind of victory.
If the Israelites had only cared about winning, they would not have marched around the Jericho walls blowing trumpets. But they knew that God would give them the win in the right way and at the right time. Remember Rahab? She believed it, too. She helped hide the spies that were scoping out the land. That’s why she was saved when the walls came down.
God gave the Israelites victory over Jericho because they trusted God’s instructions and believed that only with God, there is victory!
Pray: Dear God, there is nothing you cannot do! We love and praise you because you give us victory! Amen.