Jesus Performed Miracles

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List below the names of sick family members and friends. Allow each family member to add names to the list anytime during the week. Post the list on the refrigerator, and encourage each family member to pray every day for those on

the list. Toward the end of the week, pray together and prepare a get-well card for each person. Let each person know you are praying for them to get well.

Jesus Healed an Official’s Son

John 4:46-54

Preschool

Key Passage: John 20:30-31

Big Picture Question: Who can heal sick people? Jesus can heal sick people.

Christ Connection: Jesus saved a boy from dying. Then the boy’s father knew who Jesus is: the Savior God promised. Jesus said that the boy was healed, and the

father believed Him. Jesus showed that He is powerful.

Jesus is God’s Son.

Kids

Big Picture Question: What happened when Jesus performed miracles? Jesus’ miracles helped people

believe in Him.

Christ Connection: The official wanted Jesus to save his son from death, and it was not until Jesus did so that he understood who Jesus is: the promised

Messiah. It took faith for the official to believe Jesus’ words—that his son

was healed. In healing the

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Each family member should share something bad that has happened to him or her. Then, he or she must share something good that came from what happened.

Discuss how God is always in control over good and evil. List one or more of the stories below.

Jesus Drove Out Evil Spirits

Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37

Preschool

Big Picture Question: How could Jesus make evil spirits go away? Jesus is more powerful than all evil.

Christ Connection: Jesus made evil spirits go away because He is more powerful than evil. One day, Jesus will come back and make all bad things go away

forever.

Kids

Big Picture Question: What did the evil spirit know about Jesus? Jesus is the Holy One of God.

Christ Connection: Jesus is the King who has come to make all things right. By commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man, Jesus showed He has power

over all our enemies. One day Jesus will take away Satan, sin, and death once and for all.

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Focus this week on being thankful. Set a container somewhere in a central area of the home. Place several pennies beside it. Each time a family member shows thankfulness, he or she should place a penny in the container. At the end of the

week, count the number of pennies in the container and write the number below.

Peter’s mother-in-law was thankful for how Jesus healed her. Allow each person to share something he or she is thankful for.

Jesus Healed Peter’s Mother-in-Law

Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39

Preschool

Big Picture Question: How can we thank Jesus for His help? We can love Jesus and obey Him.

Christ Connection: Peter’s mother-in-law showed she was thankful to Jesus by serving Him. When God created the world, He did not make sickness. Sickness

came when sin entered the world, but Jesus came to take away sin. We can thank Jesus for saving us from

sin. We can love Jesus and obey Him.

Kids

Big Picture Question: How can we show we are thankful to Jesus? We can serve Jesus and live for Him.

Christ Connection: The prophet Isaiah wrote that the promised Messiah would bear our sickness and

carry our pain. Jesus fulfilled this prophecy as He healed people. Sickness exists

because the world is broken

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As a family, create your own body wash. An adult or older teen should carefully grate a favorite bar of soap into a saucepan. Add 2 to 3 cups of water to the grated soap. Heat it over medium heat until the soap dissolves into a milky

water. You may choose to use essential oils to create your own scent. Allow the mixture to cool for a few hours. It should become more of a gel. If it’s too hard, reheat and add more water. Pour it in a squeezable container and enjoy! Talk

about how soap cleans away dirt, but only Jesus can remove sin.

Jesus Cleansed a Leper

Preschool

Big Picture Question: How did Jesus help the man with leprosy? Jesus touched the man and healed him.

Christ Connection: The man with the skin disease had to stay away from his friends and family. Jesus helped the man. Jesus touched the man and healed him. Sin is

like a disease that keeps us away from God, but Jesus will take away our sin if we ask Him.

Kids

Big Picture Question: Who can take away our sin?

Jesus can and wants to cleanse us from sin.

Christ Connection: Not only did Jesus have the power to make a leper clean, He was willing to make

him clean. Like the disease of leprosy, sin deeply affects all people and makes them spiritually dead.

Jesus willingly died on the cross and rose from the dead to save us from our sin

and give us new life.

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Read Matthew 9:1-8 together. Create get-well packs for a hospital or church ministry. Include a travel-size tissue pack, travel-size hand sanitizer or lotion, a few cough drops or peppermint candies, and some adhesive bandages. Place the

items in a ziplock bag. Write on an adhesive label This may help you feel better, but only Jesus heals! We are praying for you. Pray over the bags for the people who will use them. Share below something about your experience of making or

delivering the get-well packs.

Four Friends Helped

Preschool

Big Picture Question: How did Jesus help the man who could not walk? Jesus healed the man and forgave

his sins.

Christ Connection: The man who could not walk needed help. He needed to be healed. First, Jesus forgave the man’s sins. Jesus showed that He can forgive sins because He is God. Then Jesus healed the

man so he could walk. Jesus has the power to heal and to forgive sins.

Kids

Big Picture Question: How could Jesus forgive people’s sins? Jesus was going to take the punishment

for sin when He died on the cross.

Christ Connection: The man who was paralyzed needed to be healed. Jesus knew this and

did something even greater; Jesus forgave his sins, and then He

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It’s always the right time to do something good! Assemble together and assign a family member a task to help another family member. For example, instruct siblings to help each other with chores. As a family, you may also volunteer at a

soup kitchen. Talk about how God wants us to do good things each day because we love Him and want to obey Him. Write below the task each family member performed and the date he or she completed it.

Jesus Healed a Man’s Hand

Preschool

Big Picture Question: What is the Sabbath? The Sabbath is a day to rest.

Christ Connection: Jesus healed a man’s hand on the Sabbath even though the religious leaders thought He shouldn’t. Jesus showed that God gives us rules to help

us, not to hurt us. The religious leaders made a plan to kill Jesus, but God planned to use Jesus’ death to help

people by saving them from their sin.

Kids

Big Picture Question: What did Jesus’ miracles prove? Jesus’ miracles proved that He is the Son of God.

Christ Connection: Jesus showed that God’s laws were meant to help people, not to hurt them. Jesus

acted in love, even on the Sabbath. The religious leaders planned to kill

Jesus. They did not know Jesus was going to die to show God’s

love to the whole world. God provided forgiveness and salvation through Jesus’ death on the cross.