An Object Lesson on Joy

🎈Bethy offers a comparison on regular happiness versus the joy that comes from the Lord. This is an object lesson for kids from Psalm 16:11.🎈
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Questions for Further Discussion:
1) What is regular happiness? What makes you happy?
2) What happens to regular happiness when something bad or hard happens?
3) What does Psalm 16:11 say about Joy?
4) What is the Joy of the Lord?
5) How can we have Joy event when bad and hard things happen?
6) When someone is filled with the Joy of the Lord and something bad or hard happens, what happens to there Joy?
7) Even when a Christian is sad because something bad or hard is happening, can they still have the Joy of the Lord?
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Lesson Notes:
Here are the instructions for this lesson so you can reproduce it for your kids or class.

Materials:
-Your Bible bookmarked to Psalm 16:11
-Candle
-Lighter
-Balloon with air in it and a smiley face drawn on it
-Balloon with water in it and a smiley face drawn on it

Directions:
-Talk about what the feeling of happiness is. What makes you happy?
-Light the candle: this represents bad and hard things that happen in our lives. These happen to everyone, and people respond to them in different ways. Ask your kids what bad and hard things they might be dealing with right now, or that they have experienced in the past.
-Put the balloon that represents happiness (the one with only air) over the flame.
-Look up Psalm 16:11 and talk about what it means to have Joy in the Lord.
-Light the candle again and put the balloon over it that has the water inside. This time the balloon will not pop.
-Use this as an opportunity to talk about how when someone is filled with the Joy of the Lord, their circumstances will not dictate how they respond emotionally to the world around them. Their outlook will be more focused on who Jesus is and less on what is happening around them. This is how to have true Joy.
-Ask the questions from the lesson and get your class to engage by responding to what they learned. Particularly, that they would be able to apply these truths to their lives.

All Scriptures were taken out to the ESV (English Standard Version) of the Bible.
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👀❤✝ Beth is the Children's Ministry Director at Calvary Chapel Ontario in Ontario, Oregon. Check out their YouTube channel here:
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