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A Quiet Power
OBJECTS: None
What comes to your mind when you think of something powerful? Let’s list a few of our ideas:
• A jet engine is powerful. It lifts and carries planes through the sky.
• The wind is powerful. It turns windmills and sometimes causes large waves to form in the ocean.
• A horse is powerful. It can run for long distances and some horses pull heavy loads.
• Electricity is powerful. It lights our houses and towns.
• The engine of a train is powerful. It can pull a long line of railroad cars.
Many of the powerful things that come to mind are also noisy. In the Bible we read about a quiet kind of power.
Jesus met with his disciples, as he prepared to go to heaven to be with God, and he told them, “… you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…” (1:8).
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Promises!
OBJECT: None
Have any of you made a promise to another person? (Give the children time to respond.) One time I promised a friend that I would come to her birthday party. My friend knew that I would be there because I had promised.
It is not a good thing to break a promise is it? Why not? (Give the children time to respond. All will agree that it’s not good to break a promise, but may need help with the, “Why not?” question. You might mention disappointment, or that it would make someone sad if we break a promise.)
We’ve talked quite a bit in the past about Jesus resurrection. You’ll remember that at first the disciples didn’t believe Mary Magdalene and the other Mary when they said that Jesus was alive. But, after Jesus visited with them in person, they knew he was alive.
One day, Jesus met with the disciples and talked with them again. That time he told them to go to Jerusalem and “wait for the promise of the Father.” (vs. 4) Of course, Jesus was talking about the promise His Father in Heaven planned to give them. He explained, “For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days for now.” (vs. 5)
His friends didn’t really understand what he was talking about, so they began to ask him about something else that was on their minds. They had been waiting a long, long time for the Kingdom to be back in the hands of their own people, and they thought Jesus might make that happen, so they asked him about those kinds of changes in government.
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