Locations & Times

This video-teaching series will look at four stories that show God is bigger than our bad thoughts, our worries, our problems and our fears. Kids will play fun stage games that require some bigparticipation, but in the end, they’ll see that God is bigger than anything!

ASK YOUR KID

What does God say about you?

VERSE

“God is able to do far more than we could ever ask for or imagine,” Ephesians 3:20a.

GROUP Q&A

Can you believe 300 men defeated the whole Midianite army? God is so big! What do you think Gideon expected to happen? (Take responses.)
Gideon didn’t think he was big enough or strong enough for that fight, but God thought something different. Sometimes I don’t think I’m good enough, either. Has anyone else ever had a bad thought about themselves? (Take some responses.) Sometimes we have bad thoughts and we think we’re too weak, or too small, or not smart enough. But God is bigger than our bad thoughts, and we should let him tell us who we are.

Let’s pray and thank our good God.

Dear God, thanks for loving us and telling us who we really are. You tell us we are loved and good enough. When we start to think something else about ourselves, remind us you are bigger than those bad thoughts. We love you and pray in Jesus’ name, amen.

PARENT BIBLE STUDY

Read: Judges 6 & 7

Gideon’s bravery brought Israel out of hiding from the fierce Midianites. But Gideon had to surrender his battle plan and face their intimidating army with only a small portion of the men he started with. This wasn’t at all what Gideon had in mind. But God made Gideon strong. And though God brought Gideon to the end of himself, Gideon didn’t run away. He questioned God and told God he was the least and the weakest. He asked God to prove himself again and again with miracles and signs. Finally, Gideon obeyed God. Despite his fear and a shrinking army, Gideon acted on what he knew was true – God was big and powerful and FOR HIM. God had chosen him for this battle. Gideon knew that if God was for him, what was against him didn’t matter. Any army, no matter the size, was no match for the one true God.

We have all felt as if we were up against something too big and overwhelming – something that threatens to crush us. But as it turns out, these are the best moments for us to see that God is bigger. He is enough. Gideon and his army won the battle with a sneak attack and a strategy that turned the Midianites against each other. It made no sense: the underdog army was severely outnumbered, led by someone who could have been described as a coward. Yet God encouraged Gideon and transformed him into a leader who took his army confidently into battle, knowing it was with and for the Lord. Gideon had a much different picture of the way he would achieve victory, but his obedience to God and submission to God’s plan gave him and his army the opportunity to see that God is strong, big, and on their side. That was a much more significant victory.

Do you believe that God is for you? Romans 8:31 is a verse you’ve probably heard many times. “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

What would change for you if you fully believed that God is for you in all your battles and bigger than anything that threatens to crush you?