God is Good...God is GREAT! July 18, 2010

Family Worship Guide

Text(s) for Study: Exodus 16

Preparation for Worship:
God is so good. He is great. Over the course of 3 weeks, we have been and are engaging this truth in the context of Exodus. We are considering how good He is as we recognize His provision, consider the Sabbath rest, and acknowledge how He has equipped His Church.

Read Exodus 16

• Talk about God’s provision for His people. Discuss how they continued to grumble, yet God continued to provide. Help your children be sober-minded as they consider ways they might be grumbling at God’s provisions. Encourage them to repent and begin to see how God provides for them every day.
• Discuss what God wanted the Israelites to do on the Sabbath. Explain how resting is contrary to our culture’s “go-go-go” mindset. Pray together that God would reveal to your family how you can worship in His provision of rest.
• God’s provision for rest was physical, in that there is a specific day of the week that God has ordained for rest. But His rest is also manifested in the person of Jesus Christ. Read Matthew 11:28-29 as you encourage your family to moment-by-moment rest in Him.

Everyday Conversations (LOOK FOR opportunities to revisit the preached Word and the foundational truth(s) taught):’
We learn and retain 20% of what we hear, 40% of what we hear and see, and 80% of what we see, hear, and do. You are teaching far more to your children in the everyday moments of life than you are in the “Sunday best” talks. Pray that God would help you teach your children to obey God’s command of the Sabbath rest! Pray that your family would find daily, moment-by-moment rest in Christ.

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