Week 569 · about 45 minutes
Psalms 55
Psalms 55 · Memory verse Psalms 55:19
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Psalms 55), the matching word search and answer key (Psalms 55 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a key
Hold a key. Read Psalms 55 in about four minutes, stopping at Psalms 55:19: “God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Psalms 55?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Psalms 55 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.” Psalms 55 opens with these words: “Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.” The line to keep is Psalms 55:19: “God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.” Carry the word “enthroned” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Psalms 55:19: “God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Psalms 55? Then try this: Read “God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Psalms 55. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Psalms 55:19. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Psalms 55 and write Psalms 55:19 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Psalms 55:19
“God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Psalms 55. Help us remember Psalms 55:19 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.