Week 688 · about 45 minutes
Proverbs 24
Proverbs 24 · Memory verse Proverbs 24:2
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Proverbs 24), the matching word search and answer key (Proverbs 24 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a seed
Hold a seed. Read Proverbs 24 in about four minutes, stopping at Proverbs 24:2: “for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Proverbs 24?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Proverbs 24 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:” 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, “lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.” Proverbs 24 opens with these words: “Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:” The line to keep is Proverbs 24:2: “for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.” Carry the word “hearts” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Proverbs 24:2: “for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Proverbs 24? Then try this: Read “for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.” 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 Proverbs 24. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Proverbs 24:2. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Proverbs 24 and write Proverbs 24:2 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Proverbs 24:2
“for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Proverbs 24. Help us remember Proverbs 24:2 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.