Week 745 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 30
Isaiah 30 · Memory verse Isaiah 30:15
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 30), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 30 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a piece of bread
Hold a piece of bread. Read Isaiah 30 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 30:15: “For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 30?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 30 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,” 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, “One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.” Isaiah 30 opens with these words: ““Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that…” The line to keep is Isaiah 30:15: “For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You…” Carry the word “thus” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 30:15: “For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 30? Then try this: Read “For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your…” 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 Isaiah 30. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 30:15. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 30 and write Isaiah 30:15 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 30:15
“For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 30. Help us remember Isaiah 30:15 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.