Week 75 · about 45 minutes
Genesis 24
Genesis 24 · Memory verse Genesis 24:12
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Genesis 24), the matching word search and answer key (Genesis 24 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 Genesis 24 in about four minutes, stopping at Genesis 24:12: “He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Genesis 24?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Genesis 24 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.” 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, “He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.” Genesis 24 opens with these words: “Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.” The line to keep is Genesis 24:12: “He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.” Carry the word “master” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Genesis 24:12: “He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Genesis 24? Then try this: Read “He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master…” 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 Genesis 24. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Genesis 24:12. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Genesis 24 and write Genesis 24:12 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Genesis 24:12
“He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Genesis 24. Help us remember Genesis 24:12 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.