Week 908 · about 45 minutes
Hosea 12
Hosea 12 · Memory verse Hosea 12:6
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Hosea 12), the matching word search and answer key (Hosea 12 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a seed
Hold a seed. Read Hosea 12 in about four minutes, stopping at Hosea 12:6: “Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Hosea 12?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Hosea 12 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.” 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, “Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”” Hosea 12 opens with these words: “Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil…” The line to keep is Hosea 12:6: “Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.” Carry the word “turn” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Hosea 12:6: “Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Hosea 12? Then try this: Read “Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your 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 Hosea 12. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Hosea 12:6. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Hosea 12 and write Hosea 12:6 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Hosea 12:6
“Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Hosea 12. Help us remember Hosea 12:6 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.