This is one of the free lesson plans for Sunday school that will teach your students how they become strong with Christ.

With Jesus in charge of our lives, we can look forward to someday being very big and strong Christians. With Jesus in charge of our lives, we can count on Him to do the hard work to make us strong and successful. But we have to be willing to work at being strong Christians.

When Joshua led the Hebrew army to take Jericho, one of their biggest obstacles would be to break through the big, thick walls that protected that city. However, the Lord went before them and did the toughest work Himself, which was to demolish that wall and give the army many directions from which to attack.

Jericho was the first land the Hebrews took in the forty years since they left Egypt. Now they were being told to stand up like men and fight. Sometimes following God is not easy. Sometimes we have to do what we don’t want to do in order to build our faith or build up our courage and strength. Think of some things you don’t like to do but that you have to do.

Could it be that God wants us to work when we’re tired? Why would He want that? He
knows that working when you don’t want to makes you stronger. What happens when we do things we don’t want to do because we love God? We get stronger.

Ask your Sunday school students if they have to do things they don’t want to do or are too tired to do.
Prompts:
Minding your parents’ rules, even though you might not always like them;
Standing up for God when others say that faith is silliness;
Resisting temptation to lie or steal, even tho a friend is doing that.

When you do these things, God starts working his own little miracles inside of you. Every time you resist temptation to take the easy way out and you do the right thing, you get a little bit stronger in Christ.

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