What To Do With a Wish Lesson 4 Activity
Lucy prays for her BIGGEST “wishes” and her smallest “wishes.” She prays on vacation, in the car, and on the sideline. Her prayers are about a mixture of things from Grandma Lucille getting better to hoping for a friend in her cabin at camp to wanting to have short, brown hair. And you know what?! God hears all of that! There is no insignificant prayer. God wants to hear everything that is on your heart. But what do you do after you pray? Answer: You wait…patiently. This part feels harder for us because we prefer answers right away, but that is not always how God wants it and His plan is better than ours…hard to hear, I know. The waiting, though, is where our faith and trust grow and that’s where the beauty begins. Lucy leans on some Bible verses while she waits and that is what we should do, too. While we are waiting, we can draw closer to God through more prayer, reading the Bible, memorizing scripture, and sharing about the good news of the cross with others.
Our cross lacing activity embodies this idea of intertwining our lives and our prayers with God’s wisdom and God’s plan for us. God wants us to be open and honest with Him and He promises to be open and honest with you. He is ready to build a relationship with you whenever you are and it all begins with a, “Dear God, _________,” and ends with an, “Amen.” Everything in between is part of the beauty of being in a relationship with Him and that includes the waiting. Psalm 130:5 says it well, “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.”
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Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14
