God Takes Care of Me (First Steps Devotions)

BOOK: God Takes Care of Me (First Steps Devotions)
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Paul J. Loth
Illustrated by
Daniel J. Hochstatter

Copyright © 1992, 2012 by
Educational Publishing Concepts

All rights
reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or
reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical
reviews or articles.

Table of Contents

An Open
Letter to Parents

God Gave
Adam a Beautiful Home

God Gave
Adam a Wife

God
Protected Cain Even Though He Disobeyed

God Kept
Noah Safe

God Saved
Lot from His Enemies

God Gave
Abram a Large Family

God Gave
Isaac a Wife

God
Blessed Jacob

God Kept
Jacob Safe from His Brother

God
Saved Joseph from His Brothers

God Took
Care of Joseph in Egypt

God Made
Joseph the Leader in Egypt

God
Watched Over Moses as a Baby

God Gave
Moses a Nice Home

God
Protected Moses from His Enemies

God Freed
the Israelites from Egypt

God Saved
the Israelites from the Red Sea

God Led the
Israelites Through the Wilderness

God Gave
the Israelites Food

God
Showed Moses the Promised Land

God Hid the
Two Spies from Danger

God
Protected Rahab

God Did the
Impossible for the Israelites

God
Stopped the Clock for the Israelites

God Gave
Gideon a Sign

God Gave
the Israelites Victory

God Gave
Ruth a Family

God Gave
Hannah What She Wanted

God Gave
Samuel a Good Teacher

God
Chose David

God
Saved David from the Giant

God
Saved David from King Saul

God
Helped Solomon to Be a Good King

God Sent
the Ravens to Feed Elijah

God
Saved the Widow’s Children

God Kept
the Israelites Safe While They Built the Walls

God
Kept Jeremiah Safe

God
Protected Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

God Shut
the Mouths of the Lions

God Sent a
Big Fish to Save Jonah

God
Gave Elizabeth a Son

God Made
Mary Special

God Gave
the Shepherds the Message First

Jesus
Forgave and Healed the Paralyzed Man

Jesus Brought Jarius’s Daughter Back to
Life

Jesus
Healed the Man with a Crippled Hand

Jesus
Healed the Army Officer’s Servant from a Distance

Jesus
Stopped the Funeral of the Widow’s Son

Jesus Encouraged John’s Disciples

Jesus
Healed the Man Who Could Not Speak or See

Jesus
Saved the Disciples

Jesus
Responded to the Touch of the Sick Woman

Jesus
Helped Two Blind Men to See

Jesus
Fed 5,000 Men

Jesus Let
the Disciples Help Him

Jesus
Saved Peter

Jesus
Healed the Gentile Woman’s Daughter

Jesus
Shared with Peter, James, and John

Jesus
Raised Lazarus from the Dead

Jesus
Healed Ten Men with Leprosy

Jesus
Found Zacchaeus

Jesus Praised Mary’s Actions

Jesus
Cried Over Jerusalem

Jesus
Served the Disciples

Jesus
Prayed for the Disciples

Jesus
Saved the World

Jesus
Rose Again

Jesus
Forgave Peter

Jesus
Promised to Return for the Believers

God
Released Peter and the Apostles

God
Helped Christians Spread the Gospel Despite Enemies

Jesus
Converted Saul

Jesus
Encouraged Paul

God Saved
Paul

God
Helped Paul in Rome

An Open Letter to Parents

It is no secret that the lessons learned in the first five
years of life are among the most significant lessons your children will ever learn.

As a parent, I have thought about that often. I want my
children to love God, to understand His Word, and to follow Him. I think every
Christian parent feels the same way. That is why Christian parents want to
encourage their children to begin private devotions at a young age.

God Takes Care of Me
helps your children understand God’s love. God took care of many people
throughout the pages of Scripture. As these individual stories are told,
children are encouraged to think about how God takes care of them, too. Each
devotional time is divided into four sections:

The Thinking Step

Discussion questions help your
children relate to the experiences of biblical characters. By thinking about
related experiences in their own lives, your children will have a good
opportunity to understand how they felt.

The Listening Step

God’s Word is truth. As children
hear God’s Word, they are led into the truth and can grow in the knowledge of
God. During this second step in their devotions, children hear how God took care
of His people in the Bible.

The Talking Step

Learning takes place when there is
interaction. After hearing God’s Word, your children will have the opportunity
to talk about ways in which they can apply God’s truth to their lives.

The Praying Step

Children can be guided in the
development of their relationship with the heavenly Father. Your children will
learn to talk with God as they would talk to a friend. Encourage your children
to memorize the short Bible verse that ends each devotion. Each verse relates
directly to the theme of the devotional, and memorizing it helps keep the
lesson with your children.

May your children’s devotional time be a time in which they
act on God’s truth and grow in understanding of how God cares for them.

Paul J. Loth, Ed. D.

 

God Gave Adam a Beautiful Home
Genesis 2:8-17

The Thinking Step

Do you like your home? Why?

What is your favorite room? What do you like to do there?

The Listening Step

Adam was the first person God made. God made a beautiful
place for Adam to live. He gave Adam a nice home.

The Garden of Eden was Adam’s home. It had many trees. It
even had a big river. When Adam got hungry, all he had to do was eat something
from one of the trees!

God thought of everything. Every beautiful tree was in the
garden. Every tree with tasty fruit was there, too. And the river gave the
trees plenty of water.

God let Adam take care of everything. God took good care of
Adam.

The Talking Step

Name all the things God has given you.

Why did He give them to you?

The Praying Step

Thank You, God, for all You have
given me. Thank You for taking such good care of me.

The earth and everything on it belong to the LORD. The world and its people
belong to him.
Psalm 24:1
God Gave Adam a Wife
Genesis 2:8-25

The Thinking Step

Do you ever get lonely? Why?

What do you do when you are lonely?

Do you ask God to help you not be so lonely?

The Listening Step

God made Adam. He was the first man. God gave Adam a
beautiful garden. The prettiest and the best trees were there.

God filled the garden with birds and animals. God brought
all the animals to Adam. He let Adam name each one. But Adam was lonely. God
knew Adam needed someone who was like him.

So God gave Adam a wife. Adam named her Eve. Adam was not
lonely anymore. God took care of him. Adam and Eve were very happy together.

The Talking Step

Name a time you were lonely and God helped you. What did God
do?

Thank God for giving you a family and friends to help you
not be lonely.

The Praying Step

Dear God, thank You for giving me a family and friends to
help me not be so lonely. Help me remember that You are always with me.

A friend is always a friend, and relatives are born to share our troubles.
Proverbs 17:17
God Protected Cain Even Though He
Disobeyed
Genesis 4:1-15

The Thinking Step

When was the last time you disobeyed your parents?

Did they still love you? Did they take care of you? Why?

The Listening Step

Cain was not happy. Gain and his brother, Abel, brought
offerings to God. God did not like what Gain brought. God liked what Abel
brought better. That made Cain angry. Cain became so angry he killed Abel.

“Where is Abel?” God asked Cain one day. ‘‘How should I
know?” Cain said. “Am I supposed to look after my brother?”

God knew what had happened to Abel. He knew Cain had killed
him. So God punished Cain. “This punishment is too hard!” Cain pleaded with
God. “Anyone could kill me.” So God protected Cain. He put a special mark on
Cain so anyone who saw him would not kill him.

Cain disobeyed God. He did a very bad thing. Even though God
punished Cain, He still protected him. God kept Cain safe.

The Talking Step

Name a time you disobeyed God. Did He punish you? How?

Did God still take care of you? Why?

The Praying Step

Dear God, thank You for taking care of me. Thank You for
always watching over me no matter how I might disobey You.

The LORD protects his people, and they can come to him in times of trouble.
Psalm 37:39
God Kept Noah Safe
Genesis 6:1—8:1

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