Weekly Lesson Plan -
INSTRUCTIONS: Look up the story in your Bible. See if your kids can guess the Big Idea.
THE BIBLE: Jesus Heals the Leper: Luke 5:12-15
(Luke 7:21; 1 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 3:20)
BIG IDEA: Jesus cares about us when we are sick.
INSTRUCTIONS: Look up the story in your Bible and read it to your preschoolers
In our Bible story today, we’re going to learn about someone who was sick with a disease called leprosy. Leprosy is a sickness that causes blisters and sores all over someone’s skin. It is contagious, which means it can spread by touching people. People with leprosy were called lepers.
Lepers were considered unclean and were treated as outcasts. They had to live together in the streets outside of town and couldn’t talk to or see their family or friends, who were too afraid of getting sick to see them.
We’ll see in our story today that Jesus was different from everyone else. He didn’t avoid people with leprosy. He went to them. He cared for them.
A miracle is something only God can do. There are 37 miracles of Jesus recorded in the Bible, and all of them were done to help others and show God’s power. They were not just for fun or for show.
Out of those 37 miracles, 25 of them were about Jesus healing people who were hurt or sick.
We can read in the first four books of the New Testament, known as the Gospels, about what Jesus did during His ministry on earth. He spent a lot of His time helping and caring for people who were sick or needed help.
When you are sick, or when you know someone who is sick, you can pray to God and ask Him for healing.
Sometimes God heals our bodies and sometimes He doesn’t, but Jesus showed us that God always loves us and takes care of us when we’re sick.
Have you ever known someone who was sick and was healed, either through doctors or medicine or through a miracle? Tell me about it….
1 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:5
We just learned about people who were sick with leprosy. Jesus healed them and made them clean. None of us have leprosy, but we all have something that we need Jesus to heal us from. Does anyone know what we need to be healed from?
We have sin in our lives. We are all born with sin; that means we do things God doesn’t want us to do. Just like the lepers couldn’t heal themselves, we can’t cleanse our sins on our own. We all need Jesus to cleanse our sins and heal us and make us new.
INSTRUCTIONS: Open your Bible and Read 1 Corinthians 5:17 and Titus 3:5.
When we give our lives to Jesus, He makes us a new creation. We don’t have to live with sin ruling our heart anymore.
How are we like the lepers? We all are like the lepers in the story because we all need Jesus.
What does Jesus do for us? Jesus forgives us from our sins and heals us, making us new.
PRAYER
Toddler Tips: A toddler needs may have trouble understanding the concept of prayer because they cannot see God. Echo Prayer is a good strategy to encourage and teach kids how to talk to God. The teacher or parent speaks aloud a short segment of the prayer, and the children echo back the same sentence or phrase.
Dear God, thank you that Jesus loves us and forgives us. Help us to share our story about You with others.
