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Starting with Jesus

SeedPod Kids

Katie Chitwood

SeedPod Kids April 2022

Twins that Weren’t Alike Part 1

Twins that Weren’t Alike Part 2

Twins that Weren’t Alike Part 3

Twins that Weren’t Alike Part 4

Twins that Weren’t Alike Part 5

Twins that Weren’t Alike Part 6

Jacob’s New Name Part 1

Jacob’s New Name Part 2

Jacob’s New Name Part 3

Jacob’s New Name Part 4

Jacob’s New Name Part 5

Jacob’s New Name Part 6

Family Problems Part 1

Family Problems Part 2

Family Problems Part 3

Family Problems Part 4

Family Problems Part 5

Family Problems Part 6

Faithfulness Rewarded Part 1

Faithfulness Rewarded Part 2

Faithfulness Rewarded Part 3

Faithfulness Rewarded Part 4

Faithfulness Rewarded Part 5

Faithfulness Rewarded Part 6

Hello friends. Welcome to the Seed Pod for kids. Thank you for joining me today as we spend time with our friend Jesus. Spending time with Jesus is the best way to start your day. Let's begin our time together praising him. My boys and I like to watch the music videos that Fountain View Academy put together, especially on Friday nights and Sabbath mornings. It's one of our special things that we like to do together. One of their music videos shows them riding on a stage coach with two big horses, pulling them along some mountain roads and they're singing the song. Faith is the Victory. I love the fall colors and the Big Red Coach rumbling along as they sing about the victory that we can have when we live a life trusting and relying on God. If your family wants to view that video, you can check it out on YouTube for free. But remember, you must always get your parents' permission. Faith is the victory To the angels. He shall know his name from the hills of night. Our heart with love, flame, Jesus name a victory. A victory the, Have you ever done something wrong? Have you needed forgiveness maybe from a parent or from a sibling, or maybe even from God? Well, you know what? Jesus forgives you, and that's what we're talking about this week, isn't it? So let's look up our Bible verse for today. Hebrews eight, verse 12. Hebrews eight, verse 12. That's in the New Testament. Hebrews chapter eight, verse 12. If you need more time, press pause. And then when you're ready, when you found it, press play. I hope you have your journal that you're able to write down the verse for today. Hebrews chapter eight, verse 12. Here's what it says, for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more what God is merciful when we mess up, when we do sinful things, when we do unrighteousness, that means things that are not righteous. When we do lawless things, that's things that go against God's law. God is still merciful and he will remember our sins. No more isn't that wonderful. Here is a prayer that I would pray using this Bible verse, and you can try your own prayer using the Bible verse, but I'll kind of talk you through and pray for you what I would use for this Bible verse. Here we go. Dear Lord, thank you that you are merciful when I am unrighteous, when I mess up, when I do sinful things, thank you that you have promised that you'll remember my sins. No more. Help me to believe that promise. Thank you for washing my sins away. Amen. Something else you could pray. Let's say that you mess up and you're mean to your brother or sister and maybe, maybe you hit them. So when you ask them for forgiveness, then we need to ask God for forgiveness too. So we would say, dear Lord, you have promised that you are merciful. You know that I hit my brother today, or I hit my sister today. Please forgive me. Please remember my sins no more. Amen. Do you see how he took that Bible verse and we made it apply to us today? Isn't that wonderful? Boys and girls, God forgives us. He has promised he will remember our sins no more. Sometimes we remember our sins, right? But we can give them to God and he will forgive us, and then we can have faith and happiness and peace and trust knowing that he forgave us. So let's write down that verse in our journal today. And don't forget, there are five people that I encouraged you to pray for each and every day. Do you have those five people written down? Maybe you want to pick a Bible verse that you want to pray for each one. Maybe somebody is stressed and so they need help to trust in God. So we could write down Proverbs three, five and six about how they can trust God. There are all sorts of different things that we can pray for them. But pray for those five people today, whether it's after this podcast or maybe before you go to bed at night, if you need to draw a picture of God forgiving our sins and not remembering them anymore. Hey, boys and girls, last time we learned about Jacob and Esau and how they finally got back together, they asked forgiveness, they forgave each other, they apologized, all of that, and now they were reunited and they were friends again. Well, we're gonna continue the story because that sounds like it has a happy ending, but there were a lot more trials that were to come for Jacob. So let's bow our heads and let's pray that God will be with us and that we will have His spirit with us as we read and open his word and study today. Dear heavenly Father, come into our hearts. Lord, you have promised to give us the spirit to those who ask. And so we are asking for your Holy Spirit to help us understand, to illuminate our minds, to give us your wisdom, and for us to be able to apply these lessons and to learn these lessons, to apply them to our hearts and our lives. In Jesus' name, amen. Jacob and his family are finally back in the land of Canaan. What was the name of one special place where God had told Jacob to go? We're gonna read it in Genesis chapter 35 verses one through four. So open up to Genesis. Go get your Bibles open to Genesis. This is the new King James version. Genesis chapter 35. Those are the big numbers. 3, 5, 35. And then you're going to look under that for verses one through four. So we're gonna start at 1, 2, 3, and four. We're gonna read those four verses. Genesis chapter 35 verses one through four. What does it say? Then? God said to Jacob, arise, go up to Beto and dwell there and make an al alter to God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of you, saw your brother and Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves and change your garments. Then let us arise and go to Beto and I will make an altar there to God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone. So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the Tarin tree, which was by Jacob. What was so important about Bethel? Do you remember? Bethel was the place where Jacob had had that dream like over 20 years before he had seen a ladder that went from from earth and stretched all the way up to heaven and what we're going up and down on the ladder. Angels, yes. Who was at the top of the ladder? Jesus was so, God wanted him to come back to that place so that he could remind him and his family that they needed to be very different from the heathen people who were around them. God reminded Jacob that his new name was Now Israel. Remember what Jacob means? Supplanter. That's like somebody that takes over takes charge, but now his name was going to be Israel, which means overcomer. When someone overcomes does that, is that usually a good thing? Yes. Let's say that someone is tempted to steal and they're always tempted to steal and they're always stealing and God shows them that it's wrong, and so they pray and they ask for God's help and they start not stealing anymore. Does that mean that they've overcome? Yeah, that's another way to say they have overcome. They have overcome the bad habit of stealing. Well, Jacob finally knew that he could totally trust God, and even though Jacob's relatives in Horan had worshiped God, they had also done something else. Do you know what that was? They also worshiped idols. They did both. Well, now God reminded Jacob that his family should only worship him. You know something sad happened before Jacob got all the way back to his home. He and Rachel were eagerly expecting another baby. She was pregnant and they were so excited. Remember, Rachel is the wife who Jacob loves the most. She's the one that he loved from the very beginning, so she's about to have a baby, but when the baby was born, Rachel died. Jacob was heartbroken. He had worked 14 years to have Rachel for his wife, and he loved her so very, very much. She was as important to him as his right hand. In fact, Jacob named their baby Benjamin and that means son of the right hand. It's pretty sad when people in our lives die, isn't it? Yes. Jacob was very sad. Do you think though that he lost his faith in God? Did he blame God and say, God, you did this. You took my Rachel from me. No, he didn't. He trusted that God was in control and that no matter what happened, God would take care of him. God was there for him. What did Jacob tell his family to do before they went to Bethel? Do you remember? He told them to put away their idols. Those are the things that they worshiped. He didn't want them worshiping idols when they should be worshiping God. Did you know that when we choose to love and trust and obey God and his law, that makes us different from other people? Have you ever experienced that? Maybe your family chooses not to watch things that other people watch or not to read things that other people watch? That's because we love God and we wanna put him first in our lives. Can you think of some ways that we might be different when we obey the 10 Commandments? Well, one of the 10 Commandments is thou shall not steal. Sometimes people steal because they think that it'll help them, but God knows what's best. He knows that when we steal, it will just bring heartache. What about the Sabbath? When we keep the Sabbath and go to church on Saturday, that makes us different, but you know what? That's God's day of rest and we wanna follow him and put him first, don't we? Maybe as a family you can get together for family worship or something and talk about ways that we might be different when we obey the 10 Commandments, but I want you to remember boys and girls, the verse, those that honor me, I will honor when we put God first in our lives, when we follow his commands, he will honor us. What a promise. Let's pray. Lord, help us to put away the things that distract us from you, from what you have called us to do. Help us to be faithful to not have other things in our lives that we spend more time with or that we worship, but that we will love and worship you. Thank you so much for this story of Jacob. Help us to be faithful just as he was in the good times and in the bad. In Jesus' name, amen. Matthew 28 20. I am with even to the end of the, Hey, moms and dads, have your kids been enjoying the seed pod? Oh, we love putting these programs together for you and we're praying that it is a huge blessing in your home. Although this program is free, there are still expenses and costs to recording and producing them. We are asking if you would prayerfully consider financially supporting our ministry starting with Jesus. If you would like, like to make a one-time donation, or if you would consider partnering with us through ongoing monthly support, we would be eternally grateful. Either way, you can make a tax deductible donation on our website starting with jesus.com/donation. That's starting with jesus.com/donation. You can help us encourage our young ones to start each and every day with Jesus. If you have enjoyed this program and would like to find others like Leg it, go to destroying with jesus.com. The materials for this devotional podcast are used by permission from my Bible first. 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