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Teacher Enrichment and Lesson Plan For Lesson 4

This lesson focuses on the concept of God as Jehovah Jireh, the Provider, illustrated through the miracle of Jesus feeding 4,000 people with seven loaves and a few fish. Key activities include sharing a snack to demonstrate resource insufficiency and a trust exercise to build confidence in others. The lesson emphasizes the importance of trusting God to meet our needs and the transformative power of Jesus in our lives.

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Teacher Enrichment and Lesson Plan For Lesson 4

This lesson focuses on the concept of God as Jehovah Jireh, the Provider, illustrated through the miracle of Jesus feeding 4,000 people with seven loaves and a few fish. Key activities include sharing a snack to demonstrate resource insufficiency and a trust exercise to build confidence in others. The lesson emphasizes the importance of trusting God to meet our needs and the transformative power of Jesus in our lives.

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TEACHER ENRICHMENT AND LESSON PLAN FOR LESSON 4: MAX NEW

BEGININGS
A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AS THE PROVIDER – Jehovah Jireh
Matthew 15:32-39 Jesus feeds the 4000 – A miracle

Key Learnings: One of the names of God is Jehovah Jireh, the Lord my Provider. In
this lesson, we learn that Jesus provided for all our needs, spirit, soul and body.

Memory Verse: “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs
from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
(NLT)

Activity: Sharing
Give a small snack item (like one biscuit or chip or piece of cake) to a child. Challenge
them to share with the class, illustrating the insufficiency of their resource to meet the
group's needs.

Activity: Trust Lean


Divide children into pairs. Partners stand facing each other with their hands in front of
their chests with their palms facing each other. They then both lean forward so they
both lean against each other’s open hands. Each of them then moves one small step
back and they lean again. They continue to move 1 step back after every successful
lean until they are no longer confident to step back any further.

Debrief questions
 How did you feel when you were told you had to lean against the other
person?
 How confident were you in the other person?
 Did you find it easy to trust the other person to hold you up?
 Why did you stop stepping back?
 What did you learn from this activity?

Bible Story: Matthew 15:32-39 Jesus feeds 4000

Ask them to take turns reading the Bible passage and then explain the
story.

Jesus walked around the Sea of Galilee in the region of Decapolis, a wilderness
southeast from the Sea of Galilee. and then he went up on a mountain and sat down.
Crowds of people came to Him and Jesus healed the lame, blind, mute, crippled and
others. They were laid down by Jesus’ feet where He healed them. The people were
amazed at the miracles Jesus was doing! They saw all these people being healed!
Jesus could go nowhere without attracting a crowd of people. Jesus healed them all,
and the people “glorified the God of Israel.” This course of events continued three
days.

The Bible text doesn’t tell us Jesus preached to these people, but no doubt He
did. The crowd grew and seemed unwilling to leave the Lord. They might have brought
picnic lunches, but those provisions were running out. Still, they stayed. Jesus
assessed the dire situation.
He called His disciples who could have been mingling with the crowd. Jesus said
to them, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three
days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will
faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”
The disciples answered, “Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate
place to feed so great a crowd? Where will anyone get enough food to feed all of
them? The disciples responded, “Jesus, we are too far from any town to get enough
food.
Does this response sound similar to the response in a story we’ve heard before? When
did we hear the disciples answer with the same question? [When Jesus fed the crowd
of 5000.] Jesus asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” “We have seven” they
replied.
Jesus had the huge crowd of people sit down on the ground. He prayed and
thanked God for the bread. Then He had the disciples pass out the bread to all the
people. They also had three small fish. He prayed and thanked God for those as well.
Then the disciples passed those out. Everyone ate until they were full. The disciples
walked around and picked up the leftovers. This time they had seven large baskets of
food not eaten. The Bible tells us there were about 4,000 people there with Jesus and
the disciples. Four thousand men, plus women and children, were there by the
southeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. All of them were fed miraculously by Jesus from
seven loaves of bread and a few small fish. What a miracle Jesus did for all those
people because He loved them.

One of the amazing things about this story is that those 4,000 people were
probably completely different from the 5,000 he fed earlier. Jesus was in a totally
different area. He cared for the needs of the people. They were hungry, and He fed
them. With their stomachs full, it was time for the people to go to their homes. Jesus
sent them away. Then He and His disciples got into a boat and sailed across the Sea of
Galilee to a town called Magadan.

Most of us are not used to big crowds of people; so it’s hard for us to imagine
the size of this group. But it was a incredibly large crowd of about 17,000 people. This
miracle would have been astounding if only 40 or 400 people had been filled by seven
loaves and a few fish, but Jesus’ power as God was once again super amazing as He
fed these crowds. This is the God who cares for us!

Review questions:
1. Where did Jesus go in Decapolis? [To a mountain; walked by the sea.]
2. What were the great crowds doing? [Bringing diseased people to be healed of
Jesus.]
3. How long were the people with Jesus? [Three days.]
4. Why did Jesus have pity/compassion on the crowd? [They needed to eat.]
5. What did Jesus ask the disciples? [“How many loaves do you have?”]
6. What was the disciples’ answer? [“Seven loaves and a few small fish.”]
7. How many people were fed? [4000 men besides women and children.]
8. How many baskets of broken pieces were left over? [Seven.]

Jesus has done amazing things in our lives, but so often we forget. We get
scared when we don’t know how to handle a problem. We need to remember that
Jesus can take care of it!

The most important thing we need to remember about Jesus is how He died on
the cross for our sins. He did that for us because of his amazing love for us. He rose
from the dead three days later to show that He has power over death. If He has that
much power, He can definitely change our lives. He can help us become the people
He wants us to be. All we have to do is let Him come into our heart. His Holy Spirit will
guide us and help us to be more like Jesus.
Memory Verse “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your
needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19 (NLT)

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