FAITH E. KIDS!: PreK-5th Grade Lesson: God is Faithful~Story of Hosea (9/06)

GOD IS FAITHFUL

Key Verse: “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commands.”

~Deuteronomy 7:9

We are talking about the story of Hosea and how it’s a picture of God’s faithfulness to unfaithful people, people who don’t deserve rescuing.

Additional Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 7:9, 32:4, Psalm 25:10, Psalm 33:4

Main Idea: GOD IS FAITHFUL-Story of Hosea

Read the key verse for the week; Deuteronomy 7:9 and help define what faithful means. God is faithfulmeans that He keeps His promises and always does what He says He will do.

Tell the story of Hosea in your own words using the following outline:

Hosea was a prophet of God during a time when the people of Israel were particularly unfaithful to God.
God had continued to be faithful to His people (as He always is), but His people weren’t being faithful to Him~ they were worshipping false gods and turning their back on God.
In order to teach the people of Israel about God’s faithfulness and their unfaithfulness, God told Hosea to marry a woman named Gomer who wouldn’t be faithful to him~ someone who wouldn’t keep her marriage promises to him and would leave him to love another man.
God told Hosea that every time his wife left him and broke her promises to him that he should take her back and forgive her.
God wanted Hosea & Gomer’s marriage to be a picture of God’s love for His people. God wanted the people to see that even when they are unfaithful and follow other gods that He is always faithful.
Over and over in the book of Hosea, God sends Hosea to the people of Israel to tell them to repent of their unfaithfulness and come back to Him. Then, He tells Hosea to tell the people that He will punish their unfaithfulness, but that He will still be faithful to His promise to rescue His people and will forgive them when they repent.

Remember:

FAITHFUL = RELIABLE, TRUSTED, TRUE TO HIS WORD, KEEPS HIS PROMISES

Ask…. “How did we see God being faithful in this story?”

Read the additional verses that show of God being faithful. (Deuteronomy 7:9, 32:4, Psalm 25:10, Psalm 33:4)

Connection:

The truth we see in the Bible is that all of us are like Hosea’s wife. We have all sinned and are all unfaithful to God. The story of Hosea and his wife is the story of all of us and God. The story of the Bible though is that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). Read 1 John 1:8-9. That’s the good news. God promised long ago to rescue His people and He is faithful and will do what He said He would~ and He fulfills this promise through His son, Jesus.

Pray:

Pray that you will remember and see God’s faithfulness in their life knowing that He will always do what he has promised.

Application:

Grab a blank piece of paper and provide markers or colored pencils. Write the word faithful somewhere on the paper. Parents, you write or draw something to help them remember this attribute of God. They could write the definition for faithful or the memory verse or draw any of the passages you read about God being faithful.

Coloring & Activity Pages:

1. God is Faithful