Everybody needs a pen or a pencil. Okay, so here's
what we're going to do. Everybody needs a pen
or a pencil. So, Kyle, do you need a pen or a
pencil? I have one in my hand. Okay, awesome.
I need one. Coming at you. That hurts. Okay.
All right. So, this page. for you. Okay, so here's
how we're going to do this. We're going to work
down the page from the top to the bottom and
in between each section, I have another pen if
you need it, Kyler. As we worked on each section,
we're going to have a little activity so and
each one will be a little competition. Alright,
and so we'll let the young people start like
work our way up. The youngest people will be
allowed to participate first, and then we'll
work our way up from there, okay, if anybody
else wants to try things. All right, so basically,
have you ever seen the show Minute to Win It?
Have you seen that show? Okay, so these are activities.
The activities that we're going to do in between
are going to be activities like that. So I have
a deck of Minute to Win It challenges up here,
and I will pick one, and then we'll have two
people, or if it's one, we have enough parts,
we can do more than two people at once, and we'll
do more than two people once. So if anybody's
got friends, I've got like five pages left. If
you want to call your friends right now and tell
them they can come. All right. Not that we couldn't
make more copies. Okay. So our spiritual discipline
for this six months is meditation. Okay. So meditation
is... One part of it and prayer is the other.
So we're going to talk today about meditating.
And we're going to do a meditation like together.
We're all going to do a meditation together.
But then we're also going to, you're going to
do it on your own sitting right where you're
at. Okay? So there are no wrong answers on your
paper. Do you need a pen, Kerry? Yeah. Okay.
I don't know if this one will write or not. There
should be a box in the back. Josh, you got a
pen for Kerry? He's usually got pens. All right.
So on these little sheets that I have here in
front of me, I have meditation questions. Some
are about the books and some are about the verses.
I'm separating them into piles real quick. Okay.
All right. So the first thing I'm going to do
is we're going to meditate on the book of Genesis.
The whole book, beginning to end. So I'm going
to pull a slip of paper, and then as a group,
anybody who wants to answer can answer. And then
you can write on your paper what you think you
should write. So we're filling this box right
here, buddy. We're going to write in that box
right here now. What does the name of the book
of Genesis tell us about the book? Does anybody
know what the word Genesis means? Going once,
going twice. Go ahead. In the beginning. Close.
Genesis means beginnings, basically. Beginning
or beginnings. So then you can make a little
note in your box, whatever you want, about that.
The book name is Genesis, and you could just
put the word beginnings there if you want. Does
the name Genesis, which means beginnings, tell
us anything about the book? Say it again. Oh,
Ariana, go. It tells us that it's the story about
a young student. Okay, so you write something
about that. You can put this under your paper.
And then you collect up the papers and you can
keep them in there. And you want to try it with
our folder. Okay, some pens are a lot more expensive
than that. All right, so anything else? Anybody
got anything else on that question? Otherwise,
moving on. Scrambling the book questions. We
will not answer all the same questions on each
one because they're scrambled. Okay, what is
one random fact that I know from this book? Tell
me something that you know from the book of Genesis.
Go. Okay, so that would be an example. God created
the heavens and the earth. You don't have to
put that on your paper. What else do you have?
Should be more, right? What else happened in
the book of Genesis? Adam and Eve, what? They
were made, sinned against God, right? So the
fall happened. So you can put that in there.
Who are Adam and Eve's first sons? Yep, Abel
and Cain, right? And what did Abel do to Cain?
No, Cain killed Abel, dude. But you were with
me. You're tracking. What's that? Kind of showed
him up. That's probably true, yeah. Yeah, so
they both sacrificed to God. Abel gave a sacrifice
that was a little more near and dear to what
God was looking for. And Cain got really mad
about it and killed his brother. First murder,
Cain killed Abel. Anything else in the book of
Genesis? It's a long book. Lots in there. What
other stories in the book? Kyla, what else is
in the book of Genesis? Can you think? In the
first book of the Bible, what else might be in
there? Go ahead, Ariane. The story of Noah's
Ark. That's right. Genesis 8 is the story of
Noah's Ark. So after all that happened, they
all started sinning. And it got to the point
where pretty much everybody on the planet was
sinning. It was not doing what God wanted them
to do, right? And so then God saw that only Noah
was righteous. Then God said, I'm going to save
you, and I'm going to save your wife. I'm going
to save your sons. I'm going to save their wives.
And that's it. Everybody else is going to get
it. Flood the whole planet, wipe them out. So
he said, build an ark, which is really like a
giant rectangular box. It's really not even a
boat, per se. And they did. You can see a mock
-up of the ark in the exact side in the creation.
It's called Ark Encounter down in Kentucky. So
you can write any of those things we just wrote.
You can do more. Later is the story of Abraham.
If you know something about him, you can write
something on there about Abraham. There's a bunch
more in there. Jacob. Jacob's ladder. He saw
the angels going to him from heaven. That's in
there. Esau and Jacob, they were brothers. They
were born real close together. Esau was just
a little bit older. And in the end, Jacob stole
his birthright and his blessing. You write any
of those things in that box. And we do one more
random, random question about the book. Okay.
All right. This one's a funny one. What color
or temperature or activity? comes to mind when
you think about this book? When you think about
the book Genesis, what color or temperature or
activity comes to mind? And probably a lot of
people would have different answers, right? So
Natalie, when you think of the book Genesis,
what color do you think of? Green. That's the
color I thought of too. What about you, Kyla?
Blue. Yeah, that's a lot of blue, isn't it? Yep,
go ahead. I think of green, red, and blue. That's
a lot. So you could write those down. So this
is how meditation works. You ask questions about
what you're thinking about. So we're doing it
all together. It's a group meditation. But you
would do this by yourself. And you could write
the questions down that you like. And you can
randomly draw them. Or you can just think of
them at the time. Now, when you're meditating,
you don't actually have to write anything down.
It becomes study when you start writing stuff
down. So we are doing a Bible study on meditation.
So we are writing things down. But you would
not have to do that. You just think about it.
I mean, what temperature does the book of Genesis
feel like to me? Anybody think of one that jumps
in your head? Go ahead. Like hot. Okay. I don't
know why it's hot. It jumps in your head hot.
Okay. Like just hot, like hot outside or hot
like the sun or hot like a fire? Like the sun.
Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. So that's it on
the book of Genesis. We're going to do a little
activity. So who's the youngest person in the
room? No, definitely not Kashawn. All right,
so Kyler. Who's the next youngest after Kyler?
What grade are you in now? Sixth? Sixth, sixth.
So you're both in sixth. What grade are you in?
All right, you're up here with Kyler. Come on.
All right, now if I draw one that can do more
than two people, we'll do more than two people.
Okay, it is one that we can do more. Okay? All
right, put your folders down. This is an up activity.
We're getting up out of our seats for this. Okay,
stand up. All right, I can do... I can do plenty
of people. Who all wants to play? I can do 12
people maximum. If you want to play. All right.
Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Put your folder
down. You're going to want your hands free. What
are you doing with this? Come on, Mike. Come
on. Come on. I can do up to 12 people. Okay.
Everybody. Everybody. Yes. I didn't know there
was a color preference. Next time, close your
eyes. You won't see the color. I want white.
Orange. Okay, so here's we're gonna do When I
say go you're gonna put the ping -pong ball between
your knees like this You have to hold it and
then you're gonna go out this room leave this
room and Touch either door of the multipurpose
room and be the first one back here. Okay, just
spread out give yourself some room You can touch
either door. If you drop it, you have to stop,
get the ball back, and go back to the spot that
you dropped it at and start again. You don't
come back here. Just wherever you dropped it
at, you come back to that spot. Remember, there's
a whole other door that goes where you want to
go, too, so you don't all have to go to the same
door. Spread out. The more spread out you are,
the less likely you are to interfere with each
other. On your mark. Touch the door of the multi
-purpose room across the hallway and come back
to me set go Now you gotta find it hurry up Kyler's
got his wedged in there She did a very strong
start. Oh, here it goes. Oh, no, it fell. It
fell. Okay, I got first place. I got second place.
I got third place. All right, come on. Don't
give up. Don't give up. Finish the race. Finish
the race. All right. Okay, I'll take the ping
pong balls back for now, and we might use them
again. I'll show them. Let's put them in the
box. Okay. All right. Now, we're going over,
get your papers back, get your papers back. We're
going over to the right to the book of Psalms.
Okay? The book of Psalms. And we're going to
randomly draw a question. We may or may not get
the same questions. Okay? They're different questions.
I didn't give you a paper. I'm so sorry. I slacked
off my paper. Sorry. I didn't write anything
on my paper yet either. So, let other people
guess that. Okay. All right. I'm randomly picking
a question. All right. This is about the book
of Psalms. Okay? How many letters are in the
name of the book of Psalms? And how far from
the front of the Bible is it? And how far from
the back of the Bible is it? So somebody said
seven. P -S -A -L -M -S. Six. Psalm six. And
then how far from the front of the Bible is the
book of Psalms? And how far from the back is
it? It's in the middle. Right? Without getting
any numbers, it's in the middle. You can count
if you wanted to count. You could just put it
in the middle. By the way, if you take most Bibles,
if they don't have a lot of notes, if you hold
the Bible and you split it down the middle, you'll
be in the book of Psalms. If you have a lot of
notes in the back of the Bible, you might be...
Let's see, which way would that push it? A lot
of notes back here would push it toward Proverbs.
You might be in Proverbs. Okay? So then you would
just think about that. Think about how many letters
there are. Think about where it's located in
the book, in the Bible. Okay, we got one that
we repeated. So what color, temperature, or activity
comes to mind when you think about this book?
Say it again. Pink. Pink. Pink comes to mind.
You're supposed to be writing these things down,
Kyler. If your paper is complete at the end,
you have a chance to win a prize, so you might
want to pay attention. Bonus points. Okay. So
I got pink. Anybody got a temperature that goes
with Psalms? Go ahead. Just a tiny bit chilly,
basically. Just a tiny bit chilly. Mike said
cold, fall weather. Okay. So you just write down
what you think. It's your ideas, your thoughts.
And that's the way meditation works. It's always
what you think of it. It's like you're communicating
back and forth with God in prayer. But when you're
meditating, you're working with what you already
know. So notice, by the way, if you would look
up on the Internet, you'd Google it, and you'd
say, how far from the front of the Bible is Psalms?
How far from the back of the Bible is Psalms?
And you write that down, that's not meditation.
You didn't meditate, you researched it. If you
bust out your Bible, for example, and you count,
and I'll use your Bible, then I'll say that's
probably okay. That's probably still meditation.
Did anybody have a verb that comes to mind when
they think of the book of Psalms? Say it again.
A verb? Like an action word? What do you do when
you think of psalms? I have two that come to
mind immediately. Singing. Yeah, that's the one
I was thinking of. Lots of the psalms actually
are songs from the old temple. That's what lots
of them are. Reading. Reading is good too. The
other one is prayers. To pray, a lot of the psalms
are prayers. Now we've only got one more on psalms.
Already one more. Alright. So this one's a little
fun. It says, find a random verse in this book,
and then consider the four longest and the four
shortest words. Four shortest other words. Okay,
so I'll do it. Remember I told you, if you open
your Bible right to the middle, let's see if
it works. Oh, nope, I'm in Job. Okay, now I'm
in Psalms. Okay, so I chose, completely at random,
Psalm 73 .1. Psalm 731 said, God is indeed good
to Israel, to the pure in heart. That's what
Psalm 731 says. So the longest words in this
are indeed. That's six letters. You write that
down. Israel is also six letters. And there's
only one word that has five, and it's heart.
So you would add indeed, Israel, and heart. That's
the three longest words. And now we're down to
four letters. So four letters are two words that
tie good and pure. So you could write either
or both of those down if you want. So we have
the verse again was God is indeed good to Israel
to the pure in heart. And the longest words were
indeed Israel, heart, good and pure. The shortest
words. There's no A's. So then we get is, to,
T -O. There's two of them. T -O twice. And in.
Is, to, to, in. And you know what's really interesting
about it? If you can remember all those words,
you have almost the whole verse. Indeed, good
Israel, pure heart. Is, to, to, in. And then
the only other words left in the whole verse
are God and the. Okay. And that. And we're meditating.
Okay. And we're done with the book of Psalms
already. Next activity. Let's see what we get.
Okay, we've got ball in cup. Starting with the
youngest people in the room. Who wants to play?
Are you playing? Are you playing or not? You'll
get the rules if you say yes. Otherwise, you'll
be a spectator. You don't need the rules until
I explain the rules. Do you want to play? Come
on. I can do three pairs. I'll take the two of
you. I need somebody to be her partner. Come
on. Hannah. I choose you. You have been chosen.
Like in Pokemon. You are my favorite Pokemon
of the moment. Okay, come on up here. You're
going to take this with you. You're going to
need this. You're going to need this. Josh, you
have a lot of points. Okay, here's what you have
to do. You're going to take the ping pong ball.
One person has the cup and the other person has
the ping pong ball. The person with the ball
bounces the ball. The person with the cup catches
the ball. Okay, wait a minute. You have to do
it five times, then switch the cup to the other
person and do it five times. The first one to
complete the challenge, that team wins. Here
you go. Five bounces. It has to be caught. If
you miss it, you've got to keep going until you
get five times in the cut. Okay? And then switch
the cup to the other person and do five times.
Ready? On your mark. Get set. Go. Try again.
Oh, it's harder than it looks. One team has five.
It's a race. Oh, two teams. Nice. Now you're
rocking. At one point, they got like boom, boom,
boom. Nicely done. Okay, turn them in, turn them
in. That was fun. That was good. You guys really
rock. Hold it out. Hold it out, hold it out.
Nicely done. Okay, now we're going to do the
book of Malachi. Now, this is a little less known,
right? We don't know this book quite as well.
Would you say that's true? I don't know. Well,
you should be learning the Bible. That's why
you're in church. That's one of the reasons why
you're in this room, so you can pick these things
up. Okay? All right. So here we go. The book
of Malachi. The question is, where in God's story
does this book fit? Aha! That's a tricky one
if we don't know this book very well. Right?
Does anybody know? Does anybody know where it
occurs in the Bible? I'll help you out a little
bit. It's a prophet. Malachi's a prophet. Right?
Yep. So it's the last book of the Old Testament.
Malachi is. And then the next book after it,
because you start the New Testament, the first
book in the New Testament is what? Ariana? First
book in the New Testament is? Matthew. Matthew,
all right. So it goes Malachi, then Matthew.
And I just know, because I've looked at it before,
there's a 400 -year gap between the book of Malachi
and the book of Matthew, okay? Now, everything
that happened in the Old Testament happened before
that, okay? So the book of Malachi comes after
everything that's in the Old Testament and before
everything in the New Testament. So that's your
answer. So where in God's story does it happen?
Well, it's the last big thing that happens before
Jesus is born. Anybody else want to add anything
to that? Any other thoughts you might have? Malachi
does prophecy about the birth of Christ. It tells
that it's going to happen. And then there are
no more prophets until the lifetime of Jesus.
Okay, here we go. Okay, well, the first part
of this is super easy. Who wrote it and why?
Who wrote it? Jeremiah. No. Go ahead. Malachi.
Malachi, right. It's because he was a prophet.
Okay, yeah, you could put that. That would be
a true answer, right? Malachi. You name it a
book, it's Malachi. And Malachi wrote it. So
who wrote it? Malachi. Okay. So Malachi wrote
the book. did the preaching that was included
in the book because the people were in sin. He
was calling them back to righteousness. He was
calling them back to be right. And the book is
a lot about that. They were robbing God of the
tithes and offerings. They were mistreating their
wives. They were marrying people they weren't
supposed to. They were doing a lot of bad things,
worshiping false gods. And Malachi was telling
them, don't do that because God's going to send
a judge, a proper right judge, and we're going
to pay for it. Okay? All right, one more. Randomly,
not even looking. What does the name of the book
tell us about the book? Oh, that was an easy
one. So we already know. Go ahead. Who wrote
it? It tells us who wrote it. That's right. Very
good. Nicely done, Kyler. Okay, that was an easy
one. Okay, that was so easy. We're going to go
right on to the book of Judges, and then we'll
do a game after that. Yep. We're going really
fast, so we'll do the Book of Judges, and then
we'll do a game. The last three are going to
be a little longer. Book of Judges. Okay, so
do you know any more about this one than you
did about Malachi? Those of you who have been
here on Sunday, everything we've been doing has
been in the Book of Judges since we got back
to it after Christmas. Randomly picking one.
Okay, what color, temperature, or activity, pick
a verb, comes to mind when you think about this
book? Mahogany. Mahogany, white. Orange. Orange,
okay. All right. How about a verb? By the way,
to judge is a verb. Judging. Judging, yeah. Go
ahead. Judge. Yep, there you go. Anything else?
The only thing that comes to mind with a verb
that comes to mind for me when I think of judges
is fight. The book of Judges has a lot of fighting
in it. Yeah. The judges, most of the judges were
military leaders. Who's the most famous judge,
just out of curiosity? Anybody think of one?
Talk about it in the Bible, dude. God said Gideon
or Samson. You know Samson, right? Everybody's
heard the name Samson. So Samson is probably
one of the most famous. Gideon's very, very famous.
Gideon had an army of 20 ,000 men, and God withered
it down to 300. That's the guy we're studying
right now on Sunday is Gideon. In fact, this
coming Sunday, he's going to die. The end of
him. Yeah, well, I mean, it's in the Bible, so
really no surprise. All right, write it down.
Okay, here we go. Find a random verse in this
book and consider the four longest and the four
shortest words. Okay, here we go. Judges. Judges.
Judges 3. Okay, it says in Judges 3, 1. These
are the nations the Lord left in order to test
Israel, since the Israelites had fought none
of these in any of the wars with Canaan. That's
a pretty long verse. Okay. So Israelites is the
longest word. I -S -R -A -E -L. Like Israel.
I -S -R -A -E -L. Ites. I -T -E -S. Israelites.
Okay. And then... nations, N -A -T -I -O -N -S.
And then we have a tie between Israel, Canaan,
and Thot. All of those are six letters. You can
pick any one you want. Or two, actually. Any
two of those you want. Or you can write them
all down if you want. Be an overachiever. Israel.
nation, I'm sorry, Israel fought, F -O -U -G
-H -T, and Canaan, C -A -N -A -A -N. Okay? And
then the shortest words, not a lot of really
short words, we've got in, I -N, to, T -O, of,
O -F, and we have two of those, there's two ofs,
and one in. Okay? So again, You wouldn't necessarily
normally have to write anything down if you were
meditating on that verse. You'd just think about
what we just said. And if you think about the
word Israelites, well, that should mean to you
that's God's people. The nation Israel, that's
what they're called, and they're Israelites because
they're of that nation. The nations, that means
there's multiple countries. They fought. There's
my verb in the past tense, but there it is. So
you just think about what those things mean.
And we've got one left. I'm not looking. Some
of these we haven't even seen yet. Let's see.
What is a conflict in the book? If you were paying
attention, I just gave it to you. It was in the
verse. What is a conflict in the verse? Okay.
God said Samson and the Philistines. That comes
to mind for him. Yeah, Samson beat the snot out
of the Philistines. God gave him warrior powers
and kicked their butt. Samson and Delilah, that's
a different kind of conflict, but yes, that is
a conflict. That's right. Delilah was basically
his love interest, or he was passionate about
her, and she eventually tricked him. She tried
really hard for a while and failed, and then
she eventually tricked him into telling him that
if his hair was cut, he would lose his strength.
That's the story of Samson. Anybody else have
a different conflict in the book of Judges that
you might want to write down? In this sermon
that we just had this last Sunday, Gideon collected
earrings from the people that they had defeated,
which were the Ishmaelites. You don't have to
remember that. But because he collected the earrings
and made an ephod, then his whole family went
into idolatry. So that's a conflict. And you
might have others. Somebody trying to be king.
That happened a couple of times. Okay, that's
the book of Judges. We're going to play a game.
Let's see what we get. All right. Let's see here.
Okay. Let's see. How many cups do we have? One,
two, three, four, five. Plenty of cups. As many
people want to play as they want to play. Who
wants to play? Come get a cup. Anybody else?
Nice try. So the trick is you're not allowed
to drop the cup. Oh, you did. Sorry. Anybody
else? All right, here we go. You're going to
lie down on the floor. Find space. Find space.
Lie down on the floor. You're going to balance
the cup on your forehead. Either way, however
you want. That's not nice. It doesn't matter.
You're going to do five sit -ups without dropping
the cup. If you drop the cup, start over on that
particular sit -up. It's not my problem. It must
be doable, otherwise it wouldn't be in the game.
Okay. You know how? The question is whether you
can do them without dropping the cup. That's
the question, right? Everyone plays at the same
time. First one to get five setups wins. Hang
on. We're adding a player. There's a way. There's
a way. There's a way. There's a way. Yeah, you
cannot balancing the cup says you can't hold
it ready set go He's got one Mike's got none
start over I've got two somebody's got two. Oh
I got one That's two. Sorry. Oh, she's got this
going on up here. Look at this How many got Haley?
It's gonna be close She beat you by half a second.
Who's the next person? Who's the next person?
You got it? I got it. He got it. I figured it
out. Everybody's got it now. Did you get it,
Kyler? No. Okay. All right. Bring the cups back
to the front. It's all right. It's all right.
It's all fun. Bring them up here. I got it last
minute. That was good. All right. I got it last
minute. That was good. Okay. It's all fun. All
right. So now we're going to look at verses.
Okay. So our first verse is Psalm 1, 2. Psalm
1, verse 2. Psalm 1, verse 2. Okay. It said,
instead, his delight is in the Lord's instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night. I'll read
it again. It says, instead, his delight. So this
is the person. The person who follows God, basically,
the person who believes in the Lord. His delight
is in the Lord's instruction, and he meditates
on it day and night. That's the verse, okay?
Now, we have different questions for the verses.
Also, some of the questions are artistic. Yes.
His, instead, comma, his delight is in the Lord's
instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.
Which you know why I chose that version out,
don't you? Yes. Because it's a verse about meditating.
That's why. I got one. You will run out of space
if you write large. Fill that box up. All right,
here we go. Okay. What does... You can pick something
of what we're talking about right now. Those
right here in this box. Okay. I'm going to give
you what to write right now. Okay. What does
this verse say about God? What does the verse
say about God? God gives instructions. That's
true. It does say that. Okay. So you could write
that. Or if you're meditating, you could think
that. Right? It says that God gives instructions.
What else does it say? Anything else? Okay. We're
going to go to the next one. Is there a body
part mentioned in this verse? I'll read the verse
again. Instead, his delight is in the Lord's
instruction and he meditates on it day and night.
Okay. He says nervous system. That's the body
part. The brain. I agree completely. The brain.
That's the body part. Okay. Going on. What is
the big idea? Mike says meditation. I tend to
agree. I also think there's something in there
about desire, like what you want, like delighting
in and meditating on the word. So it's like,
it's good stuff. Two more and we'll move on.
Then we'll play a game. In this verse, who is
talking? To who? Is it to who or to whom? To
whom? Who is talking to whom? In this verse.
So the person talking is the psalmist, right?
That's who's writing it. We don't for sure know
who wrote it. Is God talking to us? I think so.
Say it again. God is talking. I agree. Yeah,
you can put that. I think both those things are
true. Good. And that's how meditation is done.
One left. Last one on this verse, then again.
When you read this verse, is there a happy or
a sad feeling? Do you get a happy feeling or
a sad feeling? Okay. And I think it would be
if you love God and you're delighting in his
word and you're meditating on his word, then
yeah, I think it would be happy. But if you don't
love God, maybe not. You know, or if you say
you love God, but you're not actually delighting
in his word or meditating on his word, that seems
kind of sad. All right. Okay. That was all of
those. Let's see what we've got here in the game
stack. Okay. All right. How many dice do we have?
I've got 12. No, I've got 10 dice. I can have
10 players. If you're playing, come get one dice.
They're all red and blue. Does everyone have
a dice spread out? You playing, Kyler? Taking
a break? Okay. Okay, you're going to lie down
on the floor. Oops. Again. Again with the on
the floor thing. All right. You're going to balance
the die on your forehead again. Like the cup.
Okay. Nope. And then you need to stand up, completely
up, without the die falling. If it falls, you
have to start over. You have one minute to succeed.
And you wear a forehead crown on your head, whatever.
It says forehead specifically. On your mark.
Get set. Go. You have one minute. Nope. Start
over. You got it. Anybody else? There it is.
River's still trying. Awesome. Right here. Got
about 20 seconds left. 20 to 30 seconds. You
can do it, River. No, you can't do it. Not that
time anyway. Don't lose my dice. Don't shake
your head. Oh yeah, you got that. Ten. Nine.
Eight. Seven. It's like I will not give up. Five.
Four. I said, okay, put the dice in the cup and
find that one. Aria was the fastest stander -upper.
I only have six. One more dice somewhere. Do
we need to use them all? So it should be one
more dice. One more. Got it? Thank you, sir.
Very good. I think we got it now. Yes, we have
them all. Okay, that was fun. Alright, Psalm
7712. Psalm 7712. I forgot to get a video that
time. Psalm 7712. Psalm 7712 says, I will reflect
on all you have done and meditate on your actions.
I will reflect on all you have done and meditate
on your actions. Now, here's a question for you,
Kyler. See if you know the answer to this question.
When I read this verse, I says, I will reflect
on all you have done and meditate on your actions.
Both the you and the your are capitalized. Why
do you think that might be? Any idea? Want to
phone a friend? Want to pick somebody to guess?
No, you don't want to? Okay. Ariana, go ahead.
Because it's talking about a person, it's talking
about us. Not talking about us. If it was talking
about us, it would not be capitalized. When I
say I love you, I don't capitalize the Y unless
I'm capitalizing it like all cats. So, go ahead.
Capital pronouns refer to God, right? So the
you and the your in this verse are talking about
God. So it says, I will reflect on all you, that's
God, have done and meditate on your, that's God,
actions. All right. So we're going to meditate
on all that God has done and his actions. And
then we're going to look at the verses, meditation
words here. Shuffling them back in, randomizing.
And the question is, oh, this is an activity.
On your paper, draw a pair of shoes looking at
a cross. On your paper, anywhere you want, draw
a pair of shoes looking at a cross. Do I have
to draw the cross on the paper, too? I would.
I think so. Otherwise, how would you know what
they're looking at? Does it say it? Nope. That's
your thing, I guess. This paper does not say.
I think my original notes said running shoes,
but it doesn't matter. Shoes are shoes. Shoes
looking at a cross. About ten more seconds on
your shoes looking at a cross. Now here's one
of the beautiful things. About five more seconds.
A sketch. A drawing, a cartoon, painting, anything
that you can make a picture of what's in your
head are great tools to use for meditation. Actually,
I could argue, and I think a lot of psychologists
and sociologists would actually agree with me.
that when people get a lot of benefit out of
doing arts and crafts, one of the reasons, not
the only reason, but one of the reasons that
they get a lot of benefit out of it is because
it is very similar to meditation. You can, while
you're doing your arts and crafts, focus on the
other part of your mind that's not necessarily
thinking about whatever, or you can choose to
think about nothing else and just think about
your arts and crafts. Both of those things are
really good for your mind. So a lot of arts and
crafts are used in meditation and psychology
and sociology and counseling and stuff like that.
So that sketch you just did probably says a lot
to you about the fact that we're running toward
God, focusing on God, that kind of thing. All
right, now we're going to... Oh, we got another
drawing one. Oh, that's fun. Okay, now you're
going to draw a thought bubble with a lightning
bolt. You know what a thought bubble is? That's
like in the cartoons. A thought bubble with a
lightning bolt. That. Like the flash, like the
flash has. Thought bubble with a lightning bolt.
A bubble? Yeah. Yeah, like a thought bubble,
like from a cartoon where they put the words.
I actually did it above the person. That's fine.
Thought bubble with a lightning bolt. We have
one activity left that we've got to get through
at the end. All right. We need two more on this
verse yet. The next meditation question on this
verse is, what is the big idea of this verse?
What is the big idea? The reference was Psalm
77, 12, and it says, I will reflect on all you
have done and meditate on your actions. Talking
about what God has done and his actions. So what's
the big idea? Okay, he says drawing inspiration
from God's, did you say word or work? Either
way works, yeah. So drawing inspiration, he said
drawing inspiration from God's word or work.
Anybody else have another thought on what the
big idea of this verse is to them? To you? I'll
tell you, when I looked at it, one of the things
that struck me was that it's about what God has
done. So a lot of people in the world, it's all
about what they read. It's not necessarily really
wrong with that, because this is really important
stuff that you read in here. But 1 John 1 .3,
I'll be just a second. 1 John 1 .3 says, we proclaim
what we have seen and heard, right? So what have
we seen and heard? We have seen and heard what
God has done, not just what his word says, but
also what he has done. So that's pretty important
to me. Go ahead. Could it be drawing how you
feel? Yes, drawing how you feel from what you
know about God, from, yes, yeah, what you've
seen and heard. Yep, absolutely. I agree with
that. And again, these are your meditations.
So one of the beauties of this is no two people
will ever meditate the same as long as they actually
do it for a minute and take it seriously. No
one's going to come. Your identical twin born
in the same 60 seconds you were would still not
have the same answers as you. Your meditations
are important. One left. All right. How many
words are in this verse? Verbs, nouns, and commands.
Okay. That's a doozy. Okay. So words. 7, 12.
There are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
There are 13 words. You can write down 13 words.
Notice that if you use a different translation,
that number may not be exactly the same, right?
They do vary a little bit, okay? Now verbs. So
the verbs are reflect, and to reflect on something
is to think about it, right? Or I like what Nancy
said, draw. your feelings from it or draw what
you think about it i will reflect done d -o -n
-e is a verb it just means he did it past tense
and meditate are all verbs those are our verbs
or reflect done meditate okay all right and then
the nouns so i is not a noun i is a pronoun okay
I will reflect on all you have done and meditate
on your actions. So if I have my words, my English
correct actions is the only noun. I will reflect
on all you have done and meditate on your actions.
That sound right to you, Josh? Your translation,
sure. Yes. Okay. Sounds good. And then commands,
I don't really think that there is a command
there, although you could draw from it that you
should reflect, right? that you should reflect
and meditate. Do we have one left or was that
the last one? Well, one left. Last one. Randomly
picking. Okay. If I do this thing, if I do what's
in here, what will happen? What will happen if
I do what the verse is saying? What do you think?
Go ahead. Good things will come to you. Good.
That would be a great answer. What else? Could
learn a lot. Yeah, you grow as a person. Learn
and grow. Say it again. Yeah, you would be listening
to God. That's good. In fact, I think that these
are two essential things to listen to God. And
sometimes people miss them. Anything else? Well,
all those sounded like good things. I don't think
there are any bad things, right? Okay. We need
a game. And then we have one verse left. Almost
there. Okay. Okay. We only need two people this
time, starting with the youngest. Starting with
the youngest. River's in. No, who's the other
person? You don't have to. You don't want to.
Okay. When's your birthday? May. May. When's
your birthday? May what? 2016. I'm 2014. 2014.
2014. And hers is the third. And hers is the...
And yours is definitely the oldest. And hers
is the 25th. So you're the next youngest. You
want to play? Yeah. All right. Come up here.
Okay. All right. So you need a spoon. Oh, guess
what? I have one extra. Come on. You can play.
I got one extra. Okay, I'm gonna give each of
you three dice Okay. Three. Okay, I got a five.
Okay. That sucked. Alright, so here's what we're
going to do. When I say go, you're going to balance
the dice one on top of the other. Start with
them in the spoon, then start in your hand. On
the spoon with the spoon in your mouth. Okay.
You have to complete one lap around the room
and back to this spot. You can go either direction.
Just be careful. Don't bump each other. You'll
be like that in the spoon. You're going to put
the spoon in your mouth, then put the dice on
it. Not yet. You got the right idea, but you
can't do it yet. Okay. And then you go one lap
around and come back to this spot. You have one
minute to succeed. The first one who succeeds
wins. You can't start with them stacked. You
have to start with them in your hand. Sorry.
Stacking is part of the minute. On your mark.
Get set. Go. They're stacking. Still stacking.
She got one whole stack there. Around the back
and back up the other aisle. I didn't invent
the game. Still got 40 seconds. If there's any
indicator, I'll bet you you'll figure out the
next. Oh, she's got it. Oh, she had it. She got
three whole steps in. Ariana's making progress.
That's what Ariana said right before she figured
it out. So I think you got it. You must be really
close. You got it. Take your time. Nice. Nice.
She's halfway. She's halfway. She survived the
Josh barrier. Oh, you're about to be passed.
She's going to pass you on the right. Oh, no,
she's not going to pass you. She dropped the
dice. There will be no wrestling! There will
be no wrestling allowed! passed you when you
dropped the dice. So once she passed you, if
she didn't drop the dice, she was probably going
to finish first. Are you going to take it back
when I put my mouth open? Yes, I am. I'm going
to wash them. We will not play another game that
requires you to put a spoon in your mouth, right?
I guarantee that. Hebrews 12 .3. They both did
awesome. Being overly competitive in life is
never beneficial, trust me. Then tell us if Josh,
he cheated. He just played. All right. Hebrews
12 .3, our last one then. Okay, Hebrews 12 .3
says this. It says, for consider him, consider
him. who endured such hostility from sinners
against himself, so that you won't grow weary
and lose heart. For consider him who endured
such hostility from sinners against himself,
that himself and him are both capitalized. So
what's that tell us, Kyler? What do you think?
They're both capitals. They're God. Yes, talking
about God. In this case, specifically, Jesus.
For consider him who endured such hostility from
sinners against himself, so that you won't grow
weary and lose heart. That's the verse. Endured
such hostility. Let me look it up again. Who
endured such hostility from sinners against himself,
so that you won't grow weary and lose heart.
So we're considering so that we won't grow weary
and lose heart. Okay? Alright, here we go. Draw
a heart with a Bible in it. Somewhere on your
paper, draw a heart with a Bible in it. Easy
peasy. A heart with a Bible in it. Five seconds.
Okay. So in this verse, a heart with a Bible
in it. We're pretty much done drawing it now.
But you can finish it up while we do the next
one. Okay. What is one picture word in this verse?
Okay, so let's see. For consider him who endured
such hostility from sinners against himself,
so that you won't grow weary and lose heart.
So what's a picture word? Heart. Heart is definitely
a picture word. Hostility is also a picture word.
Hostility is like when people do things that
really hurt you. Hostility. You know what they're
talking about with hostility against Jesus, right?
that people ultimately, the worst of it is he
was crucified, but he was beaten. They yelled
at him. They mocked him. They dressed him in
a purple robe and a crown of thorns, whacked
him with a rod. They did all those things. And
even before that, they went around saying bad
things about him and said that he was doing stuff
by the power of the devil instead of by God and
stuff like that. There was a lot of hostility
toward him. Any other picture words in there
that you like? Otherwise, we're moving on. We've
got four left. Okay. What does this verse say
about God? Okay. God endured. Something, isn't
it? He didn't have to do that. God didn't have
to endure anything. I mean, that's how he paid
for sins, but other than that, he had nothing
to endure. He could make anything, destroy anything,
have anything he wants. He endured. What else?
Does it say anything else about God? What does
it say God might do in our lives? Does it say
that God might allow us to go through some things?
To endure some things ourselves? It does, right?
And it says that if we consider what He did for
us, we won't grow weary, which means if we consider,
God will give us strength. God will keep us going.
That's pretty good stuff. Three more, right?
No, two more. If I do this, what happens? Oh,
I kind of gave you that one just now, didn't
I? So if we consider that what Jesus went through,
then we will not grow weary or grow or quit.
We'll keep going. God will make us able to keep
going. Anything else? Last one on this verse.
When should I do this? Aria says all the time.
I mean, that's a good answer. Kind of hard to
do that all the time. But it would be ideally
all the time. I think that's a good answer. So
when should you do it? If not all the time, when
should you for sure do it? When you have the
time. Or I would say since meditation is a spiritual
discipline, When you make the time, right? And
I think we should make the time. So when you
have the time or make the time. Last game. Last
chance to play and make fun. Let's see what we
got here. Can't do that one right now. Okay.
You go first. We'll let a couple people try.
River's going to go first because she's the youngest.
I dropped the microphone. I thought Kyla was
the youngest. Oh, actually, Kyla's the youngest.
Do you want to go first, Kyla? He doesn't want
to do it. Okay. All right, River, you go. When
I say go, it says we're going to bounce one ball
into each of the cups. You have one minute to
successfully bounce one ball into each of the
cups. I'll stand back here and catch the balls
for you. I'll help you a little bit. On your
mark. Here, I want to video it. On me? Yeah.
Hurry up. Do you have to bounce it? Yep, it has
to bounce off the floor and into the cups. Get
it, River. Go. It's not very bouncy. Try again.
That's what I said. She needs two more. She's
got about 30 seconds left. Oh, two cups left.
So she has a minute left? Yep. It's a minute
now. I don't know what cups I have open. Ten
seconds. It's going to be close. This one and
this one. The middle one. Well, now you know.
Okay. Good try, River. Or do you want other people
to try first? No, that's not true. Okay. Someone
else can try, and then someone will video for
me. Second contestant, I will go for you. You'll
go for me. All right. Here we go. On your mark,
get set. Oh, that's close. Oh my gosh. What is
this? Why don't you guys rock the rounders? Come
on, Abby. What's the time scale there? She got
30 seconds. She got 30 left? Yeah. Oh that was
close. Ten seconds. I can go last. Alright. Who's
our next contestant? I'll go next. Next step.
On your mark. Go. It's harder than I thought.
You might want to move the balls. One. Make sure,
like, you can sit right here like I did so that
you can see me bouncing and I can still see the
guy. Oh my god, okay. I feel like you can see
me bouncing and I can still see the guy. Who's
been filming the whole start of the video? Get
set, go! Oh, I'm gonna feel for it. I don't bounce.
I'm taking... I'm just bouncing them back to
myself. Too close. The other ball is sabotaged.
It's a lot harder than it looks. How do you know
when you haven't done it? There it is. Two. Three.
Not a roll. Not on that side. Not on this side.
Go on that side. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
you. All right. Well done. Back to your worksheets.
Thank you for playing. You can stack them all
up for me. Okay. Don't play with them. Just stack
them up. Look at the part that has the little
man. On the left -hand side here. We have two
things left to do. The little man on the left
-hand side is one. We're done with the games.
That was all the games. I told you it was the
last game. A lot of games. We played a lot of
games. We had a lot of fun. In the head of the
man, you're going to put a number. Well, you
don't really have to put the number. If you already
put smiley faces in there or drew something there,
that's fine. You don't have to do it, okay? All
right. So look at your books at the top. Genesis,
Malachi, Psalms, Judges, right? And across there,
if you wrote something significant about the
name of the book, you put the number one. So,
in their faces. Okay? Just scan the page and
look and see if you wrote anything significant
about the name of the book on any of those four
things. And if so, you put the number one. Okay?
If you wrote something about where in God's story
does it fit, where in God's story does it fit,
you put the number five. In their faces. In their
heads. Any head you want. Any of their heads.
Not complicated. The goal is to fill up the heads.
Fill all the heads. So far you'd have two possible.
If you wrote something about who wrote it and
why, put the number six. Doesn't matter. Absolutely
irrelevant. The goal is to fill the heads. That's
the whole goal. If you wrote something about
who is the hero of the story, put four. If you
wrote something about, and everyone should have
this one, how many letters in the name of the
book? Put ten. Does anybody have them all filled
yet? We have just enough, I think. No, we don't.
One, two, three, four, five, six, two, four.
No, we don't have enough. You shouldn't have
enough yet. You should have six of eight at most
right now. Okay. What is a conflict in the book?
The number three. So at most you should have
seven heads filled right now. It's like bingo.
If the next one, if you get it, then you're the
first one to have all eight filled. If you wrote
something about a random verse in the book considering
the four longest and the four other words, write
eight. Does anybody have all eight filled with
that? Aria does? A random verse in the book,
consider the four longest and four other words.
It was eight. That was number eight. Okay, so
Aria has all eight heads filled. Does anybody
else have all eight heads filled? All right,
several. All right, so all of you who have all
eight heads filled can say, bingo! Okay, fine.
All right. Okay, so now you're looking at the
flags. What? Two. Yes. Oh, two is first or last.
Did I see in the book we didn't actually do that
one? Oh. Any first or last of anything. But we
didn't have that question. No. The numbers don't
matter. Where you put them in the heads don't
matter. It's just, did you get eight numbers?
That's all that matters. What is the question
for the last question you told us? A random verse
in the book. Consider the four longest and four
other words. How many letters in the name? Who's,
I'm reading them all again. Who's the hero in
the story was four. Conflict in the book was
three. Random fact I know from this book was
seven. Who wrote it and why was six. Where in
God's story does this fit was five. Okay. On
the verses now. So you got the flags. Okay. See
there are six flags. Again. It does not matter
what numbers you put in the flags. The goal is
to fill all six flags. All right? The first one
we didn't use. We didn't use that one. Who is
talking and to whom? So if you have that, you
can put it into any one of the flags, the number
two. Is there a happy or sad feeling? The number
three. Almost done. What is the big idea? The
number six. So at most, you should be able to
have three flags filled right now. Is there a
body part mentioned? The number nine. No, that's
probably mine. Thank you. Okay, so at most, you
should have four flags filled right now. When
should I do this? The number eight. You should
have five flags if you've got them all. If I
do this, what happens? The number seven. All
right. We got a bingo. All right. Very good.
Okay. Okay. Now, the boxes on the right -hand
side are the only thing left on your page. That
and it says bonuses at the bottom. Okay. In those
boxes, we're out of time, but in those boxes,
you can write anything that you took out of it.
What should I do? Application means what should
I do. Out of what we did, everything that we
studied, everything we looked at, what did you
get out of it? And you put it in the box. If
you put four things in the box, then you can
mark all four bonus boxes and you have completed
the entire page. If you only put one thing, you
only mark one bonus box and so on. What did you
get out of it? What should you do? How do you
mark it? Put a smiley face or a cross or some
symbol. Your favorite emoji, something like that.
As long as it's polite. This is garbage. Okay,
so if you marked all four of your bonuses, you
have sufficiently completed a lesson on meditation.
remember that when you are doing meditation,
you need not write anything down. Now, if God
leads you like you're doing it, and God says,
hey, write that down, then write it down, of
course. But when you're meditating, you do not
have to write any of it. You could do that whole
thing, everything that we just did without writing
anything down, and you'd be meditating. So we
just basically had a lot of fun. Also, the games
did have a point to them. Does everybody know
what a hummingbird is? Yes. Do you know what
a hummingbird does? How many times a day do you
think a hummingbird collects nectar? Just give
us a guess. A hundred or more, right? So we had
games going on. We also had a lesson of meditation
going on. On a given day, you're going to have
meals going on. You're going to have your job.
You're going to have to clean up your house.
Someone's going to call you. All kinds of things
going on, right? But we just demonstrated that
you can have other things going on and have fun
or work or do whatever you have to do and still
come back to meditation, okay? So think of your
meditation sometimes like a hummingbird. You're
getting the nectar, right? And then the phone
rings. Just because the phone rang doesn't mean
you have to stop. You can take care of that.
You have to take care of it. And then you can
go back and do what you were doing. Or all throughout
the day. All throughout the day. You can think
any time you want. You probably know the names
of at least a dozen books of the Bible without
actually having any verses. Hopefully it might
be more. You can learn a lot more. You can know
almost all the names. And you can think about
anything you can think about about those books.
Even though you might not know the verses memorized,
you can think about the books and meditate on
the books. Or you can think about a parable.
Maybe you know the story of how Jesus said there's
the mustard seed and it's very small and it grows
very big and all the animals shelter in it. And
so you can just think about that and meditate
on that. Anytime you're in the doctor's office,
anytime you're in the car, whatever, you do not
have to turn on your cell phone. There is a whole
spiritual realm that is going on around you all
the time, and you can meditate on it.