Aug 10-16, Free Come Follow Me, youth lesson helps
- redwallace
- Aug 4
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 12
Faith in Jesus Christ will help me during hard times.
Encourage your children to tell you what they know about Job. If they need help, you could point them to Job 1:1, 13–22; 2:7–10 or to “Job” (in Old Testament Stories, 145–47). How did Job respond to challenges? (see Job 1:21; 2:10).
You can act out this story:
Click on the image to take you to the movie.
Job was faithful in his challenges because of what he knew about the Lord. Maybe you and your children could look at pictures of Jesus Christ interacting with others (such as the one below or pictures in the Gospel Art Book). Talk about what you know about Him and what He is like. Here are some verses that show what Job knew about the Lord: Job 12:10, 13, 16; 19:25–27. Why is it valuable to know these things about Him?
Pass these pictures out to your kids. Or hide them under their chairs.
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Because of Jesus Christ, I will live again after I die.
Job asked an important question in Job 14:14. Maybe you and your children could take turns sharing how you would answer Job. You could look for ideas in Alma 11:42–44, in the video “In a Coming Day” (Gospel Library), or in a song about the Resurrection, such as “Did Jesus Really Live Again?” (Children’s Songbook, 64).
Christ Restores Perfectly
Print the blank body (below).
Show it to your students, then tear it into several pieces. Give them tape and invite them to restore it.
Ask:
Can you put it back together?
Does it look exactly like it did before?
Can you make it perfect again?
Then read Alma 11:42–44, emphasizing:
"The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form."
Explain that even when we do our best, we cannot restore something perfectly. Jesus Christ can. Because of His Resurrection, every person who has ever lived will one day receive a perfect, immortal body.
Bear your testimony that through Jesus Christ, death is not the end. He has the power to restore perfectly what we never could.
In The Coming Day
Good friends uplift and encourage each other.
When Job was sad, his friends said that God was punishing him because he had sinned (see Job 22:5). If we were Job’s friends, how would we try to help him? How can our words help others when they are sad? (see Job 16:5). Consider showing one or more of the pictures in this outline as you discuss these questions.
Consider asking your children to list some qualities of a good friend and to name a friend who has these qualities. Then you could look at a picture of Jesus Christ. In what ways is Jesus a good friend to each of us? You might think of someone who’s going through a hard time. Plan how you will be a Christlike friend to them.
Prepare: Cut out this picture and put it over the top of the Jesus picture. Cut out the hearts.
Have the children write all the ways they can be a good friend on the hearts and place them around the picture of the children. Then remove the picture of the children to show Jesus. In what ways is Jesus a good friend to us? How can we follow his example?
(Print on colored card stock)
Jesus Christ is my Redeemer.
After reading Job 19:23–27, you and your children could talk about how you know that our Redeemer lives. You might work together to put your testimony (or drawings of the Savior) in a book (see verse 23).
You can make a book for each of your students.
You could also sing a song that testifies of the Savior, such as “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” (Hymns, no. 136). Share phrases from the hymn that strengthen your faith in Him. Why is it important to know that Jesus Christ lives?
This is beautiful.
I can't print the picture of the firends in the heart. I cna print everuthing else just fine. but the Pctue of the friends does not come up in Acrobat like all of the others printabes