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Making Lame Legs Walk

Jesus Heals People

Day 163of 180
Week 33of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that Jesus has power to heal people

2

Retell the story of Jesus healing the paralyzed man

3

Recognize Jesus' compassion for people who are suffering

📖 Scripture Connection

Mark 2:5

“Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, 'Son, your sins are forgiven.'”

— Mark 2:5 (WEB)

Demonstrates Jesus' power to heal both physical and spiritual needs

📦 Materials Needed

  • World English Bible
  • Blanket or towel
  • 4 chairs
  • Paper dolls or simple stick figure drawings
  • Colored markers
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

BibleMouse friends, today we're going to learn about an amazing day when Jesus showed His incredible power to help someone who couldn't walk!

💭 Review Question: What special things did Jesus do to help people in our last lessons?
2Teaching (8 min)

In today's BibleMouse lesson, we'll explore the incredible story of how Jesus healed a man who couldn't walk

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Four friends carried their paralyzed friend to Jesus
  • They were so determined they lowered him through the roof
  • Jesus saw their faith and healed the man completely
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What do you think the man felt when he could walk?
  • How do you think his friends felt?
3Activity: Carry-and-Heal Reenactment (10 min)
storytelling

Children will act out the biblical story using chairs and a blanket to simulate carrying a friend

📝 Instructions:
  1. Set up four chairs to represent a house
  2. Choose one child to be the 'paralyzed friend'
  3. Other children work together to 'carry' the friend
  4. Practice carefully moving the 'friend' to Jesus
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use paper dolls to demonstrate the story

Challenge: Children create their own illustrated storyboard of the healing

4Closing (3 min)

Review the amazing way Jesus showed His love and power

📝 Review Questions:
  • Who helped the man get to Jesus?
  • What did Jesus do for the man?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear Jesus, thank You for caring about people and showing Your love by healing them.

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about more ways Jesus helped sick people

💎 Memory Verse

John 20:31

“These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.”

— John 20:31 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Jesus Miracle Motions - Act out each word with a simple hand motion, creating a memorable physical connection to the verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

This miracle demonstrates Jesus' divine power and compassion

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use gentle, age-appropriate language
  • Encourage children to imagine being in the story
  • Connect the miracle to God's love
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might have trouble understanding abstract concepts of faith and healing

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to retell the story and show empathy

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a 'friends helping friends' poster
  • Draw a picture of the healing in the BibleMouse Printables Library
  • Sing a song about Jesus' miracles from BibleMouse Song Collection

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