Sunday, March 2, 2014 at Good Shepherd
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Preteen (grades 4-5)

What if I Pray Really Hard and God Says No?
Key Faith Foundation:  Accepting God's Answers
Key Scriptures to read together as a family:  2 Samuel 12:15-23; Proverbs 15:29; Mark 14:32-36; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Talk about it:

• Discover at least two people in the Bible to whom God said "no."  (David, when he asked God to spare his son in 2 Samuel 12; Moses, when he asked God to find someone else in Exodus 4)
• Describe a time from the Bible when God answered prayer differently than expected.  (Gideon and his small army in Judges 6-7; the Savior being born as a baby in a manger in Luke 2).
• Find one thing that each person in your family has asked for but never received.
• Discover someone in your family whose prayer God answered with "no".