Proverbs 12:18 “Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing”Proverbs 15:4 “The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit”Proverbs 16:24 “Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones”
This week at Bridge Kids, we learned about our 5th core value: Healing. At the Bridge, we bring the broken hearted into community where true life healing happens as a result of being loved, trained, and being exposed to the Holy Spirit. We have found that the Bible gives us the pattern for this. Today we learned that the Bible teaches us that kind words can make someone whole.
Saying Nice Things to people, without expecting something in return, and saying something genuine is one way the bible says we can heal one another. It just so happens that it is also a way we can express our love for one another. We should never use our nice words to manipulate others into doing something for us.
We learned that two things that cause us to hurt others: reckless words and lying. We shared times that people hurt us this way, prayed and asked God to help us talk to those people and forgive them.
Each Bridge Kid created a card with a kind word written on the inside, or a picture showing how/who they love. We challenged them to give the card to someone that they love this week, whether it’s a parent, sibling, grandparent, or friend. We also challenged them to give a kind word to three different people this week in a genuine way to see how it makes other people feel and to see how it makes them feel, as well.
Dine and Dish:
Talk – Talk about how words have either encouraged or discouraged you when you were growing up – ask your kids about times people have said nice things/not-so-nice things to them and how it made them feel.
Do an activity together:
Love List - Create a List of all the things you love about one another in your family and read it out loud to one another before bed time.
Art – Create a collage with one another using positive words about your family.
Fun Notes – Buy fun postcards write notes to 3 different people telling them why you are glad they are in your life and either hand-deliver them or mail them.Nice Call – Call someone together and sing “I just called to say I love you” and tell that person why you love them and don’t call for any other reason.
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[dance]
Story about reckless words. (someone criticizing me)
What is reckless?
What is wise?
“Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing”
[dance] (reckless dance, sword dance, wise dance, healing dance)
Story about someone who lied to me this week.
Has someone ever hurt you with their words?
Have you ever been lied to?
Prayer (we have been hurt by these things and we ask you to help us talk to those people, forgive those people, and heal that hurt that these hurtful words have done to us.)
[dance]
We’re talking about healing this month. Which means to make someone whole, or better. When you’re sick something isn’t working properly because you are not whole. Being Healed means you’re all better… you’re whole.
Bible says:
“Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing”
“The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit”
“Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones”
Has anyone had nice things said to them? How did that feel?
Saying Nice Things to people, without expecting something in return, and saying something genuine is one way the bible says we can heal one another. It just so happens that it is also a way we can express our love for one another. We should never use our nice words to manipulate others into doing something for us.
Art – Make a card someone that you think needs to be whole. as a kind word on it. Thank you for ______. You have been a great mom to me. I love you for something specific.
Challenge - give a kind word to three different people this week in a genuine way to see how it makes other people feel and to see how it makes them feel, as well.
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