Psalms of Lament and Asking for God’s Help

Scripture: Psalm 3

Learning Objectives:

• Students will learn about 32 of the Psalms were written by people crying out to God in bad times.
• Students will learn it is okay for us to tell God when we are sad and scared and ask him to help us.
• Students will learn God understands when we don’t understand why bad things are happening in our lives and wants to comfort us.

Interesting Facts:

• The laments in Psalms cover everything from being chased by enemies to crop failures.
• Some of the meanings of the notes before Psalms are unclear. We know they were musical terms, but even by the time of Jesus some of their meaning had been forgotten.

Bible Lesson

• Songs of Comfort

Application

• Songs for Comfort

Service Project

• Serving During Struggle

ESL

• Expressing Emotions

Language

• Basic Literacy
  • Describing Emotions
• Advanced Literacy
  • Card Poems

Math

• Basic Literacy
  • coming soon!
• Advanced Literacy
  • coming soon!

Science

• coming soon!

Health/Hygiene

• Coping With Grief

Sustenance/Survival

• coming soon!