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David and Psalm 139

David wrote Psalm 139. We are going to focus on verses 1-16. It’s a personal Psalm that shows us that the Creator God knows us as individuals. This is comforting and challenging; God knows everything about us. We can’t hide from God, we can’t escape him but it is comforting too; he knows us and he leads and guides us. Our story also mentions that The LORD was with David – see 1 Samuel 16:18.

David and Psalm 139 Bible Story for young children

Bible Truth – God knows about me

To tell the story use a story bag with a doll for David, a sheep and a crown. You could write the shortened and simplified Psalm 139 (see below) out on a big piece of paper for the adults to say together. You can add actions to Psalm 139 too – point upwards for God and then do simple actions for the main words.

Say hello to David! (take David from the story bag). David lived a long time ago. He had two different jobs at different times. When he was young he was a shepherd who looked after sheep. (take sheep from story bag). What sound does a sheep make? (everyone make a ‘bah’ sound). Later on David became a very important King (take crown from the story bag).

The Bible tells us something special about David – it tells us that the LORD was with him. The LORD is a way of speaking about the God who made everything and rules over everything.

David wrote a song all about how God knew him, God was with him and God had made him –

God knows me!

He knows what I think

He knows what I say,

He knows when I sit down and when I stand up.

Everywhere I go God is there. He is always with me.

God knew all about me even before I was born because he made me!

David was sure that God knew all about him, that God was always with him and God had made him. Being sure of these things helped David to be a good shepherd looking after the sheep and a good King looking after God’s people.

Craft ideas

Make a sheep – David was a shepherd

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Decorate people shapes using tissue paper and fabric

People shape cut outs decorated with tissue paper and fabric

I found this blog post really helpful when thinking about this Psalm – https://jemwwg.wordpress.com/bible-study-notes/old-testament/psalms/psalm-139/

Advent calendar day 2

Isaiah 9:6 ‘ For to us a child has been born, to us a son is given..’

Craft idea – make a sheep for the shepherds – print the sheep outline from the PDF and cover the sheep with wool or cotton wool.

Sheep PDF file for you to print

L is for lost sheep

L is for lost sheep – a parable that Jesus told (Luke 15:1-7)

To tell the story to young children

Very young children will probably benefit from using smaller numbers – maybe just up to ten with the number ten sheep missing. Before you begin hide a sheep but unless you have a small group give the task of looking for it to a helper (who knows where to look!). If you have a very small group you could look together.

You could dress as a shepherd or take have a picture of a shepherd to show (we had a shepherd’s crook to show too). Ask the children what sort of animal a shepherd looks after and if they don’t know after one or two tries tell them – a shepherd looks after sheep. Ask them to make the sound a sheep makes. Explain that Jesus told a story about a shepherd who had 10 (100) sheep. He looked after them. At the end of the day he counted them. Have some sheep to count and count them altogether 1,2,,3,4,5,6,7,8,9…..Oh no one is missing! Where can he be? At this point pretend to look for the sheep and find him.

Explain that Jesus told the story to tell everyone that he has come to look for people – to help them to know and love God.

Sheep Craft Ideas

Pegs for legs sheep – print the sheep on to card and cut out for young children. They can decorate their sheep with yarn or cotton wool.Make sure an adult adds the legs.

Sheep collage – print on to paper and decorate with cotton wool or yarn and wax crayons.

Sheep – Pdf file – free to use

Sheep_(peg_legs) – Pdf file – free to use