Key Verse

Nehemiah 8:10

Additional Verses

Psalm 16:11, Psalm 30:5, Psalms 35:9, Psalm 51:12, Psalm 126:5, Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 51:11, Isaiah 55:12, Galatians 5:22, 1 John 1:4

Materials Needed

• Bottle of seltzer
• Permanent magic marker

Object Lesson

What are some thing that make you happy?  (Give the kids a chance to respond.) People love being happy so they do all kinds of things to make themselves happy.  They go to movies. Go on vacations. Read books. Tell jokes. But happiness is really just something on the outside.

(Draw a smiley face on the bottle.)

If I told you I was going to give you $100 you would probably be really happy. It’s something that happens on the outside that makes you happy. The problem with happiness is that if the things around you aren’t going well you aren’t happy anymore. Maybe instead of me giving you $100 you lose $100 and now you aren’t happy anymore.

(Draw a frown face on the bottle. While you are doing this make sure you shake up the bottle a little so it will spray when you open the bottle.)

In Nehemiah 8:10 we read that Joy is our strength. Joy is something that comes from within.

(Open the bottle and let the water spray out.)

If something good happens to you you may be happy, but you can also have joy inside your heart. Make something bad happens and you are now sad, but you can still be joyful because joy comes from within your heart not from our circumstances. God’s joy is our strength in tough times. We are able to be joyful because we know that God loves us and cares for us and that our names are written in Heaven.

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