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Disappointment Chant
Leader:
When you're feeling disappointed.
When you feel life's falling apart.
How do you get up and keep going?
How do you make a fresh start?
All:
Don't stew! XXX (claps)
Start blue? XXX
Run, hide ? XXX
Shun pride! XXX
Face fear! XXX
God's here! XXX
Leader:
When you feel a 'bloomin' failure.
When you've blown it once again.
How do get up and keep going?
To know it's not the end?
All:
Look up! XXX
Hang tough! XXX
Face test! XXX
God's rest. XXX
Set free! XXX
Vic'try! XXX
© Don Stott, May 2006,http://eliab.com
Focus Question:
Have You Ever Been Disappointed?
At school?
At home?
By family or friends?
At work?
By choices you have made?
Talk to those near you. Include children.
Confession
Dear God, we are sorry when we
disappoint you. We are sorry when we complain and grumble. We are sorry when we don't act the right way. Please help us to change.
God Forgives Us
God is kind and forgives those who are
truly sorry. Through Jesus we can be friends with God.
Assurance
Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:38-39
Bible Reading
Exodus 15:22-27
Narrator: God had rescued his people from Egypt and taken them
safely through the Red Sea.
v22.Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the
Desert of Shur. For three days they travelled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter.
People: We want water.
Narrator: They called the place Marah which means "Bitter".
People: We want water!
Narrator: And the people complained to Moses..
People: We want water!!
Narrator:v25 So Moses cried out in prayer to GOD. GOD pointed
him to a stick of wood. Moses threw it into the water and the water turned sweet.
People: God is our healer
Narrator:
v25 That's the place where GOD set up rules and procedures; that's where he started testing them.
People: God is our healer!
Narrator: v26 God said "If you listen carefully to
my voice and do what is right, obeying my commandments and keeping my laws, then I won't strike you with all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians. I am God your healer."
People: God is our healer!!
Narrator: 27 Then they came to Elim where there were twelve
springs of water and seventy palm trees. They set up camp there by the water.
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