King Saul Saul Disobeys God 1 Samuel 13

King Saul: Saul Disobeys God 1 Samuel 13: 1 -14

King Saul: Saul Disobeys God 1 Samuel 13: 1 -14 Our lesson today reminds us that it is very important to trust and obey God even when things don’t make sense to us! Before we begin we have two songs of praise.

Saul Disobeys God: The Soldiers Come 1 Samuel 13: 4 -7 Ask your wee one how good they are at waiting for something. The pictures below might help remind you of ‘waiting situations’!

Saul Disobeys God: The Soldiers Come 1 Samuel 13: 4 -7 Ask your wee one how good they are at following instructions. Use the pictures below to help with the discussion. Talk about following God’s instructions.

Saul Disobeys God: Saul’s soldiers in danger 1 Samuel 13: 1 -6 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. Our story is about a king who had to wait for something and didn’t follow instructions. Saul’s soldiers had fought many battles but now they were really scared. Another army was coming to fight but there were lots and lots of them. Saul was the king. He had a hard job to do. He had to try and help his army not to be scared.

Saul Disobeys God: Saul has to wait 1 Samuel 13: 7 -9 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. Saul couldn’t stop his soldiers from feeling scared. They were hiding in caves and some were running away. The men that did stay were very scared.

Saul Disobeys God: Saul has to wait 1 Samuel 13: 7 -9 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. King Saul had to wait for God’s prophet Samuel to come. He was going to pray and make a special offering to God before the soldiers went into battle.

Saul Disobeys God: Saul has to wait 1 Samuel 13: 7 -9 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. Samuel the prophet was the only one allowed to say the special prayer and make the special offering to God because that was his special job. Saul knew he was not allowed to do this and he knew Samuel had promised to come in seven days.

Saul Disobeys God: Saul has to wait 1 Samuel 13: 7 -9 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. Six days came and Samuel was not there! More soldiers had left and ran away. At last it was the day Samuel had promised to come – day seven. But where was he? King Saul gave up waiting. Oh dear! Saul decided he would say the special prayer and make the special sacrifice even though he knew he should not do this. He made a big mistake.

Saul Disobeys God: Samuel is angry 1 Samuel 13: 10 -14 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. Just when King Saul finished the prayer and sacrifice, Samuel arrived. He came just at the time he had promised. “What have you done? ” he asked. “It wasn’t my fault” King Saul replied. All my soldiers were running away and the enemy soldiers were going to attack and you had not come.

Saul Disobeys God: Samuel is angry 1 Samuel 13: 10 -14 Read the story on the screen, guess the missing words using the pictures for clues. Samuel said none of these excuse mattered. King Saul should not have disobeyed God “You have been very silly”, Samuel said to King Saul. “Now God will not anyone else in your family be king after you. He will choose someone who loves and obeys him to be King”.

Saul Disobeys God 1 Samuel 13: 1 -14 Saul was wrong to try and do Samuel’s job. God had given rules about what he could do and he disobeyed them. We should always try to be patient and trust God. We finish today’s lesson with an old song about trusting Jesus. God Bless, Colin