Feeding Lambs S1E8 God Helps Me

Feeding Lambs is for our youngest believers and friends in the kingdom. In season one, we are mirroring Feeding Sheep in the sense that we are covering topics that are getting us “back to the basics.”

We will be discussing foundational truths in this season that everyone needs to know and be able to grow and build upon in the times to come. 

“God Helps Me” uses Psalm 46:1 as our text of choice and memory verse for the week. We will discuss how God not only helps us, but He is our strength and our refuge or “safe place” in times of trouble. 

The most sure fire way to receive help from anyone is to simply ask. We ask grownups for help for everything, from making food to tying shoes to homework, studying, and for clarity on questions. God is the same way, but we ask Him for help through our prayers. When we invite Him in to our lives and situations through prayer, He shows up.

We discuss three areas God can help us in. He can help us focus—whether it be to get chores finished, homework done, studying, or even helping us on a test. He isn’t going to make us “magically” pass a test we didn’t study for, but when we do our part to listen, learn, and retain knowledge, He will help us by bringing what we have put in to our remembrance. You can’t recall what was never there.

He can help us with our attitude, causing us to show love, be generous, and be kind, even when we wake up in not the best mood ever. 

He also helps us in our times of trouble. When we “get in a bind,” “in a pickle,” or we’re “between a rock and a hard place.”

There is never a situation that we face that He will not show up to help. He is Omnipresent, meaning He’s everywhere all the time! We will never be somewhere that He isn’t. 

Please show your kids that even as adults we need help. It is so beneficial to know when you are young where to go when you are in trouble. Yes your loved ones and friends help you, but God is the only one who is never too far away. 

The most important place we can connect with our children is through sharing our faith. God at the center of any relationship only allows it to become as strong as it can be. Don’t just build memories of vacations, adventures, sports, or school, build memorials of faith that will last throughout eternity. 

We pray that you will listen with your children and let these “mini podcasts” be a doorway to having important conversations about living out their faith, and what it means. Take time to ask them questions and really engage in their spiritual walk! It’ll transform the whole spiritual dynamic of the family if you will.

Please feel free to let your children know that they can reach out—with help from their parents of course—with any questions or topics that they would like to see covered, or they can send in recordings of them doing their weekly memory verses! 

We want them to know that this podcast is just as much for them as it is for the teens/adults. Can’t wait to see how they grow from here!

God bless, and thank you for the opportunity to speak into their lives. What an honor it is!

Transcript

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Good morning, my little lambs. Welcome back to Feeding Sheep Podcast, Little Lambs Edition. It's Miss Cody, and I am so excited to be able to talk to you today. I hope that you're having a great morning or a great day or a great night. I don't know when you're going to be listening, but I hope it's wonderful no matter where you are and what you're doing. Today we're coming back and we're going to discuss the topic God Helps Me. How many of you know that God is your helper and that he will help you through any situation that you will ever face in your whole life? One of the greatest lessons that you can learn now, whenever you're younger, is that God is your helper. And so before we dive into today's lesson, we're going to go and we're ready our memory verse. Excuse me, I got a little tongue-tied there, but we're going to recite our memory verse. I'm going to read it to you first, and then we're going to say it together like always, okay? So here we go. Our memory verse comes from Psalm 46, verse 1. And it says, God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. Okay, can you say it with me? Here we go. God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. All right. So let's get into it. It says, God is our refuge and our strength. And those are some very big words. And what a refuge is, a refuge is a place or a space or a person that when life is hard and when it's big and it's scary, you can go to that place and you can have peace and you can feel safe. For some of you, your safe place might be at grandma's house or with mommy or daddy or at your best friend's house, or you might have a teacher that when you're feeling overwhelmed, they make you feel better. It might be your babysitter. It could be anything. That whenever everything just feels icky and you're just tired of doing today, and you're just over it already, my safe place was always my grandma. My day could be going so very bad, but I could find my nanny. I called her nanny. I could find my nanny and I could just crawl up in her lap and she would give me a hug and she would pray for me and she would tell me that everything was going to be okay and I felt better. But when I met Jesus, whenever I met God when I was eight years old, um, I'd been in church my whole life, but I gave my heart to Jesus and I became saved at the age of eight, and I realized that God would be my safe place. And for 30 years, 30 years, God has been my safe place when the world is scary, when I don't know what to do with my life, I can run to him in prayer and he will meet me there. Why? Because we learned that God hears us and he listens to us when we pray and he talks to us, and we've learned all of these things. And I've learned all of that in my life, and that's why I want to share it with you because it's the greatest thing that I've ever learned, and it's the thing that has kept me for all of my life. And so God is our safe place, and I'm so thankful, and you can be so thankful for the people that we can see and we can touch and that are around us that are our safe places. We praise God for them. We're so grateful. But when those people aren't around, when you're at school and maybe mommy is your safe place, but mommy has to go to work and you're at school by yourself, what are you gonna do? God is gonna be your safe place, and you can go to Him in prayer, and you can be praying in the middle of your classroom, you can be praying anywhere that you're by yourself. You can be praying and you don't have to pray out loud. You can pray in your mind and you can say, God, I need your help today. God, I'm feeling very scared right now, and I really need to feel better. And he will show up, and his presence will show up. And not only is he our safe place, but he is our strength. God makes us strong, he makes us able to do things that we didn't normally think that we could do because we know that he is with us. And now it says he's a very present help in trouble. There's a great big word, and it describes God, and this great big word is called omnipresent. Can you say that with me? Say omnipresent. Very good, and omnipresent. What that means is omni means all, and present means present, that he's there, he's showing up, and no matter where you are, he's everywhere. So omnipresent is a very big word that literally just means God is everywhere all the time. When mommy has to go to work, God's God's at mommy's work and God's with you at school. Whenever you're riding your bike in the backfield and everybody else is at the house, God is in the house and God is with you in the field. He's very present all the time. There's never gonna be a moment in your life that you're gonna walk through it and God not be there with you. He's everywhere, all the time. And that may seem a little weird or a little scary, but it's not because God is on your team and God is on your side, and he's protecting you, he's watching over you, he's making sure that everything's okay, and that there's nowhere in this life that you're ever gonna be by yourself because he's gonna be there. Okay, and he's a very so he's very present. He's more present than any other human being in our life. There are times that mommy and daddy and grandparents and aunties and uncles and teachers and our best friends, there's gonna be times that they can't be with us, but God is always with us, he's a very, very present. He says he's not just present, but he's our present help in trouble. In the King James Version of the Bible, it says he's my very present help in the time of trouble. And that word trouble there, it means when I'm in a tight space. Um, have you ever heard the people say, man, I just got in a I'm in a bind, or I'm in a bit of a pickle here, or man, I'm in a tight spot, or I'm between a rock and a hard place, and I don't know what to do. It just means that things are happening to you, and they're all happening at the same time, and they're kind of squeezing you. Um, like you got a math test and a history test and an English test all in the same week, and that's a lot to study, and it's all just like and it's just kind of bearing down on you, and you don't know what you're gonna do, and you're in a tight spot. That's what I'm talking about. He's with us in those tight spots, and I just found a few ways that the Lord can help us. There's many, many ways that God helps us, but the re the way we get help, do you know how we get help? We have to ask for it. If you need help from your teacher, you raise your hand and you say, I need help with question number four. Or when you're at daycare or at the babysitter, you say, I need help to tie my shoe. And they will come and help you and they will tie your shoe. But if you don't ask for help, your shoe stays untied, or you never know the answer to question number four, and you don't know how to solve number four, or what have you. So the most important way that we get help from the Lord is that we ask him and we don't raise our hand and ask like we would our teachers, but we pray and we ask him and we say something like, God, I really need some help today. Can you meet me where I am? And he will be like, Sure, I can. You know I can. I'm God, I'm everywhere all the time. So a few things that we can ask God to help us with. Some of us need help focusing. Do you have issues focusing sometimes? I know I do. I'm old, but I still need help. God can help me focus so I can pray to him and I can say, God, help me finish my chores today. Help me not get distracted. God, help me focus on this homework because I know that I need this knowledge in my brain because I'm gonna have a test. He can help me when I study for my tests. He can help me when I take my test. What? God's gonna help me cheat. No, you're gonna do your part and you're gonna study and you're gonna do your homework and you're gonna do what you need to do, and you're gonna pay attention in class. And when test time comes, you're gonna say a little prayer and say, God, help me remember everything that I've learned so that I can get the answers right to this test, so I can pass this test and I can get a good grade in this class. And when you put things in your mind, God can help you remember those things. And God can help you not be anxious about your test. He can help you have peace about it and not be worried. So God can help us focus, focus on getting our chores done so we don't get in trouble with mommy or daddy or grandma or whoever. He can help us with our homework and studying, he can help us with our schoolwork and with our tests, he can help us in any area that we need better focus on. And God can help me have a good attitude because I can pray and I can say, Lord, I can already tell today's a bad day, and I'm gonna need you to help me with my attitude. So he will help us love people well, he will help us to be kind when we don't really want to be and we're not in the best mood. He can help us be generous to people who have a need when we're at school and we might see somebody that's a little hungry, or maybe we have a snack and they don't. God can help us see those people, and he can help us to be brave enough to say, hey, I'll share my snack with you today if you're hungry. Um, and he can help us when we're in trouble, when we fall down on our bike, when we get hurt, um, when people aren't around, we can call on God and we can say, Lord, I need you to help me. God, send some help to me. Um, I don't know what to do with the situation that I'm in. I don't know how to get out of it. God, can you help me? And when we ask him, he is very present and he will show up. When you have situations in your life arise and you don't know what to do with them, God can help you. He can give you wisdom, he can give you knowledge. Um when um when people are being mean to you and you don't know how to handle it, you can say, God, can you help me? And he will. And sometimes he'll help you because he'll just speak directly to your spirit, he'll speak to your heart, and he'll tell you what to do. Sometimes he'll send a person and they'll give you the right advice that you need to have that help. But all in all, God is our safe place, he makes us strong, and he helps us in every situation. There's not one thing in this whole wide world that you can't ask God for help for. And God will show up for you, and he will help you. He will either show up by his spirit speaking directly to you, giving you wisdom and knowledge and help, or he will send a person when you need help the most, and they will be able to have the ability to get you from where you are to where you need to be, because God is good. So let's say that memory verse together one more time, Psalm 46 and 1. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. I hope you have a good rest of your day, and I hope that whatever you need help with today or this weekend or next week or any of the days to come, that you know that you can call on God, that you can pray to Him, and that He will help you in everything that you do. I love you. God bless you, and I will see you next week for our episode where we will be talking about God has a plan for me. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.