Once your students have arrived, invite them to share about any injuries they’ve had in the past (such as broken bones, torn ligaments, bad scrapes, etc.) and how long they took to heal.
Many of you shared stories about injuries you’ve received in the past! Earlier this year, popular Christian music artist Forrest Frank received a terrible injury. While he was playing with his kid, he fell and broke his back in multiple places. Let’s listen to the full story.
Play the following video for your students [2:59]: Broken back Healed?🤯 (Full Story)
- An injury as serious as a broken back would normally take a long time to be healed! What stood out to you from Forrest Frank’s testimony about his back being healed? (Accept all reasonable responses.)
Miraculous healing from a broken back sounds impossible! But every day, all over the world, God’s people face impossible situations.
- What situations or experiences in your life or the lives of others look impossible to you today? (Answers will vary.)
- What gives you the feeling that these situations or experiences are truly impossible? (Answers will vary. Some might comment that they haven’t seen miraculous outcomes in person, or that it is easier to believe bad things than good.)
- How do you feel when you are facing something that looks impossible? (Answers will vary but might include sadness, hopelessness, fear, etc.)
Joshua, the Gibeonites, and the Israelites were outnumbered against a strong alliance of five kings and their mighty cities. Survival for the Israelites looked impossible. Hold up the puzzle and move the flap back and forth. But when God is involved, we cannot base our estimation of the outcome on what we see or fear. Here is an account of how something that is impossible to man became possible when God is in it.