Theme: Seek His Face

Sunday 1st February 2026

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Aim: To discover how we should be God’s friend (seek God’s face), rather than just focus on what God can do for us.

Bible passage: Psalm 27:4;8 (plus other stories about David)

Today we meet David. David was king of God’s people and was God’s friend. God enabled him to do many things and to rule with honour and love (most of the time…). However, David was a friend of God above all else. In this story, the children will meet a man who spent his time with God, who knew that God was faithful and all-powerful and who trusted God completely.

It’s never too early to start spending time with God and seeking his face. We don’t do this in order to get something out of God, but to get to know him better. Here, we’ll help children get some ideas of how to spend time with God.

Kids Work Video

Storytelling

Things You May Need

  • some worship songs

  • A3 paper

  • art materials - paints, chalks etc

  • pens or pencils

Questions & Thoughts

Chat & create

You are going to try a few ways of spending time with God today. Last week we explored all the different ways of praying. We can do all those things and some of these things too when we spend time with God.

Worship: Worshipping God is all about saying how great God is and how much we love him. We can worship by singing, dancing, drawing, writing… There are lots of ways!

Put on a worship song maybe one you have already sung today. Explain some of the words to the song....how they talk about how great God is and how much you love him. Then all sing and dance together to God.

Give out the paper, art materials, pens and pencils and say that we can draw or write something in our worship to God. Remind everyone that David wrote lots of songs and poems to God; they are in the book of Psalms in the Bible. Put the worship song on again and draw or write something that you want to say to God.

You might need to repeat the song to give enough time to finish your artwork/song/poem. Then give each other the chance to share what they have done, if they would like to.

Share out some refreshments and enjoy eating and drinking together. Start to talk about the Bible story using these questions:

  • Which is your favourite part of the story? Why?

  • What is important about this story? Why?

  • How would you describe David?

  • Have you ever spent time with God? What did you do? What was it like?

  • How would you describe God?

  • Is there a time in the day when you can spend more time with God? When is it? Why is that a good time?

Worship

These are the worship songs being played in our kids groups this morning, if you wish to listen to the same:

5’s and Under

  • Every Move I make

  • God Suit

  • Good Good Father

Detonate (school years 1-3):

  • God Suit

  • So so good

Inferno (school years 4-6):

  • Hallelujah Chant

  • Our God

Encounter

Remind yourselves of what you have done today – worshipping God is a way of spending time with him and getting to know him better. Another way is to read the Bible and to listen to God as you do so.

Read out two verses from one of David’s songs from the book of Psalms in the Bible. One of them is the new memory verse:

“I ask only one thing, Lord: Let me live in your house every day of my life to see how wonderful you are and to pray in your temple … My heart tells me to pray, I am eager to see your face.” (Psalm 27:4,8)

Find a space in the room and to spend a minute or so thinking about these verses and chatting with God. You can do this in your head or whisper what you want to say to God into their hand.

Don’t worry if you only manage a few seconds in quiet. It’s OK! You’re modelling what spending time with God is like – and that takes time.

After a minute, ask if anyone has anything they would like to share.

Growing Faith at Home

This week, we discovered how King David spent time God and how we can do so too. We looked at Psalm 27, particularly verses 4 and 8.

For all children

• Read or listen to the story together. Read it in the Bible or a Bible storybook. You can find the story the children watched in the session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImbRHFPSHk

• Use some of these ideas to help you child(ren) explore the idea of worship and spending time with God: https://flamecreativekids.blogspot.com/search/label/worship. Don’t forget to talk around the ideas as well as do the craft!

• Try to spend some time with God together as a family. This might be putting on a worship song and singing and dancing around to it. It might be having a short prayer time after dinner in the evening (ask your child(ren) what they want to say to God and help them to do so). It might be having a time of creative worship – set out art materials and paper and encourage your child(ren) to create a picture that helps them to praise God.

• Use your ‘in-between’ times this week (eg when you’re in the car going to school, walking to the shops or waiting for dinner to be ready) to help your child(ren) to pray. For example, pray for the person you’re on the way to visit or ask God to be with your child(ren) when they get to school.

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