The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Every child must desire to walk with the Holy Spirit and to display the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Lesson

SCRIPTURE

Galatians 5:13-26
MEMORY VERSE
Galatians 5:22-23 

MEMORY VERSE

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23  

AGES: 2-5 YEARS

Story time: Read Galatians 5:22-23 out loud to them. Share with the child about the fruit of the Spirit in your life and how you display them in action
Praise: Sing together the song - Holy Spirit for children with Ayi the cow .
 
Craft activity: Fruit of the Spirit vs Fruit of the Flesh Game 
• Find an open space. Draw two big circles, one with a smile face and one with a sad face.
• Ask the child to stand in between the two circles.
• Call out each fruit or character trait randomly from the list below and allow the child to move to the circle with the smiley face if it is of the Spirit and the circle with the sad face if it is of the flesh.
• Give examples of how these fruit or character traits are displayed in everyday life.
Here are some examples to choose from:
• Fruit of the flesh: Hate, worry, lying, stealing, bullying, selfishness, greediness, stubbornness, jealously, impatience
• Fruit of the Spirit: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

Application:
• Which fruit does the Holy Spirit want us to have in our lives? Allow them to answer
•Answer:  Galatians 5:22-23
 

AGES: 6-13 YEARS

• Can you draw or cut- out  and paste the different types of fruits you like?
• Can you advertise the fruit that you like and convince other people to  about that fruit?
• Read the scriptures and discover what the bible says about the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
• For the world to be united people need to live in it.
• Jesus has set us free must, does that mean that we should use this freedom to hurt others?
• Why must we to avoid gratifying the desires of the flesh?
• What are the desires of the flesh?
• What happens to those who desire to live by the desires of the flesh?
• What is the fruit of the Holy Spirit?


TAKE AWAY

•The Holy Spirit is for every child of God.  Always desire to walk with the Holy Spirit.