Our lesson today is about our Heavenly Father, and how He wants to be King of our lives.  Does a king always have the right to rule over his subjects? (Let the children respond).  Yes he does.  A king has the right to rule over his subjects and insist that they obey and honour him.

The first thing that God wants us to obey is to love Him.  Jesus said that we need to love God in four ways:

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind, and with all your strength" (Mark 12:30).

If we are to love God as the text says, then we must first ask Jesus to come into our hearts as our Lord and Saviour.  And then God will be King of our hearts.  Next we must ask God to fill us with the Holy Spirit and with His power to change our lives.  In 1 Corinthians 6:19 the Bible says that our bodies are to be the temple of the Holy Spirit.  This makes God the King of our bodies (our soul).

The Bible tells us not to think about bad things, but to always think about good things that are true, pure, right, holy, clean and proper (Philippians 4:8).  If we do this, we then make God the King of our minds.   Lastly, we need to serve God with all our heart so that we can please Him in all we do.  We need to do this with all our strength, and this makes God the King of our strength!

Now we can see that God is King four times in our lives!  Here are four things that God wants to be King over in your life.  Read them out loud if you are really sincere that God is King of your life! (Let the children respond):

This is how God wants to work out His plan to become Lord and King over our lives.  When He has completed this work we will truly be able to show the love of Jesus to everyone we meet.  Here are four things that God wants in your life.  Read them out loud if you really mean them! (Let the children respond):

Say these four things as a prayer every day, until God makes your life fully like this.

God bless!