Soaking Up His Presence

Supplies Needed:

container of water

dry sponge

Ask students, “Where does prayer power come from?  The Holy Spirit.  

It is the power of the Holy Spirit that brings LIGHT to the darkness, HEALING to the sick, JOY to the sad, PEACE to the scared, LOVE to the lonely.  When we listen to the Holy Spirit, we will know where to go, what to say, what to do. 

Being with the Holy Spirit is kind of like being this sponge. Hold up dry sponge. We soak in His presence, soak sponge in water  then when we pray for someone, or speak a word given by Him to us for someone else, or do something to help someone in His Name, in other words - bring Heaven to earth, it is like the Holy Spirit leaking out of us and onto other people squeeze water out of sponge.  If it is a warm day, you may want to do this activity outdoors and squeeze a bit of water on the students! What happens to the sponge after all the water has been squeezed out?  It will eventually become dry, but the good news is that just because it’s dry, that doesn’t mean we have to throw it out and never use it again.  We can go back and soak it some more. soak sponge in water again. That’s what the Holy Spirit wants us to do - go back to Him again and again and get refilled and refilled with His presence, then take what we've been given and splash it out on others."


Soaking in His glorious presence...there's no place I'd rather be!  What ideas do you have for teaching on this topic?