1. Thank you for coming to Samsbiblestories.com and for taking a look at the lessons I have added. These lessons are the result of years of teaching Sunday school at an Elementary level. God has richly blessed me in being able to share His Word with thousands of young people. It is now my privilege to share them with you. Please feel free to use them with your class, wherever God has planted you. The only think I ask is that you drop me a line and let me know who you are and how the lessons are working for you. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. samueldselby@gmail God Bless you, Sam God Bless

2. How many of you like to take a… ROAD TRIP! it’s super fun to take off into the great beyond (close your eyes, getting caught up in the memory), windows down, the smell of the open road… And then:

3. How many of you like to take a… ROAD TRIP! ARE WE THERE YET?

4. Bible Story-time Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool (a patience principle) Proverbs 14:29

5. Probably the best known story of patience in the Bible is the life of Job. Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool Volunteers Needed 1.God character 2.Satan character 3.Job 4.Job’s Wife

6. Job 1 1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool

7. Enter God character and Satan Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool To prove Job’s faithfulness to the Lord, God allowed the devil to destroy everything Job owned (the only limitation was he could not kill him) Satan said to God that Job was only faithful to Him because God had blessed him with all of the material riches and a wonderful land and family. He said that if God took those things away, Job would curse God to His face.

8. 12 The L ORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool First, Satan took away his property, cattle and servants. A messenger came in and told Job that the Sabeans, a neighboring tribe, had taken his cattle, oxen and servants and carried them to their home.

9. Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool But this news, as terrible as it was, did not shake Job’s faith in God. Sometime after this, a messenger came with the terrible news that a great wind had collapsed the house where his children were staying and all of them had been killed. Job did not blame God. He accepted that God had a plan and he would be patient for God to reveal His plan.

10. Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool Job’s friends came to council him. They tried to find out what great sin Job had committed to deserve the punishment he received. Job would not admit to any sin. Job knew that sometimes bad things happen to good people.

11. Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool Finally, Satan struck Job with terrible boils all over his body to see if he could get Job to curse God, but Job still refused to blame God for the things that happened to him.

12. Keep Calm and Keep Your Cool In the end to reward Job for his patience and faithfulness God restored to Job twice as much as he had in the beginning. 42:12 The L ORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.