Lifted Up

Materials
Soft ball that will not cause injury if thrown at someone.

Description
Use this game / object lesson / creative learning activity to teach youth that when we seem to have been hit and removed from the game of life, God is there to pick us up.

Learning Activity
1.Get the softest ball you can find - something that will not injure a person regardless of how hard participants throw it.
2. Take everyone to an open area.
3. Toss the Ball into the center.
4. If someone gets hit by the ball they must sit down where-ever they are. But they are not completely out. They can still grab a ball rolling by and throw it at someone still standing.
5. If someone catches a ball, the person who threw it must sit down.
6. When everyone is sitting down except one. Go and help everyone back up to their feet.

Application
1. When we seem to have been hit and removed from the game of life, God is there to pick us up.
2. God is there to pick us up after we fall or fail and He will set us up right again. Trust God as He will always pick us up.
3. Discuss about how life and people knock us down but God comes around and helps us back up!

Scripture
James 4:10, KJV