If your class is meeting online, invite your students to bring a pen/pencil and index card with them to class.

As students clean up from Step 3, move back toward the lesson focus. Elisha knew that he couldn’t handle the change of losing Elijah on his own, so he asked God for a double portion of God’s power.

• When was the last time you needed help dealing with a big change? How did you cope? (Be prepared to share examples from your own experiences.)
• Have you ever asked God for help in that kind of situation? What happened? (Encourage students to share their stories.)

It’s easy to forget to ask God for help. When our problems or transitions are small, it’s tempting to tell ourselves it’s not important enough for God to care about. When they are big, it can be hard to see what God could do at all! But God wants us to ask for His help with everything we are going through.

Hand out index cards and pens/pencils to your students. If your class is meeting online, invite them to have those items ready. Because it can be hard to remember to ask for God’s help with changes in our lives, we’re going to do an exercise to help each other out. Make three columns of equal size on your index cards.

At the top of the first column, write “small changes.” This column will be for changes in your life that don’t seem to bother you too much, but are still different or unexpected. At the top of the second column, write “bigger changes.” This space is for things in your life that bother you a little more. At the top of the third column, write “major changes.” This space is for big changes that you don’t know how to deal with at all.

Take a few minutes to think about what situations you’re facing and what space they belong in. If you have a different situation for two or even all three of the spaces, write those down as well. It should just be a few words, enough to remind you of whatever change or other situation you’re thinking about.

When your students have had time to finish writing, draw their attention back to the front of the room. Thanks for spending time on this. Now, I’d like you to each pair off with someone else in the room who will be your prayer partner this week (if you have an uneven number of students, offer to fill in as a prayer partner for someone yourself). Give students an opportunity to spend a few minutes discussing the situations they’ve written about and then praying for each other. 

This week, spend a little time each day asking God to help your prayer partner through the changes they’ve written about, and they will do the same for you! Let’s see how God comes through.

Close in prayer.