At-home guide / number 38
Cover Your Mouth
Job 38-42. Part 3 of the story, poetry and prophets. This guide went out for Sunday September 28, 2025.
Reinforce this truth throughout the week and during your study.
God is God, and we are not! We should trust him when things are hard.
Read the passage to or with your children.
Job 38-42
Memorize and recite this verse with your children throughout the week
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
- Job 42:2
Watch the video below with your children.
Take time with your family to discuss these questions (or variations of these questions) together, and reflect on this week’s truth and Word.
Whom do you normally talk to when things are hard? When Job talked to his friends and wife, what was some of the bad advice he got? When he talked to God, what did he learn? Who helped Job the most?
TakeawayEven God’s good people may suffer bad things.
Job lost everything, but what good did God bring about through his suffering? How did God use Jesus’s death and suffering for good? What hope do we have when we go through hard things?
TakeawayEven when bad things happen, we should trust and praise the Lord.
Job lost his health, wealth, and family, but what did he never lose? Even when Job was given back health, wealth, and family, what do you think was his greatest treasure? Can anything separate us from God? How does that make you feel?
TakeawayWhen Satan tempts us, we can resist him like Jesus and Job did.
What were some of the questions God asked Job? Is anyone like God - creating all things and caring for them? Should we think we know more than God or trust him? Why?
TakeawayEven God’s good people may suffer bad things.
As your family reflects on the truths you learned in this week’s lesson, pray together.
Here are some questions to get you started...
- What did I learn about God that I can praise Him for?
- What sins and weaknesses can I confess to God?
- What promises can I thank God for?
Keep going
The story runs on.
Every guide follows the one storyline of Scripture, week by week. Guide 38 sits in part 3, poetry and prophets.