Introduction: Ten generations after Cain & Abel, God is looking for a man of faith able to restore humankind.	Resource websites with lessons, activities, art craft
Lesson: The story of Noah's ark shows us that God  always had a plan to save us. It also show how a man with unchanging faith can restore a trust relationship with God.   When God looked at the world that He had made, he became sad about how bad things had become. He had to deal with the world’s sin. He loved Noah and He had a plan to save us.   God’s plan to save Noah was to have him build an ark. God knew how to build it and what to use to build it. He gave Noah very detailed plans about how to build it. God told Noah exactly how to build the ark.    God told Noah to prepare a place for all the animals. How many animals of each kind did Noah bring? Yes, two of every kind, male and female. God wanted to have them for the new world that would come after the flood. God supernaturally directed the animals to come to the ark. He brought them in to save them from the flood.  He had Noah bring plenty of food for them also.     Noah struggled for 120 years, denying both himself and his family. That was not easy to build the ark when people around him (including his own family) laught and persecuted him. He kept his faith in God's words and that unchanging faith restored Adam's faith (Adam failled to keep God's commandment).   So Noah built the ark, then his family went in the ark seven days before the flood started.   God brought in the animals and the Lord shut him in. (verse 16) God had told him in Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights… * God has always used the number 40 to signify a period of testing. Moses spent 40 years in the desert before God appeared to him at the burning bush. The children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years before they entered the Promised Land. Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness in temptation, and forty days after the resurrection proving he had risen before he ascended to heaven.   Even when it came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, it was not safe for Noah to leave the ark. Noah obeyed God and stayed in the ark until God told him it was safe.     Then he sent a raven from the ark. The raven flew around and around and couldn't find a place to land.   Then Noah sent a dove out. But the dove couldn't find a place to perch either, and returned to the ark. Seven days later Noah sent the dove out again. The dove came back to the ark with an olive branch in its beak. And so Noah knew that the waters were drying up. Noah waited seven more days and sent the dove out but this time the dove did not return. Noah understood that the land had dried.   God said to Noah, "Leave the ark with your wife and your sons and their wives, and all the animals. Build your homes again, and be fruitful and multiply." Then Noah built an altar and made a great sacrifice to God. Then God blessed Noah and his family, saying, "Behold, I will make a promise to you, and to all who come after you, that I shall never again destroy all life with a flood. And as a sign of this promise, I shall set a rainbow in the clouds. So whenever a rain cloud passes and rainbow appears, it will be a sign to me and to you, and to all who come after you, that I remember my promise and shall not send another flood."	More ideas of crafts and activities   Recipes for Noah snacks   material to buy online     make your own puppets
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