Participants: Janice Smith
Series Code: JA
Program Code: JA000007
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00:01 Do you know what this is?
00:03 This is an earthenware jug. 00:04 And this is an earthenware jar. 00:06 And in Bible times these are the kind of containers 00:08 that they used to put their food in. 00:10 Now those days they couldn't just march down to 00:13 the grocery store and buy flour could they? 00:15 Instead they had to grow it, 00:17 but you can't grow flour can you? 00:19 You have to grow wheat and so they would get it 00:24 growing in the fields and it would turn green. 00:26 Then would come fall and it would 00:27 turn a nice golden yellow. 00:28 They would want with their big knives and harvested it. 00:31 Then they would bring it inside and hang it up to dry. 00:35 This part is where all the little kernels of wheat are. 00:38 Then after it was all dry then they could bring it 00:42 into their house, or sometimes they did outside, 00:45 very often in fact. 00:46 They had to get the little tiny 00:48 grains of wheat out of the husk. 00:51 You know considering how big this whole stock is, 00:55 the little grain of wheat is not very big at all. 00:58 Then when they wanted to make flour they could pour 01:01 some other kernels of wheat into a little bowl called 01:04 a mortar, and they would use the pistol to grind it. 01:07 I want to take the story of about some of these 01:09 things so don't go away okay. 02:09 Make sure you pay close attention because we are 02:11 going to have a mystery word today that you will 02:14 want to figure out by the end of this program. 02:16 Now I will be talking along and certain words 02:18 that I say will be called Key words. 02:21 When a key word comes up it will show right on 02:24 this side of the screen at the bottom. 02:26 One of the letters in it will be bigger 02:27 and a bright color. 02:29 Then that letter from the key word will come over 02:33 into the right slot of the mystery word. 02:37 Then you will have to figure out as those spaces 02:39 get filled up what the mystery word is. 02:42 Are you ready for our story? 02:43 Prophet Elisha lived in Israel and there was 02:46 a terrible famine happening. 02:48 He was so hungry and he was getting hungrier and 02:53 hungrier and God said to him go to the village of 02:57 Zarephath and there will be a widow there 02:59 who I have commanded to give you food to eat. 03:02 So he went there and sure enough outside the gate 03:06 the widow and her little boy were collecting 03:08 sticks to build a fire. 03:10 He walked up to her and he said, " would you please 03:13 give me a drink of water and a loaf of bread?" 03:16 She looked at him and she said, "Sir I can't do that, 03:19 why I only have enough flour and enough oil to make 03:22 a little loaf of bread for my boy and I and after 03:25 we eat it we'll just die. " 03:27 Well then prophet Elisha said to her, "you know God 03:32 has promised that if you will make a loaf of bread 03:35 for me that the jar of flour will not be used up and 03:39 the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the 03:43 Lord gives rain on the land. " 03:45 And that promise is in 1 Kings Chapter seventeen. 03:48 She looked at him and she thought and then she decided 03:53 to trust God and share what she had. 03:55 So she went in the house and her little boy followed. 03:58 They looked in the flour pot and sure enough there 04:02 wasn't much flour there. 04:04 So she started to scrape it out and get flour to make it 04:08 and her little boy was he just watching. 04:12 I'm sure he was so curious as she had to kind of 04:15 shake it to get just the last little bit out. 04:19 Then she made a little dent in it 04:22 and got her jug of oil. 04:25 She had to pour as it was just starting to get the 04:30 very last drop, there wasn't just any more left. 04:35 She kept mixing, and have you smelled when someone 04:40 is baking bread, the smell of the flour 04:43 and everything going together? 04:45 It smells so good and that's just how the little boy was 04:51 thinking and so was the mom. 04:53 It just smelled so good and they wanted to have some 04:56 of that bread so bad, and yet they knew that 05:00 this loaf wasn't for them. 05:02 She kept kneading it together and she shaped it 05:06 into the nicest little loaf and she put it over 05:09 on her little fire. 05:11 Of course I don't have a real fire there but 05:16 that is how she baked it on her little fire. 05:18 And oh it smelled so good a she was baking it. 05:21 When the little boy smelt the good smell I think 05:25 he probably thought to himself, 05:26 I wonder if there's more flour in the barrel? 05:29 And so he went over and looked, and sure enough 05:32 there was more flour. 05:35 Then he thought to himself, 05:37 I wonder if there is more oil? 05:39 And he looked and there was more oil, so she got 05:42 the jug of flour out again and scooped lots of flour. 05:48 And all was going to be so good to have a loaf 05:53 of bread for them too. 05:56 And there was plenty of oil to make it, 06:00 and she started to mix it up, loaf for them. 06:03 In fact the Bible says, that the "jar of flour and the jug of oil 06:09 did not run dry in keeping with the word of the 06:12 Lord spoken by Elisha. " 06:14 I think I shall wash my hands and then let's go 06:16 to the Wonder Room okay? 06:26 You know it's good to find out what 06:27 things mean, isn't it? 06:29 Let's look up thoughtful. 06:30 We can look it up in the dictionary or on the computer. 06:33 Let's use the computer. 06:35 Now you need to know how to spell to do this, don't you? 06:37 Help me spell it okay? 06:38 T- h-o-u-g-h-t, that's thought, this is thoughtful 06:45 so we have to add f-u-I. 06:48 Thoughtful, showing concern for others. 06:52 You know God has made it so that animals are thoughtful 06:55 also, shall we go see some? 06:57 Come on! 07:01 Do you like my elephants? 07:03 I like elephants, I love their long trunks. 07:06 I think one of the reasons that God gave elephants 07:09 trunks is because they use them to help each other 07:12 when one of them is hurt. 07:13 If one of them is injured they use their trunk to lift 07:16 them up and help take them where they need to go. 07:18 You know I read a story once about some elephants 07:21 who were very sick. 07:23 They had parasites inside of them that were eating 07:26 nutrients and so they weren't getting any nourishment. 07:29 They were getting thinner and thinner, 07:30 this whole herd of elephants. 07:32 So one of the healthy females realized the problem 07:34 and she led all the other elephants over 07:38 to the edge of a cliff. 07:39 There was limestone rocks on the cliff and she had 07:42 them hack out big pieces of the lime in the stone 07:45 rocks and then they told them to mix it with gravel. 07:48 Using their trunks they feed each other this mixture 07:53 of limestone rock and gravel. 07:55 They just feed pounds and pounds of it to each other. 07:59 Then within 24 hours they were healthy and 08:03 they were getting strong again. 08:05 I think that is so incredible. 08:07 You know when a baby elephant calf is born 08:10 there is no doctor or hospital. 08:12 So the different elephant mothers come by and they help. 08:16 When one mother has a calf the other one takes care 08:19 of the newborn calf until the mother is 08:21 healthy enough to do it herself. 08:23 Another animal that is called a calf, 08:25 when it is a baby, is a giraffe. 08:27 I like giraffes, don't you? 08:29 Do you know that giraffes have day care centers? 08:32 They do, just a few of the mothers will gather 08:35 together all the babies and the other mothers 08:38 will go off and eat and relax while just a few 08:41 are taking care of the babies. 08:43 Once those ones had eaten then they come back 08:46 and they take care of the babies and the other 08:48 ones go off and take a break. 08:50 So they all help each other to get a break 08:51 and get some rest. 08:52 I think that is neat, they have to be so careful when 08:55 they are the ones running the day care center because 08:58 there are very fierce enemies that would just love to 09:00 eat at tasty giraffe for dinner. 09:02 There are leopards and hyenas and lions around that 09:06 would make a quick meal out of a giraffe. 09:09 But even the Lions, who are fierce enemies of the 09:12 giraffe within their own group, or pride 09:15 is what a lion group is called. 09:17 They are very gentle and loving of one another. 09:20 The lion mothers are so gentle with their babies. 09:24 They just take good care of them. 09:26 Even the lion adults spend a lot of time licking each 09:31 other and just being kind and gentle with one another. 09:34 In fact, if one lion is hurt or injured the other lions 09:40 will go off and get food and bring it back and feed it 09:45 to the one who has been hurt. 09:47 I think it is so incredible that God could give 09:50 animals instinct like that. 09:53 To take care of one another and be thoughtful. 09:56 I think I want to too! 09:58 If elephants can help their hurt friends up 10:05 if the Lions give each other food 10:10 if young giraffes are cared for all day long 10:14 then I can be more thoughtful too! 10:18 I can be more thoughtful I can be more thoughtful 10:22 just like the animals do. 10:26 If creatures of the wild can show they care 10:30 then I can be more thoughtful too! 10:38 Hey kids if you love all the fun things you can do 10:41 with Janice and her friends you'll flip over this. 10:44 It's Janice's activity book loaded with fun this book 10:48 teaches Scripture through mazes, puzzles, dot to dot 10:51 games, coloring and more. 10:53 And the best part is, it's free! 10:56 Let's take a look inside. 10:58 The Scripture on this page says, "Jesus Christ is 11:01 the same yesterday, today and forever. " 11:04 Now let's circle pictures that are the same, 11:07 that's right you got the idea. 11:10 There are many more fun filled activities in this book 11:13 just waiting for you. 11:14 By the way did I mention, it's free! 11:45 Oh this is lots of fun. 11:47 You know my friends and I have been talking about doing 11:49 thoughtful things and that's what you are doing here. 11:54 Thank you for letting us come. 11:57 Thank you dear heart your are so thoughtful. 12:01 Tell me something Edith, do you like it when these 12:04 children come and sing? 12:05 Come and see me, I should say so. 12:08 I'm very fond of children. 12:10 All that's wonderful and they brought 12:13 you flowers and everything. 12:14 Yes I should say so. 12:17 But how does it make you feel when they come? 12:19 Well it gives us a lot of happiness because 12:23 they are always so happy. 12:24 The children are always happy. 12:25 You know making other people feel good sure does 12:28 make you feel good too. 12:30 That's what it's children have said. 12:32 And speaking of that, Dr. Neblett is going to tell us 12:34 about some other things that make us feel so good. 12:37 So let's go okay? 12:41 Hello Dr. Neblett, hello Janice! 12:42 We just got back from visiting some shut in friends. 12:44 That must've been like a ray of sunshine for them. 12:47 It was and you know what, it also brighten 12:49 my day to be able to do it. 12:51 You know that reminds me of what sunshine does for us. 12:53 How is that? 12:55 Well a couple of things. 12:56 You know that sunshine makes us warm. 12:58 It also helps to kill germs which is important to me 13:01 as a doctor, I'll say! 13:02 But also helps us to grow. 13:04 Because the sun comes to our skin and our skin turns 13:07 it into vitamin D which makes their bones grow. 13:09 Not only us but also plants. 13:13 Why are you bringing up plants? 13:14 The reason why I am bringing up plants is because the 13:17 sun gets on the leaves and the leaves make oxygen. 13:20 The oxygen is what is important for us. 13:22 So believes must give the oxygen off, 13:25 because I don't, is that how we get it? 13:27 That's exactly right, as a matter of fact let me 13:29 show you on Frank, our model right here. 13:31 When we breathe in oxygen it goes to our lungs, 13:34 which are right here. 13:35 And then it goes out to our body. 13:37 As a matter of fact I would like to show you 13:39 how this works. 13:40 We can live a while without food, you've probably know 13:43 that, we can also live not as long without water. 13:46 But without oxygen we can only live a few minutes. 13:48 So which you like to try an experiment with me, 13:51 maybe the kids at home can try it too. 13:52 Alright here we go. 13:54 What I want you to do is take a big breath, let your 13:58 lungs expand, and I want you to hold it. 14:00 Okay can you do that? Okay! 14:02 Right now? Okay lets go. 14:04 Now what you just did was to breathe in oxygen through 14:08 the lungs which I call my station. 14:09 Our heart which is like the engine takes that oxygen up 14:13 into the tissue. 14:14 When it gets out here we picked up a carbon. 14:17 It's called carbon dioxide, and it comes back around, 14:20 how are you doing? 14:21 Okay wait a minute I'm almost there, wait, 14:24 wait almost there, and it comes back to the 14:26 station and now you can breathe. 14:29 That was hard, wasn't it? 14:31 Okay now what you just breathed out was carbon dioxide. 14:35 CO2, Oh is this CO2 like a name for carbon dioxide? 14:41 You are exactly right. 14:43 And this carbon dioxide goes over to our plants, and with 14:46 the sunlight and carbon dioxide it makes oxygen. 14:50 That oxygen comes right back over to us, we breathe it 14:54 into our lungs and breathe out the carbon dioxide and 14:57 around the circle goes. 14:59 So we need the plants to make oxygen, and the plants 15:03 need us to make carbon dioxide. 15:05 That is exactly correct! 15:06 What a lot of thought God must've put into making this 15:11 world work like that. 15:12 I think it's marvelous, without us making carbon dioxide 15:16 the plants would not grow. 15:17 Without the plants making oxygen, we couldn't live. 15:21 That's wonderful you know why really think you're right. 15:23 Fresh air and sunshine are important because it must 15:27 keep us healthy, what I feel good that I love doing nice 15:31 things for other people. 15:32 I agree! 15:36 Fresh air and sunshine, fresh air and sunshine. 15:42 Keep you healthy along your way 15:47 fresh air and sunshine, fresh air and sunshine 15:53 brighten your day to day 15:58 just like a breath of fresh air, 16:01 just like a ray of sunshine 16:04 you can chase those clouds away. 16:09 Fresh air and sunshine, fresh air and sunshine. 16:15 Brighten your day today 16:20 brighten your world today. 16:32 Did you know that one of the best ways to become a 16:36 good friend of Jesus is by spending personal time 16:38 with Him every day? 16:39 Well adults do that by praying and by reading 16:42 their Bibles, but if you can't read it's 16:45 kind of hard isn't it? 16:46 Or maybe you were just like listening to tapes. 16:49 Well here's a fun way to have your very own devotions 16:52 every morning when you get up. 16:54 Janice has made these morning time devotions for her 16:57 kids and for you. 16:58 Complete with songs, prayers and stories. 17:01 For more information have your parents write to: 17:33 Can you see air? 17:35 You can't can you? 17:37 But you can feel it, take a big deep breath. 17:40 Couldn't you feel it going into your mouth? 17:43 I could, you can't see it but even though you can't see 17:47 it, it's nearly everywhere. 17:49 Here is an experiment you can try at home 17:51 in order to prove that. 17:52 You need a bowl, and you need to put water in your bowl. 17:55 Then you need a cup, and if you want you can do what 17:59 I've done, you can put a piece around the 18:01 inside of the cup. 18:02 Now let's try something to see if there's air 18:05 inside this cup, can you see the air? 18:07 You can't can you? 18:09 When you put it into the water pushed it straight down. 18:14 Right down to the bottom, now let's pull it up and see 18:20 if there's water in it. 18:21 Pull it straight up again, did the paper get wet? 18:25 No, because the air inside the cup made it so that the 18:31 water couldn't go in there, there was no room for it. 18:33 Now let's do it again, push it straight down. 18:36 Now tilt the cup like this, and what is happening? 18:41 Bubbles, the air from the inside of the cup is 18:45 bubbling out and letting water go in. 18:49 So now look at the paper, it is all wet. 18:53 You know air kind of reminds me of love, 18:56 you can't see can you? 18:57 And just like love you, can't see love either. 19:00 But when God puts love inside of your heart, it makes 19:04 you do things for other people that you can see. 19:07 I think that is neat. 19:15 Thoughtfulness and selfishness they are hard to learn. 19:20 But God has promised He will help me every day. 19:25 He will help me see a way a make your work so light, 19:30 he'll help me find a way to make your day so bright. 19:35 With people around me I can share, 19:41 for people around me I can care. 19:46 The people around me need my love, 19:51 the people around me need to know about God above. 20:02 The Bible says that love is the most powerful thing 20:05 there is, I wonder how that can be 20:07 when we can't see love? 20:09 Well let's think about it, remember we talked before 20:11 about how air and love are about the same. 20:13 You can't see air either, but it is strong too! 20:16 Here's an experiment you can try as long as you have an 20:19 adult or parent to help you and will show that to you. 20:22 Take like a pop bottle, a good strong plastic bottle. 20:26 Take the lid and make all little hole in the top to 20:29 stick a straw through. 20:30 Then take modeling clay and sealed up on each side, 20:34 because you want it to be airtight. 20:36 Then in your bottle, put some ice cubes in the bottom 20:40 of the bottle and it's fun to put in some food coloring 20:42 to have it make a color. 20:44 Then put cold water in, I'll will put just 20:47 a little bit more. 20:48 And you want to fill the bottle may be about 20:50 1/3 full, and then you put the lid on. 20:54 Get the lid nice and straight that it will make a nice 20:59 tight seal. 21:02 This is the part where you will want to roll up your 21:05 sleeves and have on an apron, then lowered into a nice 21:10 hot pot of water. 21:12 Then see what happens. 21:15 Do you want to know why this is happening? 21:17 The air inside the bottle is being warmed by the 21:22 hot water, and when air gets warm it gets bigger. 21:26 Then when it gets bigger it pushes on the water 21:29 that was in the bottle and pushes the water up 21:32 and out of the straw. 21:34 That's kind of what God's love is like isn't it? 21:37 When He warms us with His love we just bubble out with 21:41 nice things we want to do for people. 21:43 Let's go have a story, Okay? 21:58 Are you ready for a story, Yeah! 22:01 You know this book when I was a little girl, 22:03 Secret Of The Cave was my favorite book. 22:06 I want to share this story with you now. 22:08 It was the talk of the village, everybody was 22:12 wondering who is in McCollum's cave last night. 22:16 Old Peter McDonnell had been going home very late. 22:20 He had an old gray beard, and walked with a cane, 22:22 and he was going home with his sheep. 22:25 As he was walking along in front of the Cave, 22:29 he had heard banging noises with hammers, 22:31 and nails, and boards. 22:33 Of course he didn't get afraid because Scottish shepherds 22:36 don't get afraid or anything. 22:38 But he did walk home just a little 22:40 bit faster that night. 22:41 They couldn't figure it out because all of them 22:44 had explored that cave so many times and they knew 22:47 that it had little alleyways, you know all different 22:51 ways you can go inside the cave. 22:54 They knew that nobody was inside the cave and so 22:57 everybody was talking about it. 22:59 Over at the store they were talking about it. 23:01 On the street corners they were talking about it. 23:03 One person would say I think it's spies and another 23:06 person would say on no its smugglers. 23:08 And someone else would say it couldn't be spies and 23:12 it couldn't be smugglers because what would spies 23:14 want to see in our village in Longview? 23:17 We are just a sleepy little village 23:18 there's is nothing to see. 23:19 And someone else would say and what would 23:23 smugglers want I mean why would they want 23:25 to be hiding things way out here? 23:27 This isn't it near any big city or anything. 23:29 So nobody could figure it out. 23:31 Finally some of the people just said we think Peter McDonnell is 23:36 hearing things, he is getting old and his hearing 23:38 is going funny that's what it is. 23:40 But there were two boys that were very interested in 23:44 the story and that was Oscar and Bruce McLaren. 23:49 They were the sons of the game keeper who lived just a little 23:52 bit out on the outskirts of the village. 23:54 They would run from this group and listen to those 23:57 details and then they go listen to these details 23:59 from another group because they were so curious 24:03 to find out who it could be. 24:04 Now, their mom and dad were away because their mother 24:08 had gotten very, very sick. 24:10 So their father had taken their mother to a hospital 24:14 way over in Glasco. 24:16 So they were home all alone, so this was 24:19 very exciting for them. 24:21 Well the next day some of the villagers decided 24:25 that they should really go out to the cave and 24:28 just look through the cave because then at least they would 24:32 be able to figure out whether Peter McDonnell was 24:34 really hearing things or not. 24:36 You can imagine when the villagers decided to go, 24:39 guess who wanted to go with them? 24:42 Oh Bruce and Oscar wanted to go so bad, but the 24:48 villagers told them they could not. 24:49 They said Bruce and Oscar we let you go, what if you 24:54 got shot your parents would be so upset when 24:57 they came back and found two dead boys. 24:59 We cannot let you go, but Bruce and Oscar begged to 25:03 be able to go so finally they decided to let them. 25:06 Well it was evening when they headed out toward the 25:09 cave, quite a big group of men plus the two boys. 25:12 They walked and they walked and finally they got there. 25:16 The tide was out so they could start climbing up 25:20 to the cave, and a whole bunch of the men said 25:22 well, we will wait down here at the entrance. 25:24 We won't go inside so only six men were 25:27 brave enough to go in. 25:28 And Oscar and Bruce wanted to go inside so bad and the 25:33 other men said no you need to stay down here with us. 25:35 But Oscar and Bruce just begged to go inside so finally 25:39 they let them go in. 25:40 They came up to the entrance of the cave and 25:43 it was all dark and black inside. 25:47 And woo, they would make a sound like that and the 25:50 voice echoed and everybody was kind of nervous and 25:53 their hearts were patting, patting, patting. 25:55 They flipped on their flashlights and in they went. 25:59 They started going down this alley and came out of 26:03 that one because it was nothing there. 26:05 So they would go down this alley and finally they 26:08 came to a place where there was some rocks falling 26:10 down and people started looking at that. 26:13 Oscar said old look up here there is marks on the 26:16 walls let's look up here. 26:18 But there was nothing there either so they all 26:21 came out and they went home. 26:22 The next day everybody said Peter McDonnell he's 26:26 just hearing things it's not really true. 26:28 But that very night there was a huge storm and a boat 26:35 just disappeared from the beach during the storm. 26:38 And nobody could figure it out because Scottish 26:42 fishermen always tie up their boats perfectly. 26:45 They don't leave their boats loose, 26:47 they tie them up really well. 26:49 So everybody thought someone had stolen the boat. 26:52 Well you can imagine their surprise when just a few 26:56 days later the boat appeared back on the beach, 27:00 it was tied up and it had a patch over a little 27:05 hole it had gotten somehow while it was gone. 27:07 You can imagine everybody in that village was 27:11 wondering and talking. 27:13 Next week we will find out more. 27:16 Do you remember our mystery word? 27:19 Did you catch it? 27:20 You're right it was sunshine. 27:22 Sunshine is kind of like thoughtfulness isn't it? 27:25 Because sunshine makes us happy and being thoughtful 27:28 makes people happy. 27:29 You know you have made me happy today and I would like 27:32 to see you again next time okay? 27:34 Bye-bye! |
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