Am I ready to teach

1. Am I ready to teach?

2. Before I teach I should thoroughly examine myself.

3. I should not teach others until God has taught me the lesson that I am teaching

4. I can not expect my class to grow in their walk with the Lord if I am not doing so

5. I must remember that I can never take my students where I have not already been

6. Have I bathed my lesson in prayer?

7. I must pray for myself before I prepare the message and as I prepare the message

8. I need to ask God to help me rightly divide the Scriptures as I prepare to teach

9. Prayer shows my utter dependence on the Holy Spirit of God to do the work in my class

10. Pray for your students that God would already be working in their hearts even before they get to the class

11. Have you asked God to do the work in you from the passage before He does it in the students

12. Do I know who and what I am teaching for?

13. It is for Him not even for the students

14. It is to honor and glorify God

15. Questions to ask yourself as you prepare the lesson

16. What examples are there to follow from this lesson

17. What are the commands that we should obey

18. What are the mistakes or even sins that we should avoid

19. What Biblical principles do I find in this lesson to live by

20. Bible Study Methods--Ask yourself the following questions

21. What is the text saying—read the passage many times to know for sure—do not forget to get the whole context

22. What does it mean?

23. Why did He write it?

24. How should I respond to these truths?

25. What difference will this make in my life?

26. Teaching the lesson

27. Ask yourself what is the best way to present this subject

28. What object lesson can you use

29. Memory verse

30. Story to tell

31. Drama that the kids can get involved in—also the adults

32. Thoughts on story telling

33. Know the story real well

34. Never read it just tell it

35. Add details

36. Be descriptive

37. Be enthusiastic

38. Get the students involved

39. Prepare some visuals

40. Act out the story

41. Lose yourself in the story

42. Move around

43. Change your voice

44. Make sure to look every student in the eye

45. Think back over the lesson

46. What could you have done better

47. What caught their attention

48. Think over how you controled the environment