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Lesson 
1. Explain the following: 
    The reason we come to AWANA each week is to learn how to become better workers for God. But, before we can start doing that, its pretty important to answer the following question: who or what is God? To answer this, we compare God to one of us. We’ll find out in what ways we are like him, and what ways we are different. 

2. Select a child to come up front. Hand him/her a piece of chalk. At the top of the board, write “God” and the child’s name. (These will be the heads of two different columns. As you continue through the lesson, you will attach the pictures down the left hand side of the board. These pictures will create the rows intersecting with the two columns.) Explain the following: 
    I’m going to place some pictures on the board to represent ways we could be like or different from God. As I do, I want you (the child up front) to write the answer that describes you under your name in the appropriate place on the board. I’ll then write the answer that describes God under “God.” 

3. Place the picture of the body on the board on the left hand side. Ask, “We’ll begin with a body. Do you have a body, yes or no?” Have the child write his/her answer on the board under their name and next to the picture. Explain the following: 
    This is one way we are different from God. The Bible says that “God is spirit” (John 4:24). He doesn’t need a body like we do. (Write “No” under “God” next to the picture.) 

4. Place the picture of the birthday cake on the board on the left hand side. Ask, “Next, we’ll talk about how our age is different from God. On what day were you born?” Have the child write his/her birthday and their age on the board under his/her name and next to the picture. Explain the following: 
    This is another way God is different from us. He’s the only person without a birthday. God wasn’t born like we were. In face, he wasn’t ever born at all. He has just always existed. If you asked him how old he was, he might say, “Forever.” (Write “Forever” under “God” next to the picture.) 

5. Place the picture of the brain on the board on the left hand side. Ask, “Now we’re talking smarts. How smart are you? How much do you know about every single thing there is to know? Nothing, some, or everything?” Have the child write his/her answer on the board under his/her name and next to the picture. Explain the following: 
    Here are some things that the Bible says God knows: the number of hairs on every single person’s head (Matt. 10:30), each and every star and its name (Ps. 147:4), every single thing that will happen to us (Ps. 139:6). Judging by this, we can see that God knows everything there is to know. The special word we use for this is “all-knowing.” (Write “All-knowing” on the board under “God” and next to the picture.) 

6. Place the picture of the muscular arm on the board on the left hand side. Ask, “How many different things are you able to do? Nothing, some things, everything?” Have the child write their answer on the board under his/her name and next to the picture. Explain the following: 
    Some different things God has done are: created the entire universe, made it rain until the entire Earth was covered with water, made the Red Sea to split into two parts while people walked through, raised people from the dead, caused the sun to stand still in the sky. It’s pretty obvious that God can do everything. The special word we use to describe this is “all-powerful.” (Write “All-powerful” on the board under “God” and next to the picture.) 

7. Place the picture of a house on the board on the left hand side. Ask, "What city and state do you live in?" Have the child write his/her answer on the board under his/her name and next to the picture. Explain the following: 
    We already said that God is a spirt. But, he's a pretty big spirit, so it's hard to say what city he lives in because he's bigger than a city. It's hard to say what state he lives in because he's bigger than a state. In fact, he's bigger than a country, a continent, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy, a universe! In face, God is so big that he's everywhere at once. There's nowhere in the universe you can go where God isn't. (Write "Everywhere" on the board under "God" and next to the picture.) 

8. Place the picture of a heart on the board on the left hand side. Ask, "How often do you choose to do the right thing? Never, sometimes, a lot, always?" Have the child write his/her answer on the board under his/her name and next to the picture. Explain the following: 
    We've already said that God is all-powerful, which means he could squish us like a bug if he wanted. We also said he's all-knowing and everywhere at once, which means there's no place we could go to hide from him. So, I guess it's a really good thing that God always does the right thing. We don't have to worry about God deciding one day to squash us like a bug because God is perfectly good. He always has and always will do the right thing." (Write "Perfectly good" on the board under "God" and next to the picture.) 

9. Teach the children the phrase "God is a being who is all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere, and perfectly good," by saying it with the children several times while doing the following motions. 
All-powerful: Flex your arm muscles 
All-knowing: Tap your temple with your finger. 
Everywhere: Spread both your arms out in a wide circle. 
Perfectly good: Do the thumbs up sign with both hands.

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