Object Lesson - An Overflowing Cup

Object Lesson
- An
Overflowing
Cup
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“My cup runs over.” A cup is used
quite often in the Bible to
represent a person’s fate, a
person’s destiny. The cup could
be one of blessing or of
judgment. Is your cup empty?
Half full? Overflowing? In a place
where water was scarce an
overflowing cup implied
abundance. This weeks lesson is
great for summer in that the
youth will get a little wet while
learning about what is means to
be filled to overflowing with the
blessings of God.

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Games Using Water and Cups
• Filler Up – Divide the youth
into pairs. Partners stand six
feet apart. One person gets a
cup with a ping-pong ball in it
and the other a water gun. At
you signal, those with the
water pistol must race to
squirt enough water into the
cup to make the pin-pong
ball float. Keep a bucket of
water nearby for easy refills.

• Bottle Fill Relay – Each team
appoints one member to lie
face up with head toward the
starting line, holding an
empty pop bottle on his or
her head. One member from
each team fills a cup (made
of nonbendable material)
with water, runs to the
bottle, and pours in water
until it is gone. He or she
then runs back, and the next
contestant runs out with a
cup of water as soon as the
first player crosses the
starting line.

• Water Cup Derby – Divide
into teams. Each team
member will fill a cup with
water from a shared water
bucket, put it over their head
and run to a team soda bottle
(or bucket) and poor it in. The
team that finishes first gets 5
points, but the team that has
the most water in the bucket
gets 10.

• Leaky Cup Relay – Give each
team a plastic cup or sturdy
paper cup with holes punched in
it. The first person on a team fills
it up and passes the leaking cup
over his or her head. The person
who receives it must pass it
under his or her legs to the next
person – Over, under, over,
under and it reaches the end of
the line. At the end of the line,
the last youth must run and
dump any water that is left in the
cup into a 5 gallon bucket and
then run to the front of the line.
After a given time, whomever
has the most water in their 5
gallon bucket wins.

• Jumping Water Splash – Give
each youth a plastic or paper cup
full of water. While two players
twirl a large jump rope, jumpers
one by one are to attempt three
consecutive jumps. They are to
do this while holding onto their
cup of water and trying to do let
any water spill. The youth that
has the most water left is the
winner. You can keep playing
until only one person has water
left in their cup.

• Gargling Charades – This is
kind of like charades, but
each youth is given a cup of
water and must use the
water to gargle a given
Christian Song while their
teammates try to guess the
title of the song.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
• What is the purpose of a cup?
• When the Bible talks bout
filling our Cup, what does the
cup represent?
• With what does God fill our
cup?
• Did you trust your team mates
to try to aim only for the cup,
or were you worried they’d
“accidentally” miss? What role
does trust play when we come
to God asking our cup to be
filled?

• Was there a trade-off between
trying to be quick vs trying to
be accurate? How might this
apply spiritually?
• What happened when your
cup was emptied?
• What is the meaning of the
phrase “My cup runs over”?
• Why is a clean cup important?

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• What are some things youth
try to fill the emptiness in their
lives with?
• What are some things that
youth try to quench their
thirsts with in life?
• Are there some things dirty a
person’s cup?
• What is the solution for a leaky
cup?
• Why does God fill our cup to
overflowing?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• What is it that fills your cup?
• What things are most
important to you?
• How do you spend all your
time?
• What activities fill your day?
• Are you a clean vessel waiting
to be filled?
• What changes do you need to
make so that your life
overflows with the blessings
of God?

SCRIPTURE
• Romans 15:13 – “May the God of
hope fill you with all joy and
peace as you trust in Him, so that
you may overflow with hope by
the power of the Holy Spirit.”
• Acts 14:17 – “Yet he has not left
himself without testimony: He
has shown kindness by giving you
rain from heaven and crops in
their seasons; he provides you
with plenty of food and fills your
hearts with joy.”
• Ephesians 5:18 – “Do not get
drunk on wine, which leads to
debauchery. Instead, be filled
with the Spirit”

• Psalm 42:1-2 – “As the deer
pants for the water brooks, So
my soul pants for Thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for
the living God; When shall I
come and appear before
God?”
• Matthew 5:6 – “Blessed are
those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they
shall be satisfied.”

• John 4:13-14 – “Jesus answered
and said to her, ‘Everyone who
drinks of this water shall thirst
again; 14 but whoever drinks of the
water that I shall give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I
shall give him shall become in him
a well of water springing up to
eternal life.’”
• Revelation 7:16-17 – “They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst
anymore; neither shall the sun
beat down on them, nor any heat;
17 for the Lamb in the center of
the throne shall be their shepherd,
and shall guide them to springs of
the water of life; and God shall
wipe every tear from their eyes.”

• Psalm 63:1 – “O God, you are
my God, earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you, my
body longs for you, in a dry
and weary land where there is
no water.
• Psalm 116:13 – “I will lift up
the cup of salvation and call on
the name of the Lord.”
• Luke 1:53 – “He has filled the
hungry with good things but
has sent the rich away empty.”

• Psalm 23 – “The Lord is my
shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes
me lie down in green pastures, he
leads me beside quiet waters, he
refreshes my soul. He guides me
along the right paths for his name’s
sake. Even though I walk through
the darkest valley, I will fear no evil,
for you are with me; your rod and
your staff, they comfort me. You
prepare a table before me in the
presence of my enemies. You
anoint my head with oil; my cup
overflows. Surely your goodness
and love will follow me all the days
of my life, and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord forever.”

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