Prayers for a Teenager Who is Struggling With Depression
Set her free to be the beloved daughter she already is, and give her renewed delight in the wonders of your glorious creation.
Set her free to be the beloved daughter she already is, and give her renewed delight in the wonders of your glorious creation.
In a world that tells students to grin and bear it, put on a happy face, and veg out until you can’t name your feelings, Scripture sings a different song.
Psalm 8 paints a stirring picture of the God who is worthy of our worship …Overflow of the heart manifests in words of adulation and praise to our great God. This is worship.
We get to tell teenagers the good news that neither they nor their peers need to earn their place. Jesus offers us his radical welcome, and then he empowers us to live in a new way.
What gets us into heaven isn’t the absence of sin, it’s the presence of Christ.
Whether we’re in the trenches as parents or youth ministers, we need the refreshment that comes through the good news that Jesus provides.
Only when students have been welcomed by Christ through the gospel and know who they are in him will they even have the desire to welcome others.
While youth ministers might imagine that today’s teenagers have a largely negative view of the Bible, these statistics demonstrate they may be far more open than we think.
In an ever-changing, fast-paced, hustling world, teenagers need the gracious reminder that Jesus invites weary souls to come to him and rest.
