Preface:
I have looked and looked and looked for an online Bible study for Teenage Girls. One that addresses the real issues of high school, boys, self-esteem… You get the idea. I’ve been praying about this and God laid on my heart to use my blog to reach out to other high school girls. A place where we can share about things that have happened in our lives and how God has taught us something through those experiences. I’m really excited about this and I hope that you will be too!
I’m going to start a Facebook group as well that will allow us all to connect to one another. Let me Know if you are interested and I will be sure to invite you into the group. My email is rebekahschwarz@yahoo.com.
My hope for this group is that we can become comfortable with one another and share our thoughts on any topic and prayer requests as well. I hope you enjoy it!
Below is the first entry of the Bible study and it will offer a preview of the type of thing I will be posting on here..
I have looked and looked and looked for an online Bible study for Teenage Girls. One that addresses the real issues of high school, boys, self-esteem… You get the idea. I’ve been praying about this and God laid on my heart to use my blog to reach out to other high school girls. A place where we can share about things that have happened in our lives and how God has taught us something through those experiences. I’m really excited about this and I hope that you will be too!
I’m going to start a Facebook group as well that will allow us all to connect to one another. Let me Know if you are interested and I will be sure to invite you into the group. My email is rebekahschwarz@yahoo.com.
My hope for this group is that we can become comfortable with one another and share our thoughts on any topic and prayer requests as well. I hope you enjoy it!
Below is the first entry of the Bible study and it will offer a preview of the type of thing I will be posting on here..
PREVIEW:
“A Boyfriend would just be the icing on the cake” -My Mother
My mom is always great for these tidbits of advice.
I pride myself in the ability to not need a boyfriend. I’m perfectly happy single. However, what girl doesn’t like a guy to tell her she looks nice or has a great smile… Someone besides her dad. When I go to school and see some girls have different boyfriends every week I get a little jealous…Not of the numerous boyfriends because I don’t want that but that somehow those girl manage to get several boyfriends and I can’t get one. My self-esteem takes a pretty big blow. I start to wonder if it’s me. Am I doing something so wrong that I’m not “girlfriend” material? I really hate when this happens because I know that this is Satan at work and I feel helpless to stop him. I have been told millions billions of times that God loves me and that I should focus on Him when I feel like that. I believe that 100%. However, I do find it difficult to focus on Him where relationships are rubbed in my face everyday and I am in an environment where God is not the focus.
I was doing my devotions the other night and the topic was unconditional love. I realized then WHY it was so difficult for me to focus on God.
I was doing my devotions the other night and the topic was unconditional love. I realized then WHY it was so difficult for me to focus on God.
Unconditional love. Stop. Think about that concept for a second. Then come back and continue reading.
Did you do it? Unconditional Love is the kind of love that God has for each one of His children. This is so difficult for me to grasp because when I do something wrong ( which is often ) I feel unloved by God. I often think, “How could he ever love me if I keep messing up like that…?” I feel unloved by Him not because he doesn’t show it to me, but because I fail to see it. He loves me in spite of me and this is so foreign because you won’t find anyone on this earth that can do that.
My past is not a perfect one by a long shot. I’ve screwed up in some pretty big ways and I start to ask myself, “Who are you to be asking that of your future husband, when you yourself have failed in so many ways?” This question makes me want to cry because I know that this is Satan and I start to believe him. I say it again UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. That’s why I can forget that question, because God removed my sin as far as the EAST IS FROM THE WEST! I want you to know as well that God is love and He loved you enough to die for you. That kind of love can only come from Heaven and it should be the kind of love that is consistently pursued.
What’s that quote again…..
“A girl’s heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him to find her….”
“A girl’s heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him to find her….”
Love that one.
1 John 4:15-18
“If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. GOD IS LOVE. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on judgment day, because in this world we are like him. THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
“If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. GOD IS LOVE. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on judgment day, because in this world we are like him. THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
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