This invitation is open to you.
To those who hurt and harbor bitterness,
I speak especially to you tonight.
We live in a time of quiet desperation.
Broken homes and promises are a familiar
cord
that transcends through many of our
lives.
Many teens are searching for someone or
something
to fill the emptiness that they feel
inside.
Many turn to sex, to drugs or alcohol
to numb their pain,
others contemplate suicide
or turn to "cutting"
to release some of the hurt.
You are too precious, dear soul.
How it must grieve the Father's heart
as He suffers along with you.
The Lord has plans for you.
Plans to prosper you and not harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.
Many teens have heard the message of a "Father's Love,"
but never experienced a father's love as
to relate it to,
so its message falls on deaf ears and
soon it is forgotten.
Many wonder why their parent walked out
on them,
they feel abandoned and somehow at fault.
Let me in on you a secret dear friend,
"It was never your fault...
nor will it ever be."
Adult issues are adult issues
that young shoulders were never meant to
bear.
Tonight, I want you to know that you are loved.
Quietly loved in Jesus.
Give to Him all your hurts, your
bitterness, your anger
that you've been harbouring onto so long.
Release them tonight, dear soul!
Visualize as I did, a helium balloon
ascending into the air,
until your hurts get smaller and smaller
the closer it gets to God.
The Lord understands your feelings,
you're not alone in your thoughts.
For He was a man of sorrows and aquainted
with grief.
He was tempted in all area of life as you
are, yet without sin,
so that He could carry your sins to the
cross
and remove from you its guilt and shame.
The Scripture says to be filled with hate is to commit murder,
murder in our hearts.
Have you been guilty of murder, dear
friend?
Then confess it to God.
Many of you are struggling with lustful thoughts.
You're entangled in the web of
pornography
and don't know your way out.
The Scripture says,
"...that to look lustfully at a
woman is to commit adultry.
Adultry in your heart.
Have you been guilty of adultry?
Confess it to God.
I'm not trying to give you a verbal lashing
to add to your already wounded
heart.
...in breaking one commandment you have
broken them all.
We have all broken God's commandments.
You have, and so have I.
Only when we realize the awfulness of our
sin against God,
and feel its deep sorrow in our heart,
can we accept the Lord Jesus Christ as
our Savior
and have a relationship with Him in
heaven.
Tonight, you can make peace with God.
You can begin a personal relationship
with Him
by praying a prayer such as the
following:
"Dear
Lord, I am a sinner.
I've
been a sinner all of my life.
Forgive
me Lord!
I
want to turn from my sin.
I
receive Jesus as my Savior;
I
confess Him as my Lord.
From
now on I want to follow Him.
In
Jesus' name I pray, Amen."
If you have received the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior
after reading this
invitation, please let us know.
We would love to hear from you. Your
first name is sufficient.
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