subject: Youth Ministry Ideas: A Healthy Spiritual Heart For Youth [print this page] As a youth, we need to ask God for: As a youth, we need to ask God for:
1. A LEARNER'S HEART
* Learn for God's glory, your edification, and the furtherance of the Gospel.
* To know, knowledge are used at least 51 times in Proverbs.
* Weigh all learning through the knowledge of Jesus Christ (II Peter 3:18).
2. AN UNDERSTANDING HEART - 65 times in Proverbs
* To be able to interpret what you learn (above) in God's perspective (Proverbs 2:10,11).
* To be able to understand yourself first (Proverbs 4:7-9) and then others.
3. AN HONEST, TRANSPARENT HEART
* What you can't understand (above), share with the person giving you the real or imagined problem (Matthew 5:23,24).
4. A PURE HEART
* In an increasingly amoral world we must flee youthful lusts (II Timothy 2:22).
* Young men and women overcome by letting God's Word live within (I John 2:14).
* Don't be a loner - go out two by two (Mark 6:7).
5. A DISCRETIONARY HEART - in Word and in Deed
* To know the difference between that which unnecessarily offends and the inoffensive (Proverbs 2:11).
* Lord, help me not to be a stumbling block to younger Christians (I Corinthians 8).
6. A RESPECTFUL HEART
* You may not agree with or understand someone, but respect him for his work's sake (I Thessalonians 5:12).
* Notice in I Timothy 5:1,2 the intricate relationships that young Timothy must observe.
7. A DISCIPLINED HEART
* One that chooses against oneself in all matters great or small (Luke 9:23). What you are will be your message (II Corinthians 3:2,3):
8. A SERVANT'S ALERT HEART
* Become a load-lifter. Anticipate what would be helpful and then do it. Study the greatest servant in all of history, Jesus Christ (Mark 10:42-45).
9. A COMMUNICATING HEART
* This is the counterbalance to merely "being a good example." Communicate by word, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
* Acts uses words like witness, teach, tell, proclaim, etc., 113 times or an average of four per chapter.
* Your personal testimony, backed by God's Word are your greatest weapons (Revelation 12:11).
10. A PRAISING, THANKFUL HEART
* If you learn this through loneliness, problems, misunderstandings - you will be A-OK with God.
* In everything give thanks (I Thessalonians 5:18; Ephesians 5:20; Hebrews 13:15):
