An Application for Life

            If there really were an app for living in the Spirit would you or I obey? "If you love me you will obey me", Jesus said. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be pulled under. I have three apps, which if you download them they can change lives and help other.
            
             First, the peer pressure app is when peers put pressure on you to do something you may not want to do. They may urge you to cheat, steal, or say something to someone that makes you feel uncomfortable. This is negative peer pressure.
            
             But there is positive peer pressure as well. Your friends may talk you into going to church, to work at a nursing home, giving food to the needy or perhaps going to a church camp. This is positive peer pressure, and can do much good.
            
             Satan doesn't pressure unsaved people like he does Christians because unsaved people pose no threat to him. But Satan will try to get a Christian to turn to lots of negative things through peers. The Bible says "Resist the devil and he will flee from you." and "God is faithful and will not allow temptation beyond what we can resist, so stand on his word..."
            
             Second, the app of fighting abuse: teens face sexual, physical, and verbal types of abuse. Some teens just need to talk to people they know about what abuse actually means. Teenagers are forced to be in abusive, non-consensual relationships during some of the most vulnerable years of their lives.
            
             God hates the idea of anyone being abused. We honor God with how we treat our body, so if your body, your emotions, minds and physical self are being damaged, honor God by finding a safe place to be. We are all valuable to God, He made us delicate and our bodies are precious temples. We should not feel afraid to report abuse of his temple. Evil words come from an evil heart and evil thoughts come from the heart, change your thought and heart by putting God first.
            
             Third, the app of stress: We teenagers ...

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