People talk about youths, marriages, careers, economics, families and nations. But the totally forget about Teenagers.

👉 Forgotten that you have to be a teenager before you become a youth and an adult.

👉 They forgot that it is the character you formed as a teenager and the decisions you made as a teenager that determines......👇

📍 The adult that you become

📍 The marriage you will have

📍 The family you will produce and

📍 The nation you will build

Teenagers are the most vulnerable in the society but are often relegated to the background and most times are totally forgotten.

All over the world, teenagers are the victims of........

Rape 🤦

Drugs 🚬

Alcohol 🍺

And are more exposed to all kinds of violence ⚔️⛏️🔫

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 With the absence of both parents at home, the teenagers are left by themselves.

Most parents are always busy with work and sometimes touring from one country to another in search of wealth, leaving their roles as parents and abandoning their children at the mercy of the house help without knowing if they are being abused physically, sexually or emotionally.

🗣️They are not aware of whom the children associate with.

🗣️They are not aware of where the children go to.

🗣️They are not aware of the lifestyle and character they are building.

🗣️They are not there to model self discipline and self control for their children.

🗣️They are not there to train up the teenagers.

🗣️🗣️They are not aware of so many things

✍️These people (teenagers) are the most confused people in the world, at this stage of their lives they are intersection, still battling with who they really are and trying to find their identity. The time they need parental guidance, love, attention and approval is now. Protect them and show them the truth and watch them become the adult you will be proud of.

Pastor EA Adeboye recalls an encounter that made God stop talking to him during one of his teachings;

He speaks:

Almost immediately after I got born again, God started speaking to me, I don't do anything without his guidance or approval. He tells me the road to ply in Lagos so that I can bypass hold up, most of you here know how terrible Lagos traffic is. Fortunately for me, I don't experience it because God knows a better rout

However, Something happened that made him stop communicating with me. I used to be an interpreter to the general overseer or general superintendent like we call it those days. My father in the Lord than just took a special interest in my interpretation. When other pastors in the church then realised that The general overseer liked my interpretation, they stopped calling me to interpret for them and left me alone for the general overseer.

I became full of myself and started bouncing around as interpreter to the general overseer but an incident happened one day, we had a program and we invited a guest minister to preach. He made a mistake that day, you may be surprised at my definition of a mistake. The mistake was that he asked me to interpret for himself. I was really angry in my spirit but I couldn't object because it was too late.

I stood up and interpret for him but in my heart, I was murmuring, I said "How could you call me a whole interpreter to the general overseer to interpret for you". Only if he knew what was in my mind, he would have called another person to interpret that very day

At the end of the program, I was on my way home and God spoke, he said "Son, you are now too big to interpret to a man of God other than the general overseer". After the conversation, God stopped speaking to me, I didn't hear his voice again.

I suffered, that whole period was like hell, I became a victim of the traffic in Lagos. I don't know how many Christians survive without God speaking with them. After many months, I got tired of my situation and I prayed a desperate prayer, I said God it is either you start speaking to me again or you take my life. When God saw that I realised my ego and was desperate to hear his voice again, he answered and started speaking to me again, Brethren till now I hear very clearly the voice of God.

To conclude his sermon which lasted for 45mins, Pastor EA Adeboye admonishes believers especially young Pastors and vibrant ministers of God to do away with anything that is associated with pride because it can be heaven to be shut against such fellow