INTRODUCTION

NOW is the ideal time to love and serve the Lord. Some unwise counsel has suggested that young people should go out and experience the world in their youth before they later settle down and serve God once mature. An equally erroneous teaching proclaims that godly parents should raise their children to love and serve the Master at some future time. Both have misled far too many homes! The Lord wants young people to love and serve Him now. One should begin early in life to learn the most important lessons of life. As a child, one should learn “the fear of the LORD” (Psalm 34:11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
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See All...; Matthew 21:15And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
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DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For children):  Proverbs 3:1-4 [1] My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: [2] For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. [3] Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: [4] So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
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  See All...). Finding favour with God and man can also be summed up in James 1:22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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• (For everyone): What could a young person do for the Lord? How could a young person walk with the Lord, fear the Lord, praise the Lord, and remember his or her Creator?
• What are some things that Samuel did, even as a youth, to find favour with the Lord and with men? What could you do in youth to find the same type of favour?

PRAYER NEEDS

• Ask the Lord to help young people give God their youth.
• Ask God to encourage young people to grow in Him.

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LOYALTY TO CHRIST

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