UncommonTEEN: The Podcast for Christian Teen Girls

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1542424/open_sms] Anxiety…I remember being in this place…my heart began beating fast. It felt like there was a 1,000 pound elephant on my chest and I couldn’t breathe. I remember one time, and this was just earlier this year, I was in a crowd where I knew about 95% of the people there. In this crowd, we were asked to find someone and go talk to them. Not a big deal right? Wrong! I started to feel anxiety come on me, I started to listen to all of those negative thoughts going through my head like “who would want to talk to you?” “what would you even say?” “you’re going to be alone.” And I began to panic. I excused myself from the crowd, went into the restroom fighting tears and asked God for help.    As a teen, I remember lying awake at night, thinking about (or really I should say worrying about) anything and everything. It would literally take me hours to fall asleep, because I couldn’t shut off my brain. It always felt like something was about to happen, danger was going to hit, but I didn’t know where or when or how.    I was so bad, that if a friend didn’t call or show up when she was supposed to, I would automatically think the worst…and I didn’t know how to stop it! I even remember one time, interviewing for a job. I had my hands on my lap under the table and because of the anxiety I felt, I didn’t even realize I was doing this at the time, but I was scratching my hands with my fingernails. When I got up to leave, I’m thankful the person didn’t want to shake my hand, because my hands were starting to bleed from all the scratching.   Maybe you can relate. Maybe you have been right where I was. I recently read an article about the state of mental health in teens from in the United States and I wish I could say that what I read surprised me, but it didn’t. The article stated that anxiety, depression and hopelessness among teens in the United States is getting worse, not better.    If you are anything like I was, I tried everything and anything to get over anxiety, but nothing seemed to work. I thought that the only way things would change is if my circumstances would change, but that didn’t help either. It felt like a losing battle. But one thing I learned was that anxiety doesn’t just go away because our circumstances change.  Anxiety goes away when we learn how to conquer it once and for all!! Do you ever feel like you just can’t get your mind to slow down or you want to experience peace but don’t know how? If so, the “RESTED MIND” box from The Beautiful Movement is for you as you place your troubles at Jesus' feet. Go to www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com [http://www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3FGc-0Wzex_lIGGczhXoHlY6nmXUnFny_5L4Pto7brcTEqFo3wAR2PpD0_aem_6ckzZgcxCXaLnL7H8mFa-Q]! For 15% off your first box, use code, "uncommonteen." Ladies, we have had challenges recently with the UncommonTEEN App and had to close it down. Don't worry, a new app is coming soon!! If you still want to ask your Ask Me Anything Questions or if you need prayer, head on over to UncommonTEEN.com. For the Ask Me Anything Questions, click on the RED BUTTON at the top of the screen. These questions may used on a future episode of the UncommonTEEN Podcast! For any prayer requests or more personal questions, click on the YELLOW CHAT TAB at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. These will not be used on the podcast unless you say you would like it to be used. Connect with Us! Website: UncommonTEEN.com [https://uncommonteen.com] Instagram: @uncommon.teen [https://www.instagram.com/uncommon.teen] UncommonTEEN Live Conference: UncommonTEENlive.com [https://uncommonteen.com/conference]

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1542424/open_sms] Recently, one of you wrote in letting me know you got water baptized! Woohoo!! I’m so excited for you! Then, some questions came up about water baptism, so I thought this would be a great time to talk about it!    This was an area of my life where I was so confused. To a lot of churches, water baptism has become a ritual…something that they do, but the people who are getting baptized have no idea why. That was the story of my life. The first time I was baptized was when I was 8 years old. My grandma belonged to a church that I went to with her on occasion. At this church, which was not a Christian church, everyone at the age of 8 was to go through indoctrination classes and get baptized at the end of the classes. I will be completely honest, I had no idea what they were teaching me and any time I asked questions, I got in trouble…so, I just went along with what they were saying and at 8 years old, I was baptized. I didn’t know why I was getting baptized; I just knew that I was supposed to according to the people at this church. I wasn’t even a Christian at the time!    Fast forward to my senior year of high school and I come to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I guess I didn’t tell my friends this, because with the denomination that we were going to, they believed that you had to be baptized in order to be saved. Well, I was baptized when I was 8, so that counts, right? Well, in college, I was a part of a Christian organization. I was actually a leader in this organization on campus and I kept hearing over and over again that in order to get saved I was supposed to be baptized. I began to question my salvation, because even though I was baptized when I was 8, that was before I made Jesus my Lord and Savior. I began to ask the director of the Christian organization about whether or not he thought I should be baptized, and his response was to kick me off of the leadership team, because I wasn’t “saved!” Yikes!    Shortly after all of this, I met my husband, we got married, moved to TN and started going to the church that we go to today. This was the first time that baptism was actually taught to me in a way that made sense! I learned that you didn’t need to get baptized in order to get saved, but it is very important, because it is the first commandment Jesus gave us. We’ll talk more about this in a bit. Shortly after going to our th Do you ever feel like you just can’t get your mind to slow down or you want to experience peace but don’t know how? If so, the “RESTED MIND” box from The Beautiful Movement is for you as you place your troubles at Jesus' feet. Go to www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com [http://www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3FGc-0Wzex_lIGGczhXoHlY6nmXUnFny_5L4Pto7brcTEqFo3wAR2PpD0_aem_6ckzZgcxCXaLnL7H8mFa-Q]! For 15% off your first box, use code, "uncommonteen." Ladies, we have had challenges recently with the UncommonTEEN App and had to close it down. Don't worry, a new app is coming soon!! If you still want to ask your Ask Me Anything Questions or if you need prayer, head on over to UncommonTEEN.com. For the Ask Me Anything Questions, click on the RED BUTTON at the top of the screen. These questions may used on a future episode of the UncommonTEEN Podcast! For any prayer requests or more personal questions, click on the YELLOW CHAT TAB at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. These will not be used on the podcast unless you say you would like it to be used. Connect with Us! Website: UncommonTEEN.com [https://uncommonteen.com] Instagram: @uncommon.teen [https://www.instagram.com/uncommon.teen] UncommonTEEN Live Conference: UncommonTEENlive.com [https://uncommonteen.com/conference]

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1542424/open_sms] We’ve heard it before, maybe many times…God loves you! For many of us, we grew up singing the song, “Jesus loves me!” and we were so excited…which we should be! I mean praise God for His love. But Just because we’ve heard it, just because we’ve sang the song a million times, doesn’t mean that we really know it. It doesn’t mean that we really understand it. And it doesn’t mean that we actually believe that God loves us.  I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. My dad was physically, mentally, and verbally abusive. I did go to Vacation Bible School in the summertime, and I heard all about God’s love, but for me, there was a disconnect. I couldn’t understand what love was, because I never actually saw love. I was never actually told by either of my parents that they loved me. I didn’t receive hugs. I didn’t feel loved at all. I didn’t feel accepted. I often felt like I was a mistake, that I was here by accident.    You might be listening to this feeling the same way. On the outside, you pretend to have it all together, but on the inside you’re falling apart. Maybe your story isn’t as crazy as mine or maybe your story is crazier. No matter where you feel like you’re at, you’ve been asking yourself, what’s the point of being here?   Or maybe you aren’t, which I pray is the case, but I can almost guarantee someone you’re close to is feeling this way.    God loves you so much more than you even realize. This is not the Sunday-school Jesus loves you kind of love…this love is so real. It’s a love that’s not based on condition. If you mess up, He isn’t going to love you any less than He already loves you. He loves you…period!  Do you ever feel like you just can’t get your mind to slow down or you want to experience peace but don’t know how? If so, the “RESTED MIND” box from The Beautiful Movement is for you as you place your troubles at Jesus' feet. Go to www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com [http://www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3FGc-0Wzex_lIGGczhXoHlY6nmXUnFny_5L4Pto7brcTEqFo3wAR2PpD0_aem_6ckzZgcxCXaLnL7H8mFa-Q]! For 15% off your first box, use code, "uncommonteen." Ladies, we have had challenges recently with the UncommonTEEN App and had to close it down. Don't worry, a new app is coming soon!! If you still want to ask your Ask Me Anything Questions or if you need prayer, head on over to UncommonTEEN.com. For the Ask Me Anything Questions, click on the RED BUTTON at the top of the screen. These questions may used on a future episode of the UncommonTEEN Podcast! For any prayer requests or more personal questions, click on the YELLOW CHAT TAB at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. These will not be used on the podcast unless you say you would like it to be used. Connect with Us! Website: UncommonTEEN.com [https://uncommonteen.com] Instagram: @uncommon.teen [https://www.instagram.com/uncommon.teen] UncommonTEEN Live Conference: UncommonTEENlive.com [https://uncommonteen.com/conference]

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1542424/open_sms] God doesn’t cause bad things to happen, neither does he allow them to happen.    We may ask ourselves: what if someone close to me dies and they were believing for healing? This happened to me just recently. A good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer about a year and a half ago. Their family was believing for healing, she was believing for healing but ended up passing away. It seemed like God didn’t heal her. However, what we didn’t know was that my friend had given up fighting. She was tired of fighting when she knew she could be made free in heaven.  Ask God if there is something that you're missing. He will show you! Think about Job, why did all of that bad stuff happen to Job? He had allowed fear to control his life, which opened the door to the enemy to be able to work in his life.  Think about the woman with the issue of blood. She needed a mindset shift in order to receive God's healing. She was in a place where she continually expected bad things to happen. She had to shift that and begin to speak life over herself.  God is constantly showering blessings down upon you. Picture an umbrella and under that umbrella is all of God’s blessings that He has for you.  Is there an area of your life keeping you from stepping under that umbrella?  For example, do you need to dig into the Bible concerning a topic, because you really don't know what it says? Is there someone that is causing you pain and you need to forgive them? Is there a secret sin that you are struggling with and you haven't told anyone in order to get help to overcome? Is there pride in some area of your life or vanity? Maybe feeling less about yourself than what God says about you? Is it doubt that what you are believing for will actually happen? Ask God to reveal to you if there's something in your life that is holding you back from stepping into those blessings.  Maybe it’s pride. I don’t know. Ask God to reveal to you your blind spots. Things that maybe you can’t see but are holding you back. Mark 11:22-24 says, "And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore Do you ever feel like you just can’t get your mind to slow down or you want to experience peace but don’t know how? If so, the “RESTED MIND” box from The Beautiful Movement is for you as you place your troubles at Jesus' feet. Go to www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com [http://www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3FGc-0Wzex_lIGGczhXoHlY6nmXUnFny_5L4Pto7brcTEqFo3wAR2PpD0_aem_6ckzZgcxCXaLnL7H8mFa-Q]! For 15% off your first box, use code, "uncommonteen." Ladies, we have had challenges recently with the UncommonTEEN App and had to close it down. Don't worry, a new app is coming soon!! If you still want to ask your Ask Me Anything Questions or if you need prayer, head on over to UncommonTEEN.com. For the Ask Me Anything Questions, click on the RED BUTTON at the top of the screen. These questions may used on a future episode of the UncommonTEEN Podcast! For any prayer requests or more personal questions, click on the YELLOW CHAT TAB at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. These will not be used on the podcast unless you say you would like it to be used. Connect with Us! Website: UncommonTEEN.com [https://uncommonteen.com] Instagram: @uncommon.teen [https://www.instagram.com/uncommon.teen] UncommonTEEN Live Conference: UncommonTEENlive.com [https://uncommonteen.com/conference]

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1542424/open_sms] AMA: I’m a junior in high school, but only just turned 16, which means I’ll move out to start college when I’m 17, and I still don’t know where God wants me. I’ve prayed for guidance and trust, but I just don’t quite know how to get through high school with so much ungodly anxiety.    I wanted to answer this question, because we are walking through this exact thing right now ourselves. I have a 17 year old daughter who is in her senior year of high school (grade 12) and a 15 year old son who is a junior (grade 11).    To share a little bit about our story, my daughter started taking dual enrollment classes during her 11th grade year in high school. For those of you who don’t know what those are, that’s when you take college courses in high school, but they count both toward your high school courses and your college courses. She was sure she knew exactly what God wanted her to do in life. Fast forward to this year and she came to grips with the thought of…what if this isn’t what God wants me to do with my life? What if I’m wrong.   Girls, whew, this culture puts so much pressure on teens to have their whole life figured out. I feel like many times, we rush God’s plans, because of this pressure. It’s tough…you have only a short period of time to figure out your whole life when a lot of adults don’t even know what they want to do with their life.  Check out this week's episode to learn how to listen to and be led by the Holy Spirit!  Do you ever feel like you just can’t get your mind to slow down or you want to experience peace but don’t know how? If so, the “RESTED MIND” box from The Beautiful Movement is for you as you place your troubles at Jesus' feet. Go to www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com [http://www.jointhebeautifulmovement.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3FGc-0Wzex_lIGGczhXoHlY6nmXUnFny_5L4Pto7brcTEqFo3wAR2PpD0_aem_6ckzZgcxCXaLnL7H8mFa-Q]! For 15% off your first box, use code, "uncommonteen." Ladies, we have had challenges recently with the UncommonTEEN App and had to close it down. Don't worry, a new app is coming soon!! If you still want to ask your Ask Me Anything Questions or if you need prayer, head on over to UncommonTEEN.com. For the Ask Me Anything Questions, click on the RED BUTTON at the top of the screen. These questions may used on a future episode of the UncommonTEEN Podcast! For any prayer requests or more personal questions, click on the YELLOW CHAT TAB at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. These will not be used on the podcast unless you say you would like it to be used. Connect with Us! Website: UncommonTEEN.com [https://uncommonteen.com] Instagram: @uncommon.teen [https://www.instagram.com/uncommon.teen] UncommonTEEN Live Conference: UncommonTEENlive.com [https://uncommonteen.com/conference]