What I Would Tell My Younger Self | Sunday Message

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Jul 27, 2025

This week, the discussion focuses on practical advice for the younger generation, emphasizing the importance of faith during life's challenges. Listeners are encouraged to embrace struggles as opportunities for growth and to prioritize prayer and daily Bible reading. The power of gratitude and integrity is highlighted, with tips on building strong marriages based on shared values. Finally, the timeless theme of redemption is explored, reminding everyone of God's unconditional love and the journey back to faith.

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ADVICE

Whatever You're Facing Won't Define You

Whatever you're going through, it's going to be okay and you will get through it.
God can turn setbacks into setups and use your pain to help others.

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ANECDOTE

Raised By Grandparents, Shaped By Faith

Greg Laurie recounts childhood instability and being passed among relatives.
He credits grandparents' stability and early spiritual influences for shaping him.

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ADVICE

Choose Your Response To Hardship

You don't pick your hand in life but you decide how to react to it.
Turn tests into testimony by letting God develop you through difficulty.

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When trials, anxieties, and tough decisions loom large, sometimes it’s best to hear from a voice of experience. In this Sunday podcast, Pastor Greg Laurie directs a special word of encouragement to young people: God has a plan for your life.

Notes

Whatever you’re going through, it’s going to be OK.

What you go through isn’t meant to destroy you but to develop you.

“We comfort with the same comfort we are comforted with.” —2 Corinthians 1:4

You are loved and wanted by more people than you could ever imagine.

God’s plan and purpose for you is good!

Put God first in your life.

Read the Bible every day.

“Study to show yourself approved unto God.” —2 Timothy 2:15

Success or failure in the Christian life is determined by how much of the Bible you get into your life on a daily basis and how obedient you are to it.

Stop worrying and start praying.

Worry can ruin your day, your week, and even your life if you let it.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Give your worries to Jesus Christ.

God is in control of your life.

Have an attitude of gratitude.

Job thanked God, despite his difficulties.

Live with honesty and integrity.

Character over charisma.

“If I take care of my character, God will take care of my reputation.” —D. L. Moody

Marry the right person.

Find someone Godlier than you.

Wedlock should be a padlock.

Eight words you should say to your spouse every day:

“I’m sorry,” “please forgive me,” and “I love you.”

Tell those you love that you love them.

Keep short accounts and forgive.

Forgiveness is not about absolving the perpetrator; it’s about healing the victim.

“Forgiveness isn’t giving in to another person; it’s getting free of that person.” —Frederic Luskin, Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project

Be a nice person.

Be an encourager, not a discourager; lift people up, don’t beat them down!

Have fun.

Be a generous person.

Three things we can give to God: Time, talent, and treasure.

Take care of your health.

Make the right choices.

You make your choices, and then your choices make you.

Tell others about Jesus, and then disciple them.

Spend time with older Godly people.

Finish your race well.

“Hold the course!” —Pastor Chuck Smith

Come to or come back to Jesus right now.

Scripture Referenced

Jeremiah 29:11
Matthew 6:33
Philippians 4:6–7
1 Peter 5:7
Psalm 101:2
Ephesians 4:32
Ephesians 4:31
1 Timothy 4:8
2 Timothy 2:2

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