You Have A Destiny
May 12, 2022

69 % of teenagers say they’re attending church at age 17
Dropped to 58% at age 18 and then 40% at age 19.
(Once they reach their 20s, around 1 in 3 say they used to attend church regularly)

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals as a whole.

1. We STILL SERVE the !

1 Kings 19:1-4 (NIV)
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

2. We get when Isolated & Alone

Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV)
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

3 JESUS has ALWAYS DELIVERED HIS PEOPLE

1 Kings 19:8-11 NIV
8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.9 There he went into a cave and spent the night.
And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”

4. JESUS always has a DIVINE