You are BEAUTIFUL in God’s eyes!---You are fully ACCEPTED through Jesus!---You are BLESSED with God-given abilities and spiritual gifts!---God has an ETERNALLY SIGNIFICANT plan for your life!---Incredibly VALUABLE—that’s you!---God loves you—PERIOD! End of story!---Because of Jesus, you are FORGIVEN!---God gives you double thumbs UP!---You are one hot DIVINE diva!---You were created ON purpose and FOR a purpose!
 

Beauty Obsessed?
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1. You love wearing PinkPearl lip-gloss, but notice the new CoverGirl ad is sporting Rush Red! You switch right away!

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You bet!        Yeah, maybe.      Nope. I’m a pink girl!

2. A girl in your English class dropped fifteen pounds and in the last month she’s had three dates! You start feeling pudgy and decide to skip lunch.

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Lunch & dinner!     Felt fat, but ate.     Happy as I am!

3. The big red zit that made its big appearance in the middle of your chin makes you feel self-conscious all day.

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Eeks! Of, course!          Sort of              No way!

4. You change your outfit several times almost every day before heading off to school.

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That’s me!        Sometimes.        What goes on stays on!

5. You’re doing your makeup on the way to school when you discover your mascara is home in your drawer. You:

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Borrow some        Feel half dressed       Laugh it off

6. You flipped through CosmoGirl noticing every model. After closing the cover, you are:


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Jealous       Slightly depressed     Happy for them

7. It’s a bad hair day. Each strand protests the look you’re after. You’re so frustrated that you end up in tears!

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Pass the tissue        Keep working with it       Get real

8. On an average morning, it takes you longer than 30 minutes to do your hair and make-up.

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Always!          Close, but not quite!             Nope!

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SCORING
Add up the numbers that you circled to find your total score. Then check out this chart.

29-40 Points:
Uh, oh! You are definitely obsessed! It’s time to step back and stop making beauty such a high priority. Put it in perspective by memorizing the Bible verses in this section and stop looking at magazines!

17-28 Points:
Ask yourself, “What are some areas in my life where I am overly concerned about my looks?” Pinpoint them. Work with them and embrace them.

8-16 Points:
Way to go, girl! You seem to have a healthy perspective on this beauty stuff! Just keep it that way.

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Lights, Camera, ACTION!
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Grab your Bible and read Romans 12:3-8, Ephesians 4:11-13, and 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 so you can see the smorgasbord of spiritual gifts. Do the match-up thing as a way of testing your ability to recognize some of the spiritual gifts in action! Match the "Gift" to the Girl who’s got it!

Gift:

* Giving
* Administration
* Faith
* Hospitality
* Wisdom
* Healing
* Mercy
* Prophecy

Girl:

- Kim pulled together a team of students and created a plan for getting more classmates to attend “See You at the Pole.”

- As Sierra’s small group was closing in prayer, the Holy Spirit showed her what her friend could do to get along better with his parents.

- Katie was pumped about having her soccer coach
over for dinner. Cooking, decorating, and making it special was so fun to her.

- Her friends were dogging on the new girl at school.
When Jamie heard in her head, “The way you judge others is the way the Lord will judge you” and felt the urge to tell them immediately.

- Brittnee saw a customer spill a steaming hot latte
on her hand. She rushed over, prayed, and the
pain was instantly gone.

- Meg overheard Lori say she couldn’t afford to go on the youth group retreat so she used her own money to pay Lori’s way.

- When Crystal’s grandmother died, Angie just had to go over to Crystal’s to comfort her.

- Even though her brother thought she was naïve for
believing God would provide the cash for her mission trip, Christa had total confidence in God.

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Scoring:

How did you do? In reverse order, here are the gifts and the girls who matched them.

Prophecy: Jamie. Mercy: Angie. Healing: Brittnee. Wisdom: Sierra. Hospitality: Katie. Faith: Christa. Administration: Kim. Giving: Meg.

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Lordship Countdown
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Here are a bunch of statements that will help you sense exactly where you are with Lordship. After reading the statement, write T for true or F for false on the blank space provided. Upon completion, tally up your T’s and F’s. See what happens!

____ I feel uncomfortable at school when someone starts talking about God.
____ I have a regular devotional time and really love it.
____ I search the Bible to find answers and direction in my life.
____ I listen for God’s voice.
____ I cringe when others tease me about being a Christian.
____ I have seen changes in myself since I accepted Jesus.
____ I secretly enjoy gossip.
____ I obey my parents only when it is convenient for me.
____ I control my language much better than I used to.
____ I choose to dress in a way that reflects my body as God’s temple.
____ I have Christian friends.
____ I make myself accountable to other believers.
____ My greatest desire right now is to please and honor God.
____ I am eager to hear what God has to say to me.
____ I often stop to ask myself, “What would Jesus do?”
____ When I sense God is leading me in a direction I don’t want to go, I eventually go his way even when I don’t see his wisdom.
____ I’m usually too busy or too tired to go to youth group.
____ I love it when I serve others.

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Scoring:

Add up your T’s and F’s. Are you satisfied with these results? Why or why not?

One of the ways you’ll know whether Jesus is truly Lord over your life, is if you think of asking him first for direction before asking all your friends or even yourself. If you start to repeat a behavior that you know is not right with God but then you stop because you don’t want to grieve your Jesus, then he is definitely the reigning King in your life. You discover that obedience brings you joy.
 
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