A Young Woman After God’s Own Heart

The first book that I will recommend and review is A Young Woman After God?s Own Heart A Teen Guide to Friends, Faith, Family and the Future. This book by best-selling author Elizabeth George is an everyday guide for girls to discover God’s purpose for their life.

I recommend this book because of its ease and readability. I am using this book in a mentoring relationship I am forming with a 6th grade girl in my church. In fact she doesn’t even know it yet, as she will find out this Wed. night that I am her mentor, and I will give her this book as a gift, along with a prayer journal. The two go hand in hand, so moms, if you purchase this book for your daughter, be sure and find a prayer journal to go along with it. In case you’re unsure of what I am talking about, let me explain. A prayer journal is simply a journal, a pretty bond book you can buy, or even just a spiral noteboo, but I prefer something a little nicer, so that it is special and important to your daughter. My mom bought me a new prayer journal every year for Christmas and it was stuffed in my stocking. I still have every one of these. Now, what is different about them than say a regular ole journal? Well, what you’re daughter writes in it of course. This will be a place for her to reflect and share her prayers, the desires of her heart with the LORD. I tend to write mine down in a bulleted list, but sometimes I will write out an entire prayer. Why is this meaningful? Well, for me it is amazing to get to go back to my prayer journal from when I was 14 (yes I still have it) and look to see what I was praying for then, has now come true now. Amazing, to see God’s hand in my life. Now, back to the book.

A Young Woman After God?s Own Heart I find is easiest to read in short segments. Daily reading of this along with Bible Study would be a perfect way to get your young preteen or teen girl started having a daily quiet time with the LORD. Each chapter outlines a differen way their heart should be devoted to and dedicated to God. It also gives her some things to think about in the Heart Response at the end of each chapter, and even a TO DO list to make her actually live out what she is reading and studying. This is something I think is so important, because it helps her to learn to actually LIVE OUT her FAITH in everyday life. THat is why I chose this book to use with the girl I am mentoring, as I want her to be able to LIVE OUT HER FAITH in the tough teen days ahead.

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