13 Confidence-Building Scriptures for Kids and Teens

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is on a mission to beat down our kids’ confidence. Maybe they are teased by a friend or a sibling; maybe they don’t get the encouragement they crave from a teacher or coach; maybe their own insecurities constantly whisper, “You’re not enough.” And yet, when God created our children, he created them as his masterpiece; when he was finished, he stepped back and said to himself, “Oh, this one is very, very good.”

Unable to Have Children: Victory in Contentment

This article was originally published in Life and Godliness for Everywoman, Volume I.

Infertility can be one of the most emotionally challenging dilemmas we face as women. I had always been taught as a young girl that hard work, determination, perseverance and discipline would help me get anywhere I wanted to go in life. It had worked for me academically in high school and college, athletically in my collegiate golf career and professionally in the Public Relations field. Even spiritually after becoming part of God’s kingdom as a freshman at the University of Georgia in 1979, through diligent Bible study, a consistent prayer life and intense discipline, deep character changes occurred. Even though I knew I was at the mercy of God, there was an element of “If I work hard enough, it can happen.” God still had a powerful lesson for me to learn about trusting only in him.