Counseling: Youth Self counseling from Scripture

While Biblical Counseling is important for all believers, to apply Scripture to our own lives and to help others, this page is for youth and young adults so they can navigate life in the formative years.

Thinking biblically about specific issues is important since we Christians get our worldview from biblical truth, & we can not make excuses, need to get correct help, to take action, and conquer sin, to live right and holy lives.

While this information can help if you might be a Christian in a home with new believer parents, luke warm parents or ones who are false converts who attend church. But I do know that some might have parents who are not saved yet attend church, or don't attend church and are not saved. My hope is this info will help you start to set a foundation for biblical worldview to get your helps and counsel from the Scriptures and not the world and mans opinions. This way you can counsel yourself rightly, and also help your parents and in conversations regardless of their spiritual situation. 

Have a good understanding about Church & the Bible

You can try to engage your parents in spiritual matters, but if they are not true Christians living out the Christian life and by a Christian worldview 247 365 then the below can help you,  in addition to the Believers Resources section of this site. 

You might not have come across the section on why church matters yet. I encourage you to go through all of those links and inner link resources, and also the below. 

For Church: 

Use journaling sheets during Sunday School class and during Sermons. Scan and file it when you get home Sunday (if not in a digital journal), before lunch... and for Sun & Wed nights after service, before dinner.  

And after church ask questions on the ride home. Discuss the lesson you learned in Sunday School, and any interesting points from the sermon and what you learned. Ask questions about both ask your parents or whoever is driving you home (a chat with a mature believer from church is fine too if no one in the car is a mature beloever) for a good resource on whatever things you want to look into more.  Text those questions or items to them by phone, so they can research when they get home, and get back to you. *Life can get busy so follow up. 

The Bible for self counseling

Learn how to use the Bible as a self help so when you need help or counseling you go to the Scriptures first, before your parents, before your pastor, before consulting godly mature believers in church, and before reaching out to godly mature believing friends. You will be in the Word of God every day of your life, so learn to use it well. 

You can use resources too but Scripture is the primary source you need to know well. 

Some additional helps here 

Additional Self Counseling help here 

and important points to graps here (podbean)

Reading the Word

As you know from other areas in the Believers Resources portal here, there is a section on Reading the Bible. The importance of reading it daily is to conquer sin, avoid sin and to grow closer to God, Christ, and become more holy and more like Christ daily in your life.  The lack of it is a key reason we have problematic faith walk.

In that resource are materials for how to plan your daily reading in the Word, and another area on prayer and how to pray. But the Scriptures area has links to digital or printable sheets for journaling what you learn while you read and study the Word daily. You can do a simple one when you read through the Bible for the first time, a more robust one for your next read through Scripture cover to cover, and a deeper one to read through Scripture on your 3rd read through.

When you read through the second time, you can review what you wrote and questions you had (found or not answered yet) and see if you learned something since then. You could on this second read, find quick answers at studybible.org app by clicking the verse(s) around where you have the question and then click the Resources area that pops up. In there you can find Q&A, articles, blog ppst, or sermons related to that area of Scripture. You can look for the answer a little bit there and if you run into difficulties (like it appears a contradiction or is just an actual difficulty you have) you can go to carm.org to the difficulties section in their site menu and look it up based on book and verse. 

Then write the answer out simply. 

On the third read through, or on the 4th read thru of the Bible, pair what you are reading with one of the sermons in biblestudy.org app (resource area) to give it a bit more robustness.

You are free to go through a full sermon series on that entire book at GTY sermon library area. 

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