Sunday, 24th July, 2016.
Scripture Reading: Luke 14:28-32.
Memory verse for the week: Job 14:7
“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease.”(NKJV)
- Low self esteem: A teen mother may begin to see herself as inferior if not properly helped.
- Unemployment: Young motherhood in an industrialized country can affect employment and social class.
- Family Ostracization/ rejection: some parents could disown such a child for bringing shame and ridicule to them.
- Abortion: In an attempt to avoid the attendant ridicule, such a teenager could attempt abortion which atimes leads to death or damage of the womb.
- Financial burden: The coming of the young one will surely lead to extra financial expenses. This becomes worsened if her lover boy and his relations denies her.
- The development of the child: Children born of teen mothers are likely to be born prematurely with a low birth weight, higher risk of intellectual, language & socio-emotional delays. Development disabilities and behavioural issues are increased in the children of teen mothers.
- Promotes child trafficking: Teen mothers or their parents could decide to sell such babies or throw them the dust bin or pit latrine when they are born.
ACTION WORD: LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
PRAYER POINT:
- Every demonic deposit in my body as a result of my carelessness, be flushed out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
- Mercy of God cancel every conscious and unconscious covenant I have made with my body in the name of Jesus.