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This week, on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we are on Part 2 of Fighting Human Trafficking with Lisa Ivy of Street Hope TN. 

If you have not yet listened to part 1, I highly encourage you to do so first. 

This week, we are continuing our conversation on what to do if you find yourself or someone you know if you have been trafficked or exploited online. We also talk about how to heal. Is it even possible to live a victorious life afterward?

Ladies, please share this with your friends and family members. This message is so important for everyone to hear!

Get more resources at StreetHopeTN.org

If you have encountered human trafficking or exploitation, please reach out and get help. Make a report with your state's bureau of investigations. We need to get these people off the streets! 

Those of you in TN can report here: https://www.tn.gov/tbi/crime-issues/crime-issues/human-trafficking.html

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Lisa Ivy is the Director of Prevention Education at Street Hope TN. Her heart is to prevent teens from ever being a part of human trafficking or exploitation. 

In the state of TN, every single county has been affected by Human Trafficking and we want to bring awareness to stop it in its tracks. 

"Street Hope TN's is a nonprofit organization on a mission to eliminate the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children in Tennessee and provide safe environments to foster hope and healing through Jesus Christ.

Statistics cannot define slavery.

• 94 Is the Average Number of reported children sold for sex online in Tennessee each month. 
• 13 Is the Average age a child becomes a victim of DMST (Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking).
• $99+ Billion reported annual revenue internationally for sex trafficking.
• 31.9 Million reports of online sexual exploitation of children in 2022.

These numbers may get your attention; however, they don’t tell the full story.

Modern-day slavery is a dark and hidden act, an act that often goes undetected and unreported.

The statistics available are based only on cases that have been identified and reported."

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I want to give a huge shout out to Dr. Doug Weiss and his training for Christian teen girls called "Princes Take Longer than Frogs." Dr. Weiss is a psychologist and the founder of Heart to Heart Counseling Center. Much of the information I am sharing with you, I learned from him. 

This week, we are going to talk about dating. 

• Some of you have started dating and it's okay with your parents.
• Some of you have started dating and are hiding it from your parents...which I totally don't recommend! Listen to your parents, they love you!
• Some of you want to date, but you're waiting for someone to tell you they like you. 
• Some of you are waiting to date until it's okay with your parents or until you are ready to get married (which I totally recommend!)

Frogs or Princes? Who to look for when you do start dating?

There are two types of guys in the world: frogs and princes. A prince takes longer to mature than a frog does. The younger you start to date, the more likely you will end up with a frog. You want to wait long enough for God to develop a man who is good enough for you! 

What a Frog Looks Like:

1. Frogs are motivated by fear. They will tell you things like, “You won’t do _____ because you don’t love me.” 
2. Frogs have secret sins. 86% of guys by the time they turn 20 are addicted to porn. What he is doing sexually in secret will hurt you. 
3. Frogs are liars. They will tell you what you want to hear to win you. 

What a Prince Looks Like?

1. Princes hate fear. They may have fears, but they are challenged by them. 
2. They have strong relationships with either their Christian dad or with an adult male role model who loves God and is helping them learn what it means to be a strong man of God.
3. They have strong Christian guy friends who are helping them to grow in their walk with God.
4. Pri

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Even if someone fails to see

How incredible God made you!

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AMA: Elly says, 

“So I recently cut off a friend at school because she doesn't have a relationship with God and I feel like she's going to influence me into the things of this world which will keep me off track with God, but I just have this feeling that I went about this situation in the wrong way by cutting her off completely. 

I asked God for wisdom and guidance and asked him if that was the right thing to do, but I'm still confused if that was the right thing to do. I just have two questions for you. 

 Is cutting off a friend completely for the sake of a relationship with God the right thing to do, and if not, how should I go about this situation?”

I’m so glad you asked this question because I know other girls listening are asking the same question. 

I also know other girls are listening who are holding onto friendships or relationships they know they should let go of.

 There is such a fine balance in friendships because on one hand, we see in the Bible how in Matthew 11:19 Jesus was called a friend of sinners. Then, in verses like 1 Corinthians 15:33, it tells us not to be deceived because bad company (friendships) will corrupt good morals. 

So, are we supposed to be a friend of sinners, or are we supposed to cut off those friendships? The answer is both!

The biggest key to ask yourself is, are you influencing them for Jesus, or are they influencing you for the world? 

 Another key is this…Jesus was a friend to sinners, but they weren’t his closest friends. 

Sinners were people He would shine His light to. He would invite them to lunch every now and then. He would have conversations with them and see where He could offer them just a little glimpse of hope. 

Looking at the life of Jesus, His closest friends were His disciples. They loved God and were on the same path as Him. Jesus would help them see those areas that they struggled in and showed them how to overcome those struggles.

In the same way, the people who are closest to us need to be on the same path that we are on. 

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Even if someone fails to see

How incredible God made you!

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This month on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we are diving into the friendship of David and Jonathan. They had a friendship that was different from most friendships. It was a friendship of trust, loyalty, and honor. 

We can read about this friendship in 1 Samuel. In 1 Samuel 17, we see David, this teenage boy who nobody saw as anything special, rise when everyone else was scared and defeat Goliath. After defeating Goliath, King Saul looked at David and was blown away and went to talk to David. This is where 1 Samuel 18 picks up. 

1 Samuel 18:1. It says, “As soon as David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan (this is Saul’s son) was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”

 In other words, Jonathan saw that there was something different about David and he knew that he was someone that he wanted to have in his corner fighting for him. 

Verse 2, “And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

Think about this: David was just a shepherd boy. There was nothing special about him. His dad didn’t even consider him as someone important, but God did. Culturally speaking, he was a nobody, and now you have the King’s son, Jonathan, who is royalty wanting to be David’s friend. Their social status meant nothing to them. 

When those verses say that Jonathan gave David his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, and his belt, that was a sign from Jonathan that he would be loyal in their friendship. And Jonathan was, even when King Saul was jealous of David and tried to kill him multiple times. 

Jonathan was a loyal friend until his death. David was also a loyal friend to J

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How incredible God made you!

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This month on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we learned about the life of Esther and how God used her to change her generation. 

Esther was what the culture considered physically beautiful, but there was more to Esther than just her physical beauty. She was beautiful both inside and out and the same thing is true for you! 

 
So many times, we think that beauty is defined by our culture or by those around us. They tell us you need to look like this, this, and this to be beautiful. 


Then we find ourselves scrolling Instagram, looking at all of these girls who fit the cultural definition of beauty, comparing ourselves to them, and hating the way that we look. 

 It’s hard not to when we are constantly bombarded with the message of, “This is beauty.” 

 Then, we begin to equate our value to how beautiful we feel that we are, “thinking, “I’m not beautiful, I’m worthless.”

 Ladies, if you have listened to this podcast for any length of time, you know that at the end of the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we always end with, 

“I am beautiful. I am valuable. My beauty and my value, they don’t change. Even if someone fails to see how incredible God made me. 

 
There is so much truth to that, which is why I encourage you to repeat it after me and mean it with all your heart. You are beautiful and it doesn’t matter what anyone else says about you. 

Let me just tell you, many of the girls that we think are beautiful actually hate the way they look as well and compare themselves to others. 

 Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that God has made everything beautiful in its time. 

 Ladies, this is your time…you are not on this earth by mistake! God created you just the way you are and you are beautiful. 

 But do you know what makes you even more beautiful? True beauty, just like with Esther comes from a relationship with God.   

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Even if someone fails to see

How incredible God made you!

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If you’ve been to UncommonTEEN Live, our conference, you’ve heard me say these 3 phrases:
1.    Dare to be Beautiful
2.    Dare to be Confident
3.    Dare to Shine (or Lead)

 

But why do I start these phrases with the word “dare?” 

The definition of dare is: to have courage, to have strength of mind to undertake anything, to be bold, to not be afraid, to challenge. 

  love this: to have courage, to be bold, to not be afraid. 

 The reason I start each of those phrases with dare is because it takes courage, boldness, and faith to truly be beautiful (which we’ll talk about more next week). 

It takes courage, boldness, and faith to shine your light for Jesus, and it also takes courage, boldness, and faith to be confident in the world we live in, and that’s what we are going to talk about today. 

This month, as we talk about lessons that we can learn from Esther. She is definitely someone that I think of as someone who had courage; she had boldness and stepped out in faith to change her generation. 

 When she was presented with a problem, she could have given up and said that there was no hope, but instead, she chose to step out and do something that could have ended in her death. 

She was at an impasse. On the one hand, she could die because of a decree made by an evil man named Haman, who was going to wipe out the Jews. Esther was a Jew. However, in order to save the Jews, she had to see the king uninvited, and nobody saw the king uninvited. If they did and he didn’t want to see them, they would immediately be put to death. 

 So, Esther has a choice between death because she’s a Jew or death because she is about to go see a king uninvited.

 

If you’re new to the Bible or new to the UncommonTEEN podcast, I encourage you to take time to read the book of Esther and then go back and listen to the last two episodes: “God’s Got You” and “Step Into Your Purpose.” I know it will bless you! 

There is a fight for our lives. We not only see this with Esther…but we h

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How incredible God made you!

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A lot of times when we hear that God created us for a purpose, we instantly look to the past and how we don’t qualify. 


Growing up, I was very shy and extremely insecure. I couldn’t even look someone in the eyes and talk to them.

I didn’t grow up a Christian, but when I was 17 is when I found God and made Jesus my Lord and Savior. Shortly after graduating high school, God spoke to my heart (not with audible words, but in my heart) and told me I was going to be working with teens. I accepted that right away. 
 

However, when God called me to start the UncommonTEEN and the UncommonTEEN Podcast, I fought back hard…making all of these excuses as to why I wasn’t qualified.


It took the shut down for my eyes to be opened. That first Wednesday night that we didn’t have youth ministry, and we had to do church online, I was crying out to God because my heart was breaking for you all. I asked God, “God, how can I reach these teens if we can’t even see them.” 


And God so gently spoke to my heart and said, “You’re not just holding yourself back. You’re holding these girls back.” And that was all it took. 


Jeremiah was also a teenager that was called by God, just like Esther was and just like you are. We see when Jeremiah is called, he too, pushed back against God. 

Jeremiah 1:5-8 says, and again this is God speaking, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you were born, I consecrated you (I set you apart for a purpose); I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 

God is saying this very thing about you. Before you were formed in your mother’s womb, God knew every little detail about you. He understood your personality, He created every detail so perfectly, He knew every decision you would ever make and He still chose to make you and just like with Jeremiah, He set you apart for a specific purpose as well. 

 

In verse 6, we see Jeremiah push back. He says, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” 

Just like with I did; Jeremiah is making excuses for why h

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How incredible God made you!

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We are going to be doing something a little different with the UncommonTEEN Podcast in 2025. This year, I want to explore different people in the Bible who made a major impact for the Lord and lessons we can learn from them. This month, we are focusing on Esther. 

Isaiah 43:16-19 says, “I am the Lord, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses (this is when the Israelites were held captive by the Egyptians and Moses came in to deliver them). I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. But forget all that—it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

When in verse 18 God says, “But forget all that!” He’s talking about the past...He doesn’t want our past to hold us back from what He has planned for us. 

Could you imagine if Esther held herself back because of her past? If she thought about how she was an orphan...that she was a nobody. If she curled up in a ball and gave up on life? I’m so thankful she didn’t do that. 

In verse 19, God goes on to say, “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?”

God is telling us to look up! To get our faith up! He’s got a plan for our lives that is so much better than we even know! 

Ephesians 3:20 tells us that with God’s power at work in us, because we have gotten a revelation of how much He loves us, He is able to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

I don’t know about you, but I can dream up some pretty big things. 

God tells us in this verse that when we get a revelation of how much He loves us and we step out in faith, He can do way more…infinitely more than we can even ask or think! We get a revelation of God’s love, by getting into th

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Even if someone fails to see

How incredible God made you!

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6 Words of Wisdom for 2025 and Beyond!

1. You’ll never find peace living out of another person’s head. If you are constantly worried about what other people are thinking, you will never be free to be who it is that God created you to be or free to do whatever it is that God has called you to do.
2. God’s not looking for ability, but availability. All God needs is your yes. It doesn’t matter how unqualified you feel, but are you willing to say yes?
3. Your weakest friend spiritually is the devil’s strongest entry point. Surround yourself with friends who love Jesus as much as you do or more.
4. If you can’t say something nice, don’t. If you can say something nice, do!  We live in a culture that is so critical…always criticizing everything! We aren’t afraid to speak our minds and tell others how it should be. It’s a lot easier for us to say mean things to others, than actually be nice. I encourage you, even if you don’t have something nice to say, find something nice to say anyway.
5. Never let what you did yesterday determine who you become today. When you mess up, run to God! When you run to Him, that’s not when He first found out about it. He’s not looking at you with an attitude of “How could you!” But He’s looking at you with an attitude of, “Oh, my goodness, my daughter! I love you so much! Let’s get through this together!”
6. Choosing to forgive can’t change your past, but it can change your future. Forgiveness isn’t a feeling. Many people think, “I can’t forgive because I’m still hurting.” Or “They don’t deserve to be forgiven because of what they did.” Forgiveness is a choice, and it affects you more than it does them anyway. You forgive, because when you do, it sets a prisoner free…that prisoner is you! When we choose to hold onto unforgiveness, it makes us bitter. It changes us and not for the better. 

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You are beautiful! 

You are valuable!

Your beauty and your value don't change, 

Even if someone fails to see

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