Youth Retreat 2018- “Led by His Spirit”

Hymn

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus' blood and righteousness

I dare not trust the sweetest frame

But wholly trust in Jesus' name

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus' blood and righteousness

I dare not trust the sweetest frame

But wholly trust in Jesus' name

Christ alone; cornerstone

Weak made strong; in the Saviour's love

Through the storm, He is Lord

Lord of all

When Darkness seems to hide His face

I rest on His unchanging grace

In every high and stormy gale

My anchor holds within the veil

Christ alone; cornerstone

Weak made strong; in the Saviour's love

Through the storm, He is Lord

Lord of all

He is Lord

Lord of all

Christ alone; cornerstone

Weak made strong; in the Saviour's love

Through the storm, He is Lord

Lord of all

Christ alone; cornerstone

Weak made strong; in the Saviour's love

Through the storm, He is Lord

Lord of all

When He shall come with trumpet sound,

Oh, may I then in Him be found;

Dressed in His righteousness alone,

Faultless stand before the throne.

Prayers

Ps 121 vs 7 -8

The Lord will protect you from all evil;

He will keep your life.

The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in [everything that you do]

From this time forth and forever.

• Thank God for journey mercies to Wales yesterday.

2 Corrinthians 2 vs 14

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us spreads and makes evident everywhere the sweet fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

• Thank God for the past teenagers and youth camp and retreat. For testimonies that abounded to His name. over the children, teachers and parents who volunteered to cook for them. 

• Thank God for the revelation of themes over the years.

Eccl11 vs 9 – 10 & 12 vs 1

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant in the days of your young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desires of your eyes, but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Therefore, remove sorrow and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, for childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

Remember [thoughtfully] also your Creator in the days of your youth [for you are not your own, but His], before the evil days come or the years draw near when you will say [of physical pleasures], “I have no enjoyment and delight in them”

1 Corinthians 6 vs 19

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]?

 You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body.

Solomon was there and knew it all. This is the stage at which our teenagers and youth are.

Walking in the ways of their heart and desires of their eyes, a lot of them are struggling with various habits, I.e Pornography, lust, anger, unforgiveness, pride, immorality, masturbation, nudity, gang, gambling, covetousness, peer pressure etc.

The Word of God will come to them as fire and hammer in this retreat and break every shackles of habits that has held them bound in pieces. Every stronghold of habit will loose their hold in their lives.

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?  Jeremiah 23:29

• Hebron Hall in Wales will be the burial ground for all these habits in the name of Jesus. None of them will return with these habits in the mighty name of Jesus.

• Father we pray for genuine salvation and transformation and divine encounter.

• Our Youth and Teenagers will remember the Lord in this stage of their lives. Set them on fire for you in the name of Jesus.

To think that will power or resolutions will do it will be the greatest mistake of all and that is why the theme of the retreat has made it easy. “Led by His Spirit” Rom8 vs 14.  The whole chapter dealt with how the law could not give us victory over sin and flesh, how the life after flesh cannot please God, how to be carnally minded is death.

But the only remedy is through the death of our Lord Jesus on the Cross, the spirit that raised him from the dead, the quickening spirit, which is still as powerful as ever will help them to mortify the deeds of the body. And cause them to be led by His Spirit and be sons and daughters of God indeed.

• Father we agree on this platform this morning to take over their lives and lead them by your spirit. Baptize them with your spirit we pray.

Ps 144 vs 12

Let our sons in their youth be like plants full grown,

And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace;

• Our sons will be like plants full grown in their youth and our daughters like corner pillars after the similitude of a palace in Jesus name.

• Grant their teachers divine wisdom and understanding, as they open their mouth you will fill it Lord Jesus.

• Fortify the parents helping out in the kitchen with strength from above.