Just today, we got the good news that one of our former ministers, her daughter, who is just 16, was home from the hospital. We began praying when we heard that she had attempted suicide a second time. The first time, she took pills; the second time, she tried to cut her wrists. We were just as shocked as her mother, who found out she had a boyfriend even though she knew and was excited to have a testimony like Tara.
Immediately, when I heard the Lord, it brought me back to many years ago when we had heard the news that my husband's cousin had faced the loss of her son's life due to suicide. He also had broken up with his first girlfriend and had shot himself.
Many young people today are so emotionally and even physically intimate that when they break up, it is as devastating as each of you experienced when your husband or wife left you! Imagine if you were far too young to handle this devastation?!? It's not just a matter of helping to save your children morally, emotionally, and spiritually—but physically! Suicide has become an epidemic, so now is the time to minister to your daughter and your son and help each of them to minister to their friends as well.
Focusing on OTHERS, letting them know they can MINISTER now, will keep your son or daughter, niece or nephew, cousins or coworker's teenager safe from this devastating and rampant scheme of the enemy!