Devotional Time for Teen Girls
Guiding our daughters to have daily time with the Lord doesn’t just happen. We have to be intentional about devotional time for teen girls.
We all know how difficult it can be to find some quiet time with the Lord in our hectic lives. {That’s why I wrote this post about finding that quiet time.} But what about our daughters? How are we teaching them to have devotional time when it can be so hard for us to do it ourselves? I want my daughters to know that their spiritual health is just as important as their physical health so that they’ll nourish their souls as well as their bodies. It’s part of my job as a mom to provide a good example and the tools my daughters need to have a rich spiritual life and relationship with the Lord.
It’s somewhat easier with my younger daughters (ages 8 and 6) who are still captivated and engaged by things like What’s in the Bible? and simpler VBS style lessons. Now that my oldest daughter is 14, the lessons are more about deepening her faith and answering her questions about life’s tough issues. As she matures, the resources she needs for devotional time need to be more mature, too. Yet I still want them to reflect who she is in this in-between time from childhood to womanhood.
Devotional Time for Teen Girls
One of the things we can do to help our daughters is to find helpful resources they can use.
Inspiration for Christian Teen Girls is a beautiful and gentle way for teen girls to have devotional time that is designed just for them.
It then explains the three sections that are included for each devotional time:
Ponder — This is a verse for the day to consider and memorize. There are memory cards, which can also be colored, at the back of the journal to cut apart and use to help memorize the verses. There are some discussion questions or things to think about in regards to the verse for the day.
Pen — There are lines to write down your thoughts here, which is the journaling part of the book.
Paint — These are the coloring pages. Depending on what type of paper you use to print them out, you can use watercolor paints, markers, gel pens, or whatever you choose. My daughter prefers colored pencils.
It’s an ebook available in pdf format so you can print exactly what you want when you want it with as many copies as you want. So if your daughter has a particular favorite coloring page that she would like to do more than once, just print extras. {Or if her little sister wants to do a coloring page, too. Ask me how I know.}
My daughter has been working through the pages and memorizing verses. There is no set schedule — it can be daily or weekly or whenever you choose. She takes her time with the coloring pages and really enjoys bringing out the details with her color choices. She reads the verse and says she likes to think about it and try to memorize it while coloring the page. Coloring can definitely be relaxing and help with focus so I think this is a great combination. {You can read more about how I use coloring books in my devotional time in this post.} Now we can work on our coloring pages together, which is a nice mother-daughter time for us.
I’m so glad to have this resource for my daughter, knowing it’s something she enjoys and it enriches her devotional time. I’m sure I’ll use it with her younger sisters as they get older, too.
How do you guide your teen girls in their devotional time?
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Sara, thank you sooo much for sharing this. I’ve been struggling for a while now trying to figure out the best way to deepen my daughters relationship with God and for us to spend time together and I was running into a wall. I have felt like a failure in this area for her because I haven’t known what to do to help guide her. She’s 11 and struggles with reading and I can get easily frustrated by that so I guess I kind of put it off because of that frustration but I know that’s not fair to her and it definitely isn’t helping her to grow or understand who God is let alone build a faith filled life.
So, thank you for this. I can’t wait to work on this with her.
-D-
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment! I’m so glad this was helpful to you. I can understand your concerns and I’ll be praying for you. It’s a big responsibility to guide our daughters in faith and it can feel overwhelming. I think you’re on the right path because you already know it’s important and you’re trying. That makes a difference! Just spending quality time with your daughter and keeping the conversations open is a good start.
You might also want to look at some of the resources I have listed in this post. They might help, too:
Ultimate Resource Guide for Raising Daughters of Faith
Blessings to you and your daughter!