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When I was a teenager there was pressure to have popular friends and have boyfriends

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‘When I was a teenager there was pressure to have popular friends and have boyfriends. I didn’t see myself as being in the successful categories. I had a lot of feelings of rejection. That brings you down.  

‘How does it help me if God loves me? I couldn’t see the power of God in my life.  

‘There was one day I felt so low. A friend texted me Joshua 1.5, which says, “I will be with you, I will never abandon you”. This verse reminds me that I am not alone. 

‘Today I work in a country where English is my second language. I teach in my second language. I always feel that I’m not good enough as nothing is familiar.  

‘But, in this verse God says that I am good enough and he is with me. That keeps me going. It gives me hope. I’ve got that verse on a Post-it note on the wall at home and it reminds me that I’m not alone.  

‘Living abroad can make you feel uncertain of who you are. But God is the stable bit of my life. I can trust that he will not leave me or forsake me. God is in control.’

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