Teens Draw Near to God
Teens Draw Near to God utilizes creative arts and life lessons to Deepen Your Relationship with God. Have you ever been inspired by a poem, a song, a painting that brought you to tears, your knees, or even back to the arms of God? Well, I have, and I love to use art as motivation to do good and to love God more If you long to deepen your relationship with others, yourself, and God, then listen to this podcast weekly to get a double dose of poetry inspiration plus the Word of God. Subscribe to this show to receive a new show every week. Visit http://www.shirahchante.com/podcast for more inspiration.
Teens Draw Near to God
Silver, Sapphire or Gold: Undying Love
Undying Love: The Critical Relationship with God
In this episode of 'Teens Draw Near to God' poetry podcast, host Shirah Chante, Relationship Artist, emphasizes the significance of building a relationship with God for true fulfillment. Shiras shares her personal story of searching for meaning and realizing that God's love was the missing piece in her life. She reads the poem 'Silver, Sapphire, or Gold' from her first poetry book and breaks it down to illustrate the importance of divine love. Shirah guides listeners through a heartfelt prayer to accept Jesus Christ and invites them to embrace God's undying love, promising a filled and joyous heart.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:37 The Importance of a Relationship with God
01:27 Personal Journey and Realizations
04:35 The Search for True Love
06:36 The Role of Media and Family Sitcoms
08:09 Poetry Reading: Silver, Sapphire, or Gold
12:48 Reflections on Love and Faith
18:45 Invitation to Accept God's Love
25:47 Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts
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Hello, and welcome. Good morning. Welcome to Teens Draw Near to God poetry podcast. This is your host, Shira Shantay, relationship artist. That's a relationship coach plus artist. Put together by the grace of God here to help you with your relationships, teenagers, and the relationship I want to help you with today.
Teenagers, parents of teenagers, anyone who works with teenagers, who wants to see them fulfill their God given destiny is. The number one relationship you need to work on, which is the relationship with God numero uno, that is the first relationship. That's, there's a first family, the first lady, that's the first relationship right there.
Without that relationship, without your relationship with God, The other ones just don't matter. It just doesn't make sense. And that was what came to me. That was what was missing in my life. So many years ago, when I was your age, teenagers, when I was a little older than your age, in my early twenties, and I just did not have any satisfaction in my life.
I had boyfriends, I had a college degree, I had some amount of success, a semblance of success in life, but I just felt something's missing. Something is not quite right. Like this life, it just doesn't seem like it's correct. I knew something was wrong. And I felt like I didn't want to continue going on the cycle of life without figuring out what that thing is that was bothering me inside my soul.
Cause I was thinking, okay, I've gotten my degree. Great. Now I'm supposed to get married. That was my next thought. And then I'm supposed to become a mom. That was my third thought. I was like, okay, that's great. And I understood that trajectory in life and that I believe that's a healthy trajectory in life to get married, have children, have a family.
That's how God created man and woman. However, I just, I was just like, Ooh, at that time in my early twenties, when I was just thinking. When I had time to just think when I was alone, I had moved to Los Angeles in search of opportunity, I called it, but really I was in search of me. I was in search of myself and I just, it's no.
Something's missing here. I can't, cause I felt like if I got married, if I had children and I got a good job, Oh yeah, that was the third thing. I get a good job. I knew that those things would not satisfy me 100%. They would be of some service to me. Yes. I love having children. I thank God that he's allowed me to bear two children on earth. Thank the Lord. I loved being married when I was married. It was wonderful. It was good for a time. I it's I crossed that off my bucket list
and number and graduating college, that was a good accomplishment, but still, It wasn't. I knew that those things would not be enough to satisfy me in life. And so I went on a search and what I found was what I was missing. And what I was missing is almighty God. That is what I was missing in my life.
He is who I was missing in my life. God. That's when my life started feeling complete and satisfied, no matter what else I achieved or what else I gained in life, whether it was a marriage, children, a job, whatever, all the things that we gain in life, none of those things would have made any difference if I did not have God first.
And that's what I was searching. And that's what I was seeking. And the Lord allowed me to find him. He says, if you seek him, you will find him seek and ye shall find. If you look for God, if you really want to know God, if you want to know if there's a God, some of you may be thinking, is there really a God, Shirah Chante?
If you look for Him, you will find Him. That's a promise in the Bible. So if you really want to know if there's a God, He will reveal Himself to you. And Father God, I pray right now, in the name of Jesus, that those who really Or on the fence eh, I don't know if there's really a God, then you will reveal yourself to them in a powerful way, that without a shadow of a doubt, they know that you are God, that you are real, Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.
So that was what was missing to me growing up and watching the sitcoms. We have sitcoms on TV here in the USA, right? If you're in the U S you probably grew up. That was what The Cosby Show, Who's the Boss, Family Ties. I grew up in the eighties. Okay. 9 0 2 1 0 . Those are the shows I grew up on.
I know younger generations you have grown up on different shows of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or whoever, but all of these shows to me, these family shows, these family sitcoms. They're missing one very important aspect, and that's a relationship with God. None of these shows ever really talked about God.
The only show was 7th Heaven. I enjoyed, I went back and I remember watching the 7th Heaven episodes. And that was a family, the father was a pastor, and so there was an element of God. In life, it's okay, I can watch this show because it was reality. Reality is that there is a God and we must acknowledge Him if we want to have a truly successful life.
Ah, so that's what we're here to do. We're here to get to know God. And so I thank you for joining me because we are going to get to know him today through a poem I wrote called Silver, Sapphire, or Gold. I'm going to read the entire poem and then we're going to go back line by line to see how the words in the poem will help us get closer to God.
Would you like to get closer to God today? Yes?
Previously, we talked about healing broken hearts. That was the last show using this poem, silver, sapphire, or gold. So if you haven't had a chance to go back and listen to that show, subscribe to this podcast. So you'll get all of the new shows coming straight to your podcast player and leave a comment.
Tell me what you think. Ask any questions you would like. I'll be happy to answer them. Let's read the poem, Silver, Sapphire, and Gold. It comes from my book of poetry, my first book of poetry, Jaundiced View, Desire, Love, Hate, Religion. And these poems came out of my frustration, my desires, my love, all of the emotions that I was having in my early 20s.
So here's the poem, Silver, Sapphire, or Gold. Is true love silver, sapphire, or gold? Is true love accepting failures of aspired? How do I know if my true love is near? Rancor through many prospects? Hoping to find the love of my dreams? Is there such a being? Please guide me to unending luminance of love. I feel hope to find, but succumb to despair.
Why does love constitute many broken hearts? In order to arrive at the true love destined for in thought, why not settle for various positive characteristics instead of casting this love away? What can I say? There is an undying hope deep within my chest. I am hoping for the best. Is this quest unfathomable?
Am I blind to undying faith? Surely faithful belief shall bring me peace. If not, I shall succumb in pain of desire of an undying love fueling my ravenous fire.
Sure, he is out there waiting to pour out his unending love for me. Occurrence proved love's lower degree. My feelings were those of gratitude and ultimate despair. Another love story ends in flares. Unbridled pain and dying dreams. Love eternal exhilarates his theme. Farewell, love of mine. I'm hoping to find unconditional love divine.
With a faithful soul so sent for me. For this very goal is undying seas. Should I settle for silver or sapphire or gold? That is the story told, so promising and bold. Why do I doubt the existence of the sea? Is it not I in complete destiny? I'm looking for eternal love to share, Making love aware, stable, and fair.
Brisk air takes me there for my eternal love to share. And that is a poem. Silver, sapphire, or gold? It's more than one of my lengthier poems. Ah. Why not settle for various positive characteristics? Instead of casting this love away, why not settle? Come on, let's just settle. That's good enough. That settling eh, I'm not really totally satisfied, but, eh, okay.
Yeah, I've settled in love before. Yeah, it didn't really work out. It did not work out. But the mission was accomplished. That I needed to accomplish in that relationship, but it wasn't the love did not last because it really did not exist
God Love is everything God's love
What can I say? There is an undying hope deep within my chest. The name of this show is Undying Love, and I'm expressing that to you. This is an undying love, this quest for love, this desire for true love. Do you have that desire? I'm hoping for the best. Is this quest unfathomable? Am I blind to undying faith?
Surely faithful belief shall bring me peace. Surely there's a love for me. Surely, I am meant to be with my love, my, my knight, right? My knight in shining armor, right? My one. Surely he's out here. I remember asking God later on in life after not really being satisfied in a romantic love relationship.
I was wondering, I'm asking God, why did I never fall in love? Not truly, not really. I had different relationships, boyfriends, as I said before, but I never really was like, Oh, I just know in my heart that I was never really in love. And I was wondering, I'm like, Lord, what is it? Why didn't I get someone because I'm watching all these couples and they're together and they're happy and oh, they have this beautiful family and it's what about me Lord?
What about me? Is there not someone for me?
If not, I shall succumb in pain of desire. Of an undying love fueling my ravenous fire. It's a common pain of desire. That doesn't sound That doesn't sound too ideal, right? It's not no, I don't want to do that, Shira Chante. I want to be happy! I want to have joy! I want to be in love! And love is a joyous thing.
Being in a love relationship. Loving someone, but that love, as I said, that loving relationship, that first love really is your love with Father God. That's the first love.
To me, that should be your first love because he is love. And so you really don't understand love until you know the father. When you get to know the father, you get to know love. And you succeed in love when you have his relationship determined. God, I know you. You're real.
Oh, Shirah Chante. I thought you said you, you struggled in love. I did. And there's a reason for that I cannot go into right now. But eventually I'll get to that when the Lord allows me. But my love for Him and God's love for me sustained me all these years. You see this gray hair? I got some years on me.
And even though I really didn't find that true love, even though I did, by this time I have, I know who that person is, thank God.
But even when I didn't know, the love of God in my life sustained me. So I did not succumb to despair. I found my undying love, that undying love. is the love of Christ, the love of God in your life. And I invite you to take on this undying love. This love will never be satisfied by another. The love of God will never be satisfied by a man or by a woman.
It's too powerful to be satisfied by any one on earth. Not a child, not a pet, not a dog, not a cat, you need the love of God in your heart. And I just pray that you get it. You find it. You accept Him into your life. He's the Savior of the world. His name is Jesus Christ. He came to Earth. As a man born of a virgin named Mary, Miriam, he, oh God, he was born and he lived on earth.
When he was 30 years old, he started a public ministry telling everyone who he is. Some people loved him and some people hated him. That's just how it is in life, right? You win some, you lose some, but he wants to win you. He wants to win your heart because he loves you.
Eventually he taught the world. He taught us how to live, how to walk with God and have the love of God. And then they crucified him falsely. He was falsely accused and he died. On a crucifix, on a cross, for you and for me, even though he did nothing wrong. Not one thing. He was spotless. He was a spotless lamb that was slain for the sins of the world.
Thank you. Thank you for dying for us, Lord, my love,
Yeshua, Jesus Christ. Will you accept his love for you today? Will you accept? His sacrifice on the cross that he died for you. Not only did he die, but he rose again. God raised him from the grave. Three days later, he rose again.
At least 500 witnesses saw him on earth before he ascended into the clouds. And I'm inviting you today to ascend with him. All you have to do is believe that he came to earth. He died for you. He was crucified. He was raised again from the dead. Just say, I believe in you, Jesus. I believe you died for me.
Believe it in your heart. Confess it with your mouth. I want you to be my Lord, Jesus. I want you to save me. Be my Savior. In
Jesus name, if you prayed that prayer, then you have God in your heart and you are saved. Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That includes you. That includes me. I said that prayer many years ago when I was 12 years old. And it still stands valid even though I'm old and gray.
What can I say? There's an undying hope deep within my chest. I'm hoping for the best. An undying love fueling my ravenous fire. Yes.
My undying love for the love of God is the love of God that he has given me in my heart. And now you have it.
If you just prayed that prayer, you have that undying love in your heart and you will never feel the same. You won't feel empty anymore. I'm thinking of that song by the Cranberries. Empty. Empty. Empty. I love The Cranberries. You're not going to feel that emptiness anymore because the love of God is now in your heart.
Amen. Hallelujah. Give yourself a hand. The angels in heaven are rejoicing over you. They're so happy for you. And so am I. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You can cry. You can cry when you feel the love of God. That's a Normal reaction. Tears of joy. Tears of rejoicing, I call them. I wrote a song about that.
Tears of rejoicing. They're so sweet. So sweet. So sweet. Tears of rejoicing. These tears are so sweet. So sweet, tears of rejoicing.
Hallelujah. I can't go on. That's our show for today. Thank you for joining me. Teenagers, parents of teens, anyone who works with teens, who want to see them reach their God given destiny. Thank you. And remember to love God, love you, and love people.