Youth Ideas - A New Year: New Priorities

Youth Ideas -
A New Year:
New Priorities
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With the New Year we typically
evaluate the past year and set
new priorities for the upcoming
year. Sometimes we call these
new priorities or renewed
priorities New Year’s Resolutions.
New Year’s Resolutions may be
focused around family, personal
goals, money, jobs, and many
other things. While these things
are not necessarily wrong, when
they take precedence over our
relationship with God they
become a problem.

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What You Need
1. Large sheets of paper or
newsprint
2. Whiteboard markers
(that will not bleed
through the paper)

Preparation
1. Put a Poster or large
sheet of paper in each
corner of the room for
each of the following
labels:
1. Possessions or
Provision
2. Power or Position
3. Popularity
4. Others
2. Place a chair in the exact
center of the room as a
marker.

What to Do
1. Explain:
1. Possessions refer to the
material things we seek
in life.
2. Power refers to positions
we want to obtain in life.
3. Popularity refers to
social recognition and
fame that people seek in
life.
4. Explain that the center
of the room represents
living for God.

2. Allow youth to brainstorm
about the things that people
have as priorities in their lives.
Examples might be good
grades, a good job, a marriage
partner, a house, to serve God,
to have lots of money, etc.
3. Then have youth write the
priority on the poster that
represents that priority. Some
items might fit into more than
one category (i.e. good grades
might be a priority but the
reason could be for popularity
or for the purpose of getting a
job with more money and a
higher position – power.)

4. After the posters have
been filled with examples
of each priority, have
youth stand somewhere in
the room that reflects
their most important
priorities in life. (For
example, if someone’s
priority is to make lots of
money they might stand
in the possessions corner.)

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
Read Matthew 4:1-10
• How does this passage
relate to the posters in the
corners of the room?
• Which poster represents
each of the temptations?
• How did Christ
understanding of his
purpose in life reflect his
priorities?

Jesus was tempted with
popularity, power, and
possessions (material needs). But
because Jesus understood his
purpose in the world he did not
give into temptation. There is
nothing wrong with material
possessions, power or popularity.
But when they replace God as a
priority in our lives they become a
problem. In fact, later in Jesus
ministry we would see him
providing for the physical needs of
people, he would demonstrate
the power of God, and he would
be popular.

Yet his priority was to do the
will of God, to accomplish the
purpose for which he had been
sent into the world. God has
brought each of us into the
world for a purpose. The better
we understand our purpose,
the better we will be able to
balance our priorities to fulfill
that purpose in the new year.

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• What are some things
that are part of Gods
plan for every persons
life?
• How can a person
discover and trust
Gods plan for his or
her life? (See Proverbs
3:5-6; Philippians 4:6;
Romans 8:28)

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• What do you believe is part
of Gods purpose for
bringing YOU into the
world? (You may not know
all the details yet, but you
might have some ideas.)
• Each of you has positioned
yourself in a specific corner
of the room based on your
own priorities. How can
someone in your position
move closer to Gods
Purpose for your life and
away from the wrong
priorities?

• What are some of the
practical steps you can
take this year that would
move you closer to Gods
ideal plan for your life?
• Commit to one of the
steps you can start this
week!

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES
Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all your
heart and lean not on your own
understanding; in all your ways
submit to him, and he will direct
your paths.”
Philippians 4:6
“Do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation,
by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your
requests to God.”

Romans 8:28
“And we know that in all
things God works for the good
of those who love him, who
have been called according to
his purpose.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18
“in everything give thanks; for
this is God’s will for you in
Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 3:8
“What is more, I consider
everything a loss because of
the surpassing worth of
knowing Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whose sake I have
lost all things. I consider
them garbage, that I may
gain Christ.”

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