I am worth the wait.
You bet I am!


I am willing to trust God for His best.
His best is to wait until marriage for sex.
That is all I need to know.

I can say no to the schemes of the devil.
The devil is a liar and I know it.


I have the power
 of self-control.


I respect myself.


I want to give my future spouse my best
from my past, present and future.


I honor my parents.
I don’t always agree with them,
but I will indeed honor them.
They seem to know a bit more about sex
than I do even though they don’t let on
like they do.  I am smart enough to
 know they had sex to have me.
So they have more experience.

I have a vision
 for ministry.
Although God can and will use anyone,
I know He can do more with a heart
 wholly devoted to Him.



Honestly
I realize that the “first time” outside
of wedlock won’t be “good” anyway.
It would be awkward, full of anxiety
and flooded with disappointment.
This I know to be true.

 

I’ve been warned.
I’ve been alerted, advised and counseled.
 I’m not an idiot!
It’s not a good idea.  I will not do it.


I am not in denial!
I realize waiting is best.
I repeat, I am not in denial!
I realize waiting is best.

I dare not dangle on
a bridge not yet built.



I want to enjoy my
teen years guilt free.
I’ll pass on the memory of being violated.


I won’t let lovey dovey
become touchy feelie,
which ultimately starts hanky panky,
resulting in achky breaky.

I will not give into the
pressure.

All the hype and its lame message ain’t for me.
Eight out of 10 teens said they felt pressure to
have sex. According to the survey, teenage girls
 felt pressure mostly from their partners while
 teenage boys felt pressure from their friends.
USA Today, January 4, 2002

 

Virginity is a gift,
and I will give it
and receive it at
the proper time.



Sexually
transmitted diseases
are not my cup of tea.
Nor is going to the drugstore to fill a prescription for
fun stuff like venereal disease, syphilis and gonorrhea.
(Not that these diseases are even curable.)

 


I’m smarter than that.

I don’t live in
Dawson Creek.
I don’t act like the teenagers there either
 and have sex when I feel like it.



I am wise and responsible.

 

I am a person.
I am not an animal.

There is more to you than your body and its desires. Inside, there is your soul, your heart, your self - including your values, personality, opinions, preferences, emotions, a sense of what's right and what's not, what's fair and what's not, and the ability to make choices and a will to survive . . . You want to succeed. This is all true of you because you're not an animal. You're a person. 

 
I can care for people without “getting caught up in a moment.”

No Hottie
is gonna burn me up to ashes.

 

My life is not
a country music
song lyric.

I recognize that a
sexual partner would
be someone else’s spouse.
That is just advanced adultery in my book.




My honeymoon
 is really going to be
 schweeeeet!
That is my dream and no one will take that away from me.



My fiancé is going
to get my commitment.
Even then I have to be careful.




I am starting to
break up
the pattern of divorce
 in my family now!


Yeah, that’s right like it or not premarital sex is a factor to
divorce later on.  Hey that makes sense.  Don’t kid yourself.

Pregnancy.

Despite recent declines in the teen pregnancy rate,
the United States still has the highest rate of teen
pregnancy among developed nations with four
out of 10 girls pregnant before age 20.
USA Today, January 4, 2002

 
I understand the Creator’s plans for
sex in a marriage relationship.

I am willing to wait for the best sex imaginable.

That means within the bonds of holy matrimony,
ring on the finger and good in the sight of God.


I don’t get my love life advice
from a rock song on secular radio.


I’d rather not bother trying to spell words like
gonorrhea, syphilis and Chlamydia
on those forms nurses give you when
visiting the doctor for a physical.


I won’t accept the suggestion
most movies make
 that if attraction occurs sex has to follow.

Hollywood ain’t my sexual counselor.



I will choose to have a
brand new
perspective on sex and how it relates
to me being a young person who wants
to have sex.  I will wait until its best. 
I will choose to see it a future blessing
instead of a foolish option of my youth.


I am into maximum sex!

A maximum sexual relationship exists where mutual communication,
understanding, affection, and trust have formed, and two people have
lastingly committed themselves to each other in a permanent

relationship. The more of these qualities that are present, the deeper the

intimacy and the more meaningful the relationship. It becomes more

valuable as time passes because it is one of a kind-- unique. To spread

the intimacy around through a variety of sexual liaisons destroys the

accumulated value of the previous relationship(s) and dilutes and

scatters (in little doses to a number of people) what one has to give.

William F. James






I am patient when I see a good deal coming my way.


A real challenge faces young people today. Given the choice between

 hamburger at five o'clock or filet mignon at seven-thirty, are there any

 good reasons to forego the hamburger and wait for the filet? Why not

 both? Why not take the hamburger now and the filet later? The latter

 attitude is precisely the rationale of those who encourage sexual activity

 outside of marriage. But it is not possible to have both without

 encountering problems later. Too many hamburgers ruin one's taste and
appreciation for filet and tend to turn filet into hamburger as well!
William F. James

Sorry.
I lack condom confidence.
I won’t put my trust in a rubber.

Studies have shown that condoms are not always effective at preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. Moreover, herpes, syphilis and the ‘silent’ STDs, such as Chlamydia and the human papilloma virus (HPV), can be spread to men and women through contact with the skin of an infected individual -- something condoms can’t guard against.

I will not be bait,
nor will a sexual predator hook me.
 I will not swim the waters of the sexually stupid, nor fish in the ponds of impurity.
I will give grace and forgiveness to those who pursue me, those who prod me and
try to push me in, but I will not fall.


 

I would rather be honorable than
 popular!

I am not a prude.
Being pure isn’t rude, it’s loving.
 

The only back seat
driving I will do is to offer my great
automotive advice to adults who need my
 reminder to put their turn signal on.
I don’t want my first time doing it
to be the very place I will put
a baby seat later on.
 

Madonna
ain’t my momma and
Britney
ain’t my buddy,


Nor am I down with J Lo.



I am not a
fuddy duddy;
Rather I am a wise and desirable hottie,
who knows what is best and willing to
stand up for what I believe, even if it
cost me some popularity with people
who could use a good example.
 
 
 

I am a testimony
in the making and no one including my own self is going to catch
me in a vulnerable moment of weakness and compromise.

I am not immune to
the birds and the bees.
 I understand what can and does happen.
Teens have sex and get pregnant and
that happy ever after story gets moved
to another channel and time slot. 

I love children,
 but am not ready for a family right now.
I want to raise a child in a loving marriage
with its best feet moving forward.




According to Alvin Poussaint, "when teenagers have babies
both mothers and children tend to have problems -- health, social,
 psychological and economic. Teens who have children out-of-wedlock
 are more likely to end up at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder . . .
 These numbers have enormous economic implications for the country --
 and for the rearing of children in America."

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

I won’t be the prey of some other wild teen’s sexual conquest.


 

I understand that my emotions will be skewed and vulnerable.
I have been told that my feelings may grow to be super intense,
however I will persevere.  I will overcome temptation. 
I am an Overcomer.

 

I love my children enough in advance to offer them a godly legacy.


I can make great choices.


I do not have to go with status quo.


Whoever thinks the world is always right is wrong.

I won’t let the devil steal the joy God has for me.

I won’t give into sexual peer pressure.
 

I am a leader,
not a follower of lame ideas.

 

I am a follower of Jesus.

It’s a lot cheaper this way.

This way I am protected from betrayal.

I am tired of playing games.

I am real.


 

Even though I have
 intense desires,
I claim God’s power in my life,
His victory over my struggles and
His grace to cover my mistakes.

 

Recently while listening to an Internet radio show that played some great Christian music I heard a tremendous testimony about a teenage sexual experience.  Allow me to paraphrase the story this young to girl shared over the air.  She set up the story by explaining how she had what she thought to be very meaningful relationship with young man who paid or live attention and seem to care for her very much.  When he first took notice of her she was pleasantly surprised because he was one of the more popular guys from the athletic teams in school.  She was charmed by his attention to been challenged by his pursuit of sexual advances just months after they began dating.  The pressure was intense and so were the feelings.  It wasn't long before inevitably this young woman indeed did the up give in to sexual advances in alternate them format from her aggressive boyfriend.  There is sexually active for a few weeks when she tried to pull the plug on the behavior which was overwhelming her heart, conscience and emotions.  It was been she learned of this young man's true colors when he simply broke up with her saying that she was nothing more than his playing grounds on the contest he had what his friends.  The contest was simple.  Find the cutest virgin in school and get her laid.  This young man won the contest and lost the dignity of no doubt one of the most special girls in that high school.  This experience in real this young woman into a slippery slope of believing that she was worthless and coping with such response and even more irresponsible ways.  She turned the wrong crowd embrace drugs and coping mechanisms only to eventually find Jesus her Savior, forgiver and Lord.

 

I am not someone’s toy.

 

I don’t mess around. I don’t play
sex as a game.
I don’t use love as a weapon of bitterness.

 

This is the honest path.


 

I am not the taker
 of someone’s own body.
I am not a thief of innocence.
I am not a shoplifter of love.
I am not a robber
of passions.

 

My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.


 

I won’t risk it.


 

I say “No Thanks” on the inevitable broken heart.


 

I am not interested in being used.


 

I know that if someone really loves me
they will wait too and not push me
into such a struggle.



 

I can learn from the mistakes of others and take their word for it.




I am learning to redirect my thoughts so the devil does not have a foothold in my own mind.


Even though I have made mistakes I now completely claim God’s grace in my life.




I have made a commitment to God, myself and future spouse.



I trust God that He has made me a new creation and renewed
virgin after I did blow it.  I am more pure now than ever.



I embrace purity and run from sin.



I love God.

I thank God for my body and want to honor Him.





I would have to come up with at least 100 reasons to have sex before marriage now and they still would not be good enough to change my commitment to purity.