Ready to Rumble: A Christian Journal for Teens

By Amanda Buchheit

Ready to Rumble is a journal for Christian teens or any young person looking to explore who Jesus is and develop their faith! This journal shares real-life stories about teenagers and the troubles, battles, and roadblocks that are faced. Reading and using this journal will help deepen your faith and allow you to explore and expand your walk with Jesus. Let us take this journey together! Are you ready to rumble?

This journal can be used alone as part of a personal study or as a guide for a small group study.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638748380

Book preview

The Rumbling Begins

Who hasn’t heard Michael Buffer’s song Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! The cheerleaders enter the gym. The pep band starts to blast their celebration in music. The players enter the arena. You can smell the popcorn, the bubble gum, the cotton candy, and the sweat. Think of all the preparation that goes into this game. The custodians wax the floor. The moms sell the candy. The coach screams for excellence. The band practices over and over. Tickets have to be printed. Radio announcers come to broadcast the game. When I think of rumbling, I imagine the peals of thunder. Where I went to grade school was right next to a quarry where they would blast granite, and whenever the dynamite would fire off, the school would shake a little bit. Or I think of when a huge semi-truck drives past my apartment building and makes that loud thunder sound. I also think of something the Bible has to say about young people. Approximately 2,800 years ago, there was a prophet named Joel who foretold the future. He predicted a number of things that have already come to pass. One of the prophecies I am still looking forward to, I can see coming on the horizon.

I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophecy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. Then sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. (Joel 2:28–32a)

Did you catch it there? Sons and daughters prophesying? Young men seeing visions? Do you want to be a part of that? It’s beginning! I believe that like no other time in history, young people (under the age of twenty) are starting to gain interest in spiritual things. Not just in spiritual things, but in the Bible. Some of those who are getting into reading and studying the Bible are even experiencing this pouring out of God’s Spirit, which is shown in signs and wonders, miracles!

If you want to be a part of the rumbling, all you have to do is ask. Yes. It’s so unbelievable. I better repeat it. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, who much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! (Luke 11:13). That’s a promise you can count on. Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call (Acts 2:38–39). The Lord is calling. Answer Him!

The Whos and the Whats

Your Life

Author Unknown

Your life is Jesus to someone,

Though tattered and torn it may be.

Though oftentimes weak and unstable,

You’re all of God someone will see.

Your tongue is Jesus to someone.

That idle, insensitive word

Reflects to at least one searching heart

An idle, insensitive Lord.

Your goals are Jesus to someone.

What you put first, they believe,

Are the goals of God for the Christian.

Your life is all they receive.

Your faithfulness…

That’s Jesus to someone.

Their judgment of how God is true,

Rests unquestionably in the faithfulness

They see day by day in you.

Your love is Jesus to someone.

That someone seeking to know

That Jesus will follow and guide and

Be a friend wherever in life they might go.

So beware lest others blaspheme

God by what you say or do,

For the only Jesus that someone knew,

Is the Jesus they see in you.

I take my cross and follow after you

I speak the truth in everything I