Roger R 99er clear for departure oh oh ah boys is in the apartment and got the bucket hat on got the chain got the God first te it's about to be blast y'all we in for a good video today what is good y'all it's your boy Paul Bernard II also known as PB I've been a fulltime cons Creator and entrepreneur for about the Last 5 Years and this video right here is for my teenagers in the house woo woo yeah know I'm going to be that annoying Uncle I'm going to be that embarrassing dad for real but if you are a Christian teenager nowadays I just want to say I'm sorry cuz bro when I was a teenager I did not have it as hard as y'all but second of all I want to commend you for even clicking on this video and watching this right now if you are struggling right now to hold your faith or you're struggling right now to understand what faith is or whether you should be walking it out or any aspect about your relationship with Christ I just want to talk your teenage years basically your time from 14 to 18 years old is one of the most impactful times of your life and honestly I would say it's one of the most challenging times of your life people always talk about hood and everything like that but let's be real like in your teenage years as you're developing a perspective on the world you're figuring out how the world and people operate you're trying to figure out what you want to do for the next 40 years on your life you have all this pressure you're in school you might be in extracurriculars you're figuring out romance you have an attraction you had a girl you had a boy he dumped you she dumped you they cheated on you all this stuff it's crazy I'm telling you high school I remember it myself so before I talk about my advice and [Music] that's just R why did I get an apartment by a railroad I don't know bro that me need to lose his job he did not need a why is you honking on a railroad anyway there's nobody there's no traffic anyways what was I saying so before I start talking to you about God and the Bible and everything like that I just want to give you my experience I want to tell you about my high school experience so you know that I'm not just talking out my left cheek so this is what high school look like for me so I started smoking weed when I was 13 I hit the bong first time when I was 13 years old and I grew that addiction I smoked all through High School up until my early years of adulthood I used to sell a little bit of weed in high school as well my first sexual experience was at like 145 I lost my virginity at 17 which was right after my junior year I got arrested twice in high school once for stealing from stories in the other time for possession of weed I got kicked out of my high school I got banned a few days before my senior ceremony and I didn't get to walk and there's probably a long list of things that I'm missing I was a bad kid my nickname was party Paul I was known for throwing parties going parties doing crazy things like I'm telling you y'all like my high school experience I lived it up as much as you could in regards to living it up yolow everything that they talk about in high school and I was doing all that in the third and I'm going tell you right now and I'm sure you probably heard this from other people in your life other adults it's not worth it it is 100% not worth it when I look back in my high school years that I wasted what I wish I would have been doing is growing my faith in God and then growing myself personally so I could be the best adult that I could have been today so I didn't have to go through those years of backtracking and try to fix my life life and clean up my life and regain trust with my parents and other people in my life again if I had skipped out on all of that and just focused on what actually mattered my life would be 10 times better today and I still have a amazing life today by the grace of God literally nothing else but the grace of God but I'm telling you as a teenager you are in the most social phase of your life you go to school with people you're constantly talking to them on social media you're texting them you go to other schools you got extracurricular you got Sports you got band you got whatever it is when you grow up people prioritize their respons responsibilities and their duties over their friendships as you grow up you'll find out that life is actually kind of lonely but in high school I understand too because I was 100% people person I extremely cared about what people thought about me I always wanted to be on top of the latest Trend I wanted to get the most expensive shoes to shine when I went to school like let's be real we feel good when people look at us they notice us and they see us as some kind of value but even though that makes you feel good right now you have to understand the idea of delayed gratification of putting off those things that feel good right now for the sake of your soul in your eternity I know so many people from my high school years who did not get out of their high school phase after we actually graduated some of them are dead others are strung out on drugs there's a couple that are in prison I had to attend a funeral for one of my homies that I used to play basketball with like this phase of your life right now can set you up for the greatest success or set you up for the greatest failure and I know it might seem unfair right now that you're just figuring out life you're just figuring out what you want to do you may not even know what you want to do with your life yet as I'm sure a lot of teenagers don't right now it might seem unfair but understand that because of the grace of God you have the capability to walk out your faith to not fall into the traps of the enemy to not fall into the traps of the world it may be extremely hard to walk down the halls in school and wear a God first teeth or to actually say no to certain things or not follow the trend of cussing every other word that comes out of your mouth but in the long run I promise you it pays off and if you can have that mindset right now that's how you enter maturity in your adulthood years that's how you actually set up your life for Success I'm telling you right now because there is no quote unquote fund that I withheld myself from when I was in high school and after high school I had a root Awakening to what life truly is and what responsibilities were and I'll talk about my testimony a different video about everything I went through dealing with a bad business partner him overdosing on drugs stealing money from the business going from making $20,000 a month to having door Dash to pay my bills dealing with human traffickers and huge drug pins like I'm telling you my story after high school that I put myself into the life that I chose to put myself into to could have 100% been avoided and it's not just because of the consequences I realize now that if I would have never ever gave my life to Christ if I would have never ever turn my life around and realize that Christ is my beginning and my end I would never reach the Fulfillment of my purpose that I am fulfilling today of being able to speak to you from that experience and from that perspective now this video is not going to solve all your problems as a teenager this video is not going to tell you the exact Direction and guide that I know that you're seeking because you clicked on this video but I will tell you that even if this can help you for today to help helped switch your perspective on one thing maybe someone just invited you to a party or some dude you're talking to is trying to get you to do some stuff you're uncomfortable with or someone's trying to encourage you to take some drugs or go out and vandalize or go out and steal I don't know whatever the extreme is I hope that this video will help you realize that it's not worth it it is so not worth it I know so many stories I'm telling you they're going through my head right now of kids who went out and thought they were just doing something innocent either ended up dead in prison or ruined the next 20 to 40 Years of their life because of the decision they made in that Split Second because they wanted to grab gratify themselves they wanted to gratify their flesh they wanted to seem cool to somebody it is not worth it and if anything the greatest impact that you can have the greatest fun the greatest fulfillment that you can have is in Christ the one who owns all things that is the greatest joy that you can ever reach in this life it is not in the ways of culture it's not in the products that you buy it's not in having the best relationship the best looking relationship from the outside as a boyfriend or girlfriend that is not the key to life and I'm telling you this right now out of love I understand teenageers are extremely difficult but you have the ability you have the discipline you have everything that you need I love yall so much I talk often with my little cousin Zack he's actually about to be 18 years old about to be a senior in high school he talks to me and I appreciate him so much cuz he's open with me and he tells me about the stuff he goes through as a teenager and he's such a smart kid like his his mindset is so beyond me I wish I thought like him when I was his age but the challenges of actually wanting to pursue Christ yet living in a society where 8 hours of the day sometimes more if you're in extracurricular is you're in a society you're in a culture in school in high school where everyone wants you to go away from that and there's no true role model a road map on how to do that in fact what you're trying to live out is the minority the majority of people around you are living the opposite do that's so hard especially with social media on top of that and culture and everything is just put in this pressure on you I know it seems impossible but if anything if this channel just me talking to you out of my truest experiences and giving you advice telling you how I went from literally just being a strayaway kid like that terrible Pastor son that everybody talks about to now being someone that loves the Lord and I unapologetically would talk about him at any time because I have felt his salvation I have felt the Restoration in my life it's nothing but the grace of God you can do it too you can be firm you can live your life out in faith it says it in the scriptures do not conform to this world do not give away stay in your faith keep your faith hold fast and understand that what you're doing is the right thing God loves you and he wants you to succeed he does not want you to fail he does not want you to fall into this world he does not want you to fall into the ways of Satan there's so much more could say about this man I'm just telling you my heart is heavy for y'all but please make sure to like share and subscribe comment below give me any feedback if there's any specific topics that you are trying to figure out as a teenager who's walking out their faith and any other adults who are active in their faith Big Brothers Big Sisters make sure that you comment below you reply with encouragement pray for these people for these 14 to 18 year olds who are giving out their heart to Christ if they're being transparent just hear them out give them godly encouragement give them biblical wisdom and understand that the holy spirit is going to be with them wherever they go I love youall very much and I'll see you in the next video peace