Week 1- Emotional Healing Is Possible| Moving Beyond Broken Teen Bible Study
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Healing is Possible
Bible Study Companion | Week 1, Pages 17–25
Welcome to Week 1 of Moving Beyond Broken! This week, we're discovering an important truth: Healing is possible with Jesus.
We all experience hurt. Sometimes it comes from disappointment, rejection, broken friendships, or things that happen in life that we wish we could change. Those experiences can affect the way we think, feel, and see ourselves.
But our hurts don't have to define our future.
Jesus cares about what you've experienced, and He wants to walk with you as you learn to process your feelings, recognize what is true, and begin moving forward in faith.
Throughout this week's study, we'll explore what it means to trust Jesus with our hurts, surrender the things we cannot control, and invite Him to help us grow stronger.
What You'll Learn
This Week's Focus
Healing is possible with Jesus, even when we don't understand how He will work in our lives. This week, we'll explore what it means to trust Him with our hurts, recognize unhealthy thought patterns, and begin surrendering what we've been carrying.
Key Verse: Mark 10:27 (NKJV) “Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.’”
Truth Statement: Even when healing feels impossible to me, nothing is impossible with God. He is able to heal, restore, and lead me forward. My hurt does not define who I am.
Start Here
This week's resources are designed to help you understand the lesson and apply what you're learning to your everyday life. You can work through the journal independently, with a friend, or as part of a Chicks group.
You don't have to complete everything at once. Take your time and let this be an opportunity to grow in your relationship with Jesus.
Your Week at a Glance
Quick Links to Your Week 1 Resources
A guided teaching to help you understand this week's Bible study.
Additional encouragement and real-life application of this week's theme.
Explore the biblical teaching behind healing, identity, surrender, and trusting Jesus.
Take time to process your thoughts and feelings with Jesus in your journal.
Discussion questions, practical examples, and activities for leading a group of girls.
Week 1 Lesson By Kelly Kirstein
Purpose: This teaching is designed to help you understand the Bible study before completing this week's journal pages.
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Faithful Chicks Podcast
The Faithful Chicks Podcast is different from the weekly lesson.
While the video lesson teaches the Bible study, the podcast offers additional encouragement, stories, and conversations inspired by this week's theme. Listen anytime during the week to continue growing in your relationship with Jesus.
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Lesson Deep Dive: Understanding Healing With Jesus. pgs. 17-25
Take a little more time to explore what the Bible teaches about healing, surrender, and trusting Jesus. Read this section on your own or use it with your group to better understand this week's lesson.
Why Healing Starts with Where You Look
If you want to move beyond broken, the first thing you need to change is where your attention goes.
The Bible tells us exactly where our focus should be:
Healing begins when we stop staring at ourselves and start looking at Jesus. That might sound simple, but it’s actually one of the hardest things for us to do.
When we focus on ourselves, our thoughts quickly fill with questions like:
Do people like me?
Why did this happen to me?
What’s wrong with me?
What would people think about me if they knew what happened?
Self-focus pulls us into a spiral of insecurity, comparison, and frustration. The more we focus on ourselves, the more confused and discouraged we become.
But Jesus never asked us to fix ourselves.
He asked us to follow Him.
When we turn our attention toward Jesus, He helps us find truth, wisdom, and peace, even when our circumstances haven't changed.
Self-Focus Creates Chaos
When our attention moves away from God, we start believing things that aren’t true.
We start building our confidence, identity, and self-worth on things like:
appearance
popularity
performance\ achievement
opinions of other people
None of those things are stable enough to hold your identity.
When your focus is on yourself, everything feels shaky.
But when your focus is on Jesus, everything begins to settle into place.
Your True Identity
The Bible tells us something powerful about who we are.
You were created in the image of God. That means your value, identity, and purpose were already established given to you by Him. You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to prove it.
You were created to live under God's leadership and authority, trusting Him to guide your life.
But something changed.
The Enemy’s Old Trick
In Genesis 3, the enemy tempted Eve with a lie. He got her attention off of God and onto herself. He told her that if she ate the fruit from the tree, she would be like God.
But here’s the crazy part:
She already was made in God's image.
The enemy convinced her she was missing something that she already had.
That same trick still happens today.
Satan whispers lies that start with words like:
If you were prettier…
If you were smarter…
If you were more popular…
If you were better…
But you don’t have to prove yourself to people.
And you don’t have to prove yourself to the enemy.
Your identity was already settled by God.
When Your Life Isn't All About You
Putting Your Life in Jesus’ Hands
Following Jesus means learning to place your life in His hands. Instead of trying to control everything, prove yourself, or build up your own confidence, you begin to trust Him to lead your life.
How do you let Jesus lead? First, it starts with the desire for Him to lead. Then you need to learn how through studying the Bible, praying, and ultimately learning to to recognize His voice. One step at a time you can learn how.
The world tells you to focus on self-esteem, self-worth, and self-promotion. That's a lot of self. It says you need to build yourself up, protect your image, and make sure everyone sees how great you are. It's exhausting.
But Jesus offers something better.
When you surrender your life to Him, you stop trying to create your own identity. Instead, your life begins to flow from the truth of who God already says you are. Your worth doesn’t come from what you do, what people think about you, or how perfect you appear.
It comes from belonging to Him and choosing to live as part of His family.
When painful things happen and parts of your heart feel broken, Jesus doesn’t turn away. He moves toward those places, if you ask Him for help:
He heals.
He restores.
He brings light into the dark places that hurt once tried to take over.
Darkness does not get the final say in your life. Jesus does.
Jesus offers us a way forward so that what happened to us doesn't have to define the rest of our lives. Healing may take time, but we don't have to walk through it alone.
Jesus invites us to find our way out of our hurt and/or trauma through Him. He can use what the enemy meant for evil to bring good into your life.
This doesn’t mean you disappear or stop being yourself. It means something better.
Instead of relying on your own strength, you start living from Christ’s strength.
As you surrender more to Him, the Holy Spirit begins to flow in your life, transforming your heart and mind.
The Bible calls this the fruit of the Spirit.
The more you fix your eyes on Jesus, the more our life starts to reflect the family of God and the way God's kingdom operates.
That’s where real healing starts.
Reflect: Unload with Jesus
Week 1- Unloading Pages, Back of the Book
Here's how to unload with Jesus:
Find a quiet place. Take a few minutes to slow down and focus on Jesus.
Talk to Him honestly. Tell Him what's bothering you, how you're feeling, or what you've been trying to handle on your own.
Hand it over to Him. Ask Jesus to help you release what you're carrying, see the situation through His truth, and trust Him with what happens next.
Sometimes we hold on to hurt, worry, insecurity, or frustration without realizing how much it's affecting us. Jesus invites us to bring those things to Him instead of trying to figure everything out ourselves.
1. What's been taking up the most space in your thoughts lately?
Think about something you've been worrying about, replaying in your mind, or trying to figure out. How has it been affecting the way you feel about yourself or others?
2. What have you been trying to control or handle on your own?
Is there something you've been holding tightly because you're afraid of what might happen if you let go? What would it look like to begin trusting Jesus with it?
3. What do you want to ask Jesus to help you with this week?
Maybe you need peace, courage, wisdom, healing, or help seeing yourself the way God sees you. Tell Him what you need, even if you're not sure what to say.
Group Leader Discussion Guide
Leading a group? This guide gives you everything you need to facilitate a meaningful conversation, including Scripture, discussion questions, real-life examples, and a practical activity. Choose the questions that best fit your girls and the time you have available.
Week 1- Emotional Healing Is Possible| Teen Bible Study
Moving Beyond Broken Teen Bible Study| Pages 17-25
This Week's Goal: Help girls understand that healing is possible with Jesus, recognize how hurt can influence their thoughts and reactions, and begin learning to trust Him with what they are carrying.
1. Before You Begin
A Note for Leaders
This week's lesson introduces emotional healing, which can be a sensitive subject. Keep the conversation centered on everyday experiences, such as friendship struggles, rejection, insecurity, disappointment, and wanting to control situations.
Girls should never feel pressured to share personal hurts or traumatic experiences. Allow them to pass on any question or reflect privately.
If a girl discloses abuse, self-harm, danger, or another serious safety concern, respond calmly and follow your ministry's safeguarding and mandatory-reporting procedures.
Do not promise secrecy.
Leader Reminder: Your role isn't to fix the girls' problems. It's to help them discover biblical truth, experience a safe and encouraging environment, and learn to bring their concerns to Jesus.
2. Start the Conversation
Let's Talk About Healing
Ask the girls: When you hear the word "healing," what comes to mind?
Let several girls respond before explaining:
We often think of healing as something physical, like a broken bone or a cut that needs to heal. But our hearts and emotions can be hurt, too.
Emotional healing doesn't necessarily mean forgetting what happened or never feeling sad again. It can mean learning to experience peace, recognize unhealthy thoughts, establish healthy boundaries, and move forward without allowing past hurts to define us.
Follow-up Question: Why do you think emotional hurts can sometimes be harder to recognize than physical ones?
3. Explore God's Word
Truth #1: With Jesus, Healing Is Possible
Read Mark 10:27 together.
Jesus reminds us that what seems impossible to us is not impossible for God.
Discuss: Why do you think we sometimes feel like we have to figure everything out or fix things on our own?
Leader Teaching Point:
God doesn't expect us to have all the answers. Sometimes our first step toward healing is simply acknowledging that we need His help.
Trusting God doesn't mean everything changes immediately. It means we believe He is able to help us, even when we don't know what the process will look like.
Truth #2: Where We Focus Our Thoughts Matters
Read Hebrews 12:2 together.
The Bible encourages us to fix our eyes on Jesus. When someone hurts our feelings, it's easy to replay the situation over and over. We might worry about what others think, imagine what they meant, or start believing negative things about ourselves.
Discuss: How can replaying an upsetting situation in our minds sometimes make our feelings even stronger?
Leader Teaching Point:
Fixing our eyes on Jesus doesn't mean pretending something didn't hurt. It means learning to bring our thoughts and feelings to Him and asking Him to help us see the situation clearly.
Instead of letting hurt, fear, or insecurity lead our reactions, we can ask Jesus for His wisdom and peace.
Truth #3: Your Identity Is Secure in God
Read Genesis 1:27 together.
God created us in His image. Our value doesn't come from popularity, appearance, accomplishments, or whether other people approve of us.
Discuss: What are some ways girls your age feel pressure to prove their worth?
Leader Teaching Point:
When our confidence depends entirely on what other people think, our emotions can feel like a roller coaster.
But when we begin to understand who God says we are, we don't have to let every compliment, criticism, or rejection determine how we feel about ourselves.
We can learn to respond from a place of security instead of insecurity.
4. Connect It to Real Life
The Friendship Scenario: What Would You Do?
Read this situation aloud:
Imagine that a friend doesn't invite you to something. Later, you see pictures of everyone together on social media.
Immediately, you begin thinking:
"She doesn't like me anymore."
"Everyone probably talked about me."
"I guess I'm not important to them."
Ask the girls:
What do we know actually happened, and what is the girl assuming?
How could believing those assumptions affect her feelings and reactions?
What could she do differently if she invited Jesus into the situation before responding?
Help Girls Make the Connection:
The hurt she feels may be real, but that doesn't mean every thought she has about the situation is true.
She could pause, talk honestly with Jesus, ask Him for wisdom, and decide whether she needs to have a conversation with her friend.
Sometimes surrender means letting go of assumptions, the need to be right, or the desire to control how others see us.
It doesn't mean ignoring problems or allowing people to treat us badly.
5. Put It Into Practice
Practice a Surrender Shift
Explain to the girls: One way we can begin moving beyond hurt is by learning to recognize our first reaction and inviting Jesus to help us respond differently.
Let's practice changing our response.
Example 1
My first thought: "She embarrassed me. I'm going to get even."
My surrender shift: "Jesus, I'm hurt and angry. Help me respond with wisdom instead of trying to hurt her back."
Example 2
My first thought: "If they don't like me, something must be wrong with me."
My surrender shift: "Jesus, remind me that my worth comes from You, not from other people's opinions."
Now It's Your Turn
Ask the girls to think of a common situation teenagers face, such as being criticized, left out, compared to someone else, or misunderstood.
Invite them to come up with a surrender shift together.
Discussion Question: How could learning to pause and invite Jesus into our thoughts change the way we handle difficult situations?
Leader Reminder: Surrender doesn't mean we stop taking appropriate action. Sometimes following Jesus includes having an honest conversation, setting a boundary, asking for help, or walking away from an unhealthy situation.
6. Bring It Back to Jesus
This Week's Truth
Read the truth statement together. Even when healing feels impossible to me, nothing is impossible with God. He is able to heal, restore, and lead me forward. My hurt does not define who I am.
Final Question: What is one thing you want to practice this week as you learn to trust Jesus with your thoughts and feelings?
Offer a few examples:
Pausing before reacting when my feelings get hurt.
Asking Jesus to help me recognize thoughts that aren't true.
Remembering that my worth doesn't depend on other people's opinions.
Talking honestly with Jesus instead of carrying my worries alone.
Letting go of something I've been trying to control.
Girls can share their answers or keep them between themselves and Jesus.
Closing Prayer
Jesus, thank You for reminding us that healing is possible with You. Help us recognize when hurt, fear, or insecurity is influencing the way we think and act. Teach us to fix our eyes on You and remember who You created us to be. Give us wisdom to know when to let go, when to speak up, and when to ask for help. Remind us that our hurts do not define us. Help us trust You as You lead us forward, one step at a time. Amen.
Additional Discussion Questions:
When you hear the word healing, what thoughts or feelings come up for you right now? (There is no right or wrong answer.)
Are there any areas of your life that feel impossible to change or fix? What makes them feel that way?
Jesus says that some things are impossible for people, but not for God.
What is one situation you might be carrying that you’ve been trying to handle on your own?
How does it change things to know that healing does not depend on your strength, effort, or perfection?
What would it look like to invite God into one broken or confusing area of your life — even if you don’t know what healing would look like yet?
Do you believe God sees you in your struggle right now?
What makes it hard (or easy) to believe that?
After reading Mark 10:27, complete this sentence honestly:
“Right now, I need God to help me with __________.”
When life feels hard or confusing, what do you usually try to control? Why do you think you do that?
What do you think it means to “put your life in Jesus’ hands”?
The world tells us to build our own self-esteem and image. How does that message show up in your life (school, social media, friendships, etc.)?
How might your life look different if your confidence came from Jesus instead of what other people think?
Read Galatians 2:20 again. What part of this verse stands out to you the most? Why?
Think about an area of your life that feels broken, stressful, or painful. What would it look like to invite Jesus into that place?
Do you believe Jesus can heal broken places in your life? Why or why not?
What is one area of your life you feel ready to surrender to Jesus this week?
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