This week’s Come Follow Me for Teens Study & Teaching Guide helps teens and those who teach them explore the powerful heart-centered lessons found in 2 Samuel 11–12 and 1 Kings 3–11.
In these chapters, David’s fall teaches the danger of small choices, hidden sin, and drifting from the Lord. Solomon’s request for “an understanding heart” teaches youth the importance of wisdom, discernment, and seeking God’s help in their decisions. And Solomon’s temple dedication points teens to the blessings of the house of the Lord — forgiveness, direction, healing, protection, restoration, compassion, and a heart more fully turned toward God.
This guide helps youth focus on three powerful principles:
“The Fall of King David”
How David’s tragic choices teach teens that spiritual danger often begins with small “switch points,” and that secrecy, justification, and delayed repentance can lead the heart farther from the Lord.
“An Understanding Heart”
How Solomon’s request for wisdom teaches teens to seek the Lord’s help in discerning between good and evil, noticing opportunities to serve, following the Spirit, and making choices that reflect a heart turned toward God.
“The Blessings of the Temple”
How Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple teaches youth that the house of the Lord is a place of divine presence, forgiveness, guidance, restoration, healing, protection, compassion, and covenant strength.
This guide is designed to help teens see one central truth:
The Lord wants to help us turn our hearts toward Him through repentance, wisdom, discernment, and temple-centered covenant living.
Full background for the week
3 readiness / object lesson activities
3 complete teaching principles
Exact scripture blocks from the weekly study
Discovery, discussion and journal questions
Expanded teacher-friendly teaching sections
Powerful quotes from Church leaders
Testimony prompts and personal application ideas
Practical application actions for each principle
Christ-centered connections to faith, repentance, healing, obedience, and the word of the Lord
Parents teaching teens at home
Youth Sunday School support
Young Men and Young Women leaders
Seminary-style family discussions
Teens studying Come Follow Me on their own
Teachers wanting a ready-to-use weekly lesson framework
10–20 minute family gospel lessons
Youth class discussions
One-on-one parent/teen conversations
Personal study during the week
Leaders who want deeper teaching without starting from scratch
This week’s guide points youth to the central message of these chapters:
The Lord cares deeply about the direction of our hearts.
As teens study David’s fall, Solomon’s request for an understanding heart, and the blessings connected to the temple, they will be invited to examine the choices, desires, influences, and covenants that are shaping who they are becoming. They will consider the small “switch points” in their own lives, the need for spiritual discernment in a confusing world, and the blessings available as they turn their hearts toward the house of the Lord.
These chapters remind youth that small choices matter, that God can help them see clearly, and that the temple points their hearts to Jesus Christ, where they can find forgiveness, direction, healing, strength, and peace.
This week’s Come Follow Me for Teens Study & Teaching Guide helps teens and those who teach them explore the powerful heart-centered lessons found in 2 Samuel 11–12 and 1 Kings 3–11.
In these chapters, David’s fall teaches the danger of small choices, hidden sin, and drifting from the Lord. Solomon’s request for “an understanding heart” teaches youth the importance of wisdom, discernment, and seeking God’s help in their decisions. And Solomon’s temple dedication points teens to the blessings of the house of the Lord — forgiveness, direction, healing, protection, restoration, compassion, and a heart more fully turned toward God.
This guide helps youth focus on three powerful principles:
“The Fall of King David”
How David’s tragic choices teach teens that spiritual danger often begins with small “switch points,” and that secrecy, justification, and delayed repentance can lead the heart farther from the Lord.
“An Understanding Heart”
How Solomon’s request for wisdom teaches teens to seek the Lord’s help in discerning between good and evil, noticing opportunities to serve, following the Spirit, and making choices that reflect a heart turned toward God.
“The Blessings of the Temple”
How Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple teaches youth that the house of the Lord is a place of divine presence, forgiveness, guidance, restoration, healing, protection, compassion, and covenant strength.
This guide is designed to help teens see one central truth:
The Lord wants to help us turn our hearts toward Him through repentance, wisdom, discernment, and temple-centered covenant living.
Full background for the week
3 readiness / object lesson activities
3 complete teaching principles
Exact scripture blocks from the weekly study
Discovery, discussion and journal questions
Expanded teacher-friendly teaching sections
Powerful quotes from Church leaders
Testimony prompts and personal application ideas
Practical application actions for each principle
Christ-centered connections to faith, repentance, healing, obedience, and the word of the Lord
Parents teaching teens at home
Youth Sunday School support
Young Men and Young Women leaders
Seminary-style family discussions
Teens studying Come Follow Me on their own
Teachers wanting a ready-to-use weekly lesson framework
10–20 minute family gospel lessons
Youth class discussions
One-on-one parent/teen conversations
Personal study during the week
Leaders who want deeper teaching without starting from scratch
This week’s guide points youth to the central message of these chapters:
The Lord cares deeply about the direction of our hearts.
As teens study David’s fall, Solomon’s request for an understanding heart, and the blessings connected to the temple, they will be invited to examine the choices, desires, influences, and covenants that are shaping who they are becoming. They will consider the small “switch points” in their own lives, the need for spiritual discernment in a confusing world, and the blessings available as they turn their hearts toward the house of the Lord.
These chapters remind youth that small choices matter, that God can help them see clearly, and that the temple points their hearts to Jesus Christ, where they can find forgiveness, direction, healing, strength, and peace.
