"My voice doesn't matter because adults don't really listen to kids my age anyway."
How it sounds in your head: I try to share an idea and adults smile and nod but then do what they were going to do anyway. I'm told 'you'll understand when you're older' which really means 'your opinion doesn't count yet.' I'm too young to matter.
"Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity."
-- 1 Timothy 4:12Religious and cultural system that dismisses children's spiritual authority, making her believe age determines voice instead of anointing.
She's literally experiencing this. Adults DO dismiss pre-teen opinions, especially in church and family decisions. She's being told to wait until she's older to 'really' serve God.
Josiah became king at 8 years old and by 16 he began to seek God and reform the entire nation. While adults were compromising, a TEENAGER led revival and tore down idols that grown men were too afraid to touch - God used a kid to shame adult compromise.
I REFUSE the lie that my age disqualifies my voice. IT IS WRITTEN that I should let NO ONE despise my youth - which means God Himself is telling people to LISTEN to me. I carry the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, and that Spirit doesn't have an age requirement. IT IS WRITTEN that out of the mouth of babes God has ordained strength, which means my YOUNG voice silences enemies that adult voices can't touch. I carry the Abrahamic blessing that made Abraham a father of nations when he had no children, and that same blessing makes my voice carry WEIGHT in Heaven and earth right now.
The Father is not waiting for you to grow up to use you. Right now He's whispering strategies to you that adults can't hear because religion has made them deaf. Your prayers move mountains today, not someday - and He's about to prove it.