This past Sunday a guest pastor
spoke at my church. He mentioned
something in his message that just made a light bulb come on in my head. This is something that I have been harping
about for a while (The Children Are Our Future).
The World “The Why”
-Baby Boomers – 1946-1964
– During a time of great economic stability people were making babies at
unprecedented rates, conservative, educated - BS
-Generation X – 1966-1980
– The “lost” or “invisible” generation – described as entrepreneurial and
tech-friendly – rebellious and turning away from God, educated – BS, Master’s
-Generation Next – 1981-1988 – Grew up with personal computers, cell phones and the
internet – no moral context, accepts anything – educated – BS, Master’s, PhD’s
The Church “The How”
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. ~ Ephesians 6:12 (KJV – 21st
Century)
I promise you there is a method to my madness. Just allow yourself to put into context the
world we live in.
Now, what exactly is going on? Most of the issues with the world I try to
see it from a spiritual point of view because that often answers the “how”
things happen. In 2007 the baby boomers
are retiring if not dying out leaving the world in the hands of the Generations
X and Next. The world is not what it was
when the baby boomers grew up or had their children. It has drastically changed
and not for the better. However because
of the age the Xers and Nexters came up in we are more adapt to change to see
the progressive side of life and make “our own way.”
Now put that thought in the church,
back then you heard Jesus is coming back soon and Hell, Fire, and Brimstone
messages and not that they are not applicable because they are, but there is
still work to do. It’s time to do more
than just be “saved” to secure your seat in Heaven. Because of our progressive mentality we are
more susceptible to understanding God positioning His people around the world
to make a difference. We are the
generations that can bring about change in the world for God because we can be
in the church and be a strong presence there but also be the entrepreneurs,
CEO’s, and teachers in the world as a light for those who need hope.
This pastor said the prayer handles
spiritual demons but money handles human demons. The shift of the world’s wealth is coming to
us and we will be in powerful positions to do God’s work. So now my point, we are the generation that
the enemy is seeking to devour. Every
kind of sin is rampant; drugs, alcohol, sexual immorality, fornication,
adultery, to name a few.
Please understand who is being
targeted, the youth and the men, in other words the FUTURE and the FOUNDATIONS
of the home and it is all a plot of the enemy to silence the voices that God is
trying to raise up. We have to be
smarter than this people; we can no longer float through life aimlessly. Every single one of us was born with a
purpose and it’s time we get back to God and find out what that purpose is and
do it. We must do it with so much
conviction that people MUST stop and pay attention.
Find your purpose and God will
position you to bring about His purpose.
It’s time to get back to church, not the commercialized, money hungry,
divorce is okay, homosexuality is okay, monetary prosperity only church’s being
splattered all over the media. The real
church’s (yes they still exist) the praying, fasting, interceding, visionaries
who have a heart for God and people to do His will no matter what.
Oh I really should mention this,
don’t get it twisted, Heaven and Hell are still very near, check out
Revelations and look at the times, so let’s get to getting because time is in
fact running out!!!
