As I look around, there are some things that have been weighing heavily on me and its time to speak. Over the last 2-3 weeks, the attack on this younger generation has been nothing less than mind boggling. From a senior male being killed in a car accident while trying to get some lunch during a normal school day (less than a month from graduation), to 9 and 10 year old females attempting to perform lesbian acts in a bathroom, to siblings physically fighting each other, to 35 students murdered in Chicago this year alone! The enemy is pulling out all stops to take out this generation. I visited a young man in the hospital on Saturday who was jumped because he chose to stand up for a female that was being disrespected. He wound up with a broken jaw, chin, and needing two plates in his skull. If the enemy cannot literally kill this generation, he wants to have them so messed up that they won’t fight. We understand that as the 2nd coming of Christ draws closer that evil will increase and intensify.
2 Timothy 3:1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”
The picture that Apostle Paul paints, looks a lot like what is going on today, especially with the youth of this nation. Looking at this just on its surface can be disheartening and depressing but we must understand that when darkness increases so does the light! Paul could have ended this passage as is but look what he commanded
Timothy.2 Timothy 4:1, 2, 5 “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction…But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardships, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.”
This is not the time for us as believers to sit back and be passive but like never before we must press in to the presence of God and be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. The only way to save this generation is that our prayers and our light must overshadow the work of the enemy.
John 19:30 says, “When he had received the drink, Jesus said, ‘it is finished.’ With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”
Christ said, it is finished. What is the “it”?
1 John 3:8 “He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.”
All of Satan’s works were destroyed through the cross when Christ said, “it is finished”. There is no sin that has not been defeated. There is no kid that is beyond salvation. There is no city that is beyond revival because, IT IS FINISHED. We must stand on Christ’s words and take what’s ours in Christ. There is already a remnant emerging all over the United States of believers, young and old, with a heart for this generation and a blazing love for God. Mighty things happen when agendas are put aside and believers get on one accord, just look at Joshua, Gideon, Esther, the early church in Acts. The Lord is calling all believers to stand in the gap, stand between life and death.
Isaiah 6:8 “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!”
This Friday night from 8-10pm I charge each of you to inconvenience yourself and press your way out to the "Prayer Cave" at The Embassy Church Int'l as we intercede for this generation. It has nothing to do with titles, ministries, or numbers. This is a call to those who have a heart for God's people and chose to no longer sit by and let them be sniped out. Any questions, please contact me via e-mail: egaines@embassychurchgso.org More information to come...
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E I know that this is the timing of the Lord! I was sitting up this morning at 3am and I was praying and watching the news at one point. It was a story about on CBS news about the Children of the Recession. I had tears fill my eyes and I began to pray for these young people. Then about 6am this morning the local news was on and I heard that over the week end and yesturday after school in Clayton about 5 mins from us two teens was killed. It was two seperate accidents. Again a senior in our area and she was leaving school in the rain and never made it home. In one accident it was 13 year old badly injured in one car and a teen in second car was killed. The enemy is pulling out all the guns but God clearly is speaking to us to stand and do not moved by the faces of those that will come against us. This generation needs us to cover them. God is calling for the weeping woman and the men that stand and cry for this generation. I do not know if I can come to Greensboro just yet but I will be praying and fasting with you and the others that will help lift up the standard against the enemy.
What is amazing about all of the things going on around us is that this is really just the beginning. How the enemy was seeking to wipe out youth in secret is now revealing itself as an all-out/exposed war. Like you said, with more darkness there needs to be more light. Where are the ones God called to be "the light of the world"... "salt of the earth"? There is a clear divide being produced as God's people really can't be passive anymore... you're either for the kingdom of God or your not. Hot or cold. Many daughters and sons of God are feeling the pull out of their comfort zones into that which is unfamiliar to them. In this, we must realize our knowledge is null and void if we are not dependent on God to give us the words and power to intercede for this generation and bring them out of darkness into light. Besides... who are we to tell God what we can and/or can't do when we say we're HIS children? Sounds a little hypocritical/compromising if you ask me... but hey, God never had a real taste for warm water.
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