Before we dig in to this uber important topic, I want to ask if you will read through today’s post and comment to let us know that you are in… that you will pray with us for the next generation. We want to know how many women will roll up their sleeves and do the one hard thing we should be doing… praying! COMMENT and tell us you’re in if you are.
Oswald Chambers once said,
“Prayer is the greatest work.”
It’s not easy to intercede on behalf of those who can’t or won’t pray for themselves. Intercessory prayer is hard work and it’s not for the faint of heart.
But in this day of comfortable, convenient, and casual Christianity, we are desperate to see God work in the lives this and the next generation!
If you haven’t noticed, our culture is at a crossroads and we can do a lot of things to make a difference, but only God can change the heart of man.
Surrounded by darkness, the teens and twenty-somethings of this day are in danger of embracing their own destruction. I fear for their lostness of their souls.
Make no mistake, there are multitudes of godly young people who are seeking His face and living out loud for Jesus in their generation. They are world changers whose faith inspires us all!
But there is also a culture of young people who seem to have scales on their eyes – blinded to spiritual things – uninterested in seeking God’s face – having no fear of God and placing no value on that which is sacred and holy.
They want to make sense of life, but they don’t want to trust in the simplicity of the Gospel.
For them, my heart has been breaking! Perhaps that’s one of the reasons The MOM Initiative has become such an important ministry to me. I really do believe that if the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, then the church that mentors those hands will win it.
But winning a generation begins on our knees.
Turning the world upside down won’t take place unless we’re willing to seek His face.
Lamentations 2:19 says,
“Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children, for in every street they are faint with hunger.”
Our children are starving for lack of the Word. They are hungry for spiritual food and they don’t even realize that it’s the only thing that will quench their appetites.
But this verse calls us to pray like crazy for our kids.
It doesn’t say, go feed them… it says to pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer. Plead for your children in every street…for they are faint with hunger.
Your children may be serving God, but a whole generation is slipping through the cultural cracks of Christianity and we are called to pray.
We are linked by who we are. MOMS! Who love our kids like crazy. But we need to love our children’s friends like crazy too. We need to love the children whose moms don’t know Jesus like crazy too. We need to be moms who love enough to pray for the moms and the children in our communities and our country to come to know Christ, to be strong in the Lord, to not fall for the foolish lies of the wicked one, and to turn this world upside down for Christ.
Will you intercede for the next generation of children before we lose them?
If you will pray, please comment below and let us know you’ll pray!
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