Thursday, October 26, 2017

Reformation is it our only Hope?

Just how powerless is the Church in this hour?  When you think about what is influencing our nation and the culture that we live in do you think of the Church as having a say in that?  To be honest I don't see it.  The Church in America has instead of being a conquering warrior minded organization with the blood bought power of Christ flowing through our veins we instead our the ones who like to bury our head in the sand and hope the next time we pull our head up out things will have changed for the better.  Guess what that doesn't work.  The Bible teaches the following in James 2: 17-26, "
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

The Church must take action and invade the mountains of influence in our society.  Education, media, business, and politics are just a few areas where believers must invade and take  the gospel of the kingdom of God into these realms so that reformation of these areas can begin.  Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 5:13-16,
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

We are called to be salt and light to our generation.  Which is why in this hour God is calling spiritual fathers and mothers to mentor the millennial generation.  I believe God is wanting to use the millennial generation to change America and the world for Christ.  The Bible says the following in Psalm 145:4, "
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts."

Has my and your generation done just that.  Have we praised and declared to the Millennials all that God has done so that they have an example to follow after and than develop their own relationship with a supernatural God who desires to use them.  Church it is time for us to declare the goodness of  God in the our past and in our now so that the Millennials can run with  the most High and declare His goodness to all they are called to reach.  The Millennial generation is the one who is positioned to go into the mountains of influence but we must be able to give them the power of relationship and connection that we have with God to help them run the race.  They have the strength but we as spiritual fathers and mothers have the wisdom that they need so they don't end up like the young prophet whose ax head fell in the water and could do no more work without it.  It wasn't until the old prophet Elijah came and ask the young prophet where the axe head fell that he was able to get the axe head to swim up from the bottom, Elijah's relationship with the God of the supernatural, that once the axe head was retrieved the young prophet was able to finish the work he started by reattaching the axe head to the axe handle (2 Kings 6:1-7).  

Church let us mentor this Millennial  generation and bring them into the fullness of  relationship with the living God.  As we do transformation will come and the Kingdom of God will manifest as was foretold by the prophets of old.  It is time for reformation.  Let it begin with us and the Millennial generation.

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