There is no accidental formation, creation and making of a life. It is always an outcome of influence, either directly or indirectly upon such a life.
That's the reason we emphasized the necessity of being deliberate in our response towards bringing young people under the early influence of the Spirit.
If we are not deliberate about early influence of the Spirit in the lives of our young people, we stand the risk of losing them to hijackers.
It is quite unfortunate today that we are losing many of our young people to the hijackers who are deliberate about bringing those young people under wrong influence.
Recently, a daughter in the Lord visited my wife and I in the house. We actually spent time together discussing about what inspired the foundation she recently started.
The foundation has been reaching out to young people with the vision to catch many of these children, teenagers and youths early for the Lord.
One of the things God has used to burdened her heart for this assignment is the rate many young people are getting wounded because of their exposure to negative influences.
She said, "We are losing many of our young people to the devil because the commitments and sacrifices of agents of Satan out there in the world seems to be increasing daily beyond the commitments of believers."
When I meditated on those words later, I discovered indeed that our enemies are purposeful, strategic and resilient about deforming our young people.
There is an unrelenting attack to misshapen our young people.
We can no longer continue to be casual about this matter. The demand is on us to arise for the souls of our young people.
But we must also be strategic about this matter. We must know where the battle lies.
It lies at the Gate of Formation.
Every stage in the formation of a young person is the potential control tower. When the Holy Spirit steps into this control tower, the formation becomes easy for the Lord.
That's why David said in Psalm 71:17MSG that, "You got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know. Now I'm telling the world your wonders."
This is our assignment today. We must labour under God to get our young people to the Holy Spirit to form them into vessels of God's wonders in their generation.
# PrayerBurden
Father, we stand in the gap for young people, raise more labourers for Your harvest in this field.
# QuoteForLeaders
"We can no longer continue to be casual about this matter. The demand is on us to arise for the souls of our young people. ."
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Psalm 71:17
