Children are always at the heart of ministry for me. Reaching the children has always been my work and what God called me to. Recently I was asked to speak at a men's breakfast in Sargent, TX and share about Kids Catching Christ and what was happening in our area. I was nervous to speak to men, but it turned out to be one of the best experiences I have ever had.
As I looked around while I ate the delicious biscuits and gravy, I noticed a whole generation of men were missing. It made my heart ache. I was in the midst of a lot of wisdom, but immediately wondered who was going to take up God's mission after these men.
I got up to speak and had my scripture references ready and all my numbers and facts, but God did something else; He filled me with the Spirit, and we were off. I told the men how Jesus was never more manly to me than we he let the children come to him. I gave them the illustration of a grown, masculine man getting on bended knee to be on a child's level. That is manhood to this mother.
But more than living like Jesus we have to step out in faith and do what we are called to do. I did not stop with that illustration. I went back to the Old Testament and we talked about the Israelites that wondered in the wilderness for forty years. Do you remember why?
Let me tell you why. God had promised Moses and his people that they would get the "land of milk and honey," but when they saw that the land was filled with giants and other obstacles, the adults flipped out. They did not feel like they could conquer giants! They had little faith in God.
For me, it's hard to believe their attitudes after all God had delivered them from and after all the plagues, but yet they had unbelief. They did not believe they could conquer that land, so God punished them. The Israelites would not inherit "land of milk and honey" until that generation died off.
That seems harsh, but kingdom work requires faith and boldness when stepping out to do God's work. When that generation died, Joshua came, and they conquered. God fought alongside them and gave them "the land of milk and honey," because they trusted in God and what He had promised.
God promises to never leave us alone and to fight alongside us, but He never promised us that things would be without difficulty or even resistance. We as Christians today fear being bold and proclaiming our faith, because we have been stifled. We are called names, because of what we believe, but y'all, we have to step out in faith and grab what God has promised us.
We have to be the generation to take back "the land of milk and honey." We do not want to be the generation that dies and does not get to experience it. With Kids Catching Christ, we are doing our best to raise up the next generation to be bold to fight for God's Kingdom, but it also takes leaders now.
What legacy do you want to leave to your children? Do you want to be known as the ones that were too scared and had little faith that died in the wilderness or to be the ones that conquer and move for God? We've lost a generation already. Help us get back this next one! I challenge you to step out in faith and bring this generation back to God!
Isaiah 43:1-2- "But thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you."
Aren't you glad you are HIS?
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