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Thoughts on Personal Worship
Monday, October 1st, 2007
by Jeff Deyo
We often hear from pastors and evangelists that God is raising up a new generation of people in these last days to obey him and do his will. Many times the generation is described as a young generation. I’ve heard it over and over again at youth conferences around the country. Somehow the word generation has become a buzz word that makes everyone cheer but causes few to truly stand for the Kingdom.
In the last couple of years, I feel like God has impressed upon me something from his heart. He wants to remind us that the people he is raising up in the last days the same worshipers Jesus said he was looking for in John 4 are not defined by human classifications. While it has become more widely understood that God is not searching for a particular race, denomination, gender or class, it is sometimes implied that God is looking for a group of young people to head up the battle. While I do know, as history shows, that many of God’s greatest warriors and revivalists were younger people, I do not believe that God is biased in this area in these end times. He is looking for passionate, obedient, loving people. He doesn’t care if they are 12 or 82, black or red, rich or poor, male or female, Jew or Gentile.
He is simply searching for worshipers who will worship him in spirit and in truth. He is looking for those who are willing to give up their lives for his Kingdom those who are willing to die for him if necessary and who will live for him without trying to serve two masters.
This is important to understand for a number of reasons, but mostly so that this young generation doesn’t assume they get to be a part of God’s end time warriors by default and so that those who are over the hill don’t feel their time is over. God tells us in Joel and in Acts that he is going to pour out his Spirit on all people servants and men and women alike. This will result in the old and the young prophesying and having dreams and visions as well as participating in the end time harvest. Are you a part of this new generation?
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