Did you know? More than 3 million crimes occur on or near school campuses each year. 1 out of 5 High School students carries a weapon. In the next 24 hours; over 3000 teenage girls will get pregnant, over 1200 teenage abortions, over 500 teenagers will get arrested for drinking, over 250 for drugs, and over 2500 teenagers will commit suicide.
During our century the divorce rate has risen 700%, 57% in the church, and 51% in the world. Divorce is the leading cause of teenage depression, suspension from school and asthma, that’s right, asthma! America has more illegitimate babies being born than legitimate.
The verse that drives my life is Malachi 4:5-6
“See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
There is a war in the heavenlies between the spirit of Elijah and the spirit of Jezebel. The “Jezebel Spirit” is trying to kill a prophetic generation. This spirit does not just work through a women or a man, it is at work through everything that touch’s our lives and it is attacking our children everyday!
This is an Elijah generation and we must learn how the jezebel spirit works and how to overcome it. Elijah was a “Prophetic Warrior”
Boldness and radical obedience.
Building in the flesh. (1 Kings 17:1-24, 18: 1-46) He was a “Broken Servant”
You feel alone, ready to give up. Lack of intimacy and truth (1 Kings 19: 1-10) He was an “Intimate Warrior”
Building the very thing that will preserve you in judgment, the whisper. (1 Kings 19:11-21) And he was a “Spiritual Father”
Releasing a double portion to the next generation, purpose and destiny (2 Kings 2:1-11)
1 Kings 19:3-10 gives us the four ways the “Jezebel spirit” works in your life and the lives of our children; 1. Fear of man 2. Broken relationships 3. Deceitful journey
4. Isolation/depression.
Does the brokenness of our own weaknesses (and what the jezebel spirit brings) drive us to intimacy with the Father, or does it drive us to depression and lack of vision? Our response makes all the difference in the world, for us and the next generation.
Tomorrow I will give us five ways to disciple a “Prophetic Generation”
