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Lord, we pray that You would show us how to pour into and equip this next generation for You, Your Kingdom and Your glory!  We pray that they would become a generation on fire, fully equipped to do every good work.
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A remnant army is being raised up in this season, as our children stay home, protected from the world’s aggressive, liberal agenda.  Many of us across this nation are entering into a season where the reality is WE will have more access to our children than our schools will (and even more for those who are choosing to homeschool).  And while it is not a good thing for children living in challenging circumstances (pray if you’re to be a part of ministering to those families, praying fervently for them or bringing those children in for those times during the day where they are unsupervised), the remnant is being allowed the time and space to build into this next generation.

We can complain and lament that our kids need to be “back in school” full-time, but what if the Lord is whispering that HE is allowing this continued “set-back” for HIS greater purposes and glory?

Have you considered that this time and season is preparation for another – that this in fact may be a season for EQUIPPING?  Equipping ourselves, equipping our children – arming ourselves with all the supernatural tools for the battle, learning how to use our voices to speak LIFE and Truth into those areas of confusion and chaos.  A time to raise up the next generation of warriors for His Kingdom – a generation on fire (who will balk at the idea of apathy, passivity, and lukewarmness), a generation of world-changers and influencers, the next generation of godly professionals, teachers, preachers, and prophets – a people who won’t be shaken but whose feet are built solidly on the ROCK.

What if He is doing the same thing with the Church?  Sifting out the things that don’t belong – fancy programs, lukewarm followers, too many bells and whistles…  What if He is asking us to get back to the basics – that Jesus alone is the way and the truth and the life – that NO ONE will come to the Father except through Him?  What if He is asking us again and again – to simply bring it back to Jesus?

Do you sense it?  I see a picture of a line drawn with feet planted firmly on either side. We cannot be planted fully in this world AND fully in the Kingdom realm.  Where is our allegiance?  Church – let’s look this opportunity squarely in the face!  Let’s dig deep, let’s armor up – and let’s remind the enemy and this world WHO carries the victory.

Will we stand tall, knowing to whom we belong?  Or will we stand on the sidelines with our hands in our pockets, with lack of conviction in our hearts or fear crippling our movements?  Our children are watching.  The world is watching.

There is great movement for Truth taking place in pockets all over this country!  And yet, our mainstream media is relatively silent.

Will we step in and choose to be another voice, adding to many others who feel like there is a muffling to the surging revival?  Let’s rise up, link our arms with our brothers and sisters across this nation and make a stance.  Let’s show the world that believers are men and women of conviction, who don’t vacillate between the things of this world and the Kingdom – but stand firmly on the side of Truth.

Let’s show our children that our voices matter; let’s equip them with the truth of their identities in Christ and the truth of who HE is.  Remind them of where their true citizenship lies.  Grow in them a love for learning and a love for knowing Him!  Let’s make the most of every opportunity – the time is drawing short.

When the line in the sand is drawn, I know whose side I want to be firmly on.  Do you?

(If you are one who feels the call to pour into your children but have work demands that make this season harder than ever, pray for the perfect laborers to come alongside of you and your children.  You are not alone!  This is the body of Christ – and we all need to rally TOGETHER during this time!)

Editor’s Note: God is speaking! Please read Nancy Huff’s article HERE. 

 

(Suni Piper is a prophetic intercessor who blogs at A Surrendered Life. Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplash.)

 

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Toni Ahrens
July 20, 2020

My prayer is that children will now have a purer education. Bless the parents who will be challenged with these changes.

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Theresa Bryant
July 20, 2020

Amen, I will continue to pray that parents will be the first defense of their Children. The Scripture says, to directed your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave It. Proverbs 22:6 (NLT).

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Connie Lammawin
July 20, 2020

Well said ! Amen and amen !!

Timothy Bunn
July 19, 2020

Reminded me of Young David,and his enemies. He sought out God and prayed.
Thus; Psalms.
How he prayed and made song his weapons.
Jesus has come and was crucified. The leadership wouldn’t listen to him, and read what happened to Israel? Also, to the Roman Empire?
We are in the; “what if” times. Prayer is our answer.

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Vicki
July 18, 2020

Lord God, Most Precious Savior, I lift up the families that are considering homeschooling. What a precious thing to bring our young ones out of the grasp of Your enemies. Father, I pray for decisions not to be made of fear of the virus but from informed decisions that what pur lil’s are being indoctrinated with is from the enemy. I pray for this upcoming generation, to be taught to think on what is Pure, Lovely and Holy, and for that teaching to be lived out by the parents. Thank You Lord that You have prepared homeschooling curriculums that are sound and right and the students can actually excel beyond what public education provides. Lord, I ask You place it on the hearts of parents to come together in prayer and unity of decisions to make this a priority in the home, to turn off the Tell AVision and to teach and love and provide authority over their children, just as You do for Your children and we thank You Lord for how You will work all things out according to Your glory and for the good of the coming generations. Amen

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Elizabeth
July 18, 2020

Teaching children as well as others how to discern the truth today is the tool against what will be good for them. Children turn into adults and they have no idea what discernment is! When we pray we ask for His guidance and to know the difference (discern).

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    Tonyia
    July 20, 2020

    Heavenly Father, Teach the adults of today, who haven’t yet learned,to discern. And to teach discernment to the children of today and tomorrow. In Jesus name. Amen.

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Marleen
July 18, 2020

Thank you for this article!
I agree that God is doing something with the educational system. We should be praying for His will to be done and not rushing to send children back into indoctrination.
With the Lord’s help, I successfully homeschooled my kids who have long since graduated college.
I have been praying about who and/or how I can support first time homeschoolers. I think I will contact my state homeschool association and see if they can give me some direction.

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Ronda Orchard
July 18, 2020

Lord, I pray for this remnant of teachers. May they be given supernatural wisdom that comes from you. If, for instance, the remnant is 10% we ask you to bless that 10% and grow it into the army of learners who bless you and keep your commandments before the temptations of a Marxist, Socialist agenda.

Show me whom I may bless with God’s gift of language for a generation of learners that will need to be armed with your word to be effective LEADERS in the future. Send me to them as you carve out my future in your service.

And for those of us who were pioneers of the new day of homeschooling let not our work return void. Raise up our grown homeschooled children to take up arms against the wiles if the enemy. Protect them and bring to their remembrance your love that has given us new life in you. amen

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connie cookman
July 18, 2020

YES!! these world systems are being shaken so that the Kingdom of God can rush in and fill the void! There is a wave coming, a GLORY WAVE and it is made up of the sons and daughters of God. Christ in us, the Hope of Glory!

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Teresa
July 18, 2020

LORD send me. LORD use me. Let’s bring Heaven down. Let’s be a part of the answer. Your Creative Solutions LORD. Your Relationships built with families. Becoming Your Family on earth as it is in Heaven. I want to walk in childlike faith to express Your Love and Genius Holy Spirit. Send me.

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Judith Nusse
July 18, 2020

God sent His people into captivity in Babylon due to their Idolatry, and there their spiritual leaders tried to find a way to turn the hearts of the people so they would never again go after idols. They instituted the Great Assembly of 120 elders and the synagogue with a school where the people would learn Torah: Every Sabbath a specific portion (a parsha) would be read (and that practice has continued to this day). If a community could not have both a synagogue and a school, then they were to give priority to a school. They could go out of the synagogue to the school but were never to interrupt being in school to go to the service in the synagogue, so great did they consider learning the lessons in their Bible. We see Jesus (Yeshua) in the Temple at age 12 when he had his Bar Mitzvah (when a Jewish boy assumes his role as a man in covenant with God; at this time he reads an assigned portion of Scripture in Hebrew.) The children began to learn Scripture, starting with Leviticus, from a very early age. The father has the primary responsibility to teach his son Torah and a trade; besides these, he must also teach him how to swim. Perhaps we need to consider adopting these educational priorities once again; it worked for them.
I think many parents don’t know what their children are taught in public school or how our youth are being trained. Their hearts are being directed in ways that we may not realize. What values will they have when so much more of their time is spent in school and with their peers than with their parents and in Biblical instruction, especially when they go to college?

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Rita
July 18, 2020

Thank you Lord for all the parents who are answering the call to homeschool their children. Give them supernatural power to accomplish your will for their children so that the next generation will be equiped to accomplish your plan for the country and the world. We ask you to give them your wisdom and provide the resources they need. Send an army of angels and workers into the world to stand by these men and women who stand for you. I pray that you open the blind eyes and soften the hearts of those who are brainwashed by the world so that the public schools would make changes which will allow you to once again be honored and glorified in the education of the next generation.

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Karen E.Kendrick
July 18, 2020

Thank you so much for these comments..thank God for ifa..a place we can connect with Godly values and insights..and pray and agree for our children and country and each other..strength in numbers…
Thank God for this woman and also Betsy devoss…
Can I also ask for prayers for my daughter..she works at a hospital and her boss seems to have no discernment as to who works hard and has good ethics and who doesn’t..my daughter works hard and prays for her workplace but her boss seems to reward those who are fast butsloppy and narc on others and doesn’t appreciate good work ethics..his name is Peter and my daughters name is Angell..
Thank you and God Richly Bless you💝
(P.S..this is just humble truth..not judgement)

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    Ana
    July 19, 2020

    Yes and amen! I agree about your daughter. This is also a difficult season for people who are honorably going into work while their colleagues refuse to return to the work place. For instance, my 70 year old mother has continued to work without any time off for quarantine while younger, and healthier people refuse to come into work. It is so difficult to watch young and entitled people stay home while the older generation shows up to the office every day and does the work for the younger people.

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Mary Ann
July 18, 2020

Amen in agreement and praise int Him for abundant mercy and grace to allow this season of reset and return to Him and family.. to pour into the next generation the gospel..

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Linda Rice
July 18, 2020

this is theoretical. provides no strategy or call to action

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Barbara Brunner
July 18, 2020

There is ALWAYS good in every situation, and I appreciate this author reminding us. This is a time of a pause, a reset, for America and the Church. A time to weed out the unnecessary and the fruitless, to expose the evil in people’s hearts and agendas, to awaken the sleeping remnant of the Church that NOW is the time to wake up, rise up, and speak up. If not now, then when? If not us, then who? I believe this is God’s wake up call to America and the Church that now is the time to prepare for what has already been prophesied and had begun.

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    Mary Kaczor
    July 18, 2020

    AMEN AMEN! We cannot just sit and watch a generation be taken over by the enemy when we have the power of the Holy Spirit inside us through the blood of Jesus Christ! We must raise up an army of revivalists!

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robert valkanet
July 18, 2020

pray intercede for our nation against the evil powers working to destroy our nation and christianity in our nation warn others of the dangers facing our nation families our children. to many who don’t known this evil is the satan and his demons unleaded against us . the enemy\ is using black lives matter organization antifa maxist islam democrats and others to destroy the us yes the evil has a name satan and the above.

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Marsha dailey
July 18, 2020

I thought this too…

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