Signs and Wonders

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.

It doesn't take long for a miraculous event to become more of a story than a history. Just look at Israel. It didn't take them very long at all to start doing what we do: think the Bible is a nice moral lesson, but not 100% truth. I mean, you look at the story in Genesis it took them all of 2 weeks to forget that the God they were following had led them across the sea on dry land. Because that happens all the time. No big deal. Golden calves are way better than gods who part waters. I mean, really?!

So 2,000 years after Jesus, it's no wonder people are skeptical. It's hard to trust anything people say, even if they were first-hand witnesses. It's hard to believe something just because someone said it happened. It's hard to follow a God that is so against logic.

God sends warnings. He sends prophets. His Spirit is all over the place moving and working, and yet people can easily just keep moving about their lives. I don't know how, but they can. It's all a metaphor. It's just a moral lesson. None of it could have really happened.

But it did. All of it. Word for word.

Lord, open the eyes of my generation to see You! We have a burning passion for justice and for Truth, and I know that is from You. You want us out there changing the world, and You have given us the skills and the drive. We may be a sin-filled generation, but we are also world-changers. I pray You turn us away from our idols, and draw us back to our Beloved Maker. Reveal Yourself to this generation. Stir up something incredible. Open their ears to hear Your Truth. Open their eyes to see You working. Open their hearts to receive Your Spirit. Let them not be like Pharaoh with his hardened heart. Let them not be ever-seeing but never perceiving. Give them discernment and wisdom to know where this Good News is coming from. Let them proclaim freedom from all the corners of the earth. Let us break the shackles of slavery and bondage. Of injustice and poverty. Let Your Kingdom come!!! Oh Father, let Your will be done!! Use my generation to change the game. I pray for each and every person between 20-30. Let us be ON FIRE for You! Let it be a flame that never dies!


AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.