by Glenice Mills
The Lord woke me early this morning and said to me “It is all about the children.” Yes it is all about the children. The enemy assault against the coming generations is increasingly vicious. We need to be on high alert as the enemies’ plans for evil against the children increases. The Lord opened my eyes revealing a greater insight to what we in Australia and the world has witnessed this past week both locally and internationally. The assignment of the enemy is against the children.
We were a witness to the siege and abduction of innocent men and women in Sydney. Two of the women hostages were pregnant, and one woman tragically lost her life protecting one of her friends, one of the pregnant women. That night we heard of the massacre in Pakistan with the deaths of 139 children who were attending their school. Yesterday we learnt of the murders of 8 young children aged from 18 months to 15 years in Cairns. Seven of these children were from the same family.
These are the deaths of children that we know of. Right now children are being sold into the sex trade, some are lured as child brides, many young girls are victims of genital mutilation and many have to fight just to get an education. As we know it has cost some their lives. Education is something we take for granted. We must never forget the freedom that both boys and girls have, and the opportunities that are open for them here in Australia.
The pregnant women caught in the siege were shown no respect or honour. Their lives and those of the babies they are carrying had no value. Fortunately these women’s lives were spared, though the trauma they went through will remain with them all their lives.
The young children who were massacred and murdered were innocent victims. I wondered what would have been the potential of the lives of all these precious young ones if they had survived? Maybe among them would have been preachers, creative visionaries, leaders or one’s that are called to bring justice. Their potential was snuffed out!
We in the body of Christ have to open our eyes to see the increasing evil that is pervading this next and coming generations. We must not be ignorant of the enemies’ plans to take out and bring devastation on these young ones with the resulting grief to families.
Have you noticed it’s about the children? The Lord’s heart grieves for the children right now.
We know we are in end times but now more than ever we have to pray for the children. Why is the enemy so vicious against this and coming generations? Time is short. God’s plans and purposes will prevail, however we should not be so naïve as to think that all is well and we don’t need to fight. The assignment of the enemy is to silence the young prophets, to kill upcoming leaders, and take out one’s called to be influencers of change.
We must be on high alert for the next generation of young ones. They will be the one’s who will be mightily used of God to bring signs and wonders, speak truth, and confront evil in their days. God will show them things unseen before and they will walk with a greater authority that will challenge and expose. Now more than ever we must pray protection of the children. We are in a war, and the war right now and even more so in coming times must and will be about God’s divine purposes for His children that He is raising up.
It is all about the children!!!
We must not close our eyes and remain in a false comfort while we are on watch in this hour of history. We must make a stand for what is right and true and speak up for those who do not have a voice, our most vulnerable, - precious children. These children from all around the world are born for such a time as this. They need our prayers, love and support.
Matthew 19:13-15 Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.
There is greater understanding coming about these verses. It is interesting to note the disciple’s reaction to the children coming up to Jesus. They wanted to keep the children away from Jesus. Their attitude was they viewed the children as not having worth, and that it was acceptable for them to be overlooked.
Now is the time for us in the body of Christ to examine our own attitudes and reactions to the children. Jesus heart was always to go out of His way to pray for and spend time with those who were vulnerable, ostracized and misunderstood. We see this as He prayed for the children and this is His heart today for His children.
There is an assignment of the enemy to dismiss the children. We need to check our reactions to them are not just like the disciples. Hardened, selfish hearts say they are to be over-looked, as they are an inconvenience. The injustice against children has generally been overlooked. We all know it is happening, we quietly speak and murmur about the injustice but we don’t do anything about it. Our silence allows the evil to continue. Children are the most vulnerable in our society. They don’t have a voice, yet we choose to turn a blind eye to the wicked acts being done against them. We have seen this in recent times with the exposure of child sexual abuse cases. However if we look at our society today the spirit has also taken a different guise. It is more overt, it glories in its exposure, and its ways are ‘in your face’ because of the rising evil. This evil stronghold still rules because we in the body of Christ are not vocal. It is time to expose, speak out and confront this evil.
Yes there are groups dedicated to exposing the wrongs being done against children, however the church has generally been very quiet about this issue. Just like the disciples we hope the children will go away, and not be a bother to us.
We can’t stay behind the excuse of ignorance. We have knowledge and with modern communications we dare not hide behind the guise of ‘it is happening elsewhere so it does not affect me.’
Most of us have children/grandchildren that we pray and war over. However the Lord is challenging us to look at the ‘big picture’. We can fervently pray for our loved ones, but the greater and higher way is to pray and war over the issues and injustices happening to other children right now. The apostolic is about the bigger scheme of things and we dare not be narrow minded in our thinking and understanding. That was the trap the disciples fell into and we need to be careful we don’t do this too.
Children are suffering right now. We can choose to close our eyes to it and hope it goes away or we can rise up and expose and war against the injustices and the increasing evil being done against our most vulnerable.
Let’s be on watch and pray for our upcoming generation/s, for God’s protection, and His perfect will for His children. Let’s speak up and speak out and confront this evil assignment against God’s children. Time is short!
