DEFINITION OF YOUTH:
The time
of life when one is young, but often means the time between childhood and
adulthood (maturity). In Europe, it is between age 16-30.
The Time of Youth is:
- A time of laying foundations for every aspect of future life.
- A crucial time that determines what happens for the rest of your life.
- A time of dependency / age of choices.
- Age of consent – to sexual acts.
- Age of voting
- Age of questioning everything.
- Age of claiming wiser than parents and even God.
- Age of self-focus
- Age of majority – competitive time to proving something.
- Age of the right to drive – age at which a person can apply for a driver’s license.
- Age of drinking – alcoholic beverage can be consumed or purchased.
- Age of candidacy – legal qualification to hold certain elected government offices.
- Age of criminal responsibility.
- Age of permanent formation within.
- Age whereby everything that a person will become in future and his destiny is rooted.
- Age when God’s eyes are is focused on a person to affect and prepare him or her for a glorious future.
- A targeted time for the devil to destroy a person’s future through a wrong foundation.
Any youth that makes the Lord his or her choice will always overcome
in every sphere of life.
Remember now your Creator in the
days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
‘I have no pleasure in them.’” (Ecclesiastes 12:1 NKJV)
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
‘I have no pleasure in them.’” (Ecclesiastes 12:1 NKJV)
“The
fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.
12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you will bear it alone.” (Proverbs 9:10-12 NKJV)
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.
12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you will bear it alone.” (Proverbs 9:10-12 NKJV)
A good foundation for life consists of the FEAR of
God and the KNOWLEDGE
of God.When these
are not in place, their future will suffer much. Even if at last they find their way back, valuable time would have been wasted.
“I have written to you, young men,
Because
you are strong, and the
word of God abides in you,
and
you have overcome the
wicked one.” (1 John 2: 14b NKJV)
Only the youth that allows the word of God
to be the lamp to their feet and light to their path will overcome the wicked
one that has targeted their youthful age to destroy it.
Prayer Points
- Let us thank God who has given us the 'womb of travail' for our youth and children in general.
- Let us ask God to give them a heart of flesh that is teachable.
- Let us pray that their heart will accommodate the fear and the knowledge of God in Jesus’ name.
- Pray that the contention of devil over our youth will fail, in Jesus’ name.
- The intention of devil is to destroy their lives with alcohol, sex, abortion, drugs, discouragement and suicide. Pray that these weapons will not work over our youth any more.
- Let us pray that our youth will no longer make experiments with their lives, saying, “If I do this, what will happen? If I want to have sex, I can protect myself now; I can try smoking like my mates; after all, I am no longer a baby. Why can’t I wear what I like? After all, I have a good figure with long legs...” etc.
- Pray that the hearts of our youth will be shifted to God; that the eyes of their understanding will be enlightened to make the right choice, not the way of the world, in Jesus’ name.
- Ask God to give them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him that makes right choices in life.
