Generational Alignment

There is a coming Apostolic order this generation is going to be a part of that will change the whole face of the way the church in America looks like. It is coming because God is bringing the church into generational alignment.

Its' a return of a true Biblical understanding of the importance of spiritual fathers/children. I realize there has been some teaching along these lines in years past called the Shepherding movement, but this is not some goofy teaching by wacked people for wacked people…the truth is…you are here because you have a mom & dad!

Any man and women can produce a kid/only a father and mother can produce a son or daughter that will benefit society in a positive way! Some people make great coaches; but when the coaching session is over, its a parent that takes information given to a child and works with the child until the child gets it.

Paul told the Corinthian church though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet you have not many fathers. Since 1996 there has been a consuming desire in me to see generational alignment come to the Body of Christ worldwide. Most everywhere I go (I said most, not everywhere) I find myself in the middle of the strangest and most heartbreaking battle I have ever been a part of: generational warfare.

It seems that many people over 50 years of age absolutely hate everyone less than 50 years of age…and vise versa! I realize there has always been a generational gap. But never in my 48 years of living on planet earth have I seen the gap so wide and the rhetoric so strong.

I got saved as a Baptist kid in the mid 70's…grew up in a very religious family but we were simply a southern gospel singing family. In 1977 God called me to preach and I began to move away from that entertainment southern gospel mindset. I began to grow somewhat in my walk with Christ…but because I didn't have anyone I could really call a spiritual father…no one to speak into my life…no one to show me the Biblical need to be planted in a local body of believers…teach me how to pray, how to study…what TO study what NOT to study…my spiritual life was weak and anemic at best.

Then in 1986 because of a series of events in mine & Pam's personal life we settled in an AG church in Lanett Alabama. And over the process of time God supernaturally connected me with the man who would become my spiritual father. He will never be on TBN and may never write a book (although he could write a book); this man made a fatherly impression on my life; he not only told me stuff…he showed me! He made me realize I must pass on what I have to someone else. We really didn't realize what we had…a relationship of a spiritual father/son until a few years ago.

The Bible is a book about family: Church is all about family: both natural family and spiritual family! Its not about building buildings and monuments to men, movements and denominations: it about us as spiritual fathers and mothers raising you up into the image of Jesus so you can go out and do the same thing!!!!!

God is placing in the hearts of men and women all across America the desire to see people raised up into the image of Jesus that HE wants you to be to continue the generational alignment that will bring forth the next Great Awakening!

You don't get to chose who your parents are…or what country you are born in: but you can chose this day your destiny by following in the footsteps of the people God has chosen to bring a generational alignment into your life!

Every generation has thought they could do it better than the generation before them! But because we have only focused on breaking generational curses and never focused on speaking and imparting the generational blessing, every generation feels like they need to re-invent the wheel when it comes to ministry…

From the eons of time Malachi screams the last words God speaks before 400 years of silence from Him "…behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Mal 4: 5,6

I AM ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED TO KEY TO THE NEXT GREAT AWAKENING WILL ACCELERATE AS WE GET OURSELVES INTO GENERATIONAL ALIGNMENT…WITH THE PEOPLE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN ALIGNMENT WITH!!!!!!!!!

2 thoughts:

1. Each generation must know its place and responsibility.

Again, the Bible is a book about family…

God came to the earth, God chose a man, that man became a family, that family became a nation that nation birthed the redeemer of all mankind that has touched and will touch every nation on the planet with His name and His Kingdom!

You cannot buy into this, you cannot join this…you cannot sow a seed to earn this…

YOU MUST BE BORN INTO THIS FAMILY!!!!!!! John3: 3

Generational alignment and responsibility is not just meant to bring correction…but also BLESSING!!!!! Over the last 25 years or so Spirit filled movement has focuses on breaking generational curses, but few have spoke on the need for generational blessing! The vast majority of our students who are raised in Spirit filled churches leave God, and the church when they go off to college: WHY?

We've asked them to buy into a man made structure when they needed a spiritual father and mother! We invited them to let us coach them when they needed someone to nurture them with love and blessing; and not talk with them only when they needed correction.

In Bible days the sons and daughters lived for the day when Daddy would die. Not just so they could grab the cash and the goods and run; they lived for the time when Daddy would gather them around the bedside and speak a final blessing over their lives. I word that would guide them, encourage then and sustain them through difficulty.

They lived for the generational blessing!

So the question is really more than a popular clique': Whose ya Daddy???????????

2. Voice of your spiritual parents will make something jump inside you!

I great up in a family that put fun in dysfunction! But in spite of our dysfunction as a child, when I knew Daddy was coming home or heard his voice unexpectantly come in the house, SOMETHING JUMPED INSIDE MY HEART!!!!!!

The voice of your spiritual father and mother will produce love…(because it comes from the Fathers love)…peace…joy…

It will be the voice of correction at times, and the voice of instruction in others.

But the voice of your spiritual father and mother will ALWAYS draw you to the fruit of the Spirit being developed in your life!!!