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To: Quix

I would help you out on the survey here bub, but frankly I’d say my family would skew the results. We’re, well, a little sensitive, so to speak, to this type of thing. I’d say that most of my family, including my aunts, uncles and most cousins, are in the 6.5 to 7.5 range normally but lately there’s been a serious ramping up of awareness.

Now, when I say a serious ramping up of awareness, I don’t mean that they’re having visions or dreams or anything like that, but I do mean that the entire family has been having the Holy Spirit stir them up, preparing them to leave. The general message has been “you don’t have time to dither any longer, make sure everything is in preperation and ready.”

Furthermore, several of my younger cousins, some as young as five and six, have been telling, not asking but telling, their parents that they need to be saved and wanting to know what they need to do to make it happen.

Now, I’ll grant you that these children are being raised in Christian families, but two in particular have reported being told by Christ Himself that they needed to be saved if they were going to make it to Heaven to see Him and that there wasn’t time to wait. Both reported, almost word for word from what I was told, that Christ was stressing to them the importance of immediate action and not to delay.

Several of the elders of the Church, men and women who have been Christians for 40 years or more, have said that they’ve never seen the Spirit move with a sense of urgency like this among the children before.

One in particular, who just celebrated the 40th anniversary of his salvation this last Sunday and who’s been involved in the Youth Program since the mid 70’s, reported that it’s obvious that the Holy Spirit is moving with great urgency among the children of the Church because of the sheer numbers of kids coming to salvation and the determination to attain it that they’re showing.

One other point that I’d like to make is that this isn’t an emotional responce to a preacher or a particular sermon, because most of these kids have startled their parents with these requests during the middle of the week when they weren’t in church. I cannot stress enough the level of sheer determination that is showing up in these kids, especially since most are under the age of 10.

Also, these kids aren’t coming to their parents with this information in packs like you’d see if it was an emotional or peer-generated response, but they’re coming in ones and twos. In the last 30 to 60 days,

I’d say that I’ve heard of close to a half-dozen kids coming to Christ for salvation in my family’s church alone, which may have 40 or 50 families that attend at the most. Other churches in the area with which we keep in contact with are reporting the same thing though, so it’s not just one church going through a revival.

Speaking of revival, I’d also like to point out that the current revival that has broken out isn’t like before where the churches would pray for a revival to sweep through and then tried to generate it. This has been completely God generated, with several preachers and pastors stating that they’ve been led by the Spirit, often just moments before delivering a message, to change the topic and preach on the immediate and urgent need for salvation and a return to Christ for those who are back-slidden.

It’s often a coordinated effort on the Spirit’s part, as I’ve seen Sunday School teachers forced by the Spirit to change their lesson plans at the last second and then later hear the preacher, who wasn’t in the Sunday School class and didn’t know of the changes to the lesson plan, do the exact same thing in the pulpit just moments later. I personally saw this happen this weekend and was privilaged to sit under one of the most powerful messages that I’ve ever heard preached, bar none. The message was simple; Jesus Christ can change your life and save your soul from hell, but only if you trust Him and you don’t have time to wait any longer. It was, literally, repent or perish.

If I had to quantify the awareness now, I’d say that the average adult is around the 8.5 - 9.0 range now, but the children are completely off the scale and in a league of their own now. A large part of the reason that the adults are so aware though is because of how adamant and stirred up the children have become.

I’m not trying to diminish the changes in the preaching, because it’s some of the most powerful stuff I’ve ever sat under, but I can’t even begin to describe what is going on with the kids. It’s beyond anything I’ve ever seen before.

804 posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 8:31:24 AM by paladin1_dcs

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