Raising Generations I

Monday 13 February
READ: Isa 61: 1- 4
MORE LESSON: Psa. 145: 4

A dear brother in Christ went to be with the Lord and I was at his wake-keep, where the preacher asked his immediate family to come out for prayer; his wife and son and another young man came out. The young man was a Hausa boy from the Northern part of Nigeria while the man that died was an Easterner, so the preacher re-iterated, 'I want only the immediate family of the man; the wife and the children'. The wife and the son knelt and the young man knelt closely besides them. When the preacher noticed that nobody said anything contrary and the wife and the biological child seemed to agree that the other boy is as much part of the family as they are, he continued the prayer. I was excited by that singular incident and it showed that the departed undoubtedly lived an impactful life. I quickly remembered that when I went to see him in the hospital before he died, it was the young boy that I met with him, taking care of him.
We are called by God to raise generations. This is not just about giving birth and raising biological children. Those that raise generations and repair the desolations do not just live for themselves and their biological children. They are people who take others in and raise them. The man actually went to a village and took a boy that by the reason of the generation he came from wouldn't have had hope in life, and he repaired the desolation of the boy's generation by making the boy to become one of his own children. The only proof that we passed through the earth will eventually be the impact that we make in the lives of men.
Our only excitement in the future will be the memory of the people we have impacted today. Go out of your way to look for human beings to impact. The Bible says, You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven: Matt. 5:14-16 (NKJV). Until you do something in someone's life that makes the person to thank God that a person like you exists, you are not yet light. Being light is about making impact in other people's destinies and giving them hope in life. If you are in a place, and you are not doing anything to raise fellow human beings, you're not light.
Today, raise generations by impacting someone that your existence will make all the difference in their life, destiny and generation forever.

Prayer/Action
* Father, as You helped David to serve his generation, help me to live an impactful life in my generation, in the name of Jesus.
* Father, beginning from my home, raise generations of great people through my life, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father of light and glory, I ask you to fast-forward my miracles this year and cause me to be satisfied early, in the name of Jesus.