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Growing Up is Hard to Do - part 2 of 3 It is time to grow up. Has the kingdom been put on hold? God is waiting for the mature. He needs people who can walk in His authority. This church needs submitting, faithful people who will take their role and position in the family of God. Enough of this “I need love” talk. Babies need love. Adults give love. Babies need instruction. Adults have instruction. Babies have needs. Adults meet needs. Babies need prayer. Adults pray. Babies borrow. Adults own. Babies cry. Adults overcome. Babies whine. Adults profess. One hundred years ago there was no such thing as the social class of “teenagers.” America has created them with the increase of education. Before the nineteen hundreds, these young men and women would be trained for their lives: jobs, ownership, mothers, and fathers. There are six human needs: 1. Today those natural needs of authority are put on hold until after education, so they rebel against authority. 2. The fathers and mothers do not meet those natural needs for affection and attention, so they are met by fornication. 3. Teenagers get their approval from peers through drugs and alcohol because they are constantly told what they do wrong and not what they do right. 4. They have no affiliation with their families so they seek it out by joining gangs, clubs at school, and clicks. 5. They are not taught about anointing so they find it in the occult and worshipping the earth. Here is the problem: we have adults in the church who have never grown up. Adults still hold the teenage mentality. Do we want to go on? Would we get very upset if the pastor would say, “I can’t help you today?” Have we lost the friendship and the fear of our God, how since the Garden of Eden He has wanted to meet our needs? Where is the maturity in our lives? There is the story of a young man who lost time in his spiritual maturity. He took on the teenage mentality for five years and that held him up from what God wanted for his life. The signs: He went from straight A’s to straight B’s in high school. He began holding resentment and unforgiveness. He began seeking ways to fit in and succeeded. At times he would buck the authority of teachers and parents. One day, this young man had an encounter with God. His home was turned upside down. He finally decided to move on, but he was like a child trying to see over the heads of taller people. There were a lot of big heads in the way. He gave up the resentment and unforgiveness. He didn’t care if he fit in anymore. He once and for all submitted to the natural and spiritual authority in his life. He was delivered and set free and the five years the enemy had stolen were given back. Our goal should be to make the decision and fight the teenage mentality out of our lives. God did not design us to be teenagers. He designed children to become adults. Children need to be trained. Adults are trained. -Pr. S. Chad Ross April Newsletter 2005 | Revival We Need | Revering the Truth | Pastor's Journal April 2004 Growing Up Is Hard to Do part 2 of 3 | The Suddenlies of God part 1 of 3 |
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