I want to see a generation of David’s rise up to defeat this culture’s Goliath. This culture’s Goliath is sexual impurity, the orphan spirit, and the idea that success=money, amongst other things. I want to change this generation. A generation that I even identified with for most of my life. I’m 19 years old and I’ve wanted to be accepted by the ways of this world.

I’ve searched for love in all the wrong places. I’ve searched to fill this emptiness in my heart. I was convinced that compromising my body, my innocence, and my heart would make me lovable, accepted, and significant. The church doesn’t talk about sexual impurity, well WAKE UP CHURCH. For a long time I bought into the lie that “Christians” would CONDEMN me if I ever spoke of such “things”. Why should followers of Christ CONDEMN me? Isn’t that not a characteristic of God’s son. In John 8, Jesus did not CONDEMN the woman caught in adultery. He told her to Go and leave her life of Sin. I want my generation to rise up and shed our old selves and leave our life of Sin. I want to see my generation to know the Father’s LOVE, to understand TRUE LOVE.

I was an orphan, looking for love, acceptance, happiness. I know now that it was never going to be in some boy or even some friend. This love I was looking for was the Father’s love, the love that God embodies. An unconditional love, one that is not measured on how much I perform, the grades I obtain, or how I even look like. I want this generation to realize Ephesians 2:10. I want this generation to realize that we were created in His image, we were wonderfully and fearfully made. We were uniquely made to bring Glory to His name, to be world changers. I want my generation to rise up to this TRUTH and refuse the lies that tell them different.

I bought into the idea that my successes will measure my happiness, this “Get rich or die trying” attitude. I bought into the LIE, that in order for others to love me I would have to PROVE it through my actions. I believed that in order to be accepted in this world, I must follow a certain lifestyle, do certain things, and perform in a certain way. I believed that I needed to be able to earn a lot of money to gain happiness and success. WELL GUESS WHAT. John 16-19. We are sent into this world, but we are NOT APART OF THIS WORLD. THEREFORE, I want to see this generation rise up and start living like they are not apart of this world. If we are not apart of this world we do NOT need Man’s approval, Man’s applause, or Man’s opinion. I want to see my generation walking in the faith of God’s word of Jeremiah 29:11. I want to see my generation to fully trust in the Lord.

I want to see my generation in total surrender, to see them RISE up against injustice, to be the salt and the light, to rise up to their callings, rise up and fulfill the commandment to LOVE one another just as He loved us, to rise up in their identity in Christ. I’m declaring a generation of David’s who will be victorious, I’m declaring a generation of warriors, a generation of extremists, a generation of supernaturalists, a generation of Royalty, and most importantly a generation of Lovers. I want to challenge this generation to RISE up and defeat Goliath…are you ready to rise?