THE KINGDOM YOUTH GROUP

THE KINGDOM YOUTH GROUP

Well meaning youth leaders wear themselves out with the games, parties, trips to the bowling alley, movie night, hiking, roller skating, plays and the list of activities, never ends. Extra curricular activities will never build a kingdom youth group. Giving the outer man something to do, by way of entertainment has nothing to do with My kingdom. You must build a kingdom youth from the inside out. Notice I said, a kingdom youth, not a group. You must introduce each one to My Holy Spirit. It all starts with My Spirit having charge of their inner man.  I will pour out my spirit upon your sons and your daughters and they shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions:" Joel 2:28 KJV 

Without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you are forced to use entertainment as a means to keep them coming back. The entertainment becomes and end in itself it looses it drawing power. So a vicious cycle begins, and each time it has to be bigger, better, more exciting, and more expensive, to manufacture a new high! And when you run out of money, energy and ideas, they go somewhere else. That's carnal flesh trying to come up with ways to get kids to Me. It's a form of religion for the young, which denies the power. 

Once you get one teenager filled with My Spirit, you have something to build on. "For those who are living according to the flesh and are controlled by its carnal desires, and they set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are filled with My Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit and they set their minds, on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Spirit." Romans 8:5 AMP

After the in-filling of My spirit, a kingdom leader will direct them outward, toward the lost, this is where the kingdom flourishes, out where the sinners are! Any group of believers directed inward will end in strife, fueled by competition, and criticism. When you turn a group in on themselves, they become infected with personal agendas, bringing division, "For as long as there is envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among them, they are unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men" 1 Corinthians 3:3 AMP

Talent, talent, talent, you must never build a group around talent. People with talent must always fight, ego, and pride, very often giving them a competitive spirit. In the beginning it's all about us, but soon it turns to, five or ten saying, it's all bout Me. Do not build a group around sports, or music, or drama, but build it around setting captives free.  The outward look will, keep them depending on Me not their talent. Note here a wrong belief in the western mindset; Actions, and objects are no longer anointed under the new covenant, only people! Music may be inspired but not anointed, services and words, and messages may be inspired but not anointed. People are anointed, and all anointing is outward. My Father anointed Me with the Holy Ghost and with power: and I went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for My Father was with Me." Acts 10:38 KJV

The anointing is where My Father is, when you say you are anointed it means "the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and YOU are anointed to preach the gospel to the poor; to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, [19] To preach of My return." Luke 4:18-19 KJV When you understand this kingdom principle your youth group will transform into My army. Yes they may sing, and play and dance beautifully, but they will never do it to entertain, or seek to win a Dove award, but always and only to glorify Me, and with the full expectation that the walls will come down, and another battle will be won.

If you are always interested in how you sound, or look, you are an entertainer, wanting to sound good and look good for the people. I could care less about vocal cords, I listen to their heart strings as they "sing aloud unto Me the God their strength: it's a joyful noise unto Me and I love it." Psalm 81:1 KJV The human ear enjoys perfect pitch, My ear enjoys you being in perfect harmony with your kingdom purpose. I love to inhabit the praises of My people and as My presence enters every chain is broken by the anointing that rests on you!

Always build your group from the inside out, and always facing outward and you will have a kingdom army, not a youth group needing a babysitter.