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This is the year! The year to turn the world upside down, to step into everything God has called you to be.
This is the year where our young adult community will turn the world upside down with counter-culture confessions. The year we speak hope into hopeless situations, living by faith and not by sight. We are those with a hope for the future, those living for something so much bigger than just ourselves.
Jesus himself came to turn the world as we know it upside down. In John 2 we see Jesus walking into the temple and breaking all tradition – breaking religion & breaking mind-sets as he turned over the tables in the temple. Jesus was done with religion. He had a counter-culture mindset, opposing what people of those days thought was ‘regular life’. He came to establish a house of prayer, where people can put their hope & faith in the Father, the creator of everything, the giver of life. We can now confess that what will take us years to try and achieve, Jesus himself has overcome in just 3 days.
What I love about this story is that Jesus actioned a counter-culture confession; a prophetic word that turned the world as it was known upside down. He doesn’t just confess that He is the overcomer, but also puts action to his words – and overcomes.
The life of Jesus was the ultimate gift of hope as he declares not just His death as the answer, but the power of His resurrection. This is what will stand true. He has overcome death.
This is the foundation of our counter-culture confessions: Jesus the hope of humanity. With this hope for the future we can be young adults crazy enough to believe that we can change the world, knowing with Jesus we probably will – this is our declaration.
Wessel Coetzee – Hillsong South Africa Powerhouse Young Adults Pastor