The time of youth is unique significantly and is laden with immense opportunities, lots of excitements and expectations. It is indeed and undoubtedly so, time for life changing and damming decisions because whatever you cannot correct as a youth, you definitely must live with as adult. One of the many traits of this time of life is that “flash like” quickness in close parity with the excitement and exuberance which often destroy visions of unsuspecting ones to predestinate them into regrettable liabilities as adults.
“In every youth, God sees potentials”
When God’s looks at every youth, he sees a potential he is hoping to use in fulfilling his divine plans. His thoughts to raise overcomers willing to subscribe to his high price then becomes a matter of choice. Those who waste the precious time of youth do so at their own perils while those who face the challenges associated get to be champions by all standards.
This timeless book by the power of the Holy Spirit is to open all eyes to the realities of all that is encapsulated as inevitable battles, trials and chapters every youth must face to graduate as positively charged adult that will impact the world fulfilling divine purpose.
“Time of youth is the time of vision, strength and revelation”
The Bible vividly describe the time of youth as the time of vision in Joel 2:28. Visions caught at this significant time translate to great dreams while those neglected becomes a nightmare. God has endowed the young with the grace to see ahead of them into His infinite plans. Those in the Bible and post
Bible times who dare to pursue their visions according to God’s will for them became livinproofs. Catch your vision while you can before it becomes too late. Get revelation before you get too busy. You either grow spiritually or be wasted. A lot of people are spiritually asleep like the patriarch Abraham in Genesis 15 who slept off by his offering, you don’t sleep in the affairs of the world, you don’t go to football march, movies, or night parties and become sharp to spiritual things, it dulls you. Don’t get me wrong, there is the need to get involved in these but never give them priority above spiritual things because it will be at your own peril. Rather, you can improve on these if you shake yourself from spiritual stupor. You are asleep when you are at ease in the middle of what could destroy you. Things like drugs, illicit sex, hanging out with the wrong crowd will cripple you revelation and alter your course as aspiring youths. When you are awake to your responsibilities your life then becomes a testimony as you become a pace setter and environmental turn arounder.This is what defines vision which enables you to carve a niche for yourself with your deeds and names outliving you.
It is also a time according to Apostle John in 1 John 2:13-14 of strengths which if well employed like David, Joseph, Esther and Daniel will defeat all suppressing pressures against the fulfillment of lofty dreams. Whatever you cannot overcome as a youth, you may have to live with for the rest of your life. If you compare a youth with a well directed strength to another who dissipated the chances on irrelevant things, you will discover the difference because it takes hardness to achieve greatness so every youth with vision gets tough on themselves while those who do otherwise end up at best as average.
“ Therefore endure hardness as a good soldiers of Jesus Christ.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life;
That he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier”
2Timothy 2vs.3
All the youths we shall be examining in this book really took time on themselves and they got better results for it. They were not pleasure seekers or those who would sell their birthright for a morsel; neither were they playboys or clappers and jumpers to obscenities. They had vision of a good life with the thought of better life for others. It is also a time of revelation because “..The word of the lord abideth in you” according to 1 John 2. In fact it is the most vital time in life because the color of the future will be determined by the events of this most precious time- The time of the youth.
I sincerely pray that every reader both young and old get the desired encounter as they explore and unearth the mysteries behind the uniqueness of the most important era of life – the time of the youth.
I also pray all will have the testimony of the psalmist
“For you have been and my hope, O
Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth. By thee I have been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.”
PS. 71:5, 6, 17.
You saw my body as it was formed.
All the days planned for me
were written in your book
before I was one day old.
Ps 139:16
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