Raising a Generation of Revolutionaries

I have been working through Pastor Sergio De La Mora's Book "The Heart Revolution." It is full of rich life impacting stuff and I thought I would share some of it with you.

This generation, our generation, is desperate to make a commitment to help the next generation live out their call. There is a hunger in them to right the wrongs, to stand for those who have fallen, to rebuild what has been broken down, and to display an unquestionable commitment to capture the heart of the next generation. We have a responsibility to re-inspire them to follow Christ by modeling an example marked by truth and faithfulness. They will learn to love God with all their hearts, value the things God values, and make choices each day to follow him in their relationships and desires from watching you and me set the example. That’s why this Heart Revolution is so powerful. You can’t give away something that you don’t first possess. Before it can overflow from you, it must first overtake you.

Most of what we are dealing with today in our families is the result of what the previous generation could not conquer. Poor decisions of past generations can be felt for years, but in the same way, right decisions and right commitments can turn history around for all future generations. In the Bible, Hezekiah took his place as king in a generation that had turned away from God. He saw the devastating effects the past decisions of their ancestors had on their families, and he chose to stand up and lead the revolution:

In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah, having first repaired the doors of The Temple of God, threw them open to the public. He assembled the priests . . . and said, . . . “Our ancestors went wrong and lived badly before God—they discarded him, turned away . . . and walked off . . . This is why our ancestors were killed, and this is why our wives and sons and daughters were taken prisoner and made slaves. I have decided to make a covenant with the God of Israel and turn history around.” (2 Chron. 29:3, 6, 9–10 Message)

God is challenging you to make the same commitment today. The next generation doesn’t have to live as slaves because of the mistakes of their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents. You can take a stand today to change everything. You can choose to rewrite history for the next generation by what you do today.

- Excerpt from The Heart Revolution book by Sergio De La Mora. Purchase your book today from Amazon.com

Daily Devotion

It's not About Jesus

Before you freak out about the title, follow me to the end.

You can take a  look through the New Testament and come to the conclusion that for Jesus, it wasn’t about Him:

He had that attitude coming into the world.
Philippians 2:6-7 
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.


He had that attitude while He was in the world.
Matthew 20:28
The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.


And shockingly, He even has that attitude about when the world ends.
Luke 12:37
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.


Yes, everything is for Jesus’ glory. But Jesus gets His glory by being a servant and a giver.

So the title of this post isn’t what scares, angers, intrigues or confuses you. It’s something deeper than that. Something that you’ve known deep down all your life but haven’t wanted to embrace.
There’s a harder truth to get your mind around and accept than the concept that it can simultaneously be not about Jesus and all about His glory at the same time. And it’s this:

If it wasn’t about Jesus, then it definitely isn’t about you.
Or me. Or anyone. Our selfish desires. Our glory. Our comfort. Our pleasure. Our anything.

If Jesus had every right to say it was all about Him but gave it up and made it about everyone else, then how can we, who don’t have any such right, not do the same?

Your life will only be as great as the impact it makes on the lives of others. And the measure of the impact you make will only be as great as the level to which you understand and embrace the truth that it’s not about you.

That’s hard to accept, but if you do you’ll be in good company.
It wasn’t about Jesus either.