"2010" Will be a Year of Reformation

Make no mistake, 2010 will be a year of reformation. But it will not be without tumult, hardship and a lot of spiritual warfare. As someone recently said; "America has been on a long holiday away from history." I would add that we are now coming home to the cold, hard realities of having to live with the consequences of our actions.

I have been observing over the past year that the Church has moved away from the Bible just as the government has moved away from the Constitution. The Tea Party movement is a response and reaction to the audacity of a government who's actions and spending is out of control. The big story of 2010 will be the emergence of an American renaissance led by this organic Tea Party movement. It remains to be seen how this will affect the 2010 elections but it will definitely be a factor.

But what about the Church? Are we not in the same place? Maybe a better question is; "Is the failure of the Church to offer the Biblical worldview to the American people, the reason for our constitutional failure?" We must remember that the reason we had the Constitution our founders engineered was because we were a people of a Biblical mind and worldview.

Just as we are all wondering what leader(s) will emerge out of the Tea Party movement, the question is what man, woman, or movement will emerge with a message and method to touch a nation in crisis with the Word of God?

I believe we are at a critical tipping point and we are about to see a new generation of young people who are seeing the handwriting on the wall of their world. God has always had a remnant who will stand up in the face of the popular culture and corrupt religious machine like Martin Luther who said;

"Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."

Luther was only 37 when he nailed his 95 Theses on Whittenberg's Church door. But it was God's secret work in his heart as a young man that prepared him to stand the trials and testings that awaited him.

The Holy Spirit has been working and shaping hundreds of thousands of young people to bring forth a new expression, a return to biblical, whole-hearted devotion and righteousness. They are coming with a message of fasting and prayer and have a theology that the Prophets would approve of.

John the Baptist and Jesus appeared in Israel in a time when it was about as bad as it could be politically, economically, and spiritually. But there was a remnant on the ground and we read about in the Bible about how a handful of young people who had been with Jesus changed the world. Yes, the disciples were young and so was Jesus for that matter.

Keep your eyes on the youth who are walking with God. Out of their generation will come forth hope for America.

2010 will be the year when you will see the seeds of a spiritual reformation begin to sprout.