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         (Dad:) God has no grandchildren! Each generation has to decide for itself to drop out to be a part of the Revolution, to lay down their lives for what they believe in. Once we've done all that we can in training, teaching and pouring into them during their growing years, then it's time for them to make the decision, and it's time for us to let the Lord work in their lives.
         You're still their shepherds and you still need to do all that you can to help pull them through, but the battle changes. It becomes their responsibility, just like I said in "The Spiritual Warfare Depends on Us!" It shifts from being your responsibility to help them and shield them and feed them the Word and pull them through, to it being their responsibility to make those decisions, so that the Lord can help them win the victory.
         That's what some of our younger generation need to see. They're our second generation physically, but they shouldn't be spiritually. They should be first generation in spirit! Every new generation has to have its own direct link and hotline to the Lord, and it can't lean on that of the last generation! So our kids have to stand on their own two feet.
         Even though they were born into the Family and have been part of it all their lives, they can't just depend on that. It can be a temptation for them to get so familiar with the Lord and the ways of the Spirit and the New Wine that they're no longer desperate or fighting, and the Enemy can really get in then. They have to fight personally, individually, for their connection with the Lord! They have to have desperation and dedication in their hearts that what they believe is worth fighting for and giving up everything for, and even dying for!
         Once they see that, then they're going to go to the Word themselves. It won't be so difficult to give things up that they're asked to give up, or to make the changes that they need to, because they'll really believe that they're doing it for the Lord and that it's going to be worth it!



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