Generation Axis

As I stood in the front during altar at a service at our church just a few short weeks ago, God began to speak to me.

You know me well enough by now to know that I don’t frivolously say that God spoke to me. But I can tell you with 100% certainty that He spoke to me.

As I stood praying in that altar service, I begin to feel drops of water. Not forceful, but consistent. I was hit with probably 5 drops of water. In 5 different places I felt these drops almost as if someone was flicking water at me.

In all honesty, my first thought was that someone was praying too close and spit was spraying out of their mouth. But as I peeked to see if that was the case, nobody was there. And then there was the different locations of the drops of water. Through my suit coat, through my dress shirt, I could feel these drops of water on my skin.

Before I could even really open my mouth to ask God what it meant, He begin to tell me.

“What you have experienced as a youth group up until this point is merely the sprinkling of rain before the torrential downpour”

Axis, we have seen God do incredible things. We have seen God answer prayers that seemed to be impossible. We have seen God encounter us as we sought to encounter Him. We have felt His presence. We have experienced Him in our services. We have seen some awesome stuff.

But everything that we have experienced so far, as awesome as it is, is just a drop or two of water compared to what God is going to do in our group. That is not to downplay what He has already done, but show us the magnitude of what He is about to do!

God has big things in store for Axis in 2012! I believe that this is going to be an incredible year for us. I believe that this is the year that we will turn Richmond upside down! I believe this is the year that your schools will be forever changed.

I believe that this is the year that we have been waiting on!

Don’t give up! Don’t quit trying to get closer to God! Don’t allow yourself to be distracted! Commit to this life!

I can hear the thunder in the distance…I can see the clouds turning darker…I can hear the wind picking up…..

It’s about to rain!