December
23, 2001
CHILDREN TRAPPED IN A MAZE
I
saw the vision of a giant maze designed like some of the gardens that are often
found in Europe. Inside that maze, there was a group of men and women.
It was impressed to me they are
our children running to and fro, lost and trying to look for a way out. There
was a dazed look in the face of some while others looked tired and were wearing
tattered clothes.
PARENTS WATCHING HELPLESSLY
Outside
of the maze, seated on bleachers, I saw another group of people watching with
anxious looks and anxiety on their faces. These are the parents who, from a
distance, saw what was happening to their children. They were anxious for they
felt that there seemed to be nothing they could do to help their children.
GOD'S MANDATE TO MOSES
After
these visions, I heard spoken in my heart these words that God
instructed
Moses to speak to Pharoah. ". . . . Let my people go . . . ."
(Exodus
5:1)
VISION
EXPLAINED:
There
is coming against us an attack which will target especially our
children. Many parents will find themselves being faced with situations and
circumstances involving our children, where
we will see our children going
through a season of struggle and difficulty symbolized by the maze.
The
maze can represent many things. It could refer to struggles with
vices and addictions or wrong habits and attitudes. It could be matters of
relational problems with spouses or parents or peers, or it could be a quest
about finding one's identity. It could even refer to finding their ministry
place
in the body.
Like
the parents seated from a distance on the bleachers, we, too, will see
it all but somehow will not be able to do anything to directly help them.
Like Hannah leaving the child Samuel in God's house and Abraham offering
Isaac at the altar, we too are called to offer them totally
to God, to release
them freely for whatever work or ministry that
God is calling them into and to
trust that He is at work in each of their lives.
OUR
CALL FOR THIS SEASON
There
is a call for all Christian parents to stand together this day and to speak the
same words that Moses spoke to the spiritual pharoah who is holding captive many
of our children and is trying to hold many more.
STANDING
ON OUR AUTHORITY
As
Christian parents, we have that authority and that mandate to declare to our
enemy to "Let our children go."
TAKING
OUR PLACE
"Heavenly
Father, we thank You for the authority that was given to us by Jesus. Your words
declare that whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever we
release on earth will be released
in heaven.
This
day, therefore, we the parents, declare together, and we say to the spiritual
pharoah who is holding captive and who is trying to hold captive our children,
to release them and to let them go. We expose all the lies that you are throwing
to them, and we speak truth and light to the situations that they are facing. We
thwart all your future plans against them and even now
we declare these plans and strategies to be null and void.
We
thank You for the power of the blood of Jesus shed at Calvary for His blood is
sufficient to break any curses, vices, lies, and all other negative forces that have come and come against our
children.
We
declare Christ’s victory to all of our children. We speak God's freedom upon
them. We know that they will be Victors in Christ for we know that You, O Lord,
will honor our prayers and grant us the desires of our hearts which is to see
our children enter into the place and walk in the destiny which You have
prepared for them.
We
release each one of our children to Your care for as much as we love them, we
know that You love them more.
Thank
You Father for the great and mighty works that will be birthed in each of our
children's lives.
All
these we speak in Jesus Christ’s authority and name. Amen!"
Blessings,
Sis.
Ching Co
Cebu City
Philippines