Dear Ones,
Hope you had a great weekend! Tonight is another party and this time it is a supper party for Halloween. Al and I are dressing up like Kansas State fans with KS shirts, (I have earrings to match) and we have a pumpkin lei to wear around our necks. I will need my exercise class this morning so I can eat more tonight. Emoji
Devotions from Judy’s heart
It is exciting that young men are going back to church now and are leading in a shift toward Jesus. A friend just wrote that she is baptizing her son’s friends as young men are seeking meaning and becoming followers of Jesus. Many are Generation Z men who have been lonely, gaming-obsessed, who have believed an ideology that made fun of their masculinity, honor, chivalry and referred to them as toxic males. They felt like they didn’t matter and they needed to apologize for their maleness.  Many boys did not live with their dads who may have been absent in their lives all together. That left them undeveloped in male competitiveness, where everyone is a winner. Relationships with girls ended up being mostly virtual relationships, and boys became obsessed with pornography.

But the Lord is awakening the young men today to their need for Jesus. They no longer want to be caught in the web of toxic masculinity, but want to know what it means to be a man and to be competitive, to date and marry, to protect and have a family, to work hard and to contribute. God used Charlie Kirk’s life and death to inspire young men to find meaning in life, to receive the Lord, and to become mighty warriors for His kingdom.

May our churches be ready for the young men that are coming, searching and want to know the way. J.T. Reeves writes that they need to be introduced to Jesus, not for being a political activist, a culture warrior, or a self-improvement guru, but one who died for them, wants to give them life abundant, meaning and empowerment as men. Welcome those who come, and older men: be mentors to the younger ones and an example of what it means to be a man of God. “For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.’ ” (Isaiah 57:15)

Challenge for today: Pray for the young men who are searching for meaning in life, and be willing to be used of God to show them the way.
Blessings on your week and prayers and love, Judy