The Lord is hastening His work in His people in these seven years as a pre-emptive strike against the kingdom of darkness… We will be the John 17 Generation who is in complete oneness with God and who fully expresses Him on this earth (John 17). (Issue #8)
In August 2018, the Lord gave Kay-Chong a prophetic dream regarding the young generation that would arise at the End of the Age to wage spiritual warfare in the heavenlies with great power and authority. Unbeknownst to him at that time, God was speaking about the “John 17 Generation” that He is raising up. Over the next few years, the Spirit has brought more clarity and affirmation from others in the Body of Christ about this glorious End-Time generation.
Allow us to recount the dream:
In the dream, Kay-Chong saw young people, especially in Asia, praying with great authority and insight. They prayed primarily from the Scriptures together with the leadership of the Holy Spirit. They were specific and targeted in their prayers because they had insight and understanding from the Lord. This stemmed from a foundation of intimacy with God that was established in their lives.
As they prayed, many ministers of God were lifted high and they soared in the Spirit.
The Lord then lifted these young people to a higher level to see from His perspective, so that they could prophesy with great authority, insight, and understanding. Things began to shift and change when they did so. More than just pushing back darkness, light went forth as they prophesied and turned darkness into light (Isa. 42:16).
Wow!
However, the Spirit also impressed upon his heart that in order to move in this level of authority in prayer and the prophetic, the young people would have to be continually connected to and abiding in Christ. It would not primarily be about giftedness or anointing. Instead, they have to go through a season of preparation because there is a requirement to make themselves ready.
The young people would have to ground themselves in His Word and cultivate a real, deep, and authentic relationship with the Holy Spirit. They would have to wait in God’s presence and stand in His counsel (Isa. 40:31; Jer. 23:18). If they would wait and stand before Him, He promised to mark His word in their heart.
The young people in the dream are the John 17 Generation. There is a process of intentional preparation — these seven years — unto their arising, and this process cannot be hurried!
What Does the John 17 Generation Look Like?
Through His high priestly prayer in John 17, Jesus prophetically declared His and the Father’s heart and plan to raise up a generation of people who will fully express God on this earth. If this is God’s glorious destiny for us in the final hours of human history, we want to see with clarity who He has called us to be!
There are eight aspects of what the John 17 generation will look like and they are found primarily in John 13 – 17. The John 17 Generation will:
1. Walk in the fullness of the glory that Jesus had as the Son of Man while He walked on the earth (Jn. 17:22). They will be a generation who moves powerfully in the prophetic, the supernatural, the angelic, and the spirit realm, and they will have the character and maturity to carry the anointing of God. They will literally possess the glory of God and this will be evident to people around them (Isa. 60:1–3).
Wow!
2. Walk in deep intimacy and union with the Trinitarian God (Jn. 14:20). They will know the Father and the Son, and the eternal life of God will be manifest in and through them (Jn. 17:3). Because the life of God is the light of men, they will be the light in the midst of the greatest darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome them (Isa. 60:1–3; Rev. 12:11). They will be the ones who have the testimony of Jesus flowing out of their relationship with God.
3. Be the holy and righteous ones who walk on the Highway of Holiness (Jn. 17:16). From partaking of the superior pleasures of knowing God, they will live lives of total consecration and radical obedience in the fear of the Lord, and the world will have nothing in them.
4. Be the vessels and conduits of God who carry His glory, authority and power, manifest His presence, express His love, and do the greater works (Jn. 13:34–35; 14:12; 17:18; Isa. 60:1–3; Zech. 8:23).
5. Be one with the Trinitarian God and, as a result, be one with one another (Jn. 17:21). They will be one in spirit, heart, and values as a result of each being one with God. This oneness will transcend nationalities, cultures, and different ministry assignments and roles.
6. Know the Father’s love for them (which is the same love that the Father has for Jesus) and be rooted and grounded in this immeasurable love (Jn. 17:23; Eph. 3:16–19). Experiencing the extravagant love of God for them gives them strength to lay down their lives for God and for one another.
7. Have the Father’s love for Jesus imparted into their hearts (Jn. 17:26). This will empower them to love Jesus with the same measure and intensity of love as the Father loves Him. This fiery love will be supernatural and cannot be quenched by the floods of persecution.
8. Be perfect and mature in Christ (Jn. 17:23; Eph. 4:13). They will possess the full stature of Christ and be mature in character, values, and understanding.
What a glorious set-apart people God is raising up at the End of the Age! This John 17 Generation will partner with Him to advance His kingdom here on earth unto His Second Coming.
However, more than just seeing with clarity, we want to enter into the reality of being the John 17 Generation, especially at the end of these seven years of preparation.
How do we do so?
God’s Blueprint to Become the John 17 Generation
The Holy Spirit highlighted John 13 to 17 (also known as the “Upper Room Discourse”) as His divine blueprint for us to engage Him unto becoming the John 17 Generation. Even though these chapters were written 2000 years ago, they contain deep treasures for the End-Time generation. In fact, they contain hidden truths that the Holy Spirit is unravelling in a fresh way for us to prepare ourselves in this hour!
Chapters 13 to 16 contain more than 20 promises, instructions, and truth that we can engage the Lord with in prayer. As we allow the Spirit to take what belongs to Jesus and declare it unto our hearts, a progressive transformation will occur. We will undergo a “metamorphosis” unto becoming this promised generation (Jn. 16:13–15; 2 Cor. 3:18)! We will carry the glory of the Triune God and shine forth in the midst of deepest darkness! We will fully express the nature, character, and power of the Triune God perfectly as Christ’s Body!
Hallelujah! How rich the glory of His inheritance in the saints!
Engaging God in this Revelation 3:20 Moment
Without a shadow of a doubt, what Jesus declared in John 17 will come to pass. However, whether each one of us is part of this End-Time move of God depends on whether we individually believe, fully embrace, and diligently engage Him in this Revelation 3:20 moment and in the sanctification process.
We have to consecrate ourselves unto becoming this people.
We fully embrace by fully believing and throwing ourselves wholeheartedly towards pursuing His end goal for us, and immersing ourselves in diligent and intentional preparation. To be that unprecedented John 17 Generation is glorious and a great privilege, but it requires us to totally surrender our lives to the Lord as the Owner of our lives and the Author of our destinies.
Will we do so in response?
Our Confidence in Preparation
It has always been God’s desire for His people to step into our fullness. However, only one generation will attain it — the generation at the End of the Age. Whether it’s the “John 17 Generation, the “David Generation”, the “Daniel 11:32–33 People”, the “Gideon’s Army”, or the “Finest Generation” etc., God is so zealous for our fullness that He has spoken about this generation through these various names. While these names emphasise and focus on different aspects of the End-Time generation, they speak about the same group of set-apart people that the Lord is raising up in the final hours of human history.
What zeal He has for our fullness!
Thus, even when we choose to respond to this invitation, our confidence is this: our Father is the One who has ordained our story and Jesus, our Chief Intercessor, is making intercession for His people to step into our spiritual, relational, and supernatural fullness. He who has begun this good work will surely bring it to completion.
May we cast off every weight and every snare that easily entangles us and spare no effort in pressing in, until we enter into this glorious destiny that the Father has lovingly prepared for us!
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