We Must Stand Against This Ugly Spirit Targeting Our Youth by STEVE REES for Charisma News
In what may be a first for Colorado and the nation, students attending a youth conference were baptized at the state Capitol in Denver, where pastors and ministry leaders placed a corrugated metal trough just below the office window of Gov. Jared Polis.
Just as teens and adults stepped into the water on two consecutive afternoons, the sky over Denver poured torrential rain that soaked candidates enough to qualify as baptism. But mere sprinkling of new believers or people returning to the Lord in Denver was only the beginning; they were then fully immersed in water and raised to new life—to the sounds and sights of cheers and cameras.
People making these commitments were dunked during the three-day youth conference, which included 60 hours of continual prayer and worship as well as equipping students for ministry outreach by charismatic leaders Lou Engle, Gary Black and Chad Dedmon.
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Those who received ministry from the students followed them to the Capitol for worship and baptism, and still others were drawn by the sounds and sights of music and dance declaring, “Jesus is the standard.”
Depression, unforgiveness, addiction, abuse, pornography, comparison, anxiety, gender neutrality and a sexual agenda directed at youth are not standards worthy of their generation, said Shannon Clark.
The ministry Clark leads, The Standard, hosted the conference with assistance from Youth With A Mission (YWAM), pastors and churches from Denver to Colorado Springs, in praying for and ministering to students hungry for hope and direction.
The Standard’s prophetic name and mission mirrors the words of Isaiah 59:19, which reads: “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”
Broken by suicide and mass shootings across the nation, Clark told the Lord she would begin in Colorado and then raise The Standard wherever he leads. She believes the Lord spoke to her in a prophetic dream, saying, “The Standard is for the nation.”
Declaring Jesus is the standard against a spirit of suicide targeting youth, Clark opened the conference by asking students: “How many of you know somebody who has attempted suicide, or who has committed suicide?”
