Beginning in the summer of 2015, I have been repeatedly coming back to a meditation on Luke 23:28-31. Jesus’ words were addressed to women. These women were weeping as he was carrying his cross to the crucifixion hill. He told them to not to weep for him—not to mourn for him, but instead to weep for themselves and for their children.

The impact of this hit me as I was in the prayer room of International House of Prayer listening to the singers doing a lament on the Lord’s death on the cross and yet extolling the majesty of his triumphant sacrifice. I clearly felt the passion of the weeping women and that passionate love for my Lord and His passionate love for my children came flooding into me.

Then I began to feel the import of Jesus’ admonition to weep. I cried out for grace for all of us Mothers to carry out our weighty responsibility to this generation to impart to them the truth of God our Father and to lift up His Eternal Son Jesus to them. I wept before the Lord for grace to awaken this generation to Jesus Christ, the true Life. The Lord Jesus should be their hot pursuit in these increasing dark days on this earth.

My heart still weeps for our sons and our daughters to be aroused to choose Jesus and His life-infused power. Their choice must be made before the pandering, hypnotic power of evil overtakes their hearts. When the Anti-christ spirit has the nations in his grip, when the Christ Himself returns for the final battle, then it will be too late for choice.

Mothers and Fathers! Do you weep in this realization? Do you press in to prevail in fervent prayer for our children, our sons and daughters, our grandchildren? Are we fully awakened to the choice looming dead ahead for this generation—for our cherished children?