Responding to God's Supernatural Call With Faith

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Our Bible. Hold it up. We're going to declare who

we are. Are you ready?

Let's do it. This is my Bible. It is the

standard I live my life by. I am a spirit

filled believer, sustained by my personal relationship with the Lord,

empowered by my commitment to community and express throughout reach

to others. Therefore, I can say and uh, all right, hey,

turn your bulletin over. We're going to complete this segment

of the Blessed Life. We've been looking at life in

our home. We're going to complete that today. What have

we talked about, Well, we started this about a month

ago with aim for restoration, and we had different ones

participate actually shooting their bows up here, and they did

a great job hitting the target.

So you've got to aim at it. Are you with me?

It's not something you just stumble until you've got to aim.

And then Pastor Mike where one of our overseers. He

and his wife Jeannie were here and they did an

excellent job.

And Mike with his humor, they spoke.

Then we looked at communication, we looked at commitment. So

those are other subjects. The message from last week will

be on the app later today. If you've been looking

for that. Now where we headed. Let me give you

some just direction of what's going on. On Wednesday nights,

we have all our discipleship classes and it's a lot

of fun. So if you're not here, have it. Come

on Wednesday, come check out a class. There's options for you.

Next week is Mother's Day and I know the ladies

and the team. They've been working on all kinds of

things to give out, from scripture to candy. How about that,

ladies chocolate? Yeah, chocolate, Miss Charling and Skittles. So what

did the guys get?

Nothing? Okay, Father's Day. It's gonna be a fun day.

So all the ladies, it doesn't matter if your mother not,

Every lady, every little girl in the house is going

to be honored. Now write this date down, the sixteenth,

that's a week from this Wednesday. I'm going to bring

some friends in from Ohio, some dear friends, Pat and

Jackie Murray, We've been real good friends now for about

twelve years I think, and we participate in significant church

working on that. So we're together several times a year.

Awesome family. Just they live the life. They're the real deal.

And about seven eight years ago, they were in a

really severe accident where they both should have been killed. Okay,

he ended up with his back broken in this. He

was supposed to never walk again. She had brain trauma

and she's an argan donor, and they kept the coolers

by her bed to harvest her argans because the doctor

said she wouldn't live well. Jesus visited them both in

separate rooms and healed her. Bam touched her. He visited her,

and she'll share some of the things the Lord actually

told her. Touched him, and I mean they put all

these rods and stuff in his back to try to help.

Touched him. We're going to go cycling together on Thursday. Okay,

he stands straight. It's like when you look at him,

the picture of health. So remember the scripture revelation. The

testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. What Jesus

did for them he wants to do again. So if

you need a touch in your body. You know someone

that does. Bring them here? Get over all the other stuff.

Why don't someone to know of this, Get over all

that phony baloney. I need touches from I'm come normally

pray time I'm down here. I want someone to pray

with me. We all have need.

Are you with me?

So come and they're gonna tell their story. We're gonna

bring all the classes together. We're trying to do an

awakening service every three months. They're gonna tell this story.

Then I'm gonna let them lay hands on people and

pray for people. They have great compassion, and so it's

gonna be on the sixteenth. This is gonna be a fun,

fun night.

Amen.

And then on the twentieth, two weeks from today. I've

asked Angela Mentor and her husband Pornell to come and share.

It just worked out that Sunday works for them. Angela

runs the only pro life organization in our state that

really ministers at the one abortion clinic that's left. Now,

please hear my heart on this. Okay, If anyone has

had an abortion, God's a healer and he heals you.

And then but I'm telling you, listen to me. We

can pray for revival. We can pray for awakening, but

until the children are stopped being sacrificed on the altar

of bail, it's not coming. Did you hear me, It's

not coming. So we have to pray for this to stop.

I know there's still illegal things that would take place,

but if we're legally killing children, I don't know if

you realize the awfulness of it. And I worked down

there at this clinic last year for a week with

Angeline different ones, so her testimony is powerful, very eloquent

when she speaks, We participate in her banquets and so forth.

I want you to watch this little video so you

can kind of see what they do in the spirit

of excellence that she does day with a team of

ladies down at that abortion meal.

And they don't wanna hear anything you have to say,

and so we really have to be empathic listeners and

enter into their world to really try to see what

they are dealing with. The mission of Sisters for Life

is to act as an advocate for the preborn babies

and their mothers and fathers to find themselves faced with

the crisis or unplanned pregnancy. We do side while counseling

Tuesday through Saturday, and we make sure that women and

men that come into that abortion mill at the MW

understand that they do UH have another choice available to them,

and that the Lord loves them, and that He's got

a plan and purpose UH for their life and for

their baby's life, and that there's much help available. And

in addition to them that we are called by God

to advocate for godly family values. We believe that God

had it right and he said marriage he p is

between a man and a woman, and UH that parents

are to raise their children and the fear and the

admonition of the Lord. And so our goal with Sisters

for Life is to make sure that we do our

part and sin that families are able to carry out

that eternal plant. We are called to carry out our

mission by raising the awareness of the effect that abortion

is having UH on the community as a whole, on

the country as a whole, but the African American community

in particular. And so one of the ways that we

do that is through our weekly radio broadcast. When you

think of the UH over three thousand babies that are

killed UH every day every day UH through abortion on

the altar of choice and inconvenience, and how many people

that are not talking about that particular issue and have

no idea that that's even happening. So we have a

responsibility to share that information. The African American community is

being ravaged by abortion and people aren't talking about or

we're being that voice. You know, somebody's got to say.

You know, the truth of God's word has not changed.

Laws have changed, but the truth of God's word has

not changed. God has raised up Sisters for Life as

the only organized black pro life organization in the Commonwealth

of Kentucky, to be a voice to speak up for

the pre one babies, to speak up for the mothers

and the fathers, but to also speak up for the

Black community, and to say we need to stop killing

our babies. We have to stop killing our babies. Sisters

for Life exist because God has called us to this work.

He wants us to let these mothers know that He

loves them. He loves their babies. That's why he gave

the son Jesus, and we believe it. As we helped them,

the mothers and their babies, we will see the glory

of God manifest.

And the saved is profound when you hear her testimony,

she and her husband and how they got saved and

the journey they had to go through because she's had

two abortions. That was before she knew the Lord, even

though it was wrong. And she is changing the complexion

of Louisville by the stand she's making. Everybody wants to

use the Lord. But I tell you what, this is

a real battle. Now. I want you to know that's

a hero of mine. Did you hear me? That is

a hero. No, they're not throwing a ball or catching

or this or that. But someone she sent me a

text other she said, brother, Mark, we just saved two babies,

you know, And it just brings tears to my eyes

because this must be addressed. If we're going to have

a move of God. Now we can do all the

other things. Well, I wish this would happen, This would happen,

this change wish. That's all fine, And we can use

all our time just moving the chest pieces around of

how we want God to do things or what she

would do it this way. But until we get onto

the heartbeat of God, do you hear me? Church?

Please the heartbeat of God.

He hates the shedding of innocent blood, the blessing of

God will not fully fall now. The prayers of the

saints and the sacrifices that people are making now is

what's sustaining God's judgment.

It really is.

What if Kentucky would be the first abortion for his state,

I think, yeah, come on, yeah, And I'm not making

light of any of the circumstances that led to that

pregnancy and all that we understand. It's complicated. But until

they know there are other options, because that is a child,

as a quote by Ronald Reagan said, he said, appears

to me the only ones that are for abortioned have

already been born. If you were in the womb, you

would not before abortion. That's simple. And so God has

a plan and he wants to do something great a Kentucky. Well,

these are things. Look when I'm here on Monday morning,

that's what I'm praying for. Yes, I'm praying for each

one of our bobos and hiccups, but I'm praying for

the things that would cause God to move in our state.

Would you come pray with me on Mondays. It's a labor,

it's not easy, but this is the stuff that's absolutely necessary.

If we're going to see God move, Amen, So bring friends,

bring people. It'll be a powerful testimony full of compassion

and truth as she shares. I know it took time

with that, but I wanted to see that. And then

on the twenty seventh, which would be three weeks from today,

we're gonna take the Blessed Life and I'm gonna take

about four weeks, maybe a little bit more, but I'm

going to share on I can hear, you can hear

the voice of God, and you can't have a blessed

life if you're not hearing on a consistent basis. And

normally what you hear things He wants to do in

you and change, Amen, are people to love or reach

out to normally it's changed or he wants to move

through you. Those two things. So we're gonna look at

that and we're gonna take a month or more. All right,

let's complete this by talking about the upcoming generation. Amen,

talking about the home, which is anyone younger than you,

that's the next generation, anyone younger than you. How do we.

Build the upcoming generation?

And I'm gonna share some things that we implemented in

our home or with our children that we learned from

our mentors who we still talk to. You know, even

though you've got grown children, you're never finished, are you

with me? So we still talk with them. What can

we all of us do to raise a supernatural generation

where you are impacting and giving life and hope and

love and direction to the next generation and it causes

them to meet Listen, more connected to Christ than the culture?

That's good.

Yes, yes, So we have to pass our test. Yes,

where we're more connected to Christ than the culture. And

sometimes the culture is offense, sometimes the culture is greed

or selfishness. That we have to pass that test so

we can help the next generation pass their test. Because

it's never about you, It's always about the next generation.

As we say, culture is strong, it's pull on children,

the ones you want to impart life to. And it

does that matter if it's your children, grandchildren, children you're mentoring, nieces, nephews, children,

you work with a neighbor's kids. All of us have people.

That we can connect to that are younger than us. Amen.

And we're not helpless, we're not powerless.

We have the spirit of God, we have the Word

of God, We've got the wisdom of God. If any

of you lack the wisdom, let him ask of God.

He gives liberally. James tells us, So the goal today,

let's build to culture in our home or workplace, or

school or wherever you're able to connect and listen, connect intentionally. You,

as the older generation, connect intentionally. I need help, folks,

I said, you connect intentionally to them and let the

culture in your life because of the walk you have

be stronger than the culture of the world. Proverbs twenty

two six. The NIV I love the way, it says,

is st our children off on the way they should go,

and even when they're old, they will not turn from

it the way they should go. We know the Bible

is true. So why is it then that the majority

of children raised with God centered environment turn away as adults.

We're going to a dress some of that today. My

research shows this. Brother Greg has talked about it and

so forth. But is listen this agrees me. As much

as eighty eight percent of children raised in some form

of godly environment turned from God in their young adulthood.

Now that's staggering.

Listen, if fear wants to grip my heart, that's what

it is right there that your children, your grandchildren, your nieces,

your nephews, the young people you work with as they

grow up, would want to turn from God? Why is that?

And I think we should do something about it? How

many want to make sure that your kids, your grandkids,

all of that group that you love is not part

of that statistic?

Amen?

Okay, so don't give up. What can we do? How

do we woo their heart back? Culture is sneak, sneaky, sneaky.

Let's turn the light on this morning, because culture is

like candy with poison in it.

It really is.

So I'm gonna ask five questions there. They are, don't

go too far ahead, don't jump and run through it

too fast. I have it all there for you. But

let's look at this. If you're married, talk about it

with your spouse and so forth. Okay, these questions will

help you have a gauge on the culture and see

which culture is stronger in your home, or in your workplace,

or with grandkids or whatever the people you're wanting to influence.

For Christ, you can't control necessarily the culture out there, right,

You can't control everything at school and so forth, But

you can control number one, how much of that culture

affects you? First, and then how much of it is

in the environment where you're affecting the younger generation. And again,

the younger generation is anybody younger than you.

Amen, All right, here we go. Number one.

Am I parenting or if you want to use the

word mentoring or sewing or impacting whatever? Am I parenting

by convenience? Let's talk about it. I know all of

the technology we have available is great. I meant two

year olds know how to operate it.

Yep, they really do.

So what we can do is give them a device,

a video and a lot of sugar and put them

in a corner because we've got a lot to do.

We've done it.

Come on, let's all be honest. We have a lot

to do and that will hold their attention and we

can do all the things we need to do. Then

we recharge the battery because the batteries go. Do it right,

give them more sugar, and we go do more. It's

convenient parenting. The problem is fast forward ten years or

more and now it's gotten complicated. And because of all

the devices, they spend hours upon hours upon hours with

all that, and you want to visit with them and

they're like, who in the world are.

You what happened.

Well, when they're young, it's really hard to have in

depth conversations. It's just fun conversations you have with them.

It's a who it's great. But now that they're older

and you want to connect better, they don't want to talk. Then,

have you noticed that, when they're young, for convenience, we

plug their life flow merely into technology, And now that

flow is so thick, it's their oxygen. Technology is their oxygen.

They have to have it to survive, at least they

think they have to have it. I may mention this,

but it bears repeating right here, but I can't remember

now for sure. Five years ago, seven years ago, I

went back to Poland to do two camps one summer

for churches that I administered at. And when I did

the leader mandate with John Maxwell, so a couple of

the Spearfield pastors we got real close and they asked

me to come. They planned it back to back where

I went to their camps, and it was so astonishing

but yet alarming to come back here.

What these churches do.

They're smaller churches, but most of the people would try

to plan their vacation together and they would go away

to another city and rent a facility that would have

swimming and outdoor activities in the meeting room and we

would be together and do all the games and different

teachings and worship times.

And all that.

And as I watched the families or watched the people,

the teenagers are all helping with the little ones and

the parents or grandparents, everybody was together. They were together.

I guess that's proper English. Everybody they were having a blast.

No one was on their phone. Maybe they had banned

them for the time, I don't know. A couple of

times some of the business guys at a certain point

in afternoon had to leave go to their laptop to

check things at the office, and they close it and

put it all away, everybody. And I'm thinking, this is

how it was when I grew up in the seventies.

This is what we did. We would go to camps

like this and here speakers and swim and I going,

oh my now, Jeanette, and I'll be going back to

Poland this summer to do something similar, and I'm very

anxious to see what I'm going to find if more

of the Western culture has invaded that whole environment. But

it was a wonderful atmosphere. Yeah, very healthy. Now are

all devices wrong? No, I just suggest moderation.

Amen.

Great tools out there, there's great teaching tools you can use.

With the wonderful.

When I were young, I listen, you know what I

had to actually read to my kids?

Try it parents.

I remember a few times because of I'm multitask or

at least you know, I try to be and I'm

trying to do my multitask and be the parent at

the same time. And they're young, and I remember them

at different times grabbing my face with their little hands

and pulling me to them, like, are you going to

be a father right now? Am I really important to you?

I don't know if you ever had one of yours

to do that to you. I've had them do it

to me. That's when I developed the saying and write

it down if you want to run with it. This

is my little saying. Wherever you are, be all there.

Wherever you are, be all there. Issues can rob your tension, parents, grandparents,

work related problems, stress. But convenient parenting does not work

a child, no matter how young, they can read your

heart focus. Am I parenting mentoring by convenience? Convenient parenting

can brainwash kids and push them away. Number two, do

I have a culture or a cultural dashboard from my home?

Okay? What is that?

Who would ever go driving down the interstate? Like if

you try to go to Lexington right now in seventy five,

it's pretty chaotic. How many have done that lately? I

mean when you get up to Mount Vernon and all

the construction. But if you're on the interstate, you're constantly

monitoring your gauges, your fuel, if you have a leadfoot,

you're constantly monitoring your speed. And everyone says, all right,

so nurturing things with your dashboard? What if you had

a dashboard for every way culture? Listen, culture could come

into your home, are coming to the lives of the

ones you're wanting to help, because listen, you never stop.

It's not they're grown, they're gone. No, if you do that,

you've just said I don't care. That's good, okay, everybody whatever,

it's always there, always, I said, always, and remember it's

back to us as adults seeing that responsibility for that

next generation.

Always it's good.

But what if you had a gauge for TV and

music and internet and friends. I'm talking about being a mentor,

a parent, a grandparent to the younger generation in the

twenty first century. We can't go through all the gauges,

but here's just a few of them. Television. How many

TV do you have in your house? Do you even know? Yeah?

That work? Yeah, I meant. Pastor.

Donna and I were talking. When we grew up in Louisiana,

we only had two channels and we had an old

black and white TV that you know, everything was scratchy

on the screen. How many members though? You might still

have that TV, you know. But and then when we're

in high school, we got a third channel. Man, we

thought we were big time. Three channels. Well, well, Pastor,

we can afford a TV for their room. Well, there's

a lot of things. Maybe you can afford. It doesn't

mean you should do it. You can afford crack for

the room, But you don't want to go get cracked

for them, right just because you can afford it, is

it a good reason? Do you know what's coming in?

When you give them technology? You're not just giving them

that technology, You're giving them a pipeline and it can

be a cessful of problems. Not saying I'll technology is bad.

You just need gauges years back when I was We're

still all at home and our two oldest were teenagers.

Still Michael would have been a lot younger. For a vacation.

One summer, we went to this very remote spot on

a lake, to a very rundown cabin. As far as

I was concerned, Jeanette loved it. It was nice. She

loved it. I mean there was no TV, and that's fine.

There was just it was no sale service, but beautiful lake.

And we had a boat, a paddle boat so we

could go fishing. We had our bicycles and we'd hike

and at night we put puzzles together and we play games.

And my kids still talk about that as their favorite vacation,

and so does my wife. It was fun. I'm just

trying to say, we had no technology. How about gauge

from music? What do they have downloaded on their devices?

Do you even know? Now?

Years ago, ten years ago whatever.

You could see the CD, you could see the album,

you could see the cassette or whatever. Now it's all

on their devices. Most of us don't even know how

to put it on our devices.

Right.

I tell you what, pay you kids, and they'll show you.

Then you can see what they've got.

All right.

I know we were cruel parents, but you know, our

two oldest didn't get a cell phone till they went

to college.

We do that on purpose and they survived.

Now, our youngest, because he had his own business in

the ninth grade, I was not going to be his

business manager to you know, do all that for his lawnmowing,

So he got a cell phone a little bit younger.

When you're together I meant like together at the table

or the card, do you allow to earbud?

No?

That's good. Make a decision. See, look, are you a

media centered family or relationship centered family? Does everything we

do revolve around some media? And that will decide what

you invest in and spend time doing. Oh, brother, Mark,

can one bad song really mess up my child? Yep,

yes it can. I'm not against all secular music.

I'm not.

I'm at home on the range. Happy Birthday. Those are

two really good ones. Okay, those are two good ones.

What am I saying? Check the lyrics out? Check them out?

Gauges computers. How many people have been listen hooked on

pornography by pop ups that they weren't going there, but

it popped up and all of a sudden, the iGATE.

And before you know what, they're hooked.

That sounds like a lot of work.

Yep.

That's what me entering is about. That's what being a

grandparent is about. That's what being a parent is about.

If you stepped up to it, do it in Jesus name,

st when they're young, not when it's suddenly a huge

issue when someone shows up and says, here's a kid,

my team, can you fix them? Well, God can do anything,

but if you start when you're little, it sure is

a lot easier. That's why like vacation, Bible school, Wednesday

nights for youth and the children listen, it's not just

little busy handcraft activity of pouring into your kids so

that it's reinforcing the values that you've established. Amen, here

go number three very important. Who owns their heart? Now

I'm talking about relationally. Now, when they're young, they never

stop talking. Maybe you're in that stage with children and

grandchildren right now. Suddenly, bamp, one day they stop talking.

They just do and suddenly they stopped. But then they

want to and you better be ready when they're wanting

to talk. When they're young, you own their hearts. Listen,

they think you have never sinned. They think you have

eyes in the back of your head. Come on, isn't

it right? Then you're around seven, eight nine whatever age

Johnny gets to watch this on TV. Why can't I

watch this? Votes that, miss Menda, You're not Johnny.

That's good.

Here, But okay, listen, get this. They're starting to care

more about connecting with their peers. They care more about

their peers liking them than you liking them. You have

to like them. You're the parent, you're the grandparent, you're

the aunt and uncle. They have to work hard to

get their peers to like them. I'm just trying to

show you what's going on. There's a lot you can do.

So peers are pulling them away relationally, then ten eleven,

twelve whatever they say, I saw this movie. How come

I can't say that? How come I can't wear that?

So now you have the culture pulling on them. So

culture's pulling on them, friends are pulling on them. So

we react and I've done it. As long as you're

living this house, every way you're gonna do it. And

that's not bad necessarily As for me and my house,

we will serve the lore, but doing it in anger

and just reactionary ways is not going to work.

Okay.

Then some parents go the other extreme and so shelter

their children from everything that they're not progressing so that

they learn how to be.

Light in a dark world.

Now, you've got to know the right maturity and the

right steps on how to allow them to interact with

the lost and the world and those things so that

then they come home and talk about it. But if

you don't begin to make some type of transition, you

send them out and it's tough. It's tough on them,

and many of them can fall away because they don't

know how to stand. They do not know how to

be Like bro Mark, there's a lot of work. Yep,

it's a lot of it's a lot of faith, it's

a lot of interaction, it's a lot of prayer. Okay,

you're wanting them to be light. So here's the phrase

we used, we use We've used it for years. Take it,

run with it, adopt it, hold on to it.

Okay.

If you find friends are culture pulling that one you

love that you care for a way, lean into the relationship.

Everybody say lean into the relationship. Oh, Okay, that means

spend more time with them and create listen, a non

confrontational environment where you can begin to talk more and

things come up. It's not shoving your finger in their

face and using your authority to demand the type of

response that you want. Isn't the goal of our parenting

to somehow grab a hold of their heart and take

the values that you find life giving and so rewarding

because of your walk with the Lord Jesus Christ and

help them see that so they say, that's the values

I choose. Isn't part of our goal so that when

they leave home and get this, they need to leave

home one day? Okay, they are making listen wise decisions

and you're not even telling them how to do it

at that point. So lean in, spend more time one

on one. It might be awkward for you. You don't

know what to do with them or how to relate.

You're out doing something with them, and do something.

They want to do.

Okay, don't take them to something you like that they

can't stand. But I've seen that before. Brow I'm going

to take my child to do this. I'm going your

child doesn't want to do that, you want to do that,

your grandkid doesn't want to do that. You want to

do that something they want to do that they like.

Help create an environment where you're just leaning in. Okay,

Scripture James one, verse nineteen. And this is where it

takes a lot of faith, a lot of wisdom and insight. Okay,

are dear brothers and sisters take note of this everyone, everybody,

especially if you want to affect the next generation. Everyone

should be quick to listen, say the next thing with me,

slow to speak, and slow to what. So lean in

and listen. You know you're doing something, Hey, how you doing?

They're gonna say, okay, it's not even okay, fine, okay

are they texting the answer? Yeah? Everything good, everything all right?

You know, just keep leaning. Eventually the real conversation will happen.

It's an issue at school. A friend has betrayed them

because people will portray you.

They will. They'll do that too you as an adult.

They'll do it too.

Children.

What is that when they start, they're now leaning back?

See you lean in, extra time, extra fun, extra money. Yeah,

you're right, and suddenly they lean back. When we spend

time listening, it pulls down all the defense walls. And

once they lean back, sharing their heart, you have a

delicate moment to lean in more in a loving directive way.

Don't jump to this. If you do that, listen, they

might be nice and just smile at you and there

thinking you are an idiot.

It doesn't work, okay, But if.

They lean in when you're leaning towards them, you now

have the authority in their life. Well, I'm the parent,

I've got the authority.

Well you no, you don't. You might.

Need that authority. You might declare you have that authority.

Whoever owns their heart as the authority they're going to

listen to somebody you a drug dealer, a rebellious friend.

And you, as the older generation, the parent, the grandparent,

the aunt, the uncle, the mentor, the friend, the cousin, whatever,

have a much greater advantage because you have the power

of the Holy Spirit. You have the truth of the

Word of God. You have time, and God's going to

give you wisdom. I said, He's going to give you wisdom.

Amen.

Time is investing with experiences. Just buying stuff is shallow. Remember,

whoever owns their heart has the most authority in their life.

And if you just react and yell and culture owns

their heart or appeers on their heart. All your efforts

are futile, and it just it's like water off a ducts.

Back number four, am I going through the windows of

the heart. Now this one you have to be just

ready for. Okay, it happens so quickly. Sounds like Malachi.

I love it.

Last verse in the Old Testament there in your notes,

he will turn the hearts of the parents of their children,

and the hearts of the children to their parents.

If not meant, the whole earth is going to be striked.

With a curse. This part is very, very important. A

window opens and you don't know when that window is

going to open.

Yeah, usually at night.

Okay, the window opens and it closes. I'm talking about

for their heart. It opens. And you've got Lord, help

me to recognize when windows open. Help me recognize those moments.

You've got to be ready once it closes. You're not

going to pry open. I said, you're not going to open.

So these windows open when you least expect it, and

it is the most inconvenient always. Now, Jeanette and I'm

thinking about a story now with Jonathan years ago.

We hardly ever watch a movie. It just doesn't work.

You know, something interrupts and it was this is years back,

and so we're watching a movie. It was a good

movie on television and this is before you you know,

recorded things, what do you call it VVR? And it

wasn't a DVD or anything. This was on TV. So

if you missed it, you missed it, right. So, I

mean it's the last five minutes of the movie. I

mean the crescendo. You're getting ready to find out the

whole outcome. And Jonathan walked in. He's probably about fourteen

to fifteen years old, and he stood right in front

of the TV.

You're looking at us alone.

What she never does? So I looked at Jeanette and

she looked at me. We turned the TV off. We

never found out how that movie ended. By the way,

it had been easy to say, well, move that the

way way way, wait just a minute. If we'd done that,

guess what.

It were closed.

I don't even know what the issue was or whatever.

It's just we had a moment and we knew we

had to take advantage of it, so.

Get ready.

I would try to read age appropriate Bible studies every night.

I mean from when they were a little bitty up,

I mean when they're one years old. You just there's

just some pictures and it's real fast. Are you're with me?

But probably about five nights a week. Obviously sometimes you're

going to miss it. Things come up, but I would

cover that. And it was a workout. I said, it

was a workout to get them still, get them quiet,

or doing different ones with different ages, getting them up

in our bed or they're bed and that, and then

praying and Jeanette had a little prayers she did with them,

just fun stuff that we would do. I said, it

was a workout. But you do it and stay consistent.

So then you're shutting the door to their room. And

it's not all the time, but because you continue doing that,

then you hear daddy, is there really a God? And

you open the door, shutting the door. MoMA, I had

a fight with a friend at school today.

Go to bed.

We'll talk about it in the morning. So the next

morning at breakfast, okay, tell me about school. Oh it's fine.

Well wait, you said they had a problem. It'still big deal.

So it's fine. You missed it. I said, you missed it.

The window closed and you can't open it. At different

ages and stages they opening different ways. Look for the

windows of their heart. Just go through them, because you

can't pick them open, can't make them open later. Number five,

how am I communicating my values? This is homework for

all of this church, because everyone in here, if you're

twenty or older, you're affecting the next generation.

You need to be You need.

To be praying for them. You need to work through

things and continue. And even when suddenly they're not paying

you any attention, you paid them attention anyway. Deal with

different people. I had a pastor call me late yesterday

from another state that I just befriended. I knew I

needed to. He had had a rough time and he

was calling me just like I'm his dad. He's younger

than me. He's bringing me all up to date, so

excited about what God is doing and pray for him

for this. And I just cheered him on and I'm

helping with some stuff because I've stayed in contact with

him even when he wouldn't return a text or call.

I knew he was hurting. I knew I needed to

keep after him. And that whole family is going to

have a home run. I said, they're going to have

a home run. But I got well, he texts me,

So I'm not gonna take No, it's not about me.

It's about them. It's about them, It's about the It's

always about the who's them, the next generation, maybe the

one that's ignoring you. It's about them, that wayward child.

It's about the So how am I communicating my values? Well,

it's easy to think, well, they're just going to pick

them up, and they do to a certain degree. A

lot is caught rather than todd and are saying, it's

not original with me this one. You teach what you know,

but you impart who you are.

Correct.

One of the most thorough research studies on young people, children,

teenagers and spirituality fine at the number one most important

spiritual influence in a young person's life are the ones

they look up to, whether it's the parent they and

or uncle, the grandparent, the one that is pouring into

them spiritually. That's who they look to. And it's not

what you say, it's how you live. It's how you

pass your test, and then you communicate that to them.

That's what they pick up. So are you living values

you want your kids to live? And if something you're

doing is tripping you up and keeping you from doing it.

It likely can trip your child up to So let's

get victory. Adults. Come on, we got to get victory

in our life because it's not about us, it's about them.

So here's some things you can do. Okay.

Number one, establish a family covenant.

What in the world is that?

Well, it's just something very loose, but a family covenant. Now,

I did this in our home when my two oldest

were teenagers. They were kind of young teenagers at that point,

but I was trying for a season. I think we

did it for about a year, but I think it

was Thursday night. I would just work with them teaching.

We went through a book or two, we did some stuff.

We had different people live with us at different times

during that season, other people. We just kind of would

make it a study time on Thursday night, and in

that time we wrote a family covenant. It's what's on

the inside of us. Scripture says, talk about these.

Things when you lie down and you get up, and

when you're in.

The city that's doing around the sixty seven. Don't haphazardly,

just hope it goes well. So it actually took us

about two months.

To do this.

Letting the boys add things Michael was still real young,

so he didn't really participate with it, but I said,

let's think of some words that communicate who we are

as a family and what we want to be on

the inside. Because they're getting to that age, that competitive

age and brothers pushing one another and competing. Come on, families,

you know what I'm talking about, all the stuff you

deal with. So the words we came up with were love, support, protect, nurture, embrace, minister, sacrifice,

and transfer. And then I said, okay, let's just make

one sentence for each word. Okay, love, unconditionally love. So

when they're fighting, wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait,

we love one another. Support, support each other and reaching

their full potential. Just support maybe something they're doing in sports,

Just support them. Protect, protect one another by prayer and serving.

We're going to pray for one another.

We're going to.

Actually serve one another. Nurture, nurture an atmosphere of safety

and rest. It's one thing I cannot stand in our

home is if it's not rest. I want our home

to be a place of rest and peace. Embrace. Not

all of them are involved in ministry. I wasn't trying

to call them, but I said, embrace the call of

God on our family. I didn't want them to resent that.

I wanted to embrace it, wanted them to be a

part of it. And we always had them connected in something. Minister,

minister the life of God to every person we touch.

How can you be a minister? How can you encourage

that friend, sacrifice, live sacrificially to influence in the home, church,

community and world, and then transfer transfer principles of godly

character and purpose to family and to those who will follow.

So we did that, and we would talk about it

that we haven't really talked about it now in years

because they've grown and so forth. But I would pull

that out, specially in a moment of conflict. You mean,

your home has conflicts yet just like yours. It's just

it's life. It's not you, oh, praise of Lard. It's

not Jeanette. Okay, it's just a lot of testosterum and

boys and all the things that go on. And you've

had that will and you okay, So just do that

number two and then be build covenant friends people. Our

children can look up to find people that echo your values.

So get them around to hear the echoes of others

that have your values. Now, we did this way back

when we lived in Louisiana. Just some couples that you

know that are even presbyters of ours now in different ones.

They were a little bit further in the journey, their

children a little bit older, but they carried the same values.

And so for when Mike and Genie ware we're here,

all of our kids came in on a Saturday each

to individually spend time with Mike and jenieware by themselves.

Why that's their aunt uncle. Well that's not really what

it is to them. It's their aunt uncle because that's

who they call sometimes if they need encouragement. Mike and

Jeanie contact them and text them and stay in touch

with them. Different ones like that Rick Zachary that will

be here in the fall, that does mission work all

the Lord, It's going to be a wonderful time when

Rick comes. I remember one time he planned a whole

trip where he could go through Dallas and spend time

with Andrew when Andrew was their Bible school, spent a

whole day with him. I want to go see Andrew

and spend time with him. These are people that still

do those things, still speak into their life today, because

you're never finished. So adults mentors people of concern purposely

lean in. Lena close with a scenario. Let's say a

relative's kid, teenager comes to live with you for a

while because they're mad at their parents. They can't stand

their home. They're a rebellion. I meant, they got the

wrong music and the wrong speech, and they're yelling and

fussing and cussing, and they hate you for now holding

them captive and they're just nting, and Raven just let

them rint for a little while. And when they finally hush,

look at them and say, have you ever ridden a

dirt bike before? You ever been water skiing? How about

a jet ski? Have you ever tried that before?

Well?

No? And then take them to do that, and you

start showing them the spirit filled life that it's fun.

And I've seen kids transform by family helping in that way,

lean in until they lean back. Can we be that

type of adults? I heard three yeses. Can we be

that type of adult? Listen? The world needs you. Yes,

the family of God needs you. Some of you have

helped with our children. We're so grateful. We need each other.

Church is out something you come, do your little thing,

and you leave. It's all week long. It's the things

that go on behind the scenes. Let's pray.

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