Embracing God as your Father (The Lord’s Prayer)

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.

We hope you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter. I

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So last week I taught on embracing God as your Father,

and I was back and forth with a couple of

themes this week and I actually landed on the Lord's Prayer.

And it's been since April of.

Twenty twenty one since I taught on this, and I

did it in two parts, and I can tell you

for sure it's going to be at least two parts,

maybe three, because I've added some pieces since.

The last time I taught on this, But this is

really a like part two of embracing God as your Father.

And the Lord's prayer is found in Luke eleven one

to four, and then it's also found in Matthew six

five to fifteen. So let me pray, and we're going

to dive in and over the next two and a

half hours, we should at least get halfway saying, if

y'all were listening, don't run for the door. It's okay. So, Lord,

I just asked that you would bless this. Lord, I

asked that you would speak through me. Lord, I pray

that it would not be earthly wisdom, but it would

be true wisdom. Lord, you are wisdom. You are Proverbs eight.

You are the wisdom that stands at the portals. Lord,

you said, if we lack wisdom, let us ask of

you and you will give it to us unbridled. So Father,

would you open our minds and our hearts this morning? Lord,

give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a

heart that perceives. Lord, that you would illuminate our hearts

your word in Jesus' name. So if you have your bibles,

or if you have your electronic version like I do.

Go to Luke eleven. That's where we're going to start. Now.

It came to pass as he was praying in a

certain place when he ceased, that one of his disciples

said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John

also taught his disciples. Interestingly, we don't have any written

record of what John was teaching his disciples as far

as prayer, but we know that he was doing it.

I would imagine very much as coming off the cuffs

of four hundred years of silence that he's ushering in.

He's the forerunner and he's making way for the Lord.

So I can only imagine some of his leaning for

people as far as prayer, absolutely had to do with

the kingdom, and with a massive focal point of actually

beginning to relate to the Lord as our father and

Luke eleven it says, and I'm sorry, as John taught

his disciples, so he said to them, when you pray,

say our Father in heaven hollowed, be your name, your kingdom. Come.

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us day by day our daily bread, and forgive

us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who's indebted

to us, and do not lead us into temptation, but

deliver us from the evil one. And then the second

account is actually Matthew six. Let me read that and

we'll dive in. And when you pray, you shall not

be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing

in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets,

that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say

to you, they have their reward. Maybe we can make

it a little more applicable today. How much do we

do on social media to be seen by men and

to be praised by men? And then you get all

the reward that you're gonna get because self promotion has

been absolutely in social media. We have so many self

proclaimed experts today that we really don't know who they

are or where they're coming from, but because of marketing

and algorithms, they seem to get in front of us.

And AI doesn't help because the moment you watch one

video and for you prophetic types, let me say this.

If you're watching something on social media and then all

of a sudden you start seeing a bunch of them,

that's not the Holy Spirit trying to get your attention.

That's actually technology and they're feeding you what you want

to focus on. Okay, So don't get all whack of

doodle and weird. Just like you know, the clock is

eleven eleven twice a day. Are y all with me? Okay?

I don't want to ruffle too many feathers. But they're

doing everything to be seen. They're not doing things in

secret because they don't really understand the heart of their father.

They don't understand that he already knows everything they need

even before they ask. And the core of a religious

spirit is actually taking God's word and executing your own will.

And it's absolutely spiritual manipulation. So Jesus didn't have much

good to say about the Pharisees and the Sadducees, did he? Surely?

I say to you, they have their reward, but you,

when you pray, go into your room, and when you've

shut your door, pray to the father who's in the

secret place, and your father, who sees in secret, will

reward you openly. How many times have you had a prayer,

Think about right now, how many times have you had

a prayer where you didn't tell a soul and then

it was answered, and it's answered openly, right, But how

much more do those answers mean to you than versus

you helping Holy Spirit by letting everybody and their uncle

know your needs? And then all of a sudden someone

feels compassion for you and answers it. And you told

the entire city that you needed something. How much of

that was you with spiritual manipulation to help the Lord?

Because deep down inside you're still living like an orphan

and not trusting that he's not going to withhold the

things that you need. Which side's awake? I'm gonna stay over.

Are y'all awake? Okay, tough crowd this morning? Do you need?

My dad? Jokes? Well, that wake y'all up. Well, that

was brutal man. So he goes on to say, when

you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do,

for they think they'll be heard for their many words. Therefore,

do not be like them, For your father knows the

things you have need of before you ask him. So

in this manner, therefore, pray our Father in heaven hollowed

be your name, your kingdom. Come. Your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven give us this

day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as

we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is

the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father

will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive

men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your treuspasses.

You know, this is the one scripture I've never heard

a minister be able to manipulate. It's kind of clear.

I tell people all the time, only forgive to the

degree that you want to be forgiven. Only forgive to

the degree that you want to be forgiven. So if

you are totally forgiven, you have no right to withhold

forgiveness from anyone for anything, because you have been forgiven

of everything. You all seem real excited about that. There

we go, Phil, I'm feeling supportive. Now. Where are you at? Oh?

There you go, Ah, so our Father in heaven again.

Remember I mentioned this last week. The very first thing

when the disciples come to Jesus and they say Father,

or our Jesus teach us how to pray. The very

first point is him addressing your identity, that you're not

acting like an orphan. You're no longer an orphan because

of the spirit of adoption, because of the price that

he paid. And yet we seem to fast forward through

that first part of that prayer so many times and

we don't lock into our identity. The Lord's Prayer is

not just a prayer for you to pray daily and

feel good about yourself. The Lord's Prayer is a road

map with the kingdom. It has your identity inside of it.

It shows you how to function in the Kingdom of Heaven.

And the only way you figure that out is when

you actually begin to break that prayer down so our

father in heaven. It gives us identity and understanding on

how God wants us to relate to him. We're not

supposed to come to him as orphans, performing and begging

for him to move on our behalf. We already have

all the promises. It says, no good thing will he

withhold from those who walk up brightly. Delight yourself in

the Lord, and He'll give you the desires of your heart.

Anything we ask in his name. It is done. That's

why we can give thanks for prayer before it's technically

manifested in the natural, because we know everything we're asking

for him that's according to his will is done. All

the promises of Christ are yes and amen. But yet

somehow we get spiritual amnesia when the poop hits the

fan and we start getting pressure on our lives. All

of a sudden, we start to feel like, is he

really going to show up this time? How many of

y'all have had him show up, like you know, with

finances over and over and over. And then another financial

problem comes and you get amnesia, and all of a

sudden you're back to, Oh, I really hope he comes

through this time forgetting the very reality that if Heaven

went bankrupt and Jesus came for you, he held nothing back.

He emptied himself for you and became a man. Why

in the world would all these little things be a

big deal to us? That's why he says to seek

first his kingdom, his righteousness, and all of these things

will be added to us. If we spent more time

giving thanks and giving praise to the Lord than focusing

on our problems, we would be a whole lot better

or off, and would have a whole lot more emotional

and mental health. We would be emotionally spiritually healthy. But

instead we get focused on the little foxes and we

allow these little things to begin to steal our joy,

our peace. There's a reason why it says, let the

peace of Christ rule and rain. You have a choice

in it. Literally right now, no matter what you're going through,

come hell or high water, you have the ability in

Jesus to allow his peace, his Shaloam that literally destroys chaos,

to rule and rain. So the moment you start feeling chaos,

you can allow him, allow his peace. You can take

a step back into your spirit and allow his peace

to rule. But it's a conscious choice. It says, take

up your cross daily and follow him. The Bible use

this is the term Father for God approximately one hundred

and sixty five times in the four Gospels and over

forty times in the Pauline Letters. In the Old Testament,

father is used for God only fifteen times. Now, I

want to point something out here, and I got into

it a little bit last week, but y'all, the reality

is you have to understand the moment you came into

the family and he started calling you sons and daughters,

and you're calling him father. And the old Covenant that

was pretty well reserved for the sons of God, the

Divine Council, and Paul says, you're acting in the New Covenant,

he goes, you're acting like mere men. Do you not

know you're going to judge angels? Do you understand that

we're being brought into this divine Council, this divine family,

and we will in future inheritance and the life to come,

literally judge angels. So he's rebuking them, you're acting like

mere men. And I think one of the bigger concerns

is that very few people even understand about the Divine Council.

That's very clear in the Old Covenant. Paul talks about

them as principalities. He rebukes them and Psalms eighty two

for not leading the people towards righteousness. Romans eight fourteen

to seventeen says, for as many are led by the

spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For

you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,

but you receive the spirit of adoption, by whom we

cry out Abbah, Father. The spirit himself bears witness with

our spirit that we are the children of God. And

if children than errors errors of God and joint errors

with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we

may also be glorified together. Y'all think about the what

Paul went through when you read about him being shipwrecked, stoned,

left for dead, starved, all of these things, he literally

on the cuffs of that turns around and says that

none of these sufferings are worthy to be compared to

the glory that's going to be revealed in him. With

us in the Western Church, somebody looks at us strange,

and we leave the church. They didn't say hello to

me this morning. Can you believe that I was there

for an hour and a half and they never said

a flipping hello. And the next thing you know, everybody's

packing up their legos and they're upset over the most

minute things. And yet Paul literally went through this whole

list of sufferings and he said it's not even worthy

to be compared to the glory that's going to be

revealed because he wasn't thinking in earthly terms. He was

thinking in heavenly terms. Because when we think earthly we

get earthly results right Galatians four to six. And because

you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of

his son into your heart, crying out, Abbah, Father. We

are living in one of the most fatherless generations right now.

And everything goes back to the family. The moment the

family begins to break down, all of these other issues

of sin and cultural decay begin to happen. Why do

you think the enemy has attacked the family. Why do

you think the enemy right now is trying to bring

so much much confusion to gender? Because if you can't

figure out if you're a man or a woman, how

in the world are you even going to get married

and have children? And it's clear from the Old Covenant

that the Lord said that he put a portion of

his spirit into your marriage. Why because he was seeking

godly offspring. He's after your bloodline. The enemy's his y'all.

The enemy is not fighting with God. It's not a contest.

God's not up there biting his fingernails going, Oh my word,

what am I gonna do? Satan? His hordes are all

over the place. I just can somebody give me some counseling. No,

the Lord is not doing that. The fight is with you,

because you are the closest to God's heart. It says,

even angels long to look into this issue of why

he offered a salvation. He didn't offer redemption to the

ani angels that fell. He didn't offer redemption to the

ones in Genesis six. They're in prison, according to Jude,

locked up waiting for the lake of fire. And yet,

who are we that he's mindful of us? Who are

we that he literally would become a man and die

in our place? Psalm sixty eight to five. He says

He's a father of the fatherless, a defender of widows.

Is God in his holy habitation. Proverbs three twelve says,

for whom the Lord loves, he corrects. Who loves correction?

Come on, be honest. There's a difference between correction and punishment. Right,

last week we talked about that God doesn't punish your

ima maturity when you do something as an immature believer.

He's not going to punish you. He's going to correct you.

He will punish rebellion, right, anybody ever been rebellious. I'm

not looking at my brother, I'm actually looking at the

staircase right now. He said, once he may have been

fibbing a smidge, but it says no correction feels good

in the moment, does it. I remember y'all one time

it was a Wednesday night. My mom was fixing to

go play bingo, and we were real close to the

Indiana borderline and or a border and that my mom

and aunt and grandmother would go over to Lowell, Indiana

and play bingo, and believe it or not, I had

done something wrong. I know that's hard to believe, asked

my wife. And my mom was gonna win me with

the belt. She went out of the room for something,

and I took some cushion foam from a cushion and

I put it in my underwear because she, you know,

I had to pull my pants down. I was on

my underwear. And so my mom started, you know, she's, she's,

you know, gives me a couple of correct you know,

directional hits on the heinie with the belt, and I

start laughing at her big mistake. I was immature. I

should have kept quiet, acted like it really hurt, let

her leave and pull the cushion out. But justin wasn't

smart enough for that one. And I start laughing, and

then she gets mad, and in perfect fashion, I pulled

the foam out and I go and start laughing at her. Well,

let's just say, now the underwear came off, and now

I got a couple of couple of swats, and it

no longer tickled. That's the difference between rebellion and just

simply immature sewod Grinthian six't eighteen. I will be a

father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty. I said this first service. I

believe you could just take second Corinthian six' eighteen. Get

into the secret place, begin to pray and just focus

on that. Meditate on his word, Begin to pray that scripture,

personalize it, and that one scripture has the ability to

uproot any orphan spirit, any characteristic of an orphan spirit

inside of you, and allow that spirit of adoption to

take full hold of your identity. You understand it. You

don't have to read. I would rather read one chapter

that came alive to me and actually brought transformation of

my life than to go read ten chapters and not

have a clue what I just read, or worse yet,

forget about everything. I just read ten minutes later. Listen.

We have to read his word to encounter him, to

be transformed by him. We don't read his word just

to grow a knowledge of him. If you get in

his word and your life doesn't change, something's wrong. Knowledge

puffs up, and I think we have enough intellectual theological

giants that know all about him and really don't know him.

Two hollowed be your name keeping the Lord's name. Holy

Ezekiel thirty six twenty three says, I will sanctify my

great name which has been profaned among the nations, which

you have profaned in your midst. And the nation shall

know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God,

when I am hollowed in you before their eyes. So

fast forward this from old covenant to a new covenant

modern day twenty twenty five. Moment when you live in

sin and then you go preach the gospel to others,

Why do they want what you have when you look

just like them? If your faith doesn't change the way

that you respond when the poop hits the fan, why

do they need the Jesus you're talking about? Why would

they even engage it? You have to be set apart.

There has to be a difference with you. That's going

to draw them to even inquire what's happening. Yes, the heavens,

even the heavens, are the Lord's, but he's given the

earth to the sons of men. You have a responsibility

on this earth to fulfill the great commission, and he's

not going to violate your will. So when we live

in sin and then go out and preach, when we're

in sin, we actually profane the name of Jesus, and

we're not keeping the Lord hollowed before our lives or others.

Leviticus twenty two thirty two says, you shall not profane

my holy name, but I will be hollowed among the

children of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

You know, y'all are familiar with strongholds, right. They're strongholds

because your pride blinds you. It's a stronghold because of

your pride period. That's why you can't see it. But

it doesn't mean those around you have the same measure

of pride, so they can clearly see some of your strongholds.

The question is do you have people in your life

that you're willing to trust more than yourself at times?

And do you have people in your life that you'll

allow to speak into your life and say, hey, what

do you see in my life right now that I

seem to be blinded to. If you're married, that tends

to happen automatically whether you like it or not. But

for them, But seriously, because typically we do really good

at holding people at arm's length away. You know why

you have expectations because of unresolved rejection, and your expectations

are a shield over your heart, so that way you

can determine whether or not that person in front of

you is trustworthy enough for you to open up your heart,

be vulnerable and connect. And yet, the fellowship we're supposed

to have as believers is actually spirit to spirit. It's

not soul to soul. It's not just your mind willing emotions.

It is your spirit. And most people are so uncomfortable

to connect spirit to spirit they'll recoil the moment their

spirit touches another person's spirit because of unresolved rejection, the

fear of rejection. So if you meet my expectations that

I have set, then I con deem you trustworthy enough

to lower the drawbridge of connection and have relationship with

you are y'all tracking, it'll be on the podcast. In

other words, it's like the Fall, where was Adam and

Eve They were hiding the moment sin came in, they

became conscious of themselves of shame and guilt and condemnation.

Because it's clear according to Hebrews, that that is actually

the consciousness of sin, shame, guilt, and condemnation. That's why

in the Old Covenant, on the day of yam Kapor,

the high priest would go in, but they still had

their conscience covered from sin. And Jesus was our in

every offering. He paid the price. So now you have

a consciousness of righteousness and you don't have to do

you understand, shame, guilt, and condemnation is not the conviction

of the Holy Spirit. That's the consciousness of sin that

the enemy wants to make you think you're not saved,

so you're focused on living in condemnation. The reality is

you've been born again, you're a new creation, and now

you have a consciousness of righteousness, and God is dealing

with establishing Christ in you, transforming you from glory to

glory so that you look like Jesus because he paid

the price, He was the sin offering. He was the

guilt offering. By his strife, You've been made whole. So

what you focus on, you make room for. He's the

author and finisher of your faith. You're not look in

the mirror and say I'm not the author and finisher,

or look at somebody next to you and say you're

not the author and finisher one Thessalonians four seven. For

God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

You've heard me say this before. It's interesting. In the

Old Covenant there's specific directions that when they were under

the anointing, they were not to leave those rooms lest

they transmit holiness. Well, if you're the living arc, Jesus

is in you, Christ in you, the Hope of glory,

and everywhere you're walking the Godhead lives in sight of you,

then guess what maybe we ought to be transmitting holiness

and calling other people up I simply getting by them.

If Jesus is inside of us, y'all, some of y'all

need to be like Clark Kent and rip your shirt

open and go, come on, Jesus, you're hiding them. Becky

always did that, which y'all pray for her. She was

in the emergency room last night and she's I thought

COVID was gone, but apparently it's still around. She actually

got COVID and she got out last night with the meds.

So one Peter won sixteen because it is written be holy,

for I am holy? Have you figured out holiness doesn't

come by the clothes you wear, or how long your

hair is, or if you your skirt goes down to

the floor. Holiness is the byproduct of a life pursuit

of righteousness. So as you pursue righteousness, holiness is the

bye product. As you pursue him and you get close

to him, you automatically, because you're being compelled by love,

not fear, you begin to make choices of righteousness based

on motivation of love and not the fear of punishment.

And so many times when people come into my office

and ask for counsel that maybe they're going to make

a geographical move or they're gonna look at changing careers,

And the main thing I asked them is, well, what

do I start peeling the onion and asking them, well,

what if you make the wrong decision? You start unmasking

fear that's been masquerading as wisdom and all of a

sudden you realize that half of your motives of why

you thought it was God's will was actually fear and

not being led by His peace or the Holy Spirit

into that decision. But you have to think about your thinking.

You have to take an account of your heart. Remember,

your emotion is the bridge back to your belief. You

cannot have any emotion without a belief behind it. Three

his name. So we're plugging along this time. Next year

will be through this our father in heaven hollowed be

your name. The names of God reveal his character, his nature,

and his deity. When he heals, he doesn't heal just

as an act. He is the healer, that is his name.

When he provides for you, he doesn't just do it

because it's a good idea. He literally is the provider.

From Genesis to Revelation, we've had this unfolding, this revelation

of who God truly is, name by name, by name.

And when Jesus says I have manifested your name to them,

what is he saying. He's saying, he literally, it's plural,

it's not singular. John seventeen six. I've manifested your name

to the men whom you have given me out of

the world. They were yours. You gave them to me,

and they have kept your word Psalm twenty three to three.

He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of

righteousness for his name's sake. And I love Micah, my son,

as well as the book of Micah. For all people

walk in the name of his God. But we will

walk in the name of the Lord, our God, forever

and ever. Have you ever taken the names of God

into prayer? Have you ever sat there and prayed through

the names of God and meditated on his names and

just got lost, put everything off to the side and

focused on his name. It will absolutely you will lose

all track. You will have kavanaugh, which is a Hebrew

word for prayer, where you literally forget about what time

it is, if you need, everything disappears and it's just

you and His presence. Those are the times that transform

your life. Those are the moments that you have his love,

go deeper into the core of who He made you

to be, and that's when transformation happens. It's a divine

exchange for truth. Remember, he said, be renewed in the

spirit of your mind. He wasn't literally, he wasn't just

saying cognitive thinking, but in the spirit of your mind.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

So what you know here versus what you really believe here?

It's what when you get triggered, when you get stimulated

in life and someone ticks you off, it's this right here,

what you believe your belief system. And if there's lie

based thinking in there, guess what the odds of you

responding in righteousness versus unrighteousness diminishes significantly. So the names

of God. He's Jehovah Ahavah verse John four eight. The

Lord is love. You who are love will never cease

to love me. He's Jehovah Elohem, the Lord, Jehovah Elohim,

the Lord majestic and mighty Genesis two four. You are

above all things, all beautiful, and all powerful. He's Jehovah Kwana,

the Lord, a jealous God. Exodus twenty, verse five. You

are jealous for me, for all of me. He's Jehovah Elion,

the Lord, the Supreme God Genesis fourteen, eighteen and nineteen.

You are above all things. There's nothing you cannot do.

He is Jehovah Kadesh, the Lord, the Holy One Exodus three,

fourteen and fifteen, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord, God Almighty.

He's Jehovah Shaddai, the Lord is Mighty Genesis seventeen one.

You are everything I ever need. You are more than enough.

He's Jehovah or the Lord is my Light Psalms twenty

seven to one. You're the light of my life that

shines in me and makes me light. He's Jehovah Kabad,

the Lord, the King of glory Psalms twenty four, eight

to ten. You are full of weighty glory. He is

Jehovah sick Canoe, the Lord our righteousness Jeremiah twenty three six,

the perfect righteous One. He has made me righteous. He

is Jehovah Sedek, the Lord, the God of Justice Isaiah

thirty eighteen. God of Justice, give me justice. He's Jehovah Cassid,

the Lord is Merciful Exodus thirty four to six. Your

tender mercies are new every morning. He is Jehovah. He

is Jehovah Kadish, the Lord who sanctifies you. Exodus thirty

one thirteen. You have set me apart and declared that

I am yours. He is Jehovah Magan, the Lord our

shield Genesis fifteen one. You shelter me in the storm.

You are my refuge. He is Jehovah Shalom, the Lord

our Peace Judges six twenty four. You remove anarchy from

my life so I can enter your peace. He is

Jehovah Shama, the Lord is there Ezekiel forty eight thirty five.

No matter where I go, you will never leave me.

Are forsake me. He is Jehovah Rapha, the Lord, our healer.

Exodus fifteen twenty six. Thank you for being my healer.

He is Jehovah Jirah, the Lord who provides Genesis twenty

two fourteen. You are the one who provides all I need.

And he is Jehovah Nissi, the Lord, our victorious banner,

Exodus seventeen fifteen. Your victories are victorious banner over me

is love, Your love for me, And he is Jehoah

Jehovah Rah, the Lord my Shepherd, Psalm twenty three to one.

You lead me, feed me, and protect me. So when

you back up and Jesus says this, I have manifested

your name to the men. You've given me out of

the world. They were yours. You gave them to me. Literally,

he manifested the names of God. And in Christ, he says,

just as he was in this world, so are we.

We have this awesome, amazing privilege in Jesus to literally

see his names manifest through our life to the world.

And when we start to see his names manifest through

us for his name's sake and his glory, then we

begin to begin become a beacon. We begin to become

the light and salt that He's called us to be.

And we're no longer being tossed back and forth and

double minded and shaken by every little wave that springs up,

because we know our God. And it's like Daniel, it says,

those who know their God will what do great exploits

Daniel eleven. And we're entering into that time and I

don't care. Well, like I've said before, whether you're pre trib,

mid trib, post trib, pan trib, pre millennial, I'm millennial,

post millennial. He's coming back way quicker than we realize,

and he's gonna do it in a way that Jack's

everybody up, just like he showed up the first time,

and nobody recognized him. But the question is, will we

have oil in our lamp at the midnight cry? Just before?

Will he find faith? I said this this morning. I

was reading a couple of days ago. All right, yesterday,

I am my reading time. And he calms the storm.

He manifests the name Jehovah shalom, and he removes the

chaos from the storm. And then he and he rebukes

the disciples. He goes, where is your faith? He didn't

say they didn't have faith. Every one of you have faith.

Romans twelve three says to every man, a measure of

faith has been given. He said, where is your faith? So?

Where is your faith this morning? Is your faith in yourself?

Is your faith in your job? Is your faith in

your four oh one k? Is your faith in the tariffs?

Is your faith in the Orange? Man? Where's your faith

this morning? I'm so tempted to do a Donald Trump

in personation right now, but I'm gonna I'm not as good.

Oh man, Sorry already time, Okay, I think I'm gonna.

I think I'm gonna do part two. I don't have

enough time to get through this next section, So Micah,

can you get on the keys? For me, y'all this

whole theme over the last few weeks, the Lord. Not

only has the Lord been restoring families, We've been hearing

so many testimonies of family members being restored, prodigals coming back.

I mean, there's just been a lot of amazing things

happening in the realm of the Lord. When you talk

about revival of God moving, if it doesn't affect the home,

if it doesn't make men rise up and cover their

houses and become the spiritual leaders that He's called them

to be, then we're just pretending that we're being revived

inside if I can get the prayer teams that come up.

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