Family Matters//12PM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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Let's get into it. Somebody say go deep.

You can be seated really quickly take your phones notebooks out A

couple Wednesdays ago we started a series about it was how many

people remember faith. I think it was foes faith and

family. However, you want a powerful.

Powerful, powerful hurt Elder Brett slated.

Thank you, Elder Brett. It's good to.

Be in the House of the Lord grounded my to get grounded and

worship is good to see all your beautiful faces and my wife and

I literally we were supposed to be back here yesterday and our

flight was canceled in Toronto and we have to get up at 4:00

this morning and get on a really early.

It was like what's that 1:00 AM for you guys?

So you guys were snoring and then some of y'all was up

snacking. I was yeah, we was at the

airport and then we just got off and literally went home and got

a chance to hop in a cold, cold tub for a second.

I'm telling you, it'll, it'll bring you back quick and we're

here. So it's good to pause for a

moment and worship with my family.

I want to give you something that I gave to the community.

I will do my best moving forward.

Remember, I was studying and I laid this before the Lord and He

laid it before me. And just something to help the

community and myself personally and what to expect when you come

in to hear the word #1 We're going to just just this little

formula, this little lens that you can expect the word to be

taught. But it's just three things.

It's exposed, it is equipped, and it's to excite.

OK? We want to expose, equip, and

excite. I'm going through this like

really quickly because this is not the message today.

It's just I want you to just be able to lean in intentionally.

A lot of people come to church don't know what we're really

listening for. We we're our ears are

critiquing. Our ears are really are

repenting. Like everybody's in here

listening for something different.

But if I can give you a framework so you can at least

try and understand as I deliver. So expose, equip and excite.

So to expose is is is to bring into light, into the light what

has been influencing in the dark.

So as we start the word, we want to try and expose what has been

influencing our lives in the dark.

Somebody say expose. When we expose, we name the real

enemy, we identify false narratives and we uncover

spiritual patterns that have quietly shaped our homes.

To expose as you cannot defeat what you refuse to identify.

Exposure is not condemnation. Exposure is clarity and then we

want to equip someone say equip. To equip is to supply what is

necessary to win. That's instruction and that is

formation. To equip we leave with tools,

biblical understanding, spiritual posture, and practical

handles to give you some practical day-to-day handles and

biblical understanding of what the text is saying.

Equip if we if exposure reveals the war, equipping teaches us

how to fight correctly. There's a lot of Christian

people, families, we're fighting but not fighting correctly,

right? We're fighting hard, but we're

not fighting wise because many families are fighting hard but

fighting wrong. And then lastly, we want to

excite. We want to excite and that is to

awaken. Awaken courage and restore

expectation. Excite does not mean emotional

hype. I'm not here.

To it can be a somber ending, but you leave excited because

God did a deep work. How many people know that you

should start getting excited when God exposes you?

Somebody say exposure is a blessing.

It means prophetic ignition. To excite is prophetic ignition.

We want to leave you with a charge.

And then we remember who we are. We remember what God has

promised, and we remember how this really ends.

And then excitement is confidence in covenant.

Excitement is confidence in covenant.

Take 30 seconds with me and let's pray as a family, pray

that your neighbor hears what God has for us today.

We thank you ahead of time, Lord.

Thank you ahead of time, Lord, We receive it in advance.

We receive it in advance. If you are watching at home,

just receive it in advance. Lean in, take notes, take

screenshots. Hey man.

So two weeks ago, two weeks ago, we started a series called What

Family matters. The week before that we launched

our marriage worship encounters, which is every first Sunday

evening. And that was phenomenal.

And that was Marriage matters. And this year, we are committed

to discipling our marriages and our families.

You can bring that down some. You scare me.

Family matters from generation to generation.

That's where we started. And then Elder Brett, Elder John

came last week, last Sunday and did a phenomenal job.

Now I'm saying what I'm about to say, not because I'm not a good

student and not because I'm careless, but I want, I want to

say this ahead of time because if God repeats something today,

it's not because I watched Elder John's message last week.

I did not. I just trust Him.

I was busy doing what I was doing all week.

Time change and I went to bed every night in Toronto no

earlier than 230. AMI did not have time to watch

Elder John. I wouldn't have I I watched a

little bit, got a little, I had to overlook some, some of the,

the, the recaps that went up throughout the week.

So I got some of that. But trust them.

It's important because if God says something or repeat

something, you don't, you know, we're not sitting here talking

and then I'm coming up to say something, trying to be

prophetic. No, if God says something.

Neither did I have. Time to go listen to Elder

Brett. I'll trust them.

So if God repeats something, if he says something and maybe he

doesn't, but sometimes people instead of be able to receive

what God is saying, it's crazy that God speaks.

It's crazy that God confirms his word through multiple people and

they actually didn't talk. It's crazy.

You can sit in church and you God says something you've been

dealing with all week and you think somebody told your

business like like God wasn't where you was at.

Like no, no, no. Like how they know that?

God. Somebody say God.

So family matters from generation to generation.

Y'all pray for me because I am about to tackle something I've

never tackled in my life. I have stayed away from talking

about family because I have been trying to build 1 myself.

So I don't know. I, I, there's some things that I

felt I've had to go through and understand in order to come up

here as someone that can really, really teach you about family.

And I think I'm just about there to understand some stuff.

Where's Malia? Make sure she come out here.

Tell her I miss her face right here.

And and then right and and I I I I.

But it's so many layers. We can go so many different

places in talking about family. And if you're influenced by

where everybody else is talking about family, is it

relationships? Is it what?

What direction do you go? Do you want to go with messy

family? What do you want to do?

I want to do my best due to Apostolic nature and prophetic

nature in this house. I want to do my best to get to

the roots of the issue. Not just talk about the fruit

and get you hyped up because it's easy to talk about messy

family and get you like oh girl, Oh yeah, you all in my family.

No, no, no, that's good. But if but trying to eradicate

the enemy's plans and that's what we're after.

Now one last thing, 100% of the people in here, God is speaking

to us today and it's going to require you to listen for

yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to take you real deep to

understand what he's trying to get out, not out of you merely,

but out of your bloodline. OK, it could be your first day

here, it could be your last day here, but God got something for

you if you're what here. Family matters generation to

generation. One statement I will make from

that that that message was God is the architect, not culture,

not trauma. And not your effort.

God is the architect. Unless it unless the Lord builds

a house, he that builds it builds it in vain.

Don't care how smart you are, how much money you make.

Unless the Lord builds the house.

OK, here we go. Early formation shapes.

Reflex. OK, follow me.

I'm gonna throw a few. Few things out here early, and

if you can stick with me to the end, I promise you you'll walk

away with something early. Formation shapes reflex.

Early formation shapes reflex. What am I saying?

What you have to pay attention to, these first few things that

I'm throwing out is things that I want you to listen for to help

you shape your understanding throughout the message.

So when you see certain things, you're going to be old when that

was happening as a kid, that's form that's forming how I'm

parenting and how I'm living. Right, and God has not caused

any of us to modify inherited behavior.

Here's a modification. I'm not going to be like my mom.

I'm not going to be as broke as they were.

So you modify versus saying God, who am I?

Big difference. You are modifying your life

because you are saying I will not be like them.

I will not be a Christian like them.

No, no. Who has God called you to be?

And there's so many people living making sure they're not

that. If This is why I found out guys,

God will let you go all the way to your grave without you

correcting yourself. Here's it is He got you for

eternity. He good.

He will do everything to get you to turn, everything to get you

to transform, but he will not make us.

I will get there. I'm ahead of myself.

The curse may be broken, follow me.

But patterns must be exposed. OK, the curse may be broken.

We can declare that all day. But if the curse was broken, why

we still stink? Faith.

If the curse was broken, why are my families still a mess?

Because what we focused on is curse being broken, cross taking

it all. But what Jesus did not do is

break our patterns. He broke he he broke the curse

and he took the power of the enemy so that we can walk in the

power and authority to break these patterns.

Watch this The curse may be broken.

But. Patterns must be exposed.

Here it is. Once patterns are exposed,

patterns must be eradicated. It is not good.

For you, for the Lord to reveal something.

And sometimes the Lord don't have to reveal something wrong

with you. You know something wrong with

you? OK.

But what the Holy Spirit does, He takes us deep so we can get

to the root. Somebody say the root of it.

Once patterns are exposed, patterns must be eradicated.

Somebody say who? You telling families fracture

before the arguments? Who you telling church is split

before the votes? You.

You caught it. Marriages drift before the

papers. Children rebel before the

confrontations. Hearts drift before the

distance. Homes weaken before the

collapse, our pastor out in Cleveland said When they gone,

they gone. They don't.

Even matter if they still here when they made-up they mind,

they gone. Guess what?

They gone. See, we see the aftermath of a

decision that's already been made.

Families fracture before the arguments.

So before the divorce, the marriage was already over.

You fail to identify the cracks, the fracture, and deal with it

by the time the papers are submitted.

By the time the church is split, before the votes are submitted,

the people that voted already took the other side.

Marriages drift before papers are submitted, children rebelled

before the confrontations, hearts drift before the

distance, and homes weaken before they collapse.

Because environments are shaped before events ever explode.

It can't break if it didn't have the environment to support it.

Before divorce ever comes, before poverty ever comes, it

had to have an environment to live in.

This is why we take probiotics sometimes.

We create a good, healthy gut culture so certain things can't

live. It can't survive in our gut,

right? There's can't.

One of the major things that feed cancer is what?

Sugar the environment and what we don't realize.

You don't realize it later. Stay focused BT that's why you

did all these slides. OK?

Because environments are shaped before events explode.

Because cultures are established before the shaking.

When the wind blows and the shaking comes, it only reveals

what's rooted. Because cultures are established

before the shaking. Watch this.

That's not just, I'm not just talking about in in here.

I'm talking about in your house, in your life, in your biological

family and the family you are creating.

Because humanity fell before we were even cursed.

You realize that we fail before we were cursed.

We got cursed because we failed. Oh Lord, help us today.

Watch this because we hid before we ever repented.

Watch this. We're better hiders than we are

repenters. We're better excuse makers than

we are repentance. All God wants you to do is

repent, not say sorry. Repenting is not the same as an

apology. An apology is not the same as

repenting. Watch this.

Here it is just keep. Just throw these.

Throw these in there. Strongholds.

Let me help you. What a stronghold is.

Strongholds are arguments. The reason it has a grip on you,

you don't realize this, is because it argues for you.

It makes a case to stay in your life, whatever it is.

If you have something that is constantly cycling in your life,

it has convinced you it's OK to stay.

Strongholds are arguments and arguments are beliefs.

If the stronghold, well if it can stay and it has a strong

argument, then I begin to believe.

Again, my belief shapes my patterns.

Let me tell you, I was doing this message, I was repenting

the whole message and my patterns are.

Caught before they're ever taught.

Strongholds are arguments. That lie made an argument, you

believed it gave that lie a home and you have watch this.

You could be looking at some people and you think they

talking about you not because they messy but because you

insecure. But you only have an insecure

thought because every lie lives in a narrative, and that

narrative, until you break it, actually is your reality.

You can think somebody don't like you and watch this and you

go throughout your life blaming. People for not being there for

you or whatever. But you're not going way back to

where that abandonment issue was ever birthed.

So what you do is you go from place to place, people to

people, relationship to relationship, trying to find

someone to help you not deal with the stronghold.

I thank God I had, the pastors I had.

You can ask my wife, man, they made it hard for me.

To remain dependent on them in an unhealthy manner.

Watch this. The enemy had access to your

life before you were even born. You didn't have to do 1 sin for

the enemy to have access in your life.

Remember that. Remember that the enemy uses

generational evidence and data. Are you with me?

Stuff like your father was angry, right?

You. You know that.

Guess who else know that he know that?

But up like men in your family do not stay.

They don't stick around. What's this here?

Here are certain things some of us don't even realize.

We have certain cultural biases. So when we see a certain people

group, we automatically think a certain thing about that people

group, not even on purpose. Right, Let's let's just deal

with it. Sometimes you see somebody and

they can't drive and you don't see who not drive.

You don't see who driving but but but sometimes who can't

drive. It's a people group.

It's the people group or it's it's a gender, or when you see a

certain skin tone, or when you see a certain hairdo, or when

you see a certain thing, automatically you had this

narrative about that person because television or trauma has

framed your reality, even about people.

And instead of spending the time to get to know them, you already

draw conclusions. This is alive in the church.

This is alive in the workplace. This is alive in the world

because the enemy has been at work since the garden.

Watch this. It ain't just church people.

The enemy don't want humans to get along.

Men in your family not only got a few, but we can be here all

day. What?

What are some of these things? You'll never break this cycle

because no one has in your family.

What if I told you that you would literally be the first one

in your family to break this specific stronghold that's

generational? Like like, like nobody really

think that's why we need to become like warriors in the body

of Christ because he's trying to eradicate like, like I'm talking

about stuff. You get what I'm saying?

Like have you ever went to the family dinner or holiday and

everybody meant like there's some things in your family that

no matter they've been doing it for for years, man, I'll go,

I'll look, I'll go, I'll go. God bless my, my, my mom, my

auntie, but it don't even matter.

Just the people group and I can sit out at dinner and they all

going to talk over each other. And nobody mad though.

They just, that's just how they talk.

They just exciting. They talk over each other.

I'm like, wait a minute, that's kind of a problem.

Nobody's listening to anything. Like what are we doing?

But then you don't realize that because then that trinkles in

the church, that trinkles in the marriage that trinkles in.

Like, what are some things in your family?

You can you can be like, man, my brothers do this.

Like my father been doing this all my like, this is a family

thing. This is something that marks my

family. Who's going to get rid of it?

This is this this this this right here.

Who's going to break the pattern?

Flip the script. And shut the door.

Who's going to break the pattern, flip the script and

shut the door? Watch this, this, this is this

is not who's going to break the pattern on daylight?

But but it's it's a different work when you flip the script

and then shut the door so that same enemy can't plague your

family no more. Hey, you like, Oh my God, I got

to eat all healthy. But but, but cancer has not

skipped a generation in your family.

Like, like who in the family going to break the, the, the,

the diabetes pattern? Who, who gonna break that?

Who like, like, it's not just like it's anger, it's rage, it's

womanizing, It's, it's sexual immorality, it's abuse.

It's it's drugs. It's who's going to break it?

And we think the enemy is plaguing us and messing with us

just for us. This dude been in our bloodline

from the beginning. Here we go, God said.

Who told you that you were naked?

Y'all y'all with me today? I need y'all to be with me

today. Please.

Please. Who told you that you was naked?

Did you eat from the tree I told you not to eat from?

I'm not going to stay here, but you can be.

Did you eat from the lie? Did you eat from that?

Did you eat from the tree I told you not to eat from?

Watch this. Watch this guys.

The man said. The woman you gave me as a

companion, she gave me watch this, she gave me fruit from

that tree you told me not to eat from.

Guess what? And I ate.

It, Watch it, watch it, watch it.

She did not make him eat it. She presented it.

He ate. But watch this.

God didn't ask. Watch this, He said.

Who told you? His answer was she gave me that.

This is that God didn't ask you who gave you what.

He didn't ask you what was the root of your position?

He said. Who told Who told you something

different than what I told you? And his response wasn't somebody

told him. His response was somebody gave

me something and I just took a bite.

The devil told me a lie and I took a bite and watch this, the

devil is a liar. So he everything he tells you is

a what? So anytime he talking, he what?

So we're not trying to stop him from lying.

Tell the devil keep on talking. But I don't have to what?

Eat? I don't have to reek or earlier.

Remember early formation. It.

Creates reflex. What you don't realize is we

have reflexes, and our reflexes come from something that was

planted long time ago, right? This is a this is a reflex.

He's not answering God based on his question.

He's answering God based on his guilt.

Watch this, but watch this. Watch this what you have take

what have you taken and eaten that may have you hiding or even

hidden. So some of you like, I ain't

hiding, but let me help you. You're hitting you might not be

hiding from someone, but your true you is hidden from you.

You don't even know who you is. What have you taken and eaten

and been been digesting for years?

Believed it? Remember the argument?

If there's a stronghold, there's an argument.

And so you actually what what we don't have time today.

What we'll get to next week is you're going to actually have to

discover what you've made agreement with and you're going

to have to, for once in your life, disagree.

Not just verbally, but all your actions will have to change

towards this thing. Watch this.

This ain't just no declaration. Oh, I'm healthy from the crown

of my head to the soles of my feet.

OK, do something about it because your actions is still in

agreement with being unhealthy. You just confessing.

You didn't get saved by confessing.

You got saved by believing in your heart and confessing with

your tongue. That's why he say if you love

me. You obey me you can you can say

you love God all you want to, but how's your obedient life?

OK, here we. Go, Here we go.

Here we go. Watch this Genesis 3.

I want y'all to see this. The first response to sin in the

Bible was blamed. This is called the blame reflex,

and everybody in this room blame something or somebody at least

once a week. You don't, not even verbally,

just even in how you look at the situations you in or how you

feel the way you feel or why you feel the way you feel.

In our mind, there's a stronghold, there's a narrative.

I'm not where I need to be because somebody didn't open the

door for me. I'm hurt because of no, no, no.

What if I told 100% of us, there is something in your life that

you are blaming someone else for and the person that is to blame

ain't even alive no more. Before they just moved on with

your life. They didn't even know but what

the first recorded response to sin in human history.

This was Adam. Where are you?

Watch this. God asked him first.

He asked the woman. Then he got to the he asked the

leader first. He asked the man first what was

what's up? He blamed her.

Watch this. Watch how quickly it passes down

in the family. And she blames the serpent.

Oh, we going, we going, we going to get some help today.

The first Adam shifted responsibility.

The. Second, Adam embraced it, where

Adam said she gave me, Jesus said I'll drink that.

That's that's my cup of sin. Although I did not sin, I'm

going to take responsibility for they stuff.

First Adam shifted responsibility.

The second Adam embraced it. Here it is from the garden to

now. When something breaks, Troy

hurts or is disappoint, disappoints humanity looks for

someone else to point at external target.

There has to be a reason, there has to be.

God did it, God permitted it, or his sovereignty, or the devil

did it, or my Mama did it, or that rape did it, or that

injustice did it, or they don't understand me.

It's it. At the core of the fall was not

really the fall. It was the blame.

Adam's response was not one of repentance.

It was one of excuses. I am stuck where I'm at because

of. Instead of saying Lord, I repent

and return immediately. Watch this, watch this, watch

this. Guys, I hope you're ready for

this. I've never seen this in my life.

God's message to me. What do?

What do you people mean by going around the country repeating

saying the parents ate green apples?

Watch this. The parents ate green apples.

The children got the stomach ache.

We're not going to park here today, but this is in the

backdrop. The parents ate the sour apple.

The kids got the bellyache. Just remember this.

Watch this from history. Adam fell.

We all pan You. You.

You mean we. We couldn't.

Fix this long time ago, before I was born like we could.

We, we, I, we got to die right? Like you could.

No one man messed up. One man came to fix it.

But for thousands of years, guess what?

One man and the ripple effect throughout generations.

Watch this. The parents ate green apples.

The children got the stomach ache.

I was like, Dang, keep going. Blame was born in the garden and

by the time Ezekiel's day was, blame became a proverb.

Blame still is a proverb. Blame is why some of us stay

stuck longer. Than we need to stay stuck.

Do you know how intoxicating blame makes you?

Do you know the power you give away when you say they?

The reason I'm here you why I feel this So unless you change,

I can't watch this. So today's message is it ain't

my fault. How many people remember that

song, Natalie? You.

Yeah, I know you did. One person ever went to the

club, It well OK. I just, yeah, Amen.

It ain't my fault. OK?

OK, Bernadette. She she it ain't my fault.

It ain't my fault. Reclaiming the altar of my

family. Reclaiming the altar of my

family. Reclaiming the altar of my

family. Come on today, say that I'm

reclaiming the altar of my family.

Now watch this statement, though.

It ain't my fault. If you've ever said that, raise

your hand. Come on.

Participation points from heaven, right?

Listen, listen, This is this is real grown people stuff right

here. This is real grown people stuff.

It half of counseling sessions, half of it's, it's people having

to process stuff. Now watch this before we go.

It is people having to process stuff.

Is that they inherited, not they did.

So for a moment I want to tell you that there's certain things

that you've inherited that are not your fault.

Got that? It's nothing wrong with saying

it's not my fault. OK, this is a real tension.

It ain't my fault I was born in the family I was born in.

I was just born in it and God found fit for me to be in that

family that I don't feel like I fit in.

God saw fit for me to be born in the city I was born in.

The financial, the economic situation I was born in, the

year I was born in. God saw fit.

There is a lot of stuff that you were born into.

You did not ask. You did not ask for your

parents. Guess what?

They didn't ask for you either. They didn't ask for you either.

OK, watch this. All of us just had to get here.

God just had to get us here. And from the beginning he had a

plan that no demographic or geographical location can stop.

So it don't, it don't matter if you were adopted, it don't

matter if you were abandoned. It don't matter if you was rich.

It don't it does not matter. You could have been born into a

rich family so God could deal with you about the greed issue.

So you might be the person called to be the humble one in

your family and and and and break the the it's not the

wealth God is breaking in you. He's using you to get mad.

The spirit of Mammon out your bloodline and then he put you.

He put something in you before he put you in that.

Because whatever God put in me once he put me in my bloodline,

whatever God needed me to interrupt, I was born with.

So you can't look at all my family, my situation, and yet it

ain't my fault. But what if I submitted to you

today that you were born in the perfect family because God has a

perfect work to do through you? Watch this Some, some of us grew

up in houses. We did not design, we inherited

tempers we did not choose. Come on, this is your moment to

just to, to to blame somebody. Yeah, you, you know what?

My crazy attitude is not my fault.

Not my that's my Mama fault or my daddy fault, right?

Like like sometimes I know my Mama might be watching, but I'm

like, man, I can't let I got a stronghold with chips.

Like I just love chips. Watch this and then it'll be one

in the morning and Micah hop out the bed.

I'll be like, where you going? He'll walk back in with a bag of

chips and look at me like. What I got this from you and.

Then he's sitting next to me, crunching.

And I'm like, Dang, it ain't my fault.

No, no, no, no. Watch this.

It's chips, right? We know where too much fried

food can get you. I didn't ask for that.

I was born into that. Chips sound funny, but then you

add in fried food, you add in pork, you add in we not even

getting to other generational stuff.

You add in diets you inherited. And then you wonder why you

struggle with some of the things you struggle with with your

health. This is why this message is

important because you've been trying to get healed on the

surface. But God is like, I'm actually

trying to. If I just heal you from what you

dealing with, then whoever comes after you, the seed will still

be in the bloodline. Inherited tempers we did not

choose and we watched. Memory could be caught before

it's taught parents. You do not have to sit down and

tell. Your your kids don't have to see

you arguing. They don't have to hear you

cuss. Watch this.

You know how you like. I don't know where they got that

from. I promise you some of the stuff

you say, I don't know where they got that from.

You going to see this later? They got it from you.

We think that the multiplication of a stronghold should look the

same as my turn with it. Strongholds diversify themselves

from generation to generation, so it will manifest in a

different way if you never deal with it.

This is how the enemy will hide in the bloodline because you

dealt with it for how it manifests in your life, but you

didn't get to the root of it, so it's out of everybody life in

your bloodline. Come on, watch patterns that

you, you watched, patterns you didn't create, you watched.

It may not be my fault here, it is, but it is my responsibility.

Here's the turn. OK, here's the turn.

We have fun blaming other people, but it it's it, it may

not be my fault, but it is my responsibility.

It is my responsibility. Come on, just right where you

are, maybe just lift your hands up for a second, because even as

we talking, I sense the Lord. Dealing with some of us in a in

a unique way see this is one of the messages where you just got

to be able to articulate everything that's being said you

got to you got to receive the impartation because he's going

deep into some places that understanding can't even reach

my grandma and them used to sing a song that had these lyrics

you'll. Understand it better.

By and by, it may not be my fault, but but it is my

responsibility. Watch it.

The curse was on. Jesus to break Troy the patterns

is on me to shake the curse. We're right.

He broke the curse, but why you still stuck in the patterns?

That's on you. That's why he says I have

deprived the the world of power. He's done every he says all

power is given unto me. This is what making disciples is

all about to help you take your bloodline back and then watch

this and Peter, after you come back from your faith not

failing. Now go help somebody else curse

was on Jesus to break the patterns are on me to break here

it is the family. Remember what it was the family

you were born into the family you are you are creating this

family. You are creating this family and

it's the family God intended. What happens when responsibility

is ignored? P deal What?

What happens when responsibility is ignored?

Watch this. I want to repeat this.

You grew up in houses. You did not design inherited

tempers. You did not choose and watch

patterns. You did not create patterns,

multiply and diversify generationally.

The longer they stay in a in a in a bloodline, the harder they

become to detect because it changes faces every generation

or every several generations. This is why the devil loves

family who sweeps stuff under the rug.

He loves elephants in the rooms. He's just not going to talk

about that. And for what?

We good, we good, we got sweet potato pie, we got we good, we

healthy. God is good.

No, no, no, Second Samuel. Here it is now.

We're going now. We're going to dive in now.

We're going to dive in now. Therefore the sword will never

depart from your house. David, because you despise me

and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.

God tells David the sword will never depart.

Depart from your house. Somebody say never.

And when God say never, what does that mean?

Never. The sword will never depart from

your house. Watch this.

How did David get here? How did you get here?

How did we get here? How did how did I get to this

dysfunctional place? Watch this watch this now we now

we about to see we about to go back to chapter 10 and we about

to see where the now therefore the sword will never depart from

your house. Watch this Chapter 11 in the

spring at the time when kings go off to war.

At time in the spring, at the time when kings go off to war.

David sent Joab out with the King's men and the whole

Israelite army. Watch this.

They destroyed the Amorite and besieged Rabbi.

Watch this. But David remained in Jerusalem.

This is the time where kings go out in war.

David decided to stay home and be comfortable.

This is the season Kings go to. This is what Kings do.

This is time. This is the time the Kings do

what they do. It's like in the summer.

Baseball has pre season and and and spring training.

This is what they do at this time.

This is what the Kings do. They go out on a King campaign

and they wore David instead of going sent somebody to do what

he was assigned to do. Watch me talk about how we get

here and This is why. This is why the enemy love

people making church community and not about true discipleship

and accountability. Watch this.

Because when we're out of alignment and purpose, it

impacts our entire life. It's not this purpose thing.

And he does a good job trying to separate ministry from family.

Well, if you do family well, you do ministry well.

They go hand in hand, just like the enemy trying to separate

state and church. What do you mean David remained

in Jerusalem? Watch this.

He is the king in title, but absent in assignment.

He got the title, he got the position, he got the anointing,

he got the church. But the assignment part of it

he's laying down. Watch this.

And before he's ever out of bounds, morally, he is out of

place. Some of us don't connect our

immorality. We don't see the redemption in

serving God. You think your assignment is

about your gifts and your talent.

Your assignment is a part of your salvation.

You don't know how much serving God saves you.

You don't know how much being rooted in a church saves you.

You don't know how much pressing into certain relationships will

change your life before he is out of bounds morally, he is out

of place positionally and RV says, but David remained in

Jerusalem. Watch this Watch this.

This is the following verse. David decides to stay home while

his boys is out at war. Following verse one evening

while David chose the season to be comfortable, David got up

from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace and

from the roof he saw. Watch this.

If he was in his assignment, he wouldn't have been on the roof.

Watch this if he was on his God assignment, he would have missed

the devil's assignment. You see how being in God's will

saves you from the devil's from the from the roof.

He saw a woman bathing somebody say he saw because you about to

see a pattern. He saw a woman bathing and David

sent say he saw and then say he sent he sent someone to find out

about her. The man said she is Bathsheba,

the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

Uriah is his is is one of his soldiers.

We find that out later in Second Samuel 23, like it's one of the

soldiers. Then David sent messengers to

get her. She came to him because he ain't

got nothing but time on this and everybody out.

Warren, she came to him. Watch this.

He sent, he saw, he slept. You see this pattern in the

garden. He saw, she went, she ate.

See when your eyes aren't this why Jesus say get your eyes.

Fixed on me. Fixed.

Never take them Fixed on me. He slept with her.

Now she watch this. She was purifying herself from

her monthly uncleanness. Then she went back.

Y'all know what that is? Right?

OK. Then she went back.

Home, the Bible, talk about it all.

OK. Then she went back home.

OK, watch this When calling is ignored, appetite grows louder.

Talk to me, somebody. When calling is ignored,

appetite grows louder. Appetite grows louder when

calling is ignored. Here it is.

Bathsheba was not obligated by covenant to sleep with him.

I just want to deal with some doctrinal stuff because you can

be like he watch this. This was a power imbalance and

it's why you can see God dealt with him, not her.

OK, she was not obligated to sleep with him by covenant, but

he did. But but she did know if you say

no to the king, you can get publicly embarrassed.

There's some repercussions. She was vulnerable under power,

moving right along. David did not fall because he

was tempted. He failed because he was

ungoverned. This is back to peace.

He did not fall because he was tempted.

Stop blaming temptation. No, your soul is not governed,

right? He had nobody to be accountable

to. He, he he was king.

So he sent somebody and somebody was like, OK, don't you know

that's your boy's wife? OK, since you say so King, he

fell because he was ungoverned. Let's keep going.

Verse 27 after the time of mourning was over, David had her

brought to his house and she became his wife and bore him a

son. But the thing David had done

displeased the Lord, right? This this brother this he didn't

he didn't just he this sin led him to murder.

Although he didn't do it. He set the man up.

He look, look, look. And then now he got it to

herself. Now he marry her.

Now there's his wife. What what?

Watch this. We giving you the story.

But I want you to just see how long stuff stays in bloodlines

and how they diversify. We going somewhere.

But the thing David had done displease the Lord.

OK, if you go read this, God was silent in Chapter 11, but it

doesn't mean he was absent. Watch this silence is not God

approving what you're doing. OK, Understand God, this is very

important. God was displeased.

Now here we go verse 13, chapter 12.

Then David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.

Nathan replied. The Lord has taken away your

sin. Just remember this, the Lord has

taken away your sin. Somebody say grace now we can go

back. No, no, no, we don't stay right

here. So.

Then we go back to the Scripture we came from verse 10.

The sword will never depart. Wait a minute.

I thought God forgave me. You got to see this.

I thought God forgave him. He did.

Verse 13, Verse 10, he said, but the sword will remain in your

house. We think because of grace we

could just act the fool. The Bible tells us do not take

grace in vain. So you are forgiven, but the

sword remains in your house. Let me keep going.

Let me keep. Going watch this?

That's consequence, somebody said consequence.

There's consequence. You saved, but you got fruit the

sword watch this the sword went from cutting Goliath head off to

now being in his house. Now now y'all remember this

scripture Let's go let's let's skip forward to to why David was

even that the lineage of David you see now why Jesus said don't

think I've come to make life cozy.

I've come to cut make a sharp knife sword cut between son

father dark the sword David has to remain in your house, your

bloodline. Jesus said I came to fulfill the

word. So as much as I've given you

grace, the sword is in your house, the fruit from your sin,

the fruit from your action. Watch this you the wages of sin

is death. So you have been freed from that

eternal damnation, but while you're living, do not think that

we don't have an obligation to change behavior, or else I will

have to deal with the fruit of my sin.

And when I'm dealing with the fruit of my sin, that is not God

mad at me, nor is it God removing His grace.

It's just the fruit of my sin. It is not the response of God to

my sin. So don't blame God.

Watch this. And it ain't the fruit of the

devil. It's the fruit of yo sin.

It ain't God, it ain't the devil.

It is some stuff that got your Mama, got your daddy.

Now it's rearing. It's rearing in your life and

now you got to deal with it. And then I apologize to my kids.

This is why I was in this middle.

I'm like, oh, it may not look the same, but I wish I would

have dealt with this earlier because by by default, my kids

saw patterns and thank God our family is doing the work.

But do not think because your kids little, there is not

patterns being imparted. Your kids have your rhythm.

They know when to wake up. They know when the when it's

quiet in the house, there's a rhythm.

They're spiritual beings and they're they're they're beings

of impartation. You see Jesus like man.

I've come to cut. It's going to be funk in the

family. Watch this.

So here it is here it is Elder John hope you all ready watch

this. You see David second Samuel 13.

Now we keep reading Amnon violates tomorrow.

Who is Amnon? This is David's first son.

Is that his first son? Who is Tamar Amna's half sister?

Are we doing halves? David got a bunch of half

siblings, half babies. He and Bathsheba first baby

died. Then there was Solomon,

Solomon's Bathsheba, and David's second baby.

We ain't gonna get to Solomon yet, but Amnon for his first

rapes. His, his, his, his, his, his

sister. Watch it.

Watch. Man, there's so much here.

Watch this. Then Absalom.

That's a whole nother leadership conversation.

Absalom murders Amnon. Watch this because David didn't

deal with it. Oh, and why?

And I hope we got some time to understand why David didn't deal

with because now if we looking at this generational thing, what

happened when David was young that caused him to be so

insecure? Oh, let's go.

He wasn't invited to the anointing rejection.

Minimize looked over. Watch this.

He went down to get his brothers lunch.

They're dealing with this Goliath thing and his brothers

like what you doing here? His siblings minimize him.

So David is dealing with rejection as a young man.

So then we got to look at when they're just bragging on him,

this spirit of flattery is sent to him and it's like, look, it's

all killed this and you killed 10.

Like David the man. What?

How many of us, the orphan spirit, we love to be flattered.

Look at how much better you are. So the enemy's working on his

insecurities, working on his abandonment issues, working on

his rejection. Then his daughter gets raped.

And because he can, he, he's so sensitive and understanding that

this young girl, what it feels like to be minimized and

underappreciated and undervalued.

He's so compassionate. Justice has no place to even

protect his daughter. So watch this.

David's silence brings rage to his son.

And then his son handles the business the father didn't.

Let's sweep it under the rug. You calm down, Absalom.

I know like, like you got to love your brother through it.

When I think about it, my kids where there's times where

there's some stuff you just you, you peace is the route.

And then there's some stuff you got to defend your kids, got to

hear you defend them and take up for them because you don't

realize your silence, what it speaks to them.

And they might not in that moment be like, oh, you, you

didn't say nothing. No, no, no.

Something enemy is keeping record and one day something's

going to come up and the enemy's.

Going to say. Remember your dad didn't even

take up for you. Then these whispers in your your

your mom didn't even your your dad, your mom didn't remember

that one thing you remember. Remember how your mom was

talking to your grandma? Remember how your dad was

talking to your mom like your mom, he don't even love.

And now they're shaping how they going to do marriage.

Oh, they don't see intimacy, they don't see flirting.

They don't see. And there's some, there's some

wisdom sessions. We did a wisdom session in

Toronto and Malachi was sitting right there and the the couple

listen, listen. And the couple was talking about

there's a super joyful couple and, and all that.

And they were like, yeah, sometimes we even take showers

together because. And I was like, yeah, yeah.

Like you, you guys like sometimes you're running out of

time for work and you guys need to share the shower, right?

And it was like, yeah, and Mali is over there, but there's some

time and then watch this. There's some time in the wisdom

session and Mali's there and I'll say what you think.

Why? Because he has wisdom from just

watching. So tell a couple to get the

perspective from the kid, because one thing they're going

to get from the kid is honesty. Malia be like, yeah, my mom and

daddy sitting here telling you all this good wisdom, they don't

even apply it they self, right? No, this is has to be actually

intentional because watch this. If you are not reforming

patterns, you are establishing the ones that are already there.

This is work. You, you like see that in your

kids. You like, oh, that's why you got

to be careful what you spank them for because they it

confuses them because they're like, wait a minute, I got this

from you. Watch this and then Second

Samuel 15. Absalom rebels.

All of these sons I'm mentioning tried to take David's throne.

One tried to kill him and then Adonijah attempts the throne as

David was getting older. These are all his.

These are all his sons, mind you, and they're half siblings.

Absalom's rebellion can't be blamed on David, and David's sin

can't be blamed on Jesse. Watch this.

But unaddressed dynamics in one generation becomes environment

or culture for the next. Unaddressed stuff, unaddressed,

unaddressed. This is why I tell people, man,

it's cool. You can have that sip you if you

want to guess what your kids doing, they watching that you

might just be having a glass a night.

But guess what that's telling your kids it's OK to drink now,

depending on what the enemy's been sitting there waiting for,

watching your sip. It gives them permission and

then their permission turns into addiction.

This is why you got to deal with that, right?

This is why it wasn't just church and call.

I was like, I can't smoke no more.

I can't do that no more. It ain't just about me, It's

about y'all. It's about my kids.

No, no, no, we can't curse and not no, we can't.

No, no, no, no, they can't. No, no, no, no.

This is not about to be our regular language in the house.

So we got to be. We're battling.

We're trying to cut this stuff out because there's going to be

a day where we not there. You want to talk inheritance?

Thanks mom and dad for the bank account.

But the patterns you left me, I'm going to blow that money.

I'm going to buy sex with that money because of the patterns

you left me. So then you wonder why some kids

will squander an inheritance? David is overlooked.

Then he overlooks tomorrow's justice.

David is overlooked and he overlooks tomorrow's justice.

David is overlooked, and then he overlooked his daughter's

justice. Watch this.

David wasn't taught how to fight for his kids because they didn't

fight for him. He was invited last.

I'm invited to the I'm invited to the party because the prophet

told you it ain't none of them. Dad, you don't think I'm I'm I'm

I can, I can do this. You don't think I'm worthy

enough to be in the line with all my brothers?

And then the brothers believe that.

So then when David show up, they're like what you what you

here for? To save y'all, but because I'm

anointed to deal with the Giants, you're not.

All right, let me hurry. Let me hurry now.

Therefore the sword will never depart from your house.

You got to get this. OK.

David saw and took Solomon. Accumulated and multiplied.

Now we own the Solomon. What was Solomon's issue?

Watch this. We've never heard.

I've never heard this. We often talk about Solomon for

his wealth and wisdom, but we don't talk about the excess.

The women, the wives, the concubines, hundreds watch this

and let's deal with this. We think because it's in the

Bible, God permitted watch this. There is descriptive text and

there is prescriptive text. Descriptive text is I'm just

putting in the Bible describing what actually happened, but I

don't permit that to you. Prescriptive text is you need to

do this in order to get that seek me first in my Kingdom.

That's prescriptive. David having 19 kids, Solomon

having 300 wives or what? 700 wives, 300 concubines?

That is descriptive. That ain't prescriptive.

Watch this. Nowhere you see in the Bible a

man having more than one wife. Anything good happened?

OK, tell, tell me where? What?

OK, Abraham, the boy, his wife said go ahead and sleep with

her. He like, OK, you notice in the

Bible it didn't. He didn't say you sure?

She said go sleep with her. He was like, OK, say less.

Well, watch this. He births Ishmael.

He births Isaac. He births drama and tension in

his house. Watch this watch this.

So watch this. You see David different

expression. Watch this different expression,

David and Solomon, different expressions, same root.

Some of you have a different expression than mom and dad, but

you have same root. So you might not abandon like

mom and dad did. You might not steal like mom and

dad did. You might not, but it's going to

manifest in a different way. Watch this.

Here's the spirit. The spirit don't come to do

nothing but steal, kill and destroy no matter how it needs

to happen. He's killing, stealing to

destroy him. So focusing on if it looks like

Mamas did is the wrong thing to focus on.

Is it killing, stealing and destroying him?

He says unmanaged desire under authority.

He had unmanaged desire, but he had authority.

As Solomon grew old, watch it, His wives turned his heart after

other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord

his God as the heart of David, his father had been.

It's crazy. David had a heart after God.

He was the man after God's own heart.

But he couldn't even finish the temple.

Watch this. Solomon wasn't even supposed to

be next in line, but God ordained it because it said the

man. Because of all this junk, the

man that builds my temple has to be a man of wisdom and peace.

And that was Solomon's demeanor. Ain't it crazy how God will

choose you even if you ain't next?

He'll choose you because He put a demeanor on you that he needs

to clean some stuff up and his brothers was jealous and they

were trying to hurry up and do it.

So This is why you see the man he's saying, David, you have to

hurry up. You have to hurry up and put

Solomon in there because his brothers trying to do trying to

steal the spot. So then Solomon, but then his

fall was excess. So David's was David's fracture

was external conflict. Solomon's fracture was internal

compromise. The sword in David's house was

violence. The fracture in Solomon's reign

was idolatry. You see this, The sword made the

crack. Then the crack showed up in the

in the next generation in a different form, but same root.

Nobody dealt with the root. I don't care if your parents

ain't alive. Guess what?

The enemy has a root. I don't care if you don't live

in the same country, the same city as your family.

There's a root. You was raised by them, there's

a root. And then if you got the blessing

to walk with your family and your parents while they're

alive, you need to ask questions and do the work.

This is why family is so important to stay together as

long as possible. Because here it is 18 get out.

What do they leave? They get a college degree, but

guess what? They got the root and they're

not at home. The parents ain't dealing with

it. It can't be exposed and

everybody go, they separate way and it's not an enemy.

If I can divide them, I can keep the roots in, I can keep the

fracture in the family and then I can get the grandkids and I

can get the great grandkids. We see these other more Kingdom

countries. They stay together as families.

We call it control. No, no, no, from the beginning.

Want to talk about control? How much control has the enemy

had over your life? Unmanaged appetite never dies,

it only evolves. You can turn that off.

Unmanaged appetite never dies quietly.

It evolves. If you do not govern desire,

desire will govern generations. Some of y'all, you might

struggle with sexual stuff, you might struggle with drugs, you

might struggle with greed, you might struggle with

insecurities, you might struggle with codependency, whatever.

And sometimes you could be like, wait a minute, watch this, This

is how crazy it is. You'll be like, she didn't get

that or he didn't get that from me.

But then you see the grandmama walk in and you see the kid and

the grandmama or the grandpa in the same room for a couple weeks

or a day and you like, Oh my God, they besties you like, Oh

no, that's great. Let let grandpa be grandpa.

He called, he anointed you. So when you take your babies and

grandpa go that way and Lou won't go that way, how you raise

your child, you got to deal with that because you're like, Oh,

that's skipped a generation. That's on my kid.

That's on my grandkids. That that that Greek, whatever

it may be, you got to you know what it is.

And then this is how you got to look at what your brother, your

siblings deal with you. You can pray with them with

accuracy. There did.

Your brother and sister is dealing with generational stuff

and you mad at them. You mad at them, but your daddy

didn't deal with stuff. How fair is it now?

Your brother dealing with it or your sister dealing with it and

you're expecting them to deal with something?

They don't have a clue of how they got it.

It ain't they fault, but maybe if you get some revelation, you

can have a conversation. You can pray for them

effectively. We're not just praying for

people to change. No, we're trying to uproot

stuff. Eventually what you refuse to

confront God will allow to fracture, and it's even deeper

when it's disguised in religion. Watch this guys.

Can I, can I, can I help you? There are certain ways I was

raised and certain ways I wasn't raised but needed to be raised,

which impact how I lead. What if people had more grace

for pastors while God worked the stuff out of them?

Did I say this message? This message had me on my knees.

It had me some tears because this ain't just for you.

This is for me. I will not preach nothing to you

that wasn't for me. And I'm like, Dang.

So then you wonder why it takes the wilderness because do you

know what patterns was created in Egypt and you want to hurry

up and get to the promise. No, we got to take the long

route because we got some long stuff to get out of you and you

so focused on promise and blessing and breakthrough

verses. Wait a minute, God exposed in me

what has been hidden from me and have been hidden from my family.

Watch this, some of our parents and family members never even

had the language because it was how they was raised depending on

the culture. Man some of you got

grandparents, great grandparents fresh out of slavery.

When you got people fresh out of slave slavery they weren't even

allowed to read y'all. So not only did they have not

had a language, but Bibles was kept from folks.

So then we get in all these relationships with people, these

biracial relationships and all that and we don't have no

understanding that when I get married to a person that's not

of my culture, I'm at a disadvantage because I married

you to partner with God about your life.

And then I don't understand your struggle and and your people

struggle and what you've had to endure with your Mama, your

grandma. I don't even know your

grandfather. I don't even know and don't like

for me, My, my, my, my wife ain't never met my grandfather

because I barely met him. He died when I was 1.

So then what about when you don't have information and it

has to be revealed? How is it revealed?

Man, pay attention to your. House pay attention to your

children. Pay attention to what come next

week, we're going to deal with this stuff.

We're going to ask some questions that allow us to, to

maybe I'll give you the questions at the end here, but

we, we have to actually ask certain questions because here

it is. How do you re what is the reflex

when certain things happen? When, when accountability comes?

How do you reflex on the inside? I don't care if you say yes,

Sir, yes, ma'am. What's the reflex?

What do you get offended about? What kind of things do you

question? What is your process before you

ever come to a place to surrender or submit?

What happens? Watch this.

When you hear the word submit, where'd that come from?

You don't even know me. You don't even know EJ.

Can we for one minute stop looking at the people in front

of us and look back, Look at the long line of pain, watch this

and the long line of ignorance that we was raised under, the

long line of abuse. And it was.

Just, I'm sorry, we sweep it under the rug.

They, they got help for them, but they didn't get help for the

gender. So, so who's going to rise up?

That person got help, but did they deal with it spiritually?

So who's going to be the abuser next?

Because some stuff ain't popping off in your bloodline because

you know too much. But when you die, who's leading

the family with knowledge? Who did you want to talk about

leaving behind something for your kids?

What if you left your kids? Revelation that there's just

some stuff, Troy, that will never know about our families

for someone like myself or someone for some of you in here,

there's some stuff we'll never know about our culture ever.

There's languages that belong to us that we'll never know.

But then God put you in this earth at that time that you

would never know. So how does the revelation of

how to deal with this? Because I'm parenting based on

my reference and then we all want to act like we doing such a

good job. You are doing a good job, but

you can do a good job and still leave patterns in your because

the world tells you a good job is provide.

We see as you go forward. We'll get there next week.

Man, how Solomon wasn't even able to handle it.

Watch this and then Solomon's son.

He's like we're. We're whole of them.

He's in there. Solomon's son, he couldn't even

handle it. He had 10, he had 10.

He lost 10 of them. He lost he he had 12.

He lost 10, 10 tribes, 10 kings he lost and he had to give them

over. They had to be split.

And you see this in chapter first Kings 11.

This stuff is taken and it's lost.

Watch this. The kingdoms that one generation

got were lost at the next. Because it was never dealt with,

it was just swept under the rug. So let me tell you something

guys, the choices you make and the work that you do.

You not going to be living forever and your kids all they

going to have. I don't care how much money you

leave them if you don't leave your kids.

A revelation of God's plan for your bloodline, the strongholds,

your kids seeing you and your you and your spouse seeing

change, broken, having conversations, exposing the

enemy to them. Teaching them how to pray,

warring for them. It's a war, man.

We're soldiers. And tonight, man, if you are one

of the lovers, man, I beg you to come tonight because we're going

to deal with something that's just about to make some stuff

clear. If you want to be a leader in

this, how do you want to serve in any capacity here in the near

future? Come tonight, 6:00 PM.

But man, here's one thing that's clear, it's we're a discipleship

making church, which means accountability.

And watch this. Don't think we're not the

cycling because we don't have discipleship groups or certain

things of that nature right now. We're in the process of some

things, but God's getting on my butt.

I can't apologize about certain things.

We're growing, we're learning. There's no blueprint, There's

no, there's nobody to say run this play, here's this book.

Do like this. No, no, no, no.

We're a discipleship making church watch this.

And that requires accountability.

No matter what accountability has been abused by other people.

We can't again, narratives, reflexes, caution.

It's just like no. And you're starting to hear, no,

we need to make disciples because it's it's getting

dangerous. Here's the the Bible didn't say

make community. We're going to deal with that

tonight because community is important.

Watch this. But community watch this Malia

community was always a byproduct of unified obedience.

Watch this. Where's Scripture.

Jesus says my mother and my brother is those who do my

father's will. How much of Jesus we take and

how much we leave off. Show me where discipleship was.

He said make disciples and out of that forms community.

Watch this because there is a move happening and watch this

Jesus saying, man, I'm in here doing my father's business.

There's a, there's a unified obedience like like, like these

two, 2, two young couples right here, elder Roseanne, elder man,

me and my wife been discipling them for for a while.

And because they have allowed us to they they, they, they're,

they, they got grown kids and there's things that watch this.

The beauty of them submitting to me and my wife as their pastors

allows us to submit to them because they have stuff to give

us too. There's a great exchange here.

Watch this. But God is not calling us to

debunk the order He put in place.

And we're in a time and place where I don't think discipleship

is necessarily the priority. I'm not talking about what we

articulate. I'm talking about look at the

pattern and where's the dissonance and where's the

offense and where's these different things coming from

when it, when you're dealing with discipleship, look at

Jesus. There's no that you can't have

spiritual authority and no accountability.

They go hand in hand and those that you're called to submit to,

they have to submit too, because at at at, at bare minimum,

they're giving account to God for how they watched.

Over your soul. So like my wife said a while

ago, we we we Chick-fil-A, not Taco Bell.

And what was she saying in that? Is that you have to be OK that

you don't offer everybody everything.

And just be faithful over the ones that want chicken.

We love you, 2026. We're going to war with those

that want a war with us. We're going to fight for family.

We're going to fight for the next generation.

God's doing some great things, really great things, but he

wants our families whole. And if you're down with that,

give God some praise. Come on, we could do better than

that. Give God some praise.

Sorry I took a little longer. I, I, that's what happens when I

leave and go away and then I just get all full and have stuff

to say. And, and, but I also feel like

if there's any topic to be urgent about is this family

because we don't, we don't just want family.

We want, we want healthy family and we want biblical family and

we want biblical community and we want, that's what we want.

My wife and I love you guys and praying for you guys all the

time and lift your hands. I just speak blessing over your

family, over your children, over your children's children,

children's children. Speak blessing over your

marriage. If you are married, I believe

you can. It doesn't matter what you're

going through, you can. I think the war is so deep in

our families because. No one, Danny, no one had the

knowledge. The Revelation are like, oh

crap. What if I told you you're it

because you actually have the key?

You're actually hearing a word in Revelation that brothers and

sisters and fathers, even if they were pastors, never heard.

Don't let the enemy take it. You have the key to at least

unlock next. Generations in your family.

So I just declare by the by, by, by the name of Jesus, by his

blood in the spirit. I just in the spirit realm hand

you the key. I hand you a key to unlock the

gates in your bloodline that what has held family members for

generations. It be broken starting with you.

You own that starting with you. It may have ran in my family,

but when it ran into me, Hallelujah, you didn't ran into

the wrong. 1 You shouldn't have never let me stay alive.

You shouldn't have never let me get out that car accident.

You shouldn't have never let me get out that abusive

relationship. You shouldn't have never let me

get out of poverty. You shouldn't have never let me

get past year 10 in my marriage. You shouldn't have never let me

get my high school diploma. You shouldn't have never ever

let me break those chains. You shouldn't have never.

And I don't know what it is for you, but take at least 60

seconds at least. And there's some things that God

has brought you out of that the devil is mad as hell.

You shouldn't have never let me get that revelation.

You shouldn't have never let me get to church today.

You shouldn't have never let me start serving.

You shouldn't have never let me get that seed to sow You

shouldn't have never let me wake up this morning.

I'm up now. I'm up now.

I know too much now. I know too much now.

Revelation is not just in me, but it's in my bloodline.

You are the portal. That new revelation has gotten

into your bloodline. Hey, I make this promise to you.

Your bloodline will never be the same.

It will never be the same. Disease will not have a chance.

We break addiction now. That's right.

Now I need some some prayer warriors.

My grandmama used to pray for me.

I didn't even know she was praying for me.

But I know now. Pray for future generations.

Pray for your nieces and your nephews.

Pray for your grandchildren. Pray for your newborns.

Uproot now in the name of Jesus. Overthrow now in the name of

Jesus. In the name of Jesus, be gone.

Be gone. Be gone, be gone, be gone, be

gone. The days of the enemy stealing

and killing and destroying end today.

In the name of Jesus Come on, if you ready to take it back by

force, lift your voices. The day of him stealing and

killing and destroying is over. Give me my children back.

Give me my finances back. Give me my give me my my sanity

back. Give me my purity back.

Give me my peace back. Give me my joy back.

In the name of Jesus, come on. We take it back.

We take it back. Fathers will have relationships

with their sons. Mothers will have relationships

with their daughters. We prove we rebuke the vision in

the home today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, the song say I'm not

looking back again. I'm never looking back.

I'm I'm not going to stop running.

I'm broke free. I'm not going to stop running.

Come on, I'm pressing who's who's in here?

I'm pressing towards. The mark of the high calling.

No more low calling. I'm pressing towards the mark of

the high calling. Come on, I want to come against

generational mental illness in the name of Jesus.

If that's you, you just open your mouth where you are and you

come against it and you rebuke it and you let you.

Right now you speak to the root of that mental illness.

Lord, reveal to us where that door opened.

If it was abuse, come on. We rebuke that mental illness

now that came in the door of abuse.

Yeah. We come against that

schizophrenia. We come against that bipolar in

the name of Jesus. We come against manic

depression. Come on, call it out.

If you know it's in your bloodline, call it out in the

name of Jesus. Call it out in the name of

Jesus. It will not skip a generation.

It ends now. I am the intercessor for my

bloodline. Intercede for your bloodline.

Stand in the gap for your bloodline.

The spirit of death be broken. The spirit of death be broken.

The spirit of death be broken. I want to I want to help

somebody identify something really quickly.

I want to help somebody identify something really quickly.

You can identify with a spirit of death in your family in your

family. I'm not going to have you own it

just in your family. If you've ever raised your hand,

if you can identify the spirit of death in your.

Family. OK, I don't know.

Who this is going to help, but I do feel the sense in my spirit.

Of Lord for one of those doors that.

Brought in the spirit of death was someone in your bloodline

had multiple abortions. OK, if it was you, let me tell

you you're free. But but but what I want you to.

But you could probably trace it back to mom.

You could probably trace it back to to to to to grandma, auntie

sisters, watch this, watch this. You could also probably trace it

back one of you to a story your mom told you that her mom or she

almost aborted you. I don't know.

If you're in here, if you've ever heard that test, not even

testimony, you've heard that from your parents, that they

almost aborted you. Anybody ever hear that?

Raise your hand, Yeah. This is you got to shake that

like even hearing those words, you just you didn't register the

way you think it did. But that's like, wait a minute,

you even like that was even an option.

That was a thought. And so there's certain things

that you were called to fight for that you don't fight for

because you're immune to rejection.

You're immune to that spiritual thing.

Like David, he was immune to rejection.

So when his daughter was rejected, he kind of wrote it

off. Like I understand versus that's

not supposed to happen. Spirit of death Maybe someone in

your family you heard of has committed suicide.

Maybe your mom was suicidal, your dad was suicidal.

Your sisters, the siblings was suicidal.

But abortion is not just about babies.

It's death. It is cutting off the future of

a bloodline. It is.

It is. It's not merely we.

This is not a political topic right now.

We're talking about different ways the enemy has creeped into

your bloodline, and we've just written stuff off because we've

coped, we've modified behavior. But it's OK right now in this

moment to say, man, that's not my fault, but I'm taking

responsibility today for you. You got mental illness in your

bloodline and the only thing some of your family members did

is take medication. They didn't war against it.

They just took medication. Some, some diseases run in your

bloodline and they're like, we're not warned against that.

We're just going, we're going to get a marijuana card.

Well, marijuana is not going to take take away the root.

Alcohol is not going to take away the root.

We're going to take this next 5 minutes.

If you got to go, you got to go. Watch this I want you to divide

your 5 minutes and at least the first two minutes.

I want you to pray for the people who you say is not my

fault, it's they fault you got the silent anger about it.

Why didn't you defend me? Why wasn't you there and watch

this? They could have probably never

been there. They probably could never

physically help you. But there's there's an

expectation you had for them that you was just like, oh, if

this happens in my life, they're going to be there and enemies

like see, they wasn't there for you.

That is a lie and that is an argument that you need to

refute. So you're going to take the

first two minutes and you are going to pray for that person

that has hurt you, that has raped you, that has harmed you,

and you're going to let that go because before we can get to yo

bitter yo your roots, you got to deal with the root of

bitterness. Why wasn't you there for me?

Why did you leave my mom? What I'm saying is that ain't my

fault. Is like, well, if it ain't my

fault somebody got to pay because I've been suffering with

this thing. This not having a dad in my life

has manifested in some ways. I've been good.

But guess what? Elder John, my Mama was smart to

put me in sports. She she kept me at the church

house. So you don't realize what grace

covered, but patterns still exist.

Pain still exist. But I remember the day where I

had to be like, yeah, these insecurities, this codependency

that I have is I was raised by women.

My dad wasn't there, and no woman can replace the father.

Sorry, that kid does not have both parents.

Something's going to sprout up in their life.

And if they don't got both parents getting along, this is

what we come to church for. This is discipleship.

So some of you got to let some stuff go and you got to repent

in your heart. Sometime repentance takes the

route of admitting I'm actually angry.

You actually did. If you're a young lady, you, you

actually didn't hug me as much as I wish you hugged me.

So I look for affection this way.

Or I mean, my dad didn't wasn't in my life.

And so I'm dealing with anger and my anger is redirected this

way. But I'm actually really angry

that that happened to my dad and I'm really angry that that

happened to my mom. I'm really angry about the abuse

that I saw in my house, my household.

There was a time I wish, and I'm not saying this, but there might

be you, man. There was a time I saw my mom

get hit and I wish I could have killed my dad for that one

moment. The spirit of murder rised up in

you, that rised up in you. If you've ever felt like I want

to kill you and what you're about to pray about has already

been dealt with before you pray the.

Prophet of the House has something to say 1.

Other thing I want to, you know, on abortion, it's not just a

woman's thing. Yeah.

If you got somebody pregnant and you sit them to get of abortion,

that's a man's thing. Yes, Sir.

It goes both sides. Yes, Sir.

And too often we focus on women and the choice they make.

We don't focus on the man who permitted, the man who started

it, the man who authorizes, the man who wanted it.

Even if they didn't say yes, they were relieved that she did

it, even though I didn't have a say so in it, that same spirit

of abortion and death can come on the men as well.

So let's not forget that component.

Let's not forget that space and that participation.

Whether you've paid for it, whether you've driven it,

whether you've supported it, it still rides on that part of your

family as well. So if your hands right where you

are, OK, you can put your hands down.

There's one other thing too, is this is that the women's who've

had abortions and you've never told the man.

So there's a spirit attached to to these guys who don't even

know. Maybe you never even told me you

were pregnant because you didn't want to deal.

And so there's this spirit of death that's entered into

bloodlines of people that that don't even know exactly where it

comes from. It doesn't excuse what the men

did, doesn't excuse whether they left or abandoned.

It doesn't excuse their irresponsibility, but it is

opening the door likewise, and that could be some of your

father's, that could be some of your brothers, some of your

uncles, some of your cousins that don't know from their class

as well. So we're going to take care of

all of that as we pray today. Just lift your hands and be here

and open your mouth and whatever the.

Lord I I I. Just dare you to be obedient to

what He's putting in your spirit to pray.

Only you know. We're not calling you up.

Only you know, but I just declare over you, you shall live

and not die. I speak life over you from this

day forward and also those that's praying about abortions,

Don't you dare walk out of here with with any regret or shame.

Shame is broken as well. Regret is broken as well.

You are forgiven. You are redeemed in the name of

Jesus and for the rest of us, if it's if that's not your story,

there's something there's something that has opened the

door. Pornography, open the door lying

open the door. Stealing open the door.

Self hate, open the door. Sabotage.

Open the door. Just three more minutes.

Whatever the Holy Spirit is leading you to do, if it's lift

your hands, if it's get to the altar, if it's right, whatever

it is, we're not going to stop talking about family till it's

till the family bondage is exposed.

We put an end to it, blessing generation to generation, peace

generation to generation, and the blessing will not fizzle.

It will not die in the hands of our grandchildren.

I'm talking about doing a work that the blessing will be in our

hands when Jesus returns once and for all.

And although David was rejected, he said when he was anointed, he

was anointed with power from that day forward.

And I want to I want to end it with this.

And I need everybody to look up if you can, I want to to every

person that can, I need you to hear this from the bottom of my

heart as the pastor, as the the ordained pastor of this church,

the assigned leader of this church to some the spiritual

father of this of, of, of of their, their walk in in this

church. I anywhere where I have hurt you

as a leader. And I'm not talking about where

I may have rubbed up against some bruises and it didn't feel

good because you have some issues with authority figures.

But where am I learning and in my trying to manage what's going

on in my family and leading in a build like everything we're

doing, I'm doing for the first time.

No excuses, but anywhere in the midst of trying to follow God, I

repent. I repent on behalf of any leader

that may have hurt you, male, female, that may have reinforced

some wounds. I will stand here and tell you

I'm not talking about the ones because I would do a dis justice

where it's just you offended. But we can lead better.

We can we can be more skillful in certain areas.

But I also understand what whether people like it or not,

my wife and I represent parent parent figures of this church.

And you can, you can receive us however you want to or don't.

But to some we stand in the gap of a relationship you never had

with your father or with your mother.

And wherever we mishandled that, we apologize and we repent.

Those that really know us and know that we take what we do

very seriously and we always working on ourselves.

But I want to make sure I understand that we are also used

to bring a level of healing in people's lives in how we

represent spiritual authority. And so I want to repent on our

behalf, but also your parents behalf or your father's behalf.

I want us, I want to repent wherever he has fallen short.

I promise you it gets better. But there is work that we all

got to do. If you down to do the work, just

lift one hand and say I'm down to do the work.

Look at your neighbor and tell them I'm down to do the work

with you. Can you give somebody a hug if

they don't get an attitude with you?

Can you give somebody a hug if they come on?

Make sure nobody go unhugged. Amen.

Have a good one. We'll see you on Wednesday

night. Until next time, get your love

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