Faith, Foes and Family //DW// Pastor Terrance Richmond

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Let's get into it. So last week we started talking

about anybody remember? I know that I know that I know

that I know that I know that I know that I know.

And so we started talking about faith and then we had was it 2

weeks ago? We had Marriage Matters in

Sunday, we started Family Matters and then we invited you

out because we are going to for the next 7 weeks alongside with

Family Matters, we are going to deal with this topic that I have

for you, Faith foes and family. The fight for legacy, Faith,

foes and family. The fight for Legacy, Faith,

foes and family. We'll stay there just for a few

seconds. Faith, foes and family.

The fight for legacy one last time.

Let's say it together. Week 1.

We will be dealing with the war you were born into, the war you

were born into. If you were watching, I pray you

stay tapped in. You don't want to miss what God

has for your household tonight. The war you were born into, and

some of you might be like what I was born into a war.

Every last one of us was born into a war.

Genesis 3 says and I will put enmity between you and the

woman. I will put enmity between you

and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.

He will bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will

lie in wait and bruise his heel. Few things I just want you to

cling to, and I will put enmity. Somebody say enmity, say between

your offspring and her offspring, Say bruise, say

tread, and then say bruise again, say head and say heel.

Matthew 10 And a man's foes will be they on or of his own

household. And a man's foes will be they of

his own household. Somebody say family one more

time family. And a man's foes will be they of

his own household. Psalm 127 Except the Lord builds

the house, the labor in they labor in vain who build it.

It is say, except Christians built out.

No, no, no, except the Lord built the house, they labor in

vain who build it. OK, so unless it's the Lord, you

labor in vain. I don't care if you got

Christian contractors to build your house.

I don't care if you married to a Christian, I don't care how much

effort and skill you have and resources you have.

Except the Lord builds the house.

They labour in vain. Somebody say who built it?

Personality can't work. It does not matter.

I don't care if you live on 80 acres and you got your whole

family on it and you got every every piece of material you want

inside and out. I don't care how green the grass

is. I don't care how much money you

got in your savings account. I don't care how many stocks you

in. I don't care how much property

you own. I don't care how you build your

life except the Lord builds your life.

They labor in vain who build it. OK, here's a fundament now what

I'm about to go through rather it is EJ Eldebra it don't it

don't matter. As I was studying, I think it

was like a week ago and I was just, you know, in my own little

creative brain and you know, I'm like, what's 333 motions?

What's 3 lenses or three frames that I can preach through

consistently that that guides me.

It's not necessarily points I say every time, but also as we

are making disciples, we are also in this house going to not

only encourage and equip people to write books, we're also going

to equip people to preach. Yeah yeah.

And and and I think I I wish I had that younger right.

But I also, I'm grateful that I figured out a little bit of my,

my, my style, my communication style.

But it's, it's for sure evolving and there's a lot of areas that

I can grow in. And So what I'm about to do

tonight is I am about to give you a little framework of how

you can look through the messages going forward.

OK? So as I prepare, I want to make

sure I hit these three areas. And this is how you can listen.

And anybody that get on this platform and is going to preach,

try and hit these three areas. This is in house, OK?

This is in house. This is homegrown.

OK, The words aren't new, but the formula is OK.

I'm a I'm a present this to you tonight.

And then we'll get into some other stuff, but it's really so

fundamental frame over the next few weeks as we're looking at

this topic specifically, Genesis 3 reveals the war, Matthew 10

reveals the proximity of the war and Psalm 127 reveals the only

way the war is won. OK, these aren't the lenses but

but but these are three things that these are key scriptures

for the next 7 weeks. So Genesis reveals the war is

very important because Elder John, Elder Brett, whoever we're

not, we're not exegeting these three scriptures.

We are just reading them. They are keep their key

scriptures. Genesis 3 reveals the war.

Matthew 10 reveals the proximity of the war, how close it is,

where's the epicenter of the war.

We read the scripture and it says it's in your house.

And in Psalm 127 reveals the only way the war is won.

OK, the foe, the family and what faith here it is.

This message will be rated M for the rest of the rest of the

time. Maturity.

Somebody say I got to grow up, I got to hear mature.

I got to see mature. So it's rated M and the language

is legacy. OK, Legacy.

That's what we're talking about is legacy.

Somebody shout out legacy, these three lenses, 3 rhythms, they

will be done weekly. And this is our drift free

focus, faith, foes, family. That's what we're focused on.

Now watch this. Here's the three lenses that we

will work through #1 is we will expose #2 we will equip and #3

we will excite everybody. Want to get excited?

OK, so we will start off exposing, we will equip you and

we will excite you. OK, Just so you understand, when

we expose, it is to to expose is to bring into the light what has

been influencing in the dark. To expose is to bring into the

light what has been influencing in the dark.

I would not do this on a Sunday. OK, But this is Bible study and

we just going a little deeper and we're equipping you right

now. So to expose is to bring into

light what has been influencing in the dark.

Got that? We name when we expose, we name

the real enemy. We identify false narratives and

we uncover spiritual patterns, watch it, that have quietly

shaped our homes. A lot of times people need

breaks because they're unarmed. If you knew how to fight, if you

had some exposure, if you knew what was wrecking your home, you

knew what was wrecking your mind, you knew what was causing

this thing, you would be able to keep going.

So we want to expose when it's quietly shaped our homes.

You cannot defeat what you refuse to identify.

Are you with me? You cannot defeat what you

refuse to identify. Exposure.

Here it is. Exposure is not condemnation,

it's clarity. Watch this.

A lot of people get clear about things and then make decision

versus get clear so you can fight.

Get clear. So now we can make it through

watch. There's a lot of arguments that

happen in relationships come from a lack of what clarity.

We don't even know what we want the outcome to be.

We just arguing. We know I want to be right and I

want to make sure you know you wrong #2 equip.

Somebody say equip. To equip is to supply what is

necessary to win. So when we are equipping, we are

supplying you with the necessities to win the keys to

win. It is instruction and it is

formation. It is instruction and it is

formation to equip. We leave with tools.

It is our job to to to set you up, leaving with tools, biblical

understanding, spiritual posture, and practical handles.

I'd say people don't know. We do a lot of work to try and

set you up to do the Lord's will as you decide to ship.

OK, here it is right here. You don't need no wisdom.

Here you go. If exposure reveals the war,

equipping teaches us how to fight correctly.

Somebody say correctly, anybody can fight, but you ain't always

fighting correctly. Watch this because many families

are fighting hard but fighting wrong.

People go to their graves fighting hard with Smith all

they like, fighting wrong because they weren't not

equipped, nor was the Bloodline stronghold exposed.

And then lastly, we want to excite, to excite us.

To awaken courage and restore expectation cares not to get you

goosebumps. It is to awaken courage and

restore expectation. It is to arouse you to action.

You got that? It is to arouse you to action,

to awaken courage and restore expectation.

To excite is to excite. Excite does not mean emotional

hype. It means prophetic ignition.

Am I talking this side with me? This side, West side?

OK, it is. It is prophetic ignition.

We remember who we are. We remember what God promised

and we remember how this ends. That's what it means to excite

is we remember. We walk out of here remembering

Sunday. We walked out of here

remembering what God intended for my family.

Now I don't know if you held on to it all week, but it was given

to you. Excitement is confidence in

covenant. We want to get you excited about

covenant. So weekly will will number one.

What number two, number three, number one, number two, number

three, one more time #1 #2 #3 this is our drift free focus.

Here we go. Expose.

We were born into a war. It was not a political war.

It was not a cultural war. Watch this.

We were born into a generational war.

Wrap your mind around that. I want you to go all the way

back to the slide, the first slide, cover slide.

I don't know who saw it, but I'm going to see if you can see it.

But but but he's not he's not just he's not just a snake.

What's he going after? Yeah.

All you parents see that picture, and all you people

about your city and your country see that picture.

It is a generational war. If there were no promise

attached to your life, there would be no resistance around

your life, man. I'm telling you, man, get in the

house on a Wednesday. What are we doing?

If there were no promise attached to my life, there would

be no resistance around my life. The fact that there is

resistance around my life, the fact that there is resistance

trying to slow me down, the lack, the lack of acceptance

speaks to there is something on my life that the enemy does not

want to see manifest. Why?

Because the promise manifesting has generational impact.

The war is generational, so stop taking it personal and take it

generational. The enemy does not fight what

has no future. You at home, you, you at home.

The enemy does not fight what does not have a future.

If you are experiencing warfare, if you are experiencing

resistance, guess what that means?

You have a future and that future has an expected end.

The enemy does not fight what has no future.

So Psalm 127 was telling us. Watch it, because unless the

Lord builds the house, the enemy will attempt to shape the house.

So you can't shake what your Mama gave you if it ain't what

God gave her. Unless the Lord builds the

house, the enemy will attempt to shape the house.

Unless the Lord governs the house, conflict will define the

house, confusion will overwhelm the house, and anxiety will

drive the house. Unless the Lord builds the

house. Unless the Lord anchors the

house, legacy will fracture the house.

Genesis 3 Remember? And I will put enmity between

you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed.

He shall fatally bruise your head, your head, and you shall

only bruise His heel. Watch this.

Watch this The serpent does not attack Adam's job.

He does not attack their garden productivity or their

fruitfulness. He attacks their order.

Pay attention. He attacks their order.

He attacks their order. Watch this.

He speaks to the woman. He does not speak to Adam.

He bypasses the man. He's an Eve's ear.

He distorts God's word. Watch this.

And he plans suspicion about God's goodness, or he plans

suspicion about God's word, or he plans suspicion about God's

plan. Or he plans suspicion about

God's ordained order in your life.

He plans suspicion about the oil and call on your life.

Husbands, watch this. The enemy don't go to the

family, he goes to the weakest 1.

So you see a husband and a wife and one of them are fainting.

Guess who he going to? He going to get in that faint at

one's ear. He going to get in that

husband's ear if the husband is fainting and he going to try to

use the husband to steer or hold back or resist.

Watch this because the foe is in the house, the foe is in the

bloodline, the foe is in the family.

And if, if the husband and wife is strong, guess what, there's

going to be a grand Mama, a grand Papa or somebody that

ain't rooted that somebody that's doing their own thing.

And then they're going to get on the phone with you and they're

going, I don't know if you're doing what God told you to do.

I don't know if you're doing this right.

I don't know. You got to get in somebody's

ear. Watch this.

That really means something to you.

That's why you got to be very careful.

Who you allow to have weight with their words in your life.

Watch this. Everybody that you love should

not carry the same weight in your life.

Yeah. Thank you for wisdom tonight,

Lord. Thank you for exposure tonight,

Lord. Thank you for equipping us

tonight. Lord.

God, our dumb days are over. Our blind days are over.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The enemy taking advantage our

families. It's over.

In the name of Jesus. You are an exposed foe.

In the name of Jesus. Watch this.

This is a demonstration of targeted disruption.

This is not an accident. He is targeting disruption of

the blessing of the family structure.

He's attacking the order so you can see it all through the

world. He is fighting in women's hearts

and ears. You don't need a man or no.

We equal, yes, sure we're equal, but in God's Kingdom, God has

given an ordained order, and the man is the priest of the house.

Both submit to one another, but there is a priestly call that

that husband has. Oh, man.

But what the enemy want to do in the church and in the culture is

make it seem like a man that is standing in the order of his

house. He's trying to take advantage.

So then there's control issues, there is hurt.

So watch this. The Kingdom order has no power

in a home where the family order and structure has been broken.

So then I marry someone and then adultery is in the family and

the father left the house and the father don't honor the Mama,

and the Mama don't honor. So then I grow up and I'm going

to make sure he don't do me like that.

So now I'm a Christian, but the enemy has all watch this three

generations back. The enemy has trumped the order

or a way to control the women. You see it a lot in tradition,

in some cultures and ethnicities.

But what does the word of God say?

Here we go. Watch this.

The enemy's always whispering in somebody's house.

Let me tell you here, it is enmity.

Let's hear this word. Enmity, enmity.

Somebody say enmity. It is a state of deep rooted,

active and often mutual hatred, hostility, bloodline conflict

and ill willed disposition rather than a passing feeling or

dislike. This is not a little bit of beef

and we're like ah, we're good, you OK, we're good.

No, no, no, no. This is a lifelong attention.

Watch it. This is a lifelong attention and

commitment to your destruction. This is sustained antagonism.

Guys, I don't want to lead a point.

I don't. I don't.

I don't really want to lead a point.

This was in the, this was in the guard.

This was in the beginning, people forget until Jesus

returned. This is a war no one can escape

and we just out here doing family and we just out here

doing marriage. This is why these are some

things that got to get taken care of before we get to the

altar, right? Because the watch this, the less

the less footholds I can bring into my marriage, the less

access the enemy got. We ain't in a rush.

If I'm trying to marry you forever, I'm not rushing for us

to take extra year, extra 2 years to deal with so you can

deal with your trauma without putting me in your gaps.

Like like I'm not marrying you and I know you've made me your

savior. That's dangerous because I'm

going to, I'm going to disappoint you.

Talk to His Holy Spirit, talk to His Holy Spirit.

Watch this. I want y'all to see this.

In the beginning there will be enmity amongst you.

Watch this. The devil did not declare this

war. God declared this war.

So watch this. This household enmity is God

ordained. So if that enmity is God

ordained, I better maybe let God expose who I'm supposed to make

a family with because it's promised war in our house.

So watch this, if somebody promises you there's going to be

a war in your house, shouldn't you find someone you don't got

to fight against? Shouldn't you marry somebody

that's going to have the same weapons as you got?

So here it is. This is a promised war declared

by God. And guess what?

He is not a man that he shall lie.

So guess what you can expect in your family?

War. Is there anybody here that have

not seen war in a household? And we've just settled it just

kind of like, but that's just what family do.

Why? Because there's something, why

did God declare this? Because in that disobedience, in

that fall, there is something greater in the garden at stake.

You guys, this wasn't about a stake.

This was about what was at stake, what was at stake.

Noel was a seed and a lineage was at stake.

Watch this. The serpent aims at the woman

because the promise will come through her.

The war was about offspring. Hear us, guys.

The war is about seed. The war is about seed.

Watch this, watch this. This going to bless a few people

but this might be but members rated M This why you can't be

sleeping with anybody. You don't want they seed to hit

your womb. Come on guys, this is war.

So this watch this. This is the way the enemy can

interrupt your bloodline by getting a seed in your womb that

you now got to give birth to. And now whatever is on that side

of the family, you have entered into your family.

So now we got to work against this joker that, that, that they

just, you know how, how you get here, buddy?

We was on our way. So this is what parents got to

do. You got to be committed to to to

to not be your your kids friends and fight for what you have

worked so hard to turn around. Like do you know the work that

Troy? Do you know the work that hero

has done? Do you know the work that

they've done to get addiction out their bloodline?

And here you go marrying A crackhead.

Come on, come on. So if the intro, if you did the

work to get it out, all God got to do is get one of y'all to

date somebody that bring it back.

Talk to me. Somebody come on.

Somebody say he exposed now come on, Somebody say it's too late.

Somebody say it's too late. It's too late.

The enemy fights families because families carry promise.

He fights marriages because marriages produce legacy.

And he fights children because children extend the covenant.

Man, man, I've been helping somebody swaying kids.

You carry the legacy. It's why he fighting you.

You carry the legacy. And he's fighting marriages

because marriages produce legacy.

And he's fighting families because families carry the

promise. So if you are just so happen to

be blessed to grab a hold of the promise and restore it in your

bloodline in your lifetime, you got to hold on to that because

the enemy may have had a grip on your bloodline for centuries,

but you are the one that have the promise in your hand.

And God's like, now we can do something with that.

Let's do it. Some stuff, just watch this.

Just like the children of Israel had to die off and couldn't go

into the promised land, except the young ones.

Sometimes the stuff that you experiencing that happened bad

in your family, God's like, I just got to let that die off.

I'm gonna restore. I know you're grieving because

they died. I know you're grieving because

they got sick. I know you're grieving because

you lost them. But I had to let it die off

because I'm about to do a new thing through you.

What's this? His redemption plan.

It may hurt us, but he got a plan for those children.

He got a plan for your grandmama, your great grandma.

He got a plan for whatever, but I had to let it die so the new

thing can go on the promise. I love it.

Watch this guys. You might not like it, but I

love it. Matthew 10.

Don't think I've come to make it life cozy.

This is guess who's talking right here.

Jesus. So Jesus is reiterating sick

Genesis 3. Don't think I've come to make

life cozy. I've come to cut and make a

sharp knife cut between son and father, daughter and mother,

bride and mother-in-law, cut through these cozy domestic

arrangements and free you for God.

I'm shaking it up to free you for God.

Watch this well meaning family. Well meaning not well meaning

family, not like family that mean well.

No no no no. Well pause.

Meaning family members can be your worst enemy.

Somebody say Amen. If you prefer father or mother

over me, you don't deserve me. And if you prefer son or

daughter over me, you don't deserve me.

This is Jesus. Watch this revealing allegiance

conflict. He is exposing parents, he's

exposing spouses. And he's like, look, if you want

the blessing to rest on your house, I gotta always remain

Lord you. You not about to turn your

household into a idol. I'm coming to shake all that up.

You want to want you want to know why she get on your nerves?

Because I let her see. I'm shaking it up, boy, because

you it's keeping you on your knees how crazy she is.

I couldn't have shake it up. You like God, God, he like Nope,

Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.

First of all, you chose her, but second of I came to cut.

No, no, he, he is disrupting comfort.

Guys, watch this. When faith this is this so far.

When faith enters a house, neutrality or neutrality leaves

the house. When somebody in the household

decide to obey God, then everybody, the allegiance is

exposed. So if you're a husband or a wife

and you like I'm going to follow Jesus, I'm going to say yes to

my call. I don't care if you double

minded, but I'm not going to be held back.

The moment you make your mind up, everything gets shook up in

the house. Everything gets shook up in the

house and that's watch this. Your obedience is the knife that

cuts. Why are you serving so much now?

You didn't used to. You was fine when we used to

hang out and sleep in and not do that.

You was fun when we just streamed.

You was fun when we Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You've made a decision to obey your convictions and that has

now cut between you and wifey or you and husband or you and

children. They ain't supposed to

understand. That's the knife, but you got

way too many spouses holding themselves back because they

want to keep things chill. Have you ever heard of divine

disruption? No, no, no, no.

Obedience disrupts neutrality, disrupts comfort.

Watch this. Authority shifts.

Authority shifts always expose allegiance.

Authority shifts. It's it's the moment you say yes

to God, authority shifts. You're no longer bait for the

before Satan. You're no longer the one that's

procrastinating on call. You're no longer allowing

yourselves to waiver and be like, let me tell you something.

I shared this before, man, I love hanging out with my wife,

love it when she's gone. There are certain things within

call and purpose that I'm able to do.

I prefer to have her here though.

But but but but there's a certain things that that some

couples they aren't even walking in because they they too busy

cuddling or they too busy trying to make sure that the the spouse

don't get insecure because you don't know what you called to

do, but I do. That's not my fault.

But if you let me do what I'm called to do, maybe you'll call

it get clear. So then there's manipulation and

there's all these different things because the enemy's in

somebody's ear. Watch this.

Your obedience allows the enemy to go in that insecure person's

ear and say, see, look, you don't even know what you called

to do. And now you got jealousy in the

house. That's the knife.

Somebody say, Dang, sometime the greatest resistance to your

obedience will not come from strangers.

It will come from familiarity. Watch this family errity that's

been there for decades, guys. Family errity that's been there

forever. That ain't new.

I didn't tweet the word. That's just what it is.

Family errity. Watch this.

Sometimes the greatest resistance to your obedience

will not come from strangers. Watch this.

Sometimes there's wolves in sheep clothing in your own

house. I know my wife ain't no wolf.

I didn't check under everything. I'm I'm.

I didn't. Hallelujah.

She is. She is.

She is on my side. We've had our battles.

We've had our time. I've also learned how to pace.

But then there came a time where she's just like, do your thing,

man. You got to do your thing.

Like that's best for the family, that's best for the household.

Watch this. It don't matter if I'm home if

I'm out of order, fellas, you're not protecting your house when

you're not in God's. You're not doing what God's

called you to do, Sorry. So sometime people want to stay

comfy and cozy, but you got to know what's best.

OK, watch this because it ain't no complaints with you out when

you're out there making money. Can we keep it real?

Well, less low, less low, less low, less like pad or something

like that. There, there's no complaints

when you bring in the bacon home.

It might be like, I don't want you to go to work today, but you

need to, right? But it got to be that way about

call too. Nah, but you actually need to

because there's a generational war.

Understand. Watch this.

It will come from familiarity because when you break cycles,

you disrupt comfort. When you break cycles, you

disrupt comfort. You got that.

When you break cycles, you disrupt comfort.

Somebody say, hey man, some of the tension in your family is

not proof of failure. It is proof that something is

shifting. Watch this something, it don't

feel good, but something is shifting.

Watch this, somebody in the house is finally awakening.

Somebody is close to obedience, so something is shifting.

Somebody say shifting because when you break cycles, you

disrupt stagnation. This is what the war is about.

Some of the resistance around your calling is not rejection.

Watch this. It is reaction, Troy.

It is reaction. It's not rejection.

It's reaction. The enemy is reacting to your

progress. Watch this.

The enemy is reacting to you taking territory back.

The enemy is reacting to you. Find somebody in the bloodline.

Find. Oh, they're getting this thing

right, Noel. Here's what The enemy is

threatened. The enemy is not threatened so

much about now. He's threatened about the seeds

to come. It's not rejection, it's

reaction. The enemy does not attack.

Watch this. The enemy does not attack what

he already owns. That's why some people that that

is not the devil, he just got them on.

He just got them on cycle. They that is not the devil,

that's them. They just stuck in the cycle.

The enemy does not attack what he already owns.

Here it is. Faith is how we fight.

Now we're on to somebody. Say equip.

Somebody say equip. Now you got this.

We have exposed the war. OK.

We have exposed the war. The war is exposed.

Now let's equip. Faith is how we fight the right

battle. Faith is how we fight the right

battle. Here it is because many

believers fight the wrong enemy. That's why we on social media,

fighting each other. Enemy loves sitting back,

watching all that confusion, loving us, tearing each other

down, loving us, rejecting each other, loving, persecuting us.

No, no, no, no, we are fighting the wrong enemy.

Here it is. Your spouse is not your enemy,

your children are not is not your enemy, and your in laws is

not your enemy. Watch this, for we do not

wrestle against flesh and blood. Here it is.

Here's what he's hoping. If we misidentify the foe, we

fracture the family, because faith reorients the fight.

If we misidentify the foe, we fracture the family.

It's why some marriages can't get right, because you're

misidentifying the foe. It's not him, it's not her.

Watch this. You marry someone that had an

assigned demon. Watch this had enmity assigned

before you even married them. So now you marry them buddy.

Now you got to do what you got to do to find out what was the

enemy assigned to your spouse. You see you see what I'm saying

You got so much to fight for before you go join another

family Come on. If you with your spouse say

y'all know your family crazy say your family crazy, but she's

like don't you say that to me? She's like, all right, look,

look, look, no, no, no, no guys, but have you have when's the

last time you went around your spouse's family or your friend's

family and you prayed and was like, Lord revealed to me as the

priest of my house. What, what, what is this about?

Watch this. You ready for this?

Because your in laws is in your kids sometime.

I'm like, yeah, that wasn't me and PJ.

That was Nana. Well, that that was Uncle Willy

right there. That was Uncle Willy right

there. I don't know where that guy, I

don't know where that came from. Watch this.

But you watch this. But you think everything,

everything evolves around your address.

And This is why the enemy don't want you cool with your in laws

because you never get to know him that way.

Watch this. Your in laws is in your kids.

Watch this. And some of them demons hiding

for them and waiting for the next generation.

Watch this. Did you get the scripture until

Jesus returned? There's enmity, which means the

devil got all day. So I may have exposed.

This is why I got to get the sip out of my bloodline, because the

sip to the next generation can turn in to the gallant because

the enemy, the Bible showed me the enemy.

When Jesus resisted him three times, the Bible said, and the

enemy went away. Watch this, He didn't leave.

He wasn't destroyed. He waited for another

opportunity and sometimes here it is.

The opportunity may not come until you dead, but what you

passed on to your children, now that's the opportunity.

Yes, talk to them. PT Faith means I refuse to let

the serpent narrate my household.

That's what faith means. I refuse to let the enemy

narrate my household. Narrate.

Like create a narrative about my spouse, Create a narrative about

my children. Create a narrative about our

call. Create a narrative about our

finances. Create a narrative.

I refuse. Come on, You got to make that

decision tonight. I refuse to let the enemy

narrate my household. Watch this.

You might watch this. Everybody do it.

Have you ever got a text message and you had the voice that they

meant and they said it in watch this How you hear a person

determines how you read that text message.

I I I thank God, I thank God I've learned my lesson.

I thank God that there is voice memos.

Now I think I'm going to type shorter and talk longer so you

can actually hear. That's wisdom.

You can hear because depending on know who you texting to

because when they read it, watch this, the enemy might be

narrating that text message. Come on, I'm talking.

I'm trying to help somebody because you got more people

offended about what they heard you say and they ain't heard you

say it. This is how real narration is.

Have you ever been talking to somebody?

You and you and they face you with them and then they repeat

back to you a bunch of stuff you did not say?

You you driving me crazy because now I got to remember what I

said because you about to repeat something crazy back to me.

So I got to be my own lawyer when I talk to you.

Right. And then who's going to say?

Yeah, you. So now you're arguing.

You did say that. No, I didn't say that.

You did say that. I know exactly what you said.

Well, I know exactly what I said, what I say.

And then they tell you what they said.

And you know you didn't say that.

But who's my witness? I need a witness in this house.

Oh my God. I'm telling you guys, I'm done.

Adam, watch this. Watch this.

Adam was silent in Genesis 3. Silence.

Surrendered ground. Here it is.

Faith speaks, guards and governs.

Faith speaks, guards and governs.

Here it is. Faith speaks, guards and

governs. Watch this.

Here's some practical equipment. Points for you.

Please, please, I beg you. Take them.

Guard the word in your house. The serpent distorted one

sentence and destabilized a family.

He distorted one sentence. Elder John, he distorted one

sentence Revere's he he, he, he distorted one sentence, guys,

one sentence. He tried to do it with Jesus.

He got over with Adam and Eve. He tried to do it with Jesus.

Jesus said nothing. No, no, buddy, I know my word.

That's inaccurate and I must speak up about it.

That's not what God said. So you're not about to get man

should not live about the Nope, I'm not about we're not going to

test God. Nope, that's not what Psalm 91

said #2 protect order. Do not let culture watch this.

A husband and a wife should submit to one another.

They should serve one another. This is not what we're saying.

The wife ain't the person that got to go do this and they got

to do that. If that's a if, that's a if

that's an order in your house where the wife cooked most of

the time. And then that's, that's

something, that's an agreement. That's a cultural thing.

But when we're talking about winning a war, a generation of

war protect Kingdom order in your house and it's not woman.

I'm the man. No, no, that's that's not even

protecting the order. That's ignorance, right?

That's a fight right there. OK, we're not doing that.

First of all, you got to you got to protect order by living in

order and obeying God. Protect order.

Watch this. I gained trust with my wife by

although it was scary sometimes I obey God and then I might have

missed it and then I got back up and I obeyed God.

Watch this. My failure in trying to pursue

God did not deter me from trying to follow God again.

I will not surrender my effort to following God.

I have to follow God. I have to, I have to.

I don't care how foolish it is. I have to.

And if I really, really feel, babe, I feel like God.

And there's things my wife would be like, no, OK, we're not doing

that then, right? If it's just like, babe, we

should put this flyer out tomorrow.

No, I'm not about to say that. Well, God told me to put the

flyer out. God don't want us arguing over

no flour. I mean, no flyer like no, no,

no, no, you got to. But but, but, but if it's

something that got to do with eternity, that got to do with

some war stuff. And, and I'm and nine times out

of 10, he's already working hard.

She's like, but watch this. I'm all so careful with how much

I use. God said sometimes I'm just

like, no, I'm saying that I don't know.

I think I'm a son of God. I think he's, I think he's, he's

saying, he's saying it's cool to do.

I've learned how to do that too. This is me.

This ain't God didn't pray about this, didn't have to pray about

it. I'm made in this image.

I I have the ability, I'm gifted.

I'm telling it, I'm annoying it. And and this is how me and God

walk. He's like, like, like, like your

kids don't have to ask to take out the toys in the room.

They got to ask to go down the street, but they don't got to

ask to go in the fridge sometime.

The kids, if they got a sugar problem, you got to keep coach

tabs on them, right? I, I, yeah, you can tell me or

they got an iPad issue and they say, hey, just ask for the iPad.

Just so I know you on the iPad, but there's some stuff as sons

and daughters, you don't it, it's not about getting

permission or fasting or praying about it.

It's big man, your son, your daughter.

At some point you supposed to walk in your father's image and,

and, and you, you, you move, you go right, You're being led by

the spirit. Get out the boat, Peter.

That's what you want to do. Go and get out the boat there.

Yep, Yep. You could've get, come on buddy,

let's get back in the water #3 I think that, sorry, I think this

paralyzes people so much. There's people that got to pray

about every single thing. Man, I wonder, I wonder if I

should. OK, can you, you go, you go buy

some buy outfit. You put.

Can you hold this for me? I got to pray about it now.

You don't got to pray about the outfit.

It's first of all, if you can't fit it, you shouldn't get it.

Ain't got to pray everybody ain't got to fast.

It'll come back or something better will come back.

OK, but but but some stuff is not about praying about it.

Some here's the here is the liberty of living in God's will.

It eliminates the temptation to do things that's out his will.

It minimize how much you are tempted to go this way and that

way because I'm anchored in his will.

So I'm my life is just like that.

Nah, that there's no peace. So it let peace root.

Nah, I don't even want it. But you got to spend that season

to let God taste change your change your taste buds.

OK #3 discern the real enemy. Bitterness between family

members is often misdirected warfare.

Please hear me. Please hear me clear that up.

Bitterness between family members is often misdirected

warfare. What should we really be

fighting about, babe? What's really the issue?

The issue is your family jacked up and you mad at me.

No, don't say that. Don't say that fellas.

I will never say that tomorrow, tomorrow.

But the point is sometimes watch this, sometime we bring in our

insecurities that the, the stuff we inherited, we bring it into

our family and we never deal with it.

And watch. This is the family you create.

I got to hurry up #4 pray generationally.

Pray generationally, right? This is wisdom, guys.

We just praying about now we sow, we sow now, Lord, I need a

job. Lord, I need a house.

Lord, I need more money. And he's like, are you kidding

me? If you pray generationally, I'm

involved in that. I'm Abraham Isaac Jagger.

I got a generational plan. You're fighting a generational

demon. I have a plan and you worried

about rent today, you worried about jobs tomorrow, You worried

about moving somewhere, You worried about what church.

You worried about all these things.

You are not thinking generationally.

You're selfish. Pray generationally because you

are not just raising children, you are you are stewarding

lineage. Come on, say this with me.

Faith fights forward, the conflict stops with me.

Come on, faith says the conflict stops with me, the psycho stops

with me, and the compromises stop with me.

Look at Romans 16, take a picture of it, and the God of

peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

I want you all to see the language change.

The seed has already come. Jesus Christ.

We're in this church. He's the head, we're the body.

Look at the language and the God of peace will soon crush Satan

under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus

Christ be with you. Here it is.

This is what you get excited about.

This is what you get excited about.

You ready to get excited? The promise is greater than the

pressure. Watch this, watch this, watch

this. Genesis 315 is not just a

declaration of war. It is the first whisper of

victory. Go back and read it.

And he said, watch this. I need y'all to see this.

I need y'all to see this very clearly.

He said the devil will strike the seed with his heel.

He will bruise his heel. Got that?

He will bruise his heel. A bruise is not destruction, but

He said that the seed will crush your head.

Y'all see that? Y'all see that?

Y'all see that because of the fall, there's bruise here.

Here's what Jesus says. Hallelujah, Holy Spirit, Here,

here, here it is. Why does he said he come to heal

the bruised? We only get a bruise.

The enemy is crushed. He said his head is under our

feet. He say he is crushed.

He is a crushed foe. So Genesis 315, although God

declared war, he also declared victory.

He said he going to bruise and tread your head and you will lie

and wait and you just going to bruise his heel.

He's going to bruise his heel, but him he going to crush you

and he going to crush you at the head.

You want to talk about why David had to cut the head off?

Prophetic. So guys, the victory is ours.

We just got to steward what God has given us because all of his

promises are yes and Amen. And it is not fair to our

children that we do not obey God.

We do not go a fall in line and we do not have eyes to see, ears

to hear. And we don't just stand like

stand, stand, stand, stop wavering, stand somebody shout

out, stand. Give God some praise in.

Come on, if you receive the Word tonight, give God some praise.

Enemy might mess with you tomorrow, but he messing with

you smarter. He messing with you smarter.

Look at your neighbors. Say you smarter now.

Look at somebody else. Say you wiser now.

Come on, Say you got keys. I hear all them keys you got in

your pocket. Yeah, you got keys now the enemy

is exposed. I am equipped.

And I am leaving here excited because victory is mines.

Come on, lift your hands right where you are.

Lord, we thank you for your word.

Yeah. We thank you for restoring our

families, our bloodlines. Lord God, we declare you're

doing a new thing. Lord God, you're doing something

so new. Tradition can't hold on to it.

Tradition has to bow down to the new thing.

Yeah. Lord, we thank you for bringing

us in the family you brought us in.

We thank you for bringing us out of the family mess.

Lord, I'm more wise because I I had a family mess.

I am stronger because I had family mess.

I made it out. I can tell you this family mess

did not kill me. The family mess did not kill me,

but it has shaped me. But it will not form my future.

I thank you Lord, that You're the God that is working

everything together for our good.

There is no wasted years. Yes, yes, yes.

There is no wasted years. There is no wasted seasons.

There are no wasted events in my life.

Lord, put it all in the bowl and mix it up.

Tell your neighbor he mixing it up.

In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen, Elder Brett.

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