Fight for Your Family - Pastor Will Roos

Because I really, I want to share basics to real families

today. And so Are you ready for the

words? I really believe God has got a

word for your hope for your family.

God has got grace for your hope. God has got strength for your

home. And I believe that before this

service is over, somebody's going to know God.

Heaven has stepped into your family story, Amen.

I believe your life's never going to be the same again.

You're going to walk out of this place with fresh strength, the

grace of God on your lives. Amen.

So yes, we're going to go on to Nehemiah chapter 4.

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Now in week two of our Strong Family series, we are going to

talk about Fight for the family. Now, I believe this series is

just really blessing families. And you know, when I start

talking about real families, real families that we love God,

OK, real families that still wake up and I still lose a shoe

now and then every morning. OK, So real families that can

pray in the spirit, but still cannot find the car keys.

OK, Can we be real in this place today?

Is it OK? We just talk real and just open

and honest with you and transparent, OK, Always anybody,

you know, perfection. OK, Let's not let's not protect

families. Let's be real families.

OK, So families that say, all right, OK, we are leaving in 5

minutes. And then 14 minutes later, we're

still standing at the front door.

OK, I'm just going to be real this morning.

OK? So yeah, things can get

sometimes rough in families. And I'm just going to manage the

from personal experience in my home, my life, what God has been

showing us from the word of God. And I really believe it's going

to bless your life today. And so is that OK if we talk to

real families? So I'm in the right place today.

I meant we could just just be real.

And yeah, so the subject today that we're going to be talking

about is, is fight for your family.

And so let's put it up there for for for us, fight for your

family. So kicker working there we go

strong family. That's all serious.

And then the next one is the I think that the the clicker

probably needs some charging. All right, so fight for your

family. And like I say, fight on our

knees, lift our hands, praise worship.

OK. And so when we worship God, we

are fighting for our families. And I want to show you here from

the word of God, because I really believe that God, he's

raising up a people who's standing for family, standing

for her, fighting for what matters most right now, what

matters most because the attack, the enemy has come hard against

the home. The enemy has come hard against

marriage families, against our values, the values that matter

to God, OK? And if it matters to God, it's

worth fighting for, OK? It's worth fighting for a

marriage, for a family. It's worth fighting for your

children. It's worth fighting for your

peace. It's worth fighting for the

values that we stand in the word of God.

And so here is the good news that the God who has told us to

fight for our families is the same God.

We promise that he would fight for us.

My God, the battle will be rocks at all.

So yes, God says fight for your family and the same God promise

I'll fight for you. And we're going to see this in

Nehemiah chapter 4. We're going to pick it up there.

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And I just want to give you some context.

When Nehemiah is rebuilding the walls of the broken walls of

Jerusalem, OK? Now it's very important when God

builds his house, he raises the walls because wall stands for

protection. And so he's building up this

strong city, the city of Jerusalem, the city of God, and

he's rebuilding the broken walls that has been ruined in Rubbles

for too long. The people have lived.

And here in the middle of the rebuilding process, he got up

and this is where we're going to pick up the birds right now.

And he makes this very powerful statement and he says fight for

your families. Now this is in the middle of

rebuilding. He makes that study so powerful

to God. Fight for your families.

And then just a few verses, the Greenfield next verse I'm going

to show you verse 20, he says God will fight for you.

And I want you to see the connection between the two.

OK, and it's and I'm going to show you here from let's pick it

up here from verse 13, Nehemiah 14, verse 13, he says you.

Therefore, I position men behind the lower parts of the wall at

the openings. And I said to people according

to their families, everybody say families.

OK, so families, it's I want you to grab all of this with their

souls, OK, with their Spears. These are weapons.

They both and I looked and I rose and I said to the nobles,

to the leaders and to the rest of the people, do not be afraid

of them. Now watch this.

Remember, the Lord writes an awesome fight for your brethren,

your sons, your daughters, your wives, your houses.

Fight for your family. Somebody said fight for your

family. Hallelujah.

Now let's go to the next verse 20.

Watch this wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet rally dead.

Our God will fight for us. There it is.

I want you to grab hold of this revelation, this connection

between the two. Fight for your family.

And as you fight for your family, remember this.

God will fight for us. The power belongs to the

Hallelujah. Let's just pray.

Father, I thank you for your praises, every person here.

Father, I thank you that you love families, that you speak to

us this morning. Every person, every family

represented. Yes, let's fight the rise.

Let's strength the rise. Let every person in this place

walk out just stronger than they came in.

Jesus mighty name somebody shout.

I met some years ago, there was this true story that was told in

this movie called The Monuments Men World War 2.

They chose and selected a group of men and these people that

they've chosen, they knew the value and the beauty of

something that's priceless. And so they selected these group

of these people. And you know, in this World War

2, the the bombs were going, the cities were under fire, nations

were raised, chaos everywhere. And so when they selected these

group of people, these are not, I mean, they send them into the

danger of war zone. But these are not the kind of

people that you sit on the front lines.

These are not your kind of solve.

These are artists, OK? These are historians, OK, in

museum directors. These are not the kind of people

that you sit to the frontline, but they are artists.

They know the beauty of something that's priceless, the

values of these treasures. And so these guys, they go,

right? They're defending amongst this

dangerous war zone, defending odds, defending these treasures,

these cultural treasures. They defending these cathedrals.

I mean, it's bombs everywhere here in Europe, and it's bombs

going off. And this group of people, they

know what the value is, what matters most.

They don't want us to go lose this for the next generation.

We got to get that art. I mean, this art is priceless.

We are talking about history. Yeah.

And they understand the value of that and they defend it with

their lives. These treasures, they go out

this group of people and they defend it.

What they love. Monuments free draws all over

them. And when I think about that

story, it reminds me, I think, I think about the family this that

one of the greatest treasures that God has given us is hope.

Yeah. One of the greatest treasures

that God has given us is our loved ones, our family members

is hope. And so family is a treasure.

And so these guys, they are defending these arts and all

these, I believe family marriage is a treasure, your children is

a treasure. Peace is a treasure.

And so it's because it is precious, it must be guarded

because it's valuable, it must be protected.

If he manages to God, if family manages to God, it ought to

matter to us. Yeah.

Yeah. Because you know the enemy, the

devil wants to heal, kill and destroy and damage and torn down

and bring the vision in the homes, in the family, in these

treasures that God has placed in our lives, our marriages, our

family, our children. The enemy wants to steal, kill

and destroy. OK, but God is raising up a

people, a strong families, mothers, fathers, husbands,

wives, God, his grandparents raising them up and says,

listen, the enemy will not have these treasures.

The enemy will not have our family.

They will not have our kids, our values, what we stand for, what

we believe for in the hope the enemy or the culture will not

have it. And here comes Nehemiah and he

says fight for your family, for your hope, fight for your

values, for your Christian values in this time that we are

living in, stand up and fight for those family members, OK?

And that is the language of a strong family with strong

values, who knows they belong to God, who knows who they belong

to? Who says fear has no place in

this house, Confusion has no place in this house, Compromise

has no place in this house. Doubt has no place because this

house belongs to God. Somebody say this house belongs

to God. Come on, put your hands together

and shout it out. This house belongs God.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. OK, now so now I started

rebuilding the wall. And so that's a picture of a

wall of protection in the homes, a strong homes, strong family, a

wall of protection wall that means safety and security in

your home. So this is a picture when it's

rebuilding the walls going up, rising up, a strong home, the

the walls, it's rising up, it's going up and walls of

protection. And I believe that was what God

is doing in our lives in the season.

He's pulling and rebuilding the the walls.

He's rising for safety and protection.

And so your family might not be look like it's got it all

together, might not be perfect, but the walls is rising.

Maybe it is that the son or the boat or the child is still in

the process. That's not not perfect, although

this still looks like a man, but the walls, the wall is rising.

That's what is pulling in our OK, we are on a journey, OK.

And so that's where God is saying now the wall is rising in

the Hut. And so I guess you, your house

may still have some issues and some Mace in it, but the wall is

rising. I mean, somebody say the wall is

rising, the wall is rising. Tell your neighbors, say the

wall is rising. Yes, the wall is rising.

God is building his church, his building family.

And so Nehemiah, he started rebuilding the walls and as soon

as he started rebuilding the walls, here's what happened.

The enemy started resisting the moment he started.

There it is in the world. I want to show you the verse

because I was looking at some reading wow, what is happening

here and it just shows the the rebuilding started and and and

yes, the the the enemy is resisting.

Now watch this in verse. Can you give me verse one

Nehemiah chapter 4 Yes, but it so happened when some pilot

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heard that we were rebuilding the wall.

Now watch this that he was furious and very indigo so very,

very angry. OK and so Nehemiah rebuild the

balls opposition rose up against him.

And so when you start rebuilding your home, your marriage

rebuilding, OK, do not be surprised when pressure shows

up. OK, when you start rebuilding,

what matters most in your life? When you start rebuilding and

don't be surprised when pressure start, when you start praying

more, when you start making church priority on a Sunday,

when we are the Bible, read the Bible at home, praying with

kids, do not be surprised when they push back, OK, Because

that's what the Scripture says, that they, the enemy, the

resistance is a sign that something very valuable is being

restored. That's the sign.

So this is resistance. It shows that listen, you are

building, you are doing what is right.

And the moment the rebuilding started, that's where the

opposition also started. So if there has been some

difficulty around you and your home, in your life, pressure

going up and around your family situation, okay, that is our God

has marked your hope for rebuilding, Goddess marked you.

So heaven is moving, Heaven is stepping in, Heaven is working

in your family, in your marriage, in your home,

rebuilding, OK, in the walls. And so the wall is rising.

And I believe that that is what is happening in the season where

prayer is rising, peace is rising, joy is rising in our

homes. And so every family needs to

hear this, that you do not have to have a perfect family for God

to move in your house. You don't have to have it all

together all the time, perfect for God to move and be in your

house. You don't have to.

OK, that's A, and so a strong home, a strong family is not a

flawless family. A strong family is not a family

with no mistakes, no problems, no difficult, no challenge, OK,

No, a strong family is a family that always turn to God, turn

back to God. That is a strong home and strong

'cause God can still move. He can move in families in, you

know, in a, in a troubled house, in a tired house, okay, in a

Mesa house, God can still move there.

So it doesn't have to be perfect for the home to be filled with

God's presence, okay, I'm talking from Explorer.

We know that things get difficult, hard, okay?

But I thank God for his presence.

It's still in our home, regardless of difficulties and

precious that we go through as a home in the family, God's praise

is still there. So I wanted to grab this

relation and that's why I said to you, is it OK if we just talk

real today and not take that everything is all perfect and

let's just be real that we live in with some challenges and some

precious in everyday family life.

It gets hard and difficult, but I thank God that God's presence

still there. Some of the most strongest

families I know is not the polished ones.

It's not the picture perfect families, but it's families that

keep on praying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah. That's just the strong families

I know. It's families.

They still keep on believing. They still keep on making room

for God, even though we are all on the journey.

We all make mistakes and trouble and difficulties, but we are on

the journey. But God is still there with us.

I thank God that he doesn't just leave me.

Thank God for that song. He's with us in the fire.

I thank God when he gets hard and difficult and struggling,

that he doesn't just leave. He stays with us in the mess, in

the trouble, in the difficult. He's with us in the fire.

Wow, I love that. Come on someone, He will never

leave us. He never beside us.

Hallelujah. Praise God.

Yeah. And so I want to show you that

this picture of Rahab's story, and it's a powerful picture of

grace because Rahab proves that no family background is bigger

than God's grace. Hallelujah.

And so the Scripture, it doesn't hide her past.

Listen, the Bible Hebrews 11 caller Ryad the prostitute and I

want to talk about Ryad the prostitute.

It's right there, OK, So God did not take that out of the bar.

He left it in the barn. So he left that portion.

You know that Ryad the prostitute in the Bible.

So for a purpose so that when we really that we know that there

is nothing in our past that is bigger than God's grace.

Oh Hallelujah, nothing is bigger.

No, no, go fast. OK.

And so rehab did did not have a perfect past.

And I could just imagine that there was night when she was

just like he looked up and thought, oh, God, if you're

real. But if you're really real, OK,

could you do something in my life?

Could you have mercy on my life? God, if you real, could you

change the story of my life, my family?

If you really could you change you have a future for somebody

like me, OK. Because in Jericho, she was OK

right here, right? And she's trying out to God.

And the enemy for sure is using that as like, yeah, look at your

mistakes. Look at your past.

Look at what's been going on in your family line.

What family are you coming from? What's a family?

What bloodline? OK, so yeah.

And so the enemy's like, look at the mess that you are in right

now. But the devil is a liar.

The devil is a liar because when you run towards car, car and you

just give one step towards God, God comes running back to the

God comes running. Hallelujah.

That's our God. That's our God.

When Kisa was sinking under that water, he just go help.

Jesus was right there, hold him up.

That's our God. He's a very present help in the

time of trouble. My children can cry out one

crime and nature daddy's right there, that's our God.

Some people have to think that oh, God is far away.

God is very, very present, very close at work, at family where

Jesus is there. Oh, it is on my son.

That's a father to a son. Now, if we know how to do good

to our kids, how much more will a heavenly father who's going to

dogs to ask it get in? My father.

My father. Yes, my son.

I'm Ranger. Oh, that's a great God.

He can't run into you. Now, listen, people might write

you off. God, that's not right.

People might label you according to your worst past mistake.

God sees valley purpose tastily. Yeah.

How do people they saw? Well, yeah, all right.

Broken reputation. Oh, the lady.

Oh, lady of the process. A terrico.

The people saw a broken lady. God sees a woman of faith who's

about to shift her family story forever.

She's about to shift her family. Are we talking about the same

person? Well, I'm going to show you this

is powerful, Josh. This is powerful because, yes,

Joshua said to you spies. Yeah, this price goes into

Jericho. Where did they go of all of

Jericho? Where did they go?

To Raya's house, OK. Rayaf did not have a perfect

house, OK? Now I just want to say that

that's why I said you do not have to have a perfect family.

Forgot to move in our house. I said why?

They go to Yeah, they go to Raya's house, OK.

And so, yes, Raiha. And she had said she opens the

door. She welcomed them, protected

them, and she allied herself with the God of Israel.

Oh, my God, my God. Whoa.

Whose side will you? I just want to be on the right

side. Whoa.

Because you know what's going to come to Jericho when you read

the Bible? What's going to happen to

Jericho? Big destruction.

Big destruction. The structure is about to happen

to the entire city, be analyzed, completely destroyed the hearts,

all of it. So you want to be on the right

side before the destruction comes.

And yes, Sarah Ray happens. She aligns herself, and I love

it because the moment, and this is powerful, the moment, she's

been giving a chance to ask for something.

She did not ask for promotion. She did not ask for poster

status. She did not ask for a title,

right? I don't ask.

He had the opportunity. Like what?

What can we do? You've helped us now.

OK. I'm not going to ask for money.

OK. Listen, I'm going to ask for my

family. Who?

Jesus. OK.

Hallelujah. Somebody's getting this.

Yes. Let me get this.

Yeah, you get. She asked.

Yeah. For her family, not through

motion, not status or influence, not a pause.

A family. My God, Hallelujah.

It pleases me every time when I read that she's like, save my

family. My mother, my daddy, my

brothers, sisters, everybody who is connected to me, save them.

That's the ones I want you to speak.

Destruction is coming. The whole city is going to be

destroyed and wiped out. I want my family peace.

And we talked last week about Noah, what happened again, we

see this over and over throughout the Bible with the

blood, and they are now. I want you to grab hold of this

because I'm going to show you something amazing.

This is so powerful because she asked for her family.

And that is faith. It's courage, it's politics.

When we take a stand, we fight. That's what we fight for your

family. Now here she is and she's

fighting for her family. A broken reputation, broken

background in a wicked city and so yet she had the fight of

faith to believe for God who reached her in her mess, in her

problems in her difficult for God to also reach her family.

God, if you can reach this wretched man, if you could reach

me in my mess, in my troubles, Oh my God, this same guy can

also reach my family. If you could reach a Rashid man

like me with my troubles in my mess.

If you could reach my heart, the prostitute God.

And she had the point of five to believe God, if you could reach

me at all. Me then reply, you can also

reach my family. My God, save my family.

Oh, I believe it's a way for somebody to die because you may

look at your family and all that you see is a mess.

You see one family member in fright Masonry.

You see one family in your idolatry Fright Mason's closes.

So Antheus, you see a mess when you look at your family.

Oh God, when I look at my bloodline, how can you change my

life? How can you change my family?

Oh, but the grace of God can break the curse.

You know, the grace of God can turn it around.

The grace of God can bring a brand new future just like you

broke into my life. I was in a Pretoria studying Oh

God came me to my life. God got me out of the streets.

I was on my only God lifting up and I stood up and God saved me

and I said, God, now that you have saved me, I'm asking you

for my family, my father and my mother.

Why thank God I was reaching out for my family in the diagnostic.

I was just finding out my family.

People were in the hostel, people were in the people were

in the almost 1 and they were I mean, I came from an office of

Pretoria. Here I am the guys are saying,

do you know what's happened to Philip who the the athlete, the

guy that won. He says that was a man's the the

celebs. That guy, he got sad.

His life is not the same anymore.

He's not on the streets anymore. Oh my God.

And you know, the fire of God touched me.

I will apartment don't come, Hallelujah.

And you know we can't pull me out.

I started to my family. I was on my case.

Dad, you've got to come and see this.

We go to church. Oh my God, there's tower in the

church. I took my dad into church.

My mum got fooled with the Holy Ghost.

She got that size. My brother, you're shy.

He's now in German. He's a surgeon.

Successful surgery on fire for Jesus.

My God, I said, I'm not my family.

I want anything. One of them, I don't want music

to hell. I want them in heaven.

And they fall up straight. Hey, they could see here's on

Flint. This guy's not sweating like a

sailor anymore. He used to work, used to

everywhere. And I'm like, listen, this guy's

chase, What's happened to him? What's happened to a wool?

Yeah, he had an encounter with God.

Now, I want you to see this because these spies gave the

Raya 2 very powerful obstructions, and I want you to

grab hold of us today. The first thing is the scarlet

rub. Yeah, remember he said put the

rub outside of the window. That's the first one.

The second one, watch this. Get your family in the house,

something. It's all out of me now, and it's

anointing for you. God sent me the other day to put

that on your life. I'm not there for me.

I'm here for God's sake. Put this anointing on your life.

Your life will never be the same again.

I'm telling you your families will never be the same again.

What God has done for me, he's going to do for you.

I want you to grab others because the spy said get them in

the house. OK, so the first thing is the

scholar drug. Mark the house, right?

OK, mark the house. Cover the house, right?

So it speaks of the blood of you.

The second thing, can everyone of them get them in the house?

OK? And so this is very important

time that we're living in now. It's not a time to just be

casually isolated. It's not a time to treat the

House of God just as secondary, as optional.

It's just something nice that we do because we, it's not just a

wicked routine, OK? The House of God is life giving,

it's times building, it's soul saving soul.

OK, that's the House of God. All right.

And so we get them in the house. And so we are talking about life

in day fear because terraca is about to be destroyed.

Only those who were in the house were saved.

Yeah, but it's all in the Bible reading, reading over and over.

You see everything. Only the the entire remember

what happened? I was all this whose house he

made Raya. And the only people in the house

were spared of the entire Raya and her house, everything they

were spared. That's why the spies told they

said get your family in the house.

Especially in this lost generation that we are living in

these laws. They stay in the House of God,

stay in the country. We God has granted you we God is

connected. You stay in the House of God

where the word of God is being preached, where the presence of

God, the Holy Spirit is welcome. The rubber of God is moving and

flowing. Stay connected.

It matters, OK, in the presence of God because that's far court.

It points us to the blood of Jesus.

The blood of Jesus speaks of mercy.

And in the blood of Jesus, under the mercies of Jesus Christ,

there's safety, there's protection.

And that's why every day we plead the blood on our kids, we

plead the blood on our homes and our families.

We plead the blood. We mark our homes, our families

with the blood. We say thank you, Lord, for the

blood of Jesus protecting our lives.

And so Raya became a euro. Now this five year is very, very

powerful. So Raya became a 5 year old.

Now this is just amazing. But gosh, so Raya became so she

got her family in the house. She became a 5 year old.

Yeah, because she got her family in the house.

Yeah. Wow, great.

In five year old she didn't preach her son.

OK, you're a five year you didn't pick up the mic behind

the pulpit, but Rayad you are a five year.

Rayad did not lead a nation. She did five year.

Rayad is a five year. She got a house, she got her

family in the house and you're getting this church and that

matters to God. It matters to God so much that

God put her in Hebrews 11 amongst the €5, says amongst the

€5. She didn't break the server, she

didn't stop you on the bumper. She got her family 5 euro €5.

Now, can I go a little deeper? Yeah, because Raya was not

perfect. OK?

She's a faith hero, but not a perfect pass.

OK, Raya flawless. OK, broken reputation.

So it looked like she was disqualified in the natural.

OK, Raya possibly disqualified right now.

By the grace of God, she came through the bloodline bloodlet

family. Ignore it.

Come on, Ryan. Family line.

Oh, Jesus Christ. OK.

What bloodline do you have in your life?

Sir. Madam.

OK, Ryan, the prostate. Oh, OK.

Are we going to look at some bloodlines?

You look at the family lies. Yeah.

OK. Right.

So I just want to show you because when you read chapter

Matthew chapter 1, it does not say Riyadh the prostitute, it

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doesn't say Riyadh the harlot. When you read in Matthew chapter

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1, because I want you to see now the grace of God, how the grace

of God changes families, restore families, how the grace of God

is powerful. Because when you read in Matthew

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chapter 1, talking about the family line of Jesus, God, it

doesn't talk about Ryan. It talks, it says simply right.

And it says that first. Before that it talks about

Simon, the father of Boaz. Who's Boaz?

His mother, Raya. Yeah.

So now what's happened? You don't.

She's not defined by her mistakes.

It price has turned her life on, gave her a brand new feel.

Now she's a wife. She's a mother.

Restored family. Can you see how God took her?

The grace of God changed her life.

Faith year. How Maya.

She fought family. Yeah, it's Ween.

It's a big national. Why did you grab all of us?

This is how we nonsense because yes, the grace of God, but he

says when you fight for your family, God will fight for you.

Raya, you fought for your family, Raya.

I will fight for you. Raya.

I'm going to give you a husband. You're going to be a mother.

You're going to have a restored family because you fight for

your family. 5 heroes? How many 5 heroes?

I see 5 heroes in this place. I see 5 heroes.

Oh my God, I've done some 5 heroes in this place.

A completely restored family. Rushed by the plant, Completely

change. Restored her strong family

through her. Oh my goodness, 5 heroes.

I'm sensing 5 heroes in this place.

My goodness. So let every parent, every

mother, father, grandparent in this room fight for your family.

This is about your children. This is about your home.

This is about eternity, OK? And I want you to fight for your

family. Get your family in the house in

the presence of God, OK? This is what we do.

Because in God's eyes, if you can get your family in the

house, if you can get your family under the blood, if you,

you can pray for your father, you're always pointing to Jesus.

You always pray for them. You always cover them.

If you can get your, that matches to God in the eyes of

God, you don't fight your own, fight your own in the eyes of

God, when you get your father, that's that's true success.

Let me just tell you, if I get my family ready for heaven, I'm

a success. Not because of my pastor, not

because of my minister, not because of the title, not

because of anything else, not because of anything in this

earthly world, any temporary thing that's true success.

Yeah. If I can get my family ready for

the for the coming of Jesus Christ, ready for heaven, if I

can get my family in the house ready for Jesus, I'm a success

more than driving a fancy car, more than being very successful

in business, a lot of money in the bank, all of that.

What about the family that really matters?

Because the thing that really matters before God is not how

much money it's got in the bank. It is what are you doing about

your family? Are you fighting for your

family? Because that is what matters,

not a title, not a status, not an applause.

I'm not hosting an applause. Have the house, have the car,

have all of that. Give me my family, family.

That is true success. If God, that's a five year,

that's our five year. When you get your house, your

family in the house, that's five year olds and you are a 5 year

old because God has put you in your family in this hour for

such a time as this. You are the five year old and

God has put you in your family in the months.

Your loved ones, you are the five year old.

You are the one called to pray. You are the one called to cover

them, to pray for them, to stand for your.

You are the five year old come on church, every one of us in

this race a fight. You know you are the one who to

fight and stand up for your family, fight for your manage

for your kids. You are the one to say for me at

the house we will serve the Lord.

This house belongs to God. You are the five heroes.

That's real success. Get your family in the house.

Get them ready for heaven. More than success, more than

land, more than applause, OK? That's God's eyes as a fight

hero. So bring us right back to

Nehemiah where we balance the everyday family life because it

says there that the boulders in one hand they were building, but

the other hand they had weapon. So that's how we do family life.

Because yes, family life, there's one side of it.

Yes, we work and we both and we do that.

But then there's another side that we've got to fight for our

family. We cannot just in a society, in

a culture where it's all busy, busy, busy, just running for

success and neglect the family. And we're on the next business

trip, we're on the next this and that.

And it's like, when am I spending time with my family?

When am I wasting that time in my home and my family?

And so people are just chasing off the more things of the

world. But really what matters people

got is the family. And it says here Maya 4 by 17.

It says those who pulled on the wall and those who carried

burdens loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked

at construction and with the other one the weapon.

So the one hand was building and then the other hand they had a

weapon. And so you got to build some

things. So you got to battle some

things. So we pulled in the home.

We build trust, we build communication.

Honestly, we have a conversation, OK.

And so we build trust and love and kindness in the home amongst

our family. And then we got against fear,

doubt, betrayal, hurts, emotional distance, isolating.

Live in the same house but called as a fridge.

Live in the same house, not talking, not communicating.

So what we need to do is the one side we're building and the

other side we are guarding against what we watch on

screens. Fight against that.

Protect the hope, protect the family.

Be careful with what you watch on the screen.

Fight. Resist pornography.

Pornography destroys the hope. Don't play with porn, watch what

you see with your eyes. Be careful in the home, do not

leave any open gaps. So you do not allow certain

things in the house. And So what do we prioritize in

the home? What do we feed in the home?

What do we protect? And so it's the same time you

pull, but it's like a garden. If you want like a perfect

garden, you don't just water all the time.

Yeah, pretty. You also have to uproot the

weeds. There has to go pumps in our

daily life. So in the daily life,

yesterday's washing up dishes, cooking food, playing the pools,

working at it. But at the same time, there has

to be also keeping the bond of peace.

Love, honey, how are you communicate, love each other.

It's not just all work and not play and just busy, busy, busy

and we neglect each other, which is more important than a job.

Let me just be honest and clear here.

Your marriage is more important than any job when in ministry.

Let's just your marriage. You got to fight for your

marriage. It's more important than being

successful at work. Have a great job, have a great

job. What about the marriage?

That's insane. That's number one, his family.

So we have to do what matters to God.

That's real success, not What Car we drive God that does not

impress God. And I'm not against driving

fancy cars and ice houses. But then also what impresses God

is how do you treat your wife? How do you speak to your, how do

we speak to one another as brothers and sisters?

Because listen, let's just be honest, we are the family of

God. So how do we balance that?

And I want you to see this because.

It brings us to the close to verse 20, very powerful promise.

When Nehemiah verse 20, he says that wherever you hear the sign

of the trumpet rally, there here is our verse for today.

Our God will fight for us. And so the people were spread

out working around all different responsibilities, different

tasks, and they're all there. But even though we're at

different places, they still stay close enough to the

trumpets that they could hear the trumpet.

OK? So stay close to the voice of

God, stay close to the word of God.

So they stay close enough to hear the trumpet call, Okay.

And it's like Wi-Fi enough. So if you walk too far from your

house and the Wi-Fi signal gets weaker and weaker and weaker,

and then afterward, if you walk too far from the house, the

signal drops, the signal gets weaker and weaker.

And so here they are. And it's like everyday life.

We, we, we busy lives, we go to work, we do our thing, we are

different places. And that's fine.

We have some busy special softball and all that.

But the message is simple. Stay close to the trumpet, stay

close to the voice of God, stay close to the worship, stay close

to the work, stay close to the presence of God so that when the

pressure rises, you know, we're together.

Stay close to and connected because that's why connection

matters, that we stay connected. Because once people get cut off

from the voice of God, then they start fighting battles that

they're not supposed to fight. Yeah, that's right.

Start fighting battles on their own, alone.

And that's never what God wants. The Bible says that that path

for your family, God will fight for you.

And so we need to understand the titles that are yes, Lord, God

is fighting with us when it comes to the family marriage.

God sang, I'm in this with you, my son, I'm in this.

I'm going to fight this with you.

But you see, when there's isolation, people get cut off.

They get caught up in fighting other battles.

It's like destruction with the precious.

And so stay close to the world. Stay close to under the covering

where heaven strengthens you and reminds you that as you fight

for your family, you're not fighting alone.

You're not on your own, whatever that Masonry, whatever atheist,

whatever difficulty in the family, whatever that argument,

listen, you're not fighting that thing on your own.

And I've seen it over the years in my family members, even some

of my family members, like an odd.

I was amazed what God can do when God fights for you.

Even in Pretoria I've seen when I walk into people's hearts and

stuff and just out of nowhere, out of the blue, I just started

talking to them about the Lord. And these are uncles and nephews

far, but they connected to me and I would just share with them

and I would see the hand of God. What only the only ghost can do

is touch that person's heart and life.

And so you don't fight it on your Amen.

And so the battle belongs to the Lord.

Yeah, opposed the war. But, you know, if the battle

belongs to the Lord, then that doesn't mean we do nothing.

Let's actually explain that first to you, because we all

have a role to play. We have a role to play.

God has a role to play. We all need this.

OK, let me give you an example. OK, So it's not about just

sitting. Nothing.

The battle belongs to God. OK, Tug of war.

Now, if you need the tug of war, OK, they're pulling on the road.

And let's say this child is pulling on this side.

Now, if that child is pulling in his own strength, he's going to

lose the tug of war. But yeah, but the moment the

parent comes and the father stands behind the child and

pulls the rope, OK, all of a sudden the tug of war, the

situation changes. That pressure, that difficult,

let's say, is not strong enough anymore because the parents

lifted and the real strength is not in the child, but the parent

behind the child. And then I said, I want you to

grab hold of this, that when God says, listen, we, you fight for

your fight and I will fight your battle.

The battle belongs to God. It's like when I showed my son,

my youngest one with a bicycle and we got the stabilizers off

and I said, and then he's somehow like, oh, he's just

going to sit down the pants. I'm like, no, you're going to

peddle. So I see I'm like, listen, now

if you ride your bicycle, even though the state because the

stabilizers, you don't have to pedal.

You can sort of just sit like that, but now it's off.

I'm like, if you're not going to penny, you're going to follow.

But here's the thing. When God says the pencil belongs

to me, God says the pedal is low.

My hand was old is still on the hands is on the seat.

So while he's meddling, I'm holding my hand dead.

So that is what God, the picture that God is showing us that you

when you fight for your hub and your family, you're not fighting

a lot. You are not on your own.

God comes and he fights with us. I mean somebody are you getting

this? Yes, God says I will fight with

you. And so I want to close with

another story. Is that OK?

Somebody, can I give you one more?

We have a supporter. OK, let me show you one more.

Yes, Someone also fights it for family now, because you see this

picture, remember? Yes, David.

And so he's in this place. It's a traditional place because

you know, Zig like me, it's like transition.

You know, he had the promise of God, but it was not fulfilled on

his life yet. He was annoying, but he's been

on the front yet. And so many families.

That's where we are. You've heard a word from God.

You know what God's spoken over your life.

You know what God has spoken over your marriage, your family.

You are, you know, but you've not seen the fulfillment.

You've not seen the breakthrough yet.

You know what? God has spoken over that son,

over that door, over there, but they are still not there yet,

still in the process. Maybe it's a healing situation

where the healing is not manifested.

So that's a place of transition many families are in now.

Know what God has said to you, but you've not seen it yet.

That's the cloud. It's a place of transition, OK.

And so here is David. And I just want to say that

Ziglag, because we have to just like Ray had started some way,

but that was not the end of the story.

We've seen the end of the story. The same with David.

He's in this transition place. OK?

Ziglag is not the end of the story.

It's not your final address. So maybe there's some

difficulties and many situations in the family, in the home, in

the marriage. That's not the end.

It's a transition now, David. He's had the most worst day of

his life because he comes home and what's happened?

His home is on fire. He saw the smog from the

distance. Everything is burned down.

And what's happened? His family is gone.

My God, that's rough. That's rough.

Listen, you touch my car, my house, my job.

You touch my finance. Don't touch my finance.

Don't touch my wife. And that's how we have to be

men, enemy. You will not have my family.

And here's David and they've taken his family.

You don't take my family. You don't touch my wife.

You don't touch my children. I don't care who you are.

Take my house, take the car, take the finances.

Don't take my family. And here's David.

And they end up and the father says they were weeping so much

that they did not have even strength enough to weep anymore.

And a lot of, you know, there's some people sitting in this

place. You know exactly how that feels

because you have been praying for your family.

You have been standing, believing for your family.

Yeah, keep on. Keep on.

And then all of a sudden something has hit your family.

Something is hit your children, your home, your family, the

finance is out. Something is just out of

nowhere. You just didn't see this coming

and it's hit your family. Do you know what this feels

like? And David cried and he went and

he kept up with, but now I want you to see this amazing verse.

And this verse, this is really, I really believe was something

very powerful here today because David did not accept the loss.

He's a fighter. He's a fighter.

We've got some heroes in this place.

We've got some people in this place that will fight for

families. If we only only families still

standing, we will fight for it. We've got some fighters because

David did not stay down in the US.

He did not accept defeat, not defeat.

He's like, I'm going to fight for my family.

And he got up and the part he found strength in the law.

That's what I pray for everybody in this place and here it will

be a supernatural straight for pardon for your home, for your

family, for you straight for your parents, for your kids.

Verse 6, but David strengthened himself.

Hang the Lord, this God, and there are times that is what

fighting for your family looks like.

You strengthen yourself and you rise up and strengthen.

Fight in the law and you say it all.

I'm going to fight for my family.

That's what fighting for your family looks like, strength in

the law. I'm not going to accept this.

And you're going to rise up. You're going to stand up even

though it feels like you want to collapse.

You are going to just wipe your tears.

You're going to sit here and say, enemy, you will not have my

treasure. You will not have my home, my

kids, my family. You will not have it.

That little strength. Yeah.

And that's what I love about David.

You went straight to the mark. Stay close to the trumpet, the

voice of God, the word of God, because here's the key.

He went to God and he got a woman.

Yeah, he got a Because this is the thing when it comes to

fighting, I don't want to fight battles I'm not supposed to

fight because I don't want to fight about.

I want to know heaven's here with me.

I want to know that heaven is backing this fight.

Before I'm going to go into this fight with Goliath, before I'm

going to go into this fight, I want to know that I've got the

the backing of heaven in this fight.

And so David goes and he God want word for God.

God says pursue. Go for it, my son, go get it.

Don't expect the faith. Don't be defeated.

Don't accept the loss. Don't let the enemy keep what

beloks to you. You go and take it.

You go get it, my son, you go get it.

You go after your family, go after your marriage, go get your

children, go get those kids, those loved ones go after they

go get it. Go get your short, go get your

peace back. Go get your fire back after

those children again. And so when God says pursue it

means heaven is backing my God says go.

God says fight this fam. God says that battle, we're

backing you. We're backing you.

The battle belongs to God. And so I went David, he was, I

just love this because he's got this worth and God gave him this

price and says you will recover all.

And that's what I believe is a word for everybody here today,

that you will recover all what has been stolen from your

family. God will recover.

God will recover at all. God recover everything that

enemies everything. Send the loves to you.

Everything that's connected to you will be restored back.

You will recover without fail. You will recover everything.

Yes, yes, yes. You will get it back.

You will get it. Yes.

Firearm. Jesus Christ.

You will recover it all. You will recover it all.

You'll recover it all. You'll recover it all without

fail. You go get it.

God will restore what belongs to you.

Peace is coming back. Joy is coming back.

Yes, he's coming back. Your marriage is coming back.

I feel it very, very strongly. This prodigal.

Scott showed me this coming back.

This prodigal kids, they don't even know they're coming back.

The protocols is coming back, they're coming out.

There's children, there's kids, there's sun journeys, there's

processes. They're coming back.

There's family members, they're coming back.

I'm feeling very sorry coming back.

So what of the Lord Church? Because what God is behind you,

Heaven is behind you. It's stronger than the pressure,

it's stronger than the difficulty.

The praises of God is with you. God fights for you.

The battle belongs to the Lord. The same God that says fight for

your family. He promised that I will fight

for you. And so today if you are in this

place and you say pastor, I am making a commitment today I will

fight for my family. I want you to stand to your feet

right now. If you say I will fight for my

family, I will fight. I commit to fight for your

family. Stand over this place right now

because some of you, you know the opponent of what it feels

like to fight for your family, to pray for your family, to

stand for your family, to fight for peace in the home.

Some of you know what it feels like to be in a family situation

and Bold and Patzel at the same time.

And you are saying it today. God, I need you to step into my

family. God, I need you to fight for my

family, Lord, Yeah, I am committed today to fight for my

family and your words. They said you will fight for me.

And God, I need you now this morning.

So put your hand on your heart right now if you're in this

place and you say, yes, I need God's Christ and I need that

strength, that David, that strength of the Lord.

I want you to just say to the Lord, give me that strength,

that grace, that's strength to fight and stand for my family.

Yes, Lord. So right now, raise your hands

all across this route. I want to pray for every family

represented here right now. Father, I thank you for every

person and every family. Thank you, Lord, that you fight

for your people. Thank you, Lord, that you

rebuild every brokenness, every harm, every marriage.

And father, I thank you for strength, anointing be released

upon every person here to be the faith you know, to be the one

that brings the family into the house, pointing them to Jesus,

get them ready for heaven. Yes, rule.

Let the presence of the Holy Spirit move upon houses, homes,

families, marriages, kids, everyone in this place.

And right now we tell the enemy, you cannot have our families,

You cannot have our kids, you cannot have our marriage.

We command the devil to take his hands off and we take back our

families. We take back our kids, our

children. Yes, right now, every enemy

plan, the plans of the enemy has been cancelled.

Every assignment of the enemy has been cancelled of every

home, every family, every child. The particles are coming back.

All those families are coming back where they belong, into the

House of God. Lord, I thank you that you break

strife in the home, break fear, break confusion, break it right

now. Every chain of the enemy right

now, break it. Homes will be healed.

Lord, as we fight for our families, we thank you that you

will fight for us. Come on, somebody shout

Hallelujah. Now before we close, let me just

give one more invitation. Your view in this place and you

have never given your life to Jesus.

The greatest miracle is to receive Jesus into your heart

and into your life. If you're in this place and you

want to become a child of God, you want to become part of God's

family, I want you to raise your hands.

Today's your last day and Jesus comes back again.

If this is your moment right now, say yes.

Include me, pastor, include me. Include me.

Include me for heaven. Right now.

Is there anybody flip up your hand?

Very everybody saved, born again, you know that you know

that you are saved. Don't walk out here and still

full of doubt. Now that you can be saved today,

your sins can be wiped away forever.

Only Jesus can do that. Only the blood of Jesus can wipe

away sins, wash you, cleanse you, give you a brand new start.

So if that is you right now, just put your hand on your

heart. And I just want us to pray just

right now. I want us to pray.

Everybody pray out loud right now say, Lord Jesus, I give you

my heart, I give you my life. Lord, I make you the Lord of my

life. Forgive my sin, wash me in your

blood, make me a child of God. Amen.

Hallelujah. Come on, let's stand up by

Jesus. Glory did to God.

Now I want to search to say this out loud.

I really believe that this is a bold statement.

I want you to pray and say this and declare this with faith in

your heart. Say my house belong to God.

The battle belongs to the Lord. I will strengthen myself in the

Lord. I will not quit you.

My family is worth fighting for. I do not fight the Lord as I

fight for my family, the car of heavens fight for me.

Somebody give God the biggest son of life.

No. Is it?