Know your child by Mrs Temitayo Akanbi

On Thursday. It was on Wednesday. Baby Perfection, turn one.

Is that right? Hallelujah. On Monday, Elena, turn three. Hallelujah.

Let's clap for Jesus now.

I think on the 29th, Abby, it should I call Uncle,

I should not call him Baby Aaron.

Uncle Aaron. Uncle Aaron. It will be plus one. Don't

let me tell you the age. Hallelujah. Amen.

The Lord is advancing us. And we all get there

in the name of Jesus Christ. It was wonderful yesterday.

As Daddy was leading the MMU, I was also with

the leaders. Because I didn't mention it. You might hear

that Mommy was with the leaders.

Praise the Lord. We give God the glory.

Thus far as the church, the Lord has been leading

our thoughts. Towards parenting. Godly parenting. Have we been blessed

so far? Has there been any changes so far in

our approaches?

Amen.

And today, by God's grace, the Lord will be leading

us again. Taking us from that level to another level

of parenting. And I pray that we will not be

found wanting in Jesus' name. Let's bow our heads together

as we pray. Tell God, please speak to me. I

don't want to see mommy. I don't want to see

auntie T.Y. Please, Lord, speak to me. Make my heart

prepared to receive from you. Beyond what the preparation of

the speaker. Heavenly Father, this is our prayer that you

will speak to us in the language that we understand.

Baba, this is our cry.

Open our foresight. Where we have not been doing well,

we are sorry. Where you want us to walk on,

please help us in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you,

Heavenly Father. Because we are going to speak to our hearts.

In Jesus' name we have prayed. Is our microphone ready?

I'm going to ask you some silent questions which I

want us to answer. What does it mean to know

your child? That's question number one. Is it important for

Christian parents to know your child? For Christian parents to

know your child? That's question number two. And question number three.

In what ways do you think children of the same.

Family, even the one that we born the same day,

even from the same womb differs? Or they are different?

And this difference, why do we have that difference? Do

we even have the difference in the first place? So please,

who are those that will answer my question? I'm not

seeing hands up. Question one. Whoa, one after the other.

Thank you, my daddy.

Sorry. What does it mean to know your child? And

do we even know our children? Should we share the

grace and go? God bless you, sir.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

The question is that what does it mean to know

your child?

Yes. What does it mean?

Yes.

Yes.

It means that you are the one that gives birth

to the child.

Okay.

And a child, again, through your blood, you know it

will appear and you know your child. And it's good

to know your child because physically and things like that,

and attitudes, because you know the father knows himself. And

although as he brought the child, he did not give

back his character. But you have to know the character

that the child is pure in your house. Anything that happens,

you know that, yes, it's my son. He's the one

that does such things. Although things that we are meeting

with different people, definitely you must know your child in

your house. And because the character that you are. And

if that doesn't mean know your child, which means you

are not care of your children, you are not care

of your child. That is why some don't know the

character of their children. Although we don't know their character

at all, but you have to know a little of

your character, your child. Thank you.

Thank you.

Baba mentioned attitude, Baba mentioned character when you know them.

And because they carry.

Our gene, our blood.

Okay.

Any addition to that? Okay. Thank you, sir.

Praise the Lord.

Hallelujah.

We're supposed to know our child so that if it

is my child that do this good thing, I'm supposed

to know it is my child. If it is my

child that do this bad thing, I'm supposed to know

this is my child do this thing.

Okay.

Thank you, Baba. So why is it important to know

our children as parents? Christian parents. Thank you, sir.

Praise the living God.

Hallelujah.

At least knowing your children will help you train your

children according to their capacity.

Okay.

What they can take and what they can do.

Okay.

For example, now maybe your children, some of them are

slow learning, some of them are stubborn, so it will

help you to at least understand them, then train them

the way it's.

Supposed to be. Thank you.

It's giving us importance, the reason why and the benefit

of knowing our children. So question three. Am I seeing

another hand? Please, can we be in one house, please?

One house, everybody, please. Let's be together.

In what way do you think that children from the

same family differs? Why is it that Thay and Konyde,

they are different families? Husena and Asana, mama, I'm sorry,

they differ. And what are the implications of these differences

in them? Is it that we don't understand my question

or I'm asking big, big questions?

No.

Well, children and families differ in their temperaments and their genes.

Some children, they carry the character of their mom or

their dad. When we are at home and we are

having our family time, There are some things that Carice

will do that Daddy will say is from Mommy that

she got it. And there are some things we will

do that Mommy will say is from Daddy that we

collected it. So those types of things make children differ

in families.

Thank you.

Nice talking about... Maybe I should bring it down. We

were preparing for the communion last week Sunday. The bread

had already been on the table and the wine. So

Carice just woke up to me. And she said, Mommy,

you won't give us the bread. You say it's the

body of Jesus. The wine, you say it's the blood

of Jesus. Okay, give us the bone. Since you don't

want to give us the body, you don't want to

give us the blood, the wine. So where is the

bone of Jesus? Give us the bone of Jesus.

We eat it. Inside of me, I'm like, God.

But that is the picture of myself. That is how I,

I was so inquisitive that one day I asked my mom,

those people that died, where do they go? So when

they get there, what will they be doing? My mom said,

Bible didn't tell us. I said, mommy, me, I want

to go and come back home. Mommy said, you won't

go in Jesus' name. If you go, you can't come

back now. Get out of here. At that point, she

signed me out of the kitchen. I'm like, me, I

want to know some things. Just tell me.

There are some questions. There are some inquisitiveness that we

are born of. We don't know.

It is from father and mother, even to the point

of our grandparents, that we take the gene. And scientifically,

it is proven that you will take more of your

grandparent than your parent.

Praise the Lord. We are reading the book of Judges.

Let's open our Bibles to the book of Judges chapter 13.

Judges 13 · chapter mention

And we are going to be reading quickly. I start

from verse 1. Judges chapter 13. If you are there,

Judges 13 · chapter mention

shout hallelujah. How many of us are here?

With our Bibles? So let's open our Bibles.

And if you are with your phone, open the Bible

app on your phone.

Again, the children of Israel did evil in the sight

of the Lord.

And the Lord delivered them into the hand of the

Philistine for 40 years. Now there was a certain man

from Zorah Of the family of Danite.

Whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren. And

had no children.

Verse 3. And the angel of the Lord appeared to

the woman. And said to her. Indeed now you are barren.

And have born no children. But you shall conceive. And

bear a son. To everyone called barren. The Lord is

opening your womb. In the name of Jesus Christ.

Now therefore. Please be careful.

Not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to

eat anything unclean. For behold, you shall conceive and bear

a son, and no razor shall come upon his head.

For the child shall be a Nazarite to God from

the womb. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out

of the hand of the Philistine. So the woman came

and told her husband, saying, a man of God came

to me. And his countenance was like the countenance of

the angel of God.

Very awesome.

But I did not ask him where he was from.

And he did not tell me his name. And he

said to me, behold, you shall conceive and bear a child.

A son.

No, no drink, no wine, no similar drink, nor eat

anything unclean. For the child shall be a Nazareth to

God from the womb. From the day to the day

of his death. Then Manoah prayed to the Lord.

And said. Oh my Lord.

Please let the man of God. Whom you sent. Come

to us again. And teach us what we shall do.

For the child.

Who will.

Be born. And God listened. To the voice of Manuel.

And the angel of God. Came to the woman again.

And she was sitting.

In the field. But Manuel, her husband, was not with her.

Then the woman.

Ran in haste and told her husband and said to him, Look,

the man who came to me the other day.

Has just appeared to me now.

May the Lord bless the reading of his word in

Jesus' name. Knowing our children is a paramount assignment Is

a pertinent assignment. For all parents. And to all potential parents.

I'm talking to the youth. The earlier you know this.

The better for us. That it is the mind of God.

For us to know our children. To know their character.

To know their personality. To know their emotional needs. To

know their strength. To know their challenges.

Why?

Why?

So that we're able to guide them well. That's number one.

So that we're able to have strong connection. That's number two.

Number three, so that our heart will be transformed. That, oh,

my child is no longer that baby Carice. He's now

Lady Carice. And very soon she'll become Woman Carice, Madam Carice.

So that we're able to model the grace of God

upon our lives. That's number four. To these children. They

will start talking like us. They will start behaving like us.

They will start talking, praying like us. It will build

stronger relationship.

Number five.

And number six. For better support and growth. By the

time you are supporting them, they will be growing faster.

They will be achieving more. They will be growing further.

And also, to improve their behavior and to shape their

life to that which God desires. The story we read

quickly talked about a man and his woman, Manoah. The

angel of the Lord didn't appear to the man first.

He appeared to who? Please, let's... He appeared to who? Please,

tap your neighbor. It's not time to sleep. Because I'll

be asking questions and we'll all answer. He appeared to

the woman. Because you know women, mummies, we are good

in narrating stories. We will tell everything that happened. And

the woman was able to narrate that this is what

I saw.

And this is what I.

And the man prayed. That is, it is our responsibility

to pray.

To know. And to guide.

And I pray that the Lord will give us the

grace in the name of Jesus Christ. I know that

we might be thinking, is it not too late?

No. Let's start from where we are. It is not.

Even before the child was born, there was prophecy. There

was an encounter. And that is why it leads us

sometimes that the name we give to our children, it

is from the encounter that we had before they were born.

Not be so.

That's why we name Oluwa, Muiwa, God brought this one.

That's why we have Asanaru Sena because they are two.

And it has meaning. And that is what portrays the

way the child will be behaving sometimes. Praise the Lord.

When you know the baby's character or your son or

your daughter's character, it will help you a lot.

My father called us one day and he said, if

they called him that....

Our children, I mean his children, they are fighting or

something happened and one of the child involves in fighting.

My father said, I know the one that will be there.

If they say, this one, they were fighting and one

person is narrating. He said, I know the one that

will be doing the narrating. If they say, someone carry

another person's this thing and he said, I know the

one that might be there. So if they ask you,

do you know your child, parents? that this is what

your son or your daughter did, what would you say?

Recognizing our children's personality, it is what we are going

to be looking at. And the word SHAP, S-H-A, I

mean S-H-A-P-E, SHAP, it is what we are going to

be looking at. Personality reveals all our children's is and

what they will become. The first letter S stands for

social interaction. How does your child interact with others? Is

he or she very aggressive? What is her habit, her attitude,

her preference, her emotional expression? Some of them, if you

just look at them, their friends will do something. They

will quickly come and report. Some, they will not come

and report. Some, they will stay there till they collect

their doll baby before they will come and meet you.

Not be so.

So, their social interaction revealed. And it is now our

own assignment as parents to observe. How are they interacting?

How are they reacting? What is the type of this

child that I'm carrying? What is the temperament of this child?

Number two is the age, which is the habits. Your

child's daily habits offer insight to his or her personality.

Do they see you and say, mommy, good morning? You see,

that thing that I've been asking you, some children can pester.

It is when you are receiving call that they will

remember to come and meet you. You do your eyes

like this, they are still there. You do like this,

they are still there. And some need something, they don't

even know how to ask you. They first of all

go and ask their mom before they will come and

meet you.

Habits.

Some naturally are empathizing when they see you very down

say ah daddy what is it ah sorry mommy maybe

you will take this mommy maybe some they won't even

look at you when you are down some when you

are sick they will just check from the cutting mama

is it are you fine Mama, they will check, they

will check. Before you know it, they are ready outside

to go and play ball. We know those that are

there like that.

Some, they are very organizing.

And some, when you see them, oh, even if you organize,

they will rearrange for you. Organize them times, they will

rearrange it for you. And this is what we call temperaments.

Some are very outspoken.

Why some? They are very reserved. Reserved. You even push

them to talk. They will not say what is in

their mind.

Until you call them separately, pet them before they will

say it out.

Number three is the attitude that Baba mentioned.

How your child usually responds to challenges, responsibility, and relationship

reveals their personality. I give God the glory for the

school my children went to when we were in town,

that first school. The proprietor of the school called me.

He said, mommy, we have a little issue.

I'm like, what is it?

That one, my son, the second one, that he struggled

with some things.

I'm like, what is it?

And of a truth, John is not patient like Marcus.

If you say they will hit by wartime, before you

come and meet you, mommy, I'm hungry. Can we do

something before that thing will be okay? Maybe we should

drink gari before the food will be ready. The food

is almost....

I'm like, so how do you know, ma?

He said, when they give them puzzle to solve in school,

before you know it, John will give up and leave

the puzzle for others to solve and he's doing his own.

Lord, what will I do? Patient.

I started praying it into his life. I started talking

to him. I'm like, okay, even me, I will test

them myself. So two of them, I called them. I

gave them sweets.

I went inside.

Before I return, open your mouth. Done sweets.

Gone.

Marcus, the sweet is still there. So by their attitude,

you will know. So when you now discover by observing them,

it is time for us to now work on that

thing that they are lacking and work on the strength

to bring the good side very well out of them.

Some of them are so creative. Some of them, they

know how to organize things. While some of them, creativity

is out of the way. Let us read, pass, and

collect our certificates.

Do we understand? God is calling our attention for us.

To understand our children this morning. They gave me one

bag One Ghana Moscow bag, sometimes. And I packed some

things inside. For me, I didn't even pay attention of

what was on the back. I don't... It was John's

delivery items that I kept inside.

And one day, I was just looking for Marcus inside

the room. Marcus, where are you? Marcus, where are you?

I saw the boy inside the room, looking at the bag.

I'm like, what is it? He said, mommy, And he

was describing what was on the bag. Yeah. I'm like, me,

I'm not as artistic as that. I don't know. But

do you know that these children pick it from us?

It is for us to be patient with them, to

help them to develop that ability. Then number four is P,

which is the preference. What do they enjoy to do?

As youth, what are the things that you love doing?

What are the things that you cannot but do? Some

of them, they just want to lose your hair and

plate it and plate it. And mothers, we are, God

will help us.

Leave my hair alone. Must you touch my hair?

We don't even want our grandchildren to climb our shoulder

to do, they want to do this thing. They are

sharpening their skills by doing it over and over again.

And before you know it, that person might be a stylist.

That person might be some, maybe architect. That person might

be someone that will be.

Designing in life.

But it starts from these little, little things.

So what you are not forced to do, that you

enjoy to do.

Someday we enter bedroom, you will have to pray them

out before they come out of the bedroom. Because they

will finish two tracks in the bedroom. They will be

singing and singing. Today is Sunday, come out. They are still,

they will carry comb.

Oh, as microphone. They are going places. Don't let us

discourage them. Hallelujah. And the S.

The E stands for expression of feelings. Expressions of feelings.

Knowing how your child responds to success. failure, stress will

help you to understand that temperament. If this child fail,

how does he react? Some will fail, they don't even

bother to tell you that they fail. And some, they

will have cried their eyes out before you will come

back from work.

Why? Daddy, because I took third.

I'm like, eh? And the other one will not, even

they took tenth, they will still come back home Handle

it as if nothing happened. So this one will help

us to manage and build their empathy. How to handle stress.

Because they are going to walk in a place that

there will be stress that might come their ways. And

how they can handle conflict. Not that when they beat

them outside, they will come and run to come and

meet you before they will express themselves.

Know your childhood.

Number three things that we quickly look at is understanding

your child's talent. Do we know that God has embedded

into our children talents, skills, abilities? May God give us

understanding in Jesus' name. Sorry that I'm bringing this to

us like this, that I'm using, but when I use

experience and stories, I think it helps us to understand

better When you look at, those pictures are not here.

They are in area one, our mama's place. When you

look at their baby's picture, what I observe is that

Marcus's left hand at age three months is always active.

The left hand, very, very active. Even in the picture,

that's the hand that's, and this other hand, it just moves.

The boy now grew.

We took him to school.

We noticed that he preferred left. To collect things, left,

we have to tell him that it's right you'll be

using to hit.

But to write, it is left. We now took him

to a school.

And there is a teacher that doesn't... You must root

right hand in our culture. Left hand is a taboo.

And the boy, Kukuma, he stopped writing.

He did not write again. I started praying. I was worried.

I'm like, God, what is happening? The boy is not

writing again.

And in their communication book, your children is not writing.

This thing is not writing.

God, what is happening? I had to pray. Okay, God,

help me.

Before we not discover the one that the first week

we got to that school, they were able.

To discover their temperament and they were able to tell

me that this one gives up easily. The patient level

of him, it was very low.

We had to take them from that school to another school.

And what are we hammering on? Please don't change, don't switch.

Because it has already been programmed with the brain. So

that the left side works faster than the right side

of his brain. So now changing it by force, what

do you think will happen? There will be confusion.

People will not understand what to do first. So we're

looking at that.

Worrying, my husband said, don't worry about that one. My

father used more of it left. And my brother, the

last one that God called to glory, was left-handed. Even

to turn Amala as Yoruba, that's what he would use.

So when you know, it will help you to sharpen

them into what God wants them to do. Number one

thing that we'll look at, we're going to be looking

at the gifts as acronym.

G-I-F-T-S.

Number one is the giving ability. We are looking at

understanding our child's talent. So what is your child's giving ability?

We need to pay attention to what our children do

easily with minimal instructions. Some of them, they hate dirty.

Once they come back from school, they will drop their bag.

They will first of all strip.

They will arrange. They hate dirty.

If you look at that person, maybe that person would

be a white collar person or somebody that works in

the hospital, somebody that will work where they are wearing

white Because you will be able to maintain it. Some

of them love to sing, as I mentioned before. Some

of them, they love to solve problems. They are so logical.

In their thinking.

Some of them, they will gather their friends together when

they are playing outside. And they will say, okay, you

do like this. You do like that. Before you know it,

that person, maybe he or she might be a director

in future.

Or Pamsek.

Organizing people right from there. Some of them, they are

given the ability to bring out solution from something we

have already condemned. You want to throw away carton. And

by the time they turn it around, you will be shocked.

I have one of them in church.

Where is Uchena?

Very gifted when it comes to turning things all over again.

Carton that you have thrown away. He will turn it

and do something wonderful out of it. Number two things

that we need to do is the eye, which talks

about their interests. What do they love? What do they

enjoy doing at their free time? Some of them is reading.

Some of them is helping you to do something. Some

of them is drawing. You give them book. They take

one dozen to school. By the time they will bring

it back, they've used back half of it for drawing.

Just as you put your carton or your gongoni, they

will arrange it. May God have mercy on us parents

for rebooking them sometimes.

Because we don't pay attention. I'm also guilty of it.

Then Marcus will arrange your plate, arrange tin, and every pencil,

they are drumstick. Every biro in the house, they are drumstick.

One day, Kukuma opened the fridge. Me, I don't take milk.

I am lactose intolerant. I don't. The milk, the tin milk.

He removed it.

They've opened it, but because daddy didn't finish it, he

put it back. The boy poured the milk because of

the tin.

I came.

I don't know what I was doing, but by the

time I'm outside, he has already arranged that tin milk

and all that tin and all that tin. Closed and

sat down inside that white milk and was playing.

Jesus.

Daddy, I beat him before I cleared the mess up.

But when daddy comes, I was explaining and he just

looked at me and laughed. Sometimes in church, when we

are worshipping God, you will see daddy doing like this.

I know that his mind is here.

To play drum. We went to area one and mama

brought out albums for us to see. Lo and behold,

my grandfather, I mean their grandfather, My husband and my

father-in-law snapped with playing drums.

Not this type of drums.

This similar thing to this sambore drum. I said, mama,

papa is a drummer.

I said, yes, oh. Ah, my husband, he plays drum

very well. I'm like, God have mercy on me. I

don't crucify my children. Oh, father, help me.

I had to compensate them by... Lord, please provide so

that we can get drum sets. The day drum sets

enter the house, Jesus is like, I bought everybody. Now,

so please, let's look at their interests and let's work

on that. Number three, which is the F, is the

feedback from others. What are they telling you about your child? Sometimes,

talent are visible to outsiders than even the immediate families.

Sometimes it can even be in the school from church

or when they travel for holidays that they will observe that,

this child's interest is in this. And by the time

they tell us, please let us be observant and let

us develop that thing in them.

Number four thing here is tests. and trying of new activities.

Exposing your children to new experiment or new exercise, new

activities is key for them, for you also, to discover

their ability. Giving them the opportunity to invest in things.

They ask you for carton. That carton that I gave

you last week, what do you use it for?

Bring it out.

They will bring something good out of it. Some of them,

they will tell you, sit down. They will put pencil.

Those ones, they are makeup artists. Some of them, they

can create something out of nothing.

And you feel like, oh, something that I've discarded.

So let us give them opportunity. Sometimes they will spoil

your radio. Because they want to know what is speaking

inside that radio. Why that battery is not working. Sometimes

when I get equipment or garbage or new things, I

give it 24 hours in my house.

After prayer and warning. Alarm clock. Oh, Jesus.

Why the alarm is coming this way? Why is it

not going this way? Why this one? Why that one?

Why....

And while I was discussing and I was worried about it,

I'm like, God, must they spoil everything?

Must they do this? Please, let's come together.

For some of us, don't let us neglect the gathering

of other mothers and fathers.

We will learn from them.

My mother-in-law said, if you know how many things your

husband repairs in this house and how many things.

He tries to fix and we later....

I'm like, eh. He said, if we open it, something

has condemned. He will tell you that thing is not condemned.

Let's bring it back. Sometimes they will want to develop things,

bring something out for something that you feel like, oh,

this thing is no longer good.

This thing, we cannot use it again. They will reset it.

They will redo it and it will work again. And

sometimes the thing we blow, don't give up on them. Ha,

you have spoiled this thing. There was a day, mama, mama,

praise the Lord. One day my baby girl just, she

came to the kitchen to call my meat meal that

she's going to work.

I felt like it's a joke. I didn't believe what

she could do.

She carried her church bag. When she comes, you will

see her with her church bag. she put her dummy

phone inside. Went to go and meet daddy at the

study and tell daddy, daddy give me khaki, I want

to go to work. He didn't even, you know, he

just like, nobody pay attention. Thank God that the brothers

were outside washing. She passed them and by the time

they look up, she's already at that signboard.

She noticed that they are following him.

She ran.

And cross the main road. And they were dragging. You

must come back home. And the cry was too much.

Thank God one of our church members saw them.

Leave her.

You go home. Go and tell daddy and mommy. You

follow her to where she's going. And she went to

mama's house. She knocked the gate. Mama opened. What is it?

He said mama I came to walk. I told them

I'm coming to walk. So what do you want?

Which walk do you want?

What do you want? Me, I don't have work for you.

Mama asked her to sit down. She told mama she

has eaten, but she will eat again. Mama gave her food.

I think later she picked her dummy phone, calling me

and the daddy that she's working. She's with mama. Mama

is washing.

She's doing this. She's doing that. That when she's done,

she will come back.

Inside of me, I'm like, God, she came back. Why

did you do what you did? He said, I told

you that I'm going to work now. I told you

I'm going to work now. That was even what's annoying me.

After I beat her, I felt sorry too. Because that

is what we are doing. And they are looking at us.

And they also want to try the new thing. They

want to experience it. So if you don't want them

to start driving your car now, keep your key properly

because they are looking at you as you are driving.

They are looking at you as you are pressing the throttle,

as you are accelerating. as you are pressing the brake.

They are seeing what you are doing. So the only

thing that remains for them is to try and test

their ability. So if I don't want them to try

my things, keep it well. And I will tell them,

do it in front of me so that I will

show you. Sometimes I will tell them, oh yeah, bring

my camera. Let's talk about this. Please, don't touch, don't

force anything, oh. Because they will try it behind you.

And that is how to build skills. And then, the

last one is the spiritual insight, which is why we,

God called us to seek.

As Manoa did.

Prayerfully seek God's guidance to identify and nurture Our child

in the way of the Lord. The Bible says that

he prayed.

He prayed.

Please, parents, if you are not doing anything before, let's

wake up to our responsibility. Let us pray for our children.

It is not too late for you to know who

your child will marry. It is not too late for

you to know their cause, what they will study in life,

where they will be in life, where they will settle

in life.

Because we are going to give accounts.

Appreciate the endowment of God in their lives and sharpen it,

fan it to flame. When they come back from school,

you notice that this boy can draw. Take him to

artists or where they are fixing things. Those ones that

can fix anything. Take them to where they used to

fix phones. Thank you, Daddy Barnabas. Gideon, fixing phone.

So please, let us engage them. And I do hand.

Is what? Is there a workshop? Discover your child's purpose.

The last one. How do we do that? Call them

and ask them. My son, what do you want to

be remembered for? My daughter, what do you want to

be remembered for? What are you living for? In your class,

what do you want to be remembered for? I know

they will say, hey, mommy, you want me to die?

No.

What is that legacy? Let's ask them legacy questions. And

under legacy, we have life.

L-I-F-E. The first thing is legacy. What do you love doing?

Let me know. If we have not discovered them yet.

I was lying down one day. I was tired. I

was just lying down. And Cadiz went and brought a roll-on.

We all know what a roll-on is. And the guy said, mommy,

let me check your stomach. I have never carried her

for stand before. I don't think she watched something like that.

Inside of me, I'm like, I have a nurse in

my house.

Case closed.

And she was doing my stomach and rolling the tin

on my tummy.

I said, nothing is there.

Jesus filled it with nice rice and beans this afternoon.

And she was checking it. Of recent, she carried my hand.

She carried her pencil. She put rubber band. And she

was doing like this to me. I'm putting pencil. Doing

like this. I'm putting pencil. Mommy, you'll be fine. Your

temperature is a little warm. Well, it's normal, but it's

little warm. I'm like, how do you know what is

warm and what is normal? God is revealing something.

Please don't throw it away.

Even when they are playing, observe them. What are the

toys that they love to play with most? What are

the things that triggers them? What are the movies that

they love to watch? Where do they want to be.

All the time? What are the things that they say?

Let us encourage the legacy of our children, mothers and fathers.

And for our youth too. Number two here is influence.

Knowing the tools your child uses. To influence others. And

this helped them. In their area of calling. Some children

they can hug you.

Oh.

Very well.

And before you know it. Maybe that person will be

a teacher. Or a lawyer.

Or a pastor that will persuade you. Some they can persuade.

And some they can be persistent. That this one plus

one is two. And nothing more. And CD said it

is two.

And mind you. You are raising a mathematician. Number three

is fulfillment. That's F.

A child's purpose is not just about what the child

is good at, but what gives that child a sense

of joy, a sense of peace, and a sense of accomplishment.

They will show you what they draw, and they will

come and say, hey, let me see what I've drawn.

They will bring something that they've done, and they will

show you. Some of them, they will cook to a

half will not be done, half will be done.

Take it with joy. Take it with joy.

Correct them in love. Engagement is the last one. Please

let us engage them. I've mentioned that before. Let us

engage them. Don't leave them to the culture of this

world that they can do anything that they like. We

are all going to give accounts. In conclusion, as parents,

it is vital for us to recognize our children.

Know them.

God has entrusted this responsibility into our hands. We are

going to give account over them. You need to be open.

You need to have interest in them. To know the

temperament of your children. To know what changes in them

because maturity will come. To know when they are undergoing pressure.

And for you to make yourself available. That my son,

you can run back home. Mommy is here waiting for you.

Daddy is here praying for you. You can win that.

You can pursue that. You can win that exam. You

can pass that exam. And you are coming back with testimony.

May we all rise.

May we all rise.

Raising a godly child requires that we know our children.

I want you to pray this afternoon.

Father, open my eyes. Where I've been blind to the

needs of my children.

Father, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Open my minds. Open my eyes.

Open my insights in the name of Jesus Christ. Help

me to discover.

Help me to help these children so that they will

develop on time. That their development will not be stagnated

in the name of Jesus. You have entrusted these children

into my hands. I'm going to give account. Lord, please

help me. Open my eyes to see. Open my mind, Lord.

Open my inner mind in the name of Jesus. Are

we praying at all? Please, let's open our minds. Let's

open our mouth and let's pray unto God. The Father,

in your mercy, open my eyes to see. Open my mind,

O God. Open my inner ears, Lord. Let me hear

what you are saying concerning this daughter of mine. Let

me hear what you are saying concerning this son of mine.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father, this

is our heart crying. This morning that you will open

our eyes to see, Lord. That you will open our

minds to know the children you have given unto us.

That we will not be so careless with them, Lord.

That we will not be careless with their growth. That

we will not be careless with their development. That we

will not be careless in their spiritual life. That in

all good ramifications, Lord, you will help us. Lord, to

build them emotionally. To build them up spiritually. To build

them up academically. To build them up financially. To build

them up materially. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Are we praying at all?

I want us to pray unto God.

Say, Father.

I want you to say, Father. Uproot every destiny wasters.

Uproot every destiny wasters.

Around my children. In the name of Jesus Christ. Father,

in the name of Jesus. Every destiny wasters. Be it ignorance.

Be it bad friends. Be it, oh God, Jezebel. Whosoever

their names are called. Be it culture. Be it background.

Lord, approach them. In the name of Jesus Christ. Every

destiny wasters. My children will not be comfortable with them.

In the name of Jesus.

You know destiny wasters. That the enemy sets.

That destroy the destiny of something. Her name was Eliana. Oh,

every Daniela. Lord, you will crucify them. In the name

of Jesus Christ. My children will not be comfortable with them.

In the name of Jesus. Pray unto God that our

children will not be comfortable with every destiny wasters.

In the name of Jesus.

They will not be comfortable with them. They will not

even walk with them. In the name of Jesus. We

break them free from the shackles of destiny wasters. In

the name of Jesus. Let's begin to preserve the destiny

of our children. Let's say, my children, your destiny are preserved.

in the blood of Jesus Christ you will fulfill purpose

you will fulfill purpose of God you will fulfill your

purpose you will fulfill the destiny that you have called

to fulfill in life.

In the name of Jesus Christ.

You will not be too trusted so that the enemy

will not catch you.

You will not be too trusted to be careless.

In the name of Jesus. You will not walk into dangers.

You will not walk into dangers. But friends, I call

you away from them. I call you away from wrong influencers.

In the name of Jesus Christ. Let's pray. Father, grant

me wisdom. Lord, grant me wisdom. I cannot do it

by my strength. I cannot do it by my strength. Lord,

grant me the strength.

Daddy, this is my heart desire. Grant me the wisdom.

Grant me the strength. In the name of Jesus. I

want you to cry to God. The Father of my children,

I receive all unrest. All around rests our spirits. All

around rests is my desire over my children. Youth, I

want you to sow the seed of prayers into the

life of your children and even to your future. In

the name of Jesus. So, Father, we receive strength. We

receive all and rest over our children. Mention their names.

Mention their names. Mention their names. Say, over Marcus, I

receive it. I receive all and rest. Over John, I

receive all and rest. Over Cadiz, I receive all and rest.

Over the children you have given to me, Lord. All

of them, they are my spiritual children. I receive all unrest.

I will not hear bad news concerning them. They will

not fall in the name of Jesus. All of them

that you have attached to my destiny. All of them

that you have attached to our ministry. In your mercy,

you will preserve them. All our youth, you will preserve them. Lord,

we receive all unrest concerning them. We will not receive

emergency call over all our children. Those that are here.

Those that are not here. Those that are in school.

Those that are already serving. Oh, Lord, we pray for

all unrest over our spiritual children. for all our children,

for everyone that are connected to Russell Ball. We receive

all round rest in the name of Jesus. Begin to

appreciate God for.

Us and pray us.

Say, Lord, I'm grateful because you will help me. Thank you, Father.

Blessed be your name, O God. Because we will not

do this in vain. In the name of Jesus.

Because these children will not turn back to be our

enemies in future.

They will not bring our enemies as wives. They will

not bring our enemies as husbands. In the name of Jesus.

They will not bring enemies of God as their partners

in future. In the mighty name of Jesus. Daddy, we

thank you. Because we will heed the fruit of our labors.

We will not be cut short. In the name of Jesus.

Our labor will not be in vain over these children.

Thank you, awesome God.

We appreciate you, Lord.

Blessed be your name, oh God. For in Jesus' mighty name,

we have prayed. Let's put our hands together for Jesus

as we have our seat.