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[0:00] And, um, but it's so nice to be able to just be in the audience and worship too. And so, um, before we get started, I am going to pray, um, and I'm going to ask God to touch my lips that it would be his message that would come out of my mouth.

[0:17] And so let's pray this morning. God, we love you this morning. We invite you here to be in this place. God, I pray Lord that the words that I speak would be the message that you want.

[0:27] God, that out of it would be become stronger people, stronger families and stronger homes. I thank you for your goodness. I thank you that you have met with us this morning. God, I pray Lord that you would anoint my lips.

[0:39] God, that it would be your message. God, at this time, we love you and we praise you this morning. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Um, I'm very honored to be asked to speak, um, here.

[0:55] And we've heard very challenging messages the past couple of weeks. We started a series called The House, or The Church, The Heart, The Home. And because every single aspect of those creates who we are as a whole people.

[1:10] And so, um, pastor covered the church. Matt covered the heart. And today I'm going to talk about the home. And I prayed on the direction of this message, um, because our home life really does impact us as, as a whole.

[1:28] There's not anything that has ever happened in our home that doesn't impact us in our, in our day-to-day lives. And, um, God never demanded that our homes be perfect. He never demanded that we do everything right.

[1:40] He never even expects us to raise our children 100% perfectly. And we are all going to make mistakes. And he gives us so much grace.

[1:52] And, but there are things that we can do on purpose that will help our homes to be better places. And so today, um, this morning I'm going to cover five things that will make your place, your house a place where God is welcomed.

[2:04] And where we can say, as for me and my house, we will dot, dot, dot. So I'm going to start off in Deuteronomy chapter 6, 4 through 9.

[2:15] And this verse says, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

[2:26] And these words I command thee this day shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children. And shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house.

[2:37] And when thou walkest by the way. And when thou liest down. And when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. And they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

[2:49] And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates. And so, as for me and my house, we will worship.

[2:59] This verse is directed not only to parents. It is mostly at parents. Every parent has the opportunity for about 18 years. In the Bible days, it was actually about only 14 years.

[3:12] They had this opportunity to raise children to adulthood. And today we get 18 to 20, sometimes 24 years to raise our children to adulthood.

[3:24] And the one thing that you have to be, we have, we have to be very intentional about is that our home is a home of worship. That the atmosphere that we create in our home is a home of worship.

[3:37] Kids catch a lot. If you say, don't eat candy, but you go eat candy, they are going to eat candy. It doesn't matter how much you say sugar is bad for you.

[3:48] It doesn't matter how much you say that it's going to ruin your brain. It's going to make your teeth rotten. If you as mom and dad go eat candy, your kids are going to eat candy. If you say, you know what? We don't talk like that.

[4:00] The Bible says don't talk like that. We don't dishonor our mom and dad. We don't dishonor each other. But you go and talk to your spouse or you talk to them in a dishonoring tone, that's what they're catching.

[4:11] That's what they'll pick up. They'll pick up the dishonor. They'll pick up the tone. They'll pick up everything. And so in our homes, we want to be able to create this atmosphere of worship. It's like, well, we don't listen to worldly music.

[4:24] But if you are, I don't even know worldly music, guys. If you've got more country playing than you've got Christian, then the balance isn't there. Now, do you have to listen to Christian music all the time?

[4:35] That's your own personal conviction. But if you are not balanced and you've got more music on that doesn't glorify God than music that glorifies God, your children will catch it, your children feel it.

[4:48] And it's not just our kids. It is, it's not just for parents. It's for all of us. It's all of us. We can all say, oh, I want my home to be a home of worship.

[5:01] But if there's no prayer that ever happens in that home, your home's not a home of worship. I want my home to be a place where God can reside. But if you don't actively seek out God, he will not be there.

[5:12] Because we have to actively create this atmosphere of worship. The Bible tells us to do it when we rise up, when we lie down at dinner time in conversation.

[5:22] It should be woven into your everyday life. It should not be an unusual thing to sit down at dinner and go, what's a good thing that happened today? And then when they tell you the good thing to respond with, praise God.

[5:36] It doesn't have to be like, what good thing did God do for you today? It's not necessarily that. But to have God woven in every single part of your days.

[5:46] When you wake up, we pray with the kids. Good morning. Let's thank God for our day. Before we go to school, God, send your angels around that school. Because there's crazy people out there. And I want you to protect my school.

[5:57] And I want my kids to come home safe. And God, I send your angels in front of everybody. And Lord, we pray that we would be a help, not a hurt. And that we would be productive and not a burden to our teachers.

[6:11] In the Bible days, they had this beautiful commandment of teach your family. Hear, O Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord. Hear, O Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord.

[6:22] And they went through. Everyone kind of knows the story of the Israelites where, you know, God created the Israelites. They ended up over in Egypt. They ended up becoming slaves. God delivered them from slavery.

[6:33] And they just could not let go of their old ways. They struggled. They struggled to let go of the gods of the land. And God said, choose who you're going to serve.

[6:45] And Joshua told all the people, they were punished. Like a whole generation had to die out. They didn't even get to go to the promised land. It was their kids.

[6:55] It was the grandkids that got to go to the promised land. And Joshua said, choose who you're going to serve. Are you going to serve the gods over the river?

[7:07] Or who are you going to serve? As for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. And they said, yes, we're going to serve the Lord too. He's been good to us. We remember his promises. We know what he's done.

[7:17] He's been good. And then two chapters later, they're back to serving Balaam. And the Bible says in Judges 2, verse 10, it says, After that, a whole generation had gathered to their ancestors.

[7:32] Another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. The mamas, the daddies, the aunties, the cousins, they all quit talking about the goodness of God.

[7:46] They all quit talking and passing on stories of the things that God had done in their lives. They all quit talking about it. And so this whole generation came up and they already had something against them. Because they didn't even know who the Lord was and what he had done for them.

[8:02] Tell your kids. Tell your kids the testimony. Tell your kids what God's brought you through. So your kids, you may not be proud of the testimony. Like there might be shame attached to what you've done in your past.

[8:13] But you know what? When you're a little bit vulnerable with your family and they see what God has brought you out of, it gives them hope. They don't look at you and judge you and be like, wow, you're messed up.

[8:26] You're quite the sinner. No, it's very much like, wow, what God has done in our family, that's amazing. So when we go and talk about God, we fill our home.

[8:37] We fill our homes with his presence. As for me and my house, we will worship. Worship will be part of our home. Worship will be something that we do on the daily. Worship will be not unusual in our house.

[8:49] And when we do it, everything takes on a new purpose. And so as for me and my house, we will make a difference. Everybody say make a difference.

[9:00] Make a difference. The Bible says to let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Our family, on Sunday mornings, we normally are up about 7 o'clock.

[9:19] And we get up, and this was a lot harder when the kids were younger. They can pretty much get themselves dressed, which has been very nice. But when they were younger, we were up about 7, 7.30, and everyone had to get dressed for church.

[9:32] And I don't know why it takes so much longer to get dressed for church than it does to get dressed for school. It's like the same amount of clothes. It's not any more clothes. But for some reason, getting dressed for church is so much more effort.

[9:46] And I don't know if it's because, like, if they go to church, if they go to school with sleepy eyes, like, no one cares. Like, the teachers have seen everything. They don't care. And then if you show up with sleepy eyes here, it's like, wow, did you take a bath?

[9:59] And so, like, you look at kids. And it just takes so much longer. And so, but we're up about 7 o'clock, 7.30. And sadly, like, we have to be here by 9.

[10:10] We're here by 9, 9.30. We'd never eat breakfast, like, ever. And so my kids get in, they're like, I'm hungry. It's like, I'm sorry. We'll eat at lunch because I'm just a poor planner because I don't know why.

[10:24] It just takes us so much longer to get ready on Sunday mornings. So Sunday mornings, we're here. We're up at 7.30. We are here by 9.30. We are here until about 1.00.

[10:35] And so, and then after that, we go have lunch. And we go home and we all take a nap because we're done for the day. We have done a lot. But we went and we are teaching our kids.

[10:46] It's a lot of effort. But we're teaching our kids, this is how we make a difference. This is how we serve. This is how we impact God's kingdom because the only way that God's kingdom is impacted is through our homes.

[11:01] It's through the people that live in our homes. It's easy to say, well, sister such and such will take care of that. And sister so-and-so can do that. And brother Zeke is going to be out there.

[11:13] He'll do the front. And so it's easy to say, you know what, somebody else has got it. We've got a lot going on in our home. It's a sacrifice. To get up and make a difference in somebody else's life.

[11:26] It's a sacrifice to your sleep. It's a sacrifice to our things. And our Wednesdays, our Wednesdays are no different. I work until about 4. I get home at 5. And my kids are normally the ones who have cleaned my house so that we can host small group.

[11:40] And from the most mundane tasks of, like, putting the stuff away to washing the dishes to pouring coffee out there, there's no task that's unimportant to the kingdom of God.

[11:51] It doesn't have to be that you're up here. It doesn't have to be that you have to know how to play an instrument. It can just be that you know how to wave. If you can wave your hand and you can smile, you say, you know what, I'm going to go make a difference in somebody else's life.

[12:06] I told my husband, I said, you know what, the Methodist church right up the street, I said, I would totally go to that church. Because the guy stands out there and he's just like, and he smiles and waves at everybody.

[12:20] It doesn't matter. And it's like, he looks so nice. I want to go to his church. Because, and it's not a big task. He's got to be there early. But it's not a big thing.

[12:30] It's something that everybody, everyone can wave. Everyone can say hi. It doesn't take a lot to make a difference in the kingdom of God. If we're not serving in some capacity, we are subject to being selfish.

[12:47] The opposite of serving is selfishness. We teach our kids. We teach those around us. We give. We give of ourselves to the kingdom. We give of ourselves to the work. Whatever we can do, whenever there's a church event, whenever there's a work day, whenever there's something.

[13:02] As for me and my house, you will find us there. We are going to go serve. Because it's not about us. The kingdom cannot grow if we do not participate in the growth of the kingdom.

[13:14] The house that serves together is the house that thrives. And in the midst of serving and working, we cannot forget this essential element that as for me and my house, we will have laughter.

[13:28] We have tried to make it very intentional in our home to laugh at each other, with each other, more at each other, and to make it fun.

[13:38] We want our kids to know if mom and dad mess up, please laugh at us. If you mess up, we are probably going to laugh at you. If you get very frustrated at a game, we are not compassionate. We are not like, oh, you will figure it out.

[13:51] No, we are going to laugh at you. And we are going to be like, suck it up, buttercup. We are going to have a good time. We are not going to cry when it's time for games. And we are not going to cry when it's time to, if your feelings are actually hurt, we will stop.

[14:03] But we want to create laughter in our families. And when you bring laughter in your families, it ends up at the church. You bring it to church.

[14:14] If you're very serious in your home and you never laugh and you don't know how to giggle together, you'll come to church and you'll sit there and not laugh and not giggle at each other. It comes. It's contagious.

[14:25] Laughter is contagious. If I was to start a laugh right now, I would eventually get everybody laughing because I'd look like a fool. And you would laugh at the fact that I'm looking like a fool. Grayson, bring up one of those slides.

[14:39] Just the, what? The words? Oh, okay. Bring it up because I'll make the rest of my point. The Bible says in Proverbs chapter 17, a joyful heart is good like medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

[14:58] It's good. It's good. When laughter is in the home, it builds connection. It reduces stress. And it models a healthy emotional life. And a joyless home produces a hardened heart.

[15:12] God created joy. And it gives us, he, Jesus has even used humor in his things, in his lessons when he said, you're looking for a tiny little needle in someone's eye.

[15:22] Tiny little piece of splinter. But you've got a giant log in your eye. He probably didn't say it like that. He was probably very gentle. And the rest of us are like, how about you deal with your own problems before you go to handle somebody else's problems?

[15:38] And that's what Jesus was saying. And he might have been saying it a little nicer. Grayson, bring that up. Someone figure out for me what this says. Go ahead, Grayson. The first question.

[15:52] The first question. The first question. You have to read it out loud. Okay? So everyone has to talk. You can't just say it in your head. You got it? Yes.

[16:03] Okay. Everyone read it. What does it say?

[16:18] Okay. Inside the fish.

[16:33] Jonah prayed. Inside the fish. Jonah prayed. Okay. Grayson, bring up one more. It's a mad gab.

[16:46] Okay. Go ahead. What does this say? What does it say? What does it say? Read it out loud. That wink, link, heaven eye.

[17:02] Getting close. No. No. That wink, link, heaven eye. No. Nope.

[17:12] You got to read it real fast. Don't put a space in it.

[17:24] Don't put a space in it. Don't be. Don't be. The twinkling. The twinkling of an eye.

[17:36] The twinkling of an eye. The twinkling of an eye. The Bible says that there's a time to weep and there's a time to laugh.

[17:47] It's okay to have fun at church. It's okay to try and figure out puzzles. It's okay to kind of like, you sound like an idiot trying to figure that out. Because none of those words made any sense.

[18:00] And you guys aren't idiots. Sorry. But over seriousness creates tension, a lack of emotional warmth. And if there's one thing that can push our children away, it's a lack of emotional warmth.

[18:13] When you can laugh with your children, you can, you create a, it's, in modern lingo we say it's a safe space. You can create a safe space for your kids. There was a comprehensive study of relational dynamics in more than 300 families spanning for 35 years.

[18:31] And family warmth was more correlated with faith transmission than any other relational factor. Meaning that if your home and you, as a person, were warm to your children, it was more likely that they were going to take on the faith that you were trying to raise them in.

[18:53] If you don't, if it's all, if it's all rules and it's all regulations and it's like, we don't do this, we don't do this, we don't do this, we don't do this. You're going to get kids that are like, I don't want rules.

[19:05] I've got rules at school. I've got rules in my job. I've got rules everywhere else. I don't want to have to come to church and say, these are the rules. And so they found that the people who were warm over 35 years were more likely to have kids who came in.

[19:25] And laughter is great. Laughter is great. Being able to laugh in your house is fine. But there's also something that comes into our house and it can be hurt. Hurt can also come into our house.

[19:36] And so as for me, in my house, we will forgive. Because there is nothing in our lives where we can escape being hurt.

[19:49] Nobody escapes being hurt. And it can be minor when the kids are like, she's tattling on me. Or it can be major. It can be in your childhood. It can be in your adulthood.

[20:00] None of us escape being hurt during our life. The Bible says, do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.

[20:11] And do not give the devil a foothold. Pastor talked about this last week. And he said, you know, the devil doesn't have to conquer you.

[20:23] He's not out to destroy you. He's just out to divide you. All he's got to do is just put a little bit of a wedge between you and someone you love. And that's it.

[20:34] Because a house divided against itself cannot stand. And when we bring hurts into the church and we bring our, we don't want to forgive.

[20:45] We want to just, we want to hold on to it. It's dangerous because it turns into anger. Unforgiveness turns into anger. And anger, according to the Bible, it has a 24-hour time limit.

[20:59] You need to be able to let it go by the end of the day. That doesn't mean that the issue's resolved. But that means we need to say, you know what? God, here's the anger.

[21:10] And forgive, I want to be angry and sin not. So I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to let you handle it. We're going to talk about it. We're going to resolve the issue. We're going to, you know, make sure that it goes from circumstance all the way to the result.

[21:25] That we have it resolved. But God, here's the anger. And God, help me to forgive so that it does not grow. So children who are raised in bitterness, they struggle. They often struggle with trust and to extend grace.

[21:39] And there's one thing that we all need, especially raising children. We need grace. Because I mess up, we all mess up. We all mess up. And I want our kids to be able to say, I want to be able to go to my kids and say, you know what?

[21:51] I'm sorry. That was not my best self. This is my first time being a parent, too. This is my first time living this life, too. And so this is your time, your first time living this life.

[22:04] This is my first time living this life. And so if we can love each other and we can forgive each other and we can move on and we can be a family and we can say, you know what? No matter what, I'm going to forgive and I don't want to take it.

[22:16] There's a book. It's called The Body Keeps Score. And it talks about the physical and emotional consequences of unresolved anger. It affects us.

[22:29] It affects us. It's this, there's, I've heard of studies where they're like, you can get cancer just by being so angry because it's so toxic. And it's so bitter. And I don't know that I believe that.

[22:40] But it does affect our mentality. It does affect our health. It does affect our anxiety. It does affect our peace, which we're going to talk about next. It does affect, it affects all of that.

[22:52] So as for me and my house, I don't want anything to come between me and my family. I don't want anything to come between me and my God. I don't want anything to come between. I don't want anything left unresolved. Let's resolve it.

[23:03] Let's forgive and let's let God handle the rest. Because as for me and my house, we must have peace. And the peace I'm going to land on, and I'm going to take a little bit of time here because the peace is, the peace is the last one.

[23:21] So we've gone, as for me and my house, we will worship. As for me and my house, we will make a difference. As for me and my house, we will serve others, make a difference. We will laugh, we will forgive, and we will solve for peace.

[23:36] Because the Bible says the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus. And this is the last little bit that I was studying this morning on.

[23:53] And I started to research, you know, what is peace? What is peace? Peace. And peace is a lot of things. Peace is rest.

[24:05] Peace is being able to rest in the fact that God is in control. Peace is being able to sleep. Peace is being able to be in your home and not feel like you have to walk on eggshells.

[24:15] Peace is being able to be in your home and know that it's the safest place. And so in our home, we solve for peace. Peace is being able to be in your home and know that it's the most intentional too.

[24:30] It's the one that is also the hardest to attain because we have to, in order to have peace, we have to face ourselves. It's the one where it's like, I can wish peace for you, but I can't change you.

[24:45] I can't make you do anything. I was telling Cecilia the other night, I heard a phone call that came in and there was this man. And he called and he said, it was a doctor.

[24:57] You guys remember Dr. Laura? There's a new guy. His name is Dr. John Deloney. And I really like Dr. John Deloney. And he's a counselor. And he's a phone, he's got a phone show. And so this dad called in and he said, I have a problem.

[25:10] He said, because I've got five kids. And I'm either very angry or I'm very chill. There's no middle. There's no middle.

[25:20] And my kids never know which version of me they're going to get. And this is coming from his wife. He had a really good wife. And she told him, she said, you need to go get help for this.

[25:32] And so the counselor said, you know what? First of all, congratulations. Because even having that kind of self-awareness, that's huge.

[25:43] And also, this is a process and you're going to have to give yourself some grace. Because it does not happen overnight. It is not fast. And so the man, he said, well, tell me about your childhood.

[25:55] So the man said, okay, I'm going to, he said, my dad left when I was four. Never even had a dad. And my mom, anytime that I was happy, she did everything to make sure I was unhappy.

[26:10] He said, so I remember, like, I got my paycheck. My first paycheck. I was 16 years old. So happy. Had some extra money. He said, and my mom came to me and goes, well, good. Now you can pay the light bill. And he said, and it took anything.

[26:22] She took anything I had. And she made me unhappy. And, you know, took away any extra little bit of joy that I had. And you can read into it. It's like, well, it's probably got a single mom who's probably very stressed, whose son is now able to contribute a little bit to the house economically.

[26:39] And so she's tired. He's abandoned. And we've got issues already. And so he said, man, you're trying to be this baseball star.

[26:52] And you've never even seen a game. You don't even know what it looks like to have a good dad. You don't know what good fatherhood even looks like. But you know what?

[27:04] You're doing it. You're going to go do the work. He was going to go see a counselor. He was going to do his therapy. He said, you've already done the big part. And so here's what I want you to do.

[27:15] And he gave him solutions. He said, you know, go play with your kids. Every night you go play cornhole. It doesn't matter. It can be this big of a task. But you do it every single night. And you make fun of them.

[27:25] Oh, you're going to let your old man beat you in cornhole. And you really razz them. And you give them a hard time. So that they know what it's like to see a happy dad. And eventually the changes are going to happen.

[27:38] But you have to be intentional to make it happen every night. I have a very hard time doing anything every single day. And so to go and be intentional every single day to get out with your kids, that's huge.

[27:54] And he said, if you don't know how to do it, start here. And when we're solving for peace in our homes, a lot of times it means that we have to start here.

[28:05] It means that we say, God, I don't know why I'm like this. I don't know why. But every time this event happens, I react like this.

[28:17] And I don't know why. But I know that you're the God of all. I know that you can heal me. And I know that I can go get help. But I need you to guide me.

[28:28] I need you to lead me. I need you to do this because I'm trying to solve for peace. So that the peace of God can be in my home. Because when the peace of God is in your home, then it goes much more than just the surface level of, yeah, we live together.

[28:46] And we're not just existing together. We're coexisting together. We, and that was the way God had created the home. The home was supposed to be one unit. The home wasn't supposed to be just, it's just us four and that's it.

[28:59] No, we've got, we've got our family and then we've got community and then we've got others that we need to reach. Because if we're not healthy, it's really hard to reach other people.

[29:12] It's really hard to reach out and say, you know what? I've been where you're at. I've been there. The whole purpose of some of the things, and I don't say the purpose. You can take what you've gone through and you can make it good and beautiful and say, you know what?

[29:30] When the next person comes in, I know what you've been through. I had to go through that too. I had to do this. And here's how God helped me. Here's how God made a way.

[29:41] Here's how God gave me peace. And you know what peace is because you worked in it. God says, the Bible says that he heals the brokenhearted and he binds up their wounds.

[29:54] It's our reason for going and doing and solving for peace. It's not just for us. We've got children, some of us have children, that we have to solve for.

[30:05] Because if you are not healed, then you'll pass it on to your kids. And the dysfunction just kind of happens on. There's a reason that children with alcoholic fathers raise, grow up, and marry alcoholic men.

[30:21] Because that's what they knew. It has nothing to do with like, oh, well, they're just weak-minded. No, it has nothing to do with that. It's because there's just some things that we just know.

[30:33] If you're a good dad to your daughter and you set the standard this high, she'll marry a good man. Because that's what you've shown her. And so the opposite can be true. It doesn't have to all be the bad stuff.

[30:44] It can be all the good stuff, too. And we can say, you know what? This is how God works in our home. And so as for me and my house, we will solve for peace. It may not be that you even know where to start.

[30:57] It may not even be that you, like, have the first clue. But God does. You can pray and you can say, God, you know. You know. I need you to lead me to this.

[31:08] And you can reverse engineer it and say, what does peace in my home even look like? What does that look like? Does it mean coming home and everyone's happy and healthy and we have dinner on the table and then all the kids get to go play and we get to, like, sit down and have 45 minutes of conversation uninterrupted?

[31:25] Like, wow, that sounds like a pipe dream. That sounds like, that's beautiful. How do you make it happen? Reverse engineer it. What has to happen in order for that to be true? And then in the weakness, you say, God, I need you in my weaknesses.

[31:40] I need you where I'm falling short. And because as for me and my house, we are going to have peace. Let's stand this morning. As for me and my house, we're going to have peace.

[32:11] Don't have to be the same as anybody else's. As for me and my house, we will worship. As for me and my house, we will serve. As for me and my house, we're going to laugh.

[32:23] As for me and my house, we're going to forgive. And as for me and my house, dot, dot, dot. What does it mean for you and your house? What does it mean for God to come into your weakness and for you to say, God, as for me and my house, this is what I want my house to look like.

[32:41] This is what I want my house to feel like. This is what I want my family to be. Start dreaming for your family. Dream for your family. Pray for your family. Not just what you want them to, what you hope they're going to be.

[32:54] But you can pray for their futures. You can pray for their spouses. If you've got babies, start praying for their spouses. You've got a long time. That they marry good people and then model good people.

[33:09] There is nothing, nothing, nothing that is too hard for God. There is nothing. He knows every single one of us.

[33:22] We don't surprise Him. We cannot discourage Him. We do not, He does not look at us disappointed by our decisions, by what we turned out to be, by the way, the direction that our life went.

[33:38] He knew. He knew exactly who you were. He knew exactly who you were going to be. And He can also say, you know what, I know and I also know your future.

[33:49] But you have to start today. You've got to start today to seek out God in all the thoughts and all the words and everything that you've heard that's defined your past.

[34:01] You can change it. You can say, God, I want your word to be my future. I want your words to be what creates me. In four years, you're going to be somebody.

[34:13] And you're either going to be the same or you're going to be who God created you to be. Your family's either going to be the same or they're going to be a little bit more committed. They're going to be a little bit more deeper.

[34:24] They're going to be a little bit more safe. But it's going to start today. It doesn't help if you just stay here. Because He's not done. He's not done until you say He's done.

[34:38] And I'm here to declare that He's got something great for your future. He's got something great for your family. Your kids, your kids have missions in their lives.

[34:50] You've got to believe that there is something for your kids that's more than just we go to school and we come home. And we go to school and we come home. They can serve just as much as anybody else.

[35:04] But God has missionaries in this church. God has preachers in this church. God has things that are in this church. But only if you take the steps to make your home sensitive to the voice and the Spirit of God.

[35:18] Let's worship Him this morning. God, we love you. God, I thank you that you are not done with us yet. God, I thank you, Lord, that you are able to do exceeding and abundantly in our homes.

[35:31] That you're able to do exceedingly abundantly in our lives. God, that you have purpose for us. God, that you have a mission for us. God, that you are not done.

[35:42] That you do not look at us and judge us by our past. But God, you see what we could be. And God, you take our lives and you mold them and you shape them. And so this morning, God, we surrender ourselves to the potter's hands.

[35:57] God, we are clay in your hands. Mold us. Shape us. Break us. Remake us, God, to whatever we need to be. That's going to fulfill your kingdom.

[36:07] That's going to fulfill your purpose, God. Be with our kids, God. Protect them. Go before them, Lord. That your angels surround them, God. And let your calling on their life be one that brings fulfillment.

[36:21] That your calling on their life be one full of anointing. God, I pray that you would reach out to us today, Lord, where we're at. God, in our weaknesses, God, that you would be strong.

[36:32] God, that you would put a mirror in front of us. God, so that we can see what we need to work on and bring it to you and lay it down at your feet. God, we bring all of our burdens to you this morning.

[36:44] God, we bring every area, Lord, that we need to work on this morning to your feet, God, and we lay it down. God, make us into what you want us to be. Make us into who you've created us to be this morning.

[36:58] We love you this morning, Jesus. We love you this morning. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. These altars are open. If you want to come lay it down at the feet of Jesus, he is here this morning.

[37:12] You can start today. It's just one step at a time. One step at a time. One piece of surrender. One piece of your will over to his will. God, we give it to you this morning.

[37:24] We give it to you this morning, Jesus. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. As for me and my house, we will teach our children about your ways. As for me and my house, we are going to do what it takes, Lord, to be in your will, God, and to build your kingdom.

[37:42] So that others, when they come, they can see the testimony all over our lives. We love you this morning. We thank you, Jesus, for your goodness. We thank you, Jesus.

[38:21] Can you imagine? Can you imagine? With all the faith in the room, what the Lord can do? What the Lord can do? It's going to happen.

[38:34] Just like the way they can do. He's going to move. He's going to move. Can you imagine? With all the faith in the room, what the Lord can do?

[38:48] What the Lord can do? He's going to happen. Just like the way they can through. He's going to move. He's going to move.

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