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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, indeed, there is a war, and we're in it, but we've already won.
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So thank you, Lord Jesus, for dying on the cross for us. Thank you for giving
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us victory and power over all the power of the enemy.
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Thank you for your wisdom, your counsel, and your promise that no weapon formed
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against us will prosper in Jesus' name.
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So today we're declaring this as I Love My Mother Month. I love my mother.
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This seems like a, what? What do you want to talk about this for?
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Well, it's not Mother's Day. No. It's not me.
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But you know what? There's a lot of people, parents, moms, and dads,
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who are super grieved and tormented in fiery trials and tests regarding their
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children and what's happening with their children.
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And so we just want to look at that a little bit through the Scripture today
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and be encouraged because, number one,
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to know that relationships, The whole society, family, everything is built on
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connections, and those connections, roads, if you will, are relationships.
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And if Satan can undermine and destroy those foundations, he's got everything.
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And so we're looking at relationships and what has happened to our parent-child,
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mother-father-child relationships today.
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What you said about foundations. The Bible says if the foundations are destroyed,
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what can the righteous do? Yeah.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's so amazing. That is so, you think about that.
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Proverbs, it's what, no, it's Psalm 11, 3.
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So if you think about that, what can the righteous, I guess that's what we're looking at today.
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What can the righteous do when the foundations are disintegrated,
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when the children have went away, when they're confused, lost?
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You know, that's one of the curses that comes out of Deuteronomy, too.
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When you lose your children, they'll go to alien nations, they'll go to other
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people, other situations where you lose touch with them, you lose your love connection with them.
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Yeah, and of course, the foundation of this is the fifth commandment,
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honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land
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which the Lord your God is giving you.
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So he talks about the key to prosperity, to blessing.
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In the land, in what God is giving to us.
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The key to whole this blessing is honoring father and mother.
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And God is very strict about this.
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It says in Leviticus chapter 20, verse 9, for everyone who curses his father
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or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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He has cursed his father or his mother.
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His blood shall be upon him.
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So God puts a high premium on honoring father and mother.
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Well, you know, and now in the New Testament, we don't put people to death for things like that.
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No. But they do begin to die spiritually, emotionally, relationally.
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And see, here's the problem. I really believe it's an eye for an eye kind of
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a justice that Satan has brought upon us because, you know, when we fail to honor God or love him,
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trust him as our father, obey him, When we fail to do that, then Satan says,
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okay, now I have a right to bring that back on you.
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So if you've rebelled against God, then I have a right to cause your children to rebel against you.
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It's just that, that's the same, it's that law of reciprocity.
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And so we don't realize it, but
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the key to our children coming back to the Lord is probably in our hand.
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Yeah, part of it, to honor father and mother, the honor means heavy to not,
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and I'm talking about physical weight
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here, you know, because your mom's overweight or something like that.
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But it says give weight or value to her.
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Esteem her highly. It doesn't mean you worship your mother, but you have a high
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esteem for her because she, not only did she physically give birth to you, but she,
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you know, in most cases, not every case, She nurtured you in those delicate
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early years of your life and nurturing you not only physically,
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but hopefully, if you were blessed with a godly mother,
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she nurtured you in the ways of God as well.
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Yeah, so basically what has happened to the mother-child or parent-child,
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which is a primary relationship, what has happened to this?
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Satan has put very adverse circumstances in the generations before them.
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So a lot of mothers are coming out of a dysfunction, abandonment,
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rejection, whatever themselves, and so they're doing the best they can.
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But we have to know that there has been a diabolical undermining of the relationships
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that we have with our parents and with our children.
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And when we understand it's a diabolical targeting of those relationships,
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then you as a follower of Jesus Christ must recognize that this is a serious
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situation where we have to know how to work.
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Overcome, prevail, and win the day, so to speak.
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Because if we don't, Satan wants our children. He wants us. He wants our children.
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And he can get to us through our children.
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And he can get to our children through us because we're connected.
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So a lot of times, the problem is disobedience. The problem is distrust.
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The problem is being betrayed, lied to, and then you don't trust your parents, for example.
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Then you're going to go figure it out yourself because you think you have a
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better way. And the problem is when a child starts out in their life,
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they don't even know who they are.
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They don't even know, they don't have a clear identity formation.
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And as we go on, the enemy is trying to create an identity or add to the truth
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of who we are with all kinds of lies and false ideas of who we are.
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And so we make our decisions based on our identity.
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And if you don't know who you are, then you're not going to make very good decisions.
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A lot of times parents have no idea who they are.
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Well, there you go. So if they don't know their own identity in God,
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in Christ, how are they ever going to communicate that to their children?
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Well, you know, the thing is the foundation, the standard is still the Word of God.
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We have to go back to the basics, go back to the commandments, go back to see who we are.
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And God is not doing this to us because he's a killjoy and he's a control freak
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and he has to have everything his way. He is simply opposite.
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Just like you, as a good parent, know the right thing for your child,
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but you can't make them do it. However, you can set up an example.
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You can teach them when they're young, whatever you can do. But at the end,
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they get to make their own choices.
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And many of us have made bad choices based on the influences of those around
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us or the circumstances or the enemy himself, which is everywhere.
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And so we're kind of crawling out of a broken rubble.
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We're crawling out of foundations that have been blown up and destroyed.
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So now going back to what can the righteous do?
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What can the righteous do? Well, we can start with what the Bible says.
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And we have some very good, you know,
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Proverbs, for example, that tell us, go ahead, honey. Yeah, Proverbs chapter
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10, verse 1, it says, A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
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Whoa, isn't that true? I might be talking to mothers here now that you've got
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kids, sons, or daughters that have just gone astray.
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And your heart is just grieved and torn.
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So what are you going to do about that? Another thing, too, is the attitude
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of a son, or we could say a daughter.
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Here, Proverbs 15, 20, a wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son despises his mother.
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Now, there's a spirit there that why, you know, despising your mother.
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And it's not mothers aren't perfect. It's not like, well, you know,
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you just, you did so many things wrong. I don't like you.
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And a lot of times kids have no idea of who they are. They have no idea of right and wrong.
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They basically think, you know, you don't know anything, Mom. Well, here's the thing.
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Proverbs 10, one says the same thing. A wise son makes a glad father,
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but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. That's the same thing.
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I just read that. Yeah, you just read that. I'm sorry, I was looking at another.
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Here's another one. It's worth repeating. Yeah, it is.
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Proverbs 19, 26, he who mistreats his father and chases away his mother is a
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son who causes shame and brings reproach.
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And so there's a spirit, there's a rebellion.
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Those of you that have kids, sometimes you have kids that get to a point where
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they're just testing everything.
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There's that spirit of rebellion that just seems to, the foolishness is bound
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in the heart of a child, the Bible says, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
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So we're talking about rod of correction. We're not talking necessarily about
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beating them physically,
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but the Bible does talk about there's a place and time for that that's done
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in love and not in anger, but the rod of correction.
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Right. Correction. Train up a child in the way that he should go,
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and when he's old, he will not depart from it.
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So there is that process of training and raising and keeping the standards before
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them. But again, most of the parents of us, we have left the standard and we
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try to do it in our own way. We use, you know, everything from Dr.
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Spock to the latest, you know, fad or whatever it is to try to train our children.
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And we have lost, we've caused confusion in them because we are confused.
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And so, you know, what we have to do is really...
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You know, go to the Lord ourselves and say, Lord, first of all,
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I need to surrender or confess or repent of my own disobedience.
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I think that's the first thing we need to do to bring our children back.
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And also to understand one more thing, that the enemy knows that the primary
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first link in our, you know, our lives is that relationship with our parents.
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And so if he can break that link, the whole chain is broken.
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Well, especially with mother, because the mother is the nurturer.
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They're there physically, spiritually, nurturing.
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Or maybe not. And when they're not. Or defiling. Yeah. Nurturing or defiling
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that child by their own heart attitude and their actions. Or absence.
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I think of all the destructive scenarios that people can go through,
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and I see a lot of people in their life stories, the most destructive is the absence of the mother.
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You know, the father abandons and we can still survive. But when the mother
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abandons, then it's like a death blow to everybody.
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She's kind of like the heart of the family. And so I know a lot of people have
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that brokenness and they want to overcome that. They want to, you know, restore that.
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But you have to start where you are and let God bring you up out of the place
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where you were born and raised and trained up.
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You start where you are and let God bring you up to the place where he has for you.
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He has got a good place for you. There's a scripture, and I don't have it right
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now, that says, when my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up or take care of me.
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So God's going to take care of you if you're fatherless. God is the God of the widow.
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There it is. And the widows, so many single-parent moms, they're,
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in effect, widows, even if their husband, their ex or whatever is still living.
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They're widows. He's the God of the widow and the fatherless.
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He's a father to the fatherless and a husband to the widow.
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Psalm 68 says, verse 5, A father of the fatherless, a defender of the widows,
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is God in his holy habitation. Amen.
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God sets the solitary in families. He brings out those who are bound into prosperity,
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but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
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And this gives us a key to what needs to go on. We need to come back out of
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that place of rebellion and distrust of God and doing it myself and trusting
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my idols to take care of me, whatever those idols might be.
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It might be yourself. It might be your work ethic. It might be something else.
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But we're going to, or we have given up on God, completely go the opposite way
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and do the drugs and do the whole thing where I don't care and my life isn't worth living.
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We have to you know you have to decide
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first of all whether your life is worth living and
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then you go back to okay i cannot at
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some point you know when your children are little and you
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can care for them and carry them around and put them in the car seat and whatever
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you all do that's that's nice in a way but when they get older and they get
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to come and go in and out the door and stay away and you know get confused with
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their identity and their gender and their friends and their drugs,
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and they're being inundated every day,
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every day with the video games and the movies they watch and the TikToks.
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It's an almost impossible task for a parent right now these days to keep their
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child in any way other than to give that child to the Lord and let the Lord
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protect them because there's just so much out there now to kill a child,
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take them away, destroy them completely,
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you know, so God wants us, yeah, to go back to the foundations,
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go back to, and that starts with you.
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You say, well, I can't do anything. There's nothing I can do.
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Yes, there's always something. There's always one thing you can do.
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The first thing is to get yourself right with God and repent for your own disobedience
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in any way that the Lord would show you or convict you of it by the Spirit.
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Because God wants, before you can pull someone else out of the pit,
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you have to be standing on the rock yourself.
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And with mothers, I believe there's mothers listening to us right now that feels,
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they're so full of self-condemnation because they figured, oh man,
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I failed or I was addicted.
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I wasn't there for them. I didn't understand them.
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I was suffering through our divorce.
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The father of the children, the biological father just or turn them against me.
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Sometimes exes will turn kids against mothers or fathers.
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It can be both ways. And so this is a real,
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Real conundrum, and it's like you just have to come to the place of forgiving.
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Exactly. And like you said, Margie, repenting, turning away from this,
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and Lord, forgive me for where I've been here, and Lord, just help me.
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To come back to you myself.
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So before you can bring your child back, you have to come back yourself.
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And then you're right. Forgiving, there's so much power in forgiveness.
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You need to forgive yourself. Number one, did you do those things because you
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wanted to? No, probably not. You probably didn't because you had no other options.
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You were pretty bound into your circumstances.
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And, you know, the devil messes up our lives. Just put it down.
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He's doing it. And so forgive yourself, forgive your children,
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forgive God, forgive your ex.
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Stop blaming other people for what the devil is doing to try to take you and
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your family away, destroy them, and get back to God and ask God to be your defender,
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to bring back your children.
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Because he said, he says, he's going to do that. All of our children will be
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taught by the Lord and great will be the peace of them.
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And so we have to take, first of all, forgive.
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Don't skip that step. Let go of the judgments you've made against yourself for
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failing to do this, that, and the other thing.
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Because if you don't, the devil is going to use your unforgiveness towards yourself
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as a justification to bring his demonic judgment upon you and keep the pain
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going in your heart and keep the separation going between you and your child. Forgive.
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Maybe you did some things wrong. God already knew that. And you didn't want
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to do them wrong. probably you were forced. There was no options,
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other options, whatever.
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It doesn't matter. What matters is right now, that you see what's going on.
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You turn this whole crisis over to God because it's out of control.
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You can't do anything except cry out to the Lord and forgive yourself and take
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courage and trust that God is the one who's going to redeem and heal your family.
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Let's look at Deuteronomy 28. It talks about the curses of disobedience, right? Right.
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There's the blessings. There's a blessing. There's generational blessings.
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So often we have to focus on generational curses because there seem like there's so many of them.
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But one of the things is when you disobey the Lord, you turn away from the Lord.
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He says, Deuteronomy 28, 32, Your sons and your daughters shall be given to
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another people. We referred to that a little bit earlier.
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And your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long,
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and there shall be no strength in your hand.
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Let's talk to, say, a mother right now.
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Your son and your daughter, you're in a strange land. You're among another people,
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right? There's another people out there.
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There's a generation that curses his father.
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I think it's Proverbs 21, and does not bless their mother, but they're just
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basically chewing on him with sharp teeth, basically. So what about this mother that has kids?
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They're out there. They feel just total helpless.
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They're out there. Sometimes you don't have no idea where they are. Yeah.
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If they're alive, if they're dead, they're using, they got bad friends.
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They don't respond. They don't communicate. They don't respond.
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They don't communicate to you. Any information to you. You're cut off.
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You're ghosted, like they say.
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Talk to this mother that may be in that position right now.
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Well, first of all, know that the Lord God sees you, loves you,
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hears you, and is carrying your broken heart.
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He's the only one who can carry it because there's no one else that is that
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close to you. And he's with you all the time. He's been there through the whole thing.
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From the beginning to now. He's never left us or forsaken us.
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So what you want to do is, first of all, like we said, forgive yourself, let go of it.
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I'm not a bad mother. That's one of the biggest demonic torments.
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I've been a bad mother. Or I am a bad mother. Or being accused of being a bad
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mother. You know what? You didn't want to be a bad mother. No one ever does.
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And yet many bad, bad, bad things happen to us. And so it ends up like we do
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things that we don't even know how to do, and they turn out bad,
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and then we become thinking we're bad.
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Forgive yourself, forgive your ex, forgive your children for believing lies,
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and then forgive yourself for believing lies, and then go back to taking courage
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in God. Turn this over to God.
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Let him do the lead, be the lead on this rescue and restoration operation.
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Let him and his Holy Spirit be the lead. You have to stay in a place of peace.
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You have to also know this, that all things work together for good to those
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who love God and are called according to his purpose,
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so that whatever Satan is doing now to grind and destroy and cut off and separate
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and kill your children is the very exact thing that God is using to make them
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and to create them and shape them and form them into the image of Jesus Christ.
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So these hot, fiery trials, this pressure, this crucible that they are in right
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now is what God is using to make them mighty warriors for him.
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So take courage and also know that God is moving among that generation even
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now in a mighty and a powerful way. And then also know, as I said.
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All things work together for good. Even these terrible things that we don't
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know how they'll ever work out, we trust the Lord that they will work out and
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that he is good to keep our children in the midst of the fiery trials.
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And, you know, he can bring them back. You know, it's interesting where the
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Bible talks about in Luke 15, the story of the prodigal son,
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and the father doesn't say anything about the mother right there.
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But the father, you know, the son is out there, and the father has a pretty
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good idea of what he's up to, but he waits.
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He waits for him to come to himself and return home.
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And soâ And it's interesting in that story that the father must have been watching
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out the end of the driveway for almost every day because it said when he saw
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him coming a long way off.
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So he spotted him a quarter mile down the road, and he recognized him as his
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son. and then he sprung into action and got his, you know, his robe and his
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ring and his shoes and all this stuff he wanted to do.
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And, you know, again, when you, when your children come back to you,
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you don't need to lecture them and say, I told you so. And what were you thinking?
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Just, just save it, keep it, shut it, shut the lip there because what you want
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to do is listen, hear their heart, compassion.
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You want compassion, give them compassion, Be patient with them.
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They're young. They don't always know everything.
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And then the final thing is, as you've seen what God is doing, and this is a battle.
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This is where faith and courage and declaration, binding and loosing come into play.
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You can do that all day long as you want to, as you're led, to bind the powers
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of darkness, the forces of darkness, the deception, whatever those generational spirits are.
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And that's another thing you can do is look at the generational sins that we
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talked about in Deuteronomy, to confess the disobedience, the rebellion,
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the idolatry, the sexual perversions, the witchcraft that's gone on in your bloodline.
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Confess that. It says that's one of the things he tells us to do.
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Confess those sins and then God will restore the covenant.
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So get that out of the way first. Confess those things.
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Now the final things are rejoice and remember.
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Rejoice that God, you know, offer the sacrifices of praise.
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This is a sacrifice. It's very hard to be thankful and rejoice and open your
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mouth and sing praises to God and shout it to God with the voice of triumph
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when it doesn't look victorious at all. This is true sacrifice.
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This is not, you know, a burnt offering of a lamb or a goat or something on
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an altar. God doesn't want that.
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When you are so broken and yet out of that brokenness, out of those tears, out of that.
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Almost like it's never going to end kind of torment.
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And you can say, God, I still believe you're still on the throne.
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You still know where my children are. I trust you. I thank you.
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I rejoice in what you're doing.
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When you start doing that, I believe the burden will lift and God is already moving.
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And so when you give him praise, you're just encouraging him to go faster,
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to do it with more gusto, to get it done more quickly, because God is not willing
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that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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And in Isaiah, we have these tremendous promises of God spoken especially to
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women, the forsaken wife, the woman, the widow.
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And he says here, I'm going to read it. Well, let's go to Isaiah 43, first of all.
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He says, and this is 43, Isaiah 41 and 43, those two chapters,
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first parts of the chapters are really, really good for encouraging us. He says in 43.
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But now, thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you,
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O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you.
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I've called you by your name. You are mine. When you pass through the waters,
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I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
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When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, nor shall the flame
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scorch you, for I am the Lord your God.
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Remember that. The Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
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I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Sheba in your place.
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Since you are precious in my sight, you have been honored.
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I have loved you. Therefore, I will give men for you and people for your life.
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Fear not, for I am with you. I will bring your descendants, your children,
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from the east and gather them from the west.
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And I will say to them, to the north, give them up. And to the south, do not keep them back.
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Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
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Everyone who is called by my name, whom I have created for my glory,
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I have formed them. I have formed him.
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Yes, I have made them. So God is going to call back the ones that he's made
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for himself, of your sons, your daughters, that he gave to you,
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put in your care, and now he's bringing them back. And this is where we get to trust God.
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And don't throw your life away with depression and exhaustion or try to use
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false comforts to sedate and seduce yourself or find another escape.
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Just stand, and having done all, receive the courage, receive the strength of the Lord.
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And then we go on to Isaiah 54, which is another awesome promise,
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especially for the broken. He says...
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He says, sing, O barren one, and you who have not born.
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So he's speaking to the women, and he says in verse 4, Do not fear,
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for you will not be ashamed, nor be disgraced, for you shall not be put to shame.
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For you will forget the shame of your youth and will not remember the reproach
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of your widowhood anymore.
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You remember what they said about you, how they accused you,
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how they rejected you, how they cast you out.
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He says, verse 5, for your maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name,
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and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
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He is called the God of the whole earth. For the Lord has called you like a
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woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a youthful wife when you were refused, says the Lord.
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For a mere moment, I have forsaken you. And it feels like we've been forsaken or abandoned.
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But with great mercies, I will gather you. With a little wrath,
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I hid my face from you for a moment.
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In other words, he had to turn his face even away from Jesus when he was dying
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on the cross because it was so grievous and so painful. but with everlasting
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kindness, I will have mercy on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.
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And then we go up into verse 13. He says, and all your children shall be taught by the Lord.
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All, all your children, your sons and your daughters that have been scattered
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to the north and the south and the east and the west.
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And great will be the peace of your children.
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In righteousness, you shall be established. You shall be far from oppression.
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You shall not fear. And from the terror, it shall not come near you.
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Instead, they shall surely assemble, but not because of me. Whoever assembles
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against you shall fall for your sake.
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And then he goes on to say, no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
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Every tongue, all those tongues that have spoken against you,
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gossiped against you, cursed you, cut you off, slandered you,
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said evil things about you to your children or vice versa.
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All those tongues that rise up against you, you shall judge. you shall condemn.
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This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is
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from me, says the Lord. So all of this, these are the most difficult of the fiery trials.
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I think relationships, children, broken relationships and being accused and
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Satan is clever and insidious.
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He can even create in the children such a false imagination.
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Despising or accusation of you Even through their friends, through their media,
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through their music, through the things that they're being exposed to every
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day, the things they're ingesting every day, and even through their dreams.
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He can set people up to believe lies about one another. So you have really no other recourse.
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Except the Lord God, who is the father of you and your children.
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So we are thanking the Lord that this is one of the most difficult trials,
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but this is the one that's the
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closest to God's heart because he's not willing that any should perish.
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So in these days right now, when everything is up for grabs and Satan is grabbing
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children out of the nests, even before they're born, grabbing souls,
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grabbing children, grabbing them when they're, you know,
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exposing them to wicked things, even the minute they're born,
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things that they have no control over.
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And sometimes their parents don't either. Lord God, we are lifting our children
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up to you and the circumstances in which they are being born.
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The words, the lies, the diabolical assaults and attacks against our babies.
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Against our children, against our grandchildren.
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Father God, we are asking for We're an all-out war of heaven against this plot
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of the enemy and all-out war of the heavenlies to come back and do battle for
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our children, that they will come back to their senses as the prodigal,
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come back to themselves, come back to their right minds, Lord God,
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and they will repent and they will not be ashamed and they'll not be too ashamed
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to repent and admit they're wrong and come to ask for forgiveness,
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be restored in their relationships, that the true work of God may be done on
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the earth and not after we're dead.
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May the true work of reconciliation and healing between us and the father and
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between us and our children be done here now in this place.
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And we lose the presence of God to work in the children's hearts,
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to work in your heart as a child of your parents, work in our hearts,
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God, to undo the damage, the lies, the accusations,
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the mindsets, the programs, the software, the body of death,
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the strongholds that we've been nurtured and brought up in.
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Release us, Father God, that we might love one another, that we might be restored
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to being loved and to love, Father God, in Jesus' name.
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And you have a book, Margie, that addresses this, Doing Relationships God's
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Way. Tell us a little bit about that.
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Well, there are many, as I said earlier, relationships are like roads.
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And the first relationship you have is the relationship you have with yourself
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and the ones that we have after that with our parents, with God.
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All these form connections, all these inter-net us or interlink us to other
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people in society, families.
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So there are many things that can go wrong in relationships.
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As a matter of fact, there are probably 100,000 things that go wrong than that can go right.
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So Doing Relationships God's Way, you can pick it up on our website, liferecovery.com.
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And I think it's also on amazon.com. So again, we've got several other books out there.
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Check it out. Amazon, Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your
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Life. That's the most recent.
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And the one now that's doing relationships or diagnosing your family tree and doing relationships.
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So we encourage you, check out the website. also know that we have on our website
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liferecovery.com we have information about upcoming conferences intensives and
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things like that so check it out we love you and have an awesome awesome week,
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