It's All About The Children

If you have your Bibles, let's go to the first book of the Bible. We'll make it easy. Genesis chapter number 1 Genesis chapter number 1, verse 26. We'll read through verse number 28. And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." God said, "Let them have dominion." So, God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them. And God blessed them. And God said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion." Someone say dominion. God is a God that wants to give His church revival and dominion. And He has a plan for it. And the plan is be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." This message today, perhaps a little bit different for a camp meeting service, but this is just what I have felt since the beginning. I've I've tried everything else, and it just some of you preachers know what I'm talking about. They just There was just nothing there, and I to coming back to this. But I want to preach today to this church. And I want to preach to families, and I want to preach to moms and dads, and I want to preach to single people, and I want to preach to elders, and I want to preach to children. And I want to preach on this subject. It's all about the children. It's all about the children. Let's pray today. Let's ask that the Holy Ghost would move across this congregation. Would you help me pray? It's it lift your voice to him. Jesus, For your sweet presence that we feel. Thank you for the Holy Ghost that's here. Oh God, come down from heaven. We know you're in this house. Break bonds and yolks, set captives free in Jesus' name. Do your work from beginning to end, and for this we give you praise and glory. We exalt you. We praise you. Why don't we clap our hands and thank him right Amen. Amen. Before you're seated, greet your neighbor. Tell him it is good to be Genesis chapter number one and verse number 28 records some of the very first actions that God ever made towards man. Genesis chapter one and verse 28 records the first words that God ever spoke to man. I want to take a moment and point out that the first or some of the first actions that God ever did towards man, as the Bible says that God blessed them. Somebody say he blessed them. The first words that God ever spoke to man was be fruitful and multiply. I want to point out today that one of God's first actions towards mankind was the act of blessing. The first words that God ever spoke to man was to be fruitful. If that tells us nothing else, that ought to tell us that we serve a good God that loves his people today. I'm glad that I serve a God of blessing. I want to say that again. I'm glad that I serve a God of blessing. He's not out to curse us. He's not out to hurt us. God is here to bless some people in this house today. Bible lets me know that God is interested in his people being fruitful and having revival and seeing great things happen, the miraculous coming to our churches. Amen. I want to shake off, before we do anything else, this idea

that God is some kind of a hard taskmaster. That we're trying to squeeze revival out of him. Let me tell you, he's a good God. He's a great God. Come on, church. It's Sunday morning and somebody ought to get a realization that we serve a good God that's in this house today. The psalmist said a long time ago, "Make a joyful noise into the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his name." And then he told us why. He said, "For the Lord is good." Come on, anybody know WE SERVE A GOOD GOD TODAY? ANYBODY GLAD WE SERVE A GOD OF blessing and favor? A GOD THAT WANTS OUR FAMILIES TO SUCCEED, A GOD THAT WANTS TO POUR OUT HIS BLESSINGS ON US. IS SOMEBODY OUT TO CLAP YOUR HANDS AND THANK GOD FOR a good God that has done great things in our Amen. He's a good God. Somebody say he's a good God. And it's important to know that this good God has a good plan for his people. Amen. God has a plan. We read it from the beginning. In Genesis 1, God has an plan. God has an agenda. God has a strategy for his people having dominion over the earth. The Bible makes it very plain what it is. He says, "Here's what I want you to do. I want you to be blessed. I want you to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth." Amen. Quite frankly, what God is saying is, "Adam and Eve, you need to have a bunch of kids." Now, don't get nervous. I'm not here to preach you need to have 27 kids. But God is interested in children. God is interested in children. He said, "I want you to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and you will have dominion." Amen. To make it applicable for our churches today, I have seen you have seen that churches, amen, that are doing two things are having revival. Amen. Churches that are winning souls, any soul winners in the house today? Those are revival churches. But also churches that are having kids, multi-generational churches. Multi-generational families, that is the will of God. God said, "Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth and have dominion." This is God's plan for dominion. I want you to understand that the devil also has a plan. AMEN. THE DEVIL ALSO HAS an agenda. He also wants to take dominion. The devil through our world today, our secular world, has an interesting and contrasting agenda. Put your thinking cap on now. It's interesting that the devil also wants to take dominion, but it's not through fruitfulness. Amen. In fact, our secular world is almost it has this weird contrasting view when it comes to the philosophy of kids. Amen. Don't don't judge me too harshly. Give me a few minutes to get where I need to go. But our secular world is fixated on children, but it wants to destroy children. Amen. The devil hates our kids, but on the other hand, he needs our kids. Amen. The church's agenda is be fruitful and take dominion, but the secular world's dominion is be barren and take dominion. Let me explain. Think about the movements that defined our secular world today. Amen. I'm not here to be offensive. I'm not here to hurt anybody. I'm just here to preach to somebody in this house today about children. Amen. Think about the secular movements in our world today. So many of them are about having less children or no children. This is not by accident. I'm not here to hurt anybody, but think about the things that our world promotes, abortion, no children, suicide is being it's just a spirit that the devil is living loose in our world. Amen. No children. Amen. Even the Western civilization idea and again, I'm not here to hurt anybody or to get weird on you. But the Western civilization idea that we need to have less kids because they're too much trouble. Kids, they say, are too much responsibility. They tie me down and they're too expensive. Amen. These are agendas that are saying

less kids. Amen. And then you have the moral things that are being pushed in our world today like homosexuality and lesbianism. I'm not here to be unkind, but logically, you understand those produce no children. The spirit that is promoting transgenderism is a spirit that ultimately leads to barrenness, to sterility, no future. Amen. It is a spirit THAT IS MOTIVATED BY AN AGENDA THAT IS ANTI-GOD. Take dominion. Be barren and take dominion. Now the irony of this is you don't have to be very much of a thinker to know that there's a problem with this. If you don't have children, eventually your movement dies out. If you don't have kids, you're not going to be able to propagate your belief system. It's a house of cards because you cannot reproduce. And and without kids, it will disappear. Amen. What that Did you hear me today? There's an attack on our kids. And I've come under the power of the Holy Ghost to tell the devil off the bat, you can't Moms and dads, are you with me? YOUNG PEOPLE, ARE YOU with me? I need some elders that are with me. The media's after the kids. Politicians are after the kids. Planned Parenthood and abortion, they're after the kids. Hollywood is after our kids. Amen. You you can read the the the the Federal Trade Commission had an investigation a while back and they found that while they rate Hollywood rates the movies that they produce, they have found that Hollywood and movie producers, they are actively going after children that technically should not be watching them per the ratings that they are producing. Amen. In other words, they are they're advertising these things. They're advertising violent movies and violent music and violent video games to children when they know they're not they're they're appropriate for mature audiences and not for children. Amen. This is not the point of my message today, but let me just add my voice to say that our stance against Hollywood is right. Movies and TELEVISION HAVE NO PLACE in an apostolic home. Thank God for the message of holiness. Amen. And I don't care where the movie is produced. If it's produced in Hollywood, it's not going in my home. If it's produced in India in Bollywood, it's not going in my home. If it's produced in Atlanta, it's not going in my home. AND IF SOMEBODY IN SOME CHURCHY movement says they want to produce it, it's not going in my home. That's a slippery slope. Thank God for our children. I want to protect our It's all about the children. Amen. Hollywood's after the children. Wall Street's after our children. I'm not anti-Wall Street. I I'm but but Wall Street is actively after trying to promote things to our children. The adverse The advertising industry every year spends $17 billion per year on ads targeting our children. The average child every year is exposed to 40,000 television commercials. What is that? 100 per day? That's mind-boggling. The reason they do that is children under 12 spend, believe it or not, under 12 collectively they spend $12 billion a year. But the reason they're advertising is not just to get the kids, they want they know that through the kids they'll get the parents. And parents are influenced by kids to the tune of $165 billion per year from their kids. But not only that, they know that children not only represent funds now, but they also represent spending money, future consumers as they grow up. There's such a thing as brand loyalty. You drink Pepsi when you're 7, you're going to probably drink it when you're 27. You wear Nikes when you're 13, you'll probably keep wearing Nikes. And and so again, this is NOT SOMETHING NECESSARILY

BAD, it's just the nature of I'm trying to point out everybody is after the children. Everybody's after the children. Anybody aware that the school system is after your children? Amen. They're after your children, and they don't wait till they're in university to start. Amen. I am from crazy California, and some of the tales that I hear from school teachers and principals and university professors in our church that tell us the things that are happening in our in our schools are they're they're frightening. AMEN. IF IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M A conspiracy theorist, I'm just telling you the whole world is after our children. Amen. Preschool's after your kids. Kindergarten's after your kids. Elementary school is after your kids. Middle school's after your kids. High school and junior high junior college is after your kids. Universities are after your kids and they are actively preaching things that are anti-God and anti-Bible. They are after the kids. Amen. I alluded to it already and again, I am not here to be a controversial. But brothers and sisters, you're foolish to not recognize that the LGBTQ movement is overtly after our children. Amen. We understand. We are people of the book. We believe everybody could be saved. We want everybody in our churches. Baptizing Jesus name filled with the Holy Ghost. But there is a movement out there that is actively pursuing our children. Amen. A while back there was a that circulated through our world and it was of a parade that happened somewhere. An LGB TQ community parade and and somewhere in that parade there was a voice lifted that was said this, "We're here and we're coming for your children." Now, I'm not here to be unkind. Brothers and sisters, we are a church that loves everybody. And we want revival. And if you haven't figured IT OUT YET, THE HOLY GHOST IS for everybody. And the Holy Ghost will take care of anybody. And the blood of Jesus will wash away any sin. YOU KNOW WHAT I SAY? BRING THEM. COME ON. IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND YOU'RE broken and you need THE HOLY GHOST, GOD CAN fill you with the Holy Ghost. If you're here today and YOU'RE DEALING WITH IMMORALITY, ADULTERY, or fornication, GOD CAN SAVE YOU. IF IT'S HOMOSEXUALITY, GOD CAN SAVE YOU. WHATEVER YOU'RE DEALING WITH, WE'RE HERE TO TELL YOU THIS IS A REVIVAL CHURCH AND GOD WANTS TO GIVE US DOMINION. IT'S AMEN. AMEN, but everybody, tell your neighbor, everybody is after the kids. Amen. I know this sounds a little bit negative in the beginning, but we'll get somewhere in a minute. The devil is The devil has always been after the children. John 10 and 10 says the thief cometh not but for to kill and to steal and to destroy. Let me tell you about the devil, he's a he's not a gentleman. He's a jerk. He doesn't wait until children are full grown to get them. He'll go after THEM WHEN THEY'RE FIVE OR SIX OR 12 or 13. Bless your heart if if he'll do that, then we we can't afford to wait either. Amen. I I find it terrifying that some religious organizations are promoting the idea that we need to wait till our kids are grown up in order to to teach our doctrine to them. I I've I've ran into a movement apostolic that is that is kind of promoting the idea of waiting for your kids to be baptized in Jesus name, even if they've got the Holy Ghost. Let them sow their wild oats. I'm here to TELL YOU THAT'S NOT THAT'S NOT THE PLAN OF GOD. AMEN. AND THAT'S NOT THE devil's plan either. Amen. Think about this. Two of the most important human beings who ever lived were Moses and Jesus Christ, who was the most important human being who ever lived, God in flesh. The Bible says of Moses and Jesus in John 1, it says that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Amen. Think about that. The law, THE DISPENSATION OR COVENANT OF LAW AND DISPENSATION OR COVENANT OF grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Let me tell you, the devil I I don't think he can foretell the future, but he was picking up on something. Amen. He did his best to destroy Moses and Jesus. If he had have got them, he had have got the law and he would have got grace. And so he sends A PHARAOH TO SLAUGHTER the babies to kill Moses and try to take out the law. He sent a Herod TO SLAUGHTER THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM to kill Jesus

and to try TO TAKE OUT GRACE and truth. I'm here to tell you, the devil is after our children. Amen. You read about the story of Job. It's amazing when you read about Job. The devil wants to destroy him. The devil is after him. And and and the devil gets in Job's mind. Have you noticed how often in Job's depressed conversation, he often alludes to the fact that he wishes he'd never been born. He says THINGS LIKE I WISH I HAD DIED at birth. He said, "Let the day perish where I was born." I'm going to tell you, the devil will mess with your head and say, "I wish I I'd never been born. WHY DIDN'T I DIE in the womb?" YOU KNOW WHERE THOSE THOUGHTS ARE COMING FROM? THEY'RE NOT COMING FROM GOD. THEY'RE COMING FROM ANOTHER AGENDA THAT WANTS TO TAKE Amen. We read about Jeremiah, ordained a prophet to the nations. But Jeremiah said, "Cursed be the day wherein I was born." God said of Jeremiah, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee." But God But the but Jeremiah said, "Cursed be the man who told my dad you're going to have a boy and it MADE HIM HAPPY." GOD SAID OF JEREMIAH, "BEFORE you came out of the womb, I ordained you to be a prophet to the nations." Are you catching what I'm saying? God, before he was ever born, had a purpose in his life. BUT THE DEVIL ALSO HAD A PURPOSE AND THE DEVIL CAUSED him to say, "Oh, that my mother had been my grave." I'm here to preach to somebody this morning. Could some of those depressed thoughts in your mind be planted? You understand they're planted by the devil. Amen. We need to sow some Holy Ghost common sense, some force of character that says, "No, I'm made in the image of God." That's not coming from a right place. That's coming from another agenda. That's coming from another place and another plan. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STAND UP AND REJECT THAT SPIRIT of the devil. You need to quit PARROTING HIS EVERY THOUGHT. YOU NEED TO QUIT REPEATING the nonsense that you hear in your mind. STOP BEING THE DEVIL'S MOUTHPIECE. God has called you. I'm talking to some young people today. GOD'S HAND IS ON YOUR LIFE AND he wants to raise you UP AND DO MIGHTY THINGS in your world. You need to embrace the plan of God in your life. Come on, lift your hands and pray with Oh, come on, love the Lord with me. I feel the Holy Ghost here this morning. Come on, let's pray in this house. Hallelujah. Before I go any further, somebody needs to pray in this house In the name of Jesus. Amen. I'm going to tell you the devil knows the power of our children's purpose. The devil knows the potential that and the destiny that's resting upon our kids. And the devil has come to steal and to kill and to destroy. That's why the whole agenda of the world today follows that. It's all about destroying our kids. Amen. Whoever heard of teenage suicide until the last 15 years or so? Whoever heard of a 12-year-old driven to a place so sad that they would contemplate taking their own life? I'm going to tell you there's a spirit at work in our world today. There's a spirit of depression, of heaviness, and it's got a plan. It's an old plan. He's come to steal and to kill. It's barrenness that he wants to bring dominion in our world. Can I talk to some people today? Maybe you're having problems in your marriage. YOU NEED TO RETHINK SOME DECISIONS YOU'RE ABOUT TO MAKE. YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE KIDS THAT ARE IN YOUR WORLD. I'm tired of sitting in conference rooms and talking to people and hearing words like maybe it'd be better for the kids if we were to divorce. I know there's all kinds of circumstances. I know there's times when divorce is the ONLY OPTION. BUT LET ME TELL YOU NINE TIMES out of 10 it doesn't help. It destroys. It hurts the kids. And brothers AND SISTERS, IT'S ALL ABOUT AND YOU'VE BEEN PATIENT with me as I've given you my burden. But I've come to this point to TELL SOMEBODY TODAY THAT You going to help me preach FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES? We've come to rebuke the lie of the devil. THE DEVIL'S NOT WAITING, BUT WE'RE NOT WAITING EITHER. THE DEVIL'S COMING AFTER THE CHILDREN,

OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT A BURDEN. OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT JUST A COST OF LIVING ITEM. OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT JUST AN ITEM ON YOUR INCOME STATEMENT. OUR OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT A DRAIN ON THE BUDGET. OUR KIDS ARE NOT SOME KIND OF PROBLEM THAT JUST HAPPENED. YOU YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE DIDN'T JUST HAPPEN TO GET TOGETHER. NO. NO. A THOUSAND TIMES NO. GOD, LET YOUR AGENDA FROM THE BEGINNING BEGIN TO SWEEP ACROSS THIS HOUSE. BLESSING, DOMINION, POWER, BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY. YOUR CHILD IS A GIFT FROM GOD. OH, THAT GOD WOULD OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE THE POWER AND THE POTENTIAL SITTING IN THESE CHAIRS. OH, THAT GOD WOULD OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE AT CAMP MEETING SUNDAY 2026 THAT GOD HAS POWER SITTING IN YOUNG Lift your hands and let's pray right now before we go any further. Come on, Mom and Dad, you need to pray COME ON, WE NEED SOME MOTHERS in Israel that know how to pray. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Come on, I need some dads that know how Come on, you need to rare back, lift your voice and pray. Where's my young men that know how to pray? I need YOU TO LIFT YOUR VOICE AND HALLELUJAH. WHY DON'T YOU link up with somebody next to you? I got more to preach, but let's pray in the Holy Ghost. Let's pray until something breaks. Let's pray until revelation comes. Come on, PRAY IN THE HOLY GHOST. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN. COME ON, I FEEL THE HOLY GHOST want to help somebody in this house. Come on, the plan of God. GOD'S AGENDA, GOD'S STRATEGY IS TRYING TO be revealed in this house again. It's all about the kids. Come on, let let some priorities get rearranged before we go any further. LET THE HOLY GHOST SPEAK TO YOUR SPIRIT. Hallelujah. I'm going to let you be seated. I I'm going to Can I preach for another 5 10 Let me tell you why. I'm going to give you three reasons why Number one, I preached it already. It's part of God's plan for dominion. When you parent a child, this is part of God giving dominion to your church. Mama, this is bigger than changing diapers. This is bigger than keeping the house. This is bigger, MOM AND DAD, THAN TRYING TO WORK OUT YOUR BOTH working schedule and trying to come home and keep it together. I'm going to tell you, THIS IS DOMINION. THIS IS PART OF A GOD'S PLAN. WHEN YOU TEACH A SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS, it's dominion. When you drive a Sunday school bus, it's dominion. When you when you work with young people in youth groups, THIS IS A BIG DEAL. I'M TIRED OF THE SPIRIT THAT SAYS IT'S NOT WORTH the trouble. It's worth the trouble. IT'S WORTH THE TROUBLE. I'M HERE TO TELL A MOM AND DAD, maybe the greatest thing you will ever DO IN YOUR WALK WITH GOD IS HAVE A CHILD AND RAISE IT IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. There's no telling the potential of some of these 10, 12-year-olds sitting on these pews. COME ON, MOM AND DAD, THERE'S NO TELLING THE GIFT THAT GOD PUT IN YOUR HAND. BE FRUITFUL AND TAKE DOMINION. You know what you're looking at here in North Little Rock? You're looking at a multi-generational dominion. Hallelujah. That's what it is. It was done in THE PLAN OF GOD, THE WILL OF GOD, BUT THE

HOLY GHOST FAVOR HAS BEEN UPON THIS. BE FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY, TAKE DOMINION, AND Don't ever forget Pushing back an anti-God counterfeit, demonic agenda. Be barren and steal the children and take dominion. It's always been that way. You read in the Bible in Second Kings where there was the there was the famine. The one mother that eat the baby. They cannibalized their future, and then she wants the other person's baby. You read about it with Solomon, his his dilemma as king. There's two women. One had killed the other baby, and she wanted or killed and she wanted the other person's baby. That's the spirit of our world today. Be barren. CANNIBALIZE THE FUTURE. STEAL GOD'S CHILDREN AND TAKE DOMINION, but we're pushing back today. We're not ignorant of Satan's devices. I'm going to raise my kids in truth. I'm going to do THE BEST I CAN TO RAISE THEM IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. THEY'VE GOT TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. THEY'VE GOT TO CHOOSE RIGHT FOR THEMSELVES, BUT I'M When my wife and I got married, we're talking about having kids, and I don't know if this sounds weird, but there was part of us that you wonder, do you want to bring kids into this weird crazy world? Maybe it's because I live in California. Do we really want to have kids? And And And not because it's just my We wanted children, but but you're not guaranteed what they're going to do. You're not guaranteed. I'm going to just tell you, having kids does not mean you'll have more happiness. Somebody said it like this, it does mean you'll have fullness of life. I want fullness of life. And so I'm going to raise them in truth and BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO RAISE them up and use them in his kingdom. And I remember me and my wife talking about it, and finally I just looked at her and I said, "You know what? It's a dark world, but this world needs as much light as it can get. Points of light in this dark world." Come on, it's time for somebody to push back against the demonic plan and agenda. Barrenness and dominion. BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND HAVE DOMINION. CLAP YOUR Hallelujah. Amen. The second reason we should care about our children is because children are so open to God. Children are so open to God. Barna Group did a survey many of you have heard. And it was on how old people were when they got in church. They found that only 23% of people got in church after the age of 21. Did you catch that? That means 70 This is denominationalism. Churchianity. But they found that 77% of people that ever got in church did it before they turned 21 years of age. Amen. To break that down a little finer, they they said that of that 77% that were below the age of 21, 13% got in church between the ages of 18 and 21. 21% get in church between the ages of 14 and 18. And an incredible 43% come to God before they turn 13 years old. We're not waiting. Do you hear me? We're not waiting. It's a gift from God. Some of these children ordained of God before they were born. I THAT'S IN MY BIBLE. I STILL BELIEVE THAT GOD PUTS his hand on five and six-year-olds. I I STILL BELIEVE THAT GOD GRABS A 12-YEAR-OLD and says you're going to HALLELUJAH. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE REVIVAL. WE'RE GOING TO KNOCK DOORS. WE'RE GOING TO TEACH BIBLE STUDIES. WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN to reach our city, BUT WE'RE ALSO NOT GOING TO FORGET ABOUT OUR CHILDREN. HALLELUJAH. I'm going to tell you we got to get them while we can. We got to to our kids while we can. I heard Brother Howard tell this. He said he was driving down Highway 99 in California through the San Joaquin Valley. If you know the San Joaquin Valley, it is the breadbasket of America. Sometimes we think of California as just being, you know, skyscrapers everywhere. But no, this is this is where it's unbelievable all the crops that are grown in this this valley. As he drove the 99, there was all kinds of different There was orchards and

different kinds of crops that were there. And he noticed that there was all kinds of different people that were harvesting the crops. All different ethnicities. Hispanic, African-American, Caucasian, East Indian, every color, every race. There were people of all different ages that were harvesting. There were men and there were women that were harvesting the crops. And he noticed and he began to think, those crops don't care who harvest them. It's just You know who gets the harvest? Whoever got to them first. I'm going to tell you our children are ready for harvest. You know who gets them? Whoever gets to them first. If the atheists get to them first, they get the children. If agnostics and secularists get to them first, they get the children. IF HOLLYWOOD AND MEDIA GETS THEIR MIND FIRST, THEY GET the children. AMEN. ANY DENOMINATION THAT GETS THEM FIRST gets the children. BUT THE APOSTOLIC JESUS NAME PEOPLE OF THE WE'RE GOING TO GET THEM FIRST. I'M come to tell you today I pledge in the Holy Ghost. We're going to see revival. I'M GOING TO KNOCK EVERY DOOR IN MY CITY. I'M GOING TO TEACH BIBLE STUDIES TILL I'M WEARY, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO FORGET my kids. I'm not going TO FORGET OUR CHILDREN. I'M NOT GOING TO FORGET OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. COME ON, IF YOU FEEL THAT WAY, Stand to your feet, lift your hands, and pray in the Holy Ghost as the musicians Come on, I'm hastening to a to a conclusion, but help me pray right now. Just reach out to him. Come on, let the Holy Ghost speak to our The final reason we should be reaching for our kids Hope I can articulate this right is we should get our kids because you got to get them while they're young. This prevents what what I call and others call the third generation problem. It's where they've seen it in business, they've seen it in all kinds of structures and organizations, and certainly in churches. Where you get the first generation that washed in the blood a living, breathing, walking testimony. Still smell like cigarettes and man, you Any first generation Holy Ghost people Then there's a second generation. Second generation, they've received this truth. I'm going to tell you, thank God, you're blessed if you're second generation. You're blessed. Amen. And then there's the third generation. And what they have seen is I don't have time to go through all of it. Is many times there's a drop-off in that third generation. Now, let me tell you, I'm a fifth generation apostolic. But God got me early. My dad exposed me early to God. And I'm doing my best to do it with my kids. Yesterday and I just I'm just telling the story. They went on bus outreach. Some of the worst areas of our town. Got a 13-year-old girl and there's times I'm worried about it. We We try to use sense and and and make sure they're protected, but let me just tell you something. Can't wait till she's 20 and got pepper spray to send her out winning souls. There's a devil that's not waiting and I can't wait either. I'm refused to let my kids rot on a Pentecostal pew. You got to get them now. The whole world's after the kids. The

media's after the kids. Politicians are after the kids. Hollywood's after the kids. Wall Street's after the kids. Every movement's after the kids and bless your heart, there's some Jesus name apostolic people that are got a burden. WE'RE WE'RE TO HAVE REVIVAL IN OUR CHILDREN. I'M NOT WAITING. I'm not waiting. I want to tell you a story and I'll be done. It's a story that I heard a preacher tell. I I don't know where it happened. I don't know who the people But he told the story about another that was praying one day and God spoke to him and revealed to him that there were two people in his church that were having an adulterous affair Two married couples and man and a woman are hooking up. So when the altar, he didn't know what to do. He prayed about it and then he felt to do this in the altar. The next day he went first to the woman and then to the man and told them what he God had revealed to them him. They both confessed and then he met with both couples in his office after the servant the service. And he told the innocent parties the husband of the the wife and the the wife of the the husband that were in that affair. He described that when he told this to the innocent parties, the husband of the adulterous wife he began to cry and he fell to his knees and he began to sob just heartbreaking. Soul-rending sobs. He wept so hard and so loudly that for 45 minutes Finally he lifted his swollen tear-stained boy face for the first time in 45 minutes he said to the pastor is there a water basin around here somewhere? They were kind of surprised. What do what do you want with that? And they they went and got it and filled it with water. And this man whose wife had cheated on him, he first he went to his wife and he began to wash her feet. He began to pray and they heard him say, God she's better than this. This is not really her. I remember when we first met, God, and we started dating and we fell in love. We got married. God, we've prayed together and we've worshipped together and she's a good woman. Because, God, if I don't forgive her I'll be a bitter man and I'll destroy myself, our marriage, I'll destroy her He then took the basin of water to the man who had cheated with his wife, a man, by the way, that he had won to God and made foreman of his business. He began to wash his feet and he began to say, God I forgive this man. He's a good man. God, I remember when I taught him Bible study. And he said I I sat across the table from him and I'll never forget, God, when when the lights went on and he got the revelation of the oneness of God. God, I remember when he got the Holy Ghost. He was baptized in Jesus' name. God I forgive him. Because if I don't I'LL BE A BITTER MAN. AND I'LL destroy myself, I'll destroy him, his marriage, and I'll destroy my And years later, the pastor related this story, and he added, "Both couples are still married today. Both couples are living for God. And all of their children are saved Close your eyes. Lift your hands. This happened because one man knew

I feel the Holy Ghost in this place, and I am done preaching. This is a strange camp meeting message, but I feel from the Lord God's here to restore some Sir, this is bigger than you. Ma'am, this is bigger than you. Come on, there's some There's some people that need to get a revelation again what it's all about. It's all about the children. Come on, there's dominion, there's blessing, there is power that comes from the revelation it's all about the children. Right now, this is what we're going to do. I know there's not enough room in the altar, but we're going to try. Maybe the best you can do is just to scoot to the aisle and make that your altar. Maybe the best you can do is come off the mezzanine and be in that back aisle. Maybe the best you can do is just pray where you are. But it's altar call time and this is what I want us to do as musicians prepare to lead us. There's always been two agendas. There's been the that from God be fruitful and take dominion. And then there is the agenda of the devil, be barren. Take the children of the kingdom and take dominion. Right now I'm looking for somebody And so right now this altar is open. Make that pew an altar. I'm going to give us time to get where we need to be. Want you to step out begin to pray. Just step out begin to pray. Maybe some husbands should take your wife by the hand. Maybe bring your children with you. This altar's not just for families. This is part of the agenda of God. Somebody can get adopted real quick right now. Want everybody to find a place to pray. Let's press our way in. Let's press our way in. Let's press our way in. I've got a couple more instructions here in just a moment but I want us to find a place to Feel the Holy Ghost in this house right This is what I want us to do. If you're with family, I want you to take your family by the hand. I want you to put your arm around them. If you don't have family, I want you to adopt somebody real quick. This is the family of God. Come on, they are part of the kingdom of God right now. We're going to begin to pray. Hallelujah. Now, I want us to lift our hands as we're praying one for another. And I want us to pray like this, God, I want you to rearrange my priorities. It's all about the children. Come on, it's about the children. Yes, it's about the children. It's about the children. Lift your voice and pray. Lift your voice and pray. I need some mamas that know how to I need some grandmas and grandpas. I need some dads. Come on, all across this place, lift That's it. That's it. Come on, let Jesus do it right now. Come on, mama, you're involved in something glorious. Come on, young people, God can