From the Upper Room to the Living Room | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

turn with me if you will to the gospel of john chapter number 12 verse number one through three we're going to continue the series from the upper room to the living room that's dealing with our families with our marriages john chapter 12 and verse number one through three then jesus six days before the passover came to bethany where lazarus was which had been dead whom he raised from the dead there they made him a supper martha served but lazarus was one of them that set at the table with him then took mary a pound of ointment of spikenard very costly and anointed the feet of jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment precious god today i do indeed thank you for the faithful people that stand before me and the faithful congregation that is online lord these are your people they're your sheep no one loves these people any more than you do lord they are the apple of your eye according to scripture lord they are so precious that you had a plan before the world began to wrap yourself in flesh become one of them and to die for them that they might have eternal life lord move upon your people today through the lips and help me today to encourage inspire and direct your people in jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated from the upper room to the living room jesus christ loves the family jesus christ designed as god he designed the beautiful relationship he designed the beautiful relationship between a man and a woman in the holy bonds of marriage he created it was god's plan he created man male woman female and then designed the beautiful relationship of them coming together as husband and wives and producing children having a home having a place where we could love one another having a place to where we could love our god having that place that home please forgive me today if this can if this offends you but i saw a little bit on social media that said you know we were never running out of baby formula until men started getting pregnant we're in a messed up world but if the world is ever need if this mess age has ever needed a message it's now it's now so god has designed the home husband and wife and in that home god has so designed that there be a certain atmosphere a certain aroma that is in that home would you not agree with me that we live in a world that is a ticking time bomb we're living you know we thought a lot of things ended with social disruptions during the 60s we thought that all was all solved but now it has come back with a great fury and there is this world is a living time bomb no wonder paul said that in the last days perilous times shall come perilous times our kids don't even play in the yards anymore right hairless times when i was growing up um our yard was to the reach of my mother's holler all right that's how far we could get away from the house she had to be able to step out on the front porch and holler for us and that was the perimeters that was our chain-link fence but now we don't even let our children go out in the yard because we live in an unsafe society yesterday in buffalo new york men and women were hungry and decided to go to their supermarket only never to return because a crazed gunman a crazed gunman went in and ended their lives so we live in a world that's a that is seriously that is seriously a ticking time bomb but that's not the case with the church and with our homes with our homes this act of worship that was performed here is where i want to use my grounding for my message this morning was in a home jesus visited a home and at that home at that home he was met with worship he was met with a testimony lazarus had been raised from the dead he was met with service martha began to serve him but then mary took a pound of ointment perfume spikenard very costly and she came and she anointed the feet with jesus she anointed the feet of jesus with this ointment wiped his feet with her hair and then the bible simply says the writer of john simply says and the house verse 3 was filled with the odor of the ointment the house was filled with the odor of the ointment church family today and i hope you join with me but at the carpenter residence i want my residents we're going from the upper room here to the living room i want my house to be filled with the aroma of worship with the same sweet presence of god i want it to be in my home how about you i want what we experience here in a small way to be felt in our home i don't want tension to be between me and my wife i don't want tension to be between us i want us to learn how to resolve our conflicts i want us to learn how to have a disagreement adult style but not only that apostolic style i want to i want to be able to raise our children to be fruitful not frustrated i want my children to be fruitful not frustrated i don't want my home to be a place that my children dream of the day that they're no longer there i want my home to be a place to where my children can open up grow and be fruitful i want the atmosphere and the spirit of all our homes to have a sweet anointing and fragrance of the presence of god of the presence of god you see i want to liken something today i want to liken something this morning that is like the air conditioner the heating and air at our homes we have a heating and air unit at our houses inside of our houses is a thing called a thermostat the unit heat pump whatever it is that you have is outside thermostat is on the inside let's say for an example that that it is 28 degrees outside you simply go to the thermostat turn the heat on to a comfortable setting let's say that it's 99 degrees outside you simply turn the ac on the thermostat can bring the house inside the house down we live spiritually in a very cold climate the bible says as the end of time approaches that the love of many shall wax cold we live in a time that the bible describes that satan knows that his time is short and hell is furious there's never been a more cold time in our culture and there has never been a more hot time persecuting time but yet god has so designed and i say thank you jesus god has so designed this beautiful thing that you and i are in this morning this spiritual body that we're in this morning called the church and could somebody give a hand of praise to god for the church i'm glad to be in the church when it's cold outside and morals are are dissolving daily thank god that we can step into the thermostat and we can control what's outside and we can bring the either down or we can bring the heat up it doesn't matter and i begin to use the analogy in preparing for this lesson how a husband and wife play a similar role the wife is like the thermostat the wife greatly controls the interior of the house the wife greatly controls the atmosphere and the mood of the house and don't don't worry i'm gonna get the scripture in just a moment all right so the wife sets the thermostat in the house so to speak but it's the husband that the thermostat is set to the unit and the thermostat the unit doesn't tell the thermostat what to do but the thermostat sends a signal to the unit and the unit simply complies with the thermostat so now using that analogy mary changes the atmosphere of that room you see although i told you about martha's service and i told you about lazarus being raised from the dead and that's all well and good do you know who else is in the room judas judas is in the room and when mary decides mary decides that the atmosphere needs to be changed she took something very costly and she anointed the feet of jesus and the the anointing of her of his feet pouring of the ointment filled the house with the ointment it filled the house the entire house was full of this fragrance then that's when judah spoke up and judah said this is a bunch of waste why if we could have taken that and sold it we could have we could have fed a lot of poor people with this but the bible said this he said not because he loved the poor and cared for the poor this he said because he was a thief and had the bag but yet in this in in the entire house mary changed the whole order and the whole odor of the house can i tell you there is a judas living in all of our homes there is a judas that if we allow judas judas will begin to tell us that things are not needful judas will even try to talk to you this morning while your pastor is preaching and say well man he's not anointed today well man we're waiting for something to cause us to jump over a pew come on folks get a life leaving for god is not all about an aisle run or a pew jump and i'm not bashing any of that because i thank my god i worship with you i thank my god for that but we are foolish to believe that the answer to all of our problems in our marriages is well my wife just needs to shout well my husband just needs to run an aisle and that would be all that would all suffer no we have to understand today that we can never separate the house from the house of god that there is a practical a real side of having a happy marriage there's a real side to raising your children there's a real there's a practical side that god wants to sow flavor i hope i'm getting through to you today you see this ointment this changing of the atmosphere the bible says in exodus chapter 25 and verse number 6 referencing the house of god and bringing it back to our house that when the tabernacle was built in exodus 25 verse 6 when the tabernacle was built which was the house of god that this is some of the ingredients that was needed oil for the light spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense god so designed that the tabernacle would have a sweet incense inside of it so god began to give god begin to give directions of oil that was needed turn with me to exodus chapter 30 and verse number seven exodus chapter 30 and verse number seven still addressing this incense shall burn thereof sweet incense every morning when he dress up the lamps he shall burn incense upon it and when aaron lighteth the lamps at even he shall burn incense upon it a perpetual incense before the lord throughout your generations ye shall offer no strange incense thereon nor burnt sacrifice nor meat offerings neither shall you pour drink offerings upon it now here's what he says he says i want my house to be a place of a sweet smelling incense i want it to be a pleasant place to be in i want it to be a desirable place to be in then he gave the instructions every morning when aaron would trim the wicks on the lamps and refuel the lamp so that they could burn and every evening when he trimmed the wicks and would refuel the lamp so they could burn through the night aaron was to take the incense and burn incense before the lord now i want you to see this now because the right atmosphere can make way for the right instructions light represents instructions atmosphere represents or incense represents atmosphere do you know that as a father or a mother we have a lot more validity with our children when we set the right atmosphere in our homes when there's the right aroma inside of our homes do you know that our children are more apt to want to give us their ears and their heart when we have filled their homes the church alone can't do it our children have a far better chance of staying in the church if the home is a mirror of the church so aaron would turn on the incense and he would turn on the light then he said god gives a little warning about he shall offer no strange incense thereon god had a correct composition of just the right mixture of this and just the right mixture of that that made the spices and god said don't don't bring anything strange folks don't bring anything strange into your homes god is not a way god is the way the only way that we're going to ever have peace in our homes is when we never allow something strange to be burnt as incense go go on down with me to verse number 32. he says upon man's flesh shall it not be poured neither shall you make any other like it after the composition of it it is holy and it shall be holy it shall be holy unto the lord now god begins to warn god begins to warn can i ask us today what kind of fragrance spiritually speaking is in your home but now let me first start before we start thinking about our house as a house i'm just going to go ahead and tell you bad spirits don't live in houses they live in people i was asked once to come and cast demons out of a house and i refused to i refused to do that i was absolutely refused i was asked one time to come out to someone's home and talk a six-year-old child into coming to church i refused to do that too you refused to go out and talk a six-year-old child and yeah his parents you don't you don't talk a six-year-old child into coming to church right god has already got the order of how to correct that i think too many times god's already got the order of how to correct things but we want to think that all i got to do is do something else not so bad spirits and demons don't live in houses cars or rats they live in people so i'm talking about changing the atmosphere mother of your house i'm not talking about your living room your den i'm talking about you if we can change the atmosphere that's on the inside of us everything else will get better isn't it amazing how we view people different after a good praying through boy isn't that a statement isn't that an old phrase of days gone by pray through a prayer meeting go on down with me to verse number 37 of this same chapter that's giving instruction about the incense and as and as for the perfume verse 37 and as for the perfume which thou shalt make ye shall not make to yourselves according to any composition thereof it shall be unto thee holy for the lord whosoever shall make like unto that to smell thereto shall even be cut off from his people now he says this this is for the lord this is for the lord don't make any for you you you you can have your own cool water you can have your own chanel number five four six or whatever you can have or you can have white shoulders tan show whatever kind of perfume you want to have you have polo cool water you can have all uh aqua velva whatever you want to have old spice but there's a certain composition that's for the lord only it's only his mother and father can i ask you today would you please have a relationship with god would you please have your own personal relationship with god i'm not saying that you get to choose what doctrine you believe i'm not saying you get to choose how you come to god but for god's sake don't just attend this church don't just come to church but have your own personal relationship with jesus christ love him when you're alone worship him when you're all by yourself tell him that you love him and that there is no one else or no object no thing in this world that can ever take the place of jesus i'm glad for my clothes i'm glad for my car i'm glad for my wife i'm glad for all the material things i have but nothing oh no nothing will ever take the place of jesus there can't be any other just like him come on do you have that in your home do you have that in your life well god was pretty straight in verse number 38 he said whosoever shall make liken to that to smell thereto even shall even be cut off from his people god put a straight warning he said i will cut you off i will cut you off when a person's life is out of god's order things get deadly ugly when our lives mother and father is out of god's order things get ugly deadly ugly that's why you need to have your home in order numbers chapter 16 is a very ugly chapter it's not a real pleasant you never i don't know that i have ever preached from number 16 and people get to shouting and running and dancing because in my opinion number 16 is an ugly chapter and it's ugly because things got out of order it was a group of men that got together and they decided that they didn't need moses they didn't need his leadership a group of men got together and they decided that too much was being said about moses and moses was saying too much and so they they came and faced moses down and they said things like we're all holy there's no difference moses between us and you and uh moses being directed of god told them to go get their sensors the sensor is the thing they have you burn the incense in he said go get your sensors and and we'll see who god has chosen and so it was a very tense time kind of like showdown at high noon it was a very tense time moses steps out him and his brother and his sister miriam and a few hundred rebels show up and then god goes ahead and tells moses what he's going to do he says moses i'm going to open up the earth and i'm going to swallow them whole i'm going to open up the earth and i'm going to swallow them whole that you shall see them no more so moses steps out and he lays his very ministry on the line he says i'm about to tell you something and if it does not come to pass i am not a prophet of the lord but as sure as i stand here this day the lord will do a new thing something he's never done before for the earth will open up under the feet of these rebels and god will swallow them whole for just a split second i i uh i can see a couple of them snigger a little bit look at each other only to begin to feel the trembling under their feet and just as moses had said the ground cracked open and the bible says they clawed the sides of the walls the bible said they cried out as they slid down into the earth and then the earth shut its mouth upon them no doubt people went home something unusual happened the next day a new group showed up and they're angry with moses they're angry with him and they have said you have killed god's people and as they said that to moses moses looked over toward the tabernacle and he saw the cloud billowing and he knew that god was about to reign judgment upon them you see even right now even right now nobody's standing you have you notice i haven't had to tell you one time to be seated because being out of order is deadly ugly you don't want to be out of order with god moses said fire of the lord is going to come out of the tabernacle and the fire of the lord came out of the tabernacle and began to kill them moses then sees a plague is falling upon the people and moses tells aaron let's go to verse number 43 number 16. number 16 verse 43 and moses and aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation and the lord spake unto moses saying get you up from among this congregation that i may consume them as in a moment and they fell on their faces they fell upon their faces and moses said unto aaron take a sensor put fire there therein from off the altar and put incense and go quickly into the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the lord and the plague has begun you see this you see what moses did moses loved israel so much that god said go ahead moses get away from these people i can take of you moses and i can make another nation god was god was done with them and moses he doesn't disobey god but he shows that he loves the people he's on his face and he looks over to aaron and he says aaron go get a sensor in your hand get incense and the fire and run out among the people run out among the people aaron run out take your influence among the people take your incense among the people verse 47 and aaron took as moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation and behold the plague the plague was begun among the people and he put incense and made an atonement for the people and he stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stayed can i tell you today that our influence mother can stand between whether your children live for god or whether they die moms and dads today the atmosphere we create in our home can be the determination whether our marriage stays together or we find separate ways to go in life which i don't want to do that but what we need today sometimes i'm for marriage counseling god knows i do that but in reality what'll cure a lot of marriages is not some kind of finding out that you were warped as a three-year-old boy because you didn't get to play with your tonka trunk and somebody took away your barbie doll when you were 12 and we try to trace back why you're acting like you're acting sometimes we just need to get the influence of god in our lives we need to get the sweet sweet presence of god in our lives it'll make a mighty mother out of you it'll make a mighty wife out of you it'll make a mighty husband out of you it'll make a mighty father out of you if we can get the presence of god into our lives moses stood between for aaron excuse me aaron stood between the living and the dead i'm looking at people today that at one time was far from god going down a destructive deathful path but somebody grabbed a sensor and some influence and stood between you and death satan wanted to take you to an early grave and satan was running a route to your house and was being unhindered until somebody reached and got their sensor their influence and stood in between death and the living and said no more no more people were dying left and right they were dying but until and the plague was from god god had allowed god had allowed death to come early and death was taken people but death itself had to stand in attention and let go of the people when when aaron stood out there with that incense in his hand he stood before the dead and the living can i tell you what we need to be as a church this morning mother be a mother of godly influence be a wife of godly influence be a husband of godly influence be a father of godly influence and it can change the whole dynamics would you raise your hands and worship god for a moment come on raise your hands and worship god for a moment turn with me to the book of titus chapter two and verse number one titus chapter two and verse number 1 but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine now can i tell you there's a difference between a doctrine that sounds good and good doctrine there's a lot of doctrines that are being taught that sound good but they're not good doctrine oh if you'll give god a hundred dollars he'll give you a thousand well that sounds good but it's not good doctrine good doctrine is to be faithful with what you've got good doctrine is if you want god's financial blessings upon your family get some good doctrine good doctrine is taught in the good book called tithing offerings here's a good doctrine what is good doctrine that the aged men be sober grave temperate sound in faith in charity in patience the age women likewise that they be in behavior as becometh holiness now look at that broad brush to you people to those that when you start telling them how they need to live and dress where they need to go and not go show it to me in the bible i just did your behavior ought to speak of holiness so ask yourself the question the next time you ask yourself should you do this ask yourself the question is this befitting to holiness that they be in behavior as become of holiness not false accusers not given to much wine and now i'm not giving you the the they're starting to talk about alcohol here okay teachers of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chase keepers at home keepers at home the thermostat in the house keepers at home a thermostat keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of god be not blasphemed can i tell you there isn't any bigger turn off to our children and to our community as those that profess jesus christ but don't live it there's no bigger turn off to our children there's no bigger turn off to our community then we call ourselves a christian and we don't live it in this world paul gives this long list keepers at home i want the i want the precious mothers and wives keepers at home now this is not telling you that if you work a job outside of the home that you're doing wrong that you're doing wrong as a matter of fact last week i studied we studied together the virtuous woman she's buying fields planting vineyards and doing a number of things so it's not telling you that you're wrong because you work outside of the home it's simply telling you that you are the thermostat you are the incense of that home you set the aroma of that home let's look in proverbs chapter 7 and verse number 10. proverbs chapter 7 and verse number 10 says and behold there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart she is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house keepers at home mothers the aroma in your home is your obligation to change that aroma mothers you have great power you can stir your husband up to good deeds or you can stir your husband up to strife you have the influence in your in your life to influence your husband mothers hear me today wives hear me today please please please influence your husband to live for god please please brag on him when he's found pray tell him from time to time how much you appreciate him being a man in a culture where men don't go to church that you appreciate him for being a man and coming to church and it all goes vice versa it comes back but women hear me today hear me today if you ever influence your husband in a disorderly manner i promise you you'll want to reel that back in one day but you may not be able to reel that back in we find two examples of this of women influencing their husbands and i'm going to tell you well brother carpenter do you think a woman should influence her husband do i think she should i think she does i think she does but if it's done the godly way it's a most beautiful thing for two are better than one two it counsels better than one a council they can see it from a different angle here's a story in the second book of kings chapter four verse eight now we'll be mindful of your time second kings chapter four verse number eight and it fell on a day that elisha passed to shoot him where was a great woman and she constrained him the woman did to eat she constrained him to eat bread and so it was that as oft as he passed by he turned in thither to eat bread she said unto her husband behold now i perceive that this is a holy man of god which passeth by us continually let us make a little chamber i pray thee on the wall let us set for him there a bed a table a stool a candlestick and it shall be that when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither can i tell you she influenced her husband she said i i perceive listen our wives if they are in line with god and god's word can have beautiful perception honey i perceive she went in and she told him i perceive this is a man of god and and and we should build a wall on the house we should build a room and table and a chair and a bedroom and we should build all this now she wasn't telling him we're going to do that notice the word is i pray thee in other words let's do this would you consider doing this would you consider this do you know that she influenced him and he said you know he is a man of god hey we do need this man in our lives and they built a room a bed a candlestick a stool a table and they built all this can i tell you things work out beautiful when the influence is in a godly direction you know why they had never been able to have children they had never had the joy of having a child she had never been pregnant they didn't know what it was like to welcome a child into this world but sometime later the man of god was laying on that bed and he got so comfortable and he said tell the woman to come in the room and the woman came in the room and he said you have you you have you have done this all for me and and i want to know should could i speak to the king for you could i do you some kind of favor could i speak to the king all this and the servant said no they're well off financially they've got everything in order but they've never had a child they've never had a child and about that time the man of god said well about nine months from now they will they'll have a baby about nine months from now can i tell you disorder and rebellion brings ugly death to us but beautiful influence of emphasizing godly things in our life can bring life and bring us something we have never had before and a baby was conceived and a baby was born sometime later that child evidently an aneurysm because he was out in the field with his father and he begins to complain my head my head possibly an aneurysm and the father says take the boy back to his mother and the bible says he sat on her knees until noon and he died that woman got up took that dead boy up into the house and guess where she took that little boy had a room that little boy had a pallet on the floor or whatever it was in that day she could have laid him down in her and her husband's bed but she didn't do that guess whose bed she took him to she took him to the room that she had built for the man of god and she laid him upon the bed of the man of god and then she went after the man of god and the man of god came back and resurrected that young boy from the dead church family moms and dads we're going to go through seasons of lives we're going to go through the seasons of blessings we're going to go through the season of barrenness we're going to go through the seasons of the unthinkable that's happening to us but if we keep god's influence in our home if we keep the presence of god in our marriage if we keep god's presence in our marriage together let death come we can wrap our arms around each other and say maybe we can make it through this together let one of our kids get wayward and we can take them before god are you all hearing me this morning are y'all hearing me today boy didn't that turn out right didn't that turn out right man that's a good woman isn't it that's a good woman that one turned out right first kings chapter 21 verse number first kings chapter 21 verse number one someone say praise the lord first kings 21 1 it came to pass after these things that nabath the jezreelite had a vineyard which was in jezreel hard by the palace of ahab king of samaria and ahab spake unto nabath saying give me thy vineyard that i may have it for a garden of herbs because it is near unto my house and i will give thee for it a better vineyard than it or if it seemed good to thee i will give thee the worth of it in money and naba said to ahab the lord forbid it that i should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. now ahab wanted something he is not a good husband he wanted something that wasn't his he wanted nabop's vineyard and see nabap is not going to sell his vineyard or trade his vineyard because it's an inheritance from the lord my this has been in my family it was given to us from joshua from the lord it was given to us and i'm not going i'm not going to sell it i'm not going to trade it i'm not it's not for sale and that's what he told ahab verse 4 and ahab came into his house heavy and displeased y'all seeing that in verse 4 and ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the words of nabath the jezreelite had spoken to him for he said i will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers and he laid him down upon his bed and turned he turned away his face and would eat no bread you big baby we talk about a grown man for heaven's sake get so tore up over something that wasn't his and he couldn't get that the big baby goes home and gets in bed and won't eat now i want you to know naboth's a good father but this ahab's a number one class a idiot big old baby i'm not embellishing this y'all say this right he got in bed with me well let's see if his wife can come in there let's see if his wife can come in there and say you get your hide out of that bed act like up you acting like a little boy that didn't get picked to be on the ball team on the playground you get out of that well don't you know the word of the lord gave them that land and it wasn't you you're wrong ahab sweet jesus be with me if i say this most women would tell their husbands they're wrong if the husbands wouldn't blow up in anger they think it but they don't say it because they know where that's going to go brothers you better listen to the godly influence of a woman and woman you better listen to the godly influence of your husband you may be seated verse 5 but jezebel his wife came to him and said unto him why is thy spirit so sad that thou eat us no bread and he said unto her because i spake unto naboth the jezreelite and said unto him give me thy vineyard for money or else if it please thee i will give thee another vineyard for it and he answered me i will not give thee my vineyard but jezebel's not a good wife jezebel his wife said unto him doth thou now govern the kingdom of israel aren't you in power arise and eat bread and let thine heart be merry i will give thee the vineyard if they bought the jezreel light and she sure did oh conniving jezebel lied and connived set up false witnesses that said naboth that blasphemed jehovah and they stoned naboth to death and they came and they told him naboth is dead you know bellerin baby needed to grow up and needed a lot of spankings when he was a kid ahab went down and got in nabop's vineyard but the word of the lord came to the man of god and the man of god came down and prophesied over him and said because you've done this your life's going to end in a bloody mess because you've done this the dogs the dogs are going to eat the flesh of your wife the dogs are going to eat your flesh and just like the word of the lord said they threw jezebel years later from an upper chamber the horses ran over her and the dogs the captains that threw her out of the upper chamber saw that she hit the ground and that she died and they went inside to eat lunch and when they went inside to eat lunch the dogs had come and the dogs had had had devoured jezebel and all that was left was her feet and the palms of her hands that was all that was left can i tell you something compare that to the shooter my woman and i i think i could convince all of you you want to be like the shooter my woman don't you you want to be the husband that can be influenced by a godly wife you want to be the wife that can be influenced by a godly husband i want to end up having life i want to end up having that room i don't want to end up like ahab and jezebel ends up oh i may not get this done i won't stand i won't get it done stand stand stand can i tell you that the upper room was a family the upper room was a family gathering when they gathered in the upper room that was family there sure was was cousins there it was mary the mother of jesus acts 1 13-14 now when they were come in they went up into an upper room where abodebo peter james john andrew philip thomas bartholomew matthew james the son of alphaeus simon zealots judas the brother of james these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and mary the mother of jesus and with his brother can i tell you that upper room was a family situation there was cousins there they were they were brothers there were blood brothers that were there oh how god wants to get into our families acts 2. i know you can quote this follow along with me acts 2 and 1 and when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting we started off this bible lesson this morning with a woman breaking an ointment and what did the ointment do the ointment filled all the house can i tell you what we need in our families today god give us another pentecost god give us another upper room god god filled this place look lord the bible said the place was fulfilled and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire and it set upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance from the living room from the from the upper room to the living room it was family sister tharp it was family there on the day of pentecost it was cousins and brothers mary the mother of jesus there was family there on the day of pentecost not only that later on and why you even say this why why do you even add this in acts chapter 21 verse number eight it speaks about a man named philip we entered into the house of philip the evangelist which was one of the seven and abode with him why even say verse nine why do you even need to record verse nine the same man had four daughters virgins which did prophesy in other words philip had a house that had the right atmosphere in it he had a house he didn't just have a church that had the right atmosphere he had an address that had the right atmosphere in it and because he had the right address he had four daughters he he was the father of four daughters and all four of them were virgins they were clean and all four of them prophesied can i tell you today i don't want to only have a church where i can feel the presence of god and the sweet atmosphere of love is here i want my home to have that same atmosphere come on give him praise this morning come on give him praise come on i'd like to hear some male voices lifting up is this the kind of home you want come on i'd like to hear male voices right now whoa hallelujah come on i'd like to hear some women and female voices rise right now i want this in my home oh god how different things could be if when that husband thing's not going right on the job they're cutting they're cutting jobs i got demoted my job may be on the line as he's there at the kitchen table doing this right here if he couldn't feel the wonderful touch of his wife's hands on his back jesus jesus touched my husband right now jesus we've been walking with you god jesus we know even if he loses this job jesus we know that our lives are not in that factory's hands but our lives are in your hands god or that wife that's him she's got some emotional issues going on she feels like a failure as a mother and a failure as a wife and failure because a mother listen to this a mother is attached to the children even beyond what a father is it's the truth it's something when god made that woman to carry that baby inside of her there's something that that that my wife has for our children that i i don't have and that's just the way god made us i don't i'm not saying i don't love them but mama hey something about your prayers it's about your prayers but how different it could be when the husband comes home from work he looks at his wife and he says babe you've had a rough day haven't you and instead of saying i'm gonna get brother carpenter to pray for you you just walk over right there in your kitchen and lay your hands on your wife and say jesus would you please touch my wife today god would you please touch my wife today that child has been a little quiet hasn't he i don't know pastor there's something going on with my child there's something going on with my daughter she sits in a room a lot he doesn't want to go do anything he sits around the house a lot man strong tower can't get here fast enough don't wait for struck tower you see we get intimidated to exercise spiritual authority because if we don't watch it the apostolic church will take on mannerisms of the catholic church so we'll believe it's only the priest that can get a prayer through and we've got to go to the priest for everything but that's not the way it is with the apostolic church he said these signs shall follow them that believe not the preacher these sons shall follow them that believe they shall lay their hands upon the sick your daughter may not make it to strong tower she's battling demons and things right now she needs you to go into the room and begin to pray i wonder how many couples i could get to join me and first lady how many couples i could get to join me and first lady that you'd come down and we would pray for one another's another today because we got to have the upper room go to the living room i wonder how many couples would join us father i pray for my help mate right now god anointing lord to lead our home to lead me o god i ask you lord to enter gurney with wisdom and with your power lord with your strength o god given guidance lord in the pathway for us so god in the name of jesus strengthening body soul and spirit oh god in the name of jesus help me lord to be the proper help me to him give me wisdom oh god give me a heart that fears you lord oh god in the name of jesus touch my eyes that i might see are you feel me full of your spirit god and i'll walk in your spirit but not in my flesh god there's no good thing in my flesh oh god feel me fall oh god i'm running over to that shield with oh god in the name of jesus oh god let your spirit blow god from you to my husband to me god to our children they're my children and their spouses to my grandchildren oh god for we know that outreach starts in the home and the in reach of god to our families us lord with your spirit god made him flavor our heart our flavor oh yes isn't the word god they lived in their home oh oh father i pray for my help mate right now god i pray for my wife right now god lord i pray for her to be healthy god i pray that she will be healthy god body soul and spirit oh god i pray right now this morning lord that you would move upon my helpmate god oh god give her the wisdom give her the knowledge lord lord help her god to keep our home oh hell for god to keep our home oh god helper to keep our home god oh god helper to keep our home lord help us god lord help us god help us god help us god oh god health or help for god to keep the home god lord if she has an infirmity in her body god heal her today come on me and pray for your help mate right now come on pray for your help mate right now oh mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god oh god from the upper room to the living room right now oh god oh let's forgive one another let there be a spirit of forgiveness between husband and wife oh let there be a forgiveness let there be a spirit of forgiveness oh god let there be a spirit of forgiveness god oh god let there be a spirit of forgiveness god lord let us let a wife forgive her husband today god help that woman god to forgive that man god help her god to release him today oh help her today to see him every husband and wife oh god to see him in the robe oh god to see him in the role that he needs to be lord in the name of jesus today as for me and my house as for me and my house as for me and my house we're gonna be free as for me and my house as for me and my house as for me and my house we're gonna be free as for me freedom for my daughters i declare freedom for my sons i declare freedom for my daughters i declare freedom for my sons yes i declare every chain broken thank god would you bring the singers that please i sing it yes this is oh now now i'm asking this for a reason because it would be just the enemy's good pleasure to have us to end on a real solemn slumber laid-back bahama breeze day we're fighting hell in some of our homes we're fighting hell in some of our marriages and it's not going to be a little mamsy pamsy weak little declaration i've got to declare freedom for my family i've got to declare freedom for my home so i want you to sing it again i don't know if we need to turn the pa up or what but we need to lift up our voices today and let heaven know and let hell know that we're gonna fight for our family that's what i'm talking about no matter what i feel or what i see i declare freedom for my home i declare freedom for my daughters i declare freedom for my sons i declare what your word has spoken no matter what i feel or what i see oh yes come on one more time and we're gonna go home i want us to declare it one more time in song but the weather will lead us one more time in bold proclamation i declare freedom for my family i declare freedom for my home i declare freedom for my son i declare freedom for my daughter i declare yes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes if you receive this word today if you receive it i want you to shout yes oh yes oh yes now let me make you aware of one thing it is not in revival high times that our families are altered it's not it's not the spark might be there but your families are altered when a woman sets keeps the house what does it look like i'll tell you what it looks like brother sister erickson are in carlsbad new mexico we're keeping the granddaughters at our house i was gone friday night preaching i get in saturday about noon and winds are in london are there and they're typical kids okay they're typical kids so i don't really know what's going on when i come in about noon but them kids are ramp ready rare and bucking to get out of the house but nana has told them you ain't leaving till we pray i didn't know that papa we're going bye-bye sweeties only to have sister carpenter a few minutes later come in come in the living room where they at they're gone look out the front door see if you can see them i said why what's wrong they haven't prayed yet no our family devotions don't look anything like a revival service more like a tug of war our family devotions revival services went two hours we try to make them go at least two minutes especially with the little ones all right because you'd be reading scripture to them they're climbing over the back of the couch smacking one another we have to break more fights up but if you want to ask me what's been the secret to my children's success it's not been the high times at strong tower when they lay on the floor and talked in tons it's been those short prayers that were prayed before school god keep your hand upon him today god let your hand be upon him today god help him god just be with him today lord jesus honey make sure that you read those kids one scripture and sometimes maybe this is the week to be transparent sometimes that one scripture verse got read because y'all know how the carpenters roll we're like the lord we may not come when you want us but we'll be right on time all right there's been one there's been more one scriptures read from that house over there to drop off the school right here hear this all you people give here all your inhabitants of the world okay that's one verse you do remember that today all right but what are we doing we're setting an atmosphere we're setting an atmosphere god bless you tonight at 5 30 the prayer room is going to be open we're going to have a great evangelistic service shake hands be friendly please greet our guests that are here today jesus name amen love you babe