Winterizing The Family | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

if you have your Bibles would you turn to the Book of Matthew Chapter 13 we'll begin reading at verse number 24 Matthew chap 13 and verse number 24 oh how I love him oh how I adore him today the Lover of My Soul Matthew 13 and 24 another Parable put he forth unto them saying the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man which sowed good seed in his field but while men slept his enemy came and sowed tears among the wheat and went his way but when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit then appeared the tears also so the Servants of the householder came and said unto him sir did not thou sow good seed in thy field from whence then hath it tears he said unto them an enemy hath done this an enemy hath done this turn with me two more passage of scripture found in 1 Peter 5 and 8 1 Peter chapter 5 and verse number eight when you found it say Amen be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist steadfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world I think this title is very appropriate for the first day of December in the atmosphere outside but I want to preach on this simple subject winterising your family Winter Rising your family please help me pray today we have um a few requests that I want to make known we had such a tragedy happen at our national youth convention Pastor Reinhardt in Ohio his 18-year-old daughter was making her way from Ohio to Nashville and was killed in a car accident and uh let's lift up the Reinhardt family this morning in prayer don't know what to say to them but I know who to pray to also on Thanksgiving night our dear Apostolic Church in Buford Georgia pastored by Jordan copelan you may have seen it in the news you probably saw it on Facebook but their Church on Thanksgiving night was a total loss of a fire and uh that they have a Christian School they have an operation similar to what we have here their building completely destroyed in a fire could we lift up the Apostolic Church in Buford Georgia today and Pastor copelan his church family also brother Shannon Wilson's father brother Mike Wilson has received some very Bleak Health news that affects that affects him in the ministry and and let's lift up brother Mike Wilson in prayer today let's just let's have a moment of prayer father the name of the Lord Jesus we come before you today God wrap and continue to wrap the reinh hearts in your arms and your hands God when we we words fail us God to give Rhyme or Reason for why this happened God we know that all things Lord can work together Lord we need your presence in the lives of the reinh hearts Lord we pray over the apostol Church in Buford Georgia God we ask that you would continue to lead that church Lord a physical building may have burnt down but God not your people not your Ecclesia God lead Pastor Jordan God lead Pastor Copeland in the days to come father I pray for the help of brother Mike Wilson this morning in the name of Jesus Lord we need him preaching we need him playing the piano God we need him singing and songwriting Lord I ask for there to be healing today I ask for there to be healing God every need in this church God let there be healing everybody said in Jesus name you give him a thunderous hand clap of Praise as an affirmation that you believe that God has heard our prayers Winter Rising Winter Rising families these two passages of scripture that I've used in my text today both of these passages have the working of the enemy the first passage was where a man SED good seed in his field he did everything possible to have a good crop he had the right soil he had the right seed he did everything possible but one simple thing happened the scripture said that while he slept while he slept while while he was asleep I don't think it's a coincidence that when the church is described in the last days that we're living it's described as watch out for a slumbering spirit watch out for sleep don't go to sleep I'm talking about spiritually Now you listen you don't want to go to sleep now we're closer to the coming of the Lord than we have ever been in the history of the church we're closer to his coming right now and he said while men slept an enemy sold tears in the field and enemy done this while we slept while the seed was young in the ground while the seed was infant young in the ground while we slept the enemy SED tear then Peter tells you and I to be sober to be sober to be vigilant these two words here means to understand what's going on around you to be sober it's a it's not we we think of sober the the the opposite word of that we think of of being drunk he's not necessarily talking about the opposite of being drunk he's talking about looking at things in life through spiritual eyes looking beyond the surface of things and looking underneath to see if the enemy is underneath be sober be v v Vigilant because your adversary and here the adversary is not coming while you're asleep the adversary is not coming in a silent way he's not coming in the dead of night the adversary is not coming while you're slumbering and sleeping he said but now that your adversary as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he made it devour I did a little research on why lions Roar and I found out through uh the commentary Google that male lions Roar to show their power they Roar leading other males to do the same they Roar to defend in their territory to scare off Intruders they Roar and I I want to say one thing I'll address him one time today and that is Satan we are not afraid of your Roar our children belong to God and they don't belong to you we're not afraid of the Roar y'all y'all to really y'all to really get bold with me today we are not afraid of the roar like it or not we are in a battle for our Soul's sake and for our fames Souls as well we are in a battle now the adversary would like to catch you asleep doesn't matter if you're sewing good seed or not does it matter matter if you got a good field or not he doesn't even care if you come to church as long as you go to sleep spiritually doesn't care how many times you come to church the man SED good seed in his field he had good seed he heard good word he had a good place it was his field but he made the tragic mistake of being asleep and the enemy took the opportunity of sleep and the enemy begin to sew tears among the wheat does it matter we are are in a battle for our souls and for The Souls of our family members we must be awakened that we can have we must be awakened that we have an enemy we have to understand we we have an enemy you you have one of the one of the biggest things he wants you to to believe today is that you don't have an enemy you and I both have an enemy we have an enemy we have an adversary let me tell you a little bit about him he is ruthless without compassion you'll never get any compassion from the devil he is ruthless without compassion he cares or regards not about your age or the condition of fairness he doesn't play fair and he doesn't care about the age young or old this adversary if allowed will enter the mind of a teenager and so torment that teenager in their mind to believe that they are hated ugly mistreated and the list goes on and on he will bombard young people and He will spew his lies into their ears you're ugly you're hated you're mistreated on and on and on and then when he gets them to believe his lies he whispers so gently in their ear end it all end it all end your life get out of the torment that life has given to you likewise he's no respector of age likewise with the elderly and with all the challenges of Growing Old health issues etc etc he'll even go to the elderly and he wants you to focus your mind on an empty grave and he certainly doesn't want you praising God for an empty tomb I'm going to tell you the greatest inspiration an elderly person could hear about today it's not an empty grave that you're going to one day feel but an empty tomb that tells us that there is life beyond the grave and because he lives somebody help me now because he lives enemy would like to continually tell the elderly to focus on your body focus on your body your old body and he doesn't want you to focus on a new body a new body focus on your natural loss of hearing and not on your spiritual trumpet sound I'm G to tell you enemy can talk a lot that he wants to to you but there's going to be a trumpet sound and you may have to have hear nades in both of your ears but that's not the ear that's going to hear there's going to be an inner ear he that hath an ear let him hear and I don't care the elderly today I want to preach to you a message of Hope because the enemy will try to tell you you're useless you're no good you're taking up space you just abide in your days until you die the devil is a liar today there is an empty tomb there is a new body and there's going to be a resurrection thing about the enemy is you don't need to go looking for him cuz he's already found you some may say well I'm not going to pick a fight with the Devil I got news for you Einstein the fight's already on and he just loves that he can shove you as far as he wants to shove you and you not swing one punch back at him I like the old song I used to sing it years ago me and the devil little course my resurrected sister Ericson me and the devil had a tussle and I won me and the devil had a tussle and I won I gave him a lip and I gave him a right and I won the fight in Jesus name me and the devil had a tussle and I won can I tell you today the fight's already on so well I I I I don't know that I'm in a fight you're in a fight today you just don't realize you're in a fight today and you will be pushed as far as he can push you and he loves to get in the ring with a fighter that puts his hands down by his side for the Bible says that the child of God is a fighter is a soldier and Paul said I have fought a good fight I have kept the faith and I have finished my course I'm telling you today the devil needs to understand if you're going to hit me you're going to get hit back if you're going to shove me I'm going to shove you back if you're going to push me down I'm going to get back up because ultimately I am going to win I am going to win this battle you don't have to look for the fight the fight's already on the fact is he has stalked your life from the time you were conceived as a matter of fact Satan has devised plans to convince the parent of The Unborn that if you find yourself with child you can and it is your right does this sound familiar maybe you don't hear as much of it right now as we did a few months ago it is your right it is your body it is your choice it is your listen to this cue reproductive Health rights now don't be deceived that doesn't mean you're going to take vitamins so the baby is born healthy when they mention reproductive Health rights they're talking about you have the right to end a life that is alive inside of the mother's womb it is not a life when it is born it is a life when it is conceived and no man nor woman has any right to end aive my God hell trembles at the Cry of each new life that enters into this world right why does Hell tremble at the Cry of each new life that enters this world because of the possibility four of them stood on this platform today called children because of the possibility of a New Soul that can and should give praise and glory to God Satan wants to end the life before it's born because with each child that is born is a possibility of a soldier in God's Army a possibility of a worshiper and a praiser and a worker against the kingdom I'm going to tell you tell you today if the devil had his way the four babies that we dedicated this morning would have never seen the light of day but thank God for morals thank God for Bible standards thank God for parents I laid hands upon a young man this weekend in my seat and NYC I laid hands up a young man and I prayed for him God gave me a word for him about his future I laid hands on this young man I begin to pray over him begin to prophesy over him and then I recognized the young man Brother Don Johnson songwriter singer preacher wrote the song I I can't complain I thought it was wonderful his son came along and wrote another song entitled I still can't complain but his great grandson now brother and sister Johnson brother Johnson was a superintendent for the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ the T the position I hold right now he was the longest running superintendent I believe he almost served for 20 years Brother Don Johnson tremendous man of God we experienced great growth under his leadership but brother and sister Johnson are both in the grave today but I couldn't help as his great grandson walked by tears streaming down his face that's what the devil's afraid of the adversary doesn't want this to start running in your family he doesn't want fathers and mothers raising their children and when the children are raised their children raise their children and their children raise their children until it just simply becomes a family unit the greatest thing you ought to have as a legacy today you ought to want an Apostolic Jesus name Pentecostal Legacy in your family and and listen you can look and don't don't don't let the enemy whisper in your ear today oh you you've lost out you're the first generation you you don't have three and four generations the devil is a liar today why don't you be the first one to say it started in my family it started years from now if Jesus terries is coming if Jesus terries is coming and you're somewhere in a cemetery in this town somebody's going to say my great grandpappy got baptized in Jesus name and my great grandmother got the Holy Ghost and that's how we're here today well if you love the truth this morning why don't you praise him for the truth right now the Devil trembles with the birth of each child as a matter of fact I do believe that the devil I do believe because the devil has quoted word the devil has quoted the word brother thp we know when Jesus was tempted Satan quoted the word now he he he twisted it but he he quoted some word I believe that that the devil understands today when tremendous spiritual events are about to take place I believe the adversary knows when there are spiritual events on God's prophecy timeline that are to take place go ahead and send the children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob down to Egypt go ahead and put them in the land of Egypt Satan stretches his head and says there's a promise on Abraham there's a promise on Isaac there's a promise on Jacob what is it what is it it's a promise of a land it's a promise of a piece of property and that place in Egypt is not that land so Satan knows someday somehow someway the descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob are coming out of Egypt could this be now we know God would not have put it in Pharaoh's heart to drown baby Hebrew boys in the Nile River we know God wouldn't have put it in in in in Pharaoh's heart who put it in Pharaoh's heart to drown the Hebrew boys in the Nile River you know who did Satan did why is that because Satan realizes that in order for a promise to be fulfilled there has to be somebody that knows the promise and leads in the promise is it any strange thing that Moses the mighty deliverer for Israel was born in a culture that was killing children at Birth by drowning them in the Nile River is it any Wonder no it's not because Satan is behind it all because he knows these people are coming out these people are coming out why don't we start killing the baby male Hebrew boys and that way that will cut down on the Hebrew population and there'll be no people to fulfill God's promise but Satan I got news for you if God made a promise God's going to keep a promise God is not a politician he doesn't need the Congress he doesn't need the Senate when God gets ready to make a promise it's signed sealed and delivered when God made a promise but thank God for Godly Parents that built a small floating vessel and said we we are placing our baby boy in this basket and we have the life of Moses is it any wonder is it any wonder that the culture that Jesus was born in was a culture that had no regards for The Unborn or for infants for when Herod heard that the king of the Jews had been born he had put to death all of the baby boys from two years and down had them put had them put to death so we see these two things Moses and Jesus both cultures both cultures think very little of taking the life of an infant but that's by that's past prophecy now we're waiting for the coming of the Lord Matthew chap 24 verse number 35 Jesus said Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my word shall not somebody say it with me but my word shall not pass away but of that day and hour knoweth no man know not the angels of heaven but my father only but as the days of Noah were so shall also the coming of the son of man be for as in the day that were before the flood they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the S son of man be now look here we know what the lost and the unsaved were doing we know what the lost and the unsaved were doing just prior to the flood of which Jesus told us I won't tell you the day nor the hour but I'll tell you the season I'm not going to tell you the day nor the hour nor the year but I'll tell you the season it was like it was before the flood they were eating they were drinking they were marrying they were given in marriage in other words they were just living life they were just living life with no regards to God that's what they were doing before the flood but I've come to ask you a question today if we know what the unsaved and lost were doing before the flood then what was was the saved doing before the flood what were they doing before the flood Genesis 614 God said make thee an ark of gopherwood room shalt thou make in the ark and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch now Hebrews 11 and 7 by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by which he condemned the world and became the air became the the air of righteousness which is by God I know what the unsaved are doing they're drinking they're eating they're marrying they're giving in marriage they have a they have no regard for morals they're living a corrupt lifestyle but what was the save doing they were building a vessel that would save their family they were building as the directions of God has to set say if we believe that the eating and drinking and marrying has to do with the unsaved then we have to believe that Jesus said Upon This Rock I will build my church and the Gates of Hell will not Prevail against it in Noah's day you've got the majority that are eating and drinking and a lack of regards for morals but you have the minority and don't you ever get deceived by looking at saying we are the minority you you know I I can find it hard to believe that we're the minority are you talking about everybody else is lost everybody else is going to drown can't you just hear it Noah everybody else is going to drown everybody else is going to be this can I tell you Noah and his family were the minority but after the flood came they walked out the majority and we may the church may very well be the minority but you get your mind off the minority and getting on what you need to be doing in this rock I will build my church I'm glad to be building a church this morning I'm glad to be in the Church of the Living God today I'm glad to be worshiping God I'm glad to be magnifying God today I'm glad to be receiving his word this morning Bible said Bible said they pitched that Arc within verse six verse chapter chapter 6 of Genesis and verse 14 they pitched that Arc they pitched it within and without this is a waterproofing substance that God said I want you to put it on the outside and I want you to put it on the inside I want water proofing on the outside that nothing from without can get in and I want waterproofing on the inside as a double layer I want a double layer of this water proofing I want it to be double layered can I tell you today it's a day for a double portion it's a day to get double it's a day to get more this is not a day child of God I'm preaching to you today this is not a day to do less this is a day to do more this is not a day to slack up shut up sit down this is a day to stand up speak up and be working for God this is not a day to do less this is a day we we got to we we the Lord's coming he said I want it on the inside side and I want it on the eye I want to I want you to waterproof I want you to waterproof I'm talking about winter rise in our families today talking about winter rise in our families today if you've ever you've ever driven through Kentucky and looked at the beautiful horse farms with the beautiful fences that around them multimillion dollar horses are there I looked one day and caught my eye that many of these fences are double fences you'll have a fence and then a few feet later you'll have another a few feet after that you'll have another fence and so once again I went to the commentary brother Google and I just simply Googled you can do it too don't do it right now on my time do it on your own time but anyway that's that's just beside the point but uh it it it just simply comes up of why there's double fences and uh it it it it it comes up and it says it says this for double protection in case one fence fails there's another fence there and then it says that some of these fences are to keep certain horses apart that they cannot mingle together and reproduce oh friend I'm glad to be in the world but I'm glad to have a double fence around us because we are in the world but we are not of the world and I'm glad brother Mayo to have two fences that I'm walking in today there's two fences that I'm walking in one's called mercy and the others called Grace and if Grace gets penetrated Mercy's there and if Mercy gets penetrated Grace is there and I'm glad to be living in the grace of the devil and I I I I I'm oh they preserve their family on this rock I will build my church see what the church what's the church got to do with my family well act Acts Acts chapter 2 and verse number 38 then Peter said this is the birth of the church acts 238 is the birth of the church then Peter said unto them repent be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise why don't we read it all together come on let's read it all together for the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off even as many as the Lord Our God shall call can I tell you today that I want the Holy Ghost to be in my family because the Holy Ghost baptism did for me what nothing else could ever do and the Holy Ghost baptism will do for you what nothing else will ever do and if it's good for you it's good for your children it's what they need they need the Holy Ghost I want my children to be prosperous I want my children to have happy marriages I want I want my children to be prosperous young people I want my grandchildren to be that way but I understand one thing I cannot Elevate education I cannot Elevate uh Prosperity above one precious gift and that is the baptism of the Holy Ghost pray for your children to get the Holy Ghost make sure your children get the Holy Ghost talk about the Holy Ghost talk about how good the Holy Ghost is when they're behav is not right tell them about the good holy ghost that they need oh I don't believe you're listening to me today I must have made a wrong turn ended up in a cold denominal church this morning because I'm preaching something that is so powerful to your family the number one issue today in America is family trouble the baptism of the Holy Ghost is what every family needs my son my son and my two daughters never smoked a cigarette never were addicted to nicotine like their father was two pack a day 16 years old my son and my two daughters never have tasted a drop of alcohol liquor never been drunk like their father was but can I tell you when I got the whole Holy Ghost you see I'm 64 I should have been the plans of the adversary was to put me in an early grave like he did my father through unfiltered cigarettes at the age of 46 my father died of lung cancer due to smoking at the age of 46 and I have no doubt that Satan at the age of 16 seeing me with t Pac a day said we'll take him down the same path of his father but at the age of 16 somebody told me about the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost I laid in an altar and I talked in other tongues as God filled me with the baptism of the Holy Ghost I got up from that Altar and within a few months I was Victorious over two pack of cigarettes a day I never went back to marijuana I never went back to sniff and pain I never went back to drinking beer why because God gave me something better than anything could ever be the Holy Ghost is much better than that and my children didn't have to smoke you see I don't believe today I've heard people foolishly say well I believe our young folks need to go out and Dabble in the world so they appreciate God that's about as ignorant as a string door and a submarine they don't need to taste the world to see how good God is they need to taste God and see how good God is and when they taste God and see how good God is why would they want to go that way to the World when they got everything oh would you offer up a praise if you're glad to have the Holy Ghost would you offer up a praise musicians would you please come parents hear me today hear me and watch if you're not opening your Bible today if you don't have your Bible where you can go to Deuteronomy 6:4 if you don't have your Bible glue your eyes on the screen right now Deuteronomy 64 boy we shout to this right here we shout to this here o Israel the Lord our God is one Lord don't we Shout to it and thou I'm going ask you a question I'm going to answer it who is the thou there parents if you're a parent listen to me today if you're a parent listen up today and thou parent shall teach them what's the them there now wait minut let me go back here are Israel here oh Israel the Lord our God is one Lord verse five and thou parent shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soul and with all thy might these words which I command thee parent this day shall be in thine heart here's what we got to work on how can I get kids to love God with all their heart if I don't love him with all my heart you're a fool Daddy to believe that you can be happy in this thing and pray over wanting to have wholehearted kids you love him with all your heart with all your soul with all thy might verse six and these words what are these words scripture which I command thee who is of thee parent this day shall be in thine heart and thou verse seven parent thou parent shall teach them scripture diligently unto thy children and shall talk of them what's them scripture when thou sest in thine house and when thou west by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up and thou shalt B this is where we we we've got off right here and thou parent shall bind them word for a sign upon thine hand parent and shall be his front lips between thine eyes and thou parents shall write them scripture upon the post of thine house and on thy Gates can I tell you parents today and I'm a parent and I'm I'm a grandparent that I'm not looking for the Youth to lead this it's not God's plan for the Youth to lead this it's not God's plan for our children to come home more stirred up about God and His word than we are it's quiet today we've often preached and said oh we got to bind scriptures on the hands of our kids and we got to bind scriptures around their head ain't talking about that it's talking about us having scripture sir but not only at church but at home mom and dad hear me today Mom and Dad hear me today don't sleep during the formable years of your children I watched yesterday we were at Kelsey Kelsey Do's 40th birthday party she going to love me for tell telling that but I stood with Amusement as I watched it was several young parents mothers there and fathers and I was very entertained watching the fathers following the little ones around and making sure that they didn't jump out of a window or something you know welcome and I noticed the mothers you could have a greeting with them Happy Thanksgiving now did you get back from Nashville yeah we got back do you have a good yeah when you start talking to them and you mentioned their children Courtney and Austin we were leaving yesterday and stepped out in the cold both of us all of us had get into our cars on our mind until I mentioned to Courtney her children and when I mention the child and we're trying to hurry up and get to our cars because it's cold but when I mentioned that she stopped She got her phone out oh here's the here there there m Papa's right now look at him laying on the floor look at him doing this it was a totally different didn't matter it was cold I started talking about her family I started talking about her children today we we all love our children there's no doubt I don't have to preach a love for our children we all love our children today but I think one area we need to work on please don't sleep during their formable years CA you don't get them back you see the enemy will come while they're young the enemy will come while they're or infant seeds in the ground and the enemy will come while they're one and two and he'll try to plant seed be beside them you'll never get it back the tears go all all the way to judgment but I say to us today it's a great day to have a two-year-old on your lap and be giving God praise and be giv God honor it it's a great thing for your little children to come in and their ears to be acclimated to shouting and praising and dancing and running it's a wonderful thing for our children would you stand with me today you don't get it back you don't get it back I want to close with this today second Timothy 3:12 second Timothy 312 yay and all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but continue thou in the things which thou Hast learned and Hast been assured of knowing of whom thou Hast learned them look at verse 15 and that from a child the Greek word there is breath and it means infant it means an infant and that from an infant thou Hast made known thou Hast known the Holy Scripture which are able to make thee wise un salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for reprove for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works can I tell you how do we get from a child to a man that is perfectly furnished how do we get from a child to a man that's got everything he needs to battle life how do we get from a child to a man that has a Bible that addresses everything that hell can cough out how do we get from a child to a man thou Hast known well the Holy Scripture it's important to take them to Sunday school it's important well I'm going to keep them in here on my lap today I get it I understand I get that I understand but do you know in a Sunday school room this morning what a story told on their level they need to understand Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so they need to get a crayon and they need to write something about scripture they need all of this as a child because the day is coming that they're going to be a teenager and peer pressure is going to be great and they're going to need something to combat it but if there's no word there there's no defense there but if I can get them when they're a baby and I can get them in the school and I can get them in the youth group when all this comes if I can get them young married and things start coming their way they can begin to stand on the word and say I'm totally furnished I got everything I need Mom and Dad Mom and Dad you've given me everything that I need one last thing Jesus looked at a group of people in the Old Testament I feel the Lord right now I I feel the Lord right now would just pray with me for a moment I I feel him so strong right now don't sleep mom come on come on Mom don't sleep right now your your your your prodical children is hinging upon if you'll wake up you can pray a prayer and get them back in don't don't sleep right now in the name of the Lord come on pray loud enough you can hear yourself pray I I I I want you to pray make make sure every every Pew ought to have somebody praying on it every Pew ought to have somebody praying on it right now oh God In The Name of Jesus in the name of Jesus God help us oh God help us today God God I want to winterise our children right now God I want to winterise God it's getting cold in this world God it's getting cold in this world God he looked at a group of people in the Old Testament he said I brought you out of Egypt I brought you out of Egypt I brought you through the floods I brought you through the Red Sea I I fed you with Mana uh your your shoes for 40 years never wore out your clothes never wore out there wasn't a sickly one among you I took so great care of you but then he said you begin to sacrifice the Devils you begin to go the way of the heathens and then he simply gives the explanation what would cause somebody so gloriously delivered what would give somebody who was the recipient of the wonderful blessings of God what would cause somebody what would cause somebody to turn around and go sacrifice to a devil one thing and God said it he said you are children who have no faith you are children that have no faith and we understand today that Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God I'd like to invite every parent that has a child under the age of 10 I'd like to invite you first to this altar right now I'd like to invite you first you have a child under the age of 10 I'd like to invite you to come and stand just as close to this altar as you can right now God I'm going to winterise my family God I'm going to winterise my family right now God I know it's a sacrifice to get them ready for Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night God I know it's a sacrifice God but Lord you'll reward me Lord if I can if I can put Pitch within and without God they're going to hear you're going to hear move up as close as you can to the altar would you please children you have children the age of 10 and under you have children the age of 19 till 11 from 11 to 19 years of age if you got children make your way down right now God I want to win I want to RN winterize my family right now oh God I want my family to be saved right now God God I want my family to be saved today God God I don't want to be asleep Lord the enemy the enemy God is putting things in my children God the enemy would like to put a stubborn spirit in my child God the enemy would like to put a lying spirit in their tongue oh the enemy would like to put a rebel your spirit in them right now I will not allow the enemy to sew tear in my field I am wide awake to what you're doing enemy I'm wide awake I'm wide awake when everybody else Gather in if you're in the altar area and there's some space between you and somebody else push in a little bit push in just a little bit right now father I rededicate my life oh God I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord God help me to be a good parent come on Father pray it right now help me to be a good parent God help me to be a good parent help me to be a good parent oh God help me to be a good parent right now God my children are grown but I'm still their father I'm still their father I'm still God help me to be a good parent God help me to be a good father to Nolan help me to be a good father to Fallon and Lauren come on fathers pray right now oh pray right now God will see us praying right now God will see us praying right now God help me to keep my children Lord help me to keep them in the house of God Lord help me to keep them where the church the things of God surround them help me to keep myself God in this place oh God In The Name of Jesus Lord oh in the name of Jesus god sister Carpenter I want you to get a microphone and join me on the platform oh I pray over our fathers right now oh I pray over our fathers right now God God I pray over Andrew and Dakota oh God I pray over Andrew and Dakota oh God I pray over Nolan oh God I pray over ASA right now God I pray over these Young Fathers right now God oh I pray over our fathers right now hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on don't go asleep Daddy come on Father don't go asleep there's an enemy that's waiting to se seed come on first lady first lady God hear me fathers Jes hear me fathers hear me fathers in the name of Jes hear me father of young children don't go to sleep right now don't go to sleep right now your prayer your prayer is going to shake yourself up right now the enemy wants to as young as 2 years old 3 years old four years old the enemy wants to show seed in their lives the enemy wants to have them rebellious the enemy wants them to start not telling the truth the enemy wants them to be stingy you got to be awake dad you got to be awake dad in the name of Jesus come on first lady pray over the mothers right now mothers lift up your voice now pray out loud do we hear ourselves pray God I ask you this morning to touch every mother that is in this room as we spend more awake hours with our children we are the ones that guide the home and train the children Lord I ask you that every mother in this room that we would get your word in our hearts that our loves would be an example the way that we speak the way walk that we would apply your blood and your word to the doorpost May our children live in a home that your word is lifted up God help us to teach your word to our children God help us to read the word of God on a daily basis that we would establish habits in the lives of our children God that we would have your word in our heart that we might not sit against you and then that we would put the word your word in the hearts of our children that we would put the fear of God and respect for God in his ways in his house Lord help us to be faithful to his house to your house oh God help us to prioritize on Saturday night the house of God on Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night help us on Wednesday to get their homework done after school that we could be in your house that we would truly put you first oh God God not a life that we speak about God but a life that we live that we may fear you and that we may impart that to our children anoint every mother God may we be the mothers that you've called us to be this short window of time that we have to impart your word to our children God may we not miss this golden opportunity anoint us God help us to put you first that we may see to teach our children and God as a grandmother help me Lord to continue to live that life to live a legacy for my grandchildren that they can be with their grandmother when she prays that when we're in these altars and before service God that we in the prayer room that we're being that example to our grandchildren that it doesn't matter how old we get but that we're going to honor you and we're going to acknowledge you in all of our ways God anoint our hearts with wisdom God and with the fear of God may we impart that to our children and God may we realize that we do that from birth oh God and anoint us God please help us not to sleep not to Slumber that the enemy can come into our homes help us to be awake help us to pray help us to teach your word oh God oh God in the name of Jesus I pray in jesus' name and honey can I say one more thing absolutely noan and sister Flander have they've written a prayer book for our children and when they wrote that and I was reading it I told him I said this isn't just for our kids this is for our parents because through what the words that are in that little booklet if us mothers and fathers if we will take that little booket they booklet they said they have a hundred here this morning I know many of you all have this booklet but if you don't they're going to give those away free today and I'm not sure they can afford it but I think he's going to do it anyway way but they're going to give them away free because if we can get the word of God in the hearts of our children that's what dedicating these babies we're not just doing it taking time out of a service this is a real deal and if we don't give them to God and live that life and impart the word of God to our children at a young age and I'm telling you we got to live it cuz they know us better than anybody if I don't live the word if he does not live the word our kids knew that and they knew that if we weren't what we said we we were your kids know that they know it's not something we just say it's who we are every day it's who I am when I get up in the morning and I pull out the Bible and I would read one chapter a day went through the word of God with my kids I'm not a preacher I never was but I would just read the word and we' we'd get a little bit here and a little bit there would have prayer did we have a prayer meeting that we had a 100 Soul Revival no but I I did have a three Soul Revival and that was my children and then look at who they've been able to influence this is real don't waste this time and and we're all in different seasons if you're where I'm at now there's still a legacy that we can leave for our children yes and that teaches you that little book and I thought it was so it teaches us to pray out loud because you know what you can't get the Holy Ghost unless you pray out loud and I know I'm not the preacher today but this is my heart a good job and we only have one opportunity to raise our children don't miss it don't waste your life be faithful to the house of God yeah and in so much as we see the day approaching because the coming of the Lord is at hand and it's not just Sunday morning it's Sunday night and it's Wednesday night because every opportunity we have to hear the word of God we need to be in his house and we need to our children need to see us prioritize yes the word of God over our work schedule over our vacations over everything CU it is is God first and I promise you they know so let's step up to the task we're going through our holiday season let's honor God during this time January 1 let's hit the road running and let's be in the house of God honoring with our time our treasure which is our finances we need to honor God in every area of our life and I just I love you and I don't want to see us miss out on this great opportunity we have to raise our children in the fear of the Lord in Jes Jesus name God bless you thank you first lady how many likes that loves that word from our would you listen I read two texts today purposely the first text while men slept was for our children our young children the second text the devil like a roaring lion walketh about I don't have a prodical for a child I'm blessed right now but just because all my children in church right right now and all my grandchildren in church right now doesn't automatically say Kenny Carpenter and Penny Carpenter are going to have always their children at church but should we find oursel with a prodal one day should we find one of our children that have walked away from God and the devil wants to Roar they're mine right now they're mine right now you they're never coming back to church they got church hurt they're never coming back to church I'm going to say devil I can roar louder than you can roar I declare freedom for my family I declare freedom for my children in closing today let's sing that song right now I declare I declare I deare iare come on if you got a prodal today if you got a prodal today I feel what I see I come on let's Roar come on let's roar I iare my iare they're coming home devil they're coming out of your they're coming out of your grip our children are coming home they're coming home our grandchildren are coming home I declare it today they're coming out of the bar they're coming out of drugs they're coming out of that lifestyle they're coming home today we're coming home today they're coming home today be come on now for my I decl fre for my home I decl freed for my yes I declare for I declare Freedom iare what your word Spen be now Lord Jesus I pray over our families today that have young young children that they're bringing up in church let faithfulness abide upon them father I pray today for family members that have children that are no longer attending church they have went Far From the Path they was brought up to live but as the lion roars today I roar louder than the lion I feed the fatted calf I buff the golden ring I press the robe because our prodal children declare it in jesus' name they are coming home in Jesus name they are coming home somebody shout in Jesus name