This guy simply ate vegan in a caloric surplus and almost dies of a heart attack right away. All right, guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name's Bobby, guys, you wanted me to react to healthy versus unhealthy vegan shocking experiment on plant-based news. Yes, shocking indeed. If you believe there is a healthy way to eat vegan, let's have a look. It was the middle of the night when I woke up and my heart was beating out of my chest. Okay, first impression right away. The guy looks super unhealthy, very, very pale, dark eye circles, sunken in face, very vegan looking. Never experienced before in my life. After a few days went by, I spoke to my doctor and he said, you have to go to hospital right now. Yeah, that's pretty much what all vegans face. I'm sure he refers to his obese version, but ultimately they all going to end up in the hospital if they want to stay vegan long-term. Hey, everyone. It's Andrew Roberts here with Plant-Based News. And today I want to share with you my experience of how I purposely gained 55 pounds of pure fat in the space of just six months and then how I lost it all again in the following six months. Now, I'm sure you're thinking, what kind of crazy person would want to put on all that weight on purpose? Not necessarily. Am I right? No. There was two main reasons I did it. The first was that I wanted to get a better understanding of some of the feelings and emotions my clients experience when they're overweight and going through the weight loss process. Okay. Good examples of this include what it's like to develop bad eating habits and what it's like to experience cravings. The second reason I did it was because I cannot relate to anything this man says. Why are we talking about emotions? Why are we talking about cravings?  A huge believer in the power of a whole food plant-based diet to help the power be in sustainable fat loss. I knew that by doing this crazy experiment, I could show just how effective the diet can be for fat loss.  I can only imagine the amounts of plant oils that you consumed. Hopefully inspire some people to give it a go. To put on all this weight, I completely stopped working out and went from eating 2,000 calories of healthy vegan food to eating 5,000 calories of vegan junk food every single day. So here we have a week's worth of vegan junk food. Okay, that's vegan junk food. I thought this is the healthy version for most vegans nowadays. Let's have a look. We have avocados. We have healthy plant milk here from Oatley. We have the vegan butter, vegan cheese, vegan mayo, orange juice. All of this is advertised as healthy. This is exactly what I'm eating every single day to hit my 5,000 calories. Guys, don't get me wrong. Respect for respect is due. I have to applaud the guy that he at least understands that this here is junk food. But as I said, for most vegans, this is a totally normal day of eating. The first few weeks were, well, interesting to say the least. Although the food I was eating was absolutely delicious, the novelty quickly wore off. It's kind of like Christmas. As a one-off, it's great. But if it's every single day, you get a bit tired of it. What shocked me is just how quickly I got hooked on the new food I was eating. If you'd offered me my old breakfast, which was this peanut butter porridge, which I love versus my new breakfast to help me gain weight, maple pecan crunch. Yeah, and what is the difference now exactly? Wow, those two things are not comparable at all. Man, what is the main difference here?  Okay, maybe in the cereal, you have some additional sugar. If you really believe the couple of grams sugar are the problem in this food here, I cannot help you. I've chosen this option all day long. But the thing that shocked me the most in the first three weeks is the fact that I gained one whole stone, which is 14 pounds. Yeah, I'm not surprised at all because you said you were eating only 2000 calories of healthy vegan food. You are starving. And this is why you gained weight rapidly. Your body took that chance to store as much fat as possible because it was in starvation mode.  Fast forward three months and I felt terrible. My sleep quality had deteriorated massively. I started to snore. Honestly, even though he looks sleepy, he still looks healthier here than he looks now to snore, gain stretch marks felt exhausted all the time and even got a little bit breathless when doing some housework. Despite all of this, my cravings were more intense than ever. It was a vicious cycle. Yeah, obviously, because you're force feeding yourself, you have huge insulin spikes and therefore you are hungry. The worse I felt, the more I crave the junk food. I feel just so exhausted, constantly, absolutely knackered and the men. What is this experiment about, man? Obviously, if you're eating 5000 calories of vegan food, you will feel exhausted. But the point being is that you mistake your current energy level on your healthy vegan diet as something healthful in comparison to this. The reality is, of course, that you are in fight of light mode due to your starvation on a plant only diet. You are running on stress hormones. This is why you look so sick. That's what's going on every single time. One simple thing. You guys don't see it takes all my energy. It saps everything out of me. And then from then on for the rest of the day, I'm just absolutely exhausted.  Can't focus. Can't do anything productive. As you can see at this point, things weren't going great, but they're about to get a whole lot worse. It was the middle of the night and I woke up and my heart was beating out of my chest. Like I had never experienced before in my life. I thought this was really strange. So I got up, sat on the toilet and just waited for a good five minutes to see if my heart rate would calm down. But then an hour later, I was sitting at my desk and I got this pain across my chest and my left arm and leg. But isn't it cholesterol that clocks your arteries? You went vegan, so by default you must be healthy. My mind went into overdrive and I started to panic. But being me, I just said it's one of those things is absolutely fine. Sure enough, I carried on saying that for the next five days, despite constantly getting these weird pains in my chest and left arm and leg. After five days, I thought it's probably time to do something about this now. So I called up my doctor, explained my symptoms to him. By no means will I tell you that being obese is healthy. Obviously not.  This guy simply ate vegan in a caloric surplus and almost dies of a heart attack right away. Said you need to go to hospital as soon as possible. All in all, I was in the hospital for six hours. They did an ECG test on me, a scan of my lungs and also took my blood as well. The conclusion was they couldn't see anything wrong and therefore told me to monitor the situation. Western medicine is so useless. The show could go on. But the whole experience really really scared me. And it also reminded me how we should never take our health for granted. At this point, I was this close to quitting. But I fought back to the main two reasons why I did this journey in the first place. That made me cry. He sacrificed himself for us and pushed through to the end. If you would have done it with healthy animal foods at least. After six months of gaining weight, I'd gained 55 pounds. My body fat percentage had gone from 10 percent to 27.4 percent, which was class as obese. And my B and I had also crept into the obese range. This left me feeling self conscious about my appearance when I was out. But now you're good. Could fit into. We're extremely tight. This picture is just absolutely priceless for me. There he sits with his dead butt, has an obligate carnivore right next to him and pretends he really had burger king. But in reality, just ate the bread with soy slop. Wow. Congratulations, man. Both are terribly unhealthy. Although the physical side of things was hard, the mental was even tougher. Having terrible sleep, no motivation. Oh, man, he's reporting this as if he accomplished something. No energy for six months straight takes its toll. So it's day two of my weight loss process. And I've just had a pasta dish. Now, when I was gaining weight, I would have a very similar meal, but it would be double the size. And I would also have a large garlic baguette with it. So right now I'm feeling pretty. Oh, man, why do you make it so hard on yourself? Why do you guys make it so hard on yourself? All this guy can eat is carbs. That's plants. Plants are carbohydrates. Now he cannot eat his baguette. Now he has to reduce the portion size of the pasta.  Eat meat until you're satisfied.  You won't have any cravings. Your blood sugar will be stable consistently. And you will be satiated because of the high fat and protein content. It is ideal. I agree. And also I'm craving that garlic baguette. There's nothing more that I'd like to do right now than eat one of them. So eat a steak. Try it. I've got to try and distract myself from it. And the only saving grace is I've not got any of that junk food in the flap. Because if it was here, I'd more than likely be eating it right now. To lose the weight, there are a few key aspects. He looks so unhealthy. Terrible. The plants was eating a whole food, plant-based diet, which is amazing for weight loss. This is because in majority. All right. Can somebody tell me how this is ideal for weight loss? What do we got? We have broccoli. We have tomatoes.   We have sugar and anti-nutrients. We have no proteins and no fats here. Nobody will be satisfied after eating any of this. So ultimately you've fed it yourself up in the worst possible way.  Also very low calories. There are a few exceptions to this with food like nuts, avocados and seeds. Notice that he doesn't look anything like on the pictures. Look at this. You have the saturation up. You have a filter here. This is how he would like to look like. And this is how he really looks like. Avocado and seeds. However, the majority of plant-based whole food like the water in the bag. This is exactly what you want when you're trying to lose weight. You want to be able to eat big, delicious portions of food that fill you up and yet still remain in a calorie deficit. Examples of the. Yeah, that sounds a lot like meat, doesn't it? Food I was eating when I was losing weight is food like lentils, beans, rice, pasta, potatoes and of course a good protein source with each meal. So food like temper, tofu and tampa.  You have no quality protein source in here. If you would have done an animal-based diet, you could have lost the fat and kept much more muscle size.  They have no idea. That's wild. What is this? Eating this way produced incredible results. In fact, in the first eight weeks, I lost an amazing 10 kilogram, which is the same as 22 pounds for a diet alone. Yes. After this, I began to implement exercise back into my routine, specifically resistance training. This type of training is great because not only do you burn lots of calories in the workout, it also helps you build muscle. This boosts your weight. Yeah, and you build a lot of muscle. The metabolism allows you to eat more food and helps you keep the weight off long term. This is so important for recovery, regulating your hormones, including your hunger and- Yeah, let's regulate our hormones without eating cholesterol. Great idea. The tidy hormone and also wherever your body gives up fat or muscle. Another area that I really focused on was remaining active. I did this as much as possible by going for walks whenever I could. Finally, accountability was key for me. Okay, okay. Let me fast forward. The exact same applies for food. You don't have to eat healthy vegan food for every single meal. I certainly didn't. But just one healthy meal is better than no healthy meals. Another thing- Yes, exactly. One steak per day could save you. All right, guys, I'm going to cut it off here. Mind-blowing stuff. As always, those vegans never fail to amaze us here on this channel. This guy literally ate the same stuff with reduced sugar, reduced plant oils, reduced calories. Yes, if you are in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight. How optimal it is? There is a different question, of course. As I said, if you would have eaten quality protein, you actually could have kept much more muscle mass. You could have improved in the gym. Now you simply starved yourself and this is why you look so unhealthy. Anyways, this is it for today. 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Let's put our hands together just like this church sing all together Here we go. Our God is great in glory trustee and name Jesus Able to save and deliver We put our hope in your name Can we just lift up our hands to God? We serve a great God we serve a mighty God can somebody say amen Come on. Our God is on the throne. He reigns forever. Amen, and we get to praise Alongside the elders and the angels that have been singing for thousands and thousands of years that he is holy and he is worthy Amen hallelujah Yes, cow, we give you all the praise Sing all together You give life You are Just the voices, let's sing it again. There is none like you lift your hands lift your hands in this place Hallelujah name up in this place. Thank you for giving us your name Can I have more of my mic We thank you God that your name That is given to us Lord There's a strong and mighty tower. It's the name God Where we can run and hide and be protected lord the name God is Above every other name Name the triumphs over every sickness over every disease of every obstacle over every problem But today we find refuge in your name Today we find comfort in your name. Today we find strength in your name The name of Jesus The name of Jesus lift your hands and for the next 15 seconds begin to thank God For the name of Jesus that's been given to you begin to exalt the name of Jesus With your own words let worship arise from your heart Begin to love on his name begin to exalt his name His name is Jesus the king of glory Or the water rains above all the lord of hosts The name of Jesus we worship you. We honor you. We exalt your name in this place Thank you, Jesus Thank you father for the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah Jesus is worthy of your praise.  He's coming back to reign in power. He's sitting in the right hand of the father And that's the name that's worthy to be exalted exalted in worship. Amen church We have come to the time of prayer And I want to remind you a story from mark chapter 10 verse 13. I believe And in light of In light of the school year starting here, how many of you have children are going back to school? All right, quite a few of you In light of the school year starting we want to pray For our children We want to pray for our children and and um asks for the lord's favor over our children You know, we live in a wicked and perverse generation and even more than previous generations But I am not pessimistic about our generation and about children But I'm very optimistic because bible lets me know where there where evil abounds gods grace abounds even more That means your children Have more grace than my generation And previous generation To counter the evilness and perverseness in this generation I'm not afraid for my children I'm excited for their future and what god's gonna do In their life because great is he who lives in us who lives in them than the one who is in the world. Are you with me church? Are you with me? I sometimes I meet parents and they're so pessimistic And they're like, you know, I'm homeschooling my children I'm I'm taking them away from this and this and that Hey, and we believe in homeschooling. We believe in private schooling. We believe In in Christian schooling as a church. We're going towards that. That's nothing wrong with that But when it's done out of the mindset of victim not of a victor That's what the problem is My god and the word of god lets me know his grace abounds even more say even more Come on say it with faith say even more In jesus name come on come on with that mindset with that attitude We're going to pray for our children.   I want you to pray that the lord Will teach your children now. He will use you a lot of times to teach them He will use kid zone. He will use other means But that they will have encounters with the lord In dreams and visions we teach our children that the lord will speak to you at night When you go to sleep the lord will use situations and we have oftentimes we even ask them Did the lord spoke to you did the lord say to you anything and then we'll coach and guide them Because we want our children to be taught by the lord. We declare this promise over our children We trust that they have the spirit of god in them and bible says that the spirit of god was sent to us to teach us all things He is the spirit of truth and they have that spirit in them as well And I want us to pray as we pray and cover them for this school year As we pray protection over them pray this promise over them Pray this declaration of that my children will be taught by the lord and great shall be Their peace amen.  Stretch your hands like this and it's going to be a symbolic of us bringing our children to the lord Pray that over your children pray that over your future generation Say that my children will be taught by the lord and great shall be their peace father.  There are great inheritance Lord, we bring them up before you right now in jesus name We pray for this school year father. We pray that that will be the light in this world god Lord, we're not afraid for our children because light the light is not afraid of darkness We send our children into this world as the light god As the light in jesus mighty name lord, we pray that your spirit will guide them We pray that your spirit will embolden them.  We bring our children to you right now May you bless them lord may you bless them lord may your blessing rest upon them god Mark them lord for your kingdom mark them in this life god that they will be blessed of the lord and that peace Will guide them god Peace will guide them lord and that peace will be their portion and inheritance in jesus name In jesus name Amen as we are praying for our students as we're praying for our children. I want this last prayer We're gonna pray for our unashamed clubs us as a church us as a youth ministry We started unashamed clubs last year in our local middle school or middle schools and high schools What unashamed clubs is is a weekly club in the middle of our school at lunch time where we meet once Once a week and we talk about jesus and this isn't just a christian club We are christians starting a club for everybody in our schools for the drug addicts for the suicidal people For the for the depressed teenagers for the anxious teenagers We want to be a hope to the hopeless generation and like we're praying right now We are not a church that sits on the defensive We are gonna go on the offensive and we will see a change in our generation Really quick. I want to bring up one of our students I want to bring up one of our students and I'm going to ask him a little bit And then what his heart is and what he's doing this year. So Just tell us your name.  So, um, my name is alex and i'm 17. I go to kennel with high And what was just a few years ago or last year? What were you struggling? What were just main things that you were going through as a teenager? So I was going through a lot.  You've gone radically changed. What are you doing? What last year did you do in your high school? What did you see in the beginning of the school year versus the end of the school year in the anahana shame club? So the beginning of the year it was at kennel high. It was like a lot of fights and there were people like Doing drugs obviously like influencing like that And at the end of the year with on the shame club It's packed out 50 kids plus and kids are like giving their life to christ They're loving each other they're showing support.  There's a whole change throughout the school The culture is changing and this year is going to change even more. What are you? What are you? What are you believing to see this year at anahana shame club? This is your senior year. So you're going to go more than ever before What do you see this year that you're going to you believe god's going to do? I think god's going to change the culture forever in that school and in schools around I think that kids are going to care about each other. They're going to love each other And it's not going to be cool for them to do drugs or do stuff like that They're going to want to know about jesus that's going to be the popular thing And they're going to give their life to christ Come on. How many you guys believe that? Okay, keep those hands raised keep those hands raised I want us to begin to pray for every single high school or middle school the shame club They will lead their friends to jesus. Come on open up your lips pray for the next generation of jesus thing Lord I come before you and I ask that This year for kids will be changed. They'll give their life to christ. They will love you lord They'll change the depression will go away their anxiety will go away They will grow your love for you lord. They'll put their faith in you. They'll build their foundation on you They'll be changed forever and they'll give their life to christ lord That these schools will be changed their culture will be changed that Parents here their kids will be changed. They'll see a different behavior in them They'll be changed forever lord and they'll build the foundation on you They'll love you And they'll get their friends to give their life to christ too as well lord I believe it A shadow praise in this place come on give jesus a shadow as we transition into the next part of our service Wow, good morning church Is that not incredible about the unashamed clubs? Personally, I wish I had that in my high school because I was one of those guys I was doing drugs smoking weed But I was spiritually seeking didn't have a didn't have a club where people are talking about these spiritual things Talking about the word of god. I probably would have gone just to like talk and meet people and who knows what the lord could have done but It's it's amazing and I want to welcome everybody first time guests everybody in the second sanctuary everybody online We're so glad you're here. We've come to a time of giving of offering and in soloms chapter 96 verse 8 it says Give to the lord the honor the glory due to him Give him an offering and enter into his courts Bring an offering and enter into his courts And this is in the old testament in the context is the jews would come to the temple to worship god They would pilgrimage from their towns from their cities and they would give an offering That be cleansed they give an offering to the lord before they would enter into his courts of the temple But this offering isn't just an old testament thing. It's also a new testament thing We see apostle paul actually Related financial giving to him and his ministry of spreading the gospel of building churches of Advancing the kingdom of god He related that to actually a sweet smelling aroma a holy and acceptable sacrifice well pleasing to god He was speaking to the Philippians church and he said that about their gift their financial gift And the when we honor god when we when we give to his kingdom It's actually an expression of our worship to him It's an expression of our honor to him that reverence that we have for him bring an offering and enter into his courts And when we bring an offering today We fuel operations and missions like the unashamed clubs like youth literally getting saved lives transformed People here getting delivered raised to deliver conference Which is completely free for all the people who are struggling and suffering and in bondage completely free Because of people honoring the lord giving and partnering financially with the kingdom And the bible says that where your treasure is your heart will be also when we put our treasure into the kingdom of god It's telling god our heart my heart is with you lord is with your objective on this earth So this is a time if you feel led on your heart to give that you can do so There's many ways to give behind me cash app venmo You can download the church center app set up a reoccurring giving You know just set it up forget about it That's pretty much an easy way and you can also go online. There's going to be envelopes Behind your pews as well as buckets that will be passed around that you can give to as well Let's pray for this offering church lord. We thank you We thank you for what you're doing in this house lord We thank you for the lives the souls that are being touched and saved god We thank you for all the generosity lord of the people who are giving the people who are tithing the people who are Giving offerings lord to this mission to your mission god to advance the kingdom of god to win souls Make disciples lord of all nations god We pray that every person who gave today who's giving lord or even the people who can't give lord We pray that you would just give a blessing on them lord We pray that you would give them wisdom pray that you would give them your power to gain wealth for your purposes lord For your glory and for your kingdom god. We thank you lord and we exalt your name and jesus' name. We pray Amen, amen, please focus your eyes above on the screen Are in the spiritual realm Because the real you is the spirit the real me cannot be seen by my natural eyes A man that can come up in your life for the chains to be broken He came to win a war without lifting a think of sword But not to be one Come on, how many believe that god still saves heels and delivers amen Amen, just like you watched there on the screen our race delivery conference is coming up. So I want to encourage you Uh, tell your friends your family people that you know that need a touch from god Invite them to this it's going to change their lives amen Amen I have a wonderful story that I want to share with you of a life that has been transformed by the lord The bible says in the book of psalms to feed on the faithfulness of god and that's exactly what this testimony does It gives you a little taste of the goodness and faithfulness of god So on the screen you're going to watch if it's your first time what we call deliverance and really it's just the power of god being placed on display For the world to see that our god still saves delivers and heals. So fix your eyes on the screen Grief every single demon mention right now in the name of jesus Right there. Thank you lord. Thank you jesus Thank you jesus Thank you lord today. I declare this woman free Wow, come on. Let's give it up for jesus. What a powerful demonstration Of god's power So Nikki, thank you for agreeing to share your story Tell us what was happening a few years prior to what we just saw on the screen. Okay. Well back in 2014 My son who was two years old passed away from a stroke and in that process In the situation. I also lost my other children through cps And then my husband I lost my husband. He is in prison And so I had a lot of darkness. I had a lot of Tao I had a lot of fear had everything That just wasn't a darkness basically I had this void that I was trying to feel. I mean trying to fill with Alcohol just make me feel better trying to fill with drugs just to make me feel better But nothing was making me feel better because I was still crying I was still grieving the loss of my family and then that's Basically everything that I was going through How long was that? How long? That was 11 years Wow, so 11 years you were going through that. What led you to Hungry gen and and that deliverance Well, I came to hungry gen in 2015 through my sister I did get delivered back then but I backslid I was not ready to receive jesus I was not ready to be in the community or be part of a church I was just still dealing with all the death of my son and then my other children being taken away So I was just not ready for that and then a couple months ago One morning I woke up and I was like i'm gonna go to church and I was like well, what church should I go to? Let's just go back to the hungry gen. I was like, okay, so I came And pastor erica prayed over me and she's like do you want freedom?  I went a week with no TV I went a week with no secular music. I went a week which is praying in the mornings I went a week we're reading the bible. I went a week with fasting I fasted for the first time for three days no food just pure water I just wanted the holy spirit to take, you know The hunger for the food to wait, you know and then put bring them in, you know And then after that I was like, okay What's the next step and then it's like your deliverance and I was like, but I was delivered back in 2015 But I was like, okay, let's go and then that's where it led me to the deliverance And What was were you aware of what was happening? How did you feel would you experience during the deliverance? I wasn't okay. I was kind of aware, but then I really wasn't I just remember Something coming out of my throat, but I couldn't see it I just remember it was just and I had no control over it But after that when I woke up I just felt so much love and peace in my heart And it's just I can't explain the feeling it's just so much love that I have right now in my heart I had a broken heart. I had just everything was taken away from me and God brought everything back brought the love in my heart And just I forgave everyone that's never hurt me and I just feel so much better Come on.  Being a part of the church what changes have you seen in your life? Tell us about that Okay, so After three months went by I signed up for life class. I went to encounter weekend. It was the most beautiful Experience ever if you guys haven't gone you need to go because it's so beautiful. The inner healing is just so great Like just feels so good. I am part of pastor Erica's life class I mean life group and then I signed up for destiny training and today was my first time Serving for the church at the welcome team and it just feels so good. I'm just so I feel so loved Come on, that's what jesus can do our god is still alive today and he's still changing lives amen Very quickly. What is one word of encouragement that you would give to somebody that's listening? So basically I want to give the word is just whatever you're going through whatever season you're in And you think that no one is there for you and no one loves you our jesus Loves us and he is with us no matter what situation we're in or in our life If we allow our heart to be open for him He will restore Everything that the enemy has taken from us and that's what I want to say Amen, thank you for sharing your story. Let's give it up for what jesus did in her life amen What an amazing story With that, please focus your eyes on the screen Come on amen. Good afternoon church Can can we just take a moment and just realize that only jesus could do what he did for this young lady nicky Amen through what she has gone through the grief the loss the rejection Through all of those things through the accusations and the void that she tried filling it through what the world had to offer No one not one thing could fill it the way jesus can amen And if you are here today, and if it is your first time or if you're coming to visit I want you to know if you are looking for that answer jesus is the answer amen And you aren't here for just a coincidence or just by accident I want you to know is that jesus wants to touch you today amen And god has something special in store for you. Hallelujah Amen, you guys we are in the month of of a wonderful series Of parenting on purpose. Have you guys been blessed so far throughout this month? amen The first week was pastor brison. He talked about where us as parents We need to be parented by the godfather amen as we parent The second which was last week was pastor britney was such a phenomenal message where she talked about Managing emotional mayhem. It was so rich so much information. My husband and I were taking notes It's worth a listen again. If you missed it Please I encourage you to go back and rewatch it and just listen because it's so insightful so much tools And things for us as parents as the people that are raising the next generation. It's going to bless you amen It blessed your home come on Today I have the opportunity to also share with you guys a message in Parenting on purpose parenting with intention and the title of my message is raising warriors And I can't help but think that this series in this month is so prophetic For our church for our generation and what is happening in society We can't turn a blind eye and think that what is happening in our society is not affecting the families and the next generation We can't turn to blind eye from that We see that the enemy knows he has a strategy and he's after the children He is after the next generation because he understands that the next generation is what the future is What the future will hold it is them that will be able to be the carriers of god's glory amen That we are not the people that are the tail or beneath We are the head and we are the above amen and that is god wanting to position us As the parents here, and I know that many of us have maybe different walks of life right now Different seasons maybe some of you guys are in the season of changing diapers or taking your kid to college Whatever season you are in if you're in the middle of teenagers or children about to have kids or do not have kids yet I want you to know that this message is for you That all of us have a part and role to play to be an influence if you're an aunt If you're an uncle if you're a friend if you are someone that is around the next generation Even if you are leaders today that are being life group leaders that is helping The youth that is helping the children I want you to know this message is for you and that when the word of god I pray that as the word of god is being spoken it will touch you amen So I hope our hearts will be open to hear this message and to receive and for it to be imparted into you As as I just shared just a few thoughts I have four ease to share with you that are tools and strategies that really have inspired me throughout my years of Raising my kids so far that I really believe will bless you. This is not in any chronological order or order of Importance is just how I'm going to Bring the message to you. All right, so we're going to go ahead and start from Psalms 127 verse 3 so Then the first e that I want to just share with you is the number one is to embrace the kingdom mindset Embrace the kingdom mindset I couldn't say that And many of us have maybe experienced through social media through society today Maybe even friends or people that you know that say that children are a burden That they are a problem and in convenience Am I right? Maybe some of you have heard. I mean throughout my uh when I was in my 20s I couldn't hear anything really good about children people that were close to me in my family perspective And even in my co-workers When I was going to school, they're like, I love my kid, but don't have them. Have any of you ever heard that? I love my child, but do yourself a favor and don't have them and I couldn't comprehend this mentality And as I would go on tiktok and the reason why is because I want to be uh I want to know what's going on in society today because I have three beautiful mighty woman of god that i'm raising And so I want to be relevant and I want to know what's going on right now So that I can be alert that I can be attentive and I can know what's happening Okay, and one of the things that I keep coming across in social media is this mentality That children are a burden that they are the ones that take from you. They take away from your career They take away from your potential. They're the ones that will pause your potential and they take everything from you And I know that many of us have heard that from one year to another Or some of us have slowly begin to believe that lie I want to share my personal testimony. I've shared it in various ways and internship and things like that But I want to share with you how it seeped into my mentality in the 20s I began to truly believe that because that was always what I heard I heard that they were a burden that they were a bother and that they're just going to take from me They're going to take my potential from growing in my career or you know causing me to slow down And over the 20s, I recognized and realized that I was having a bad stronghold And I realized that I began to believe what society believed and what people were telling me And I knew and realized that through the help of my husband and through the word of god and repenting.  I am not saying that they are easy all the time I am not saying that you're not going to lose sleep. I'm not saying that it isn't hard But what is not hard that isn't good Right work is hard marriage is hard, but when you work it through the reward Come on the benefit the inheritance the legacy That god is wanting to place inside of you so that you place it within them amen So the enemy wants us to begin to feel believe Speak and profess That our children are a burden That they are the ones that bring problems not Not a blessing and that is a demonic lie It does not align with the scriptures And so in my 20s, I began to really repent and work on my mindset And I realized how enemy does this to us so that he robs us of our blessing because it is the absolute Best thing I could ever have had is being a mother amen The beautiful blessing and I know many of us feel like that but through circumstances the enemy robs us Now if we truly believe That children are a burden And we have this mindset We will not be able to raise warriors We will raise victims and if we truly believe that they are burden They will not only believe they are a burden, but they will be burdened to leaders Because we have to given them and the thing this is what's dangerous I asked myself why is it that so many people think that children are a burden Where did it come from from two things one is because they were raised as a burden And number two is because society told them so The reason sometimes we have adapted to believing that children are a burden at trouble is because that's how they were raised Because the thing is is that children can feel it Children can feel that mom am I a blessing to you are a burden See the thing that's very interesting is because children are very sensitive They can feel and my children would sometimes ask me In different occasions and say mama, do you love being Being a mom they literally would ask me.  And i'm like absolutely and and i'm like And I would ask them back. I'm like, do you see that? Do you feel that I love being a mom because that's important because I could say that all day But if they don't feel it or see it, I there's a disconnect. Am I right? And so I would ask them and they said yes mama And then they would ask me when I'm being firm and I'm disciplining them and they're like mom Do you still love being a mom and And I was like yes, but I'm being firm with you right now because I'm doing some discipline right now Okay, that's different, but that doesn't mean I don't love being a mom And so the children are sensitive and they can pick up on that They can pick up on your attitude They can pick up on the things that you say and the atmosphere that you create So we got to embrace The mindset of the kingdom Embrace it completely And the reason why I say that is that we have not fully embraced the kingdom mindset if children are absent in it We have not fully embraced the kingdom mindset if children are absent in it What I mean to say that is that if we don't realize they are a focal point If they are not part of the vision if they're not part of the purpose If they are not part of what we're going for which is the next generation which is salvation Which is to bring the kingdom of god on earth amen And there's a scripture for that it says in matthew 19 verse 13. It says one day some parents And this is powerful. This is a powerful scripture where it really aligns that If we don't have children That are in part of the vision Then we have full we have not fully grasped the kingdom mindset There was this moment in matthew chapter 19 Verse 13 where parents brought their children to jesus and disciples rebuked them. Let's read it One day Some parents brought their children to jesus So he could lay his hands on them and pray for them But the disciples Golded the parents for bothering them. The other translation said rebuke But jesus said let the children come to me Don't stop them for the kingdom of heaven Belongs to those who are like these children Isn't that powerful That the disciples decided to rebuke the parents, but jesus rebuked the disciples for rebuking the children Jesus rebuked the disciples. He says do not get in the way. This is what's dangerous We can get in the way for our children to come to him Because the mentality That they are a bother They said they are bothering him. Did you see that? Because the children are going to bother jesus. They're bothering what we're doing. They're bothering the ministry They're bothering the flow when we begin to accept that We are the ones that are coming in the way of them coming to jesus And jesus is the one saying don't rebuke them for they Are the ones that hold the kingdom of heaven That what does that say for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them? So my first e is embrace the kingdom mindset The full kingdom mindset meaning that the children cannot be absent from them They're the next generation They're the ones we have to have this mentality and intentionality that we're raising our children with Significance that we're raising them up as warriors amen That they are being raised with a purpose and with an intent to save the next generation That they're not going to be victims come on the enemy wants us as parents to be set up to think us as victims If we think as victims they will become victims But we must operate in the fact that we have the victory not fighting for the victory. We're operating with the victory amen So number one embrace the kingdom mindset The second e that i want to talk about is expose exposure and the reason why this is a powerful tool Is because the enemy is after our children to be exposed at an early age As you can see right now the years are becoming younger and younger where they're exposed to porn drugs alcohol It's only about exposure see the thing is is that the enemy wants to steal the innocence the pure of heart So before they're even made in their core belief system He wants to disrupt it pervert it cause doubt cause fear He wants for them to be exposed to fear Disappointment trauma grief suicidal thoughts depression anxiety He wants them to be exposed to that before they can be exposed to the power of god So it is our duty our responsibility as parents as influencers of the kids lives Is to expose that jesus is greater That god is power amen That he is more powerful than the enemy the more powerful than what the pain that has been caused To expose them little by little and i said this in the last service I'm going to say this again based on you as a parent on your discretion On your discernment and on what you feel holy spirits leading to you that you slowly start exposing them To the things that you see here in the prayer line for them to see that when the name of jesus is being said demons must obey They come out they fear the name of jesus. They must understand that jesus has already won that we're not hoping to win We already have won amen They have to see and be exposed Little by little and because they're like sponges which is incredible because sometimes in our pastoral What's it called a chat we see videos or the Like pictures of the little kids casting out their you know brother or sister saying out in the name of jesus They're practicing already what they see here.  As I said upon your discretion and as you as a parent when you feel that it's right I want you to also know and you all we all know that there's a craving that's occurring in our society for the supernatural That when you say it's too young or you why would you expose your children to this? But you know what harry potter is not stopping The witchcraft and the stores are not stopping the new age and the crystals where I have to tell my children Do not touch that now in stores with stuffed animals Where there's cytanic things and witchcraft and wicka things that are slowly Causing it to come as a little toy that there's a barbie. Uh, what do you call it? Um With weegee board There's a barbie weegee board So now I have to be even more attentive and more alert than ever before that They don't even touch the stuff at stores that I think are safe So for us to say no, we shouldn't expose them No, no, we need to expose them and tell them that this is the demons that this is the devil and this is jesus That this is the light and this is the darkness. This is the fear and this is the faith This is the truth and that's the lie We need to make sure to have them understand the difference That they it's clear as day exposure Expose them to the truth expose them and uh, the I have few practical steps for for you that I think that will benefit on how do we do this on on the step of depending on their age And the number one is testimonies Is practical steps. The number one is testimonies prophesied the future you know, uh Testimies are powerful for our faith amen, and they're powerful for them to believe that god can heal That god can deliver god can bring a breakthrough that when we pray he answers And so Not only when sometimes my husband and I would travel when we traveled, you know to philippines I would come back home and I would begin to testify to them Well, I witnessed and I said hey, did you I want to tell you what happened This person got healed with this this person got out of the wheelchair They're back aligned this and that did you know that we tried praying for someone that you know had issues with eyesight And now it's become that they can see you know slowly, but surely telling them having them witness us showing testimonies The testimonies that happen here amen testify Showing testimonies it's exposing the power of god It is exposing them and planting those seeds amen The number two is personal stories storytelling You know in deuteronomy it gives us a great insight of israel that they cultivated a culture of curiosity That the children would ask who is this god that split the red sea Who is the god of abraham isaac and jacob? It would they cultivated a curiosity in the children to ask questions Because through storytelling through telling that you must tell this you must tell them in remembrance that this has happened But the red the red sea got split in deuteronomy 4a it tells us that tell this to your grandkids and to your grandsons That they cultivated this storytelling To tell them why is god so good to you? Why do you love god so much? Why are you committed is it because of religion?  He prayed for me He uh he did this for me did that for me. He saved me from here and you begin to tell him why you love god so much Why do you read the bible mom?  Why do we do church? Why are we there all the time? You know all these things they tell them why You're sold out.  Tell them storytelling. The third one is open conversations They're gonna have questions Very interesting questions, you know, my daughters would ask me at times Mom, how many boyfriends can I have until I get married? You know and And I'm like what on earth like where did you get this and they would ask me all of these things And I would go back to god and I said god you got to give me a good solid answer Like do I just say five, you know like what do I I'm just kidding But like I really had to give them an explanation in the childlike manner That what will work for them so they have an understanding That they understand this is the truth Not just because mama said so and so the open conversations don't hide the answers from them Allow them to come to you allow them to ask you the hard questions. Don't say well. I don't know. I don't care Tell them if you don't know if that's all right Just say you know what I'm gonna pray about that I'm gonna come back to you so that you can give them a wholesome answer and google.com is not far from reach You know, I do that a lot I'm kidding with facts more like when they tell me why does the sun do this? Why does the moon do this and I'm like Hmm, uh, don't remember what fourth grade told me so I'm just gonna google it real quick And I do that all the time But when it comes to wholesome Questions we have to give wholesome answers take it to the lord as coley's spirit to give you ideas And I I didn't know how to answer that 10 boyfriend question. Okay. I had no idea What's the right answer how to go about it in their childlike mind? And god gave me that divine example and Uh, he's I said how many hearts do you have? And they said one and I said well You have only one heart to give And in that time you give it to your father So that he holds it in the time of the altar. That's why the father hands over the white hands over the daughter And and I was like you don't have all the hearts to give you only have one heart to give and um And so that's why we don't have boyfriends That's why we don't have girlfriends amen Because you only have one heart to give and god doesn't want you to have a broken heart And so they're very smart. They're like, well, what if the relationship doesn't work out? You know, and I'm like like, you know, you're dating and you don't want to marry them And I was like, well, you don't give them your heart you're dating them And so I'm like geez like they just keep going and going and going but I that was not me I'm like, I knew that was god's divine example because There's no other way to maneuver but for them to understand truly we must have a whole heart to give And it's not for everybody amen. It's just for your spouse that god has designed for you So open conversation open dialogue ask holy spirit for inspiration. He'll give him to you You know, my daughter asked me Mom, why don't we celebrate halloween and we cannot impasse your britney did such a wonderful job of saying Because I said so for us to avoid that because it causes them to try to find the answers in the world And we don't want that we want to be the ones to bring them an answer amen because we have jesus We should have wisdom we should have knowledge come on. We read the word of god We should have depth of being able to answer certain questions And so that she's like, well, why don't we celebrate halloween and halloween is very How do I say alluring for children candy dressed up fun? Like how dare you mom rob me of such joy, right? You know and if I just said because that's just how we do it They would have not been satisfied.  They had a couple nightmare attacks some fear Fear situations and I said do you remember that time you were scared? You had a nightmare and then you had this and this and they're like, yeah And I was like, do you want more nightmares? Do you want more fear? We don't celebrate darkness halloween is darkness. It's witchcraft It's they want to make it look innocent, but it's demonic and so I told them I'm like witches are there darkness there You're celebrating fear. You're celebrating darkness and we don't celebrate darkness And so slowly but surely I would chip away and try to do in different ways so that they would understand That it's not halloween. It's darkness. It's demons. It's demonic made it clear as day for them So when my emma went to preschool, she was like mom I told everybody that it's darkness and they should not celebrate halloween. I said you can't do it And they all looked at me weird mom and I was like, well, that's my emma And then ellie she's like, I'm the only one that doesn't celebrate halloween in my class And I asked her I'm like, are you okay with that? She said, yeah, I don't want to celebrate darkness I'm trying to get them to be convinced that it's demons.  Will she be going and I was like, okay Well, we'll talk about theory and all of that later like but I was like, don't say that to people Be like don't say that but it's so powerful that they truly will accept what you are telling them When you don't hide the answers or avoid telling them But you slowly and kindly ask holy spirit to help you answer the questions that they're asking for amen Don't doubt your parenting. You are their parent. God gave them to you You have authority and influence. That is the reason why God gave them to you amen So for us sometimes we doubt well, I don't have the right answer No, you ask holy spirit for inspiration. I assure you he will meet you amen Ask him invite him to give you the right things to say Open conversations music books videos. This is all over and this is something very challenging Right now even for all of us is that there's so much that they're absorbing into them And I have significantly prayed and I encourage each and every one of you I downloaded pure flicks and you know, it's not it's no netflix. Okay. It's no netflix, but But it's powerful and I pray specifically I said god I pray that you will help me land certain movies that will inspire them that will speak to them at their level And then I started finding these movies of their age kids praying for healing praying for kids that would be coming out of wheelchairs And they were absorbing all of this they were absorbing the miracles and they began to ask me Mom is this possible? Can god use me in this way? Can I do it? And now they're like I want to do that That's what I want to do and it's powerful because that is what called us all to do And for that to begin to be imparted in their identity and their core belief that god can use them even at a young age Amen So ask holy spirit to give you the right music the right things to be able to have them Ask the questions ask them. Is this possible? Is this real so that there's a dialogue that's open amen Is this blessing anybody? Come on the the last one for practical step is showing them you read the word exposure Some ministers that I've read it through books do this now. It almost feels like a setup, but it's not You know, we pray we read we praise god Expose it show off in front of them and I say that in the sense where you don't we have our secret place We have our hidden time with the lord But do it intentionally This is intentional parenting where they see that you read the bible They see that you lift up your hands and praise jesus when times are hard That you just want to because you know who he is that they see that you pray let them see Expose them and I would hear ministers like bill johnson danney silk and these great men and woman of god That they would do it on purpose so that they always saw what they did So they knew that mom. Why do you read the bible? Why do you do this? Why do you do that? So they ask it pulls them in does that make sense? And so that was another practical step is showing off that you love jesus so the next e so the first one is embrace the The kingdom mindset the second one is expose And the third one is experience is encounter And the practical step that I want to encourage each and every one of you Is that we have the power to create opportunities for them to encounter jesus We as parents carry the authority To charge the home atmosphere To charge the the car atmosphere or wherever you go That you are able to change and shift things That you're able to maneuver and allow for them to get touched by god See the thing is is that we don't want to force god on them. We want to invite them We want for them to get connected for them to freely come to jesus amen And I want to take this just deeper with a couple of examples that happened this happened a few years back and I My oldest daughter she's eight now. This was the time when she was six I was taking her to kina garden and on my way driving them to school I would turn on certain worship music praise music But this time around I was fixated with carry jobe Speak to me song. It's such a beautiful song and I just had it on replay And I just kept playing it playing it and on this very interesting special day And I was playing it and you know just having my time with the lord as i'm driving I turn around and I hear my my alley Is crying and she's saying mommy. What's happening to me? I'm feeling something. What is this and what's this what's going on? and I I tried my best not to say this in tears, but What happened is I created an opportunity for jesus to encounter her right in that car All it was was just you know worship music just doing what she regularly doing I wasn't forcing it. I wasn't telling her to raise her hands It was just creating and cultivating that culture Creating that atmosphere right in the car as I was taking her to school and at that moment at six years old She was able to she didn't know what it was and I that was my opportunity to not only for her to experience But my opportunity to tell her hey, this is jesus This is his presence and the seed was sown come on and then things started to happen Then she got baptized spoke it in tongues on unashamed Conference just those moments where we're causing them to be exposed and for them to have those encounters I want you to know is that we as parents have the authority to cause and cultivate for our for them to have an opportunity to experience god The enemy wants them to experience fear. He wants them to experience doubt He wants all of that but I want you to know there's power in your prayer There is power in how you go about things because you are the authority and say not in my house devil The atmosphere is here for god for holy spirit to touch them And so when there's heaviness in your home or you feel it you turn on that worship music You turn on that praise and then the atmosphere gets shifts Because then we get to understand that he's the king of kings and the lord of lords And then you remember that you're not a victim.  Sometimes we need that reminder So I want you to know is that you can charge the atmosphere because you are their parents And you are the carrier of his glory and you want them to carry his glory and So I said in the car in your behavior of your every day So when they go about, you know, you're doing grocery shopping, you're running errands You're going to and fro from work Use those opportunities for god just to do something And you want them to experience the love of god and also for the love of people I would I started asking holy spirit to use me even in the grocery stores. Oh my god Let me be an example to the girls Help me to be an opportunity for them to see that we as individuals are solutions That we are problem solvers. We don't bring problems So we solve problems because we have jesus And so I would have opportunities that I know I knew god did it Where and I'm saying this as an examples There'd be times where I'm standing in the grocery store line and someone in front of me did not have enough money They didn't have their card work. And so I came up to them and I said, I'm like, I just want to bless you Just no strings attached. I just want to bless you god loves you and just leave it at that And my girls were watching and they were seeing and and through that those were opportunities in the every day In the every day where you just allow holy spirit to use you in the slightest smallest to the greatest It doesn't matter but allow holy spirit to use you and in those moments they would see So now when they see the homeless even though again, that's it for a different discussion They're like mom help them. We have a solution. We have money. They they think different They see it differently that they are a helping hand to the people amen We can cause that to happen for those experiences and those encounters as holy spirit for them And he will meet you at the grocery store. He'll meet you in the car. He'll meet you in your living room He'll meet you in the kitchen wherever it is. He will cause and bring those encounters The last one here for practical steps is the nightlife I want to talk about this just slightly Dreams versus nightmares See the enemy wants to cause timidity in us in our children To remove the boldness and the courageous spirit that he's established inside of us for he has called us For the righteous are bold as lions. Amen. That is a promise in in the scriptures But what he wants to do is to create a place where he says I know that the night season is a vulnerable time to attack And so he want and when you're sleeping He wants to attack and and I would hear when I would work in the hospital That a lot of times in the pediatric floor they would say my kid is having nightmares constantly And that what they would say and say oh, that's just very normal at that age and at that stage Well, I don't want it to be normal I don't want them to be in the constant place of fear because it affects them in the day It starts to affect them in their personality It starts to make them feel like victims and timid and that's not what god wants He wants us to raise them up as warriors as people that are going to lead amen with boldness knowing that god is on their side and What I started to do with ilia my husband We started to pray that that god would encounter them at night Give them angelic I'm like Because my emma was starting to get attacked in the night should get in constant nightmares And I'm like no not today satan that is not going to happen in my home because I know I came from Constant nightmares growing up and I do not want that for her So we stood in the gap and we started praying and asking lord we pray for visitations We pray for you to encounter them in their dreams. Give them prophetic direction Give them the insight that you want just speak to them. Let them know that you are real through their dreams and We started to pray over the night life And my daughter ellie just turned eight this year My husband and I were uh as we were praying for her eighth year We felt something was special was going to happen. We didn't know exactly what but we had this feeling this impression That she's going to encounter jesus in some way and I would say about a month later so She woke up and she said mom Jesus came into my dream.  We're like, what is this? And it's so beautiful because it reminds me of that scripture where sometimes we want to rebuke what god is doing But jesus rebuke the disciples is let them come to me Let me go let them come to me that we don't get in the way of what god wants to do in them But he wants to Me and encounter them in the night He wants to encounter them in the car in the day when they come to service when they see things when they go to kids zone He wants them to experience Him That he is real That their core belief is that my god answers prayers that my god Heals that my god saves that he is greater than the devil amen That he is greater than any scheme of the enemy that could ever do and slowly But surely in these these examples that i'm just giving you is that little by little They're beginning seeds are being implanted in them believing that god exists That is not the god that I serve it becomes my god That this god met me in my dream He's establishing me amen that i'm not forcing we're not forcing on it But we're inviting the lord i'm like god you know them you know how to get to them you know their heart I'm giving you permission come in their dreams come in the car whatever way you need to I pray for your encounters to happen I encourage each and every one of you that you begin to pray and ask god Help my encounter my children wherever they're at if they are teenagers if they are wherever that you would Have them your prayers will go to them in the name of jesus that god hears our prayers And he knows that when you pray things shift amen and opportunities will occur And the last one is the e is equip Is equip You know we are their first teacher and I know I mentioned it a little bit earlier, but being parents we carry the responsibility of teaching them We carry that responsibility We are their teachers first and I just want to give just a five practical step for practical steps real quick Is number one is prayer Is this is a tool to equip them that they understand that when you pray When you knock he shall open the door when you say jesus he He's there that they know that there's power in prayer that there's a tool that if you are in urgency If you are sick that we can pray And to create that Attitude that they see you pray. Why do we pray as a church? There's power in prayer that we tell them that in equipping them. Hey, let's pray together in the night you know even Before today I got I got my girls and I said girls can you pray for me? I'm going to preach today and I just want you guys to bless me And it was just really funny. They both prayed the same thing. They said god Please don't let her mess up amen And And I was like, okay amen, and then amma preached the exact same thing. I was like, thanks you guys But anyways, it was just it was so funny but um because they saw a couple years back We did the bloopers 2021 or something and they're like you messed up that time We really hope you don't mess up this time and so the cutest thing But anyways, but prayer cultivating and I would invite them as I was believing for something If we were believing for a breakthrough financially I invited them in their in their mind to just be like, hey, can you stand with us? Let's pray together. Let's pray for this and I would report back to them. I said, did you know that prayer worked? I'm like that prayer worked. I let them know that The same thing with praise that's another thing to equip them in That we praise the king of kings and the lord of lords That he is our alpha in our omega that he has no rival that he is no one to be compared to He's our majestic god. He's the one that we serve. He is our savior And to show them and express to them the power of worship that it's a tool that the enemy hates our praise And so when you are down and when you're doubting you lift up your hands and praise them, amen So they see you praising in the car praising at church praising in your living room That you're creating that where they know and equipping them that these are the tools and the weapon of our warfare. Amen Participation as I mentioned I had them participate by praying for me before I came on here And uh, I have a testimony of my uh, my emma just a few months back I had this severe back pain and it wasn't going a lot going away It was night and day and I tried to ignore it like oh, it's no big deal It'll go away, but it was there constantly to the point where I had a hard time getting up and going down to sit down And it was excruciating where I told ilia. I was like I need to go to a chiropractor or something I need to figure it out So I was like, you know what this will be a great opportunity to Have my girls pray for me because I know god answers children So I said emma can you pray for me? So the first day she's like, okay I'm going to pray for you. I'm like just like that movie we saw god believe that god can heal your mom And so the first day we prayed and she said is it still there and I was like it is But we're gonna pray again tomorrow and so she prayed the second time And I was like praying as I'm like god, please just healers for her sake But I'm praying but I was like god just you know, you know use her use her faith But anyways as soon as she prayed the pain left The pain left it was gone It was so significant to me I was like, oh my gosh my pain is gone Like I was like in this odd shock right because the pain was constant every day to now none at all It has not come back and I told I'm like, do you see that god answers prayers I caused them to participate and sometimes when we're praying for people or you know, we're seeing the prayer in lines We involve them that when you pray things happen When you say the name of jesus demons shake and tremble and we're teaching them slowly But surely with given opportunity not to force them Not to force and demanding but allowing a holy spirit to meet them where they're at amen So their heart is open to understand and to invite the curiosity to go deeper amen And the last one is problems. I say that uh with the last p problems Is because I used to fear problems I used to fear for them to be rejected because no parent wants their children rejected amen I feared the bullying the rejection that I experienced growing up. Oh my god. I don't want them to have I don't want them to be bullied. I don't want a b and c to happen I don't want anything bad to happen But I realized that over time that those opportunities served me that those were the problems created Opportunities for me to teach them. So when they came back in our neighborhood They said mom someone called me this they person did that those gave me opportunities to equip them And I said hey, is that what you believe about yourself? No, and I'm like, well then what they say doesn't matter What an incredible tool to have for the rest of your life Amen where sometimes we accept what people say about us when it's not the truth Where they got bullied and I said hey, so you got to stand up for yourself this a b and c And so those were the problems That not to fear them but to utilize them has Points of equipping points of teaching them amen that you can help them out process things And and it's incredible because as soon as you teach them they absorb it They take it and they'll say it to their friends or to say it to themselves. So Through all of those things is number one embrace The kingdom mindset to is exposure Exposing them to that god is greater than the enemy that they'll ever face The third one is experience cultivating experience and encounters and you are able to give that to them We as parents people that are influencing in their lives We can offer that to them and the fourth one is equipping them teaching them morals values integrity Things of the bible things of the word of god these tools that are weapons prayer praise But helping them be participating and problem solvers Causes them to be warriors Causes them to be the leaders Causes them to be the light of this world amen Because I really believe that we are called to raise the next generation that they are not beneath But they are above that they are the head and not the tail as it says in deuteronomy 28 That they are always the head and not the tail Amen that they are the ones to bring solutions that they will lend and not borrow That they will have creative and innovative ideas that they will be able to establish god in the entertainment industry That they're going to be entrepreneurs They'll be able to make powerful changes in the government that they will be able to cause Shifts that we will not ride the wave, but we'll change the wave that we will challenge the enemy's culture And we say we're rising up with a different culture. Amen We're going to raise them up with significance with intentionality that these kids are marked by god That god has given them to me that I can make that generation that legacy But also that they're going to go out into the world onto unashamed clubs back to their schools and make a mark Just like this guy was saying that it's going to change the school Come on that they're going to do things that the enemy is trying to do and use our children The children are going to come back and say not in this place not in my time. Amen I truly believe that god is raising moses is that he's raising esters that he's raising debras that he's raising prophet Elijah's and as it says in acts two where it says that in the last days I will pour out my spirit and your daughters and sons they will dream dreams and they will prophesy That the power of god will be upon them and upon us Amen, and I truly believe that at this moment as coming to a close Is that I sense in my spirit as we pray that we change the way our mindset is I also believe that god wants to reconcile and redeem. I hear those two words in my heart Is to reconcile and to redeem Is that some of you may be grieving a time that I didn't raise them right and there's this condemnation in your spirit I want you to know is our god is a redeemer Through one touch through one encounter. That's all you need So are you as a parent that maybe you're sitting here and you're grieving right now that I didn't raise them right? I want you to know is that god can redeem and he wants you to be connected to their heart So they can be connected to jesus and he wants you to reconcile with your teenager He wants you to reconcile even if they're out of the house. It doesn't matter He wants to redeem your family and your family legacy. He doesn't want broken homes anymore He doesn't want broken parents anymore. He doesn't want broken families. He wants to reconcile you amen So if you feel that it's too late not in god's hands is not late If you surrender that relationship that's broken with your child and say holy spirit help me What can you do to reconcile for us to reconcile this? I want you to know he wants to save that he wants to redeem your relationship And through that you will begin to influence them to go closer to the lord amen How many of you guys are believing for that? Let's join up and let's pray come on We're gonna pray right now And i'm gonna have one of the ministers help me with the second prayer But the first prayer is saying god forgive me For slowly believing in the lie that children are a burden for me having that mentality For me having that mindset or even I confessed it And I want you to say god I want to believe and begin to have the kingdom mindset That you have given them to me as an inheritance and as a reward. Let's pray lord I thank you that you are breaking off lies right now That you're removing lies and deceptions that the enemy has been using to influence homes and families I thank you lord for the anointing that is here that is in this place That you're bringing them to believe that god you have chosen me as a parent to bring them to you lord To build them up to edify them to equip them I thank you god that lord we we want our minds to change for us to see that they are our Inheritance that you have given us a reward a reward and a blessing So lord I thank you that right now Hearts are melting lord that you're shifting mindsets that you're breaking off lies Those walls and those barriers in the mighty name of jesus lord We thank you lord for what you are doing inside of us right now in jesus name Right now. Let's pray That god will give us wisdom and strength and Understanding how to guide our children Closer to him how to train them up in the ways of the lord and those of you maybe that Your relationships are broken. Maybe there's Things that you've done that that that that is not in the ways of the lord and you you maybe carrying his guilt and shame And maybe you feel like the time has gone by that the lord will help you redeem and reclaim the relationship And god will restore your relationship with your teenagers. Maybe even with the with children has already Moved out of your house. Maybe they already have children of their own That god will help you to restore and reclaim those relationships And that your family will be restored and then through that you'll be able to influence them for the kingdom of god It's never too late to influence somebody for the kingdom of god for jesus. Amen Put your hand on yourself and begin to pray for your family begin to pray for your Relationships with your children begin to play maybe if you don't have children yet Begin to pray for legacy that god will be able to establish Legacy through you in your life in jesus mighty name father I pray for every person that is here in this place lord Maybe they have a broken relationship in their families with their children lord You are god or that is our redeemer lord you can redeem the situations even our own mistakes lord I pray father that you will restore families in this place I pray father that you restore relationships in this place Father I pray those relationships that are broken lord, especially for those that are still living in our houses or teenagers maybe Or even already became an adult's father that you will help us lord to reclaim those relationships god You help us to restore those relationships god to have that heart to heart connection With our children in the mighty name of jesus christ lord and they will be able to influence them for your kingdom lord I pray that you give us wisdom to raise god our children for you Lord that we will master god and And steward god them The way you've called us to do the god because it's your children at the end of the day lord They come through us into this world and that there will be lord that we will have wisdom how to Lead them lord in your ways in the mighty name of jesus christ father We pray for restoration of families.   He's inviting you To make him the lord of his life of your life If you need to come back to the lord if you need to Give your life to him make him the lord of your life today is your opportunity and today is your time Lift your hands in this place and we'll pray for you. We want to we will introduce you to the greatest person in this world His name is jesus whether you're in this sanctuary or in the second sanctuary we have Ministers that are ready to pray for you or minister to you.  So those of you that want to maybe receive Prayer for something for your family or maybe for your health or for freedom Or just you need somebody to partner with you in prayer Our minister team is going to be up front ministering here in first century and second century


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