Explicit Youth: September 1, 2021

[Music] hi families hi parents hi family family members um we honor you tonight we love you we are so glad you guys came and joined us um so yeah we're excited all right where are my students at is that it where are my students at yeah awesome students we love you thank you so much for constantly coming to explicit every week it means the world us we love you more than you even know so thank you guys for faithfully showing up it's gonna be a great night so who's ready to get into some worship all right all right so i'm just wanna invite you guys to stand up right now and who's ready to go after jesus tonight with everything we have come on guys let's get there with him so i invite you come to the front and let's just let's just go there with jesus tonight amen let's get it [Music] so [Music] [Music] i was lost but he brought me in [Music] [Applause] i am in my father's house there's a place for me i'm a child of god yes i am [Music] [Music] jesus died for me what he do is free there's a place for me oh it's free there's a place [Music] [Music] i am [Music] is me is there's a place i am [Music] [Music] i'm a child of god yes i am come on sing it out you're declaring this in my father's house there's a place [Music] there's a place [Applause] house there's a place [Applause] [Music] yes we are in our father's house there's a place just for us we are children [Music] lord we just thank you that you've made room for us god we thank you that you've made space for us we thank you that when we come to you you never turn us away god but you're standing with open arms arms wide open lord we thank you that you celebrate each and every single one of us in this room tonight god [Music] and so we say that we love you jesus and we honor you god and we thank you so [Music] we thank you for your say thank you thank you [Music] it's time for the sleeper to wait it's time for the old ways to change i hear the spirit say it's time yes it is yes it [Music] the is light to shine oh i hear the spirit say it's time [Music] let [Music] glory [Music] it's time for the sleeper to wake it's time for the old ways to change [Music] it's [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] let the king [Music] [Music] let the king glory [Music] glory [Music] how many of you how many of you know that when you praise the lord something happens something shifts when you welcome the lord in with praise [Music] yeah keep clapping we praise the lord things shift in the atmosphere when we praise the lord come on offer up the clap as a praise [Music] we praise i you we praise you lord come on keep clapping something grace and we praise the lord [Music] open up the windows let the light in open up the windows let the lighting open up the window let the light let the light let the light open [Music] up the window is [Music] glory [Music] let the king of glory let the king of glory come riding [Music] [Music] let the king of glory we make room for you let the king glory we make room for you jesus so let the king of glory let the king of glory let the king of glory [Music] can we just open up our hands like this like we're opening up our hearts before the lord and we're singing let the king of glory let the king of glory just sing that to him let the king of glory we [Music] glory let the king glory let the king glory let the king of glory [Music] we love you we love you we love you we just love you jesus we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Applause] up here on the mountain i've got so many questions still your face is the only thing i won't see up here on this mountain i've got so many questions [Music] i've heard you're still small boys yet i still want more but i'm not satisfied no no [Music] i love to see [Music] keep my eyes on you you're the center of i don't wanna miss her glitch [Music] [Applause] [Music] i've got so many questions [Music] still your face is the only thing i want to see [Music] and i still want more but i'm not satisfied with keep my eyes on you you're the center of my life oh come on [Music] i don't wanna miss just one morning jesus we just wanna see you and see you rightly thank you for the journey [Music] every second with you thank you for the journey come on [Applause] every second with you thank you thank you for the journey and keep my eyes on you you're the center of my life [Music] is [Applause] [Music] i don't wanna miss a glimpse of you [Music] [Music] cause we're the just one look everything changes i'm captivating i'll never be the same come on with just one look everything changes i'm captivated i'll never be the same jesus we're just everything changes [Music] i'm captivated i'll never be the same everything changes and i'm captivated i'll never be the same with just everything i'll never be the same [Music] uh oh i don't wanna miss a glimpse of you oh [Music] come on just take a second and look at him [Music] if it's true that with just one look everything changes then maybe it's time for us to just start looking at jesus maybe it's time for us to stop looking at anything else around us and just focus on jesus i don't know about you but i need things to change in my life too i got some stuff that jesus needs to change so right now would you join me and just look at him for a little bit come on just look at him [Music] um [Music] [Music] me [Music] so [Music] is is [Applause] is is [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] we don't want to miss a good [Music] keep my eyes [Music] [Applause] and keep my eyes on you you're the [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] jesus we don't want to miss a glimpse of you come on can we just say that together jesus we don't want to miss a glimpse of you we want everything that you have for us tonight come on can you just say that i want everything that you have for me tonight jesus every single thing there's this famous quote that everybody says take the world but give me jesus i feel like that's the attitude that we got to come in here tonight with take the world you can have every single thing that this world has to offer but give me the one man give me the one man that sacrificed everything for me give me the one man that can restore my family that can redeem that can renew give me that man named jesus come on can we just have that attitude tonight as we step into everything to the word to transitions to ties and offering let us not let us not lose sight of that image of jesus i want you tonight come on jesus we want you tonight we want you we want you in jesus name in jesus name amen y'all can get into your seats if you have not been too explicit welcome to our explicit family we welcome you if this is your first time we welcome you as you guys are getting seated i want to invite someone very special for announcements samantha leyva come on come on yeah it's her first time doing announcements that she's about to kill it okay hey turn around to the person to the left of you and say are you ready are you ready for today okay i think you said it to the wrong person so say it to the person to the right of you and be like are you ready tonight are you ready for what god has come on come on our announcements okay quick announcements if you are a parent we want to connect with you and if you have not been receiving any of our informational uh emails that we send out to you we want to get your email so parents make sure you connect with miss kami miss kami are you here right now yep right there miss kami she's raising her hands she'll have a table in the rotunda after service so parents make sure you connect with her and on sunday okay sundays every sunday 9 45 a.m we have sunday bible school okay we have sunday bible study for all students and for leaders as well but we're starting from now on 9 45 until forever okay some other what you got okay hey guys um next week is our last week of the series made to influence do not miss it here's a pretty good word don't miss it um next friday at 6 p.m we are having a dinner to honor all the fine arts coaches and fine arts parents be there guys come on yeah let's honor let's honor some people okay well we got pastor will coming up everybody do ties in offers come on pastor well [Applause] what's up ex listen how y'all feeling y'all good yeah i'll give your parents a round of applause tonight they came out they came out and showed love with explicit tonight so i actually have a um a small story that relates heavily with the parents um and it transitioned also sent to ties an offer so when i was in high school where are my seniors is any seniors in the building five of you hello um when i was a senior one of the main things that was on my mind my senior year outside of graduating is mama i want a car senior do y'all feel me okay i'm sorry i already have one so i wanted a car and one of the things i just kept begging my mom for i was like i want a car i want a car and guess what she told me y'all she said i'm not buying you no car because you don't even wash the dishes i said what do washing dishes have to do with anything of me driving around the city and not having to ask you to go anywhere she said well i'm not going to give you a big responsibility if you can't have the responsibility that you stood in over now and i was like oh so you went bible on me okay i can't argue with that but one thing that example showed me was one of the prayers that we always pray as believers is you know god enlarge my territory i want more i want more but one way i know that my god operate in is he's not going to give you more than you can handle and he's not going to give you more distort over if you're not stewarding over what you already have now so as we're going into ties and offering this is an opportunity to steward over the things that we have now whether that's our finances whether that's our time whether that's our physical presence of you guys being here tonight i just wanted to change your your process of thinking about ties and offering and just the things that i have it's not about how much i have it's about the things that i do have and my student over those things will so i want to read a bible verse to you i'm coming out of luke 16 and 10. it says whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much and whoever is dishonest with very little will be dishonest with much so with that being said are you going to be honest or dishonest with the things that you're storing over tonight kill your guys by your head and let's pray over the offer heavenly father thank you i just thank you for this opportunity for us to be in this room um to shine a light on your kingdom heavenly father god a symbol of your love as always with family god i just want to say thank you for allowing family in the room and this is what family revival looked like i just pray everything and also the speaker prayer of the speaker in the tizen offering as well tonight as well god and we put all these things into your hand in jesus name i pray amen give it up for pastor will here tonight we love pastor will real quick we have a special special special night uh if you could look around you see your parents you see the smiling come on this is a special night parents we welcome you here tonight come on give it up for your parents one more time guardians grandparents come on oh you can do better than that come on yeah there you go and it's also a special night because we have uh guests tonight they're not guests they're our spiritual fathers and um we love them so much so can we give them an explicit welcome to pastor and pastor becky come on pastor jim and pastor becky in the house yeah come on come on come on yeah yeah yeah come on we love you guys thanks should i i would like to have the um staff explicit staff pastor danny pastor rachel pastor rod pastor tip pastor tiffany uh kami john will paul where are you guys i need you guys to do something for me come on up here real quick okay so i need to know who's in the house before i speak so what we're going to do here is uh rod and tiff are going to get the junior high kids to give us a cheer or a shout or something right rachel and danny high school kamie john parents will where's pastor paul is he not here tonight okay you represent everybody who's not a student or a parent okay so all the leader all the what leaders college kids or or whatever all right so all right so we need to let's find out who's in the place all right who's i'm not a youth or a parent but you're here let me hear all the leaders all right high school junior highs [Applause] pretty good pretty good any parents awesome okay great thank you guys i just needed to know who is here good give it up for your explicit leaders come on the team you're always a cheerleader but i asked you so here's a secret you might not know about me but when i was in junior high in high school i wanted to be a cheerleader but we dressed like this that meant no pants are short so i couldn't be a cheerleader because those short skirts that they wore so when i got to bible school they had long skirts and i was a cheerleader for my freshman year so i remember it i was i was taken with your short skirt it was a long skirt okay but anyway this is an honor right to be here this is like really cool it's been a long time since we've had kids in the youth group our youngest is 31 so that's been a long time ago danny asked me to come and speak probably once a decade or so [Laughter] all right awesome when he asked me to speak this time my instinct is to get a teaching that's what i do i've some of you have been i was all your life listening to me teach and last time i looked i have about 10 000 teachings and i don't maybe one or two of them marked somebody's heart in a significant way but i've really been praying that i don't know just that tonight i guess the point i'm trying to make is i don't have a teaching yet i don't know what to say to you because i don't want to just give you information i want to impart some things to you i want to what i really want to say to you and i don't know how to say it i'm sorry you were going to go first and now just hijack the whole thing but i just want you to know that i love you so much you know malachi says that says that the way to remove the curse from the earth is for the hearts of the fathers to turn to the hearts of the children hearts the sons and the daughters and i just i know that all the old people in our church really don't like me as their pastor anymore because my heart is completely turned to you appreciate you chuckling at that but that's kind of true but i just want you to know that um becca and i love you so much we're so thankful for you and just before we even say words tonight i just want to pray that whatever happens tonight would mark your heart deeply like a brand that you could never get rid of and that's asking a lot because you've been in a lot of youth services and and yet how many of you think the lord might want to do something for us that he's never done before so can we just could we just pray that over the next few minutes the holy spirit would guide back in me to just i don't know do whatever he wants not what we want not what feels like oh we should take 20 minutes and teach you a lesson i don't want to do that will you pray with me do you mind just like if you can just get on your knees and pray with me father when i look at the people that are in this room when i when i saw them out in the foyer you know playing ping pong and eating andy's custard and loving one another and i saw the dynamics of relationships and i saw i don't know i just saw your sons and daughters and i just saw how precious they are to to you and i don't even know what you're doing in my heart tonight to make them so precious to me but i just ask that these next few moments lord you would yeah just mark our hearts just mark our hearts lord in a profound way and let us get past you know it's already been said so i think it's the heart of the holy spirit lord let's just get past the spiritual activities and the protocols and then you know announcements i love the announcements everything's important but god you're important to us tonight and i just asked that you would just calm just show up lord again all i know to say is just mark all of our hearts tonight with your presence and your love and uh help beckon me steward this time well give us ears to hear what your spirit is saying so that we can deliver it to these precious precious young people and their parents thank you jesus amen i'm sorry you weren't ready for that i prayed that you would know what to say and you don't know what to say well i have a teaching you make me feel very unspiritual by having something to say here but i am preparing a message for sunday and the past two days i've just been so um caught up in this story i want to share a little bit with you because we get to decide what our family looks like you get to decide what your family looks like you might be thinking about what your parents have decided your family looks like but i just want to encourage you parents that you get to you get some choices in the matter but young people you also get to and the story of joseph shows us that because joseph's dad was jacob changed to israel he had such an amazing encounter with god i mean he was a scoundrel he kind of manipulated people as he was a young person you know but as he got older and the responsibilities of life uh got his attention there came a moment when he had this most profound encounter and experience with god so much so that god changed his name from jacob to israel and so that's where the story kind of begins right now but even before that he is in the line of secession of god is the god of abraham isaac and jacob so there was a family legacy there was a family destiny god created abraham's destiny to be the father of a new a new people a godly people a people who would follow him of people who would serve him and he said if you obey me and if you follow after me all these blessings i'm going to give you this land and it's i'm going to show the world people who don't believe in me as god i'm going to show them how i bless you and that's god's design is to use the family to show the world how he blesses his people so good because i'm telling you there's nothing in my neighbors and people that i meet in the in the city in government and any any place that care they care only basically about their family if you start talking about their family you get their attention you can go down here when we first moved down here and these big houses on pleasant run and we began to meet some families in their professional football players and very wealthy people and i'm telling you every house after house after house had family issues kids on drugs divorce um unfaithfulness all kinds of things like that and so you talk to somebody about their family and you get their heart you get their attention and so here we see god starting the family of course with adam and eve but we're talking about his godly family too his church family his people from abraham isaac and we come to jacob and jacob has an encounter he kind of went away from god in his own heart but god brought him back had an experience and he loved god and he brought healing him and esau kind of got back together and so he had this moment of experience with god but when we get to joseph 17 years old in this story he begins and his dad is where's this jacob guy who became israel where's this spiritual leader life has just brought hard things into his life to where he has once again become maybe cool towards the things of god and it's usually as we think it's usually the parents responsibility to keep the fires burning to keep the legacies going but sometimes life gets to the point where we see our parents or those who are supposed to lead the spiritual atmosphere of the home they become maybe uh disappointed with life and it impacts their relationship with god and so maybe you know your parents are on fire for god and they lead in family devotions and they are leaders in the church and they are godly men and women and that's awesome that's the way it's supposed to be but sometimes we find ourselves in a home where our parents aren't on fire for god and we are like now what does that mean for me well joseph joseph led the way he led his family back he's 17 years old and he has this commitment to serve god no matter what he's just like you know i i've had this dream i'm i'm like i you guys i had this dream two dreams two crazy dreams and one of them was where him and his brothers were getting these sheaves of wheat together you know and his his sh is it called a sheep is that what it's called bundle of wheat you know stands up straight and the others bow down to him you know but in as i was studying that i'm like somewhere along the line joseph knew that the calling of god was on his life to where he stood up he stood up and he's just like i am not going to bow down i am going to stand up and i am going to take what god has placed on my life and i'm going to go go for it i'm going to walk it out and he was different than his brothers his brothers were sorry his brothers were like losers they turned their back on god they turned their back on their family and all they cared about was themselves but here's joseph the only one in his family he had a godly legacy but at this point of history he was the only one who says i'm i'm going after god i'm going to do whatever it takes i'm going to be the leader i'm go i believe he began to prophesy over himself he's just like hey you guys the sun and the moon and the stars that's you you guys all bowed down to me you know he began to prophesy over his greatness over his future and when he began to prophesy over god's calling over his life stuff began to happen and he went through a process and he went through a test and you know the story right about joseph that his brothers got so angry with him because his father loved him more than any of the other brothers and gave him this code of many colors and as i was studying that you guys i've never seen this in this life before but some of the commentaries that i talked about said that when his father gave him this code of many colors like the rainbow you know the seven colors of the rainbow it was actually a mantle an anointing for greatness and so god had predestined joseph to greatness and joseph took on that calling he took on the medal he didn't shy away from it he didn't just pooh-pooh it and say oh you know i'm just like everybody else no he knew he was different but he got tested his brothers hated them and they and they beat him up and they threw him into a pit then they sold him into slavery and we see for for for 13 14 years he goes from being a slave to the midianites to being a servant in potter and potiphar is that the first one potiphar's house and then he gets tested by potiphar's wife but you know what every test he stands up straight and tall he does not bow down and through that testing through his ear his late teen years his early 20 years he remains faithful in the hardest of times and then we know the end of the story right that god after the testing is over his dreams it is the prophetic words that he spoke of him how many of you got a prophetic word by sherman dumas or somebody you've had a prophetic word over your life you guys that prophetic word star puts your life on a on a trajectory towards greatness the prophetic word when you begin when people begin to speak over you when you begin to joseph had to speak over himself he had to prophesy over himself but after the test when he came out of it and now he's the second ruler of the world that would be enough right he saved the whole civilized world from starvation that's pretty amazing right that the blessing was on him to become a reformer and to change the world but what was the ultimate outcome of that family revival he was restored back to his brothers you guys the ones who were sorry scoundrels almost killed him sold him into slavery can you i mean you guys think you have bad brothers and sisters come on you guys they these guys they sold him into slavery and then they lied to their father about it but can you imagine the guilt that those brothers carried all their life and the regret anybody have some regrets in your family and they had regret and yet when joseph saw them he realized that the enemy meant it for evil but what did god do god used it for good right for the salvation of his family and his family was saved from starvation but more than that his family was restored back to relationship he was restored back to his father his father was able to come in and be blessed everything that jacob had lost as a father was restored back to him and more and i'm telling you i just want to say that over you today you can be a joseph generation you get to choose if you're going to be one of the brothers and just be swayed to and fro by your emotion and the disappointments of life or if you're going to be a joseph and stand up and say god's calling is on my life he's got a plan for my life and it's a good plan and it's not just for me to prosper and do good but it's to bring good to the world which ultimately brings good to your family you can change the destiny of your family by just choosing to stand up and serve god with all your heart and so that's what i had to talk about so how many of you here today let me just see before we go any further you like just becky i want to be a joseph come on come on stand up if that's you today whether you're a parent or a student or a leader and you're like i i want that on my life i want to be a a man or a woman of god that makes a difference in this world and in my family father i just pray right now in the name of jesus lord jesus i just speak over them this these are josephs these are young men and women who will not bow down they will stand tall and they will bring you glory and they will bring you honor and they're going to walk through life no matter what life brings them and they will not turn their back on you but you are going to anoint them with power and influence lord jesus and wisdom and strategy and perseverance that that when they come out through lord on the other side of their life you're they're going to see the hand of god on them and i bless them and i activate yeah i activate in them the joseph anointing in jesus name amen come on give the lord praise come on [Applause] that was that was that was amazing um everybody just say influence i looked it up it um means it means the capacity to have an effect so joe's defend influence the capacity to have an effect and i love that really that's what christians are mainly about is influence you know salt light i love that paul says pretty much everybody's under the influence of something he says you can be under the influence of alcohol you give me under the influence of the holy spirit and i feel like i feel like when you think about influence everybody has it everybody has it like um you're influencing the room right now you know did you know when we started clapping what what did chelsea say she said we changed the atmosphere that's influence that's influence you have influence when you when you i mean where you sit in the room is influence where how you participate the words the smiles the laughter everything you do is influence and what you need to understand about influence is that typically we transmit influence by the influences that have come to us does that make sense to you it's like my mom will say you look just like your dad you you that's something your dad would say well duh i lived with him for you know a long time so his influence sometimes shows up shows up in my in my words my life my attitude my approach and a crit i guess i guess what a christian does when it comes to the idea of influence a christian says i'm going to be really deliberate about who i allow to influence me and how i transmit influence to everybody else i'm really deliberate about it i'm not just going to sit back and let whatever not just because come on this is a world that really has motivation to influence you wow right i mean they want to gosh they want you to spend money they want you to you know get into the things that they're wanting you to get into so there's a whole lot of motivation and yet the simple idea of being a follower of christ a disciple of christ and say i have made a calculated decision that the thing that will influence me the most is g is jesus the christ see i had a last night i was with a guy a very very mature christian very very mature and he's about to take off in a really important spiritual like a big faith leap for him and he said i'm really excited to do it but i'm just really scared of one thing i was like well what's that he's like i'm just i have not forgiven my brother for something he did i think it was five years ago a long time ago so i just i can't forgive him and i was like he's like i know for me to get the blessing of god over here i have to forgive my brother for this but i can't forgive him and so i'm scared and so i thought through all the little techniques about forgiveness so like oh well this is how you forgive and this is what you did nothing was working finally i ended up just saying listen it boils down to faith do you believe that god's ways are smarter and better than your ways or do you believe your ways are smarter and better than god's ways because god says you have so it boils down to faith and when it comes to you're deciding who is going to first of all influence you so that out of your life comes influence it's a it's a matter of faith it just comes to the issue of do i believe that god is smarter than everybody else in the world so will i allow his words and his ideas and his values become the primary influence in my life does that make sense to you um i'm sorry for that little spiritual experience i had at the beginning i'll get over it real quick i'm sure guys when i look at y'all when i look at you i just can't tell you what what goes through my spirit when i see you when i see parents here tonight i'd first can i make a list because that's what i do the firs i just when i see you i see core value number three it's like what what incarnation is that core value number three core value numbers one day one day when i was asking god to help me lead this church he just gave me four core values and i wrote down for hours like the values that we were supposed to build our church on core value number three was legacy and with the word legacy came the sentence and the sentence was that the next generation has great potential both for good and for evil and my job was to bring out the good so when i look at you i'm just like oh god oh god i've been pastoring here for 27 years now and i just can't help but wonder i just can't help but wonder if the lord tarries for the next 27 years are you guys going to manifest the value systems and the the influences of the world are you going to influence the kingdom of god because i i've given my life to four things and number three is you this is you i when i when i look at you i i see this can i stand up too when i look at you i see the holy ghost in you i see the holy spirit i just see the same spirit that raised jesus from the dead the same spirit that led joseph through all of his spiritual formation that same holy spirit is inside this room and it's inside your body and i see that and i think oh my god what could happen with a group of people i mean gideon had 300 people who were filled with the holy spirit what could happen if this generation if we would just just awaken to the reality that the spirit of god was inside us when when i look at you i i think about god's promises for the last days you know the bible's pretty clear that in second timothy chapter three that the last days are going to be filled with the perilous times the bible says and it's really specific as to what those perilous times are going to look like and it says it says that you know men are going to be lovers of themselves and that people are going to be lovers of money and there's going to be a lot of anger and strife and fighting and people are going to prefer a form of godliness instead of the real thing and i mean it just goes through a real litany and it says this is one of the things that bothers me the most because i just challenge my own spirit sometimes it says that what will happen in the last days is that believers will stop progressing they will just get saved and stay there or just get saved and then go to church and stay there and not keep conforming into the image of the son of god that's the characteristic of perilous days which i believe we're living in perilous days that will just settle for whatever level of godness we're carrying around but the contrast to perilous days is acts chapter 2 when the prophet joel was picked up by peter and you guys know the holy spirit came on 120 in the upper room and people didn't understand it and they said and peter explained it he says he said this is what had been promised by the prophet joel and he says in the last days paul said in the last days there's going to be perilous times but peter said in the last days i'm going to pour out my spirit on all flesh of my sons and my daughters and they're going to be dreams they're going to be visions there's going to be prophecies and so we've got this this this ability to choose what will influence us in the last days we had this ability to go to go okay i'll just get swept up in the in the momentum of perilous times i'll just get caught up in the cultures of the world and just participate and give my influence because the influence that you receive transmits it's inevitable it's inevitable you guys are transmitting influence right now some of you are nodding some of you are looking at your phone some of you fold in your arms you are transmitting influence you have learned that influence somewhere that influence is being transmitted into the room and i'm just saying unless you get really deliberate about saying i'm going to be influenced by the outpoured the promise of the outpouring of the holy spirit i'm going to be influenced by the holy spirit that is alive in me way more than i'm going to be influenced by the value systems of this world if not if you're just neutral you get caught up in whatever is the loudest when i look at you i just i just see core value number three and i see the world that you're living in the perilous times and i see the holy spirit in you and i see god's promises and i i see the call of god on you i do i see the call of god on you this malachi passage has just got it's just eating me up y'all it's just unbelievable parents it's not the job of the children to turn their hearts toward us not first the first responsibility is for the parents to turn their hearts toward their children and it says it says that it says that before this comes the elijah will visit and the spirit of elijah you know that's such an intriguing idea because it was talking about john the baptist coming to prepare the way for for jesus but then that whole spirit of elijah thing also has some in some some some more layers to it i guess is the way to say it and the spirit of elijah is the spirit of a father and i think that's what god's been doing in my heart more than anything lately it's just yeah i mean you guys have heard me talk about it i mean i feel like i failed as a father in my own natural family in so many ways and i felt such i felt such condemnation i felt such shame over the way i behaved as a father i chose the church over my family in so many instances and as a result you know some of my kids aren't living for the lord right now you know thank god for katie she's amazing but the truth of the matter is you know god's helped me get past the shame of it to be a father and i want to be a father to you i want to be i want to be a father i want to you know bec wants to be the cheerleader and i want to be the protector and the provider i don't know i just want to see i just want to see you reach your potential i want to see you come into your glory that's really that's really what i came to say i i feel like the spirit of elijah is among us and and there's an evidence that i mean what does it say it says that when when this happened when the father's hearts turn toward the children and my deaf mind has turned mind is turned toward you when that happens it says the curse that's on the land will be broken so when we talk about family revival we're not we're not just talk we're yes we're talking about marriage is getting better and we're parents getting along with their kids better and their kids get but we're talking about something that is so dynamic that it shifts the atmosphere of the world and that's why we're contending for it so hard and the secret for me has been to pray over you this ephesians 3 prayer and i know that if you've been on sundays at all you've you're probably worn out with it but i just want to i just want to pray it over you i i want to 3 i just want to say it and then i have one more thing i want to do and you'll ask why can't he be that short on sundays this is ephesians 3 beginning with verse 14 and it says for this reason i bow my knees to the father of our lord jesus christ and again paul was a spiritual father and he he he saw what i what i think i'm seeing he saw perilous times coming in and he said saw the almost the competition for your hearts with the holy ghost the competition you guys are the spoil can i just say the devil is so nervous right now because he sees your potential and there's this there's a warfare over the destiny of your families there's a warfare of the destiny of your lives paul says for this reason i bow and i just love the fact that he bows because bowing is the symbol of choosing who will influence you that's why i had us bow you can you can be you can walk alongside your peers you can you know you can be out in the hallway and you even like hanging out with me and i'm just i'm just saying when you bow you are acknowledging jesus you are the king you are the lord of my life so i am bowing before you which is my deliberate decision to say you have more influence over me than anything else for this reason i bow my knees to the father of our lord jesus christ and he begins to pray and i again i i grew up hearing all the reasons why we should pray but i'm just going to tell you the world the world cannot get repaired without an infusion of god and god is not going to do anything unless we get on our knees and pray i'll just tell you the truth my family is so messed up but my son seems so far away that counseling is not going to fix it and sending apologies is not going to fix it it's going to take some high level activity of god and i don't know how your family is but i'm just going to tell you if it's not for your family it needs to be for somebody you care about there has to be a high level activity of god coming into our midst and that will only happen when there's somebody that says okay i'm going to get on my knees i'm going to let the influence of the holy spirit be the dominant influence of my life for this reason i get on my knees before the father from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named and again i'm trying not to just teach all this all the things that god has shown me about this prayer but i just will say there's destiny over our family y'all i some of you have natural families some of you your church is your main family some whatever but i'm just saying there's a name over your family jacob became israel i don't know what we're going to become but we're going to become something that manifests the glory of god all right there's a name there's a name so every family is named that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man i said that really fast did you listen can i say it one more time what did he pray this is the content of his prayer that you would that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man and i just want to repent for all the small prayers that i've prayed over you guys i just want to repent that you would be less promiscuous i want to that i prayed that i pray that you would be less promiscuous i prayed that you would stop smoking weed i prayed that you would get better grades i prayed stupid small prayers when paul says if you would just pray that this generation would be strengthened from the inside by the power of the holy spirit then all these other things are just going to line up i apologize for praying such pitiful prayers over you when i should have been praying that you would be filled with the holy spirit that the inside would be a roaring passion for the lamb of god for his glory to be in the earth if i just prayed that i wouldn't have to pray these these puny prayers that christ may dwell in your hearts through faith father just pray that you would help us please you with our faith how many how old do you need to be before you can start having faith you're old enough whatever right faith do you know what overcomes the world do you know what overcomes the world yeah would you just say it am i losing you i see people walking around am i losing you have fun going too long all right i'm going to ask a question and the answer is faith okay the question is do you know what overcomes the world do you guys ever pray do you pray for one another do you pray that we would together have faith faith overcomes the world faith caused my friend last night to say okay i'll forgive my brother because god is smarter than me that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints the width the length the depth the height to know the love of christ to know the love of christ the past is knowledge it's not even a sentence that makes sense how do you know something that is unknowable but the invitation is there to know the dimensions of a deep dimension of god's love that we've never experienced before and that you may be here here it is again filled with all the fullness of god again i apologize for praying such pitiful prayers over you when i should have been praying the whole time is that you'd be filled with the fullness of god i should have been praying that for your parents that instead of the fact that they would have wisdom and know how to raise their children that they would be filled with the fullness of god should have been praying that over our church not that we would grow or that we would meet the budget or that we would somehow get the piece of property that we needed or open a new campus what i should have been praying is that the church would be filled with the fullness of god now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works inside us to him be glory in the church by christ jesus to all generations [Music] forever and ever i'm going to pray too i'm not sure how long you wanted me to talk are we good this is so weird this is so weird but i feel like the lord said that i was to activate influence the influence of the holy spirit the influence of of a hunger the influence of the kingdom in over the first 25 people who came and stood here so i don't know who would be interested in being one of the 25 one two three four five six seven eight 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 32 33 24 25 thank you do you know why you came did you hear it why you why you came i'd like to activate in you what if what i prayed to the beginning is what i'm going to pray now that god would put a mark in your heart that would that would never go away and only progress can i pray that over you here's really what i'm going to pray i'm going to pray i'm going to pray that you would experience the glory of god i feel like this is a generation that knows a lot about the presence of the lord and maybe even the anointings of god but when we were singing songs about just one glimpse of you we're we're talking about we're talking about something of god that so consumed so like my moment with the glory of god was in argentina you've heard me tell this before probably but i was in argentina it was a i was at a meeting where um thousands and thousands of people were listening to an evangelist his name was carlos anaconda he was preaching and when he got through preaching in spanish i don't know what the sermon was about when he got when he finished he prayed for people and all these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people fell down little guys and stretchers picked them up have you heard me tell this story before little guys and stretchers picked them up took them to the demon tent i was with a guy named steve hill and steve hill's like come on let's go in the demon tent and i'm like there's no way i'm going in the demon tent i'm not going to see demons he's like no come on you need to see it he influenced me so i went into the demon tent and what i saw in the demon tent was and i don't know that i've ever really when i was rehearsing that today it occurred to me that most of the people i was watching in the demon tent were young people they were young people and they were laying hands on the i saw people that night who were barking like dogs chasing people who were meowing like cats i saw literally people levitating under the power of darkness their feet were not touching the ground they were up in the air i saw things i'd never seen before but i saw people just like you laying hands on these demonized people of argentina and the power of the holy spirit what just set them free and then sometimes in just a few minutes they walked out in complete peace it was the most amazing thing i'd ever seen but it changed me forever never again could i settle for church budgets and committees and deacons and elders and let's make sure that the bathrooms are clean i mean i've just like it wrecked me and again i'm sorry i'm sorry that i did not steward that well but my prayer for you is that you would encounter the glory of god so if we could have some musicians if you guys could stand everybody stand would you stretch your hands toward these 25 moses asked for the glory and that's why he got to see it so go ahead and ask him we're asking not just for you but we're asking on behalf of a generation we're asking on behalf of a generation for the glory of god because we're not we're not going to settle for forms we're not going to settle for forms of godliness we're not going to settle for religious routines we're not gonna settle for bible studies or pizza parties those are great i'm just saying what we need is the glory of god and i just pray for your daughters now that the glory of god would be upon the lord and that they would be oh god influencers i call them influencers i activate influence as they pursue the glory of god as they find the face of god father i just release over them now over this twin this remnant people this 25 people i release over them now a heart of god that will not settle for oh anything less anything less than the manifestation of your goodness in the earth father we know that there are perilous times we understand that oh god our families have been influenced by peril we know that we know that there have been lord there have been there's wreckage there's there's fear there's anxiety in the world but god your spirit you have promised you have promised that in the last days you would pour out your spirit upon us us that's the father i mark these hearts now we're never going to be the same say it confess it i'll never be the same i've never been saying i guess the greatest influence of my life is jesus your ways your wisdom father these are the glory seekers right here these are the glory chasers right here thank you god thank you god father show us your glory show us your glory let this generation see your glory i don't care how i don't not a lord don't let it be the same way that you sh i saw your glory god this generation must see your glory [Music] and so we're asking for it ask one more time show me your glory come on just say it those of you everybody but just the 25 show me your glory show me your glory show me your glory show me your glory now here's here's what i'd like here here are some very very specific things that i am now commissioning you to do the 25 the 25. now guys this is for parents this is for people who walked in off the street everybody anybody that wants to participate you're certainly welcome to i'm going to give some instructions and when it's your time to participate you can just shake your head and we'll we'll know that you don't want to participate and when nobody god himself does not force he just doesn't force himself on anyone but what's going to happen now is these 25 who came forward are about to activate you they're about to activate you as influencers um i i think let me see how i want to do this there's about four things that i think we can really take territory over tonight i'm looking at the clock i don't know what time we're supposed to stop i don't i really don't i should have asked what all the parents are here right i mean you should be all appearances so i want to i want us to take territory over the orphan spirit right now i don't know if you if you remember how that happened but what happened was adam and eve sinned and the consequence of their sin as parents went right into the into their children and cain murdered abel and the consequence of his murder was the bible says he became a vagabond he lost his home he lost his home he had to travel and that orphan spirit was birthed right there with the breach of brothers and then cain carried it throughout the land and and today and part of the perilous times that we're living in is a generation of people who don't have a home like they might live in a house with some parents but they don't feel like they fit they don't feel like they belong they don't feel like i'm talking about in church we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people who come every sunday and they're like i just don't belong i just don't feel like i fit i just don't it's not my kind of thing and i just want to i just want to take some territory over an orphan spirit right now and i want to we're gonna we have four of these so don't just pay attention so i want you 25 to just walk through the crowd and if you feel to pray for someone go up to him if they say yes you pray for them they say no you find somebody else okay if you want somebody to pray for you over an orphan spirit you can raise your hand in one of these and go can we can we worship can we sing a worship song go yes leaders to leaders too it doesn't have to be big it doesn't have to be long just has to have faith has to have faith that this is a prayer that shifts an attitude an influence i'm not going to be influenced by an attitude that says i don't belong in the house of god i don't belong in the family of god to an attitude of you're my brother you're my sister [Music] okay [Music] there's nothing worth more that could ever come close nothing can compare your living hope [Music] your presence jesus jesus i pray for the destruction of an orphan spirit right now come on leaders help me pray i pray in the name of jesus that a mindset of loneliness a mindset that says if i do the wrong thing people are going to leave me if i do the wrong thing people are going to abandon me god we we live in such fear of a of a culture that that just cuts us out just it's parents it's our children they're just gonna run away they're just gonna lead father in the name of jesus we break the orphan spirit right now come on help me pray in the name of jesus we say that those who are known by the lord will not fear abandonment they will not they will not roam throughout the land trying to find the place that they belong we say you belong here your significance your longing to be something is in the love of jesus christ [Music] come on if you have a prayer language this would be a great time to use it if you don't have ones pray with your understanding [Music] jesus jesus we break an orphan spirit the second thing that i want to pray i'm looking into my 25 25 i want to ask you please i want to ask you please to pray and again do the same thing now let's do this a different way let's do this a different way 25 come back up to the front please oh you're 25. i need i need a set of parents whose children are here who can do that who has who is here with your children parents would you come up with maybe three or four sets of parents with your children in the room just come on up to the platform would you please parents with your children parents with youth yeah yeah yeah of course i just need about four or five that's perfect come on come on come on come on come on here's here's what we're praying for now you guys believe that we can get on our knees and make a difference what's to pray for the restoration of honor in the land restoration of honor i i believe i mean you know i preached this this past sunday just this idea of noah's noah's sons found him naked the one son and just told everybody about it and just dishonored his dad and the two sons backed in with a sheet and covered his nakedness and when it came time for the trajectory of those three sons one of the sons became the father of all the european nations one became the father of all the semitic nations but the one who had dishonored his father [Music] became enslaved his trajectory was cut off because there was no honor in the land and we're living we're living where the perilous time is to dishonor everybody just dishonor dishonor the history of our nation dishonor politics dishonor dishonor one another it's just the spirit don't you think it's just a spirit of dishonor and i will tell you that revival revival family revival will restore honor in in the family and you know it's not just children honoring their parents it's parents having honor for their children as well and it breaks the curse so i don't know where the micro this microphone just just pray just pray uh again i'm gonna take a long time if you guys don't pray short prayers but can you pray short but powerful please putting the pressure on you pray for the restoration of honor okay father god i pray tonight over the hearts of every student that's in here god that they wouldn't they wouldn't be scared to honor others but they would be willing to honor others god i pray that their hearts would be turned towards you and that everything they do would honor you every step they take would honor you god that they wouldn't look in other directions but they would look towards you to see how they need to honor others father thank you jesus daniel pray for the restoration of our [Music] just come come we honor you holy spirit oh yes yes god did you just come we honor you god we honor you come on everybody do that god we honor you we honor you we honor you the most the first the most we honor you god the weightiness of our life is honor we honor we will not be tossed to and fro because we are anchored in honor god i'm sorry keep going keep going keep going and we just thank you the holy spirit will just humble ourselves and we just come to you and we just pray that your presence just fall right now yes and just just touch us and teach us teach us to honor like you honor us in jesus name come on let this influence you guys come on come on come on there's a new influence it's honor this is the influence come on father tonight we just declare that honor is a verb it's an action it's something from our lips yeah it's something that we do for others that we love on others fathers and sons daughters moms jesus that we just we love on others like jesus like jesus yeah it's a verb pass it pass it come on father god lord we just come to you and we give you our hearts lord father i just pray that you would give us willing hearts just to honor the people that are here and around us jesus lord that we would have our our hearts would influence others god that the actions god you love the meek and heart jesus and we just pray that um we would be people for you god that we our actions would influence others god that it wouldn't be just in our words lord but that would be in how we act god that we act in pureness and holiness and we honor you and all that we do god so lord we just pray that you would give us obedient hearts lord give us the boldness to just speak to others about your goodness jesus lord i just pray that we would be able to walk in forgiveness lord god that our that that would not hinder how we honor others lord lord i just pray that you would give us hearts to just be willing to love people how you love us god lord i pray that you would give us teachable hearts god teachable hearts to just run after you and to show others you through how we live and act in jesus name thank you god father we thank you that you give us hearts to honor you to love you lord god that that these are opportunities lord god that we can just increase the space for you lord god that it's not about us it's not about us at all lord god less of us and more of you less of us and more of you in this next season lord god father that you called your people out of slavery to worship you lord god just to worship you that father that you restore our hearts so that we may know you and make it grow stronger with you lord god so father we just thank you we thank you for being just the move of god that you are lord god that changes hearts lord god that changes hearts jesus name we just come to a place today we just say god we just want to honor you yeah we come and sit down with jesus and we just say we just want to honor you and it doesn't have to be that hard it doesn't have to be that complicated it just needs to be so simple that we just do it oh god we thank you father oh god we ask you to forgive us lord god forgive us lord god for losing our way lord god when it comes to honor god we ask you right now in the name of jesus that you would touch the parents first right now in the name of jesus god we ask you lord god that you will put your holy spirit within our hearts lord god and help us to remember that we should turn our hearts toward our children first lord god teach us how to honor our children first lord god teach us and show us how to model what honor looks like to our children first in the name of jesus father we ask you that you will restore that in us right now god touch our minds as parents lord god touch our hearts and our spirits lord god we get tired we get frustrated we ask you that you will bring it to our remembrance lord god that we must honor yeah yeah we must honor you we must honor our children lord cast down death they can see it in us first in the name of jesus and god we ask you that our children will follow in our footsteps of honoring yeah each and every person they come in contact with in jesus name jesus name amen amen praise god lord we just asked that you would give us creative ways to honor lord um using creative words creative verbiage even and how to speak to others how to send a text how to make a phone call how to honor where honor is due lord give us give us wisdom in this area because we don't know how give us ways and ideas that come from your mind into our mind so good give us wisdom lord we need you yes god would you like to pray you don't have to thank you lord jesus for your spirit lord god that it just your holy spirit just fall upon all of us lord god that we reach [Music] the people that are in our families that are needing your spirit lord god that we show the love that you've shown us lord god that we're able to love and forgive one another but look to you daily lord god thank you thank you god thank you god do you want to pray sure things have been really hard over here for us god we really need you to touch down on all of us with every single pure thought you have for us and your pure image of what we are we are your people we are your love we are your grace and we are your gift and we want to gift everything we can back to you bring back all the peace we need take away all this pain and make it easier for us to enjoy the life you give us the gift of our days the gift of our nights the gift of our spirit and bring back all the peace that we need in our soul take it remove the curse lord yeah come on his name we pray amen amen amen amen let's make a decree let's make a decree let's say this god you are worthy of all the honor wait wait let's do it together ready one two three you are worthy one more time you are worthy and i will give you all the honor i will give you all the honor i just activate right now the generation of honor by the spirit of god that is within us this is not something we do out of our flesh or our mind the spirit that gives us strength honors the lord and honors one another come on somebody honor increases right now in the name of jesus this is a culture of honor this is a cult of honor and then here's the last thing i want to do i want you to i want you to gather around your family and i know that not everybody here has a family so you might decide who forever and ever is going to be in your family from this point forward all right now i need you in groups of about six or eight so would you do that about six or eight people that you like are people that you would like to like after a prayer all right [Music] everybody i don't want anybody left alone here find your family find your family could be a brand new family but find your family i want to give you some instruction [Music] you guys y'all are okay all right okay listen up listen up listen up here's the last thing we're gonna do i want us to activate the power of covenants activate the power of covenant okay guys look at me for just a second and then i'll let you then i'll ask you to pray the power of covenant is the basis by which god has all of his relationships any relationship god has is based on covenant and we're learning to be like god we're being conformed to his image so this was the biggest mistake that becca and i made for so many years in our marriage is we had relationships based on contracts instead of covenant covenant says god says i'll be faithful to you even when you're not faithful to me see and and so what happens is we live in a perilous time where the threat of walking away is always there it's most many of you most of you i don't know the numbers many of you have had parents abandoned or children run away or whatever and that's just that's just the fruit of living in a time where people don't understand that we're to in the body of christ we are to pledge ourselves to one another in such a way that we would say i'm going to be here for you i'm going to be in your life for me a covenant relationship is an attitude that says i always want what's best for you no matter what it's kind of what jesus said when he said lay down this is love that you would lay down your life for somebody else and i'm not asking you to get to down a cross for somebody but i am asking you to activate an idea that relationships that are formed in this room in this youth group among these family members these relationships would be relationships of agreement relationships of love relationships that say to the best of my ability with the help of god i will be there for you i will be in your life i will i will promote good in your life i don't i could do a whole teaching i'm trying to just give you an idea what a covenant is but the main thing is not is a contract the main thing it's not is i walk away from you if you don't perform the way i want you to perform it's like it's a lot of courage and it's very hard but it's what saved our marriage and and i want to do do you have faith that this could happen do you have faith this could happen bec would you lead us in this prayer [Music] where's the i'm gonna take this mic [Music] is this on thank you father i just thank you so much for um that you healed our marriage father and i just pray for the families that are here today father whether they're blood families or church families or friendship families or just father you put people in families lord and we're grateful come on we're grateful for family we're grateful for uh real families and we're grateful for spiritual families we thank you for friendships we thank you father for uh other people's parents who have parented us and other people's children have sons and daughters have included us and so father we pray for a covenant right now right now among us lord jesus we are family we are family we are family we are for you we are for you we are for each other lord we're going to stand by you we're not going to walk away we're not going to walk away when things get tough we're going to work through difficult times we're going to work through miscommunication we're going to work through misunderstanding and while we're not going to talk about each other behind each other's back we're going to love and we're going to honor and we're going to speak good about one another we're going to change the way we talk about one another and the tone that we walk talk to one another father we thank you for covenant we make a commitment tonight that we are going to be led by your holy spirit we need your help holy spirit we need your help to love the way we are supposed to love to love the way you loved us and so father we choose tonight to love you and to love one another in a covenant relationship with one another in jesus name all right give your best praise to the lord right now would you do it come on give your best praise to the [Music] get lord ah [Music] i'm be upon [Music] in your family and your children and their children and this year and is you and beside you all around you and within you he's with you he's with you in the morning in the evening [Music] he is for you he is for you he is [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah can somebody give jesus a big shout of praise come on come on come on come on come on come on come on can somebody give jesus a big shout of praise there you go can we show appreciation to pastor jim and pastor becky here tonight come on when we envision tonight when we've been praying for tonight it was this is exactly how we envisioned it and saw us oh pastor and pastor becky we love you we thank you for for pointing to us and for pointing to this young generation we have a gift for you it's right there pastor will's got it right there for both of you guys so so hey when you guys can please show appreciation families thank you for being here with us tonight we love you we thank you that you get to just bring your kid every week with us and so uh we love we love your children so please keep bringing them back every week well we love you as you go home be careful we have service next week don't forget this sunday here nine o'clock and eleven o'clock you are formally dismissed [Music] you are the empire the promised land beneath

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