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look with me in Nehemiah chapter 4 and
I’ll begin reading with the 13th verse
therefore I positioned men behind the
lower parts of the wall at the openings
I set the people according to their
families with their swords and their
spears and their bows and I looked in a
rose and said to the nobles and the
leaders and the rest of the people do
not be afraid of them remember the Lord
is great and awesome fight for your
brothers fight for your sons fight for
your daughters fight for your wives and
for your houses verse 20 whenever you
hear the sound of the trumpet rally to
us there our God will fight for us what
he’s saying is if you’ll fight for your
family God will fight for you I want to
talk to you about fight for your family
fight for your family the attack in the
21st century is upon the home we have
got to understand that the values that
we cherish and the ideas that we hold
dear are worth fighting for the family
as we know it between a man and woman
and children is worth fighting for
marriage is worth fighting for our homes
are worth fighting for we have to take a
stand for our kids for our marriages for
our homes for our values Nehemiah
encountered opposition in rebuilding the
walls and he said to his enemies in
verses in the same chapter he said you
have no portion here
he said we’re rebuilding the walls of
our cities because we’re going to
rebuild our families and our homes and
he said to the enemies you have no
portion here he went on to say the city
does not belong to you our homes do not
belong to you the God of heaven he will
help us he will prosper us and we are
mitad to our families young couples
better settle two things in this day and
time number one you better be committed
to God and you better be committed to
your marriage and to your family because
if you have any looseness in your
commitment to God
or to your family the enemy will move in
and divide and conquer God said if you
will fight for your family to Nehemiah
and that people he said if you will
fight for your brothers and fight look
at look at verse 14 again
he said fight for your brothers fight
for your sons fight for your daughters
fight for your wife I’m gonna say the
singular life because back then it was
plural but his wife come on say man
fight for your houses and he said if
you’ll fight for your house fight for
your family then God will fight for you
I’m not afraid to raise kids in this day
and time because the Bible has promised
us you know it’s almost like a spirit of
fear that can come on you that that the
times are so perilous but I’m not afraid
to raise kids and raise grandkids in
this time because we have the promise
that no weapon formed against the home
that is built upon the rock will prosper
Nehemiah rebuilt the walls no matter
what the enemy has done to your family
and done to your home he rebuilt the
walls and those walls are still standing
today if you go to Jerusalem the walls
around Jerusalem that he rebuilt are
still standing today they pray it though
that wall that he helped rebuild because
there there was a man who took a stand
and he said I’m going to fight for my
family there’s a cause worth fighting
for our families are worth fighting for
it’s not easy it’s not easy to hold your
family together it’s not easy to raise
children in the times in which we live
everything seems to be against the
family and against the home but when we
decide that
families are calls worth fighting for
God said then I will fight for you fight
for your family fight for your marriage
don’t give up on it fight for it
fight for your wife fight for your
husband fight for your sons and your
daughters because Satan is on a rampage
and he wants to destroy the church but
he can’t destroy the church without
destroying the home the first
institution before the nation was the
church and before the church there were
races of people and before the races of
people the only thing to precede the
home was God himself if the home is the
number one priority of the devil then we
better make sure it’s the number prot 1
priority of our lives I thank God for my
home I’m glad and thankful that God gave
me
Charice I’m glad that God gave me
Courtney and charissa and Caroline and
Connor and Drake and my grandchild and
soon-to-be another grandchild and my son
in-laws I’m thankful for them I’m
thankful that God has blessed me the
happiest times of our life are with our
family enjoy your family love your
family because the enemy wants to do
everything he can to divide and conquer
and destroy he wants to make your family
miserable he wants to make your marriage
miserable he wants to make your
relationship with your children
miserable and we are not ignorant of his
devices it’s costly commitment it costs
you something to hold your family
together to hold your marriage together
to hold your children together the
famous story is told of a man who was in
his 60s at the peak of his career as a
college professor and he told of how
that his wife had Alzheimer’s and he
resigned from the board of unknown
University and at his peak and his board
of directors begged him to stay and they
said we don’t understand she doesn’t
even know
what your name is and he looked back in
response and said she needs me and she
may not know what my name is but I know
what her name is she may not know who I
am but I know who she is it’s costly
commitment it’s till death do we part
the Bible said of Noah when he built the
ark for the saving of his family in the
book of Peter it gives us a little bit
more insight when it said he was in he
was the eighth one to go on the ark now
he had eight children and our he had six
children and a wife so here’s the point
when he built the ark before the
gangplank could close and before he
could get on that Ark he went out and
the Bible said he was the eighth to
enter in that simply means that he made
sure my children are on the ark he
looked around and he counted one two
three four five six seven and the
scripture specific that he was the
eighth one on the art why because he was
making sure that his family was on the
ark so that when judgment came down on
the earth and the church began to rise a
picture of the rapture I say to fathers
and I say to mothers make sure your
family is on the ark make sure your sons
and your daughters he was that last one
and when the when the door closed
he knew my family are here and that’s
what we’re called to do to fight for our
families he wanted to make sure that
they were on that Ark don’t leave it up
to the preacher to save your family
don’t leave it up to the youth director
of the youth program of the church or
somebody else don’t even leave it to the
mother dad to do your praying but get
your family make sure your family is in
the ark I love the words of Joshua when
he said as for me in my house we will
serve the Lord
job had a job the word job is spelled
just like job and he had a job in job
chapter one he said that he would build
an altar
and put a sacrifice according to the
number of his household every day and it
said this Joe did continually I want you
to see Joe every day of his life he had
ten children and he had his wife and
every day he said I’m job and I have a
job my job is to for every one of my
children and he would name that first
child that firstborn child and he would
slay an animal and build an altar and
put that blood on that altar and call
that child’s name out before God and he
would go to child number two and put
blood on that altar and build a second
altar and he did this continually day
after day after day he was fighting for
his family he was saying to demons he
was saying two to two wrong
relationships he was saying to drugs and
alcoholism get away from my family I
plead the blood of Jesus over my
children one after another after another
and people say that’s old-fashioned
that’s old-school
you call it what you trust in psychology
and you trust in in a child book that
you read that somebody who didn’t have
children wrote but and weren’t trying to
live for Jesus but as for me in my house
we’re gonna serve the Lord and I’ve
learned that that old stuff works that
they may drink from the rivers of
rebellion and they may go down the wrong
path but if you put enough blood on them
in and a prayer on them and enough
intercession on them there’s no hell
hole that can hold them God will bring
them out if you’ll fight for your family
God will fight for you give him a great
praise if you believe I’m preaching the
truth we’re not gonna let hell raise our
children we’re not gonna let gangs raise
our children we’re not gonna let
Hollywood raise our children we need to
raise our children and we need to put
them on the altar he put his wife on the
altar he put his children on the altar
and this job did continually that’s your
job your job is to cover your family
keep close watch on your children often
people fail to fight but if ever there
was a cause to fight for it is our
families a having Jezebel were reckless
in their lifestyle they were godless in
their ways and listen to this they had
they had 70 children and grandchildren
and great-grandchildren 70 and the Bible
said that when judgment came that an
army invaded and cut off the heads of
all of their children and their
grandchildren and their
great-grandchildren and killed 70 the
whole family was blotted out there’s
another man in the Bible and the only
other man in the Bible that I could find
that has 70 children grandchildren and
great-grandchildren and his name was
obed-edom we’re not told his wife’s name
and they had 70 children just like Ahab
and Jezebel had 70 children in
great-grandchildren who was obed-edom he
was the man who moved the Ark of the
Covenant into his home David danced
behind that art but it was obed-edom
that brought it into his home and for
three months it stayed in his home and
all 70 of those children and
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
that were exposed to the Ark of the
Covenant in their home in the presence
of God were so touched by it that not
one of them failed to work in the temple
the Bible said all 70 worked in the
temple from bloodline to bloodline the
blessing flow from generation to
generation the blessing flowed I want to
say to parents and people who are here
fight for your family stay in their
business and stay in their lives and
when you have to stand up
and correct them correct them if it
hinders and hurts and you have all kinds
of stuff going on stand for what’s right
fight for what’s right stand on the
truth and you know what they may go wild
they may get crazy and they may get mad
they may go off but if you have raised
them right if you have raised them in
the house you don’t have to be a perfect
family but if you’ve done your best to
bring them to the house of God and to
serve the Lord before them and you’ve
done your best to have God’s presence in
your home and in your life there’s
something that gets on your family that
they will never be ever ever ever be
able to get away from as a matter of
fact I just want to tell you there’s
nothing more important than what you’re
doing right now it’s more important than
a ballgame it’s more important we’ve
lost that scene we don’t believe this
old stuff anymore but I’m gonna tell you
beware of dangerous distractions that
take you and your family away at
critical times when the children need to
be in the house of God we’re fighting
for our families every time we get up
and bring them to church every time we
open the Bible and pray we’re fighting
for our families Philemon 1 and verse 2
to the church that is in your house to
the church that is in your house Paul
wrote a letter and he said I most of the
time I’m writing my letters to churches
but he said the church that I’m writing
this letter to is in somebody’s house do
you have any church in your house it’s
God present in your house the Bible said
that when we honor God when we provide a
place for him when we fight for our
families and I’m just here today to
encourage dads and moms to not give up
that if the enemy has come in like a
flood we know what it is
Cherise and I know what it is and
usually he’ll come out of nowhere and
it’s not one battle but it’s multiple
battles and his strategy is to divide
and conquer divide and conquer and when
you’re fighting for your family when
you’re fighting for those teenagers are
those college students when addiction is
trying to get them or the wrong people
and the wrong crowd that’s when you go
to your prayer place that’s when you
open this book and you declare the
promises of God and I’m giving you a
great one this morning that if you will
fight for your family God will fight for
you don’t give up someone said up to 15
years old they do what you tell them to
do but after 15 they do what you showed
them to do to the church that is in your
house and I want to say in closing that
it’s important that we understand the
impact that we have on our children and
our children’s children the story is
told in the northeast of a famous
attorney who had an alcohol problem and
he’s very successful on the way every
day to his to his law practice he would
walk on the streets of Chicago past a
bar and he would slip in for morning
drink and then go on to his office and
he did it every day one day as he was
walking the snow was lightly falling he
heard a noise and turned around and he
saw his little six year old boy somehow
he had slipped away from his mother and
slipped out of the house and and when he
looked the little boy was putting his
little foot in the big footprint of his
dad the dad had left that foot
in the freshly fallen snow and the
little boy would put his little foot in
the footprint of the big steps that his
dad was taking and suddenly as he was
standing outside the door of that bar
and he looked back and saw that that boy
was stepping in every one of his
footsteps
and he was smitten with conviction and
he ran and scooped the boy up and took
him home and put him in the arms of his
mother and ran downstairs and he says he
fell to his knees and he began to weep
and cry and he said old God helped me to
never ever again allow my footsteps to
leave my children to a bar but let my
footsteps leave my children to you from
this day fold I want to ask you a
question
where are your footprints leading all
that’s going to matter when you are on
your deathbed is is where did my
footprints lead them if you’re leading
your children to Jesus if you’re leading
them to serve Him above all prioritizing
him above all then you’re leaving the
greatest legacy any parent can ever
leave their children I remember when my
father died and I decided to help Mom
because I we staid Charisse and I stayed
a few days at the house where she had to
move out out pretty quick and one day we
went up into the bedroom and it was my
job to take my dad’s shoes and he used
to wear these wing tip shoes anybody
know what I’m talking about the the wing
tips they’re bad amen
dad liked to dress good and I had cried
and I had broken you know through the
funeral and through the loss and all of
that it was very unexpected he was an
amazing preacher powerful preacher one
of his favorite sermons is when the Holy
Ghost comes to town he could preach it
too but I’ll never forget that Charisse
was helping me and we were cleaning the
closet and helping mom and getting some
of his suits and some of his clothes and
I reached down and took that big old
foot I forget what size it was it must
have been 11 and a half or something
like that it was huge and there’s
something about those shoes that it all
came crashing in and I heard the Lord
speak to me and say you’ve got big shoes
to fill and so often we sing and I had
this thought hit me so often we seen are
the little children singing in
children’s church be careful little feet
where you go be careful little eyes but
really we ought to turn it around and
sing it as an adult song be careful big
feet where you go be careful big eyes
what you see because we’re the big feet
go the little feet are gonna follow
where the big eyes go the little eyes
are gonna follow where the big heart is
devoted the big the little hearts are
gonna follow and we need to understand
and ask the question where are my
footprints where are they leading my
children and my children’s children
fight for your marriage fight for your
family fight for the children that are
addicted that God used you to give birth
to don’t give up on them because if you
raised them in church and even if you
didn’t God said where sin abounds grace
does much more about
but I cannot underscore how critical it
is that the footprints that you’re
leaving if a child gets up and ask you
are we going to church today mommy and
daddy it’s a sign you’re not being the
parent you’re supposed to be if they
dare have to ask it’s a sign your
footprints are not moving in the right
direction as hard in it
but this stuff will save your family
this stuff I’d rather have my family
serving God than have anything the world
can give them
where are your footprints taking the
next generation standing feet
I fell a burden for families today fill
a burden for homes that are under attack
the walls can be rebuilt the enemy may
have devastated fight for what’s left
fight for what’s left fight for what’s
left fight for what’s left rebuild the
walls rebuild off of what is left
posture pray for me I know I’m not
following I know I’m not living like I
ought to live and I want to surrender my
life to Jesus Christ today pray for me I
want to get right with God if that’s you
I want you to pray this prayer and
everybody out loud say these words Lord
Jesus as for me in my house
we choose to serve the Lord we make you
Lord of our home Lord of our family we
rebuild the walls by your mighty power
we are forgiven I receive your
forgiveness
the miracle starts with me
and let it spread to my family
until all of them are on the Ark of
safety and ready for your soon return
Lord Jesus I give you my life and I give
you my family let my footprints always
leave the next generation to your feet
in Jesus name Amen at free chapel our
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