Fight for Your Family | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by

friends and partners of Kingdom

connection

[Music]

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 a 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’ll 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

and we are committed 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 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 this 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 if 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 at that

wall that he helped rebuild because

there there was a man who took a stand

and he said I’m gonna 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

our families are a 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 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 still 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

or the youth program or 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 and 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 enough prayer on them and enough

intercession on them

there’s no hellhole 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 calls to fight for it is our

families they have been 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 flowed 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

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

Wow 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 with

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 Paul wrote a

letter and he said 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

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 or 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 and 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 footprint in the freshly fallen

snow and the little boy would put his

little foot in the footprint of the big

steps that is

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 Oh 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

forward I want to ask you a question

where are your footprints leading all

that’s going to matter when you are our

own your death bed is its 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 stayed Cherise 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 seen you know 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

going to 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 asks 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 Sr didn’t it but this stuff

will save your family this I’d rather

have my family serving God than have

anything the world can give them

[Applause]

where are your footprints taking the

next generation stand to your 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 and 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

lead the next generation to your feet in

Jesus name my name is Chrissy Sexton and

like before new beginnings was hopeless

to say the least

meth was my biggest drug of choice but I

also drink about a gallon a lake or a

day and I had a really bad pill problem

I was angry at the world I hated

everybody and it was all why is this

happening to me

my daughter’s been in several car wrecks

I would drink I would drive I would do

all these things and I mean the last one

I flipped down a ravine and she was in

the backseat with me and I’m that was

the beginning of the end right there I’d

lost custody of my child I couldn’t even

speak to her when I got here I would

tell her I was coming and she would

stand by the window for hours and hours

waiting on me and I never show up and I

knew right then I had to do something or

I was never going to be a mom to Joe

again I knew right then and there this

place taught me everything that I needed

to know to be a mother over time I had

these encounters these Damascus Road

experiences with Jesus that he’s all I

saw he’s all I thought about and when I

finally came to the point where it

didn’t matter if I ever got her back

anyway because I knew that he was good

and was going to make I would be able to

see her then he just gave her back to me

one day my sister-in-law called me and

said I’ve seen the change in you I know

you’re different I think it’s time that

Joe comes and lives with you I remember

I dropped the phone in shock it was only

God it’s only God and my and Joe works

at Doren three now she’s spent her

summers doing class with children and

even though she’s hurt she loves these

kids because she knows how hurt they are

too and so or just waiting for what God

has for

I would like to thank Kingdom connection

for their faithfulness to God’s Word and

giving and I’m forever grateful I can’t

thank them enough

because of the generous support of

friends of Kingdom connection just like

you we continue to see millions of

families like Christie’s be changed and

restored for the glory of God the enemy

is trying to tear down the walls of

righteousness and faith around the world

but we can no longer stand in the

shadows waiting for our children and

families to be destroyed we must fight

for our families our mission is to see

the attacks of the enemy hindered and to

help families rebuild a strong

foundation of faith this month when you

give a gift of any amount to help

families like Kristi said new beginnings

we’ll send you the fight for your family

Proclamation bookmark to encourage you

and your family or for your generous

gift of $40 or more you may request a

proclamation bookmark as a reminder of

your commitment to serve the Lord as

well as Jenson Franklin’s 3-cd message

series fight for your family be a part

of changing the lives of millions of

families around the world please visit

us online at Jensen Franklin TV

[Music]

we hope you’ve enjoyed this teaching by

Jenson Franklin and thank you for your

continued support of this ministry your

prayers and financial support make these

programs possible

[Music]

[Music]