In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill shares some of the ways that he was able to help his children foster their own relationship with God and intimacy with the Holy Spirit. It’s important to teach your children early on that they can hear the voice of the Lord and make it a normal practice to engage with the Holy Spirit.
what was one of the main ways that you
were able to help your children
foster their own relationships with god
and their own intimacy with holy spirit
how did you lead them in that
oh well we expected it you know we
expected them to hear we expected them
you know i
i remember uh several times through
their growing up years where
uh maybe i became upset at something and
maybe
i was disrespectful to someone maybe one
of the kids or maybe
you know the guy in the car next to me
that just cut me off or whatever
and i and i would i would confess to the
whole family
and then i’d have my kids pray for me
they laid hands on me and pray for me
i would expect them to hear from the
lord and and uh
and so we just we taught them early on
that they can so it was never an issue
um we would take uh we’d be in a small
group we’d have children there adults
and i would uh let’s say we’ve got a you
know 15 of us in a room and it’s all
right
i want all of you uh tell me what you
think god is doing in lauren’s life
and my kids would be the first one to
pipe in and they’d say well what i see
and they didn’t know they were
prophesying but they were you know so we
just trained them in that environment
just to
just to speak what they had a conviction
for and uh
and and so it was very natural it was
never
you know you were now hearing from god
or that was you know dumb idea or
whatever
you know it was just it was just a
natural way to experience life together
sure so that’s amazing yeah it’s fun
well raising families is
a lot of work and it’s it’s for a
lifetime
and family and life is so busy how did
you and benny find time
to rest well in the midst of family and
work
yeah you just have to pick you have to
some things you have to schedule
you know so there’s some lifestyles a
certain kinds of occupations you know a
doctor
uh pastors because they’re on call all
the time there’s some things that
you your life is so flexible uh
unexpected elastic would be maybe a
better term
that you actually have to schedule what
you say is important
and if you don’t schedule it it won’t
get done because there’s too much
other spontaneous stuff that will take
your time so for us we would just
you know we’d schedule it we i i didn’t
i’m not a workaholic i never
was tempted to work on a day off i had a
day off which i would take mondays off
i was never tempted to go into the
office and
just finish up something i just didn’t
do it i didn’t bring it home
and not only did i not bring the work
home
i didn’t bring the burden home you know
i wouldn’t
i would leave it at the at the office so
you know if you don’t bring the work
home but you come home and you’re bummed
out because of what happened during the
day
then that affects everyone and i would
remind myself actually
for a while we i worked right in front
of where our house was
at the church and i would walk from the
back door to my house
and i’d talk to myself and i’d say
you’re not off work yet bill
you’ve got four more hours dinner time
bedtime
i got yeah my wife has been with the
kids all day she needs an adult to talk
to
my kids need their dad to wrestle with
them on the floor to build something out
of
whatever you know and and so i would
just remind myself if you’re not off
work yet
and go home and just serve them and
after everyone’s in bed and
then then i could relax