If we don’t take a stand for righteousness…who will? Satan is doing everything in his power to tear down the walls of spiritual protection around those you love. There is a cause worth fighting for and it is your spouse…your children…your family! In this message hear biblical instruction and learn the critical steps you need to take in order to protect your family against the attacks of the enemy.
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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’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 us and we are come
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 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 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 about
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
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 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 the Bible said
that we’re to fight with love that’s why
the scripture said husbands love your
wives as Christ loved the church the
husband is the house band
he’s the band around the house that
holds it together and you fight with
love we fight because the Bible said
when we fight that God will come alone
beside us and fight for our families
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 ark
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 day
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 job 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 and 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 in 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
true 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 o 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 deathbed 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 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
abound 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 that’s hard isn’t it but
this stuff will save your family this
I’d rather have my family serving God
that have anything the world can give
them
I feel a burden for families today I
feel a burden for homes that are under
attack the enemy may have devastated you
and your family but you’ve got to learn
how to fight for what’s left rebuild the
walls rebuild off of what is left the
miracle is not in what you lost it’s in
what you’ve got left and if you’re
listening to me and you would say pastor
Franklin while you were preaching I
realize that there are those that I
influence that my footprints are taking
in the wrong direction I know that I am
NOT living like I should and I want to
surrender my life to Jesus Christ today
I want you to pray with me say these
words out loud right where you’re
watching me right now say Lord Jesus I
give you my life I surrender everything
that I am and all that I have I give to
you today I’ll give you what’s left of
my family of my dreams of my of my life
take me God and cleanse me by your blood
wash me and set me free and heal my
family in Jesus precious name Amen any
man if you just prayed that prayer you
just made the greatest decision of your
life and if you just accept that Jesus
Christ as your Savior I want to hear
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you how you can join with us in taking a
stand to fight for families in our
nation and around the world marriage and
Families don’t look the way they used to
our families are under attack
as families everywhere are struggling to
keep from falling apart now like never
before we must stand up and fight for
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month as our children are returning to
school we have a plan to encourage you
really to equip you for victory in your
family I want you to continue to say to
your children and your loved ones I love
you continue to remind one another that
you care speak life keep speaking love
to your family say it verbalize it and
keep praying for your children every day
dad mom grandmother grandfather call
your children’s name out in prayer your
grandchildren your spouse your family
this is the strongest weapon that we
have as you pray and don’t forget to
send us the names of your loved ones you
see this month we have a special prayer
emphasis for families and I’m asking you
to partner with us and let’s pray
together I believe that your prayers are
powerful but I’m promising you that
there’s a special emphasis this month
that I’m going to place upon every
person who sends in maybe a pitcher or
even the name of your family and say yes
I want someone to agree with me for the
hand of God to be upon my children as
they go back to school many of them
going back to college and the
universities oh how we need to undergird
our families in this critical hour in
prayer thank you so much for joining us
today on the program and listen I’m
praying for you and your family I’ve
seen God do miracles in my family and I
know he can do it for you
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