Hallelujah.
Let's pray together.
We thank you, Jesus, for ministering mightily to
us here this afternoon, and I thank you
for the honor and the privilege of sharing
your word with such hungry people.
Come and fill this hunger and this thirsting
of our soul.
Bless your word here today.
Let it come in life and power that
our hearts would be changed, not just during
this conference, but a life change.
And we give you thanks, in Jesus' name,
Amen.
Turn with me in your Bibles, if you
would, the book of Judges and the eighth
chapter.
And the message the Lord has put on
my heart here this afternoon is going to
speak about our life and our family.
I want to talk about the snare of
the deliverer.
We understand in this eighth chapter of the
book of Judges, it speaks of the mighty
works of Gideon.
Most of you have read the story of
the life of Gideon, and you know he
was a mighty man of God.
He'd be the kind of man you'd want
to be around.
Because once he got started, nothing could stop
him.
He was radically obedient to God, and as
he learned to trust in God, God did
great things through his life, and he was
called a mighty deliverer, a great leader.
He was a leader of leaders.
He was a man who could change nations.
He was a man so filled with God's
Spirit that the whole nation was delivered.
The enemy was overcoming Israel.
The people of Israel were in bondage.
They were suffering and in poverty, and through
one man, a man who sought God, a
man who put his trust in God, this
whole nation was delivered.
There are men and women in this place
whose God has called to be a mighty
deliverer in your family and in your church,
in your city and in your nation, and
even around the world, to raise you up
to be a mighty man of God.
I enjoy being around mighty men of God.
I travel full time all around the world
with a mighty deliverer.
I see it in my own father's ministry.
Everywhere we go, we meet dozens and dozens
of men and women who are on drugs
and addicted to alcohol, and they became free
because of the ministry of Teen Challenge, a
mighty deliverance.
In New York City, you've heard of the
church that has 8,000 people.
There's mighty deliverance.
I know there are pastors and leaders in
this room today who are hungry to become
a leader like that, not just for your
own sake, but to see so many lives
touched and changed.
Gideon became so fruitful, so effective, and such
a mighty deliverer.
In verse 22 of chapter 8, it says,
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon,
Rule over us, both you and your son,
and your grandson also, for you have delivered
us from the hand of Midian.
They understood what kind of man this was.
He was a take-charge kind of guy.
He probably worked day and night to accomplish
great tasks.
So they recognized his gifts and his leadership,
and they asked him to rule over them,
to become their king.
But Gideon said to them, verse 23, I
will not rule over you, nor shall my
son rule over you, for the Lord shall
rule over you.
Gideon's getting it right.
He's trusting God.
God's moving in strength through his life and
ministry.
Men want to give him credit.
Men want him to take power and control.
And he refuses it.
What a wonderful work.
He's not only a mighty deliverer, but he's
a humble man.
He's not looking for position or place.
He doesn't need to be recognized in a
political way.
Sometimes we go to conferences, and you can
see pastors there who are looking to be
with everybody, to shake everybody's hand, to get
to know the other big leaders.
They're trying to position themselves to get a
higher office.
And Gideon knows it's foolishness.
He wants nothing of it.
He wants God, and not just political power.
So he refuses it.
He says, my son won't rule over you.
I won't rule over you.
But God will rule.
God is going to be the leader of
our nation.
This is a precious thing.
This is how we want to be.
But there's something in Gideon's life.
He has one little thought.
A small thing.
I don't want to be king.
I don't need political power.
But what I want is this.
Verse 24.
Then Gideon said to them, I would like
to make a request of you that each
of you would give me the earrings of
his plunder.
All he wanted was some small earrings.
Just a little bit of these trinkets.
It sounds like no big deal.
He was a mighty deliverer.
God was using him.
He was the man of God.
And he was even humble and refused to
take the kingship.
But he has this one small compromise.
Verse 27 describes it even more.
Then Gideon made it to a Nephite.
And he set it up in his city,
Ophir.
And all Israel played the harlot with it
there.
And it became a snare to Gideon and
to his house.
And to his house.
There was a snare.
A small little thing.
Just something that could be used that got
him off track.
Most of his ministry was going right.
He was obeying God in many areas.
But he wants one little thing.
One small thing got in the way.
What he does is takes these gold earrings
and he builds a religious garment out of
them.
Nephite is what the priests would wear.
Why did he want to build this?
Why would he want to wear this?
I can think of only one thing.
He wanted to be seen as spiritual.
He had mighty deliverances militarily.
He didn't care about political power.
But he wanted to look good spiritually.
I see this all the time.
When people are in worship services.
Trying to draw attention to themselves.
Wanting to show people how spiritual they are.
I was preaching at Times Square Church one
time.
And the pastor sit up on the stage
and some chairs along here.
And we have cameras in our church that
sometimes look on the stage.
And they have a big screen up on
top.
And there's a little monitor down by the
pastors where they can see what's happening on
the screens.
And I was worshiping the Lord on the
stage.
And the camera happened to pan by me
and show a picture of me on the
screen.
And I had my hands raised and I
was worshiping.
And on the screen I noticed my suit
was kind of sticking up in the air
because I had my hands raised.
And I started thinking to myself.
That makes me look kind of fat.
I better unbutton my button here.
So I would look better.
And I couldn't believe it.
Right in the middle of worship.
Just getting ready to preach.
And what I'm concerned about is what I
was looking like.
God doesn't care what you look like.
He doesn't want you to put on a
religious front.
He doesn't want you to draw attention to
yourself.
But Gideon had this one snare.
And because of that one small thing in
his heart because of that one small compromise
it tragically affected his family.
It was a snare not just to him.
His religious pride was a snare to his
whole household.
In verse 34 it says, then the children
of Israel did not remember the Lord their
God.
Gideon's own children forgot the Lord their God.
They no longer worshipped because of this one
small snare.
You may think your compromises are small but
when your wife and your children see your
compromises and they know you're preaching one thing
but living another it affects them and they
lose their faith.
That's why so many young people particularly so
many pastor's children are turning from the Lord.
When I went to Bible college my first
year on my floor was a young man
whose father was a very well known pastor
a tremendous leader but he was not living
for God.
Matter of fact one day he came up
to me and he offered me some marijuana
he said, come on let's go get high
he was a preacher's son and in this
Bible college a lot of preacher's children went
to there and there was so much compromise
so few of them seeking God partying all
weekend getting drunk using drugs sneaking women into
their dormitory rooms because they didn't trust what
they saw in their family they thought it
was hypocritical they didn't want their father's religion
just because of some small compromises I worked
with a young man we started a church
together in the inner city we had just
gotten out of college and he was so
on fire for God Brian was energetic he
had the flame of the Lord in his
soul he was always preaching the gospel he
studied the word day and night sometimes in
the morning he would come to my office
he said I was studying this last night
and look at this revelation that Jesus gave
me it would be very deep and profound
and he was always leading people to Jesus
and we would go into restaurants one time
I remember somebody walked in and he had
a cane and he was limping and he
sat down in a booth across the restaurant
and my friend Brian looked at me and
I knew what was in his mind he
was going to get up and go pray
for that man and I said not now
Brian I used to get embarrassed like that
there is a lot of people here this
is not a Christian restaurant they are going
to think you are strange and he said
I don't care and he got up and
went over there and said can I pray
for you that Jesus would heal you and
he put his hand on his leg and
he prayed in faith and power he was
like Gideon he was a mighty deliverer he
was passionate about Jesus but about 6 months
later I noticed something in Brian's life he
was no longer telling me things from the
word he was still witnessing, still preaching but
he had less revelation his spirit seemed to
be diminished the fire seemed to be subsiding
and I asked him one day Brian what's
wrong he said what do you mean what's
wrong he seemed different and he looked surprised
he said there is just one small thing
I'm still praying I'm still crying out to
God I still study the word but there
is one little thing just every once in
a while when I go into a store
and they have the magazines the pornographic magazines
sometimes I pick them up and I just
leaf through them and then I put them
down it's just a little thing but I
repented of it and I'm asking God to
restore me 6 months later his spirit seemed
even more diminished we talked once again he
said the problem has gotten a little bit
worse it's just a small thing sometimes I
just buy the magazine and I bring it
home but then I just throw it out
because I don't really want that it's just
a small thing about 3 months ago I
was in the Ukraine my wife called me
she said honey I just got off the
phone with Brian since that time we were
working together he has gotten addicted to pornography
and my wife was calling me and said
Brian is coming over to the house because
his wife has just left him he is
taking the children the ministry that he worked
with had fired him and in the long
run he lost his wife he lost his
children he lost his ministry he lost the
home that he was living in they even
repossessed his automobile and he had nothing left
it seemed small in his eyes but God
wanted nothing to do with it and God
loves Brian and He wants to restore him
and He doesn't hate him as a matter
of fact right now God is doing a
deep work in his life stripping away all
those things but there is just one thing
and many of us in this room have
that one thing that one controversy that God
has with us we can be mighty deliverers
we can preach powerful sermons we can have
great leadership skills we can have the energy
to get amazing things done but if we
cling to that one compromise it becomes a
snare to us it becomes a snare to
our children I don't want to hear this
report pastors you don't want to hear this
report that the children didn't remember the Lord
that their children forgot God that the children
backslid you don't have to turn there but
the next chapter we read the story of
Gideon's children how one of the brothers who
wanted power ended up killing all 70 of
his own brothers murder, envy, strife, hatred we're
born through this one compromise and it doesn't
have to be a very evil one it
doesn't have to be adultery or lust it
doesn't have to be anger or murder for
Gideon it was something that was religious the
snare that came into my life was also
a religious one I told you earlier this
morning how I was so desperate to build
a church so desirous to see something great
happen working in my own flesh to be
a mighty deliverer I had a goal of
building a church of 20,000 people and
I was working as hard as I could
to see it happen but I was missing
out on Jesus and because of that I
wasn't ministering to my family and to my
children I got so busy I got so
consumed with the work that I stopped listening
to the Lord and it became a snare
to me and my family and I remember
one day coming home from work I had
been preaching I had been counseling people who
were in need I had been working with
our youth pastor I had been developing strategies
for the next 5 year plan of our
church and I came home from church after
a long day and I had been preaching
and I was weary just worn out and
I saw the sports section of the newspaper
and I said finally some time to relax
I took a deep breath sat down in
my most comfortable chair I opened up that
newspaper and I began to read the sports
scores I started feeling better oh my favorite
team won all of a sudden I see
something crinkling the bottom of the paper shaking
the bottom of the paper it was my
little 5 year old daughter she slipped her
head up underneath the newspaper she said hi
daddy I said honey I'm busy I've had
a long day I can't talk right now
and I pushed her head down away from
the paper continued reading the paper and she
slipped her head up under the paper again
hi daddy I missed you today I love
you and basically I just said this yeah
I love you too and I pushed her
out of the way third time she started
that thing that little children do asking the
why question parents you know what I'm talking
about are you happy today daddy why why
are you reading the paper because I want
to relax why do you want to relax
because I've had a busy day I pushed
her head down again I wanted time alone
one more time she puts her head up
through how you doing daddy and I grabbed
her by her arm and I yelled at
her can't you leave me alone all I
want is 5 minutes I'm a busy man
I've worked hard all day and you can't
even leave me alone quit bothering me tears
came to her eyes she ran away she
began to weep I ran to her I
said sweetheart I'm so sorry forgive me you
see I got so busy I wanted to
deliver the world but I was losing my
own daughter it took a while for that
to heal because I had been neglecting her
she was wanting her father's love she saw
me minister to the whole world but I
wasn't ministering to her my teenage son at
the same time he was learning to drive
many of you fathers know that can be
a very trying experience as you teach your
teenage son to drive but I wanted to
try to take some father-son time with
him I had just been to a meeting
called the promise keepers in America do you
have that here?
have you heard about the promise keepers?
I went to one of their meetings and
they encouraged fathers to spend time with their
sons so I felt obligated to do this
it really wasn't in my heart but I
felt I should good fathers, it's their duty
to spend time so I got in the
car and began to drive down the road
my phone rang it was my assistant pastor
and we talked for a while I hung
up the phone I said son how are
you doing?
before he could answer the phone rang again
I talked to my youth pastor about a
youth crusade coming up I hung up the
phone I began to think about my next
day's schedule we were probably driving 10-15
minutes I hardly said a word to him
and he lifted me and he said dad,
you're so boring you have no life towards
me do you not care about me?
why do you not care about me?
you ask me questions but you're not really
looking for answers you begin to talk to
me and your phone rings I begin to
cry out because I need you and I
can tell you're thinking about plans for your
church you're thinking about your next big sermon
but you're forgetting me you don't care about
me and once again I went home and
I began to cry Jesus, first my daughter
and my teenage son I'm just forgetting about
them I'm so busy in ministry seeing great
things happen but my own family beginning to
drift away not truly being close not having
that intimacy but Jesus wants the children to
have fathers and mothers who when they want
to minister the first person they think about
ministering to is their own family the first
sermon they think about preaching is speaking God's
truth into their lives my 19 year old
son he's 19 now but at that time
when we were drifting apart he began to
get mixed up in the world he's a
very gifted musician and they started a rock
group and they sang very secular rock songs
very hard heavy metal music and the band
he was in started to become well known
and so the band would go to these
big concerts and soon hundreds and thousands of
people were coming and after the concert they
would go to parties and he began to
compromise he began to get involved in things
that a Christian young man should not be
involved in he gave his life over to
sin in ways that were breaking God's heart
and I began to pray for him and
he came home one day and he said
to me, dad they offered me a record
contract they said I could make millions of
dollars they said I could be rich and
famous could travel all over the world doing
music in big stadiums having CDs in the
music store but something happened in his life
from that time when he was 16 God
began to change my heart I began to
put priority in my family began to pray
for them every day but I didn't point
a finger at my son and say son
you're in compromise you need to change you
need to quit running around with the wrong
crowd he didn't need a lecture what he
needed was this for his father to change
so that I could invest invest the life
of Christ teach the love of Christ not
just lecture him but truly love him with
the love of Jesus the way Christ loves
the church we are to love our family
and as God changed my heart he broke
my heart about my neglect I never once
had to rebuke my son and I'm not
saying rebuking sin is wrong but this rebellion
got into his heart because the gospel of
Jesus was not attractive to him he didn't
want what his father had but he began
to see a change in me a peace
that came over me a fresh touch of
Jesus no longer driven just to be successful
but just hungry to love God and love
others and I want to tell you some
good news about three weeks ago he called
me up he said dad I've got something
I think you're going to want to hear
Jesus got a hold of my heart touched
my life I'm a changed man everything is
new and yesterday I walked up to the
band and I said guys I love you
and I know you're not going to want
to hear what I have to say but
I'm quitting the band today you make your
millions you get the groupies chasing you you
become famous because I've got something else now
I've got Jesus I've got him in my
heart he's changed my life and I'm giving
it up I'm giving up the band all
the fame and fortune you can have it
all but I want Jesus I said son
that's great news there's nothing better I could
hear yesterday he called me long distance he
said dad I just got in my new
apartment I'm in New York City today is
my first day of work I'm working in
Harlem one of the worst neighborhoods in New
York City he's involved in a children's ministry
he's leading worship for about 100 children in
the inner city he said dad I'm not
going to get rich the girls aren't chasing
me but I have Jesus and I couldn't
be happier he said thanks dad for being
a good example my son's in the ministry
today because God changed his father's heart and
I'm in the ministry today because of my
own father not because he's a great preacher
I don't serve Jesus because he wrote the
cross and the switchblade but I saw something
in his life how he was present to
us willing to spend time with us one
time he came home from a very long
trip he said son I've missed you I've
been gone for two weeks and I really
long to spend some quality time with you
he said let's go for a bike ride
I think I was about 12 years old
we went for a really long bike ride
I had a great time he was so
present to me asking important questions I had
a wonderful time the next day we wake
up he said son let's go for another
bike ride we went for another bike ride
oh we had a great time together the
third day he wakes up he said son
let's go for a bike ride I took
a deep breath dad I love you but
I've got a life too I've got friends
they're wondering why I'm spending all my time
with my dad they want me to come
play with them so I said dad I'm
sorry I don't have time for you today
and I love that that he was a
busy man he was a mighty deliverer he
had a great ministry changing lives all over
the world but he cared for his own
son and there's two reasons I'm preaching the
gospel here today because I love Jesus and
he called me number one and secondly because
my father was a good example not just
preaching it but living it amen but
my wife got involved in the situation as
well when I was going through that time
in that period where there was this snare
in my life my wife could feel it
as well I was becoming a stranger to
her she came up to me one day
she said you're so busy and it's so
hard to be a pastor's wife there's a
lot of pastor's wives here who could say
amen to how hard it is to be
a pastor's wife she has a very difficult
job the church has high expectations of her
she has to attend all the meetings she
has to talk to everybody in a nice
way she can never have a bad day
or an off day she told me one
time I would like to one time sometime
I would like to just do this one
thing I'd like to just yell at somebody
in the church just to get out the
anger because things are difficult at times and
for many pastor's wives they have no one
to talk to you can't complain about your
husband to somebody else when your husband is
the pastor and then people call you day
and night and they'll complain about your husband
they'll say the church services are too long
they're spending money the wrong way they have
all kinds of complaints and the pastor's wives
hear all these things and they take them
into their heart but they don't tell their
husbands because they don't want to bring their
spirit down so they're holding on to a
great burden and the wife came up to
me one day she said is there anything
else that you've ever wanted to do with
your life have you ever thought about being
a doctor a plumber a sanitation worker anything
because I'm tired I don't want to be
a pastor's wife anymore I don't care where
we live I'm just worn out I'm just
tired and I asked her what was the
reason she said I have nobody to talk
to she said you can talk to me
and she almost laughed she said talk to
you she said the phone rings every time
we start a conversation you're always thinking of
something else I seem to get the leftovers
I seem to get the leftovers just the
crumbs off the table I come to the
church office and I see you in there
with your staff and you're spending hours with
them talking and strategizing and praying and you
come home and I ask you how you're
doing and you say fine and she says
she wants more tell me more I've been
talking all day I don't want to go
all over it again but I want to
know you we've been married 25 years you
don't understand I want to talk to you
you always want to talk you talk all
day at the office but you have nothing
to give me and again my heart was
broken here my own wife and children because
of my snare were losing heart there were
nights my wife was crying herself to sleep
waking up at 4 o'clock in the
morning praying God help me through another day
but as I told you God began to
change my life God began to minister to
me began to break my heart and I
began to change but I didn't really grasp
how much my wife needed my whole heart
she was saying I wouldn't really speak into
her life I would communicate information but
I didn't really penetrate her heart there was
no deep communication there was no genuine affection
and when a pastor gets that way we
just end up using our wife they become
an assistant in the church they become a
cook in the kitchen they become someone to
help us raise our kids we can be
involved with them romantically but we don't truly
give them our heart our minds and our
hearts and our lives are not fixed on
them and they know they are being used
they know they are being used and their
hearts are sinking there is a sadness, there
is a weariness because they don't want success
they don't want fame, they don't want money
but they want their husband to show the
love to show the presence of God and
the presence of their own heart to be
open to them when the Lord began to
change my heart I was preaching a sermon
very similar to this my wife came up
to me after the sermon and I could
see a little tear in her eye I
said that sermon really touched you didn't it
she said no I said what's wrong that
was a good sermon she said you were
so vulnerable you told the story of your
heart and your life you weren't just preaching
theology you were sharing a deep part of
your heart she said Gary that's the first
time I ever heard that you told your
church all what's in your heart before you
even told me you can preach things deep
vulnerable things but you can't talk to me
that way why does the church know things
like this before I know these things and
once again God began to break my heart
and I told Jesus I've got to change
if I'm going to be a man of
love it's not just going to be in
the pulpit it's not just going to be
in my office with my staff it's not
just in my it's not just in my
city trying to be a great deliverer it
has to start in my home my little
daughter has to get up in my lap
when I come home from work and I
have to delight in that and I have
to give my wife a big hug and
a kiss and have time and energy for
her because if I'm not doing it in
my home then I'm a phony I'm a
hypocrite I'm preaching about it but if I
can't live it in my home then I
have no right to preach about it and
God is here today He's in this very
room today to speak to mighty men of
God and to touch mighty women of God
to begin to heal women's hearts that brokenness
that you're facing that suffering that you're going
through that sense of being all alone I
want to tell you some good news God
is here today He's here to heal you
to strengthen you, to renew you but other
good news is this He's also here to
change your husband to renew his love for
you as He renews His love for Jesus
as this conference is about renewing your passion
for Jesus and all of our agendas and
ambitions are put down and our one ambition
becomes to serve Jesus and to love Jesus
then that love will come your way as
well Jesus is going to heal homes in
this very place today sometimes when we go
to conferences the last people we'll meet are
the minister's wives and that's whenever we have
a conference all over the world we always
make sure the wives are involved I was
preaching at a pastor's conference in Cuba this
year and I was encouraging the men to
love their wives and I was preaching about
passion for the women in our life and
one of the bishops he's sitting in the
front row he stood up right in the
middle of the sermon his wife was standing
in the back he said, honey, I'm sorry
forgive me he's preaching about me somebody next
to him stood up turned around to his
wife said, me too, honey I'm sorry somebody
else stood up many women started talking to
each other they couldn't even preach anymore everybody
was hugging and weeping and praying because in
that country there are mighty deliverers there are
very strong men but they neglect their wives
and repentance was in order because if that
small snare is there it's not only a
snare to your household it's a snare to
you and it has to be changed and
God wants to do that now He wants
to change our lives He wants to put
first love back in our marriages and what
God has done in my life when I
speak to my wife on the phone when
I'm traveling when I'm home we have the
greatest times together my staff meetings are very
short now because I can't wait to run
home and spend time with my wife and
she told me recently I love the ministry
again because I see the change in you
stand with me if you would because God
wants to see a change take place here
today I'm going to give a very simple
invitation if you're a minister's wife a woman
in ministry or maybe a daughter and there's
a hurt in your soul you feel neglected
troubled maybe you have a wonderful husband but
it's just the trouble that the church the
weight of the church is upon you or
husbands in this place you may not shout
across this auditorium you may not yell at
your wife at the back to forgive you
but if you need forgiveness I want you
to take your wife by the hand and
lead her here to the altar and then
if your wife's not here but you want
to get something right with God I want
you to step out of your seat as
well and turn your heart to Jesus so
that the snare would be gone and your
wife and your children would see the change
come forward right now I have
full confidence here today that I've opened up
God's heart God's word and the good news
is this that God never has a message
proclaimed unless He accompanies that message with His
power He's not going to let something be
preached and not support it with the power
to enforce it so if He had preached
to you He promises then in power to
give you the ability to receive it and
I want you to receive your miracle here
today first I want to pray with you
men men if you want God to change
your heart just lift one hand to Jesus
let me pray for you Lord Jesus change
our hearts we are needy God we are
ready for a change this is our hour
this is a divine moment you are taking
me right now Jesus through a new journey
it's beginning today it won't be finished today
I know it will take time but Jesus
you are changing me because I repent and
I receive your promise to be a new
man and take out the snare the religious
pride the anger the striving take it out
Jesus let it be gone take out the
neglect the busyness that causes us to neglect
our families balance us Jesus where we can
live full lives in ministry but the first
part of our life the first part of
our ministry is to our own family Lord
Jesus give me mercy give me power Jesus
to accomplish this not by might not by
power but by your spirit in Jesus name
now wives I want to pray with you
we are young women that have stepped forward
all the women whether you are married or
not I want to pray a prayer of
healing for you I want to ask the
other women in the church in the building
today to stretch out your hands towards these
women here in the hall let's agree together
in prayer because I know you need a
touch from God today some of you are
not sure you can go on another day
you are tired of life the way it
is but God wants to heal that today
and renew you to give you wings of
eagles let's pray together Jesus we pray now
for the women that have come forward thank
you that they are your precious daughters and
that you have a great plan for their
life and you want to use them mightily
but I sense your saying to them today
Jesus that they need a fresh touch from
their husbands from their families from their churches
but most of all Jesus from you Jesus
breathe on them now Jesus pour out your
spirit of love on them Jesus refresh them
now give them hope Jesus take away the
pain the sorrow the suffering the loneliness the
anger the fear the past history the unforgiveness
let them lay it down Jesus so that
they don't have a snare so that they
can be cured before you so that they
can be healed heal them now in Jesus
name women receive that now from Jesus receive
that fresh touch from the Lord he is
present to heal I see his spirit here
touching many lives hallelujah let's worship the Lord
together here feel free to stay up here
at the front if you want let's just
sing a song of worship and we need
to have confidence now that Jesus is beginning
a great work in us there is going
to be something new in our homes that
everybody is going to see we are going
to pray for our children like never before
just before we worship the Lord is putting
something else on my heart how many of
you here at the front or throughout this
whole auditorium have backslidden children or children who
are cold towards the Lord hold it up
for just a minute hold it up high
we need to pray for one another right
now don't we let's pray Jesus let's pray
for these with their hands raised for the
children who are far from God do a
miracle in their life Jesus wherever their children
are right now refresh them speak to them
woo them and draw them that they would
come to you that there would be a
testimony a phone call like I received from
my son that the prodigal son is coming
home bring them home Jesus I thank you
Jesus that you are going to get rid
of all the snares in our households we
won't be perfect we will fall short of
the glory of God but the snares are
gone and our children are going to see
the love of Christ they are going to
be strangely attracted to that and they will
come Hallelujah if you believe that say Amen
and sing the song like you believe it