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Okay, we're going to continue on with the
subject of discipline.
I am going to get very practical in
this next session.
Again, the title of this message is A
Sacred Exercise.
A Sacred Exercise.
I don't know if you've ever looked at
spanking that way, but I hope to convince
you this evening that it is indeed one
of the most sacred exercises that you can
do.
So I want to get practical in this
session as we continue to look at the
principle of chastisement in the Bible.
I'm very burdened about how parents spank their
children.
Many have carried the principles of discipline to
extremes, and I hurt over it.
This is one of the major areas that
motivated me to preach the series on the
home over again.
I have heard some stories that make me
weep, and I realize that somehow some people
are grabbing one tape on disciplining children and
thinking this is the answer to every woe
in my home.
And it's not.
I tell you it's not.
And so I'm very burdened that we understand
this subject properly.
I fear that some will lose their children,
having them taken away from them, because they're
carrying this principle to extremes.
That's my burden.
I desire to give a balanced view of
loving discipline and call parents to face some
of their own needs rather than always turn
to the rod to change the child.
If you are a parent who lives in
the flesh and not in the spirit most
of the time, this is not good.
If you are a parent who is plagued
with discouragement as the hours go by in
your day, this is not good.
If you are a parent who is full
of bitterness and anger, and you live your
days with all of that seething inside of
you, this is not good.
If you are a parent who hates yourself
and you think you're trash and you're good
for nothing, this is not good.
These are major needs in your life, and
you need help.
You need help.
Spanking is a sacred exercise.
It is one of the most spiritual aspects
of child training.
It is one of the most spiritual aspects
of child training.
If you are in such a state as
I described just a moment ago, your child
is affected by your state of being.
To try and correct it out of them
with a rod in the condition that you
are in is an utter tragedy and a
gross perversion of the truth.
This happens all the time.
Just imagine how it is.
Here we have somebody with many deep needs
in their life.
They're trying to be spiritual, but they're not
walking with God.
They want to do what's right, but things
aren't going well with them.
They struggle with bitterness and anger.
How do you think that shakes out when
they relate with their children?
They begin to see their children through the
eyes of their bitterness and their anger.
They begin to spank them that way, and
all kinds of confusion sets in, and it
does not come out right.
I am not saying don't spank your children.
I am saying out of sincere love, get
help for yourself.
Then rise up in the free flow of
the grace of God and lovingly spank your
children.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm not saying this to scare you away
so you won't spank your children.
I'm saying it so that you out of
love will say, I must do something with
my own heart.
It is not right to whip it all
out of your children when you are a
mess on the inside.
It's not right.
I am going to attempt to explain how
we spank our children in this session.
This is a tender subject to me, and
I have many sweet memories to draw from.
That's why I call it sacred, because it
is holy, and it ought to be sanctified
with the presence of the living God every
time you do it.
Remember how I described God and I building
a house a couple sessions back there?
You know, His hand on my hand?
Well, this is one of those sacred times
when God puts His hand on my hand
and we both spank our children, our children,
His and mine.
It is not easy thing to spank a
child.
It's not fun.
I admit that.
I get no kick out of it whatsoever.
In fact, because there is a tender love
between us, that makes it even harder to
do.
But for true love, we do what is
right.
Spanking is given in the context of a
sweet flow of love between parent and child.
This alone will take care of most of
these perversions that I've mentioned already.
Just that flow of love.
You know, people come to me and say,
Brother Denny, what about this?
And what about this?
And how do you know this?
And how do you know that?
You know?
You know what the answer to that is?
You need to be clear with God and
full of love for your child.
You'll know what to do.
God will give you the wisdom.
I searched my heart for a verse that
best expresses how I feel when I think
about this whole subject of spanking my children,
my own children.
And this is the verse that God gave
me in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 11.
Listen to this verse.
Now, no chastening for the present seemeth to
be joyous.
It's not joyous, but grievous, grievous to the
child and grievous to the parent.
It's grievous.
Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
That takes this sad joy and explains it
so clearly from my own heart.
It is sad.
It's a grievous thing.
But yet it brings forth beautiful, peaceable fruit.
And therefore, we find some joy in doing
what is right in the sight of God.
We take 15 to 20 minutes to spank
one of our children.
That may seem like a long time to
you.
You may say, well, brother, I don't have
that much time to spank my child.
Well, I want to encourage you.
If you will practice this holy task and
do it the way that I'm going to
describe to you, you will not have to
do it as often.
I promise you, you will not have to
do it as often.
Step into the water.
Try it.
You'll see.
There are times when a short discipline is
in order.
I agree with that.
But if a parent consistently just grabs the
child and gives them a few frustrated swats,
you will be giving them swats many, many
times a day and every day.
There is a better way.
And God has it.
The next point.
Never spank the children in anger.
Never.
I mean that.
We do not spank the children in anger.
This is a grave mistake, brothers and sisters.
It is not allowed.
Just like drinking whiskey is not allowed.
Just like smoking cigarettes is not allowed.
It is not allowed.
I pray that God will put a holy
conscience in us that will never allow us
to spank our children in anger again.
Many times parents come to me at meetings
and open their hearts up to me.
You know, in innocence, they come and they
say, Brother Denny, pray for me.
I listen to your tape and, you know,
I still have a problem with anger.
I'm still spanking the children with anger.
But we're working on it.
You know, pray for me.
You know, and I tell the dear person
when they come, I tell them, oh, oh,
my dear person, you can't do that.
You can't ever do that again.
I mean, the way I look at it,
that person may as well come up and
say, Brother Denny, I just want to let
you know I'm kind of having a problem
with adultery.
I'm working on it.
Please pray for me.
But I'm still doing it.
But we're trying.
I mean, what would you say to somebody
who said those words to you?
You tell them, get on your knees and
repent right now.
Don't get off your knees until you know
that God has dealt with the adultery in
your heart.
And that's how I believe we need to
look at this whole matter of spanking our
children in anger.
Don't spank your children in anger.
You need help if you're doing that.
You desperately need help.
I pray that God would draw a line
in your conscience, just like your conscience says,
I will not steal.
And we don't, do we?
My conscience says, I don't drink whiskey.
And I don't.
No questions.
No problem.
I will not spank my children in anger.
That's the bottom line.
Strong words.
I know they're strong words.
But just think with me.
What is happening to your children while you're
playing around with it and trying to do
better?
What is happening to your children?
Do whatever you have to do to get
free of this devastating plague.
You know, the laws of our land are
changing.
And some of us are going to be
forced to deal with our anger or we
will lose our children.
Many of the child abuse cases are child
abuse cases because parents spank their children in
a rage.
And hit them where they shouldn't have.
And hit them harder than they should have.
You must deal with your anger.
For the sake of God, who is being
terribly misrepresented.
And for the sake of your children, who
are being warped by your spanking them in
anger.
Please get some help for your anger.
You don't have to be angry.
God can deliver you.
Jesus is a deliverer, my dear friends.
You can be delivered from that.
You never have to get angry again.
Where's the power of God?
You can be delivered, I'm telling you.
And look back and say, I never get
angry.
Hallelujah!
That's right.
That's how it really is.
Praise God.
Until you get free from this spirit of
anger.
And I'm telling you, with some of you,
it is a spirit of anger.
Not just anger problem.
Until you get that thing taken care of.
Whatever it is.
Send the child away to a room to
wait.
Let yourself calm down a bit.
Don't go into that room until your heart
is calm.
And then you go in there and you
lovingly spank your child.
I plead with you.
In Jesus name.
What is our view on chastisement?
Let's consider that just a little bit here.
Many parents are missing the whole concept of
chastisement.
It is not judgment meted out for doing
wrong.
It is correction for wrong with the hope
of future good.
There's a big difference between the two of
those.
A big difference.
Judgment being meted out for wrongdoing.
Or correction with hope for future good.
Conduct and godly character.
You look at it and see why God
spanks us.
Why?
He wants to produce peaceable fruit of righteousness
in our lives.
That's why God is spanking us.
He's not meting out punishment on us.
He's our father.
Some of us have a wrong view of
chastisement.
If we are meting out judgment and punishment,
we feel more justified to be angry.
You know?
You've been wrong and you're going to get
it now.
I'm the one that's supposed to bring judgment
upon you for what you've done.
And you're going to get it.
Oh, put those words far away from your
heart and your vocabulary.
But we feel more justified that way if
we have this punishment mentality.
I've got to met out judgment.
My child was wrong.
We feel more justified to be angry.
Right?
God hates sin.
Right?
Yeah, well, aren't you glad that God doesn't
deal with you that way when you sit?
Think about it.
I'm glad God doesn't deal with me like
that.
Many parents have this false concept that it's
alright to walk into the room with fire
in their eyes, a paddle in their hand,
a loud voice speaking words of condemnation and
judgment.
And I feel that is wrong.
That is not how you spank a child.
But many think that's right.
I've heard teachers say those kind of things.
I've heard teachers say, Don't give them any
comfort.
They've been bad.
Let them have it.
Well, you may be saying by now, Brother,
I can't do it.
I just can't.
Well, you're right.
You can't.
That's why you need to be so yielded
to God that God can put his hand
upon your hand and you'll be able to
do it right.
We can't do this except we'd be filled
with God.
Your children are sinners.
I want to make this point.
Your children are going to fail.
Plan on it.
Expect it to happen so you don't lose
it when they do something wrong.
You know how parents can be sometimes.
Plan on it.
They're going to fail.
God has placed them under our care because
they need help.
Amen.
That's why he has them in our homes.
Because they need help.
Sometimes I think we think they're supposed to
be saints.
No.
God has placed them in our care so
that they can be nurtured, so they can
be trained, so they can be guided, so
they can be disciplined, so they can be
led someday to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And get a new heart.
Amen.
That's why God has put them in our
care.
Somehow I think we got the thing mixed
up.
We get upset at them when they do
something wrong.
Grab them by the scruff of the neck.
You know, why did you do that?
Don't you know?
We don't understand what's going on.
That's not how we should be looking at
it.
When the children fail, I see it as
an opportunity to train them in character.
It is time to have a lesson.
Only this one has some pain in it.
It's just another one of the lessons of
training children.
Many times we parents get frustrated with our
children because of our own pride of what
other people will think when our children do
something wrong.
I'm afraid that the children get the brunt
of that more than what we would like
to admit.
We have had to resist this temptation as
I became known as the man who preaches
on the godly home.
The expectations of the people can be difficult
to live with.
But my children are just like yours.
They make mistakes.
They do things wrong.
They do dumb things sometimes.
No big deal.
That's why they're in my home.
So that I can train all those things
out of them.
Let's look at how I spank the children.
I try to spank the children in the
same manner that God spanks me.
That seems right, doesn't it?
How does God spank me?
How does God spank you?
Does He grab you by the scruff of
the neck and yell at you when you've
done something wrong?
Does He spank you in anger with a
scowl on His face?
We all know the answer to these questions.
That's not how God deals with us.
No.
When the Father spanks us, it's mercy and
peace are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
That is the nature of our God.
And that's how God deals with us when
He spanks us.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth and mercy have come together in the
Father to chastise me when I've done something
wrong.
And He wants to direct my life in
a better way.
It's mercy and it's truth, brothers and sisters.
He calmly reveals a need in our life
and He picks us up in the comfort
of His almighty hands and arms and gives
us a spanking.
It's painful, for sure.
But we do not doubt His love and
concern for us.
During this time, He is instructing us on
the way that we should go and how
we have grieved Him.
And during this time, He affirms us in
His love and we are grateful to Him
when He gets done, aren't we?
And the reason why we're grateful is because
that's how He deals with us.
It is love all the way, brothers and
sisters.
Think about the times when God put you
on His knees.
He was overflowing love all over you while
you were getting a spanking.
Sure, it hurts.
Sure, you may even have cried, but you
never doubted His love one moment.
And when God got done with you, the
clearing in your heart, the freedom that you
received, the beautiful fruit of righteousness that you
got out of it, you reached up and
kissed His hand, didn't you?
My dear brothers and sisters, God wants us
to learn to spank like that, that our
children, not by our promptings, but by the
joy and the blessing that they got out
of it for themselves, they will reach up
and kiss our hands also.
I do believe that's where God wants us
to go.
Let us seek to be like God in
this area.
When one of our children transgresses our law,
we calmly inform them that they have done
wrong and that they are going to get
a spanking.
We do not raise our voice.
Raising your voice does not gain you any
authority at all.
In fact, you lose authority every time you
raise your voice in your house.
Every time you think you're going to be
heard and things are going to go right,
if you let them have it with your
words, you are losing authority every time.
We do not raise our voice.
Oh, how well you would establish your authority
if you would give one verbal correction and
then gently give a spanking if that correction
is not heeded.
You would establish your authority in your home
like some of you probably have never known.
And it's easy.
A simple, calm word.
My son, my daughter, you have done wrong.
Go to your room.
You're going to have a spanking.
No fuss.
No muss.
No carrying on.
No screaming.
No grabbing by the scruff of the neck.
No scolding.
Just a very calm.
You have done wrong.
Go to your room.
You're going to have a spanking.
As the child goes to their room, I
reach for the Bible and the rod.
That's a good combination, by the way.
The Bible and the rod.
We need both in order to give a
proper spanking.
The Bible to instruct them with and the
rod to spank them with.
Having a Bible in your hand will sanctify
what you are about to do.
Know this.
It will.
That picture in your child's mind is a
good picture.
For them to see Dad or Mom walk
through the door with a Bible in their
hand is telling them a silent message.
God is in this.
As I am walking to the room, I
pray for wisdom.
I cry out to God, just like I
do when I'm entering into a counseling session
as a pastor.
I bow my heart and cry out to
God and say, God, I don't know how
to counsel this person.
Please give me wisdom.
That's what I do on the way to
the room.
As I get to the room, I find
the child crying.
Right?
How many find the child crying?
I find the child crying.
They don't want to spank him.
It hurts.
I usually start to cry myself when I
walk into the room.
You can do that, you know, Dads.
You can do that.
It's alright to cry when you walk into
the room.
In fact, it's scriptural.
Did you know that?
The Bible says, Weep with them that weep.
Bless God, surely we can weep with our
children when they're weeping because they're going to
get a spanking.
Weep with them that weep.
This will sanctify your session tremendously.
As your heart goes out in compassion for
that child, this will sanctify your session tremendously.
It's okay if you cry with them.
You do not have to maintain this austere
posture of a judge.
You are a loving father or a loving
mother.
You don't have to come in there like
this.
I reach out my hands and welcome the
child to come close to me when I
get into the room and I hold them.
And by the way, you walk into that
room and you get down on your knee
and you put your hands out like this.
When that child's crying and they know they're
going to get a spanking and they know
they've done wrong, they'll run into your hands.
They'll run there.
I hold them a minute and I let
them talk to me.
I just let them talk.
They usually say, I'm sorry for what I
did.
They usually say, I love you, Papa.
I know I shouldn't have done what I
did.
And I tell them the same thing.
I tell them, I love you too.
Some people say, don't comfort them when you
go into the room.
Don't say anything nice to them.
That's absolutely wrong.
That's that punishment mentality.
I don't believe in that.
I open up my heart and my arms
to them and I take them into my
arms.
And I hold them a couple of minutes
and while I'm holding them, I tell them,
I love you.
You know, Papa's not upset at you.
Papa's not upset.
You are a very dear child to me
and you bring joy to my life most
of the time.
I want you to know I'm not upset
at you, but you've done something wrong and
you need a spanking.
And because I love you, I'm going to
spank you.
Then we have a time of instruction.
That comes next.
We talk about what they have done.
We discuss the root issues of why this
happened.
You know, it may be that foolishness was
in their heart for the last two or
three days and you saw it, but nothing
really happened that they could be corrected.
So, you don't just correct them because they
made this little thing wrong over here.
You want to go back to the heart
issue, the thing insane.
Now, you remember how foolish you have been
for the last two or three days?
Yeah?
Well, that's the reason why you did what
you did today and that's why you're here
to get a spanking right now.
We have a time of instruction that's very
important.
God does it with us, doesn't He?
I ask them if they know why they're
getting a spanking.
And I wait on their answer and if
they just say, I've been bad.
That's not good enough.
We've got to talk about it some more.
They're not getting a spanking just because they've
been bad.
There's an issue here, remember?
We are giving a correction for future conduct
so they must understand what went wrong.
So we talk about that.
Instruction time is the key to biblical chastisement.
We will discuss the principle of chastisement so
they clearly understand that God says to do
this.
I instruct them on how they can get
the most benefit out of the spanking if
they will yield to it instead of fight
against it.
They can get more benefit out of it.
Then I encourage them to pray and ask
God to help them get the most out
of this spanking.
You should hear some of the prayers they
pray.
And by the way, they're smart prayers.
If you get more out of your spankings,
you'll get less spankings.
Pray on, little fellow!
Pray on!
God, help me to yield my heart to
this spanking!
Do everything inside of me that you're supposed
to do through this chastisement that I'm going
to get.
Good prayer, little one!
Good prayer!
The child can learn to work with you
on the spanking, and you won't need to
spank them as much.
This is also how you get the child
to come back later and thank you because
they begin to understand what this is all
about.
They become educated and learn the blessing of
discipline.
Next, we have a time of spanking.
Instruct your child on how to receive a
spanking.
They can learn to hold still and keep
their hands out of the way.
It is not good if the child is
jumping all over the place.
They get hit in the wrong place.
They get hit on the hand.
It's absolutely crazy.
You do not want that.
The child must learn to hold still while
they receive a spanking, and they can.
I have much more instruction on this in
my book, The Pursuit of Godly Seed, but
I can't go through all of it here
this evening.
I just can't.
With the child holding still, I give them
a thorough spanking.
Chastisement is supposed to hurt.
This is God's design.
Just like chastisement hurts when God gives us
a spanking, chastisement should hurt when we give
our children a spanking.
There are things inside of the heart of
that child that will not happen if they
don't get a right kind of a spanking.
Many questions arise at this point.
How hard?
How long?
How many swaps?
How do you know when you're done?
And more questions.
I cannot answer all of those here this
evening.
God must lead you in these things.
Every child is different.
Like I said again, you must have discernment.
You must be filled with a spirit.
You must be filled with a compassion for
your child.
And I believe with the combination of those,
most of the time, parents will know what
to do.
How hard to spank, how many times to
swap, etc., etc., etc.
Children are different.
There are some children, you can give them
three or four swaps, and I mean they
are absolutely undone.
There are others, they may need more swaps
than that.
We usually spank our children ten times, something
like that.
That's not the issue anyway.
But everybody always asks that question, give me
the number, I'll follow exactly what you do.
No, no, no, no.
Walk with God once, will you?
Just walk with God.
He will tell you how many times to
swap them.
Okay, after the spanking, we have a time
of affirming.
When I have finished the spanking, I fall
on my knees next to the child and
weep with them.
There are times when I am so overwhelmed,
I just break down and weep like a
baby.
I've had the children put their hand on
me to comfort me.
Papa's hurting.
You know, run to his side, you know.
But you know, that's the way it is.
It's not fun to spank a child.
It hurts.
It hurts inside to spank a child.
Sometimes I just break down and bawl like
a baby.
By the way, you should see what it
does to the children when they see you
be had.
That does more to cleanse things out of
them than the pain on the bottom did.
My father's heart is broken over what I've
done wrong.
I will not do it again.
See that relationship again?
I don't want to break my father's heart.
I will not do it again.
That's much better than I don't want to
get a spanking.
Amen?
Then, we have a prayer.
I have the child pray.
It's usually a very sweet prayer.
They cry their heart out to God over
their need, that which they've done.
And then I pray for them.
It's usually a fervent prayer.
It's usually an intercessory prayer.
My heart is broken.
My heart cries out to God for the
child.
And the child hears his father pouring out
his heart to God for his needs.
This is beautiful.
Then we get up off our knees and
we blow our nose together.
We blow our nose.
Here, my child, come.
Have some Kleenex.
Blow your nose.
I'll blow my nose.
Get all that taken care of.
Then we sit down and we talk again.
Do you understand why Papa did what he
did?
Tell me again, why did you get a
spanking?
Do you see that we don't have to
come here?
When you see yourself going off this way,
if you'll stop yourself, we don't have to
come here.
Do you see that?
Yeah, they understand that.
After we talk a little bit more, then
I just take them in my arms and
I love them and I bless them and
I tell them what a good child they
are and how much I love them.
And I tell them, you know, you're a
very dear child to me.
I'm not mad at you today.
You fill my heart with joy so many
times, but you did something wrong, so I
needed to spank you.
Do you understand that's why I spanked you?
Yeah, yeah, they understand.
It's a time of affirming, a beautiful time
of affirming.
Dear parents, this is the kind of spanking
that children need.
Sometimes we sing a song, but the whole
goal at this point is to knit the
heart together in love and make sure that
we are buddies before we leave that room,
to knit the heart together in love.
That is the purpose.
This is usually when you get the thank
you, either then or at the end of
the day when you put them to bed,
you know, you tuck them in.
How many times I've heard a child say,
when I was tucking them in bed at
night, last few words, you know, they look
at me and say, Papa, thank you for
spanking me today.
I just felt so good inside all day
long.
I've known that I needed it for a
couple of days.
Thank you for spanking me today.
Oh, sweet words, sweet words, precious sweet words.
Yea, he that spanketh his child, loveth his
child.
And when we begin to look at it
in the way that I've described, yes, we
can look at it and say, I can
see how that would build a closer relationship,
not build a wall between my child and
I, but rather even draw us closer together.
Think about it again.
When God spanks you, do you run away
from Him when He is done?
Or do you want to be closer to
Him than you were before?
We all know the answer, every one of
us.
I don't run away from God.
I want to be with Him.
He's my Papa.
He loved me so much, He corrected me.
And the freedom and the joy and the
peace and the clearing in my heart, I
want to be close to Him.
And that's the way it is with a
child.
They just want to hang tight, you know,
all day long.
Are you going to the store?
Can I go with you?
Can I go along?
Hmm?
Doesn't sound like a wall to me.
Why?
Because we spank the child with love and
compassion.
And because we spank the child out of
the context of a loving relationship.
This is how we need to spank our
children.
I tell you, I don't think any judge
would shake a stick at that.
They're not shaking a stick at that!
They're getting upset about the other.
We must sanctify our own hearts in this
whole thing of spanking our children.
We must get a hold of this.
Spanking children like this is a life-changing
experience for both us and the child.
And that is what it's supposed to be.
A life-changing experience.
Especially when all the other aspects of training
are in their place.
You know?
When they're all in their place.
The instruction, the care, the directing, the time,
the love, the relationship, all those things are
in their place.
That child is basking under the sun-shining
face of their father and mother and in
the midst of that kind of a relationship,
yeah, sometimes they do what is wrong.
In that kind of a relationship, if you
could just calmly speak to that child and
get them into their room and give them
a spanking like this, miracles would happen.
I'm telling you, miracles would happen.
And it's what God wants.
I pray that you will take this example
as a pattern to follow.
That's my prayer.
That you will take this as an example
to follow and ponder it enough that it
gets in your heart.
And sit down with Hebrews chapter 12 and
read over those verses and ponder how God
has spanked you and draw it all together
as a revelation in your own heart and
then implement it into your own home.
I guarantee you, you will get good results.
You will not have to call me on
the telephone and say, Brother Denny, what you
said about spanking doesn't work.
My child is not my friend.
They run as far away from me as
they can get.
I guarantee you, if you will do what
I'm saying, what I said last night and
what I've said this evening in the way
that I have said it, you will not
have to say those words.
God will draw your children close to your
heart and you will have a child with
a clear countenance, bright and happy and enjoying
obeying their father and their mother.
I promise you, in Jesus' name, that's what
you have.
Let's stand for prayer.
Oh God, this evening we come to you
again in Jesus Christ's name.
Father, we thank you that you love us
and there's no question in our hearts whether
you love us.
You have proven it, Lord.
We thank you that you spank us and
we've never doubted your love while you were
spanking us.
Oh God, we want that for our children,
Lord.
Oh God, some of this is new to
some of us.
Open up our eyes, Lord.
Some of us are in bondage, Lord.
Desperate needs inside of our own hearts.
Oh God, I pray, deliver us, Lord, that
are in bondage.
For the sake of our children, God, would
you deliver those that are in bondage?
Would you speak faith to their hearts this
evening, Father?
Would you tell them there's a way out?
Would you tell them there's hope for them?
Would you tell them, dear God, would you
reach down in your loving kindness, wrap your
arms around that struggling soul right now, and
speak those sweet words of love into their
ear?
I love you.
You are my child.
I want to help you.
I want to see fruit in your life.
I want to help you with your children.
God, would you speak those words in the
hearts of those that are struggling tonight?
Don't let them despair, dear God.
Come alongside of them and love them in
just the way that I've told them that
you love them.
Do it tonight, God.
I commit them into your care, each and
every one.
And Lord, we pray, would you open our
eyes, God, and let us see this.
It's beautiful.
It's so beautiful.
Hallelujah!
Your precepts are beautiful, Lord.
Would you open our eyes?
We want to do it this way, Lord.
We want to lovingly spank our children.
Please have mercy upon us and open our
eyes and help us to see, God.
I just commit all of this into your
care, Lord, every one.
And Lord, we look to you for a
blessing tomorrow night as we come together again
to learn how to love our children.
God, we ask this in Jesus Christ's name.
Amen.