WCB-Healing Balm-Have we lost this generation 4-23-26 ESTRANGEMENT part 2

Have we become ESTRANGED from our own families?

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The Lord said, For the heart of the daughter of many people, I am hurt. I am mourning. Astonishment has taken hold of me. Is there no Bum and Gilead? Is there no physician there? One of them is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of many people. This day is killing the bumper. My last message was concerning our younger upcoming leaders and how unprepared they are to lead, because so many have only learned to follow, remaining immature and irresponsible, and the truth is it's not all their fault. A lot of people don't want to hear that. And simply will just tune me out or change the channel. But you know what? You can't change the facts. We don't have time to finger point and accuse each other. Trying to blame somebody else when we all have fallen short and been responsible and bear responsibility for the mess our families are in, even if we meant well. Maybe we did what we thought was best, and even beat our heads against the wall. You know, I know how frustrating that can be. But the sad fact is we're living a prophesied reality that some never believed could happen to them. So it was easy for our homes and families to be plundered. We have a lot of ground to cover concerning how we got here in this broken situation without seeing it coming. It's likely going to take several messages to cover a prophecy this complex. So where do we start? It's going to step on a lot of our toes and stab some of us in the heart, but we can't just shut our eyes and hope that things will change because if you're gambling on those odds, remember they can change for the worse. So don't take it for granted. I want to start with Matthew twelve and twenty nine. How can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder his house? Think about that. If the strong man's in a house, I mean they come in to plunder, you're gonna bind up the strong man to come in there and just clean house. Not just plundered, robbed, robbed of our relationships with our children, parents, family, friends, stolen right out from under our nose while we had while we had our noses in everybody else's business, surfing the net, glued to every form of entertainment available to keep us up to date, and it's faster than the speed of life information age that we're living in? Do we even consider the damage that we're doing to ourselves and our loved ones by relying on a a text message or an email to communicate with people we love? We're so caught up in technology and the newness of it and the fun of it and and the learning in itself, you know, stumbling through, trying to figure out how to make it work and indoctrinate it into our lives and our life into it, it has pretty much consumed families. Do we even try to communicate with people we love one-on-one anymore? Do you sit down and talk to your children or your parents or your friends or do you just shoot 'em a message? Do you send them a text? Do we treat our closest family and friends like strangers by shooting them that quick text because it's so easy and convenient? We don't take time to even talk anymore. Do you wonder why your children live in their own private escape world that doesn't include you anymore? You realize that you've been shut out of their lives and you're not part of it anymore. You don't know how to reach them because you don't know how to reach inside that device that they have clung to as a family, as a close friend, as a confidant. All of a sudden that phone or that computer has become their world, their life, and there's evil out there that's just waiting to offer them a love that it they're gonna be shocked at what they find. If it's not too late for you and your family, how do we stop this insane world from spinning so fast and make and take time to find our families that have fallen by the wayside? What can we do to turn this family division and destruction back? It's gonna take God to show us what he already sp through his prophetic word that would happen in these last days. We're all victims of a dark plan to destroy the family unit. Some just don't realize it's happening to them. They think it's happening to everybody else. We need to pray the scales off our eyes and stop running from the truth long enough to look in the mirror to see past our lying eyes that see things the way we want them to be or want them to appear, and look at the truth staring us right back in the face. We are not exempt from this prophecy. None of us are. Along with another one that I'm gonna share with you in just a few minutes that is the topic of so many current conversations all over the media. We're not exempt, and we don't have to do anything more to bring it to pass. It will come to pass, just like it's prophesied. You may think, what makes you an authority on what God says or thinks? You know, some people feel that way. Well, we're just gonna call it pre-Jesus. Like some of you listening right now. I haven't always been a Christian. I was a believer for a long time before I became a Christian. But you do know being a believer is not enough, right? Even the demons believe and tremble. Even Satan himself is a believer. He knows beyond the shadow of a doubt who and what God is. So being a believer is is just a cop out, if that's what you you're wanting to use as a a sign to hang over your head. Remember, God doesn't deal or negotiate with the devil. He put the serpent on notice in the garden at Eden that his day will come. He has a standing appointment with his creator, who will not forget but will bring to pass what he has spoken. God promises and God fulfills what he promises. That's why playing around with the powers of darkness, allowing our children to be raised by an addiction that's worse than the fentanyl and the drugs that are killing people right before our eyes, and that is the social media and the technology that they're giving into with no clue to the danger, the suggestions, and the fact that they're being stolen from us because the strong man, the strong woman, the mothers and the daddies have become so bound up in their way of life that they can't handle it either. They've been plundered. We've been plundered. There's a word or a phrase that you've likely heard popping up, and if it hasn't hit your home yet, don't get comfortable. The word is estrangement. It walked right into our homes, took a front row seat, and made no attempt to hide. It began with cell phones texting instead of a live voice. You know how little emotion you may have put an exclamation point or a question mark on something that you're texting to somebody. But there's no emotion. There's no no feeling. The bond and the sound of a a loving, understanding, concerned voice versus the cold, typed words in a phone on a phone screen or a computer. Estrangements is breaking hearts. It's killing love that was once patient and kind. Literal death can be less painful than walking around broken and stunned, empty, helpless, numb, like a TKO or technical knockout in a Tyson fight. You didn't see the hit or the fatal blow coming, even though you went into the ring or arena prepared to fight, you thought. You're no match for the devil. No match. I want to leave you with this prophecy in a minute and I'm not going to forget it. I'll come right back to it. But I was thinking earlier about just how much you miss the voice or the touch of a a parent that's no longer with you or a grandparent, somebody that you love, that was comforting, that you could talk to, you could tell them anything, if nothing else. If you didn't tell them what was going on in your life, just the fact that they would hug you, they would hold you, and they'd tell you everything's gonna be all right, everything's gonna work out. I'm here for you. You know, you could feel that love, you could feel that compassion. You can't feel that text. Type cannot take the place of tenderness, of love, of affection, of family of sitting on a parent's or grandparent's knee, or you know, just going to see an old grandparent or an old parent. They might they don't understand what you're doing. They don't understand maybe what you're into. They understand they love you. And and you know that they they love you and you're supposed to love them. Are we showing it? Have we totally abandoned our older generation? Or the parts of our family that don't know anything at all about technology? Have we replaced those relationships with all the endless hours, minutes, days, nights that we're spending on these hellphones and and technology and and that's become our life? Matthew 10 and 21 says, Brother will deliver or betray brother over to death, and the father is children. And children will rise against parents and have them put to death. I th uh when I first read that I thought, boy, that's that's hard and that's brutal, and I find it hard to believe that some kids are gonna raise up and put a parent to death. Well, you know what? You can kill somebody without ever firing a shot. You can kill something on the inside of them and destroy a parent or a parent and a child. With the lack of love and the lack of affection and some of the things that we say or do. You can do an awful lot of damage. Micah chapter seven verse six highlights the breakdown of family units, noting that children and family members can become enemies within the household. I've seen it. I'm sure you've seen it. So many families just break up, they get at odds with each other, they actually stop loving each other, disown each other, disinherit each other, and they have to they feel like they have to do that to survive. I've been in times and had moments that I feel like the only way I'm gonna survive is just put a lot of miles between me and you because you're killing me. And I'm no uh I'm not the only one that feels that way. You know, these verses are generally interpreted as signs of the end times or times of severe persecution for believers. Whether you want to label it persecution or not, you need to take a cold hard look at what's going on. We are aliens in this land, we are foreigners in this country. Nothing is the same. And I know thing the world don't stop for us as things continue to change and progress. Look, we're not making progress. We've lost ground. We're going backwards. We've lost the love and the bond that holds families together. You've heard the family that prays together stays together. There's a lot of families, first off, that don't even know how to pray. As far as they know, I mean they could just send God a text. That's about that's about all they know. They don't know how to pray or communicate. Only if they need something desperately, they might holler out, Oh God, I need this, or Lord, I need that. That's praying on him, that's not praying to him, that's not having a relationship with God. It's not having a relationship with your family. Just because you sent 'em a text or an email, maybe left them a note on the table, that's not communicating. So we are in the days of estrangement. And don't know how it happened, but it happened right under our nose. Until next time, the Lord willing. Meditate on those prophecies. Look at your home, look at your life. Be real with yourself. We've all made mistakes and and hopefully they're not fatal. Hopefully things can be repaired. Pick up the pieces, acknowledge what's wrong, what's gone wrong. Maybe you need to consider laying that cell phone down, and I've talked about this plenty of times. We're all guilty of that if we own a cell phone of spending more time with our noses stuck in somebody else's life, looking at the way they live and what the options and opportunities are out there in the world while our kids are doing the same thing. That world out there looks a whole lot more glamorous and more fun than being stuck with us as parents. You know. So we gotta open our eyes. And we've got to realize the most valuable thing that we have on this earth is each other, is our family, and love and compassion. Love was very important when Jesus talked. A lot of his sermons were about love. And I see love wax and cold, and I see less and less.