Healing Balm -Have we lost this generation 4-27-26-ESTRANGED-Veil- part 3

ESTRANGEMENT-IS YOUR HEART VEILED?

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The Lord said for the heart of the daughter of my people. I am hurt. I am mourning. Astonishment has taken hold of me. Is there no bomb again? Is there no position? One thing is there no problem with the health of the devil of my people. I like what the messages are about strangement. If you don't think it's an epidemic and a hot topic on top of that, that has gained popularity among young people, children, middle-aged, even the older adults are not exempt. I believe their loneliness, the older people, comes from being ignored and cast aside as if they no longer had any value or credibility. So they're finding comfort on a communication device that they're not familiar with. You can't just call them a cell phone anymore because they do so many things, and there's so many areas that you can go where you don't need to be. They're too smart for that, these phones are. You can find a friend or an acquaintance that will get you closer to them than you were prepared to go. Misuse or overuse of technology can drive a wedge in family relationships, replacing face-to-face interaction with screen time that erodes emotional intimacy and reduces quality time. You know, we've got grandchildren who want to talk to us every now and then on FaceTime so they can see you and you can see them. They're playing with a gadget that they know how to interact that way. It's like we're totally losing intimacy. The constant use and dependence of devices can lead to interrupted or lack of conversations. How many conversations have been interrupted? Or you couldn't interrupt somebody's phone time because they was playing with a phone and they didn't have time to really listen to what you had to say, so you just forget the conversation and go on. That's one form of uh broken communication there. But it also increases isolation, making family members feel lonely even when they're physically together. You know, you can be lonely in a crowd of a hundred people, and I know that you know that. I am so tired personally of trying to have a conversation or even get somebody's attention when they're glued to a cell phone or a computer. A lot of times they're just endlessly, leisurely scrolling, trying to find a picture or a subject that grabs their attention. You're not it. I don't know th where their mind is. That's natural, it's common. When you've got that phone and you're surfing the net, you're flipping through pictures. It's entertainment. And in the family scenario or scene, we're not entertaining each other. While you're standing there, maybe running short of time, you know, because you've got so much to do, so many obligations and priorities, and you can't get their attention while they're investing their precious energy and swiping that screen, laughing at a joke. You know, look, it's not even a laughing matter anymore. It's getting really serious. The ones you maybe work to raise, talking about your children or support, you cook and clean up after, wash their clothes, card them off to wherever it is they want to go, and never consider your feelings, your needs, or the fact that you need some rest. How many times have you had a child or teenager or an adult for that matter offer let me help you do this, let me help you carry this load. You sit down for a while. We need to practice a little bit more of that. They don't hear you really when you're trying to talk to 'em. All they hear is a noise and they're getting real good at shutting you out because you're interrupting their train of thought or their wherever they are surfing on the web. It's no wonder that you feel rejected, taken for granted, used, unloved, and on and on and on. The marriages that have suffered from ignoring each other, only catching a word or two that you're trying to tell 'em. You ever had to try to have a conversation with somebody that was watching TV and you know wasn't commercial breaks, so you weren't gonna get through to them, you know, unless they stopped the TV. Used to you couldn't stop the TV unless you got up and turned it off. Or now you can record it. So it's pretty easy to just stop that thing and listen to somebody. But so many times people don't. And then you wind up uh heading out the door, going to do whatever it is that you were going to do, spend whatever money or buy whatever, and uh later on they declare, you didn't tell me you were gonna do that. You didn't tell me you were going so and so, or you was gonna buy that. Does that sound familiar? Maybe you did tell 'em. Maybe they didn't hear a word you were saying. Or they, well I heard you say you was going somewhere, but I I wasn't sure where that was. You know, I'm sorry. I I was just in a trance, I guess. Or what about that outfit that you worn a few times and the only time they noticed that it looked good on you was as you were walking out the door. Some significant others don't even notice that you're gone. They don't know where you went and they don't know when or if you're coming back. Now there's a country song that some of you may have heard. It was done by Connie Smith. She's now married to Marty Stewart. If you don't know anything about con country music, you don't know who I'm talking about. But Connie Smith is also an awesome spiritual singer. She's a a Christian and she puts an awful lot in to her music. But she did this little song back in 1965 called I Can't Remember When. And I do that little ditty in my head sometimes, because that was back in the 60s, that was my day. I better just tell you about that, but tell my own age here. But I think you get that picture. She's that beautiful Christian lady and she sung that song. I can't remember when. A couple of the lyrics are Did she say Sunday noon or one day soon? Did he say he took the car or what a fool you are? Did he say a fishing trip? Or he gave you the slip? Is he off to see the world or to see another girl? I mean, you know, it's like I don't remember what he said. You know, that's kind of where we are in communication. And I know that's kind of off the beaten path, but I think you get that too. That didn't cost you anything. It was just a little shining example of a Christian who has experienced estrangement. I need to get back on track with a message, but I just couldn't help myself there. That song just popped in my head and come out of my mouth. Family estrangement, as you know, is the breakdown of family bonds, whether it's intentional or not. You may not have meant to break the bonds, you may not have even realized what you were doing or not doing was doing that kind of damage. But regardless, it happens. We've all heard the term unintended consequences. And estrangement is the unintended consequence of uh letting a something come between you and your loved ones, your family. Families and friends become strangers from lack of communication. Just to name a few signs that are maybe they'll sound familiar to you. No contact, no visual eye contact, verbal or physical. I won't stand and talk to anybody very long if they won't make eye contact with me. That's the way I feel. I gotta look in those windows. You gotta look me in the eye, because I'm pretty good at discerning. And you can be sure that when you're talking to me, I'm looking at you and I'm paying attention. So I'm into visual contact. Some people don't have hardly any contact at all with the eyes, no verbal, no physical, no huggy, no kissy, no hands holding hands, nothing like that. I don't include texts or emails intentionally because that's not communicating. That's texting. Don't send me a text to tell me you love me if you can't tell me you love me in person. If you can't show me you love me. Don't hide behind a text. Also, walking on eggshells. Man, that's a terrible, terrible feeling. Communication shuts down oftentimes when you find yourself having to walk on eggshells around people. You'll wind up walking in the opposite direction or taking a detour or something because it's number one, it's so uncomfortable. Number two, you're not gonna get anywhere. You know, it's just such a terrible feeling. Pretending that you're being ignored, pretending that when somebody's ignoring you, just pretending that it doesn't hurt your feelings. Laugh it off. You're not gonna laugh it off, you may shrug it off, you're not gonna cover it up. In some places uh in your life you may find yourself getting mad about it. The world has become so self-centered that it seems to be a narcissistic epidemic. It's past time to wake up and put the brakes on. Some people are afraid to confront the issue because they just don't want to make matters worse. So they'll just let it ride or let it slide. No, they don't. They just don't address it right then. Most of the time they put it in a memory bank. They store it up for a later date. Or it grows in festers because it wasn't taken care of at that time. So you either deal with it or it's gonna get worse, trust me. If you don't nip it in the bud, you know, these things are really going to get worse. Sometimes it's hard to get through to people. Older people used to say you can't get it through your thick skull or your hard head. And I depending on where you're from, you may never have heard that comment, but at least my grandmother told me that. So it's she drilled in my head. Also, if you're not from the country or rural area, you don't know a black walnut from a pecan, but I do. It's sort of like a black walnut or a hickory nut if you want to. We call them hickornuts. If you tried to crack one with the wrong type of rock, it would just fly all to pieces. But the nut wouldn't crack. You ever tried to crack a hicker nut or black walnut with a piece of shale rock or you know, something besides granite? It don't crack. It took granite or a heavy hammer. And once you did get inside, there was so little good in it that you felt like you wasted your time. And that's the way I feel sometimes trying to talk to people. I can try to beat it out of 'em and get some kind of sense, some kind of m communication, and I feel like that black walnut. I just didn't get much out of that. Is there hope? Well sure there is. I don't believe the end time prophecies that were given were given for nothing. I if you couldn't do anything about it, I don't believe you'd hear about it. But uh the prophetic word is given to show you what is coming if you don't change direction or what's ahead of you where you can change direction, where you can uh repent, where you can get some things straightened out. They're warnings, prophetic warnings. Remember that. The powers of darkness want to keep that hope draped in a veil of darkness. There is hope for restoration, believe it or not. May not look like it, but there's hope. Malachi four and six gives that prophetic word of hope in describing a spirit of Elijah that shall, not maybe, shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, to avoid a curse on the land. You know, I I know we talked on the last message about how this situation went between fathers and children and sons and daughters, they'll be put to death. There's a lot of that that's taken place, whether they're killing you physically, whether they're breaking your heart and just killing you emotionally, just destroying you on the inside. There's still hope. There's a time coming that shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers. This verse implies that focusing on repentance and reconciliation can restore broken relationships. But you know what? It's not gonna do a thing if you just sit there. Not gonna do a thing if you ignore what I'm saying or or whether read it for yourself, look around at your house, look at your situation, and figure out is any of these situations fit you? Is it going on with you? Have you not just realized what kind of destruction is coming from something you really didn't you know wasn't bothered about it. You know, you thought it was kind of innocent. And it is. It's just like to begin with. It's kinda like sin. Sin feels good until it don't. Ask the drug addict. Dope feels good until it don't. Alcohol feels good until it don't. You know what I mean? You can start off happy partying, drinking, having a blast until you've got a broken home, a broken body, sclerosis of the liver, whatever else, a bona fide alcoholic, and you can't get loose from that demon. Then it quits feeling good. Too long, the idea, if it feels good, do it has been the the word. You know, a rebellious generation, that includes a lot of our generations. We broke the mold in a lot of uh the family situations here. Uh, we're all guilty. Our next message is gonna be concerning that veil that's over the heart, that blindness that's over the land. It's almost the Bible mentions past feeling, and I don't wanna get into that too much here because tell you ahead of time what I need to talk about then and not now. But you can get past feeling and you can get so cold that you have a veil over your heart. P people can't penetrate that veil. They can't get through to you and you don't feel anything. If you've never been absolutely cold, unresponsive, actually don't really care. If you've never been in that shape, I'm happy for you. I don't know too many people that haven't had at least a little run with it. But anyway, I'll be talking to you about that veil that covers the heart in darkness sometimes. And there's only one way out of that. There's only one way to separate that veil into being.