Children Like Davids

Don't give up on your children...

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hi friends, welcome to Matthew 4.4. It's time to eat. I'm your host, Winifer. On today's episode, I'm going to talk about children like David's, King David, the bloodline that Jesus came through. Well, I've never met any children in my lifetime or any parents that have children such as David. Um, I am a mother of four children. They're adults, four adult children. And I kid you not, mine are similar to that. David's children were wayward, they were all over the place. Um, even though I didn't have incest um or anything like that, um, or them trying to murder me, they have their own little things. And I love each and every one of them because they each have something that God has invested inside of them that is fabulous to me, that is. But anyhow, I want to talk about that because you know, some people, especially those that are followers of Christ, um, their children never do anything wrong. They are always on a path where there's nothing, no obstacles hidden or known to them. But this is meant to encourage those that have teenagers, young children, um, even adult children that experience different uh challenges during their life. I had um all my children are adult now, but I had two children when they were teenagers. Um, they were trying to jump out of the nest. Um, home life was just not a place where they desired um to be. No matter what was there, we didn't have everything, but in my little closed mind, I thought we had love. I had peace there, um, working, providing the best that I could. But there were other things that were missing. I had two of them that wanted to be someone's wife, and they were children, they fell in love, and they wanted to be with their person that they fell in love because they just couldn't see past, you know, not being with those people. And you know, when you're a teenager, um, you know, you may think that this is the here and now, and you don't even want to try to entertain the fact that there may be years ahead where I'll look back and I really don't want to be with this person. But anyhow, they wanted to be someone's wife um in the family way, and I'm like, I'm not doing that. It was already hard enough, you know, for me to feed them as well as clothe them and keeping a roof over their heads and trying to get them to get an education. So I want to talk about some of the things that you may experience. Um, when I talk about King David, 1 Samuel chapter 13, verse 20 to 22 will tell you about, you know, he even had a son that was trying to kill him. He had a son that laid with his wives. That's a no-no, you know. Can you imagine the stigma, you know, and the shame that that would bring on his father for him to lay with the same women that his father has been with, and they're his father's wives, you know. Um, also there was a son. Um he was so in love with his sister, he talked with one of his friends, and the friend, you know, sometimes friends can give you the worst advice possible. And back then, you know, if he would have wanted to marry his sister, there's a possibility that his father would have allowed it. Because I don't know how many of you know that Abraham and Sarah, they were actually sister and brother. Yes, they were, they had different mothers, but they shared the same father. Abraham, Sarah or sister and brother, the mother and father of Isaac? Yes. Go back into the scripture and read it. Um, anyhow, his father, it's a possibility that David would have allowed his son to be married to her because she was so beautiful to him. You know, he desired her, and he raped her after she had prepared something for him, lied, acting like he was sick and everything, and he wanted her to come and assist him. Okay. And she prepared food and everything and raped her when she's getting ready to nurse him, give him his food and everything to try to help get him back to health. He takes advantage of her. Back then, can you imagine what that would have done to her? No one would want to be married to her after that. And her full brother brother, he was in a rage. He was in a rage over it, and rightly so. But what the rage was mainly geared towards the father, David, because I'm assuming David wasn't doing what he wanted him to do. Okay. He's the very one that laid with his father's wives. Okay. Anyhow, I've never met anyone that has children that go astray. Like the prodigal son goes out into the world and squanders all of his inheritance while his father is still alive. But he gave it to him. Okay. Also, can you imagine having a child running around wanting to kill you? The rage was just that deep he loved his sister. And his father didn't behave in the way that he wanted him to. Yeah. It was a possibility. His father was waiting to hear what God wanted to have happen. And sometimes when things we look at it, how dreadfully horrible they look, we want to take matters in our own hands. But anyhow, that's just what I wanted to reveal during this episode. Because I've had children that um have lied. I was in a marriage, not to their father with someone. And in order for one of my daughters to jump out of the nest to go be with the guy she wanted to be with, this is in high school, she lied and said that the man that I was married to, that he was, I guess, trying to rape her, trying to do something to her that made her feel uncomfortable in the home. So different people that were in her social circle at school, her friends, they gathered together and they um hid her. They kept her living, they fed her, they protected her, they kept her safe. And the very person that she wanted to be married to, she wanted to be in his life. And no one ever came and asked me if they could marry, else, I would have gladly said, go ahead, before all that would have occurred. But the person that she desired a life with, um, his grandmother, because his mother was dead, his grandmother um provided a roof under her for her, for my daughter and her grandson, you know, to be able to live in a way where they wouldn't have to be afraid. And during this time they were trying to procreate, okay, without my permission to be there, and they were trying to make a baby, and the grandmother was approving of it, but they didn't understand. I looked for her, we searched all over and everything. So, guess what? I had to get the police involved. I couldn't miss any work. Um, so the detective, what he would have me do is her picture and everything. He had me to put stuff in the mailbox, and this is how we were corresponding with one another. I met with him at the precinct, but how he would like update me and have me give him things that would let him know where my child was, so that whenever they did see her, they would be able to pick her up. I had to put pictures of her, updated picture, and other information um that he needed. And there was this one instance um where he communicated with me. You don't know how the parent is feeling when they're going through these situations. I'm like, David, I could imagine how his knees were shaky and buckly, and his mind was distraught because it's like all hell is breaking loose through the very people that I desire to love, and he did love. And it's just like, you don't, you don't, you don't love me no more. Can you imagine how that is? But I've never met anyone that had any children that were similar to that ever. I have not. And during this time, only thing I was thinking about is my child's safety. Anyhow, the detective, this is what the detective told me. They had never in this area, because it's in an inner city. I think some of the parents were like glad when their teenage son or daughter left the home because they're putting up so much hell in the environment. But he was letting me know he had never seen anyone like me that really cared what was going on with my child. And I listened to him, he let me cry and his office, and he listened to me, and it was a genuine concern. And after that, I think it's like what he was telling me is because of how long it was, how they kept her hidden. And I'm like, I am not taking care of, and I meant it. I ain't taking care of nobody's babies. You're gonna go and you're gonna make up in your mind with someone and their grandmother, and you decide you're gonna have a child with them without my permission. Who's gonna be responsible for it? He's gonna take care of it, how he's gonna take care of it, and he's in the 11th grade. Grandma is on disability. I'm gonna have to be the one that's gonna be paying child support to your child. This gonna be a news flash to you because I wasn't willing to do it. And during this time, Plan B came out. Seriously, there used to be a plan B and it was legal. And I made the judge aware, I made children and youth aware, and I made that police department in this area where I live aware. Plan B is what's gonna occur. And I ain't talking about what plan to do after that because I was not able to keep her safe and keep her in the hoe. And we were going to investigate what was going on between her and her stepfather. And come to find out, neither one of them had anything to say when confronted. No, that that never happened. Of course, the person that you're blaming is gonna say that, but then you hear her stand right there in front of him and say, That didn't happen. I didn't say that. My friends told me to say that. I don't have a friend on God's earth that could convince me to do that. I do not. We went to Florida to a funeral. It was my grandfather, his funeral on my mother's side. And so, excuse me, I allowed my two oldest daughters, because they're for a man that lives down there, to go and spend two days with him because they hadn't seen him since they were small small. And I had no idea I needed to do a background check or a child line check, a child abuse check, or FBI fingerprint check on him because he uh took them to have a good time, and the something happened to the older one. The older one was sexually assaulted while she was in his care. And I've never told anyone about this except two people, except for the police department, and they're both dead. It was my mother and my aunt. Her name was Veronica. I they're the only two people that I told that to. And I tried to tell it to one of her other sisters, and she's like, I don't believe that. And the child was standing there listening to her. So I didn't pressure on, but I told those two, and they seemed to understand, and they were listening to what I had to say. The one sister, I guess it was so traumatizing for her to hear, and she told me, you can call me mama if you want to. And I told her, Thank you, but we only get one mom, and I'm not gonna call someone else mama. It doesn't matter how you treated me, it's only one mother. I can thank God for you giving birth to me for your body to be able to hold me because some people can't carry children full-term. Their bodies are so weak like that. Anyhow, um, that's a thing that it took years, years to go through. I almost lost my mind behind that. I remember me and the detective, we were walking, she took me to um uh outpatient for mental health. She took me to that. So that because she's like, I'm just like really worried with you, and she just stayed with me. And she took me to that a couple times and till I was able to pull it together, and then she's like, I gotta tell you something else. Because you say, I've investigated everything because I thought something happened in the church because that's what the child told me, and she was lying on a church member. Kids will lie, they will, and the um detective said she believes that when we went to Florida, that's where something happened to her. Because the behavior changes, the attitude, some of them become way where they're experimenting and touching themselves in a sexual way when someone has sexually assaulted them. And then some of them go to the extreme they don't want to be touched. Okay. But anyhow, there were things where I could see, you know, something had occurred to her, had happened to her. And me, I'm not the kind of mom that'll keep it quiet. Because then nobody stand up for me as a child, but you better believe me. And I was barking all over the place. And the detective, she told me, she said, Um, I want you to stay like that. And I remember when she took me to this therapy, this outpatient therapy. Me and the therapist, we went for a walk, and this is what he told me. He said, When for he, because he knew I was grieving over that. He's like, You're gonna have to snap out of this. We went for a long walk. And um, he's like, either you are gonna snap out of this, or you're just gonna sink deeper into it, and then somebody else is gonna be work taking care of your children and look at what's happened already. And he let me know there are parents when something like that occurs with their children, they keep it hush, hush, and they don't reach out to anyone, they reach out just to like family members, and they all keep it quiet. You know, that's just in there, that's their secret in the home, in the family setup. They only people know about it is them, okay? But you say, you know what you did, you let the authorities know. And let me tell you, my two oldest ones, their father, they kept him hid from me until these girls grew up. They're my girls, they grew up and became adult women, and then they went and they saw him, and they made him aware, mom did not make us say that. You did that to her, you did it in a bathroom, but anyhow, that hurt them, they moved past it, but also they hurt people also. They helped this, they hurt the stepfather by lying on his ass, and then they lied on a man that was in church, the one that used to pick him up sometimes and take him to church, and that hurt him. And that really hurt him because he came to me and he said, Wonder, why it's gotta be. I'm like, Because that's what they told me. This ain't between me and you. And I let him know it's gonna have to be investigated. They're not just gonna tell me that and we're just gonna be quiet. Because kids will say stuff about adults, and the adults won't go to the police. Were they gonna come back and bring your behind up in there, your ass up in there, so you can sit down and they ask you questions as to what happened, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they're gonna be able to tell you, you want to take a lie detector test? I don't care if it fails or pass, but they're gonna investigate. Well, you just come and you're gonna talk to me, a man talking to a woman. No. We're gonna do that, and that's how it was with me. Because I've seen so much as a child when I was a child, the talking never, you never got to the bottom of it. Especially when it came to me, how I came about. Remember, this doesn't have anything to do with me, but I want to just so you can understand where I'm coming from. I am quote unquote the product of incest. My grandmother said that my mother had a child with her father. My mother only had one child, and that's Winnifer. But then you have other people that are saying, No, no, no, no, no, that didn't happen, that didn't happen.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

That's not true. Both women have died, and before they passed away, they had made amends. In private. At least that's what my mother said.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

And there was no more beefing between them. That's what they say, right? They weren't arguing and raising hell and everything. They were praying on the phone in the morning time, talking and laughing, like a mother and daughter supposed to. You would think. However, I went to visit my grandmother, and I did not want to be bothered with the rest of her grandchildren. Okay. So her daughter, the last one that passed away, she came there and made a way for me to see her. Okay. And she stayed the whole time with me so that I could visit with her and everything. Usually it's their brother that would help as far as me being able to see her. But it was this the daughter this time. And I was sitting on, you know, the little ottoman, like what you put your feet up on beside my grandmother, and she was sitting to the back of me. Do you know what she did? She leaned forward and she whispered in my ear. She used to call me Dixie. She said, Dixie. She did. She whispered, Your mother had a baby for her daddy. That's what she told me. Your mother had a baby for her daddy. And I said to myself, hmm. I didn't respond the way she thought because I it was embedded inside of me. That's how she felt. That let me know my mother, the woman that was my mother, she wasn't lying on her mother telling her that. But what she didn't realize is I knew her as a liar. But it's okay for them to call me the incest child. They won't say it out loud for people to hear. Because when they hear the words echo through their mouths, it's shame to them. I don't know why. I'm the one who had to do the title. The incest child, the product of a son, a daughter, and the father. And you think you shame? I'm the one supposed to be shame. But let me tell you, Jesus is amazing. Anyhow, that's how that was. She's the first one. And I want to tell you, these two ladies during the time, they did have some developmental delays. Now, when I work in the school system, I work in the uh, I'm a substitute assistant. And um the buildings that I go into to assist in the classroom, I don't, I'm not like with a child like that. I'm not doing the behavior um therapy with the children. I see that there are a lot of children in the school system that has someone sitting beside them because they have to be redirected. And they need someone there. I see some of them screaming and hollering and acting out. But the two older ones that I have, when you look at them, look like there's nothing wrong with them and the way they were raised, and how I didn't like hey, you may have ADD, but let me tell you something, you better pay attention now and go do your tour. You have to do dishes. This is your job for the week. You gotta make your bed up. You gotta take the trash out, and you are responsible for brushing your own teeth. I've already shown you how to do it. I've done it all the way up until you were five years old. Now I'm watching you brush your teeth. And you gotta do this for the rest of your life. Other than that, you'll have yellow teeth or gold ones, if that's what you want to call. Okay, that's up to you. But you gotta learn how to do it. They know how to drive cars, they know how to hold down jobs, you know, they know how to read their own mail because they were encouraged and told, you gotta learn how to do this. You don't have to do it the way the one that's in the gifted class, you don't have to learn how to do it like them. But you got to learn how to do it at the normal speed that you have. Other than that, you're gonna have people knowing all your business. But you get an important piece of mail, you gotta go over there and take it to your friend, and then after your back is turned, they explain it to you, and then they go and tell, oh child, guess what? She had me to read the letter to her, and it's all about you don't want that. You wanna be able to add and subtract your money, you want to know how much money you're supposed to be getting back whenever you go and purchase something. Because if you and they used to stutter, if you are stuttering and carrying on, and you don't know how much money you're supposed to get back, they're gonna think they can keep the change and give you 50 cents back. Stutter, but then when you get ready to count your money, uh-uh, put my two dollars at it and say it where they can understand you. Those are the ones I raise. And when you see them, you see them. They know what they're doing. And if they want to dummy themselves down, because I've had some do that, them two down, like you just trying to fit in with them, and you are way higher uh with your understanding. Don't dummy yourself just to be with somebody that's just walking through. Seriously, you know how to make sure your bank account is okay. You make sure that it's in good standing and it's not in rears. You know how much, whenever you've worked, what your paycheck needs to be looking like. They can't treat you like that. That's what I like. What's wrong with her? She's pretending, no, he or she was taught you have got to be in this world without mama and daddy. Auntie and uncle ain't gonna do no better because they're gonna look out for their children first. Most of them are. And they're looking for you to fail anyhow. Look out for yourself. I taught mine, be your own best friend. Charlie didn't even listen. All right, let's just move on back to David. Those are the children that I'm talking about, where I've never met anyone that had children similar, got characteristics, not the same message they were doing to the extreme, but had behaviors. Um, 2 Samuel chapter 13, 2nd Samuel chapter 14, verse 1 through chapter 15, verse uh 12. It'll tell you about him, about them. And you'll understand that it can be challenging. I've had two that were on drugs. Um, one of them led the police on a high-speed chase, calling me in the middle of the night. My heart, oh my goodness, my heart was just like thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. And I'm like, are they okay? And this was during the time where a lot of children, black ones, was getting beat to death. And I'm like, I thought for sure. I'm like, did y'all kill my child? And they're like, no, Miss Harris, your daughter is fine. It was my one of my daughters. And she's like, she's in the county jail. And what they did is they took pictures of her so that I could see because they could hear me. Because I'm like, uh-uh, y'all done killed my child. I know that person is a challenge, but I just hope y'all didn't say nope. But she said, one thing we had to do because my child broke out of a prison and led them on a high-speed chase after bringing drugs into the prison. Okay. And they had to throw some kind of thing out on the ground because she wasn't gonna stop the car to make the wheels go flat. And they say she's like that because you know, all the adrenaline and everything, they were good. How they explain it to me because they know I was like a basket case. And I'm like, okay, so after they got her booked in or whatever they did, they um made me aware that she could talk to me and whatnot. And so she did. And she didn't even care that I was nervous. She wanted to make sure I got a message to somebody that had her money. She wanted to make sure they didn't spend up all her money. I'm like, mm, well, I'll be damned. And I don't wasted all this, my nervous everything. Um, I was coming and glued, almost had a nervous breakdown, and only thing you're worrying about is your money. Yeah. And the police officers let me know. Um, actually, it was she had a public defender let me know that she was looking at 20 years. That could be at max. They was gonna at least 20 years they were looking at for her, and she was in her 20s. She would have been probably in her 40s when she got out. She still would have had some life, you know, where she could still provide and make a good life for herself. And so I'm like, oh goodness. Um, so at the time I was working during um, I have two jumps, but I used to do like for my little extra income, the home care. And I was going over to this one lady's home to make her some breakfast and do her laundry for her. And so what she was saying, she said, What the fuck's going on? Because you're just so sad, you're just what's going on. And she's I told her, and she's like, girl, please. She said, You gonna be all right? And she said, see, my boy, he was a man that was like in his 60s, and she said, You you know what? He was a drug addict. I mean, she said, Man, he had people where they was gonna kill the whole family. That's what she told me, and I began to see Christ in her, and she's like, We go through things, and she's like, I went through that because I didn't know I was gonna meet up with you. And she said, Everything is gonna be all right. Wonderful, this is what she told me. She said, You are in God's favor, God has favor over you today, and she says, Give me your daughter's name. I gave her my daughter's name, and then she let me know these are the kind of Christians I like. I can feel chills, glory to God, going all down my back. Well, they ain't like them Bible thumpers, letting you know I've been saved for umpteen years. They show up. The Christ inside of them show up and let you know everything is gonna be okay. It wasn't gossip, something to get tickled over. She told me, she said, My daughter, and see, her daughter didn't go around talking about I'm a preacher, I'm a this, I'm a that, da-da-da-da. My daughter is a preacher, ordained minister. Her and her husband, they gonna pray for your daughter, and she coming out of there no later than next week. God is so amazing. And this lady was 96 years old, and you if you look at her, you would think she was in her 50s. You hear me? I'm serious. The way she walked around and got around, even her voice didn't sound like a woman that was almost a hundred years old. And that her step and how she was about herself. I'm not gonna say her name because I made mistakes saying people's names. I don't even have the right to say their names. But she let me know, she said, next time you see him coming through here, he was I mean, she said he was on that strong stuff, and people came to my house to kill us. That's what she told me. And she said she went and she got along. And she couldn't get all the money. But she had a little something set aside in her husband, and they paid that off. And when they got through paying off his loan that he owed them people with the interest and everything, she says she got her Bible and she beat him all upside his head with it to let him know don't you bring no more problems on me like this. And he understood where she was coming from, and he got it together. And she's like, you know what? He handled all my money, he over my bank account, everything. And I don't keep tabs on it because he knows where I'm coming from. And she says, Whoo, I wish he would. If he is gonna take something, he better not touch my money, and he didn't. Yes, because God had delivered him from that. I want to continue to tell you, her daughter and her husband, they prayed for my daughter. I went into this deep sleep and I saw them in the spirit, and they had a prayer circle. They had put a him and her, they locked hands, and they had my daughter in the middle of them. And her and her husband was praying for my child. My daughter was out of there by the end of the week, and let me tell you, guess what they did? They sent her to an outpatient drug rehab center, and she had to do, I think, 50-some hours of community service. Okay, but they gave her a felony, there was no uh probation, whereas two, three, four, five years of felony, and it dropped off after seven years. They gave her a chance that was God. Do you hear me? And I just praised God so much. I really did. And let me tell you, during this time, my daughter was in the state of Florida and she was around relatives. Do you know that they thought that I had um did roots, they call it roots down there in the south, but it's witchcraft. They thought I had did some, that's what they call it. So I had put roots out there where she was able to walk free. She wasn't able to walk free. And the person who she was bringing drugs to was their son. He was still in jail, and they couldn't understand why he couldn't get out of jail. But they thought I did witchcraft to get her out of jail, and that was the word of mouth, how she got out, because Winifer worked roots on the system and got her out of there. Yep, that was prayer, and God prophesies through a woman that was 96 years old, and she told me, she said, Winifer, you are in God's favor. And she said, Your daughter, if she ain't out by the end of this week, she's gonna be out by next week.

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And she was I have a son.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

He was on drugs, real bad mess. I watched him hit a wall and break his fingers, his uh fingers up against the wall. He was so angry. When he moved out of the home, he needed to have a U-Haul. Um, they had he didn't have a U-Haul, but he needed a U-Haul. He took his bed, he took his um his clarinet, his he had so much stuff, his um amplifier, he had his seat where he used to sit, where he would sing, his microphone, all his stuff. He took everything with him. And they had to make, no, he he had a U-Haul when he left. And when he came back home to me, he had a thank you bag. You know what a thank you bag is? A thank you bag is the bag when you go to the grocery store around here, it says thank you in red letters on it. The words say thank you. That's because you came there and you did their business and you could put a loaf of bread in it. You may be able to put five items in it, but you might want to double the bag, but you could definitely put three items in it. He had a thank you bag when he came back home, and he was so sick. If you looked at him sideways, he looked pitiful.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

And I remember him calling me one day.

SPEAKER_01 40:51

He had left the door open. I left the door so he could get in. He left my door open so that his dope dealer could come in my apartment because I had moved out of the house by then, my apartment, and get my big 70-inch TV. He did it twice. And I said, I'll never leave the door open again. The person couldn't come in there. You know why? That was the Holy Ghost letting them know you come up in there, you won't do it no more. And I told him, I say, uh-uh. And that's when I said, You can't even come in here to stay. I'll give you a plate to eat, and you have to go down the road and eat it. Because I would have had to do something that was not okay to him. And to deliberately break a commandment, that's really that's an atrocious sin. To somebody that's sick. That's not cool. And um, he got him a place, and he wasn't able to keep it. He had it for about a month, and he saw that I wasn't gonna do the things that I used to do, because I'm like, look, I gotta pay my own bills, I can't pay yours and mine too. And even if I could, right now you're a grown man, uh-huh, and you gotta do it your own. And he understood. I'm like, only thing I can do, I'm gonna give you a plate, something to eat, so your belly won't be hungry. And that's it. Not even a shower. You gotta go to somewhere and get a shower. And he understood me. And by this time, the youngest one had come home from college and she was there. And she had the nerve to open the door, I guess, and let him in there. And he had a he left a thank you back. He uh had called me on the phone and he said, I'm getting ready to go to this drug rehab center. Man, I kid you not. I said, Thank you, Lord, in my heart. I had gave him their business card about two years prior. He don't even remember it. And he stumbled across the card and he called them. And they came and picked him up, and he wanted to leave his things there, and I said he left a thank you bag full of things that he had. Yeah. And he stayed there with them for a while. In the beginning, he was not cooperating, he because it was too much structure and he was gonna work too hard, and his counselor was telling me he was a preacher. He was letting me know, don't let him. Come back, make him stay. Because see, he they were going through, he was getting a breakthrough. And what he was is he had detox, so he was off the drugs. So now what he was doing is it was the mind, trying to get the mind to come back to as close as possible to where it was, which you know a lot of the sales had been lost due to the drug usage. And finally, they found something there that he liked to do singing, singing and dancing and praising God. So he began to sing and praise, and you could just hear, even from the tone, how he was, he had come out of that darkness. Well, he had another setback after I know about six years, six or seven years. And it was because of a relationship that went bad. And when I last spoke with him, you could just hear him how he's so much more in touch and in tune. And this time when he had he was able to get help for himself before he had sunk so far down to the thank you bag. He had many bags. Okay. And he just knew he did not want to go back down to where he was. And he was hurt. I could hear him our last conversation. How happy he was. It was not just happy, it's that was joy. Joy is something I don't even know how to put into words. Joy, you can feel the whole spirit when a person has that joy, and that's where he was. Oh, with that. And I I'm very appreciative to God for how he watches over my children. I really am. And my grandchildren as well as myself. But I've never met anyone that has children that has similar characteristics, such as Samuel. Well, I'm here to let you know, as a parent of adult children, I'm talking about these are grown, grown adult people. I've never stopped loving them. I have not. There have been times where I have felt, oh my goodness, these people don't even love or care for me. You can't go by that. Don't ever give up on them. Don't ever give up on them. Even if you cannot personally be right there where you can reach out and touch them, Jesus can. How do you surrender? How do you give your children to God? They are His. The moment that you tap into the fact that these are people that He allowed you to have access to, because there's only something that was inside of you that He invested, where you could cause them to grow closer to Him and whatever He has inside of them for it to flourish and blossom so that they can help others through the Spirit of God. That's all you have to do. You gotta just give them to Him. And when you give something to God, you don't go back and say, Oh, something go on and hold on to this because you can't do it. No, you give it right back to Him and just know He can do it better than you can because it belongs to Him, anyhow. And that's how you do that. And you don't even think any thought on it. And if Satan tries to come back through and tell you something different, rebuke Him. Because He really can't tell you how to care for a child that belongs to God. He can't, only God can. And that's definitely between God and the individual. They have to be able to submit, surrender. And I want to tell you here, just here today, you know, I work in the schools, and this is the time of year where the uh season is changing, pollen, ragweed, all that good stuff. And so we um get to sneezing, coughing, riddle, watery eyes, itchy, burning. And sometimes we lose our voices because of all the cook that's in the community. And little children, um, with the I'm with the pre-K. And they're always coming up, especially my little besties. My BFFs, oh my gosh, sometimes they got stuff coming out of their nose, and they will have blew their nose with a pleenex and thrown it away. And before I could even turn around and say, Did you wash your hands? Come on over there to me and I'll rub it all on me. These are my BFFs, okay, my little best friends. And then next thing you know, I got a sneeze or a sniffle. That's okay, okay. But then when you bring something like that home, it's just amazing how things can get out of hand. There's a big blow-up um between me and one of my adult children. Because I'm like, I don't want to hear that. You know, it's in the air and whatnot. Yes, I slept with the fan on my head because I was so hot. Okay, and when I woke up, my nasal cavity was clogged. Okay, so yes, I exposed you to something that was in the air that I probably brung in from class. But don't belittle me. Don't say things to me that is out of the way. Remember, I am still your parent. I've gotten into arguments with my kids where I am gonna be heard screaming and yelling so loud. Man, I have lost my voice doing that. Like you ain't talking to me like that. Listen at you, listen at you. I'm like, listen at you. And when you get a certain age, right now I'm 58. Man, let me tell you, well, you are 58. Do you know some of my adult children don't even think I know when my birthday is? I'm like, I might not know when yours is, but I know definitely know when my birthday is. And I know exactly how old I am, I know my name also. Okay, and I'm gonna tell you again, I know my date of birth. I can tell you my social as well. I don't like that belittling. I really do not. Anyhow, I want to share that with you because remember, Satan is always on the proud, and in the scripture, it tells us I want to give it to you too, that there's gonna be a time when Jesus is coming back. And he's gonna separate the sheep from the goats. He's gonna separate them. Okay. Matthew 25, verse 31, 33. It says, All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And he will send the sheep, he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. You understand? These words picture the final judgment that will occur at the second coming of Christ. When he does that, also just continue to read and hear what all he says after that. Because a lot of people think that he is gonna hand us over to Satan. He is not. Depart from me, you who are cursed until the internal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Did you hear what he said? Prepared for the devil and his angels. He didn't prepare that for us. Okay, for I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger and you did not invite me in. I needed clothes and you did not clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you did not come after me. Then also, they also will answer, Lord, when did we see you hungry and thirsty, or a stranger, or needing clothing, or sick in prison, and did not help you? Listen, he will then, verse 45 says, He will then reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. He did not say not one time that he was gonna hand you over to the devil. No, he didn't. Verse 41 says, Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me, you who also are cursed into the fraternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Because see, the devil has already been judged, and he knows where he's going. What did he say? Into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. He didn't say it was prepared for us. No, he didn't. So, those of you who have children that are similar to those that David had, continue to pray for your babies. Don't let them burn eternally, and don't you burn eternally. And there are those you have a right to go to hell if that's where you want to go.

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But as far as your children, if at all possible, continue to pray for your kids so that God can help strengthen them and prepare them for a life of peace and eternity. And you don't have to wait until you get to heaven to get that. You can have it right here. Stay blessed in Jesus' name. Everything is gonna be alright. It is. Everything is gonna be alright for all of us. Dear Heavenly Father, I ask in Jesus' name that you continue to provide a way and show us those things that we need to know in order to continue on our journey with you. Continue to protect us, providing for us, and not allowing those who believe that they can still take and destroy. Shut them down for eternity. In Jesus' name, I just want to say have a blessed week and thank you, Lord, for everything you do for me and my loved ones. Amen.