Presentation Women Building Destinations April 10, 2010: Seven actions of a wise woman

Do you know, that you have the ability to be a wise woman, you know? Amen. Remember that song "All I Need"? Sometimes we don't trust ourselves enough. But this morning I want you to go out, not just listening, but believing that you are a wise woman. It is not that it will be, but that she is already a wise woman. Because? Because God lives in you and when He is in us we walk with Him and have communication with Him and when we ask Him for things and when we go to Him; when we have important decisions or things to do, He gives us the wisdom to act.

I want to share seven actions of a wise woman. I want you to say with me, put your hand on your mind, your forehead – here, say: I have the wisdom of God. I have the wisdom from God to be a good wife, I have the wisdom to raise my children in this way, I have the wisdom and ability to have a happy and healthy marriage, I have the wisdom to have my parents healthy. Sometimes we have to talk to ourselves. You have to talk to yourselves every now and then. Even if no one listens to you, but sometimes repeating things like “the more you share, the more they reach one's heart”. I'm very Spanglish, so forgive me.

First I do chapter 25 and we are going to read while we are sharing this word. We are going to read about a woman named Abigail. When we begin to read the chapter we realize that Samuel had already died. David goes to the desert. They tell the men that there is a man Nabal who has “has a lot of possessions”. So he is hungry. How many know of a hungry man? Difficult is. Mami told me “Sole, when you go to give your husband, make sure he has eaten well so that you can sit down and then talk. Don't talk before he eats." Because? Because after the man eats, he eats so that he can digest better, have better blood pressure.

This naval man had Abigail as his wife, and David describes her as a woman 'of good understanding and of fair appearance'. That Samuel had died, David is still being persecuted by Saul. David is going through a very difficult moment in his life, he lost a man who was “like a mentor to him”. He lost a man he loved. Samuel died. Then there is another man who he loved and respected very much but this "man" was chasing him to kill him.

He was in a difficult situation and how many of us find ourselves in those difficult moments? Isn't it true that those difficult moments come when one says 'I don't know where to go', I don't know what step to take'? Here was David right now where he said "Samuel died but Saul is after me but he is after me to kill." It happened that David heard that Nabal was near and he tells right-handed young men, I tell them when we are going to read, 'Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal and greet him in my name. Say to him like this: Praise you and peace to your family and peace to everything you have.

Now we are going to say the 7th and 8th of First Samuel. OK? ‘I have heard that you have shearers. Now your pastors have been with us, we have not treated them badly or lacked anything in all the time they have been in Carmel. Ask your servants and they will tell you. Find therefore in these young people favor in your eyes because we have come on a good day. I beg you, give what you have at hand to your servants and to your son David. What's that? The young people go to Nabal and they are going to give him the message. Nabal answers in verse 10.

'But who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today there are many servants fleeing from their masters. Shall I take you in my bread in my water and the meat that I have prepared for my shearers and give it to men I don't know where they are from?' The young men return to David with this information. This is not very good news, is it? They go to David with this information and I imagine the sadness and not so much the sadness, the anger that led David. OK? This news upset David.

How come this man can't give her a little bit of food? When we were with him we protected him. We protected him over there and now this is how he wants to pay me? David tells them: "Gird on each man his sword" and David goes with 400 men. He leaves 200 behind but he goes with 400 men and they go with a purpose. The purpose was not to talk to Nabal, the purpose was to kill him and his entire family. David, he had a purpose, David was very upset. I was not going to negotiate. He was not going to see if Nabal would change his mind, he wanted to finish this entire generation. What's going on? That one of the servants heard when the young men came to him, to Nabal, then Nabal tells Abigail.

Behold David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master and he has rejected them. Let's go to verse 15. The servant tells Abigail: 'They have been very good to us and they never treated us badly. We did not lack for anything in all the time we were with them. When we were in the field, wall were for us day and night. All the days that we have been with them tending the sheep. The servant tells him. ‘Now then, reflect and see what you have to do because the evil is already solved against our master and against all his race. He is such a wicked man that there is no one who can speak to him.

The first action of a woman knew, do you know what it is? Reflect. You have to reflect because sometimes we are “we are too impulsive”, very impulsive that we listen and want to react, but quickly. But when the information arrives, when the attacks of life arrive, when the situations arrive, they are illnesses, whatever they are. reflect. Don't act quickly. Reflect to see what God is trying to say through this. Because we immediately blame the devil. 'It's the devil, it's the devil' and you can't believe that maybe it's God dealing with you?

Amen? Sometimes it can be God himself who wants your attention. You have tried in different ways but you do not stop what you do because you are in your career or as a mother or fixing your house. And God says “Give me 5 minutes I want to talk to you. But you say 'Lord, that's it, we'll talk'”. We have to reflect as women, especially as Christian women because when we are very light we damage things. Amen? So the first action that Abigail does, she does is she reflects. She begins to process the information. Amen? She begins to process the information. You have to process the information.

We read in the word that Abigail was a woman of good understanding and what does she do? She reflects and realizes that she has to react. I don't react first, but when she reflected then she understood that she had to react. Because? Because evil, death was just around the corner. And I want to tell you, woman, that the enemy is just around the corner trying to kill and steal what God has given you and we have to reflect. We have to look at how our relationship with God is so that evil does not reach our homes. OK.

There came a time in Queen Esther's life that she had to reflect. Her uncle tells her: “Look, Esther, things are rough. Llama have sent the decree and the Jews are all going to die. And don't think that simply because you are there you will live”. Esther had to reflect, what am I going to do? I imagine her saying “Lord, why did you send me here? For what reason?" And the reason why, for my Esther, Esther came to reign, to be like the king, was because this moment was coming for the people of Israel and a wise woman was needed who would reflect and know how to act when the time was necessary. And she wisely sent the people what? To pray, to fast, for what? So that God would give her grace and we see that God gave grace to Esther.

She pondered. Esther reflected, reacted and sent the Jews who were in Suza to what? To fast for her. But she didn't just send the word to fast, she fasted too. She also sought God. Because how easy it is to send another person to pray and fast and do everything! But how difficult it is to get up at dawn to talk to the Lord. It's time to reflect women of God. It is time to react because we are here for a time like this. Amen? Are you already following?

Let's read verse 8. After she reflected, she recognized that she had to act. Now that reflecting and acting are two different things. I have told you before. I look in the mirror and see my reflection and say 'I have to go to the gym or eat better' but it is useless for me to reflect and not act. And sometimes we stay there. We reflect and how we know what we have to do, but acting is going to cost us. It means a sacrifice in that act. Then: 'Oh! Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow.'

The second wise action that Abigail did was that she gave. Giving is very important. Amen. Verse 18. “Abigail then took 200 loaves of bread, 2 wine skins, five stewed sheep, five measures of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and 200 loaves of dried figs, and loaded them all on donkeys.” Abigail's offering did not come in finances, Abigail's offering came in a meal. Why what did David have? Hunger. He didn't need money, what he needed was food. And sometimes we want to share the Gospel of God but there are people who usually need bread, milk and a dozen eggs.

Are you understanding me? Sometimes we make it so spiritual but if we can do a physical need then we will be able to satisfy the spiritual need. Abigail understood what she had to do because she reflected and began to act with an offering. Nabal has material wealth. Nabal was a very rich man but the word says that he was a man what? Very blind. He lacked wisdom. Abigail gave not only because she was a blessed woman but because she needed a good harvest. Amen?

Giving is very important to us. I remember when I was able to go to a Jimmy Jacques convention and Juan Irapaino was there and I already felt that there was something I had to sow. Before I asked for an offering, before I preached, I already had that ardor as if I had to release something. And the ministry begins and the preaching begins and I knew that I had to give something but I did not know the amount. And I waited and waited to see 'Lord, what do I have to give?' And when they throw a thousand dollar offering from the altar I said 'Hey! A thousand dollars!’ But I knew what I had to do.

It was a moment that God was plotting with me. My husband was praying but I believed myself to be God at that moment because I knew that God was speaking to me in a specific way. And my husband is a planter. And I knew that when I told him he would give me the Okay because he sows. We know the blessing in sowing. Well, I gave the offering. We arrived home. I told him the story and he said “Okay, honey. Let's believe God." A month later my husband loses a job and for six months he can't find a job. That seed, that offering took us six months.

Because? Because I believed God. Because when you give believing God, God always supports you and God always provides. But sometimes we hear that word of giving an offering but our tithes are not faithful, neither are our offerings. But we give the Lord an offering or a promise and we want God to do it. We have to keep all our accounts up to date. Giving the tithe is not when we feel like it. Tithing is giving when we receive. Give to God because it belongs to Him. And when we understand the importance of offering, of giving to God, He will always provide. Amen? Praise the Lord.

All this she did and did not say anything to her husband. There is a time when we have to shut up. But how difficult it is. It's so hard to speak wise. Because? Because we believe that we are always fine. Even if you think it's okay to wait, wait because at the right time God is going to give you the word, the tone of voice and the wisdom to act. Be it with your husband or a friendship relationship. Amen? There are things, woman of God, that you don't have to tell anyone. Wait wait. There are people who are called "dream killers" or "dream killers." They don't want to see you happy; they don't want to see you prosper. 'Oh! And that's going to give you wealth?' Because since they don't want to, they don't understand that the dream was for her, the dream was for you. So is she going to understand what God is saying to you if God is speaking to you?

Receive the dream, create it, walk in it and when the manifestation of the dream comes they will understand. Amen? If Abigail tells Nabal what she had in mind to do, this story would not be as it is in the Bible because Nabal would have been 'You are not going anywhere. You do because I say and because I say you are not going anywhere. But she reflected. She knew how to act and knew how to give her offering. Our offerings produce something. Sometimes on certain occasions when I put an offering in an envelope I name it because I am expecting a harvest from that offering, I am expecting a seed from that offering. Always speak to God with purpose, write it down, but don't just write it down, believe it and even if you think you are opposed, you believe that this seed is going to bear fruit. Amen?

This offering that Abigail prepared was a large offering. Why? Because she needed mercy and she needed it big. Now, it's not that we buy God. No, we can never, ever buy God. Get it right. My offering does not buy God, my offering blesses me. Amen? His offering will bless you. And we pray to God with our offerings. Abigail did not stay at home to see if the offerings she sent to David are enough for him and his family. She did not send her offering. There are mothers who send their children to church, who send their wives and stay. No! Come, come to the house of God.

Do not say that you have nothing, do not say that you have nothing because everything you need, where is it? It is in you, and God gave it to you. Give your offerings to the Lord because you are a blessed woman. When we give because we are blessed, God blesses us. The third action is acting and she was able to act. She reflected, acted and gave her offering. Verse 20 tells us: “And riding on a donkey, he went down a secret part of the mountain; and, behold, David and his men came before her, and she met them." What happens when we enter our secret room? We met with God and Abigail had to have my version. She knew how to go through that secret path and at the end of the path she met David. She met the person she needed to meet.

And when we have the secret place, our secret room we meet with God. Do you have your secret place? Do you have time alone with God? I know when Pastora tells me 'I love being in my car, play other music and praising loud. It's one of a wonderful time of the day'. You can sing and you can sing as hard as you want and praise the Lord. Hallelujah. How do we want the Lord to take care of us if we don't go through the time, the moment, the secret place with Him? Abigail knew how to arrive. The enemy is there to be. David in this case has been the enemy who wanted what? End Nabal's family. But the enemy, the devil is trying to devour and break, kill our families.

It is time to take this relationship with God seriously. This is worth living, but live it well. Not just live it here but out there where people have to see. Wise women, this is the time when you definitely need wise women. Women with a good understanding, women who know how to reflect, women who know how to express themselves. The world needs us. The world needs us. But what? We say we can't. Take that word out of your vocabulary. Start believing that I can. You live where you live because God has a purpose for you. You work where you work because there are people who need to hear the word of God. You have the children you have because God has given them to you with a purpose, because you with it. You don't say "you can't handle it". You can with it. God gave it to you. He trusted you enough to give you the children you have. So we give up? I'm tired, Lord. When? And we began to ask the Lord, but when?

You know that I pray, that I cry a lot, Lord, and my children get worse. But it can't be for nothing. They are yours for a reason. You had them because you have offended them. No one is going to love you like you are going to love them. Nobody is going to have the patience as you have the patience for them. And there you will see, that your children need to listen. Amen? Praise the Lord. I feel the presence of the Lord this morning and I hope it won't take too long. Let's go back to David. How is this poor hungry David? He is upset with Nabal's response and it seems that the more he walked the more upset he got. "Oh but I see it! Oh yes [sounds]!”

do they see each other? Do you see yourself in David? Can you see yourselves there? [Laughs] David wasn't acting right either. David was left by his emotions, they took over him and we have to be careful because women, desire is also emotional. But talk about the simple things in life. Sometimes our marriages break up over silly things. Sometimes we break relationships with relatives, with brothers, with uncles, with mothers for things... calm down. Because we let the devil get in and we don't act like wise women but we act like foolish women and years go by sometimes and our pride doesn't allow us to ask for forgiveness. He doesn't allow us to look at each other. And it is the fourth action. The fourth action is "prostrated himself, humbled himself." He knew how to apologize. How many of us have a hard time asking for forgiveness?

There are sick women because they don't know how to ask for forgiveness because they live with that bitterness. Because they want the person who hurt you to suffer. [Laughter] Verse 21. Verse 21: “Surely I have kept in vain all that this man has in the wilderness, and he lacked nothing of all that is his; and he has turned evil to me for good.” Verse 23: “And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got down from the donkey, and falling on her face before David, she bowed down to the ground.” We are going to learn to prostrate ourselves, we are going to learn to humble ourselves when necessary, we are going to learn to ask for forgiveness. Even if you say that 'it's not your fault', the word tells us that 'it doesn't matter whose fault it is'. Go and ask for forgiveness and you will feel like a burden that is leaving you, a freedom.

And what happens when we can forgive? We are free and what? We release the other person. There she is, there he is with God, but we go, like wise women, to ask for forgiveness because that is a wise action. Asking for forgiveness. The Bible tells us that he quickly got off his donkey and fell on his face before David. This was not the time to try to persuade David. Sometimes we say 'I got this'. I'm going to use everything I know about women to fix this matter. But now is not the time to persuade David.

Abigail's life is in danger simply because she was Nabal's wife. There are moments when our words are not going to make a difference in the situation in which we are. Right? We just have to go on our knees in front of who? Before God and prostrate ourselves in his presence and acknowledge Lord that it be Your will. What is Your will, Lord. Not mine, but let it be Your will. Amen? The fourth action is to prostrate ourselves, to humble ourselves, forgiveness is important for a wise woman.

The fifth wise action that Abigail does is that she spoke wisely. Amen? He spoke wisely. Because sometimes we talk and at the end nothing wise came out, but how much we talk! Verses 24 and 25: “and he fell at his feet and said: My Lord, sin be upon me; but I beg you to allow your servant to speak in your ears, and listen to the words of your servant. After he made sure he had David's attention, Okay, this is important. The tone of voice we use. Sometimes my husband tells me: why do you have to say it the way you say it? Has your husband told you that? Why do you have to say it like that? What does he tell me? Tone of voice.

Sometimes we want to act but we speak with that “accusing tone of voice”. We come to the husband or whoever, with that attitude and what does the person do? Or what do they say? "What's your problem?" Because the way we go they did come by. But when we learn to speak and adjust the tone of voice, ask what you want from the husband and he will give it to you! Hallelujah! This is today's word. Verse 25: “Don't pay any attention now, my lord, to that perverse man, to Nabal, for he is so according to his name. His name is Nabal, and foolishness is with him; but I, your servant, did not see the young men that you sent”. He spoke wisely and did not say 'What's your problem, man? She didn't go with that attitude. She was like 'I wasn't there'. 'I wasn't there. But now I am. Let me talk to you.'

And the tone of voice is important for a wise woman. I catch myself with my children all the time. I can speak well to everyone and sometimes when I speak to my children ‘Ahh!’ and I stop again and I have not to go to any authority. But if I would just recognize I wouldn't have to say I'm sorry. But since they are our children, sometimes we believe that we can talk to them like that. No! They need to be treated wisely, with love and tenderness, with respect. So that? So that they in God's time speak wisely and with respect to others. Amen? Ask your children for forgiveness because sometimes I know that we are very light and hurt our children. There is pain in their hearts because "Mommy has time to listen to everyone and talk to everyone but I want five minutes with Mommy and Mommy won't give it to me."

I have three children, I have one who is 15, one who is 12 and one who is 7. And the 12-year-old tells me some stories that catch Ay! An eternity. He stays there forever! He is kind of lazy sometimes and I go Aha!Aha! and as it goes, he comes back. What's the point? All he wants to do is tell me the story. But I don't want to take five minutes to listen to his story. But for him it's something he wants to share with me. And we have to have time for our children because if we don't listen to them, someone else will. And how can we advise, love our children wisely if we don't take the time to listen?

Is not easy! I know and I'm still learning. Because there are times when my husband makes me [physical signs] Why? Because I do a lot of this [physical signs] and I have to shut up and start over. Amen? But I have to be a woman and after all I'm talking to a child. If I want to be effective and save my marriage I have to learn how and when to say things. Amen? We have to ask God so that we learn to express ourselves correctly. We need the wisdom of God to be able to speak to them and that our words can be heard and that they produce what? Good fruits.

The sixth wise action that Abigail does: that she takes a moment to prophesy. Verse 26: “Now then, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, for Jehovah has prevented you from coming to shed blood and avenging yourself with your own hand. Let your enemies be like Nabal, and all those who seek evil against my lord.” She speaks, she prophesies, she changes things with her words. Are you understanding me? Is this making any sense? Or Shall I just read this chapter completely different? David had not changed his mind to forgive Nabal. However Abigail tells David that Jehovah prevented him from coming to shed blood. We can prophesy. Talk about things that are not as if they were. Amen? Because the power is in our mouth. The power of life, the power of death.

And sometimes we speak more death than life. We say 'my son never changes', you are talking about death. 'My husband? Ah!’ You are speaking death. Change your language. Change. A wise woman learns the language she has to speak and begins to speak things, begins to prophesy things, begins to believe God. He starts saying “Wait, God gave me this son, this daughter for a purpose. The devil you are a liar. She already has a purpose, she is going to be what God has commanded her to be”. Prophesy, speak. You don't have to be a prophet to prophesy. You believe God! And you will see how God will speak.

Verse 27: “And now this present that your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow my lord. And I beg you to forgive your servant for this offense." What did Abigail do? He is asking for forgiveness for what he did not do, but he is asking for forgiveness for his family, for his generation. Because woman depends on us sometimes. If we respect, if we know the place of our husband, the priest, the man of the house. But what is your responsibility in your home? Abigail says: “forgive this servant, this offense”. "For the Lord will surely make a stable house for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord and evil has not been found in you in your days." Abigail knew who David was, she knew about this man. Abigail used her understanding, her wisdom for good and reminded David of the promises David still had.

Sometimes we forget and we need to… we need to be reminded of the process that comes to us. Amen? And he reminded David of what God had for him and he could not enjoy it if his hands were filled with blood spilled without cause or because he had taken revenge. David was acting out of revenge and it was wrong. This is the same David who had the opportunity to kill Saul but recognized that God's sending cannot be touched and he was able to forgive and he was able to leave. But here “this one is not going to give us something to eat, this one dies”. Let's be careful. Let's be careful. Abigail goes on to say, I think it is 28: "Though someone has risen up to persecute you and make an attempt on your life, yet the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of those who live before the Lord your God, and he will throw the lives of your enemies as from the midst of the palm of a sling.” And he ends by saying: "Beware then, my lord, and when the Lord does good to my lord, remember your servant." Is not easy. Planted a seed. When the Lord gives something in your life, remember me.

The seventh and last action that I could understand in this chapter is that she was willing to pay the price. Are you? Are you willing to pay the price? The price for each one of us is going to be different but what we have in common is that we are all going to pay a price. For some it will be a little higher, maybe for others… There are families that prosper in everything and there are families that one says like wow! But we have to be willing to pay the price. Abigail's life and that of the family was in David's hands. Here the generations could end because David did not come looking only for Nabal but for every male in Nabal's house.

How does David respond to these seven actions? David, after listening to her, says: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you to find me today. And blessed be your reasoning, and blessed are you, who have prevented me today from going to shed blood, and to avenge myself with my own hand. He was able to reconsider, he was able to understand that he was acting in a way of revenge and that if he acted in that way, the hand of God was going to fall on him. Verse 34 David says: "Because the Lord God of Israel lives, who has defended me from harming you, that if you had not hastened to come to meet me, from now to tomorrow Nabal would not have been left alive, not even a man." And what's that he has just reflected? She had to act. We cannot just stay in the decision, we have to act. We have to offer, we have to prostrate ourselves, humble ourselves, ask the Lord for forgiveness.

We have to speak wisely. We have to use the right tone. There are moments that everything has to be firm but there are moments that have to be sweet. We are going to learn what tone we have to speak at specific times. David received the offering and told him: "Go up to your house in peace, and see that I have heard your voice and I have respected you." A wise woman knows how to be respected. Amen? Verse 37: “But in the morning, when Nabal had passed the effects of the wine, he told his wife these things; and his heart fainted in him, and he remained as a stone. And ten days later, Jehovah smote Nabal and he died. I'm sure Abigail wasn't crying, "Lord, take him away, kill him, Lord." But God did what he had to do, why? Because she was a wise woman. She knew what she had to do, why? So that peace would reign in his house.

What do you have to do so that the peace of God reigns in your home? Because the peace of God has to reign in your house, in your home. Your home is your sanctuary, it should be a place of peace, where your children see you arrive and feel good. Because we create that atmosphere of peace, of harmony. What does God do with a wise woman? She is respected, promised, she produces, she receives mercy but it makes her a queen. It does not leave it anonymous or forgotten. He remembers all the things we do and He always, He is a good rewarder. He knows how to pay, He knows how to reward. Woman of God you are a mother, get the world to tell you something different. You are called, you are chosen, you are blessed, you are beautiful inside and out.

You are a wise woman. Verse 39 says: “When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who judged the cause of my insult received at the hand of Nabal and has preserved his servant from evil; and Jehovah has turned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. Then David sent to speak to Abigail, to take her for his wife. Verse 44: “And she arose and bowed her face to the ground, saying, Behold your servant, who shall be a servant to wash the feet of my lord's servants. And Abigail got up immediately with five maidens who served her, mounted her donkey and followed David's messengers and became his wife.

There are rewards, there are blessings when we are wise women. But when we are foolish and foolish women there are consequences. Do you want to live with the consequences or do you want to live with the blessings? Let's stand In these moments begin to reflect on your life. Where did God fail? Where did you fail your husband? How did you fail your children? Even the church, how has it failed? Reflect and Lord bring to memory. Just allow Him to bring those pieces to your mind. Many of the things that you have hidden so so deep, that you don't need the mind to bring them up, but that's the moment that God wants to deal with you individually. This is a time when God wants to act with you individually.

There are things in her heart that do not allow her to be free. Think about what those things are. Where is it that you came to live the bitter life in your heart? His heart is full of bitterness, sadness, anger, contention. If your heart is like this, reflect because this is the moment that God wants to change that bitter heart and put sweetness, put peace in your heart. Reflect on this morning. I know that God has put things in your heart, in your mind. And it is not enough that you reflect, there are people you are going to have to call. There are people in which you are going to have to knock on the door and act like a wise woman.

Humble yourself, that the love of God goes before you and that person can be free and can be saved because we are wise. You have to act. What are the areas where you have to act? The time has come to give. Have you offered your life? Have you completely given your life? Or do you simply want the benefits of God but do not want to sacrifice your body, your life, your spirit? The time to offer arrives and the offering is made more, not simply in finances. Time. Do we offer God enough time or do we steal his time? Learn to give. We have to learn to give. Be faithful to God in everything. Hallelujah.

You have to act. I am going to ask you to prostrate yourself before the presence of the Lord. Does anyone present want to go to the altar? We are going to prostrate ourselves, we are going to reflect on the things that we have to fix. Now talk about them with God, talk about those things with God. Don't let yourself get away with the blame. God is not a God who blames you. God is a forgiving God. The enemy is the one who blames you. The enemy is the one who puts you there weak and tells you "You can't". But God forgives. Bow before the presence of God, speak. Open your mouth right now. It doesn't come out the way it came. That is the word of God for each one of us. This is the moment to prostrate ourselves, to humble ourselves: "Lord, forgive us because we have failed you, forgive us, Lord."

"Forgive my way of being. That I can think before acting Oh, God! Teach me to talk to my children. How much damage I, as a mother, have done to my children because I do not speak wisely, forgive me, Lord! Forgive us, Lord. Forgive us, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus. Surrender but surrender completely to Him. It pays to surrender completely. Just surrender, surrender. Admit who you are. Surrender before the Lord. You are going to surprise the Lord. You are going to surprise God, surrender, surrender before the Lord. Speak wisely. Declare God's promises to you and your family. Hallelujah.

Take a moment to prophesy over your life. Prophesy right now about your husband, prophesy about your children. Declare, declare, declare God's promises to you and your family. Declare, prophesy, prophesy. Believe God that things change, believe God that things change. Believe him, believe him, believe God. Believe God right now, believe God. Don't see things with your physical eyes, don't look at the situation. Leave things to the Lord. Let me see with your eyes, let me see with your eyes. Hallelujah. Declare, declare the things about your life. There are moments to give but there are also moments to prophesy, to speak, to declare the word of God that is life. It is alive and effective.

Are you willing to pay the price? Be willing to pay the price even if it costs you death but in God it will be life. Thank my Lord.