for your children

I invite you to go to the Book of Deuteronomy, it is one of those books that sometimes we do not read much in the Old Testament, but it has a lot to teach us. Part of the Pentateuch, it is actually the last book of the first five books of the Bible, which are the books assigned to Moses, as if they were written by Moses and recounts the entire early history of the Hebrew people on their pilgrimage through the desert. and the laws, commandments and principles they received from God.

As they strengthened and established themselves as a new nation that God was founding. And in those books God lays down the spiritual principles by which you must live as a nation. And there in Chapter 11, we go to verse 13 before -inclusive- because I think it gives a context of what I want to talk about, which is above all how to raise spiritually and intellectually healthy children. Let them reflect those values that Sarah Gautier spoke to us about this morning and that she reflects as a very special young woman.

How to produce children like this that reflect the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the vitality, the beauty of the Kingdom of God. It required? We already saw some of the things right there in her testimony. But there in verse 13, what we are told starting with verse 18 is put into context. And this is in the context of a series of commandments and principles that God entrusts to the Hebrew people to always follow in their lives as a nation and like culture.

Then in Verse 13 of Chapter 11 of Deuteronomy God tells him: "If you carefully obey my commandments that I prescribe to you today", that is, the commandments that I am giving you and if you obey them. "Loving the Lord your God because that is the main thing". Everything else comes from love for God. When we love our Heavenly Father, then from that love that we have for God come the commandments, obedience comes out.

How good it is when obedience is born out of love and not out of obligation! right yes? Then he says to him: "Loving the Lord your God and serving him with all your heart." How important that we serve God with all our hearts. God is not satisfied with a little piece of our heart, God is not satisfied simply with a little while that we give him over there, God is not satisfied with simply 'well it's Sunday so I have to go to church. I'm going to go for that to fulfill '. No!

God wants our whole heart. Over and over again: “You shall love the Lord with all your heart”, the first commandment. "All your soul, all your strength, all your mind." "With all your heart and with all your soul." Now, what happens? If we function that way, if as a church, as a nation, as a Latino people here in United States, if we carefully obey God's commandments, if we love God and serve Him with all our hearts and souls say: "I will give your land rain in its season: early and late and will gather your grain, your wine and your oil.

God was speaking to a farming community, a community for whom rain was absolutely essential because they derived virtually all of their livelihood from the land. So for them the fact that there was rain was absolutely essential. But the principle is valid for the 21st century too. Today we buy our vegetables and everything comes canned or frozen or wrapped in plastic from somewhere we don't know about. But in principle what God was saying to them was: 'If you behave in this way I am going to bless you and I am going to prosper you and you will not lack anything essential in your life'.

I was thinking about this and maybe a little bit of ice cream, but why not? I believe that today with the immigration problem that we have so strong and the desire for some kind of fair recognition to be made for the great situation that exists with 12 million or so immigrants in this nation who need to receive their documentation and regularize their lives and that there has to be some solution to that problem. The rulers and departments of a country generally, not necessarily, have it in their hearts to do justice.

Sometimes what they are thinking about is interests, lobbying, business, pressure, who votes, who does not vote, etc. Politics, right? I think that one of the things that will put pressure, apart from what we are doing, is very important: petitions, efforts, calling the nation to become aware, but one of the most important things that the Latino people can do without to take away all those things is precisely to put spiritual pressure on the rulers. Pray.

Again, I am not saying that we do not do the other things, but that we cry out to God to change the hearts of the rulers, so that they put a sense of mercy, justice, grace and that they feel the need. May God change the seared mind of many who think of interests only and bring a change of heart to this nation and may they see the blessing that these immigrants are in this nation and how they bring spiritual, moral and ethical values that enrich this nation . Let there be a change.

When – I really believe in acting, working, striving to change reality – but also living lives that bring down God's blessing. I believe that if the Latino community surrenders more to Jesus Christ every day and seeks God and loves God, educated by a Latin American church that reflects grace, love, mercy, the values of the kingdom of God and the teaches, disciples, instructs them in an ethical, spiritual life, consecrated to Jesus Christ; Brothers, there is no government in this world that can resist.

Because God is the owner of all the Earth and He does what He wants. He changes hearts, He transforms lives, He moves... The Word says that 'the king's heart is like water in the hands of God'. He directs the heart of the king where He wants. The Bible also says that we pray for our rulers so that we have peaceful and orderly lives. So I believe that one of the most powerful weapons that the Latino people of God have here in the United States is to pray for their rulers, that God touch their hearts.

Live flawless lives, live productive lives, work. Shut up those who accuse our community of sipping money and resources from this church and show that no, that we bless this nation with our work; that we even contribute taxes, that we do jobs that no one else wants to do, allowing the prices of many things to be lower.

Because if they had to pay what workers are supposed to be paid, the prices of meat, the prices of so many things would go up. Elder care, hospital jobs that nobody wants to do, good tasty food that they make in restaurants in many parts of Boston here. I go to the Italian bar, sometimes, and when I listen in the kitchen, what I hear are Salvadoran and Guatemalan cooks there cooking. And what good Italian food these people make! And they benefit from the talents and gifts we add to them.

That little taste there of that parmigiana chichen is not of the Italian seasoning, no! That's a little something there that the chef threw that Salvadoran from his country, right? That's why it tastes so good. It's funny, but it's true, isn't it? You go to those restaurants and they don't let the cooks or the waiters speak because almost all of them speak Spanish and so they have to pretend that well, if it's an Italian restaurant they're supposed to be Italian. But no, they are Latinos. We contribute to many things.

But, brothers, what I mean is, I'm getting a little off topic like that, but I was thinking about what Patty was saying this morning. I believe, brothers, that the greatest power that we have at this time, without taking away from the efforts that we have to make, is that of living lives; May God allow us as a church and as churches to show the transforming power that the Gospel has. Show families growing, blessing their communities, working hard, buying their homes, contributing.

Being the best workers in the factories and in the places where we work, raising and raising healthy children that reflect the joy and spiritual, emotional health of a child who is growing up drinking in the word of God. When people see that they won't be able to say anything less than 'Wow! We want these people to stay and bless us and not leave this country. So I think that this is one of the very important things that we have to do, right?

That came to my mind because that changes the situation, the prayer. A righteous life, a life that loves the Lord. God will then cause “the rain of our land, the early and the late, to come and we will gather our grain and our wine and our oil. And I will also give grass in your field for your cattle and you will eat and be satisfied. Beware, therefore, that your hearts do not become infatuated and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them". That is what we have to do: guard our hearts as a community.

Now notice, in the context of that: of healthy lives, of a healthy home that loves God, that serves the Lord; a father, a mother, a husband, a wife who are serving the Lord loving God, reflecting the best values of the kingdom of God; that gives God his place, a community that serves the Lord; In that context, then we are supposed to transfer what we have experienced in our lives -with respect to our God- we transfer it to whom? to our children, to our successive generations.

We cannot expect children to love God if we do not love God first. We cannot expect children who reflect the health and vitality of God's kingdom if our homes are not a reflection of God's kingdom. If our behavior, our personality, our love for God is not something that they can see day by day. That is why it is so important that we understand this because many times when we think: 'well, instruct the son in his way and he will not stray from it when he grows up'.

Well, we think that means that I have to be reading the primer every day and talking to him about God and preaching a little sermon every day before he goes to school. Well, that is important, we have to pray with our children, we have to do many things with our children. But I think what the Lord put on my heart this morning is that one of the most important things is to make sure that before we speak to our children with the verbal word, we speak to our children with the love of God that they see in us.

A home where the values of the kingdom of God are reflected. Now, I don't want to lose what the Word says, do I? In verse 18 after encouraging them to carefully obey the commandments and love God with all their heart and soul, He says, "Therefore you shall put these words of mine on your heart and on your soul and bind them as a sign on your hand and They will be fronts in your eyes and you will teach them to your children.” Do you see the sequence and the relationship between one thing and the other?

First, we put the word of God in our hearts and souls, we bind it as a sign on our hand. By the way, the Jews took this very literally and nowadays they have the 'Ephialtes', I don't remember what that is called. But they have a device that they tie here on the elbow and something that they put on here, too, on the forehead. I don't know how many have seen them. It's like an object that they wear, that they take seriously and they tie it in a very elaborate way for some of their rites in remembrance.

But I don't think that was what was implied here. God was just doing as a symbol that the Word had to be so attached to them that it was as if they tied it in their hands and put it on their foreheads for all the world to see. The forehead is a sign of the mind, I would say that the hand, the arm is a sign of the action, the work. So the Word of God has to be so attached to us every day. We have to be students of the Word of God. The Word of God has to be 'our daily bread'.

I always tell Christians: 'study the Word of God'. We rejoice that two hundred, how many people graduated? Two hundred twenty-five people celebrated the discipleship graduation on Friday here in León de Judá. Give the Lord a round of applause even if it's just to wake up a little. Two hundred twenty-five members of this Congregation are taking sustained studies of different topics of the Word of God and different levels of study of the Bible.

I wish we could say five hundred. I know that many have already studied and graduated, this is what we have now, the present class. But I encourage you, brother, sister, father, mother, you need the Word of God, fathers and mothers never need wisdom to educate our children. Yes or no? Because we live in a culture that is hostile, not only contrary, but I would say hostile to the values of the Kingdom of God.

It's that structurally it's not that people are bad and they hate God and they hate His Word and they have committed to go against the Word. No, it's that the values of culture, its very structure, educational, governmental, the values of the media, everything. The principles that support and govern this culture are contrary to the Word of God and the kingdom of Heaven and therefore fathers and mothers need to educate their children, in the context, as never before, of a generation -I would say- evil and perverse, as the Bible says.

I thank God to a certain extent because, maybe I shouldn't say it, I'm not going to say it because I'm not going to frighten my brothers. Brothers, you, the new parents, those who are raising children in this time need a lot from God. It's hard being a parent and raising God-fearing children who reflect the beauty of God's kingdom, but you know what? It is not impossible. It is not impossible. It can, because the early Christians in the First Century had the pagan kingdom of Rome and the worship of gods and demons around them.

And they were a minority, minimal, tiny, and they were able to raise their children in the midst of that. Why not us in the 21st century? It is the same God, it is the same Word, it is the same Spirit. So father take courage but prepare and strengthen yourself in the Lord. Eat all you can of the word of God. Study the principles of the Kingdom of God. Pray a lot and make sure that your life reflects the vitality of the kingdom of God. Because you are not really going to be able to produce children, well it will be difficult for you to produce children who surpass you spiritually.

If they do, it will be because, well, they eat bread and drink water that will come later. Beyond what you can give them. That also happens because when they come to the Kingdom of God they receive nutrients. But generally what God wants is for parents to bless their children with their spirituality and then as a product of that milk and bread that they have eaten from their parents, they are even better than their parents later on. But we need to have an extraordinary life in this time.

I believe that the days of nominally religious, evangelical parents producing children who love the Lord, I believe are over. We are in a time when producing a child who loves God is against the grain. It is a struggle against the devil himself who wants to take our children from us. And that's why we need to be spiritual athletes, that's why we need to be spiritual warriors, that's why we have to fill ourselves with the Word of God. Eat from the Word of God.

In it are the principles that will help you to be a man, a woman, a father, a mother who can bless your children with good advice, a good example, a good life, good spiritual nutrition for your children. I encourage you in the name of the Lord to follow this sequence that I see in the Word of the Lord. First, love God with all your heart and with all your soul, write his law on your forehead and tie it around your hand. Fill yourself with the teaching and instruction of the Word of God, Reflect an overflowing vitality spiritually speaking.

Then transmit to your children the excess of your spiritual life that when your love for God overflows, that overflow of your cup, they drink from it and can also create the same type of man, woman that you are. That sequence of things is important. He says: “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. And you shall write them on the posts of your house and on your gates so that your days and the days of your children may be so numerous on earth that Jehovah swore to your fathers that he would give them, like the days of heaven on earth. ".

How nice that advice from the Lord! May our houses be saturated with the values of the Kingdom of God. 'Write on the posts and on your gates.' Again, the Jews have taken this literally and if someone here has moved into an apartment that belonged to an orthodox Jew; I lived in Brooklyn as a child for many years and was in an area where Orthodox Jews lived. I remember the first apartment where we lived in Williamsburg, New York, in Brooklyn, where the door lintels, the door posts had little metal things nailed to them.

One day I took one of them out and there was a roll inside that was a text from the Bible in Hebrew. Because they take that seriously and nail those religious signs to their doorposts. Now what God was saying is 'Look, let your house be saturated with the Word of God'. And I say, brothers, that is the most important thing that we have to do because that is what God put in my heart. Apart from the specific and deliberate, active interventions that we have to do: teach the Word to our children, all of these very good things.

I believe that the most powerful way for us to speak to our children is through the atmosphere that we create in our home. What happens minute after minute, day after day. It is like the net sum of everything that occurs in the home in the course of a week, for example, that at the end of the week when the negative and the positive are seen, that the balance is overwhelmingly positive in favor of the Kingdom of God. . And why do you describe it that way?

Because in a home there is everything. There are sometimes arguments and conflicts, of course. None of us is perfect as a parent, as a wife, as a brother, as a friend, as a member of a congregation. In a house you hear everything, everything happens. In the course of a week there are good moments, bad moments, there are different things that happen, there is agony, anguish, anxiety, many things. But there must also be a lot of love, a lot of forgiveness, a lot of God's Word, a lot of good music playing, a lot of good programs on TV, a lot of Bibles open, being read, a lot of Christian objects: pictures and magazines and conversations.

So when at the end of the week when all that is taken, our fallen humanity and our sin and Christian values and the noble and beautiful and biblical moments and when what we do and move it in the end what is left is positively in favor of the God's Kingdom. Do you understand the difference? Because no home is a paragon of virtues, no home is perfect, no marriage is perfect, no parent is perfect. But what we have to make sure is that the balance is overwhelmingly in favor of the Kingdom of God. Always.

What kind of home are we making? The home is like an open book where the children, the children without knowing it, are continuously reading messages. Every day, every intervention, every conversation, every gesture, every argument that is resolved with violence or with love, every offense that receives forgiveness or revenge, every silence that is offered as a sign of patience or a blow of the sword. All this together the children are seeing continuously. Children notice everything, brothers. Children are sponges that absorb and read the environment.

Subconsciously your personality is being impacted by everything that happens in a home. And as Christians we have to make sure that our home teaches, that our home is a book that our children can read with their guts, with the cells of their body, with their subconscious, and that it is always emanating and issuing messages of love, of the fruit of the Holy Spirit, of loyalty to the Kingdom of God and that they absorb that. Because that teaching, that reading is going to be much more important than any verbal reading that you give them.

The reading of life, the reading of your house. What kind of home are we providing for our children? Listen, it's hard nowadays because there are so many opportunities to fill our home with violence, movies of all kinds, inappropriate entertainment, destructive sounds that create anxiety in our children and aggression. No, no, we have to exempt ourselves from many things. There are things that we would love to see, say, experience in our homes that we must say No! because it would damage the book my children are reading.

It would vitiate, it would contaminate the air that they are breathing and therefore I am not free to do that. Do you know father? That reminds me of something else: you owe it to your children and not to yourself. Of course, you owe yourself to God first, to the Kingdom of God, that's why you have to stay healthy and love God above all things. But you have a sacred duty that you have contracted since the day you brought those children into the world. One of the things in this culture that is contrary to the Word of God is that the woman owns her own body.

I don't see that in the Bible. God is the owner of a woman's body. That's why you know? The abortion industry is based on that struggle between who owns the body, God or the woman or the man? I do not own my body, you do not own your body. God owns your body. And if there's a life inside you, I think that's where property rights get much more complicated. You can no longer do what you want with your body because there is something there that is sovereign and also belongs to God.

And that happens when we take those children out into the world, it is not believed that we have already released our responsibility, then the real responsibility begins. Because there are many parents who do not understand this. I believe that when one understands the sacred responsibility that is to have a son or a daughter and that we now have to go out of our way for them, love them, be an example, feed them, dress them, show them support. To instill in them a Christian, noble sensibility. So we understand that being a parent is a 24 hour a day affair.

We can no longer give ourselves the privilege of pleasing ourselves only. That's why a lot of people: 'I'm not in love with my wife anymore, I don't love her anymore, so I'm going to get a divorce because I don't love her anymore. And what of the children you brought into the world? What about them? What duty do you have to them that they have a healthy, healthy home with a father and mother who teach them the full character of human life? Man, woman, you have to think about that too before you make your decision.

It is not just what you selfishly feel or don't feel. You are a moral entity, an ethical entity. Your decisions are not only due to what you feel or do not feel, but to moral decisions that are above you. And that creature that is part of your life and you are part of it, reflects what you are, now has a right over your life and your decisions. And if you respect that you will be blessed, if you do not respect it there will be judgment and condemnation over your life, your whole life. Unless you don't repent and God's mercy intervenes.

But to young parents and parents who still have their home: don't get carried away by emotions alone when making your decisions. No! You have a sacred responsibility to those creatures that God allowed into the world through your intervention. And you have to live 24 hours a day thinking: how can I bless this creature? How can I be like my Heavenly Father for this creature? This means that there I return to my original thought: what you eat, what you wear, what you watch on television, your conversations, your conversations with your wife.

Your moral decisions every day, where you go out to have fun. All of this is conditioned by your status as a father or mother. And you have to say, how does this affect my children? How does it affect my home? How does it affect what I see, what I allow? Because I am a father 24 hours a day and that is my great mission: a mother on Earth. And I know that what I say or do will affect my children. That is why it is so important, brothers, let us work on our marriages!

I hope that no one feels through this, I don't know, the love of God is reflected through my words. I'm not condemning, am I? I do not want to throw a burden on you, on the contrary, what I want is to give you sound advice from the Word of God and encourage us as a Congregation, as a spiritual community to take care of our marriages and make sure that our marriages are part of that home book that our children see and be blessed and formed through it. Because, again, that's part of the sacred privilege. I don't think there is a greater privilege than the privilege of being a father or mother.

So one of the things that I have to do is work on my marriage, so that the marriage reflects, the children see their father and mother and the relationship they have will give them a sense of security and stability or "we don't know what's going to happen." pass. If tomorrow my house is going to be here or if one of the most important elements of it is going to disappear: my father or my mother; or if we are going to have to move to another place; if our lifestyle is going to change; if we are going to have food or not, tomorrow. If I'm going to have a mom who's going to be crying all the time or a happy mom."

All these things are processed by children in a subconscious way and that is why our marriages have to transmit stability, peace, security to our children. Let them know that even if Mommy and Daddy have a fight or whatever, it's not going to mean that Daddy is going to disappear from the map tomorrow and my home is going to fall apart. No! Our children need to know: "No! I have a stable home." That they can see the values of the Kingdom of God, for example forgiveness.

If you want a child who is forgiving and gentle and gracious to others, make sure your marriage reflects grace, love, forgiveness, patience, reconciliation. Now if the children see a marriage where an offense what they create is another offense; long accounts that are maintained; an offense and creates a negative reaction. So what's up? They learn this and in their lives they will reflect that same type of behavior. Now if you want your son to be a forgiving, kind, patient son with others, to see the good in others before the bad, make sure that your marriage reflects that.

So, I tell you, being a parent is a 24-hour-a-day affair. What's more, I would say, that before being a father or a mother, you are a shepherd, a shepherd of your children and of your home. And a shepherd, a shepherdess has to be there continuously, that is his condition, one does not take off his shepherd's hat and becomes a civilian. No! You are a pastor 24 hours a day and our congregations reflect who we are. Our children will reflect the same. You never take off your father's or mother's hat. That's there. Your marriage has to reflect that.

Your home has to reflect that, the values, the sounds, the smells, the objects, the atmosphere of your house has to reflect the values of the Kingdom of God and your children will take their script, their guidelines for that. So the Lord calls you. Grow your home. I believe that is God's Word for us this morning: Cultivate the atmosphere in your home. Cultivate your marriage, cultivate your life. Make sure that your spirituality is overflowing, your rapport with the Word of God is intimate and impeccable.

Your integration of the values of the Kingdom of God is as complete as possible and that you love God above all things. May your life be, you are a missionary, a missionary on earth. Your great privilege comes from being a man, a woman with a mission and that mission entails great responsibilities and serious consequences if you don't carry it out as you should. So embrace this morning the privilege of being a missionary, a missionary of God with the privilege of raising up sons and daughters who reflect the best values of the Kingdom of God.

Take care of your house, take care of your home, take care of your atmosphere, take care of your spirituality. And I would add to those who are not biological parents, look, there are many young people out there who need a mentor, a mentor, a father. This is a generation that desperately needs moms and dads, needs mentors. There are many young people there, like Sarah, for example, who has decided to be a mentor to these children and who is doing a great service to her congregation and her community.

I believe that many of you also have a great opportunity to bless young men and women by mentoring them, being an example to them, loving them, greeting them. There are many young people who continually walk the halls of this Congregation and you are a missionary. Make sure that as an adult that you are, they see a smiling face, a kind hand. Say hello to those youngsters and bless them. If there is a grandson or a granddaughter or a nephew or a niece, a child who lives in your building and God gives you the opportunity to have a positive influence - even once - a positive intervention in their life and leave a positive seed there, do not exempt yourself from doing it.

Bless that generation. Share your time generously and be an example wherever you go, be an instrument of God's grace, 24 hours a day and embrace the privilege of being a father or mother. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Dad or mom in this time where you are, or single mother, do not fear, God is with you. God will give you the resources. Make sure you stick to that divine electricity, make sure you are a transmitter of the vitality of the kingdom of God and don't worry that God will always be more powerful than the demons of this world. Pray for your children. Make spiritual warfare on their behalf, fill yourself with the Word of God.

Transmit the advice of the Bible to them, anoint them with oil, take care of your home, turn it into a book that tells it, that speaks in multiple ways about the values of the Kingdom of God and then entrust yourself to the Lord. And if at the end of the day you didn't do everything you were supposed to do or if you made mistakes in the passage, forgive yourself. That's part of what God spoke to us this morning, forgive yourself. Don't live overwhelmed by what you didn't do. That's already spilled milk that you can't keep condemning yourself if God already forgave you.

Now look to the future and do what you can within what lies ahead and make sure that your present and your future reflect who you are now: a son or a daughter of God. Forget about the past. If at the end of the day you made a mistake, forgive yourself, ask God for forgiveness, ask your son or daughter for forgiveness. Reconcile yourself and promise yourself that tomorrow you will try to do better. That's all. Do not live loaded with guilt, because that is not convenient either. We have a God.

That one who knows how to forgive, that one who knows how to tolerate us and He promises to walk with us every day until the end of the world so that we can be good fathers and good mothers. So God bless you this morning. We declare over this congregation, their families, their homes the blessing of the Kingdom of God, the nourishment of the Kingdom of God: prosperity, healthy children, blessed generations. A congregation, an exemplary family, that speaks to the world that with Christ it is possible, with Christ there is victory, with Christ our children are going to be spiritual giants.

With the Word of God they will get to where they have to go. Let's stand up for a moment and receive that grace from God in our lives, in our families. Glory to the name of the Lord. God calls us this morning to rejoice in what He gives us. Let's embrace the call of God's Word. Thank you Father because You have not called us to perform an impossible task. You have said: "I am with you". Help us to embrace the values of the Kingdom of God.

Right now we receive them, we fill ourselves with them. I bless my Congregation, their families, their homes, those who are here and those who are not here. I declare upon them the nutrients of the Kingdom of God. Thank you that our children, even when they were wayward right now, You will bring them back to your ways, Lord. We tie them to the Kingdom of God. Hallelujah. Yes sir. Thanks God. Oh Lord! Thank you because Your word does not return to You empty. You have said: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you and your household will be saved."

We today commit ourselves to serve you, love you, honor your Word, live lives according to the values of the Kingdom of God and we leave the burden to You, Lord, on this day. No matter what paths our children go through, we know they will reach the goal. They will arrive at the place where they have to arrive and they will be saved. And they will be men and women who fear Your name and who seek You, Lord. We leave the process to You. You know, Lord, the incidents of their spiritual pilgrimage, but You have the last word.

Bless my brothers and sisters. May you receive new strength today Lord. I declare happy homes, clear homes, homes without pollution, homes where Jesus Christ reigns. Homes where the word of God dwells abundantly, homes where praise is the hallmark, homes where Satan does not know how to enter because there is nothing like him. Homes where broken men and women, broken by the Word of God, manifest the character of Jesus Christ.

Lord works in marriages, in our church, in homes. Lord, work on the memories of the past, the mistakes made, work on the wounds that our children have, work on the wounds that parents have, Lord. Send your Spirit, Lord, send your oil, send your ointment, send your wine that brings health and healing to them. We bless this home and we bless our Latino community. Father, raise up a church that is a mother church, a counselor church, an elder church, an apostolic church, Lord. A church that covers our community with its spiritual coverage, Lord.

Allow this church to be a refuge for many families, Lord, in this community and raise up an exemplary people, Lord. A pastoral people, a missionary people, Lord, who recognize your call 24 hours a day. I bless this community, Lord. I thank you for her, thank you. Thank you in the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen and amen. Glory to God. Brethren, give glory to the Lord.