Promise of a blessed offspring

Let's go to a passage that I feel the Lord gave me for our mothers but also for our fathers, for Christian families that at this time feel a little under the onslaught of a culture that is somewhat hostile to the education and upbringing of children fearing God, children who reflect the values of the Kingdom of God.

And I truly feel that God put a different spin on a passage that I have preached about Him many times but in a different direction; but God kind of refreshed me this morning and invited me to approach it from the perspective of motherhood and fatherhood and the home in general and that I believe is a prophetic Word for all of us.

So I invite you to turn to Isaiah chapter 54, Isaiah 54. It is a Word of hope, an optimistic vision of the future of the family. 'Promise of a blessed offspring' I would call it that and by the way if I forget to tell my brother Carlos the title who always comes here to ask me, well promise of a blessed offspring. How do you approve the title like this brothers? ok let's put it like this then.

Promise of a blessed offspring. Isaiah chapter 54 is a call to a person who has a negative vision about the future and the Lord's invitation is to change that negative vision and that negative expectation for an optimistic and positive vision.

It says here: "Rejoice, oh barren, the one who did not give birth. Raise a song and shout for joy, the one who was never in labor because there are more children of the forsaken than those of the married, Jehovah has said. Widen the site of Let your tent and the curtains of your rooms be stretched out. Do not be scarce, lengthen your ropes and reinforce your stakes because you will stretch out to the right hand and to the left hand and your descendants" you can read there your children, your grandchildren "your descendants will inherit nations and will inhabit the devastated cities."

"Do not be afraid" says the Lord to all of us "do not be afraid because you will not be confused and do not be ashamed because you will not be insulted, but you will forget the shame of your youth and the shame of your widowhood you will have no more memory, because your husband is your Maker, Jehovah of Hosts is His Name and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel."

"God of all the earth will be called because Jehovah called you as a woman forsaken and sad in spirit and as the wife of youth that is repudiated, said your God. For a brief moment I abandoned you but I will take you with great mercy. With a little of anger I hid My face from you for a moment but with eternal mercy I will have compassion on you, says Jehovah your Redeemer." bless the Lord His holy Word.

What a beautiful passage, right? Don't you feel God's comfort, don't you feel God's invitation to take a positive outlook on the future? We could continue reading the passage and at some point it may touch other parts of the content of this beautiful text, but with these verses we have an idea of the words of comfort and God's call to a positive, optimistic, confident attitude about the future.

We live in a time when many people are fearful about the future of our children. We know that it is a culture that is definitely far from God where schools often conspire to instill in our children values that are contrary to the values of the Kingdom of God and the values that we ourselves have wanted to instill in our children. Certainly very different from the values that our parents instilled in us and where the youth itself is corrupted and they strengthen each other in bad habits, bad attitudes, bad values and where there are so many negative forces; The Internet, which is a swarm of evil, although it is also such a blessing in many ways, makes life so easy for us in many things, but we also know that it is a dangerous place where the enemy wants to infest the minds of our children with bad habits and attitudes. negative.

The internet is sometimes more of a teacher for our children than we are for ourselves. And there are so many different elements and factors that make us fearful about the future of our children and about being a parent; many parents do not want to, rather many young people when they get married do not even want to have children because they are afraid of the world to which they are going to be brought and one can understand that.

I remember the very legitimate concern of our sister Laura a few Sundays ago that moved us; the fear of a young mother when seeing her children grow up in a world so hostile to the values of the Kingdom of God and I know many parents share that fear because it is society, it is the context in which our children are growing up, in a society far from the values of the Kingdom of God.

But Isaiah 54 presents us with a vision of hope and invites us to believe the Lord for a motherhood specifically addressing mothers, a fruitful and blessed motherhood or fathers in general, for a positive experience and a product for which we can be grateful to the Lord. . Isaiah 54 invites us to change our expectations, to change the confession that comes out of our mouths, to change the reference points that we use to judge the paternal and maternal experience that we are having.

The first thing we see here is that we are invited to make a positive confession in the midst of a negative situation because God is speaking here to a barren woman; says rejoice oh barren, who did not give birth. How ironic to ask a woman in the mostly Hebrew context where being a mother was absolutely the greatest blessing a woman could aspire to and not be a mother; For example, you remember the story of Ana before having her son Samuel, Ana's agony for not being able to have children. Her life was completely bitter because she wanted to have a child but couldn't, she felt like her life had no meaning. Her husband did not fill her even though he loved her so much.

But Ana was desperate to have children. And this woman that Isaiah 54 tells us has no children, is barren, and yet the Lord invites her to rejoice in view of what comes later. We sometimes rejoice when we already have what we want and then we say: now I am going to rejoice because I received what I wanted, but what about rejoicing in anticipation of what one does not have? What about rejoicing as a weapon that one uses to attract what one does not have? What about confessing with our mouths the good purposes of God for our children and our home even though we still don't see them, huh?

What about thanking God for what our children are going to become one day even though we may not see it yet? What about changing our negative confession due to circumstances, the lack of children, or the situation we have around us for a confession that no, the Lord is going to have the last word in the lives of my children, amen? The Lord is in control and the Lord is going to use every aspect, every moment of my children's lives to carry out a special work in them.

I see that idea, right? of a preventive recollection so to speak because there are so many things sometimes in the life of the family that invite us rather to fill ourselves with negativity and a confession, because we know that raising children is not an easy thing; our children sometimes create many gray hairs and add to us, it is not all just a song. But God says you know what? when you feel inclined to throw in the towel praise Me and glorify Me and believe and rejoice in Me and confess that I am more than enough and more than powerful.

The image of the father of the so-called prodigal son in the parable of Jesus Christ comes to mind, how much did that father have suffered seeing his son's behavior, that somewhat bitter character of that rebellious boy that finally culminates when this young man tells his father: give me the inheritance that belongs to me as if he had nothing, the father is the owner of all the money but this son comes to the father with an act of rebellion and asks the father to give him the money that belongs to him.

And this father in a very wise way says to the son: ok it's fine and lets him go away from home. And you can imagine that time of anguish and agony of that father while he had his son away without receiving a letter from his son, without knowing how he was, without knowing if he had had any problems around a bar or a disco where he had gone. , suffering and perhaps thinking that everything was over. However, that father is there waiting, waiting while God is working in the heart of his son over there, God is taking him where he needs to take him.

There is one that stays at home and always behaves well and does everything well, there is another that creates problems. But in something God was working in a different way because it is that the children have different temperaments brothers. Different callings and God wants to do different things in them.

What I want to say is that our children are blessed because the seal of God is on them, because God is a generous, merciful God and He sees the justice of their parents, God sees the love of their parents for them and the prayers of His parents. And I believe that the divine hound is always behind them even if they go far away but the rope does not let them go at any time.

And the Lord takes them through processes. Not everyone is called to do the same and unfortunately there are times when we have to go through processes in order to become what God wants us to be. Each of us is a different world. And God then lets the children go in different places. Meanwhile, even while we feel the pain of not having them where we want them to be, I believe that we must persist in confessing God's good purpose in their lives for the future and we have to bless, and confess that no, God has not finished still.

Because one day that father who was there suffering for that son for so long saw him return home. Chastened, beaten, humiliated, humbled, and then he was able to find his place in the family and move on. And God wanted to deal with both in different ways. Perhaps those who took the longest to come to know the Lord are the ones who will love the Lord the most because they know where God rescued them from, so we don't know. So I think we always have to reserve a measure of praise, faith and belief in the goodness and mercy of the Lord.

That is why the Lord says here: "Rejoice sterile, the one who did not give birth and raises song and shouts for joy, the one who was never in labor because there are more children of the forsaken than those of the married". We have to visualize the state in which God is going to have our children; are, God speaks in the present at all times.

So that idea of rejoicing is very important in everything. I think there are many ways to rejoice in terms of family and home as well. Joy must be cultivated in our homes as well. I believe that our homes should be places of praise; They must be places of joy, of good words, of positive things. We have to fill our homes with good music, worship, laughter, the company of family. Not allowing our homes to be just such gloomy and sad places.

That is why I believe that the Bible also calls us to be hospitable, because there is something good about when a home is filled with the laughter of friends and family, the smell of good food, right? I'm already getting hungry just mentioning it. But how good it is when our children grow up in positive homes where there is happiness, where there is joy, where mom and dad love each other, where the children are celebrated and where there is a blessing from the Lord. Let's try to make our homes places of happiness and joy. Let's cultivate a home and take care of the atmosphere of our homes. Let there be no hurtful words, no obvious conflicts, where there is harmony, where there is blessing because rejoicing attracts the blessing and joy of the Lord.

And the Word says that the joy of the Lord is our strength. I think that is why we always have to celebrate in our lives and ask the Lord to fill us with an attitude of joy. Do you know that I think it takes the same amount of effort to be down as it is to be truly happy? You have to work hard to get depressed. Why not work hard to have a joyful attitude? Sometimes you feel like you don't even smell lilies, right? Well then, rebuke that spirit of depression and say: no, I am going to rejoice in the Lord today, I am going to celebrate the goodness and blessings of the Lord.

Yesterday I had a wonderful but also demanding day as Gregory said, my family accompanied me there to Gordon-Conwell. You don't know what it's like to preach to 1,200, 1,400 people, and a large part of them are students finishing theology studies and seminary professors, and all of that burns anyone's nervous system and in an environment as solemn as graduation, right? And this morning my neurons were kind of shrunken like that.

But praying to the Lord and crying out to Him one kind of begins to let go. And I tell him: Lord, give me a Word and after being in that environment, anything seems minor, like he needs about three days to recover. I was there and the Lord, but in such a sovereign, beautiful way, opened that passage for me; I don't know how I got to it, but it was like God put it there on the road and told me: look, preach about this. Because one can preach about many things, but I didn't feel like I was going to take one of those sermons and reheat it on mothers.

And at the moment I saw this passage and said: wow I never saw it that way, a call to mothers and fathers to certain attitudes, certain things because we have a God who provides; God gave me joy at that moment, he gave me peace. I feel physically tired but I feel joyful in the Lord, such a good God, such a powerful God. This might take me off topic, but that's why I tell you that we have to learn to rejoice in the Lord because God is so detailed.

And even though we are going through great trials, great tribulations, we have to believe in a picky God who cares about us and who sometimes gives us, has such small details with us but makes us believe that he is truly real. I did not share this with Meche, I was in a large room where the faculty came to put on their caps and gowns and all this, and I am thinking about the sermon that I am going to give to all these chosen people, and I said: no I am sure if what I wrote that I felt that the Lord had given me, if it was going to reach the target, if it was good content, good material; if it was the right tone, if it was up to the moment, I feel a little insecure about it.

And I didn't know if the topic was even a topic that was going to please because it was a bit confrontational topic to a certain point but also of encouragement, I wanted to present that. But while I'm there I overhear the chairman of the Gordon-Conwell board of directors, a very distinguished retired Presbyterian Pastor talking to a seminary professor about an incident they had just recently experienced at a conference. And it's interesting but the topic that they were discussing was perfectly in tune with the message that I had prepared.

And notice what came to mind right away is when Gideon was wondering if God was with him before he went to war against the Midianites. And God said to him: look, go down to the camp and listen to what they are saying there. And when he was inside the camp, Gideon heard two men about some dreams they had, remember? of a bread that rolled and destroyed the whole army and other things and that strengthened the heart of Gideon. And as God told me: look, you are Gideon doubting what I have told you and what I have commanded you to do, then I send a Word of comfort because that calmed my heart and my spirit a little and to glory of the Lord the message was tremendously well received and was a blessing.

But what I want to tell you brother is that sometimes one is sweating the fat drop in life and fearing and complaining and God wants us to enjoy life, God wants us to learn to rejoice in the midst of everything because He is in control in last instance. Let us not make our fatherhood, our motherhood something that robs us of the joy of the Lord. Let us not fear too much for the blessing either. God will take care of it in the end, God is faithful, God is good, His mercy is forever, amen? We are going to celebrate our fatherhood, our families and we are going to rejoice in the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:11 a passage that you know is wonderfully appropriate for so many things, where God directs his Word of encouragement to a Hebrew people who are depressed and sad who are in Babylon and have just arrived there, and the tendency is to shrink and hide and be depressed and have no children, and live an anonymous life, and God says to them, "Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captives whom I have carried from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and inhabit them and plant gardens and eat their fruit; marry and beget sons and daughters."

How nice. Sometimes: ah we are not going to have children, this. I understand the fear but notice that here the Lord says: look, get married, have sons and daughters, children are a blessing from the Lord. Give wives to your sons and give husbands to your daughters. Note that it does not say: give wives to your daughters and husbands to your sons, right? The Lord always knows well, there is no need for God, amen (applause). That is an unpaid ad but I don't see anywhere in the Bible about these swarms of evil, crud of evil that the devil wants. No.

"Give your daughters husbands so that they may have sons and daughters and multiply there and do not diminish one another, says the Lord." We have to adopt positive attitudes. In the midst of the evil of the world and its threats, we are going to rejoice in the Lord, we are going to celebrate ourselves, we are going to prepare a good meal and then we ask the Lord for forgiveness if we ate too much (laughs) or do a little extra exercise, right? ?

But our children will learn from us what kind of attitude they will have in life, if joy and optimism or depression and pessimism. Know what? you are going to mark your children a lot with your behavior. If the children see mom and dad optimistic and when there are problems: no, we can get ahead in the name of the Lord, if they see positive language in the mouth of their parents, if they see their parents overcome any situation of difficulty or adversity; if they see their constant and faithful parents confessing positivity and joy in the Lord when trials come. If they see mom and dad there together fighting when adversity and difficulty come, the children will learn from that too and they will remember that, and they will also have that same attitude of joy and drive towards life.

That is why our children are always looking at us if we are praising and rejoicing or if we are getting depressed and swearing at life or God. So let's fill our homes with joy, laughter, positive attitudes, good expectations about the future because God has good things for us. And let's also celebrate our children, let's celebrate.

The Lord brought to mind Psalm 113 verse 9 regarding this very thing. It says: "He makes the barren woman who rejoices in being a mother of children live in a family" who rejoices in being a mother of children. There are many sisters who lament because their children take away their figure, when they give birth they are worrying and the children there for nine months feel the rejection of the mother many times. Mother, rejoice in being a mother, celebrate your children, come as they come, celebrate them, life must be celebrated.

We have to live in a culture that celebrates children, I think that's part of celebrating and enjoying ourselves, we have to enjoy ourselves. I believe that cultures of life, some time ago I preached about cultures of life and cultures of death. Cultures of life revolve around children and children. Cultures of death revolve around adults. Cultures of death sacrifice children for adults and then the mother says: well my womb is my property, that is my real estate and I can do whatever I want with my womb; if I want to kill the creature that is my business because it is there within me. The cultures of life say: no, this life is autonomous and it is a creation of God, and I cannot do what I want with it because it is a life, it is inside me but it is a life separate from me too.

And when parents are going to get divorced, they think first of those children who are going to grow up without a father, without a mother in a divided home and they think about it two or three times, and they fight to keep the home together because children are important and we think in them instead of: no, I am no longer in love with my wife, with my husband, and we are going to separate and look for another life, and do something new, and what about those children that you brought to life? You owe it to them and if you do the right thing God will bless you and you will find the reason to love your wife and keep your home together, do not deny your home.

We have to celebrate and value children, they are precious before God. Children are an inheritance, says the Lord, and if we celebrate them and rejoice in them in homes that celebrate life and family, God is going to make His blessing nest on those homes. So all this is around that Word, it is the call to rejoice, right?

Secondly we have to start laying the foundations. I don't want to leave this up in the air, listen to this too. First rejoice in all that is, a culture of joy, rejoicing, celebration, expectation of God's blessing, all of this but secondly we have to start laying the foundations and structures for the future we envision for our children, That sounds a little complex but I'm going to read it again. We have to start laying the foundation for the future we envision for our children.

This same passage reminded me of that when, after that call to joy and celebration, the Lord tells this same woman, he invites her to take action. He tells him: "Enlarge the site of your tent and the curtains of your rooms are extended, do not be scarce; lengthen your ropes, reinforce your stakes." What's in here? There is a call to rejoice in expectation of what is to come but then God says: you know what? But if you're going to have more children, then it's better that you buy a house with more bedrooms, you're going to need a bigger house. You're going to have family, you're going to have influence so prepare yourself a bigger place.

So in this case he's talking to people who lived in tents. So he tells them: well, find yourself a bigger curtain so that the tent is bigger and not only that, you're going to need longer ropes to hold them because it's a bigger curtain and also stronger stakes because the tent is going to be heavier and it's going to have more wind trying to get it out so the tent has to be stronger. He calls this woman to plan in light of what she hopes for the future, the positive optimistic vision she has conceived.

No? because many Christian people live, I would say, in dissonance between the Christian spiritual vision that they have as children of God and the actions, and the behavior and the daily life of the home, and the habits that they cultivate and the way in which they are preparing for the future that they envision or conceive for their children later. There is a contradiction between what we confess with our mouth, what we believe with our mind and our spirit and in reality what we are living in the education that we give our children and the things that incarnate in our home and there has to be a consonance between the vision and the construction in other words and I am going to make a summary so that you understand a little more what I am saying.

For example, if you want bright and successful children, professionally accomplished and at least have a good job, be hardworking, support themselves, be able to support their home. They do not necessarily have to be presidents of the nation, but a good plumber, hear what is necessary in the world, a good electrician, a good mason. You don't have to be a genius, but you want children who are hardworking, productive, who earn a good living, right, amen?, who have a purpose in life, who plan, who have a productive life.

So if you want children like this who are productive in life, successful in life, you have to structure your home in the same way, right? The home must be structured from the beginning so that the home is a place of learning where everything that the children see and receive channels them in the direction in which we want to take them. Do you know that producing a productive being, a successful being in life that is not a day? You call him for a moment because it occurred to you and you give him some advice and you already believe that with that advice the boy is going to change overnight. No, that's a job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for ten, fifteen years.

And then when you have children you are going to have to educate them and help them move on, it never ends. Being a father or mother never ends and you have to know that this is constant work. We often ask the Lord for intelligent, professional, well-behaved, God-fearing children, but our homes do not reflect those priorities.

Ask yourself how many books are in your house? How many books are in your house? There are homes where books are conspicuous by their absence. Now you will find a television in every room and a radio in every corner, I hope you are not beating anyone here in the service. What has a prominent place in your house brother or sister, a good library or an 84-inch television?

In other words I believe that something so simple, when children are raised with a vision from the beginning; For example, when they grow up handling little books even though they can't read them, a 6-month-old baby handling a rubber book even if it is, but he gets used to the idea of pages, he gets used to the idea of this object, whereas if a child doesn't grow With those things at 5 or 7 years old whenever you want, it's an object that comes from Pluto or Mars, do you understand? many children do not grow up in a home where they are encouraged to be intelligent, studious children, enjoying reading because that requires a process of learning and training.

I applaud Meche because we have a very large library in the main room. When our grandson Caleb was with us here in Boston before they left for Nashville Meche said, you know what? we are going to take a part of the library because since Caleb was always visiting the house and we are going to put Caleb's books there, because the adult books were there but we wanted him to also get an idea that his books were important and that this takes place and those books are still there, that is to say that when he comes to visit he comes to get his books and they are there on that side of the library.

A vision is formed that books are not something foreign, strange to be rejected, the child gets used to books. I was watching a video not long ago about the orthodox jews, asiri jews they are called, they are the well, well orthodox and it is interesting. When they are educating their children, from the age I think about four years old or something like that, there is a moment when they begin to teach them the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. And one of the things that they do and of course all this is accompanied by the Word of God, the first thing they learn is the letters of the Hebrew alphabet but using biblical texts.

Look how interesting why do you think the Jews are taking over the world? That little country and such a successful country, so influential, so full of success and money is because these people have a tremendous educational purpose. So when those little children are educated they take them to the Yeshiva, to the place where they study and then they put a piece of candy on top of each letter. So when the child pronounces the letter the first time, they give him the candy and the rabbi who is teaching says: because we want them to associate the sweetness of the candy with the letter of the word.

Look how smart, right? I believe that we have to our children, if we want educated children, parents. Perhaps you did not have the blessing and fortune to grow up in a home where books and education and study and culture were prominent. But look, you can start in the name of the Lord, change the culture; change the generational turn and start with faith, start exposing young parents. That young woman with her family who passed here in front with that beautiful girl, that baby; hey: buy her books since she was little right now, go to Walmart and buy her her first little book if she doesn't already have it and feed her, drink the milk of knowledge.

Let's take our children to a museum, to a concert, to an art exhibition even if you have never been here to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston fear not; go in the name of the Lord. On Saturdays I think inclusive is much cheaper and for a certain age they are free. And there are times that the museum has. Look even if you've never been to a museum, even if you look at a work of art and don't know if it's upside down or upside down, go anyway. Take your children. Perhaps they will react and protest, but let them smell, enjoy the atmosphere, bring them in; expose them, take them even if it is, little by little they will learn. We have to break the inertia but we have to make an effort.

There are so many concerts that are free or cheap and anyway, if you have to make an investment, take your children to a good concert one day and dress them well, make it something special and then go to MacDonalds and have a hamburger there with a Coke but that they feel that it is something special for their lives, right? But let us expose them to knowledge; the question is: are we planning to have studious children? What is heard most in our homes, are we structuring our homes for the future that we conceive for our children, the clothes that we buy them for example?

By the way, I am going to make a parenthesis here. I know that there are fellow new believers who have a class of new believers. If you are taking that class and you have to go there I will not be offended if you stand up, don't worry go there and we have to get used to it, you are more than welcome to do it because that is part of. But once again, the clothes that we buy our children, the toys that we buy for our children, what values are we structuring for them, right?

I see parents who spend a lot of money on their children's education. I prefer, brother, to spend good money on my children's education than on a vacation over there in Jamaica. With that money, if you can both do glory to God, that's good, but if you have to choose, buy him the book, buy him good clothes for school, invest in a good school if you can do it; Christian or private, whatever. Put them in a music class, take them to I Wanna on Friday night, take them to youth service; invest in your children

I say here we have to invest a lot of money in the education of our children and create homes where culture is everywhere so that they breathe that air of culture, right? Another thing about this: you have to invest a lot of time in our children, you have to stay close to them. Work should never take away our ability to be in close contact with our children and if we want to train them with our values and our Christian sensibility, we have to set aside time and structure time to be with them continuously, quality time.

Sometimes we are tired, we come home and we are exhausted and our tendency is to turn on the television so that the television can attend to them while we do other things, we go to bed sleepy and cook. And I mean men, men: let's not leave only the education of children to mothers, please, we rebuke the devil in the name of the Lord; that is a doctrine engendered in hell, that theory that the mother is the one who educates the children. Listen to me how important it is that parents take time for the moral and ethical education of their children, listen to me.

Men, you don't know how important it is that your daughters, your sons, that when they grow up and go to another city or whatever, they have the memory of a father who sat next to them and protected them, invested in them, it's so important that this is. We cannot leave the work of forming the sensitivity of our children to television, school or even the Church. I am ending I know that time, with that again reinforcing this Word of blessing and trust.

Verse 4 says, "Do not be afraid, for you will not be ashamed, and do not be ashamed, for you will not be disgraced, but you will forget the shame of your youth, and the shame of your widowhood, you will no longer remember, for your husband is your Maker, Jehovah." of Armies is His Name and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel" glory to the name of the Lord.

Brother, sister, you are perhaps going through some tribulation with your children, perhaps you even feel a little ashamed. Says the Lord do not be ashamed, you will not be disgraced; do not fear, you will not be confused because God is, your husband is your Maker. Perhaps there are single mothers here who feel they lack the presence of a man to support and back them up. Hey: you have a husband who is better than any man in the name of the Lord, you have the God of Hosts on your behalf; God is with you, don't be ashamed, don't be afraid, don't back down, God is more than enough.

If you do not have the support of a husband, daughter of God, God is more than enough to give you victory and move you forward and if things have not gone so well for you and you feel a little ashamed and sad, do not worry that in the long run the Lord He will give you victory because He is committed to you. God will see to it that our children are on the right path and that in the end we have the victory.

How nice. I end with that Word of comfort from verses 15 to 17. It says: "If anyone conspires against you, he will do it without Me, he who conspires against you will fall before you; behold, I made the blacksmith who blows the coals into the fire and who brings out the tool for his work, and I have created the destroyer to destroy" in other words I have control of him because I created him for a purpose "no weapon formed against you will prosper and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the inheritance of the servants of the LORD, and their salvation shall come from Me, says the LORD."

So brothers, God comforts you this morning, God infuses you with a Word of hope, I bless you in the name of the Lord; we are going to put it back to the plow with a Word of victory that no one can steal from us. Although the path and process is a bit elaborate and complex, in the end God will see that our children enter the heavenly fold and become what He wants them to be and what we also want them to be. May the Lord bless you and mothers we love you, we bless you in the name of the Lord, we declare the grace of God over your lives. They are an inspiration on us.

We are going to stand up and thank God for His goodness, His mercy in this place today and for being able to be part of a family that has all the resources of heaven in our favor, therefore there is no way that ultimately let's fail. Some of us will succeed earlier, others a little later, but we will all reach the goal, says the Lord.

So thank you Father. Fill our hearts with Your comfort on this day, we leave here confident that You are with us. Defeat is not an option for us. If any of us have fear in their hearts, we have doubts, we confess that You are good and Your mercy is forever. Thank you because you have not called us to failure but to victory. Fill our mothers with double wisdom.

We pray above all for those young mothers, for those single mothers, for those who are struggling for their children; fill their hearts with peace and joy and with holy expectation of blessing. You are our foundation, we are confident in You and You will give us all the resources we require. We bless our youth, our childhood in this Church. Help us to be a family Church that provides solid structures for the future of our children. We thank you Lord in Jesus Name amen and amen. God bless you brothers, the grace of the Lord be with you on this day.