His Heart is for Family
Speaker: Pastor John Elijah Lowndes
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The Father who sees you is giving you the spirit of the overcomer.
He sees you, you are important. As Father, His desire and design is for each of us to live in family - natural, and spiritual. In these times when birthrates around the world are going down, individuals are isolated, and the enemy is attacking family and marriages, let us be reminded that the desire of our Father’s heart is for multiplication. It’s for children. It’s for family. It’s for fathers and mothers raising up sons and daughters.
He is inviting and drawing us to come close to Him. When we come close to Him and to the spiritual family, He will restore our hearts. He will restore our families - natural and spiritual. And He can use the smallest thing or person to start a great domino effect for others.
While we do not give the enemy place in our lives, we are not ignorant of his schemes. He is working through the spirit of Jezebel to attack the father’s heart into hiding in isolation, hopelessness and failure (as Jezebel attacked Elijah in his day). And, through the spirit of Leviathan, he sows pride that brings division and contention (Job 41:34). Guard your heart against the seeds that this spirit sows - a little thought, a small offence. Bring things to the light in your relationships. For, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). In humility, our God becomes the One who contends with the enemy.
When the enemy tried to attack and divide us, humility and oneness protected this house against the schemes of the enemy. As we are reminded afresh of the battles we face, our Father is giving us the spirit of the overcomer. He gives grace to the humble - to overcome things first in our homes, in our closest relationships. As we overcome, that is how we receive authority in the nations.
One domino at a time… and it’s ok to be the second domino! It’s ok not to start something. Look to see where a dream of God is growing, and see how you can invest our domino in that dream. He sees you.