Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
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and we're just overjoyed
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that you've tuned
into study with us today.
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You know, we've been going
through this Bible study guide,
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and it is entitled
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"Sharing God's
Love Makes You Happier,
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What the Bible Says.
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And our dear friend
and brother in the Lord,
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Brother Richard Bland
of United Prison Ministries
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put this pamphlet together
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and it is full
of 25 Bible studies
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that we're going
to be distributing
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as we do these lessons with you.
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And today's lesson is number six
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and it is entitled
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"Survival Tips
for Single Parenting."
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You know, in today's
world we live in a society,
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it seems like every year
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divorce is becoming
more and more prevalent.
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In fact, many times people
are choosing to have a family
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and they're not
getting married at all
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and that way if
they want to separate,
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they just separate,
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and usually there's one
parent, it could be a female,
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usually we think of the female.
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But oftentimes
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it's the male that is left
raising the children alone.
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You know, we have
wars, we have sickness,
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we have accidents
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and many times
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that single
parent feels overwhelmed
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trying to make a living,
trying to raise these children,
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especially if they come
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or they've been in
the admonition of the Lord
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and they're looking for hope,
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they're looking for strength.
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And today,
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I believe we are going to
find it in the Word of God.
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Let me share one
passage with you.
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It's found in Isaiah
and it's Isaiah 41:10,
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and it reads,
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"Fear not, for I am with thee.
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Be not dismayed,
for I am thy God.
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I will strengthen
thee, yea, I will help thee,
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yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand
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of my righteousness."
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That verse alone is powerful
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and what I'll hope
that you are learning
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as you study along with us here
at Behold the Lamb presents.
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I hope you're
learning to put your hand
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to those
precious promises of God
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and claim them as yours.
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Isaiah 41:10 is yours.
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If you are a single parent,
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even if you are
not a single parent,
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we need to be claiming
these wonderful promises.
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But before we hear
Pastor Kenny Sheldon,
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as he begins to give us
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and expand upon
this lesson today,
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we're gonna go to
the 3ABN Worship Center
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and listen to
Brother Lynden Carriger
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as he sings "My help."
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I will lift up
mine eyes to the hills
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From whence cometh my help
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My help cometh from the Lord
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The Lord, who
made heaven and earth
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He said he will
not suffer thy foot
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Thy foot to be moved
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The Lord which keep thee
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He will not slumber nor sleep
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For the Lord is thy keeper
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The Lord is thy shade
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Upon thy right hand
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Upon thy right hand
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No the sun shall
not smite thee by day
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Nor the moon by night
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He shall preserve thy soul
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Even for evermore
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My help
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My help
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My help
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All of my help
cometh from the Lord
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I will lift up
mine eyes to the hills
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From whence cometh my help
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My help cometh from the Lord
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The Lord, who
made heaven and earth
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He said he will
not suffer thy foot
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Thy foot to be moved
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The Lord which keep thee
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He will not slumber nor sleep
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For the Lord is thy keeper
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The Lord is thy shade
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Upon thy right hand
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upon thy right hand
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For the sun shall
not smite thee by day
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Nor the moon by night
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He shall preserve thy soul
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Even for evermore
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My help
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My help My help
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All of my help
cometh from the Lord
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My help My help
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My help
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All of my help
cometh from the Lord
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My help
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My help
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All of my help
cometh from the Lord
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The Lord
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All of my help
cometh from the Lord
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Thank you for joining us
once again at Behold the Lamb.
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As you've already
heard the subject for today,
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and it's very,
very interesting subject
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because we're
looking at something
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that's need to be talked about.
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We're talking
about survival tips
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for a single parenting.
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That's kind of an
interesting subject,
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but I pray that as we
go along in the study,
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we will see the necessity
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of being able to
address different ones
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who are facing
issues in the world today
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that they feel that in the
song which he was talking about,
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feeling we are alone.
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Sometimes we feel like
there's no one to help us,
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and we're going to
find out in God's Word
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some of these tips are very good
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based upon God's Word.
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But always before
we get in to the Word,
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we always like to pray.
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Once again, we're
inviting those of you at home,
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thank you again for
your cards, your letters,
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your phone calls and
everything that you do.
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We appreciate you so very
much, continue to pray for us,
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we need it here.
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I'm going to kneel
right now and have prayer,
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and those of you
at home and here,
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kneel with me if you can
in this prayer, shall we?
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Merciful Father in heaven,
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again we just ask Your anointing
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upon the Word today.
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We pray for the
power of Thy Holy Spirit,
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how desperately we need
the Spirit of the living God.
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We realize that
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spiritual things are
spiritually discerned.
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We can't understand the
Word without Your Spirit.
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So we pray that
You'll open our ears,
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our hearts and our minds and,
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Lord, may they be a
Word spoken in due season,
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only You can do it, you know,
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where there are millions
of people in this situation
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that we will be
talking about today
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that needs a special touch and,
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Lord, that all of us
need that special touch.
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We need to be
reminded of who you are,
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and that You're
coming back soon,
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and sometime the
situations are very, very rough
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and we need some special help.
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So today we pray
in the name of Jesus,
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as the Holy
Spirit now is sent upon
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each and every one of us
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that we may be
still and know of our God.
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We gonna thank You in advance
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for what You're going
to do in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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You know, in this
world that we're living
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we talk about...
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I think every day as you
go back and forth to work,
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whatever you do or
people that you work with.
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There are those
who are single parents,
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and we've to realize today
those who are as single parent
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are going through many,
many difficult situations,
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much more difficult than
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if you have
somebody to help you.
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I think most of us
can agree with that.
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And that's why I
think in this subject,
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remember God
approaches all these subjects
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and He has the answer to
them, so as we're talking about,
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how does a single mom or
dad survive in this world?
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What are some of the tips?
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Where do we go
in the Word of God
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to find out that God
cares about the single parent,
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cares about the children?
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And He has
answers to these needs.
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So as we look at these
things today, we pray...
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And I'm gonna give
you some statistics.
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Now, these are not
necessarily my thinking,
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but there's statistics taken
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from thousands
of different people.
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Several different studies
and see what they come up with
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when you're talking
about single parenting
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and what it represents.
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If you look,
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and I'm going to look
at in today definition,
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you say, "Well,
that's very simple
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the definition
of a single parent."
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But just kind of
listen to what it says here,
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"A single parent is a
parent that raises a child
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without the
other parent support."
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Does that make sense so far?
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Yes.
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Now the single parent then
has all the responsibility.
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We are talking about
the financial support,
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we are talking
about material things,
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we are talking
about emotional issues.
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They have full control
as it were of that child.
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So single
parenting has really put,
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it has a lot of responsibility
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that just one person
shoulders rather than situation
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where two shoulder it.
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Now, what are the causes,
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the causes of single parenting?
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Well, there are many,
certainly we can look at
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but number one,
maybe someone is widowed.
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You know, maybe the
other one happen to pass away
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or it could be that
may be there is a divorce,
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and mom and dad separates,
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and that's what
make a single parenting
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or as we mentioned by death
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we became maybe a single parent,
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or could just
simply we're single parent
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because we're just not married.
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So there are
just different issues
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that we'll come with
we look at that says,
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okay, we are a single parent.
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Notice today,
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there's nothing
necessarily wrong
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with the single parent.
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So the things that
we talk about here,
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let's not look
and start feel like,
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oh, somebody is.
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Let's look at the issues,
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because there is
help in God's Word,
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and all that
needs to be accomplished
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can be
accomplished as we look to Him.
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If we look to the
world, we're in trouble,
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you know.
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Give me some statistics
here, how many people you think
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parents are single
in the world today?
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They have children, but
they are just single parents.
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What do you think they are?
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In the United States today,
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if we look today
in the United States,
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there are about 13.5
million single parents.
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That's a lot of
single parents, isn't it?
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Over 13.5 million,
so they're not alone,
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so the subject matter
is prevalent for today
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and the society that we live in
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because there is a time of what?
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Trouble coming upon this world
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that as whether you've
two or three in a family,
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five or ten
whatever it might be,
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we need help,
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and we need special help.
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And so God gives
that to us in His Word.
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But if you look 13.5
million single parents,
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that's quite a bit
in my estimation here.
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America almost make up
about 65% of all families
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with children
under the age of 18.
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So I gave you some
statistics as we look at,
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but you notice in 1950...
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We're comparing today with 1950.
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Ninety-three percent
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there was a mom and dad in 1950.
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Things have
really changed, you know,
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in this world that we're living,
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and enemy is
out to make changes,
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and so that we
cannot find our way to God.
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We cannot find
our way in the world
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that he wants to
work on our children.
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He wants to work on parents,
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whether it's
single or both mom and dad
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because he can
destroy the home that way.
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Bible gives them certainly
some good news for us today.
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If you could guess today,
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what is the highest
percentage of single parenting?
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What country would it be
that has the highest rate?
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As you said,
United States of America
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has the highest
rate of single parenting.
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Not too far from
someone in second,
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United States is 25.8 %.
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That's quite a bit, isn't it?
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And Ireland is 24.3%.
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New Zealand is 23.7%.
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Canada is 22%.
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U.K is 21.5%.
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So we see they're not far apart,
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excuse me,
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but interesting,
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United States is
leading out in this.
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Why might that be?
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Maybe United
States has more to offer,
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maybe there's
more side track issues,
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maybe there is other
lot of things going on
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that maybe it's not
happening in other countries,
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but nevertheless
that is the statistic
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we have to look at.
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Twenty-two percent, keep
this in mind as we study,
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22% people of the United States
single parent household...
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Listen carefully, they're white.
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How many percent?
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Twenty-two percent
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of single parent
households are white.
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Fifty-seven percent
are African-American.
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Thirty-three percent, Hispanic.
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These are things we
just have to look at,
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these are
statistics, these are things
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that you can
find on your internet
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or you can look up
on different things.
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But these are just statistics
everyone is looking at
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and what is the problem?
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The problem is, it's expanding,
it's increasing and it's going,
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and we need to have answers.
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Answers as it,
is there an answer
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in the Word of God to help us
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or help to survive the
single parent to survive.
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And I think that's
what we're looking at
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because I'm
looking at self surviving.
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Almost feel like that
we are in a war, don't you?
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Whether you're
married, whether you're not,
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whether you're single,
whether you're married.
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It seems like
we are in a battle,
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and the battle for the mind,
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and the battle just
to get by in this world.
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Now, again these
are some statistics
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we need to look
at here, Wikipedia.
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You can go there and
look at some of these,
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this is what I'll be
kind of reading from here
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and just, well, you
know, all these statistics.
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And here is the question,
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"Does a single parent
family affect a child?"
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That is very interesting I
think a legitimate question.
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Can it? Yes, it can. Does it?
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Well, we would have
to see how this goes.
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Notice, it says
that single parent...
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Notice this, a family,
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single parent now
have economic hardships.
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You see, it's little different,
there's two in the family
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and you have two incomes.
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Isn't that right?
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Makes it little
easier right there.
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If there is just
mama or just daddy
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trying to raise the family,
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it makes it very
difficult because what?
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You have just one income here.
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It's more difficult this...
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As they sent this survey
out, it was more difficult
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for single mothers to get by
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than it is for
single man to get by.
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So childhood poverty
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is the number
one negative factor.
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Although children
with both parents,
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there is no
exception just going to happen,
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there's going to
be problems there too.
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But notice this
what the study said,
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it says, "The single
parent with children,
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the children
sometime are more...
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Now this doesn't happen to
be in your life or anyone else,
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because there's difference
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in Christians and non-Christians
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as far as I'm concerned.
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Those who lean on
Christ and those who do not,
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but there's more depression,
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you see, in children
who just have one parent.
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That's kind of interesting
what the statistics says,
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behavioral disorders is
what they say here in survey
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are high among
single parental situations.
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Now there's a
debate, so we say, okay,
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this is, okay, oh,
they're having trouble
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because they are single parent.
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But notice the
debate on the other side,
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whether a parent is
alive, or just absent,
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or even just
deceased, notice it says,
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you have to raise
your child, notice,
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in the admonition of the Lord.
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We must to do that in
order to have success,
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you know, the way
that you raise them
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determines the outcome.
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Does that make sense?
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What does the Bible say?
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Proverbs 22:6, it
says, "Raise up," what?
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A child.
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"A child in the
way he should go,
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and when he is old, he shall,
will not be depart from here."
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So the Bible
doesn't says specifically
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because you're a single
parent or whatever it might be,
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your child's not
going to turn out.
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The Bible doesn't say that.
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Now human statistics
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and things that they write
down numbers might indicate,
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but the Bible says,
here's a good plus for us
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that you train up the child
whether they be 1, 2 or 20,
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you train them up in
the way that they should go
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and when they're old,
they'll not depart from that.
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That's good news for
single, or double, or triple,
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or whatever it might be,
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that's good news as
far as I'm concerned.
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Is there stress in parenting
whether again one or two?
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There is stress.
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All time there is stress
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because we're
worried about certain things.
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We've been
through them ourselves,
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and we understand
what might be before them,
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and we don't want them to go
00:19:01.74\00:19:03.51
through what we may
be have went through.
00:19:03.54\00:19:05.81
And so we have
some worries there,
00:19:05.84\00:19:07.78
even though we
have to turn to God,
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He'll help us with that.
00:19:09.18\00:19:10.58
But in their study,
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they listed some
ways to reduce stress.
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Now if you want
to reduce your stress
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in raising a child,
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notice this, some of them
make pretty good sense to me,
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and I can see that
lot of is biblical here.
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Number one, it says show love.
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Well, that's
pretty simple, isn't it?
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It should be easy
to love our children,
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isn't that right?
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But again the children,
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they sense they
need maybe more love
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if there's a single parenting.
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They need to know that,
00:19:36.97\00:19:38.31
you know that
it's not their fault
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or they need to know that,
00:19:39.71\00:19:41.04
you know that
you're embracing them,
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you care about them,
you're encouraging them.
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Number two, create a
routine, way to, you know,
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get the stress
level down in the home
00:19:50.75\00:19:52.39
if you're single
parent is routines are good,
00:19:52.42\00:19:56.26
because the child will
know then what to expect
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and not will always
causing in your situation.
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That means regular meals,
that means regular bed times
00:20:00.96\00:20:05.23
and certainly correction,
notice this, what does it do?
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It simply helps the
child to know what to expect.
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We're no different
then that as adults,
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is that true?
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If I'm going
somewhere or my job,
00:20:17.18\00:20:19.25
I want to know
what is expected of me.
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That helps us to get
by, that reduces the stress.
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Because If I don't know
I'm on job, the guy said,
00:20:25.79\00:20:27.52
"Just go do this."
00:20:27.56\00:20:28.89
I don't know what he
means, what to do what?
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How much work
I'm supposed to do.
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So the child being raised up,
00:20:32.69\00:20:34.56
if they have regular
bed time, regular meal time
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.00
and certainly
correction at the right time.
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You see, they will say
okay, they know what to expect.
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I don't want to compare children
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to dogs or animals,
00:20:45.37\00:20:46.71
we know better than that.
00:20:46.74\00:20:48.08
But you know,
even in animal, a dog,
00:20:48.11\00:20:49.91
they will know when you
go, when it's treat time.
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They know what to expect
and what to do many times
00:20:52.78\00:20:54.85
to be able to get that treat.
00:20:54.88\00:20:56.48
And so we know
that even in children,
00:20:56.52\00:20:58.22
certainly much higher than that.
00:20:58.25\00:20:59.59
But you can train them in
a way that they should go.
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Number three, it says,
find quality child care.
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If you want to
reduce the stress, I mean,
00:21:07.53\00:21:09.23
you can't just
throw your child out
00:21:09.26\00:21:10.60
to anything on anybody
and expect them to come back.
00:21:10.63\00:21:13.27
I won't mess if I'd say normal.
00:21:13.30\00:21:16.20
Stress, give
them somebody to care
00:21:16.24\00:21:17.91
but if you don't
know who they are,
00:21:17.94\00:21:19.31
what they're going
to instill on them.
00:21:19.34\00:21:21.04
And so there's
going to be stress,
00:21:21.08\00:21:22.61
if we don't know this individual
00:21:22.64\00:21:24.15
who is taking care
of your valuable asset
00:21:24.18\00:21:27.05
of your children.
00:21:27.08\00:21:28.42
Notice that, find
quality child care.
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And then they say,
00:21:30.45\00:21:31.79
very, very
important is single parenting
00:21:31.82\00:21:33.49
is to set limits.
00:21:33.52\00:21:36.29
Think about it, set limits.
00:21:36.32\00:21:38.09
This is what we do,
this is far as we go
00:21:38.13\00:21:40.33
and this is it.
00:21:40.36\00:21:41.70
And that way you
are not always pushed
00:21:41.73\00:21:43.23
into doing more and giving more
00:21:43.26\00:21:44.93
or whatever it
might be, set limits.
00:21:44.97\00:21:47.64
Another interesting point
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.00
is not just the
child is involved,
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.81
but it says take
care of yourself.
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The parent needs to learn
to take care of themselves,
00:21:53.54\00:21:56.08
have quality time
and sometime time alone
00:21:56.11\00:21:59.38
and time out from the situation.
00:21:59.41\00:22:01.38
So make sure to
take care of yourself,
00:22:01.42\00:22:03.39
that way you will be
take care of things at home.
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And number six,
they said, stay positive.
00:22:05.59\00:22:08.59
So I like that, stay positive...
00:22:08.62\00:22:10.43
If you don't stay positive,
I guarantee the children will,
00:22:10.46\00:22:13.26
they'll catch that.
00:22:13.29\00:22:15.10
Their attitude will be
what they see around the house.
00:22:15.13\00:22:18.00
And so we stay as
positive as we can,
00:22:18.03\00:22:20.04
but it's very difficult
00:22:20.07\00:22:21.40
I think in this
world that we live in
00:22:21.44\00:22:23.04
to stay positive
00:22:23.07\00:22:24.41
unless we have
God in our corner.
00:22:24.44\00:22:26.54
How can you be
positive if you don't know God
00:22:26.57\00:22:28.61
and the promises of His Word?
00:22:28.64\00:22:31.85
Another
parenting tips as it were,
00:22:31.88\00:22:33.85
and these are familiar,
you know, it's kind of same
00:22:33.88\00:22:35.65
as what we just went through.
00:22:35.68\00:22:37.02
But this is actually
from the Mayo Clinic,
00:22:37.05\00:22:39.45
you know, it's
pretty well known,
00:22:39.49\00:22:41.02
you know, for every different,
different area in disarray,
00:22:41.06\00:22:44.76
or the Mayo Clinic says this,
00:22:44.79\00:22:46.43
"Child rearing can be difficult
under any circumstances."
00:22:46.46\00:22:50.73
Is that true?
00:22:50.77\00:22:52.10
Yeah, in any
circumstances, notice this,
00:22:52.13\00:22:55.17
without a partner
the stakes are higher.
00:22:55.20\00:22:59.27
So single parenting,
the stakes are higher
00:22:59.31\00:23:01.64
because you don't have the help
that you might ordinarily have.
00:23:01.68\00:23:05.45
Two, being a single
parent, notice this,
00:23:05.48\00:23:09.08
can result in added pressure.
00:23:09.12\00:23:11.35
So some of you
as single parents,
00:23:11.39\00:23:12.85
you might feel that
there is added pressure
00:23:12.89\00:23:15.09
because there is no
one may be you can talk to
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.33
or no one that can help you,
00:23:17.36\00:23:19.09
or we call extra set
of hands and mind around.
00:23:19.13\00:23:22.73
But there's
pressure, there's stress
00:23:22.76\00:23:25.40
and there can be fatigue
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.30
in raising children by yourself.
00:23:27.34\00:23:29.57
If you're too tired,
the Mayo Clinic says,
00:23:29.60\00:23:32.31
"And you're too
distracted, all of the sudden
00:23:32.34\00:23:35.44
you become emotionally separated
00:23:35.48\00:23:38.05
from your child and
maybe even from yourself."
00:23:38.08\00:23:40.45
That's interesting.
00:23:40.48\00:23:41.82
And they say, "If you do this,
00:23:41.85\00:23:43.18
behavioral problems can
occur with your children."
00:23:43.22\00:23:46.62
So interesting, number
three, Mayo Clinic says,
00:23:46.65\00:23:49.29
"Be a parental role
model for your child."
00:23:49.32\00:23:53.03
You know, to me that would
be good biblical sound here
00:23:53.06\00:23:55.36
is that we all need to be
role models for one another.
00:23:55.40\00:23:58.27
We need to
represent Jesus, don't we?
00:23:58.30\00:24:00.27
I mean, how can we
tell the children, you know,
00:24:00.30\00:24:02.24
well, this is what we need to do
00:24:02.27\00:24:03.61
and you're doing the
opposite all the time.
00:24:03.64\00:24:05.54
You know, don't do as
I do, do as I tell you.
00:24:05.57\00:24:10.85
That doesn't work.
00:24:10.88\00:24:12.21
Any of you ever
heard that, maybe in home,
00:24:12.25\00:24:13.58
don't do as I do,
do as I tell you to do.
00:24:13.62\00:24:15.48
No, the best thing is
to set the right example,
00:24:15.52\00:24:18.62
the children will see that,
00:24:18.65\00:24:19.99
and then they
will be more willing
00:24:20.02\00:24:21.36
to follow that example.
00:24:21.39\00:24:24.09
Number four, Mayo Clinic says,
00:24:24.13\00:24:25.46
"You need to set
aside specific time
00:24:25.49\00:24:27.40
to play with your children,
00:24:27.43\00:24:28.76
especially if
you're single parent."
00:24:28.80\00:24:30.13
Set aside some specific
time, doesn't say how long
00:24:30.17\00:24:32.93
and that certainly be
up to each individual.
00:24:32.97\00:24:35.30
But remember, we're
talking about stress,
00:24:35.34\00:24:37.91
stress will affect us
in our spiritual conditions
00:24:37.94\00:24:42.51
that we're conditioning.
00:24:42.54\00:24:43.88
So we need to realize, we
need to reduce all of that
00:24:43.91\00:24:45.91
so that we may focus more
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.28
on the spiritual
matters and aspects of life
00:24:47.32\00:24:49.98
because if we're
estranged as we were
00:24:50.02\00:24:52.02
and we're separated,
you know, from one another,
00:24:52.05\00:24:54.52
we're gonna be
separated from God.
00:24:54.56\00:24:56.49
We're separated from God,
we're separated from others.
00:24:56.52\00:24:58.73
Number five, they
say, "Explain house rules."
00:24:58.76\00:25:02.73
So to reduce stress
there's rules in the house.
00:25:02.76\00:25:05.73
Anybody have rules in your home?
00:25:05.77\00:25:08.04
Now if you don't, you need that.
00:25:08.07\00:25:09.67
Okay, it's
good, the house rules.
00:25:09.70\00:25:11.71
Teach them to speak respectfully
00:25:11.74\00:25:13.98
and enforce it.
00:25:14.01\00:25:15.78
That will reduce
stress, won't it?
00:25:15.81\00:25:17.91
It's not always, I'm
always hollering at them,
00:25:17.95\00:25:19.98
I'm always on to
them, "Mama, papa,"
00:25:20.02\00:25:21.98
all the time going on.
00:25:22.02\00:25:23.85
You've a set of rules there
00:25:23.89\00:25:25.65
and you teach them
to be respectful of you
00:25:25.69\00:25:29.02
and then you enforce it.
00:25:29.06\00:25:30.39
Number six, same as the
other, say stay positive.
00:25:30.43\00:25:34.60
"Give your child, age
appropriate duties to do".
00:25:34.63\00:25:38.73
You know, you have
a five-year-old child,
00:25:38.77\00:25:40.37
don't give them
10 year old duties,
00:25:40.40\00:25:42.77
you know,
somebody is 10 year old.
00:25:42.80\00:25:44.41
Age appropriate and
then they learn to be
00:25:44.44\00:25:46.88
able to do take
those responsibilities
00:25:46.91\00:25:49.14
and then, you know,
00:25:49.18\00:25:50.75
lot of people
take a little child
00:25:50.78\00:25:52.11
and they try to
treat like an adult,
00:25:52.15\00:25:53.68
you know, that's not...
00:25:53.72\00:25:55.05
They got to
have time to grow up.
00:25:55.08\00:25:56.69
In the Book of Isaiah 41:10,
00:25:56.72\00:25:59.29
for those who want
stress to be reduced,
00:25:59.32\00:26:01.52
you want be able to
get by, you want to know
00:26:01.56\00:26:03.26
that you're not left by yourself
00:26:03.29\00:26:04.99
because you're single parent.
00:26:05.03\00:26:06.70
Isaiah 41:10,
00:26:06.73\00:26:08.83
to me it gives an amazing,
amazing, amazing promise here.
00:26:08.86\00:26:12.27
Isaiah 41:10,
notice what it says,
00:26:12.30\00:26:16.30
this fits for all of us.
00:26:16.34\00:26:17.67
It starts out, it
says, fear thou what?
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.61
"Fear thou not,
for I am with thee."
00:26:20.64\00:26:23.68
Do what?
00:26:23.71\00:26:25.05
First thing God
says, you know what,
00:26:25.08\00:26:26.41
because being in
this world can be fearful,
00:26:26.45\00:26:30.45
and then all the
responsibilities of job,
00:26:30.49\00:26:32.89
and relationships, and marriage.
00:26:32.92\00:26:35.42
You don't have a
mate you can call,
00:26:35.46\00:26:37.19
we talk about stress
00:26:37.23\00:26:38.69
and God simply
says look, "Fear not."
00:26:38.73\00:26:41.13
"Fear thou not,
for I am with thee."
00:26:41.16\00:26:45.23
When you even feel
alone, you're not alone
00:26:45.27\00:26:47.67
because the Word says so,
00:26:47.70\00:26:49.04
it says, "I am with
thee, be not dismayed."
00:26:49.07\00:26:51.84
Don't get
dishearten, "for I am thy God."
00:26:51.87\00:26:55.24
What a beautiful promise!
00:26:55.28\00:26:56.61
Don't get down. Don't get out.
00:26:56.64\00:26:58.35
Don't give up because I am what?
00:26:58.38\00:27:00.98
I'm going to be with you.
00:27:01.02\00:27:02.78
He is the encourager, remember,
He's one who gives us strength.
00:27:02.82\00:27:05.32
He said "I will strengthen thee,
00:27:05.35\00:27:07.62
yea, I will help thee,
00:27:07.66\00:27:09.79
yea, I will uphold thee
00:27:09.82\00:27:11.76
with the right hand
of my righteousness."
00:27:11.79\00:27:14.93
What a promise if
you just dissect it,
00:27:14.96\00:27:17.27
if you had time
just a sec, just dissect.
00:27:17.30\00:27:20.44
The promises that are in
this passage of scripture,
00:27:20.47\00:27:22.97
for every one of us,
notice that, you no fear,
00:27:23.00\00:27:26.64
I'm going to be with you.
00:27:26.68\00:27:28.01
Don't be dismayed, I'm
going to strengthen you.
00:27:28.04\00:27:30.88
I'm going to help you.
00:27:30.91\00:27:32.25
I'm going to uphold you.
00:27:32.28\00:27:33.62
What more do we really need?
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.58
The world may not uphold you.
00:27:35.62\00:27:37.25
The world may not be,
00:27:37.29\00:27:38.62
you know, give you strength,
00:27:38.65\00:27:40.36
but God says, "I will."
00:27:40.39\00:27:42.76
The world may
be frightful to see
00:27:42.79\00:27:44.59
what's happening in the world,
00:27:44.63\00:27:45.96
but God said, "No, you
don't have to be afraid.
00:27:45.99\00:27:48.23
I'm going to be
right there with you."
00:27:48.26\00:27:49.73
I think that's
beautiful. But, you know what?
00:27:49.76\00:27:52.60
Think about this,
00:27:52.63\00:27:53.97
if you try it on
your own, you'll fail.
00:27:54.00\00:27:58.54
If I try it on my own,
00:27:58.57\00:28:00.34
I'm going to fail
regardless of what it is.
00:28:00.38\00:28:02.64
We may think that we're winning,
00:28:02.68\00:28:04.01
but we will fail,
00:28:04.05\00:28:06.15
we shall surely fail, you know.
00:28:06.18\00:28:08.38
If we put our hope in our
self and lot of people do.
00:28:08.42\00:28:12.65
We are building on sand and,
00:28:12.69\00:28:15.19
you know what the
Bible talks about sand?
00:28:15.22\00:28:16.73
You remember the
foolish man in Matthew 7:27,
00:28:16.76\00:28:20.56
what did the wise men
built on? The rock, right?
00:28:20.60\00:28:23.93
And the foolish
men built on sand.
00:28:23.97\00:28:27.14
And these are
the same thing here,
00:28:27.17\00:28:28.50
we can be wise or
we can be foolish,
00:28:28.54\00:28:31.44
and it makes a difference
00:28:31.47\00:28:32.81
how the outcome
certainly is going to be.
00:28:32.84\00:28:35.81
We need a good
foundation, think about it,
00:28:35.84\00:28:39.91
in the home, in the church,
00:28:39.95\00:28:42.32
at the workplace we
must have a good foundation
00:28:42.35\00:28:45.85
or we are going
to be in trouble.
00:28:45.89\00:28:47.92
We are going to
find when the rains come
00:28:47.96\00:28:49.86
and the winds blow,
what's going to happen?
00:28:49.89\00:28:53.26
We are seeing that on the news
lately in California, right?
00:28:53.29\00:28:57.40
All of a sudden, all the
rain and all the stuff happens
00:28:57.43\00:28:59.33
and what happened?
00:28:59.37\00:29:00.70
Here comes those
big old boulders,
00:29:00.74\00:29:02.07
we're looking at
cars being tossed around
00:29:02.10\00:29:03.57
and smash stuff, it's horrible.
00:29:03.61\00:29:05.47
There's lives that are lost,
houses completely destroyed,
00:29:05.51\00:29:08.44
lives destroyed.
00:29:08.48\00:29:09.81
This is just one
little area here,
00:29:09.84\00:29:12.11
but because of what?
00:29:12.15\00:29:13.48
Is really where their built.
00:29:13.52\00:29:14.85
There might be with or
without a good foundation
00:29:14.88\00:29:16.58
but the area there
00:29:16.62\00:29:17.95
is potential to
these kind of hazards.
00:29:17.99\00:29:20.59
We need to think about
that even in our spiritual life,
00:29:20.62\00:29:23.76
single, whether
you're single parent or not,
00:29:23.79\00:29:26.36
all of us must have a
sure, firm foundation.
00:29:26.39\00:29:30.60
This is what's so
important in the house,
00:29:30.63\00:29:32.73
not whether to make
that basically one or two,
00:29:32.77\00:29:35.64
or three or four, or
whatever it might be,
00:29:35.67\00:29:38.34
but how is your foundation?
00:29:38.37\00:29:40.68
Is it secured in Jesus Christ?
00:29:40.71\00:29:43.35
You know, where there is
hope and where there is strength
00:29:43.38\00:29:46.45
is where we need
to be thinking of
00:29:46.48\00:29:47.88
and building on.
00:29:47.92\00:29:49.25
Isaiah 28:16 says, notice this.
00:29:49.28\00:29:51.89
I like this, Isaiah 28:16,
"Behold, I lay in Zion..."
00:29:51.92\00:29:56.46
These are familiar passages.
00:29:56.49\00:29:58.19
"Behold I" do what?
00:29:58.23\00:30:00.33
"Lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone,"
00:30:00.36\00:30:03.67
oh, I liked
that, "a tried stone,
00:30:03.70\00:30:07.17
a precious corner stone,
00:30:07.20\00:30:09.37
a sure foundation,"
don't you like that?
00:30:09.40\00:30:12.84
"He that believeth
shall not make haste."
00:30:12.87\00:30:15.68
So we have to ask our
self no more are we a believer,
00:30:15.71\00:30:18.78
are you a believer today?
00:30:18.81\00:30:21.48
See, to be a
believer here that means
00:30:21.52\00:30:23.49
we see that we
have a foundation.
00:30:23.52\00:30:26.09
We have a tried stone,
we have a corner stone,
00:30:26.12\00:30:29.29
we have a sure
foundation the Bible said,
00:30:29.32\00:30:32.06
and if you believe
00:30:32.09\00:30:33.43
you are not going to
make haste, nothing, ha.
00:30:33.46\00:30:35.66
You know, what
that simply means.
00:30:35.70\00:30:37.80
You are not going
to act too quickly.
00:30:37.83\00:30:40.20
You know, as a
Christian, or single or parent,
00:30:40.24\00:30:42.10
whatever it might
be, we want to make sure
00:30:42.14\00:30:43.74
we don't in a
situation act too quickly.
00:30:43.77\00:30:46.37
We get our self into trouble,
we are not thinking it through,
00:30:46.41\00:30:48.44
we are not praying about it.
00:30:48.48\00:30:50.01
It also means to be ready.
00:30:50.05\00:30:52.25
We need to be ready
for whatever comes our way,
00:30:52.28\00:30:54.25
we need to be prayed up,
00:30:54.28\00:30:55.62
we need to be
steadied up and ready
00:30:55.65\00:30:58.02
because the enemy
is sure as I stand here
00:30:58.05\00:31:00.29
is gonna throw something at you.
00:31:00.32\00:31:02.86
He's gonna
throw something at you
00:31:02.89\00:31:04.49
and most generally
it's your own family.
00:31:04.53\00:31:06.59
It could be your own children,
those who are closest to you
00:31:06.63\00:31:09.23
will cause
sometime lot of grief.
00:31:09.26\00:31:11.17
The enemy is
working just that way
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.84
and we have to be ready.
00:31:13.87\00:31:15.30
We need that good
foundation to be ready.
00:31:15.34\00:31:19.97
It talks about there,
we need to be excited.
00:31:20.01\00:31:22.68
That's what the
words don't make haste,
00:31:22.71\00:31:24.58
but we need to be excited about
what's going on in the world
00:31:24.61\00:31:27.32
and excited
that we can be a part
00:31:27.35\00:31:29.32
of what's going on
in the world today.
00:31:29.35\00:31:31.85
Now remember, regardless
of what kind of family
00:31:31.89\00:31:34.02
you have, we can be
involved in the Lord's work.
00:31:34.06\00:31:38.59
What else are we
to be involved in?
00:31:38.63\00:31:40.56
We are to be
involved in the Lord's work,
00:31:40.60\00:31:42.46
that's what it's all about.
00:31:42.50\00:31:43.83
Isaiah 45:22 is
another precious promise.
00:31:43.87\00:31:47.20
I'm talking
about precious 45:22,
00:31:47.24\00:31:50.07
Jesus simply
says, "Look unto me..."
00:31:50.11\00:31:53.54
Come on, somebody.
00:31:53.58\00:31:54.94
What does it say?
Jesus says, look into who?
00:31:54.98\00:31:59.08
It's not trying
to be disrespectful,
00:31:59.11\00:32:00.48
not look to Mayo
Clinic, not look to Wikipedia,
00:32:00.52\00:32:03.32
you know, what it might
be, we'll not look at all that,
00:32:03.35\00:32:05.39
we'll look at
what Jesus simply says,
00:32:05.42\00:32:07.12
don't look at the pastor,
don't be looking at teller,
00:32:07.16\00:32:09.29
don't be looking at what?
00:32:09.32\00:32:10.66
Look to me, Jesus says.
00:32:10.69\00:32:12.36
I love that, "Look
unto me, and be ye saved..."
00:32:12.39\00:32:15.73
There's no other
way, there's no other name
00:32:15.76\00:32:17.37
given among men
whereby we're what?
00:32:17.40\00:32:19.27
Must be saved in
the name of Jesus.
00:32:19.30\00:32:22.40
This will always
be in any situation
00:32:22.44\00:32:25.31
we want to get by in this world,
00:32:25.34\00:32:26.91
and to get by
we must have Jesus.
00:32:26.94\00:32:29.54
This is what it's all about.
00:32:29.58\00:32:30.91
It's not doing
what a bunch of men
00:32:30.95\00:32:32.28
got together and
say, if we do this,
00:32:32.31\00:32:33.65
it's all gonna work out. We
must have Jesus on our side.
00:32:33.68\00:32:37.25
We must be willing to obey that
which He has laid out for us
00:32:37.29\00:32:40.89
in order for Him to bless
the way that He wants to bless.
00:32:40.92\00:32:44.36
"Look unto me,
and be ye," I love it,
00:32:44.39\00:32:46.63
"saved, all the
ends of the earth:
00:32:46.66\00:32:50.17
for I am God,
and there is" what?
00:32:50.20\00:32:53.34
"There's none else."
00:32:53.37\00:32:54.70
God looks round the universe,
00:32:54.74\00:32:56.07
He said, "I don't
know of any other gods,
00:32:56.10\00:32:57.87
I'm the only one.
00:32:57.91\00:32:59.44
You might think
there is other God's,
00:32:59.47\00:33:00.81
there may be wood,
and stubble, and hay,
00:33:00.84\00:33:02.51
whatever it might be,
00:33:02.54\00:33:03.88
but I am the
only one around here.
00:33:03.91\00:33:05.68
I'm the king of the universe,
00:33:05.71\00:33:07.48
and I see that
there is none other.
00:33:07.52\00:33:09.68
You want to be
saved, Jesus says,
00:33:09.72\00:33:11.15
"Look unto me, and be ye saved."
00:33:11.19\00:33:13.69
It's interesting, the new
English Bible translation.
00:33:13.72\00:33:17.93
Sometime I go and I
compare different translations
00:33:17.96\00:33:20.10
back and forth to see, it
doesn't change the whole lot
00:33:20.13\00:33:22.66
but the last part of that,
00:33:22.70\00:33:24.03
"For I am God, and
there is none else."
00:33:24.07\00:33:25.90
New English
Bible reads this way,
00:33:25.93\00:33:27.67
says this way, "Look
unto me, and be saved."
00:33:27.70\00:33:30.34
Okay, I like
that, that's positive.
00:33:30.37\00:33:32.51
"You peoples from all
corners of the earth, "
00:33:32.54\00:33:35.74
kind of interesting.
00:33:35.78\00:33:37.21
He says from every corner,
00:33:37.25\00:33:38.61
every nook and
cranny around the world,
00:33:38.65\00:33:40.22
the only way
what, you gonna be saved
00:33:40.25\00:33:42.08
is to look to me.
00:33:42.12\00:33:43.49
It doesn't change because
you're in a different country.
00:33:43.52\00:33:46.55
As it where God's
Word doesn't change
00:33:46.59\00:33:48.56
because you go
in another country.
00:33:48.59\00:33:50.56
You know, we look at that Bible
00:33:50.59\00:33:52.09
is for every person on
the face of this planet.
00:33:52.13\00:33:55.53
And I notice some time
we go different countries,
00:33:55.56\00:33:57.20
they'll say,
well, in this country,
00:33:57.23\00:33:58.57
here is what we do as well.
00:33:58.60\00:34:00.87
This is what we do.
00:34:00.90\00:34:02.24
What does the Word say?
00:34:02.27\00:34:03.61
This is what we do.
00:34:03.64\00:34:04.97
It's for
everybody, "be ye saved,
00:34:05.01\00:34:06.34
all the corners of
the earth" is encouraging.
00:34:06.37\00:34:09.68
Hebrews 13:5,
notice what the Bible says,
00:34:09.71\00:34:13.95
"let your
conversation," Now remember,
00:34:13.98\00:34:16.28
these passages are
geared to those who are wanting
00:34:16.32\00:34:19.95
to survive the stress
of being a single parent.
00:34:19.99\00:34:24.13
Now again, of a
household and again,
00:34:24.16\00:34:26.26
we just comfort all together
00:34:26.29\00:34:27.83
if you want to
be able to survive
00:34:27.86\00:34:29.56
and I'm looking to
survive as it were to a life
00:34:29.60\00:34:32.33
better than this one,
and I want to make it.
00:34:32.37\00:34:34.57
Hebrews 13:5 and
6 and more verses,
00:34:34.60\00:34:37.57
but notice this,
let your conversation,
00:34:37.61\00:34:39.67
I want to be blessed of God,
00:34:39.71\00:34:41.04
I want less
stress I want to make it,
00:34:41.08\00:34:42.51
I'm a single
parent, I'm fighting it
00:34:42.54\00:34:44.11
and I'm working hard,
00:34:44.15\00:34:45.48
I don't know what else to do.
00:34:45.51\00:34:46.85
I can't do anymore,
00:34:46.88\00:34:48.22
there's no more time left to do.
00:34:48.25\00:34:49.58
I'm stressed out, I think
I'm going to go to pieces.
00:34:49.62\00:34:51.65
I think, I'm gonna
have a nervous breakdown.
00:34:51.69\00:34:53.66
I don't think I can go
on any longer any more.
00:34:53.69\00:34:57.93
Lord even kind of encourages us,
00:34:57.96\00:34:59.66
He stands out,
wait a minute here,
00:34:59.69\00:35:01.03
let's let your conversation.
00:35:01.06\00:35:03.57
See some time when
we begin to talk doubt
00:35:03.60\00:35:06.03
and we begin to talk fear,
00:35:06.07\00:35:07.84
and we begin to talk about
all the downsides of things
00:35:07.87\00:35:10.64
that we think are we get down.
00:35:10.67\00:35:13.38
He said, "Let's talk
about your conversation,
00:35:13.41\00:35:15.04
your conversations need
to be without covetousness,
00:35:15.08\00:35:18.11
number one.
00:35:18.15\00:35:19.95
And then he says to me,
and I know He says this to you,
00:35:19.98\00:35:22.88
I want you to be content
with such things as you have..."
00:35:22.92\00:35:28.32
Very difficult in this world
00:35:28.36\00:35:29.72
because there's so
many things out there,
00:35:29.76\00:35:31.79
and we like lot of
those things out there
00:35:31.83\00:35:34.26
but He said, learn to be content
00:35:34.30\00:35:36.97
with the things that you have
00:35:37.00\00:35:39.10
for he saith, I will, oh!
00:35:39.13\00:35:41.04
I like this one, I will
never leave thee or what?
00:35:41.07\00:35:45.07
For safety how often
we quote that passage.
00:35:45.11\00:35:48.88
See when you are
crawling around as it were
00:35:48.91\00:35:51.05
or a nighttime when
the children are sleeping,
00:35:51.08\00:35:53.21
maybe you are wide awake
00:35:53.25\00:35:54.58
because you are worried
about what's gonna take place.
00:35:54.62\00:35:56.92
You're worried about how you're
going to be taking care of?
00:35:56.95\00:35:58.59
How you're going
to take care of them?
00:35:58.62\00:36:00.29
Notice what He
says, Hebrews 13:5 and 6,
00:36:00.32\00:36:03.49
He says "I will never leave you,
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.56
I will never forsake you..."
00:36:05.59\00:36:07.50
That is a promise.
00:36:07.53\00:36:08.86
Even if you don't know
00:36:08.90\00:36:10.23
what's going on
in the next minute,
00:36:10.27\00:36:11.60
and you don't and I don't.
00:36:11.63\00:36:13.13
But I what? I have claimed
00:36:13.17\00:36:15.04
that promise many, many
times and I know you have too.
00:36:15.07\00:36:19.41
He said, I don't
know, it looks like a mess,
00:36:19.44\00:36:21.31
looks like going down the tube
and then He comes to my mind,
00:36:21.34\00:36:24.01
"Kenny, I'll never leave
and I'll never forsake you."
00:36:24.05\00:36:26.28
But, you know, I
believe Brother Mark,
00:36:26.31\00:36:27.65
that's conditional.
00:36:27.68\00:36:29.48
He's always gonna be
there but what can He do?
00:36:29.52\00:36:32.55
Is it possible
to tie God's hands?
00:36:32.59\00:36:35.42
Yeah, we'd say
that respectfully.
00:36:35.46\00:36:38.26
Yeah, if we're not
doing what we know is right
00:36:38.29\00:36:42.20
that ties God's hands
00:36:42.23\00:36:43.57
from doing what He
wants to do for us.
00:36:43.60\00:36:45.93
Think about, it
limits God, does it not?
00:36:45.97\00:36:47.80
Sure it does.
00:36:47.84\00:36:49.80
He said, "But I'll
never leave you or forsake,
00:36:49.84\00:36:51.27
I'm there for you,
call upon me, I'll answer."
00:36:51.31\00:36:53.71
Notice that, verse 6 says
"So that we may boldly say."
00:36:53.74\00:36:58.21
Now, I'm boldly
saying because He said,
00:36:58.25\00:37:00.58
"I won't leave you
and I won't forsake you."
00:37:00.62\00:37:02.92
Notice this, "So
that we may boldly say,
00:37:02.95\00:37:05.95
The Lord is my helper,
00:37:05.99\00:37:07.66
I like that, and I will not fear
00:37:07.69\00:37:09.79
what men shall do unto me."
00:37:09.82\00:37:13.43
Most of us fear what's
coming upon this world.
00:37:13.46\00:37:15.93
It's a fearful
time that we live in.
00:37:15.96\00:37:18.73
There's a time of
trouble coming on this world
00:37:18.77\00:37:20.37
that man has never seen before.
00:37:20.40\00:37:22.57
It's a time as were
reverential as it were
00:37:22.60\00:37:25.14
fear and respect the God says,
you need to prepare for this,
00:37:25.17\00:37:28.74
you need to set things down,
you need to tighten things down
00:37:28.78\00:37:31.75
because the winds are blowing.
00:37:31.78\00:37:34.12
Again whether single
00:37:34.15\00:37:35.48
or whether you have
two parents in the family,
00:37:35.52\00:37:37.39
it doesn't matter.
00:37:37.42\00:37:38.75
We need to be tied down
to Jesus Christ right now
00:37:38.79\00:37:42.22
because the winds are blowing.
00:37:42.26\00:37:44.63
See, these are all some
verses as far as I'm concerned.
00:37:44.66\00:37:47.93
But only this
that we talk about,
00:37:47.96\00:37:49.46
only a God
fearing, only a believing,
00:37:49.50\00:37:53.20
only a faithful Christian
can claim these promises.
00:37:53.23\00:37:57.07
I'll just throw them out to you.
00:37:57.11\00:37:58.71
The promises are beautiful,
the promises are real.
00:37:58.74\00:38:01.78
We have a right by God's grace
00:38:01.81\00:38:03.21
to claim every
promises in the Bible.
00:38:03.24\00:38:04.78
Do you know that?
00:38:04.81\00:38:06.15
Every promise that is there,
00:38:06.18\00:38:07.52
we lay our fingers on
and claim that promise
00:38:07.55\00:38:09.42
and keep claiming
it, it will be fulfilled.
00:38:09.45\00:38:11.39
Why?
00:38:11.42\00:38:12.75
Because God says so.
00:38:12.79\00:38:15.82
That's awesome to me
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.19
that the God of
universe cares so much.
00:38:17.23\00:38:19.36
He sees your tears at night
00:38:19.39\00:38:20.73
mama when you're
just crying on the pillow,
00:38:20.76\00:38:22.80
there's no one
there seem to help you,
00:38:22.83\00:38:24.17
He sees those tears.
00:38:24.20\00:38:25.57
He knows stress
that you are under
00:38:25.60\00:38:27.80
and sometimes fathers
too, we understand that,
00:38:27.84\00:38:29.97
it's very difficult for
single father to get by two.
00:38:30.01\00:38:33.61
But God sees all of these things
00:38:33.64\00:38:35.48
and He understands
all of these things,
00:38:35.51\00:38:38.55
and it wouldn't seems
00:38:38.58\00:38:39.91
that things are
just simply fallen apart,
00:38:39.95\00:38:42.98
and maybe we've gone astray,
00:38:43.02\00:38:45.45
that happen
sometime because of stress
00:38:45.49\00:38:47.49
because of
situation, we fall apart.
00:38:47.52\00:38:50.79
We'll leave our only help,
our only hope we'll leave it,
00:38:50.83\00:38:54.93
and we blame God
for all the mistakes
00:38:54.96\00:38:56.87
that we have made,
00:38:56.90\00:38:58.37
rather than to say, He is there,
00:38:58.40\00:38:59.73
He wants what's best for us.
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.77
But sometime we
admit it while ago,
00:39:01.80\00:39:03.84
we go astray
because we've sinned.
00:39:03.87\00:39:05.77
I can't make the
next house payment.
00:39:05.81\00:39:07.88
I don't know
what I'm going to do,
00:39:07.91\00:39:09.24
the house is
going to be taken away.
00:39:09.28\00:39:10.61
What's gonna
happen to my children.
00:39:10.65\00:39:12.55
The power is soon to be cut off,
00:39:12.58\00:39:14.08
what am I going to do?
00:39:14.12\00:39:15.45
I can't make the house payment.
00:39:15.48\00:39:16.82
I can't make the
power payment too.
00:39:16.85\00:39:18.19
Now the insurance has came,
they have cancelled it now,
00:39:18.22\00:39:20.02
what am I going to do?
00:39:20.06\00:39:21.82
I lose everything, the house
gets on fire whatever it might.
00:39:21.86\00:39:24.99
I've got a dollar to my
name, is somebody still with me?
00:39:25.03\00:39:29.96
It seems like
everything has went wrong,
00:39:30.00\00:39:32.27
can't go wrong has gone wrong.
00:39:32.30\00:39:34.77
Kids are sick,
00:39:34.80\00:39:36.14
may be one of them
is in the hospital,
00:39:36.17\00:39:39.27
may be one of them
said, "Mama, I'm hungry,
00:39:39.31\00:39:42.14
I need
something, I need some food,
00:39:42.18\00:39:43.71
I'm down, I want to eat."
00:39:43.75\00:39:46.92
By that time you are
ready to check it in,
00:39:46.95\00:39:49.88
you are ready to
throw it in and say,
00:39:49.92\00:39:51.25
"I can't, I don't know
if I can take it anymore."
00:39:51.29\00:39:52.95
Where do we go?
00:39:52.99\00:39:54.32
Where do we go when we
reach this low part in our life?
00:39:54.36\00:39:57.73
Do we go to a friend or
a family, somebody, well,
00:39:57.76\00:39:59.96
we can do that,
we can pray about it.
00:40:00.00\00:40:01.56
But where do we really
go, it makes a difference
00:40:01.60\00:40:04.07
where you go and the
outcome, it will be different.
00:40:04.10\00:40:07.50
If we do what the Bible says,
we simply claim the promises
00:40:07.54\00:40:11.01
we talk about it in Hebrews
13, "I will never," what?
00:40:11.04\00:40:14.41
"I will never leave thee...''
00:40:14.44\00:40:15.78
and, you know, "I
will never forsake you."
00:40:15.81\00:40:18.45
He says, I am your
helper, we need a helper,
00:40:18.48\00:40:21.12
He's out to be your helper.
00:40:21.15\00:40:22.48
We need nothing
to fear, that's good.
00:40:22.52\00:40:26.15
God help us, you see,
00:40:26.19\00:40:29.06
to study the course
00:40:29.09\00:40:30.66
when everything is
shaking, it seem to fall apart,
00:40:30.69\00:40:32.99
help me to study the course,
00:40:33.03\00:40:35.20
you know, He will, He'll be
right there for us all the time
00:40:35.23\00:40:38.63
because He will never leave
us or He will never forsake us.
00:40:38.67\00:40:41.67
See, being a single parent can
be an added pressure and stress
00:40:41.70\00:40:46.61
that we've talked about
here in raising children.
00:40:46.64\00:40:49.48
Why?
00:40:49.51\00:40:50.85
Because there is no one
to share the responsibility.
00:40:50.88\00:40:53.52
I always like to say
sometime, what do you think?
00:40:53.55\00:40:56.65
Sometime I always
get what you think
00:40:56.69\00:40:58.15
before I ask for what you think?
00:40:58.19\00:40:59.55
But somebody now
without might as well sit down.
00:40:59.59\00:41:05.93
A lot of times 'cause what?
We want to be helpful, right?
00:41:05.96\00:41:08.06
You want to have not stress
or so but I like that many time
00:41:08.10\00:41:11.33
you can bounce it off
and say what do you think?
00:41:11.37\00:41:15.44
Me today, we had a
little stressful situation here,
00:41:15.47\00:41:17.71
I had to go in to what to do?
00:41:17.74\00:41:19.77
And I am saying basically, no,
00:41:19.81\00:41:21.14
I don't think we
ought to do that.
00:41:21.18\00:41:22.88
And then we kind of
talked about it as a church
00:41:22.91\00:41:26.51
and we talked about it
with the elders on the platform,
00:41:26.55\00:41:29.05
you think it would be all right.
00:41:29.08\00:41:30.49
Want to be pleasing
in the sight of God,
00:41:30.52\00:41:32.22
is it okay.
00:41:32.25\00:41:33.72
So it's nice to have someone
you can bounce it off and say,
00:41:33.76\00:41:36.86
well, yeah, or I think not.
00:41:36.89\00:41:39.39
All someone had to do or so,
00:41:39.43\00:41:40.76
I don't think
we ought to do that
00:41:40.80\00:41:42.13
and that would
be an okay with me.
00:41:42.16\00:41:44.07
But if sometime we are just
little bit too far out there,
00:41:44.10\00:41:47.10
it's good to have counsel.
00:41:47.14\00:41:48.77
That bounces it as
were of one another
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.37
share the responsibility
00:41:51.41\00:41:53.54
when making these
decisions of life about income.
00:41:53.58\00:41:57.51
Just having extra set of hands
00:41:57.55\00:41:59.15
around the house is
so wonderful to have.
00:41:59.18\00:42:03.08
But, you know,
sometime we forget
00:42:03.12\00:42:05.35
the importance of
family, importance of friends,
00:42:05.39\00:42:08.99
the importance of
church to be there,
00:42:09.02\00:42:11.29
always to be helpful.
00:42:11.33\00:42:13.50
But what about
the first thing we do?
00:42:13.53\00:42:15.63
First thing we come in trouble,
we do call our friend sometime,
00:42:15.66\00:42:18.00
we call different
people but interesting,
00:42:18.03\00:42:20.10
the Bible tells us who we
were to call on first, isn't it?
00:42:20.14\00:42:23.61
See, in other words,
we're calling everybody else
00:42:23.64\00:42:25.27
and we're still not
there yet and so we think,
00:42:25.31\00:42:27.24
oh, I need to call
on my best friend Jesus.
00:42:27.28\00:42:30.51
You know, if you've
ever asked yourself?
00:42:30.55\00:42:31.88
I asked myself this question,
00:42:31.91\00:42:33.31
I don't know if
you have ever done it.
00:42:33.35\00:42:35.35
I say it, how in this world
do people make it without Jesus?
00:42:35.38\00:42:40.52
Do you ever asked that?
00:42:40.56\00:42:41.89
How does somebody
go through lots of love
00:42:41.92\00:42:45.09
and messes in the
world and they don't know
00:42:45.13\00:42:47.03
Jesus they can talk to?
00:42:47.06\00:42:50.27
Sing songs, pray together,
00:42:50.30\00:42:53.70
how does one make it
00:42:53.74\00:42:55.60
to go through all
these situations of life.
00:42:55.64\00:43:00.11
Lot of people are just,
00:43:00.14\00:43:01.48
they're going through
life, they are existing.
00:43:01.51\00:43:04.28
Ah, think about it.
00:43:04.31\00:43:05.81
It's not a real life,
they are just simply existing,
00:43:05.85\00:43:08.45
and that's what I
say those without Christ,
00:43:08.48\00:43:10.32
you're just existing.
00:43:10.35\00:43:12.89
With Him is life forever.
00:43:12.92\00:43:14.39
Just getting by,
there's a better way,
00:43:14.42\00:43:17.43
I know, that
there's a better way
00:43:17.46\00:43:19.39
to lift up Jesus and
we'll see the stress go down.
00:43:19.43\00:43:22.30
Lift up Jesus, we'll
see the spiritual life
00:43:22.33\00:43:24.73
will began to increase.
00:43:24.77\00:43:26.43
Ephesians Chapter 4,
time is running down,
00:43:26.47\00:43:28.47
Ephesians 4:24 and 31 and 32,
00:43:28.50\00:43:32.97
you say, well, how, how
does we balance the scale
00:43:33.01\00:43:35.81
and put it in
the up position here?
00:43:35.84\00:43:38.31
Notice what the Bible says,
00:43:38.35\00:43:40.52
"And that ye
put on the new man,"
00:43:40.55\00:43:42.25
I like this in Ephesians 4,
"which after God is created"
00:43:42.28\00:43:45.82
notice this "in
righteousness and true holiness.
00:43:45.85\00:43:49.76
Let all bitterness, and
wrath, and anger, and clamour,
00:43:49.79\00:43:54.03
" that means
all clamour is what?
00:43:54.06\00:43:55.40
All out cries, all
grief, all crying, let it go,
00:43:55.43\00:44:01.04
notice this, "and evil speaking,
00:44:01.07\00:44:03.04
be put way from
you, with all malice."
00:44:03.07\00:44:06.17
These are conditions here,
God says, I want to bless you,
00:44:06.21\00:44:08.28
I want to take
care of your family,
00:44:08.31\00:44:09.64
I want to meet
all of these needs
00:44:09.68\00:44:11.01
right here but notice,
00:44:11.05\00:44:12.38
you gonna have let
all these bitterness go.
00:44:12.41\00:44:14.02
Well, I'm in a
situation because so and so did,
00:44:14.05\00:44:16.62
I'm in a situation because of,
00:44:16.65\00:44:19.12
began to speak
evil of the other person
00:44:19.15\00:44:21.29
or say things that we
shouldn't be talking about here.
00:44:21.32\00:44:24.46
We have bitterness in our heart
00:44:24.49\00:44:25.83
and then we ask God to
come in and do great things
00:44:25.86\00:44:28.16
and that bitterness
needs to be taken care of.
00:44:28.20\00:44:30.60
That evil speaking
needs to be taken care of
00:44:30.63\00:44:32.47
if God is going to work
the way He wants to work in us.
00:44:32.50\00:44:35.84
A little article in Review
and Herald, little magazine,
00:44:35.87\00:44:39.14
this is written in 1905,
00:44:39.17\00:44:40.64
just a line,
notice what it says,
00:44:40.68\00:44:42.64
"Never are they never
are we to spend our time
00:44:42.68\00:44:46.72
in accusing or
condemning one another."
00:44:46.75\00:44:50.39
Boy, I tell you
that steps on the toes,
00:44:50.42\00:44:52.05
that hurt just a little bit,
00:44:52.09\00:44:53.42
that makes us
squeak a little bit,
00:44:53.46\00:44:55.06
that makes us
look around and say,
00:44:55.09\00:44:56.59
everybody else and not me.
00:44:56.62\00:44:58.13
Notice this, we are
never to spend any time
00:44:58.16\00:45:01.53
in accusing or
condemning one another.
00:45:01.56\00:45:04.83
We should never ever do that
00:45:04.87\00:45:06.23
because that is the devil's work
00:45:06.27\00:45:08.60
and that reproves who
is leading in your heart
00:45:08.64\00:45:10.51
and in your life.
00:45:10.54\00:45:11.87
Verse 32 says, "And
be ye," notice this,
00:45:11.91\00:45:14.08
I'm wanting the blesses
of God, I need the support,
00:45:14.11\00:45:16.61
stress is too much,
what do I need to be,
00:45:16.64\00:45:18.45
I need to learn to be
"kind to one another,"
00:45:18.48\00:45:20.68
the Bible says in verse 32,
00:45:20.72\00:45:22.58
"tenderhearted,
forgiving one another,
00:45:22.62\00:45:25.32
even as God for Christ's
sake hath forgiven you."
00:45:25.35\00:45:29.69
It all makes sense,
all conditional here.
00:45:29.72\00:45:32.59
I love this part here and
a little book if you have,
00:45:32.63\00:45:34.93
if you don't have
it you should get it,
00:45:34.96\00:45:36.30
it's called Adventist Home.
00:45:36.33\00:45:37.87
It's a good book,
talked about raising children,
00:45:37.90\00:45:40.07
giving advice, marriage
and so on and getting married,
00:45:40.10\00:45:42.40
and it's just a beautiful book,
00:45:42.44\00:45:44.04
it really help us
do the right thing.
00:45:44.07\00:45:45.51
Adventist Home,
page 31 says this,
00:45:45.54\00:45:48.84
"The home in which
the members are polite,"
00:45:48.88\00:45:52.28
somebody stay with me,
00:45:52.31\00:45:53.75
"in the home where
the members are polite,
00:45:53.78\00:45:57.29
courteous Christians
00:45:57.32\00:45:58.95
exerts a far-reaching
influence for good."
00:45:58.99\00:46:02.46
Ha, "Other
families," they are watching,
00:46:02.49\00:46:05.26
you know, that your
neighbors are watching
00:46:05.29\00:46:07.26
notice this, "Other
families will mark the results
00:46:07.30\00:46:10.30
attained by such a home,
00:46:10.33\00:46:12.77
and will follow the example set,
00:46:12.80\00:46:15.10
in their turn," notice this,
00:46:15.14\00:46:16.71
"guarding against
Satanic influences..."
00:46:16.74\00:46:20.11
Interesting here,
00:46:20.14\00:46:21.48
if the home is not guarded
by the Spirit of living God,
00:46:21.51\00:46:24.08
Satan is taking
care of the issues.
00:46:24.11\00:46:26.31
He's taking care of your life.
00:46:26.35\00:46:27.68
he's taking care
of the children's life
00:46:27.72\00:46:29.25
and the house is a mess
00:46:29.28\00:46:30.82
and over the
doorpost Satan says,
00:46:30.85\00:46:32.75
this is my house.
00:46:32.79\00:46:34.92
You don't want that,
that Satan, this is my...
00:46:34.96\00:46:37.13
Remember it's one or the others
as much as you want to say,
00:46:37.16\00:46:39.16
well, there is no such thing,
00:46:39.19\00:46:40.53
either the house belongs to God,
00:46:40.56\00:46:42.43
you belong to God or
you belong to the Satan
00:46:42.46\00:46:44.53
or the devil.
00:46:44.57\00:46:45.90
Does that make sense?
00:46:45.93\00:46:47.27
One or the another.
00:46:47.30\00:46:48.64
Woo, Jesus said, Matthew 12,
He who is not with me is what?
00:46:48.67\00:46:51.44
He's against me,
00:46:51.47\00:46:52.81
let the word speak
00:46:52.84\00:46:54.18
that's what the word says.
00:46:54.21\00:46:55.61
That's what it
says, so what it says,
00:46:55.64\00:46:58.01
and it goes
guard against Satan...
00:46:58.05\00:46:59.81
I like this part
here, this is good.
00:46:59.85\00:47:01.52
"The angels of God," woo,
00:47:01.55\00:47:03.75
"will often visit the home
00:47:03.79\00:47:06.02
in which the will
of God bears sway."
00:47:06.05\00:47:09.92
I'm looking for
those angels to visit
00:47:09.96\00:47:13.63
and you think
they are not out there
00:47:13.66\00:47:15.00
because you don't see them.
00:47:15.03\00:47:16.36
But where you are doing the
will of God you are studying,
00:47:16.40\00:47:18.80
and you are
praying, you love Jesus,
00:47:18.83\00:47:20.80
your
encouragement in the community,
00:47:20.84\00:47:23.07
it says the angels
love to visit those homes.
00:47:23.10\00:47:25.74
They are walking up and
down, you see, in the home
00:47:25.77\00:47:27.88
taking notice
that we like to be here
00:47:27.91\00:47:30.08
because they represent Jesus.
00:47:30.11\00:47:31.45
Oh, how wonderful that is.
00:47:31.48\00:47:33.28
Notice this, it says
"The faith that works by love
00:47:33.31\00:47:36.28
and purifies the soul."
00:47:36.32\00:47:38.02
You know that as you
look at that Hebrews 11,
00:47:38.05\00:47:40.02
the faith chapter.
00:47:40.06\00:47:41.39
Look at Revelation Chapter 3,
00:47:41.42\00:47:43.19
talks about
"faith working by love."
00:47:43.22\00:47:46.29
Letter 24, 1892
reads this quickly,
00:47:46.33\00:47:49.13
notice "Justification by faith
and righteousness of Christ
00:47:49.16\00:47:54.40
are the themes to be
presented to a perishing world."
00:47:54.44\00:47:58.51
Notice, did you notice
what verse to be presenting.
00:47:58.54\00:48:01.78
See, today, we may be talking
00:48:01.81\00:48:03.14
about the parent
or the single parent,
00:48:03.18\00:48:04.78
but we are talking
about a Christ less world,
00:48:04.81\00:48:07.65
a world that's doomed to hell.
00:48:07.68\00:48:09.62
Are you still with me, church?
00:48:09.65\00:48:11.82
There has to be changes made
00:48:11.85\00:48:13.86
and we need to be presenting
which we're doing here.
00:48:13.89\00:48:16.06
Jesus says,
"I'll never leave you,
00:48:16.09\00:48:17.43
I'll never forsake
you, I'm your helper,
00:48:17.46\00:48:18.79
I'm going to be
with you till the end.
00:48:18.83\00:48:20.63
We are presenting Jesus,
00:48:20.66\00:48:22.00
the matches love of
Jesus Christ right here
00:48:22.03\00:48:24.20
"Justification by faith,"
00:48:24.23\00:48:25.90
it's probably the right hand
00:48:25.93\00:48:27.27
third angel's
message in verity, is it not?
00:48:27.30\00:48:29.27
"Righteousness of Christ,
00:48:29.30\00:48:30.77
just the theme
that we need to be
00:48:30.81\00:48:32.17
presenting to the world today
00:48:32.21\00:48:33.98
is Jesus Christ
and Him crucified."
00:48:34.01\00:48:36.68
I tell you right now,
00:48:36.71\00:48:38.05
you pass through
this life the one time
00:48:38.08\00:48:40.28
and I encourage you
to make the best of it.
00:48:40.32\00:48:42.25
There have been times in my life
00:48:42.28\00:48:43.62
I haven't made the best of it.
00:48:43.65\00:48:44.99
But by God's grace
00:48:45.02\00:48:46.35
I'm going to be
making the best ever
00:48:46.39\00:48:47.72
because you
only pass by one time
00:48:47.76\00:48:49.86
and things can change instantly.
00:48:49.89\00:48:52.86
We must make the most ever
while we have the opportunity,
00:48:52.89\00:48:56.23
life is not
going to continue on.
00:48:56.26\00:48:58.63
Our influence in
the neighborhood,
00:48:58.67\00:49:00.07
in our world,
00:49:00.10\00:49:01.44
it seems like nothing.
00:49:01.47\00:49:02.80
Well, they are not
paying any attention,
00:49:02.84\00:49:04.17
the neighbors are watching.
00:49:04.21\00:49:06.07
You know, people you
work with are watching,
00:49:06.11\00:49:08.28
well, you know.
00:49:08.31\00:49:10.48
And you might think I
don't have very many abilities,
00:49:10.51\00:49:12.45
I don't have any gifts,
I can't really be helping,
00:49:12.48\00:49:15.68
they are so small and, you know,
00:49:15.72\00:49:17.65
I have very few
good opportunities
00:49:17.69\00:49:19.29
like everybody else does
00:49:19.32\00:49:21.22
and everything I do
seems to be limited,
00:49:21.26\00:49:23.09
and I don't know what to do.
00:49:23.12\00:49:24.73
Let me tell you
today, based on God's Word,
00:49:24.76\00:49:26.49
the possibilities are endless.
00:49:26.53\00:49:28.93
Whether you're single
parent or whether you're not,
00:49:28.96\00:49:31.03
the possibilities are endless.
00:49:31.07\00:49:33.30
If you look to Him, the author
and the finisher of your faith,
00:49:33.34\00:49:35.94
if you look to Him
and you're being obedient
00:49:35.97\00:49:38.11
to what He says
in His Word, friend.
00:49:38.14\00:49:40.04
This is where it all
begin, it begins in the family,
00:49:40.08\00:49:42.91
this is where it works at.
00:49:42.94\00:49:44.28
It begins in the home
00:49:44.31\00:49:46.68
and is revealed what?
00:49:46.72\00:49:48.65
In actions, an action,
not just words, Psalms 25,
00:49:48.68\00:49:52.55
if we had time we
would read them all,
00:49:52.59\00:49:53.92
we're not doing
it, Psalms 25: 1-15
00:49:53.96\00:49:56.62
there is too many in
five minutes or so less,
00:49:56.66\00:49:58.36
stay with me.
00:49:58.39\00:50:00.16
I'm gonna read Psalms
25:4 and 5, notice this.
00:50:00.20\00:50:03.67
It says, "Shew me thy ways,
O Lord, teach me thy paths."
00:50:03.70\00:50:08.47
I love that "O
teach me thy paths."
00:50:08.50\00:50:10.44
Verse 5, "Lead me into" what?
00:50:10.47\00:50:13.01
"Truth, teach me: for thou
art the God of my salvation,
00:50:13.04\00:50:16.81
on thee do I wait all the day."
00:50:16.85\00:50:19.75
Wait on the Lord, you
know what it says, Psalms 27,
00:50:19.78\00:50:21.95
"Wait on the day on the Lord."
00:50:21.98\00:50:24.09
Are we really
waiting on the Lord?
00:50:24.12\00:50:25.49
Are we really asking
Him, show me thy ways, O Lord.
00:50:25.52\00:50:29.46
Show me the path
and I need to trod,
00:50:29.49\00:50:31.06
teach me, lead me.
00:50:31.09\00:50:32.99
I guarantee if
God is teaching you,
00:50:33.03\00:50:34.46
you're on the right path.
00:50:34.50\00:50:36.23
Are you willing
to follow that path?
00:50:36.26\00:50:39.07
Testimonies to
Ministers 490, says
00:50:39.10\00:50:40.44
"In this time
00:50:40.47\00:50:41.80
when Satan is seeking to
make void the law of God."
00:50:41.84\00:50:44.51
Is Satan seeking to
make void the law of God now?
00:50:44.54\00:50:47.84
He has for a long, long
time, so I encourage you again
00:50:47.88\00:50:50.75
whether you're single,
whether you are married,
00:50:50.78\00:50:52.21
whatever is right now
to pay special attention
00:50:52.25\00:50:54.58
"In this time
00:50:54.62\00:50:55.95
when Satan is seeking to
make void the law of God."
00:50:55.98\00:50:58.22
"We need to guard most carefully
00:50:58.25\00:50:59.79
against everything
00:50:59.82\00:51:01.16
that would tend to
lessen our faith and scatter,"
00:51:01.19\00:51:04.49
notice this "our forces."
00:51:04.53\00:51:06.49
We need to be drawing what?
00:51:06.53\00:51:08.16
Together, not separating
00:51:08.20\00:51:10.93
because the enemy
is trying to separate,
00:51:10.97\00:51:12.30
that way he can do it, right?
00:51:12.33\00:51:13.67
The animals do that
00:51:13.70\00:51:15.04
when they're out
on the hunt, right?
00:51:15.07\00:51:16.40
They separate
one from the flock,
00:51:16.44\00:51:17.77
they can take that,
00:51:17.81\00:51:19.14
when flock stays together,
they have a difficult time.
00:51:19.17\00:51:20.51
"And in this time
of unusual peril,"
00:51:20.54\00:51:22.04
do we agree "we must
learn to stand alone,
00:51:22.08\00:51:25.61
our faith fixed,
not on the word of man,
00:51:25.65\00:51:29.38
but on the sure
promises of God."
00:51:29.42\00:51:31.52
Why?
00:51:31.55\00:51:32.89
Matthew 15:9, what does it say?
00:51:32.92\00:51:34.26
"In vain did they
worship me, teaching," what?
00:51:34.29\00:51:36.42
"Doctrines the
commandments of men."
00:51:36.46\00:51:39.13
So you're going to
have to make a decision,
00:51:39.16\00:51:40.50
I'm going to have
to make a decision.
00:51:40.53\00:51:42.53
We have to make decisions
that are very, very positive.
00:51:42.56\00:51:45.30
We can't be flip
flopping around over here,
00:51:45.33\00:51:47.27
over there doing
this, doing that,
00:51:47.30\00:51:48.84
we need to be ceded
in the cause of Christ.
00:51:48.87\00:51:51.51
We need to be on
that sure foundation,
00:51:51.54\00:51:53.61
you now, how can, how
can we just run to and fro,
00:51:53.64\00:51:56.14
over here one day
00:51:56.18\00:51:57.51
and over there
the next right there
00:51:57.55\00:51:58.88
when Jesus says what?
00:51:58.91\00:52:00.25
We need that sure foundation.
00:52:00.28\00:52:01.62
We have to agree
upon what is truth.
00:52:01.65\00:52:03.12
You know, that people
00:52:03.15\00:52:04.49
is not preaching truth over here
00:52:04.52\00:52:05.85
so why you're listening to him?
00:52:05.89\00:52:07.22
You know they are not
preaching truth over here
00:52:07.26\00:52:08.59
so what are you
doing, mingling with them?
00:52:08.62\00:52:09.96
Somebody is listening,
jump apart and be separate
00:52:09.99\00:52:11.89
and touch not the what?
00:52:11.93\00:52:13.43
The uncleaned thing.
00:52:13.46\00:52:14.90
This is what we get
ourself into trouble.
00:52:14.93\00:52:16.67
We think that it's
not going to happen,
00:52:16.70\00:52:18.33
you know, I understand,
00:52:18.37\00:52:19.70
I've been
there, we have friends,
00:52:19.73\00:52:21.07
we have
different people going on,
00:52:21.10\00:52:22.44
but I realize the influence
00:52:22.47\00:52:23.81
we have to be
very, very careful.
00:52:23.84\00:52:25.67
You say, "Well,
I'm on the fence."
00:52:25.71\00:52:27.04
You need to get off the
fence, you get splinters.
00:52:27.08\00:52:29.44
You know that.
00:52:29.48\00:52:30.81
You got to make a
decision for Jesus Christ.
00:52:30.85\00:52:33.01
We've got to do the right
thing because time is that short
00:52:33.05\00:52:36.22
that we can't be
dillydallying around.
00:52:36.25\00:52:38.52
We have a message to
give, do we not to the world?
00:52:38.55\00:52:41.32
This will reduce the
stress, believe it or not.
00:52:41.36\00:52:44.53
In the home when
you know what is right
00:52:44.56\00:52:46.33
and you're
willing to follow that,
00:52:46.36\00:52:47.93
but lot of times you
have to give up other things
00:52:47.96\00:52:49.96
of the world.
00:52:50.00\00:52:52.70
If people are not preaching
00:52:52.73\00:52:54.07
and again teaching
and living the truth,
00:52:54.10\00:52:55.50
what are you
doing messing with them?
00:52:55.54\00:52:57.27
Other than give Bible studies,
are you still with me, to help.
00:52:57.31\00:53:01.04
They will influence
you for, we gonna say,
00:53:01.08\00:53:03.78
you presume you have
your attitude change,
00:53:03.81\00:53:05.31
your mind will be changed
because they will confuse you.
00:53:05.35\00:53:09.72
It's a snare of the old enemy.
00:53:09.75\00:53:12.45
Stay close to Jesus.
00:53:12.49\00:53:14.49
Single parents,
stay close to Jesus.
00:53:14.52\00:53:16.99
Married with lot of children,
stay close to Jesus, why?
00:53:17.03\00:53:20.96
Oh, I'll tell you.
00:53:21.00\00:53:22.73
Do you realize that lot of times
00:53:22.76\00:53:24.10
there's even in single family
we have to be very careful
00:53:24.13\00:53:26.53
because there's even more crime,
00:53:26.57\00:53:28.70
in single families,
00:53:28.74\00:53:30.07
you know that
than in two parents,
00:53:30.11\00:53:32.81
I want you to keep that in mind,
00:53:32.84\00:53:34.88
criminal activity.
00:53:34.91\00:53:36.38
Notice this, I'll read you
one statistic before we close.
00:53:36.41\00:53:38.88
"Children from
single parent household
00:53:38.91\00:53:41.22
account for 72%
of teenage murders
00:53:41.25\00:53:45.92
and 60% of rape crimes.
00:53:45.95\00:53:49.69
Interesting,
00:53:49.72\00:53:51.06
that doesn't mean
everybody is that way,
00:53:51.09\00:53:52.43
but we understand that statistic
00:53:52.46\00:53:53.93
that what's kind of happening
00:53:53.96\00:53:55.30
because there may
be a lack of discipline
00:53:55.33\00:53:56.90
and so on in the home,
00:53:56.93\00:53:58.27
a lack of Christ
being in the home.
00:53:58.30\00:54:00.14
How about today to make
sure, let's make a decision,
00:54:00.17\00:54:02.47
we want Christ in the home.
00:54:02.50\00:54:04.44
We want Christ in the
home and all these other things
00:54:04.47\00:54:06.37
are going to
work themselves out,
00:54:06.41\00:54:07.98
give them sometime,
spend time on your knees,
00:54:08.01\00:54:10.21
spend time
praising God, singing,
00:54:10.25\00:54:12.28
reading the scriptures
and watch what He will do.
00:54:12.31\00:54:15.68
Your life will
change drastically and mine.
00:54:15.72\00:54:19.32
If we, notice, live
up to every ray of light
00:54:19.35\00:54:23.16
that He has given to us.
00:54:23.19\00:54:25.19
That's conditional and
then all these other things
00:54:25.23\00:54:28.90
will be added unto you.
00:54:28.93\00:54:30.27
Matthew 6, you remember that,
00:54:30.30\00:54:31.63
"Seek you first
the Kingdom of God
00:54:31.67\00:54:33.27
and His righteousness
and all these other things
00:54:33.30\00:54:36.24
will be added unto you."
00:54:36.27\00:54:37.61
I want to have a quick
prayer with you who are at home
00:54:37.64\00:54:39.07
and those who are here,
00:54:39.11\00:54:40.44
that you made a
decision even the more,
00:54:40.48\00:54:41.91
maybe a tight decision
that you ever made before.
00:54:41.94\00:54:44.21
Let's do it in our last
few seconds together, shall we?
00:54:44.25\00:54:46.05
Let's pray.
00:54:46.08\00:54:47.68
Loving Father in heaven,
00:54:47.72\00:54:49.05
again we thank You
for Your precious Word.
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.42
We thank You
for loving us today.
00:54:50.45\00:54:52.05
Thank you for the direction
that You have given us,
00:54:52.09\00:54:53.92
help us to stay close to you
00:54:53.96\00:54:55.42
and I ask
special blessing on those
00:54:55.46\00:54:57.53
who right now
made that decision,
00:54:57.56\00:54:58.89
I will follow Jesus,
00:54:58.93\00:55:00.43
I'm going to
reregulate things in my home.
00:55:00.46\00:55:02.56
I want to follow
You in Jesus' name.
00:55:02.60\00:55:04.53
Amen.
00:55:04.57\00:55:07.27
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you for joining us
00:55:07.30\00:55:08.70
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00:55:08.74\00:55:10.07
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00:55:16.21\00:55:17.78
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Hello, friends,
and welcome back,
00:55:21.68\00:55:23.99
survival tips
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00:55:24.02\00:55:26.76
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00:56:22.44\00:56:25.45
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at least one of
these Bible Study Guides
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and if you'd like
to have all 25 lessons
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that are contained in here,
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we gonna offer a
complete package of all 25
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for just a love
gift of $175 or more.
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You couldn't buy DVDs
anywhere at a regular price,
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anywhere, any type,
any time for that price.
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So we pray that
you'll just multiply it out
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and prayerfully consider
if you like to have these.
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Maybe you can have
Bible studies in your home.
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All you have to
do is call us here
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at Behold the Lamb
Ministries at (618) 942-5044,
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that's Central Standard Time,
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or you may write to us at
Behold the Lamb Ministries,
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PO Box 2030,
Herrin, Illinois 62948.
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Send us an email,
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the email address is
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BeholdTheLambMinistries
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and as always,
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visit us on our website
00:57:42.22\00:57:43.56
at www.Behold
TheLambMinistries.com.
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Dear friends, until next
time may our precious Lord
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continue to richly bless you
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and yours, your
family, your children,
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single parenting,
whoever you are, God bless.
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