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Fathers Rising Up
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| You know, we have got an epidemic. | |
| See, it is an epidemic of fathers that are not being responsible that are leaving their wives and their children, that are abusing their wives and their children. | |
| I've been around it. | |
| I've been in it. | |
| I watch it daily. | |
| It makes me so sad. | |
| 34% of this generation have grown up without a dad. | |
| Yeah. | |
| 72% in the inner city. | |
| I had four young men, African-American young men, come to me in Miami. | |
| They were huge guys, and I had talked about how I love to wrestle with my daughter or with my son until he got bigger. | |
| Then I just grounded him. | |
| How I love to dance with my little girl. | |
| Now I wrestle with my grandson. | |
| See, what you got to understand is my little girl came to me one day and she said, Daddy, I had a dream last night. | |
| Had a dream last night. | |
| She actually went to Karen. | |
| She said, I had a dream last night. | |
| Our daughter, we got her at nine months old. | |
| She was left in a park in China. | |
| And all of a sudden, she said, Mama, I had a dream last night. | |
| And Karen said, okay, I was on the road. | |
| I was actually preaching in St. Louis, I believe it was. | |
| In the orphanage, I used to come and tell you, hold on, your mama's coming for you. | |
| And she said, Mommy, we laughed about it in my sleep. | |
| And he said, see, your mama came for you. | |
| Karen called me. | |
| She tells me this story of my daughter having the dream. | |
| Abigail, which Philip Cameron, you helped us go to China to get my daughter. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| There's a generation that is looking for fathers to rise up, to be spiritual thermostats in their home, to realize your job does not begin. | |
| See, you have 10,000 teachers, but you have not many fathers. | |
| See, a teacher is assigned to get the student to school. | |
| A father tells them how to stay there. | |
| There's an anointing coming back to America of fathers rising up that understand, and that's what this is all about. | |
| That understand, my job does not begin when I pull out of the driveway. | |
| It begins when I pull in the driveway. | |
| Dads that will rise up and lay hands upon their children. | |
| Prophesy upon dads. | |
| There are dads watching right now. | |
| Dads, I challenge you. | |
| Let me say it like this. | |
| All through the word of God, it said they would go up to Zion. | |
| And the father, the first thing he would do is he would sow. | |
| He would go to the temple and take the first fruits. | |
| He would go to the temple. | |
| He would be first one to pull money out of the wallet. | |
| I give it all away. | |
| My wife gives me a $100 donation every week to carry in my wallet. | |
| And she'll say to me, I know you're going to give it away. | |
| I know you're going to give it away. | |
| There are dads watching right now. | |
| I'm telling you. | |
| Yes. | |
| That you want to break the spirit of poverty off of your house. | |
| Be the one that is up. | |
| You know, we love it because there's mamas all over that have been sowing, sowing, sowing. | |
| What if some dads that are watching right now said, you know what? | |
| I'll tell you what I'm going to do. | |
| I'm going to sow. | |
| I'm going to be a dad that is the biggest giver. | |
| I tell our staff all the time, I will be the biggest giver in our ministry. | |
| I'll be the biggest giver at Remnant Ministries International. | |
| I'll be the biggest sower. | |
| Why? | |
| Because it's going to meet me. | |
| I've never seen the righteous forsaken or seed begging for bread. | |
| And it goes on to say, and my children's children will be blessed. | |
| Psalms 126, verse 6. | |
| Those who go out sowing precious seed, weeping, come back carrying the harvest. | |
| When you begin to sow, you are speaking to your grand, my grandson, Jack. | |
| I'm already sowing for him. | |
| Revelation 1 and 5. | |
| God spoke to us. | |
| God spoke to us, and I'm going to share about it in a little bit, about priests and kings rising up in the kingdom. | |
| That's actually one term in Revelation 1 and 1 and Revelation 5. | |
| There are men there that have worked for the man their whole life, and God's given you ideas, entrepreneurial. | |
| He's given you ideas to plant your own seed, to start your own business. | |
| Sow to it. | |
| Sow to it. | |
| Watch God blow your mind. | |
| There is no lack in his kingdom. | |
| Go on telephone right now and call the 1-888. | |
| And I don't have my glasses on, but 988. | |
| 1588. | |
| You know, I just love to say eight because it's new beginnings. | |
| But the Lord says, if you'll sow, you can break the curse off your children. | |
| It's time for fathers to rise up. | |
| The first thing the fathers did when they would go to Zion every six months, when they would go to the temple, is they would bring a harvest seed. | |
| Very true. | |
| It takes some men to give. | |
| Wimps don't give. | |