Relationships // Healthy Families // Pastor Johnson

Prayer isn't about informing God. Listen. Prayer isn't about informing God, it's about aligning with him. You're not informing God by praying. God already knows. You're with God. God already knows the need, but when you pray, you activate faith is what you do. You activating your faith. You believing in what his word says. God says, I already know your needs, but when you come and you ask me with a pure heart, when you come and pray to me, you're activating your faith and you're believing that I'm going to do it. [00:22:20] (43 seconds)  #PrayerActivatesFaith

Prayer is a lifestyle. It's not something that you just, that you pray over on your breakfast table or dinner table, or it's just not a quick little prayer before you leave the house. Lord bless me in the name of Jesus, or it's not something that you just check off, well, prayed today, brother, I prayed today. It's a lifestyle. It's something see, because the Holy Spirit is talking to you all during the day. He's talking to you all during the day. Jesus said that he will lead you and guide you into all matters of truth. So he's ministering to you all during the day. So if he's talking to you all during the day, how come you can't talk to him? [00:09:11] (43 seconds)  #PrayerAsALifestyle

But if serving the Lord seem undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods of your ancestors serve beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. [00:04:17] (26 seconds)  #AsForMeAndMyHouse

Healthy families, we stand together. We don't abandon each other. We support each other in storms. We sacrifice for one another. Healthy family says we won't fight alone. Healthy family says, we stand together in faith. Healthy family declares, devil, you cannot have my family. [00:33:46] (31 seconds)  #HealthyFamiliesStandTogether

Some of you stand as if you're trying to get the victory. You climbing up and trying to get the victory. No. God has already given you the victory when his son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross. He said, it is finished. It is finished. So you have the right to say, devil, you cannot have my family. [00:34:37] (27 seconds)  #VictoryIsAlreadyYours

God says that the word of God is living, is active, is doing something. It's sharper than any double edged sword. It penetrates even to the dividing of soul and spirit, joint and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitude of the heart. [00:14:44] (22 seconds)  #TheWordIsAliveAndActive

It says, when God is first in the home, the atmosphere shifts. How many experienced that? When God is first in the home, the whole atmosphere shifts. Peace peace rises. Joy returns, directions become clear, and Satan loses his influence. [00:24:02] (28 seconds)  #WhenGodIsFirstInTheHome

Ask yourself, who in my family who in my family needs my loyalty? Who in my family needs my grace? Who in my family needs my patience? Who in my family needs my mercy? Who in my family needs my support today? [00:35:25] (32 seconds)  #WhoInMyFamilyNeedsMe

see, a lot of people say that God has the answer. No. God don't have the have the answer. God is the answer. He is the answer. Whatever's going on in your home, God is the answer. [00:38:29] (21 seconds)  #GodIsTheAnswer

Point number one, healthy families place God first. As we read in Abraham, in Abraham's household, Abraham Abraham wasn't perfect. He wasn't. He had made some mistakes along the way. But what he did, he set a spiritual tone in his house. He established prayer. He modeled obedience, and he lived faithfully. He did that so much and trusted God so much that we are still reading about him today. [00:07:59] (38 seconds)  #SetASpiritualTone

When you open your mouth in prayer, heaven and earth come into alignment. As soon as we open our mouth in prayer, heaven and earth come into alignment once we believe in faith. And faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. [00:23:03] (21 seconds)  #PrayerAlignsHeavenAndEarth

The most powerful word on the face of this planet is this right here, is the word of God. Because everything else is gonna pass away. Everything that you see is gonna pass away, but the word of God will never pass away. That's why pastor that's why pastor preached so hard that you must read this for yourself, and every time you read it, it's gonna do something to you. [00:15:46] (32 seconds)  #TheWordNeverPasses

But verse eight says, do not be like them for your father knows what you need of before you even ask. He knows exactly what you need of before you ask. Isn't that a wonderful father? Even that a wonderful father, who wouldn't serve a father like that? [00:21:25] (18 seconds)  #FatherKnowsBeforeYouAsk

Church, God is interested in your relationships. He's interested in your families. Some of you have been through hurt. Some of you have been through pain. Some of you is a product of division in your homes. But God but God restores. God heals. God reveals. He revives you. If you let him, he's interested in you. [00:37:28] (37 seconds)  #GodRestoresFamilies

One of his weapons is doubt. One of his powerful weapons is doubt, to put that doubt in your mind to keep you from believing the word of God. See, Satan came too late to tell me that God's word ain't right. He didn't came too late now because I know that everything that God tells me and promised me is right. [00:21:58] (22 seconds)  #ResistDoubtBelieveGod

Why? Because this is the power of relationship, not religion. God want a relationship with you. He want a father daughter relationship with you. He want a father son relationship with you. This is how I come to God as a son. [00:16:37] (23 seconds)  #RelationshipNotReligion

Some of you don't want to give grace to your family. Even though God showed grace to you, but I'm not going to show grace to this joker right here. God showed patience with you, but you can't show patience to this person right here. God showed mercy to you, but you can't show mercy to this person right here. [00:29:09] (22 seconds)  #GiveGraceToFamily

Ruth showed loyalty, commitment, faithfulness, and love. Even in loss and pain and uncertainty. This was Ruth was a girl who was raised up in Moab, idol worship. Moab was an idol worshiping city, and she was willing to stay with her mother-in-law and uncertain and go where she want to go. [00:33:13] (33 seconds)  #RuthsLoyaltyAndFaith

Healthy families are built on are not built on money alone. Healthy families are not built on education alone. Healthy families are not built on tradition alone. It has been it has to be intentional, and it has to be by the power and presence of God. [00:06:43] (23 seconds)  #IntentionalGodlyFamilies

The title of this message is healthy families in the bible. So as we study the word of God today, we are trusting him to heal, to restore, and to strengthen our relationships, starting in our own hearts and reaching into every relationship we have. [00:03:00] (22 seconds)  #HealthyFamiliesInTheBible