I Got My Hands Full

2:56 Okay, I'm going to come back to Stanley. Stand to your feet until I get to Stanley. amen anybody in here has ever survived a hospital visit ever y'all ain't never had to ride in an ambulance before you ought to You ought to be thanking God even in this moment. Get your Bibles and go with me to Genesis 48. Genesis 48. Hallelujah. Genesis 48. And I want to look at two verses, verses 13 and 14.

3:50 Genesis 48, verses 13 and 14. It's the first book in the Bible. Why are you lost? Amen. Genesis 48 verses 13 and 14. Would you read silently as I read aloud? And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right, towards Israel's left hand, and Manasseh on his left, towards Israel's right hand. And he brought them close to him. But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim's head. Though he was the younger, crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh's head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.

4:52 I want to preach today using as a subject, I got my hands full. I got my hands full. I find it interesting that while we were yet enslaved, that it was illegal for us to be able to read and write.

5:17 If you were caught even with a pencil in your hand, they called for immediate lynching. To be educated was a lethal threat. when it is that our ancestors found themselves freed. They did not open up nightclubs. They opened up colleges. they used to have a saying that if you want to keep a secret from black people, hide it in a book.

5:54 Now they'll give you the book and you won't read it. We have gone from the miseducation of the Negro to the maleducation of black people. On average, black students, on average, black students are two reading levels behind. Two reading levels behind. And only 46% of your children are competent in math.

6:28 Mindful that school is starting just in about two weeks. And all summer long, you've had video games playing. TV been on. no books have been read no writing has been done and then you got the nerve to go to the school trying to fight the teacher they are counting on our ignorance and underestimating our brilliance there's a hack i unearthed that they use in russian schools that made their children functionally smarter in seven days. I wanted you to have it before school starts in 14. I want you to take notes on it.

7:21 I want you to be mindful of it. I want you to put it in implementation this week. Transparently, you need to know that the exercise is going to be overwhelming. The exercise that I want you to perform with your children, with your grandchildren, with your godchildren, even for yourself may be a little bit stressful. Whether you're in elementary, middle school, high school, or even in college level. Here is a functionality that they do in all Russian schools at the beginning of the year. And I wanted you to have it. you'd have two sheets of paper parents please write this down educators write this down I have college president who is here write it down I want it in the curriculum for those who are coming into college in the fall two sheets of paper with your left hand with your left hand write numbers 1 through 20. With your left hand, write numbers 1 through 20. With your right hand, write the alphabet A through T. With your left hand, you're writing numbers 1 through 20.

8:44 With your right hand, you're writing alphabets A through T. Hear this, and you're doing it at the same time. two sheets of paper, two writing instruments. With one, you're writing the alphabet A through T. The other sheet of paper, numbers one through 20. You're doing it at the same time. No pushing one hand to help the other.

9:17 Here's the catch. you only have five minutes to complete the exercise. Invariably, in the first three minutes, the hands will freeze and your focus will collapse. Children are going to groan. They're going to get flustered. They're going to want to throw the pen or the pencil down. It is going to be their knee-jerk reaction to want to stop and you cannot let them stop. Make them try it again starting at the top.

9:56 Freezing up is not failure. It's a part of the process. A program creates a specific neurological condition that the brain can only resolve one way. when the brain is forced to run two completely unrelated streams simultaneously with nothing to fall back on the mind is forced to reorganize students who are able to complete it for seven days in a row if they're able to do it seven days in a row they will testify to a strange doubling of awareness the conscience becomes clearer the condition is called inter-hemispheric communication I want you to write this down.

10:57 Inter-hemispheric communication. The left brain and the right brain are not designed to run equally demanding tasks simultaneously. Inter-hemispheric communication goes against how your mind has been set up. It is forcing your mind to create new neural pathways.

11:33 So when they first started out, they got frustrated, they got overwhelmed. In some instances, they get angry and they don't even understand that by doing it, their mind is getting rewired. Jesus said you are transformed by the renewing of your mind many of our children many of us as adults we are faking multitasking four year old you try to talk to them while they on the tablet they're going to go crazy Thank you. because they can't do both. Got somebody who is texting and you talking to them, they can't hear what it is that you are saying. Why? Because their mind has been compartmentalized to only do one thing.

12:29 This is going to enlarge your mind in a capacity that the school system has not trained you. Within one week, teachers observed that students who have been able to perform this for seven days within one week they notice and observe and have the data to prove that the students who do it read faster have greater comprehension they can recall information better their problem solving capacity is easier I want every parent to just lift up that right hand if you will every parent whether they're in fourth grade or whether they're in their fourth year college I speak over your child's life and all the more over your child's mind that this academic year they will be able to retain it they will be able to remember it and they'll be able to repeat it there will be no class this year where your child will be overwhelmed frustrated and quit whatever is placed before them they will absorb it and by the power of the holy ghost they will master it if you believe that for your child i dare you to give god glory even now I recall how in Genesis 48, Joseph gets word that his father Jacob is ill.

14:14 So he gathers up his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. And he says to his two sons, I have got to take you to see the father. Genesis 48 I need you to see it when you get home verse number 2 it says when the father hears that his son is coming with his two grandchildren he raises up in the bed and rallies his strength and he pulls himself together may God touch the mind of the elders in your family Amen. so that they'll be able to pull themselves up and will be able to see their grandchildren thrive.