Young and the Restless

2:13 I want to preach for a little while today using as a subject the young and the restless. The young and the restless. Jeremy Pryor, the author of a groundbreaking book I want to recommend to you entitled Family Revision, is emphatically warning America about a movement afoot that is attempting to sever the connection between generations. It's endeavoring to normalize adult children cutting off their parents and parents going no contact with their children.

3:06 Undisputedly, boundaries matter And ownership of all forms of abuse is necessary But here lately It appears as if reconciliation Is no longer on the prayer list Restoration is no longer reached for And getting blocked is dropping as easy as bombs in Venezuela.

3:40 For the first time, for the very first time in history, people are grieving people, hear this, who are still alive. detachment has become synonymous with empowerment. I challenge you to read the last verse of the Old Testament, Malachi 4 and 6, where it says, he will turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the hearts of the children to their parents. or else I will strike the land with total destruction. I want to read that again. Malachi chapter 4, verse number 6. God is going to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the hearts of the children to their parents.

4:42 I stand before you humbly today to declare to you that this year God is getting ready to turn hearts. He's turning the hearts of your son And turning the hearts of your daughter And turning the heart of your brother And turning the heart of your sister I'm waiting on my worshipers He's turning the heart of your father And turning the heart of your mother He's turning the heart of your child He's turning the heart of your sibling God said watch me work This year will not end without them having a turn of heart. I don't like what I am seeing, says the Lord. I need parents and children to be on one accord and in line with my assignment. I wish I could say that this is a stigma that only exists in society, but it also appears in sacred space.

5:49 You have historic churches like the one you grew up in that lay bare with a smattering of 70 and 80-year-olds. They have proverbially put plastic on the couch because they don't want stains on their seats of tradition. And now they are met with the shocking realization that the power they had was for an era when it is designed to be for eternity. So in Atlanta, you got young people who go to one specific church and then you got older people who go to another church. If you are ever purchasing a used car, it is prudent for you to get an extended warranty. Did you forget that he shall reign forever?

6:46 The same power that God had in the 70s, in the 80s, and in the 90s, God's power is still alive in 2026. I want to do something the enemy is going to be upset about would you lift up that hand right where you are I know it's unconventional it's untraditional but I just feel moved of the Holy Spirit to do so Lord I pray right now hear me for my home church the church that I was saved in the church I was baptized in the church I was introduced to you in. Lord, send revival to that church. Let young people come to that church. God, don't let that church die in this generation, but let them find a renewed sense of purpose and power. And those of you who believe that God, if he did it before, he can do it again. Would you give God glory right now for something that will shift.

7:55 in that church. I want you to write this down. I want you to be mindful of it. I want you to pay attention to it. Harvard Business Review. It's what Harvard Business Review said. 70% of family businesses, listen to me, 70% of family businesses don't transition to become second generation businesses, 70%. And only 12% of family businesses make it to the third generation. Only 70% of businesses are handed down to a second generation. Only 12% make it to the third generation, which means, listen to me, the third generation ends up having to start over. when there is no generational wealth, there is generational struggle.

8:54 I want you to raise that right hand and I want you to repeat after me and I need you to repeat after me with authority. Three generations after me, say it out loud, three generations after me, will inherit real estate, will have resources and will know the Redeemer. Now that you got it, let's say it again. Three generations after me will inherit real estate, will have resources, and will know the Redeemer. Third and last time, three generations after me will inherit real estate, will have resources, and will know the Redeemer if you believe it for your great-grandchildren.

9:50 I got the wrong church. I said, if you believe your great-grandchildren will never be in an apartment, you will leave them houses that they did not build. You will give them accounts they will not have to struggle for. Your grandchildren will speak in tongues and know how to talk to God for themselves three generations after me. You may be seated. That's why you've got to be alert. You have to be alert of spiritual warfare that is taking place right before your eyes. I do not want you to normalize ice separating families. Children are coming back from school to empty houses and are gone before judges by themselves without adult supervision.

10:51 I don't want you to forget as black people that the welfare system, when it started, mandated that fathers couldn't be in the house. That the only way that your grandmother and mother could get food and subsidies is she had to evict your father and your grandfather. there was a system put in place to break down your family the reason why we are due reparations in case you forgot is they did not just separate us by language but they auctioned off our children they raped our mothers and they hung our fathers the reason why it is that you got to take off the scales from your eyes because this nation is trying to normalize the trafficking of children that they still ain't gonna say nothing about the epstein list in hopes that you're gonna ignore the testimony of 100 girls who were abused y'all ain't saying anything but by the power of the Holy Ghost. I disrupt every system and every place of authority that is trying to dismantle the family. Some of y'all only know how to shout over cars, clothes, and money, but I declare the blood of Jesus over every family structure. I need you to just cry out loud that God will put a head fence of protection around your children. I need you to go into warfare that your daughter will not be inappropriately touched, that your son will not be molested, that your children will not have absence of identity. I need you to cry out loud that whatever is going on with your siblings is about to be shifted. I declare by the power of the Holy Ghost the spirit of disrespect

13:00 has now been broken. The spirit of dishonor has now been broken. The spirit of psychological, emotional, physical and sexual abuse in your family has now been broken by the power of the Holy Ghost. I need you to go into warfare. Satan, you can't have my family. Satan, you can't have my relationships. Satan! Hallelujah.

13:40 You may be seated. Hallelujah. y'all forgive us but some of us got to travail for our family look at your neighbor and tell them I don't know what's going on with my brother I don't know what's happening with my sister I don't know what's wrong with my child but something is shifting in the earth that their heart is now being forced to turn back to their family You may be seated. you may be seated please hallelujah you may be seated I feel something in the Holy Spirit Hallelujah.

14:52 I'm trying not to cry. I feel something in the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I came for warfare today. Hallelujah. If you'll be seated for one moment. Hallelujah. Grandparents in this room who have not been able to see your grandchildren, I want you to stand. Grandparents in this room, you haven't been able to see your grandchildren. Hallelujah. grandmothers haven't seen your grandbaby I want you to stand where you are grandfathers haven't been able to see your grandchild something is getting ready to shift hallelujah I don't know why God gave me this word today but God told me to tell you I haven't forgotten about you I'm getting ready to do something outlandish on your behalf Hallelujah In this room if I've got children under 12 If I've got children under 12 who are in this room Hallelujah Children in this room who are 12 and under You're in this room, I need you to stand Hallelujah 12 and under, you're in this room, I need you to stand You're 12 and under and you're in this room with your parents' oversight and supervision.

16:26 Hallelujah. For our children who are 12 and under, I need you to go embrace a grandparent who's standing. God said, that's how fast. I'm getting ready to bring your grandchild back to you. Come on, I can't hear no worshipers. I can't hear no, come on, bring them babies down. I need them to go embrace these grandparents. I need just some worshipers right here. Would you lift up that hand and open up your mouth? Bring them babies down right there. Have them embrace them. God says, I'm bringing families back together. I'm reuniting families. I can't believe y'all ain't crying out under God. It ain't my mother. It ain't my father. It's me, oh Lord. Bring them babies from the back. I need them to come hug these grandparents. Come on, come on, come on.

17:18 Hallelujah. God says I'm bringing them back to you it's going to be fixed before Mother's Day it's going to be fixed before I can't hear no worshippers in here I need you to shout out loud if you believe that a phone call is coming that a text message is coming prepare the guest room the babies are coming to stay at your house a day to open up your mouth like God is stealing in the blessing business. Hallelujah. Come on, move them quickly. You may be seated. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Hallelujah. from Exodus to Acts from the book of Exodus all the way to the book of Acts God introduces himself as the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob showing that he takes glory in generations Abraham is the father of the faith Isaac is the exemplar of servitude and Jacob is exhibit A of a struggler.

18:40 The good news and the harsh reality is we have all three of those characters in our families. Somebody who's faithful, somebody who's got a servant's heart, and somebody who's struggling. Somebody who's faithful, somebody who tries to help, and somebody who's struggling. Somebody in your family is a prayer warrior.

19:10 Somebody in your family tries to keep the peace. Somebody in your family is the problem. If you're not sure which one you are, you're probably the last. By naming all three, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, he was declaring that his promises don't expire like milk. To Abraham, he promised real estate. And the blessings of Abraham continue to Isaac. He never promised the real estate to Isaac. It was to Abraham and Isaac got it based off of what was promised to his father. And then Jacob got it because of what was promised to his grandfather. I declare and decree real estate is getting ready to come into your family.

20:06 Let me say it another way, and I hope y'all will shout differently about it. This is the last generation of your family that will be renters. something just shifted y'all didn't hear what I just said this is the last of your generation that is in public housing this is the last of your generation that will need assisted living I declare over your family real estate is getting ready to open up for every member of your family left. I want you to look at 2 Timothy chapter 1. 2 Timothy chapter 1, verse number 5.

21:00 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded now that it also lives in you. Y'all just missed that. 2 Timothy 1 and 5, I'm reminded of your sincere faith. It first lived in your grandmother. Then I saw it in your mother. Now it's in you. Y'all didn't catch that. Let me give it to you the last time. I see your faith. And I know where you got it from. You got it from your grandmother. It got transferred into your mother. And that same power that was in your grandmother is now alive in you. Pastor, why is that verse so important?

21:58 It is so important in the black family construct because many of our realities do not have a patriarchal lineage. But the lineage of your faith don't come from your father's side. Come on in here. It comes from your mama's side. And some of y'all ought to be thanking God. for what your mama prayed for getting ready to come to pass what what your grandmother prophesied is about to be manifested while she was holding you she was prophesying come on baby it's gonna be all right i got you i got you i got you you are the head and not the tail you are above and not believe Somebody prayed for me. Had me on their mind.

22:53 They took the time and I'm so glad that they prayed. Some of y'all better be careful how you handle me. Because you don't know how my grandmother was. She would get up early on Saturday morning. While she was putting comet in the bathtub. Was putting wood light in the washing machine. She would begin to pray over the door and say, God, that's my child. I need you to cover there. Hallelujah.

23:26 You may be seated. No family is perfect. No family is perfect. Abraham struggled with fear. Isaac was inconsistent. and Jacob was a scammer. But God said, I'm with the family.

23:52 I need you, hallelujah. Would you just shout out loud your last name? Hallelujah, God is with that family. Whoever carries that last name, God just assigned an angel to watch over every member of your family that has been under demonic opposition. I can't hear nobody. I break the stronghold that no weapon formed against my cousins, no weapon formed against my sibling, no weapon formed against my son, no weapon formed against my sister is going to prosper. God is with your family. Even if the family is far from perfect.

24:45 You got alcoholics in your family. Insecure people in your family. You got addicts in your family. Adulterers in your family. You got inmates in your family. You got self-righteous folk in your family. But God says, whatever runs in your bloodline, that does not mirror my will for your family's destiny. I'm getting ready to break it off right now. God, help me. See, some of y'all just stopped praying. You just gave up on them. But I'm telling you, late in the midnight hour, God will turn it around. Y'all don't believe this? Y'all just sit there. Let me just ask for me and my family. God said if you give me glory I'm breaking the spirit of addiction whatever addiction is in your family I'm breaking it up I can't hear nobody I'm getting them off drugs I'm getting them off alcohol I can't hear nobody he said if you give me glory I'm breaking off every spirit of self destruction every spirit of self-sabotage he said if you give me glory, I'm taking the criminal instinct off of them. The get over spirit is off of them. The entitlement spirit is off of them. God said, if you give me glory, they're getting out of jail early and they're never going back. He said, I see the path that your son is on, but if you worship, I'm shifting gears.

26:33 Whatever has broken in your daughter's self-esteem, I'm putting her heart back together again. I break the spirit of depression. I break the spirit of suicide. I break the spirit of anxiety. Hey, come out, child. Oh, hallelujah. I feel something right through here. Softly, softly musicians. Hallelujah. Lift that hand. Oh my God. Something just downloaded in me. I got to give it to you. I need you to know what it is that I'm, I'm getting ready to target and attack in the realm of the spirit. God says, I need the sound of glory because I am fighting, hear this, for your family members' mental health.

27:32 you want to begin crying out loud I fight against ADD I fight against bipolar I fight against schizophrenia I fight against PTSD come on you ought to open up your mouth God says I need you to fight for the mental health of family members who are losing their mind. They will be transformed by the renewing of their mind. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

28:29 hallelujah they get ready to wake up with a right mind they about to be clothed in their right mind it won't always be like this hallelujah I can't find my worshipers God said if you give me glory they ain't gonna stay in that room all day he said if you give me glory they gonna start communicating and opening up about what's happening with them. I'm gonna address what makes them so angry and what makes them so mad and what makes them so frustrated. I gotta address their mental health. When you go to the doctor's office, they hand you a clipboard. And they want you to identify the diseases that run through your family.

29:31 But nobody ever asks you to identify the blessings that run through your family. I'm sick of hearing about generational curses. I want to know when do the generational blessings kick in? Come on, I can't hear nobody. When does the real estate start? When does the righteousness start? When do the resources kick in? You may be seated. I'm almost finished. the prodigal son got his inheritance. And when the prodigal son got his inheritance, y'all ain't going to believe it if you read it with a fresh pair of eyes, the prodigal son got his inheritance, and after he got his inheritance, he cut off communication.

30:28 woke up in a pig pen and then came to himself and finally went home. The father never went to the pig pen looking for him. Never went to the club looking for him. Didn't blow up his phone. Some of you are enabling your children because you rescued them too quick. Y'all don't like this. Sometimes you got to let them wake up in their own mess so that they can realize how good they got it and value what it is that you provided. Don't keep chasing no grown Negro. Let them come to themselves and realize I do better at my mama's house. the Bible says train up a child in the way that they should go and when they grow old they won't depart from it I need you to prophesy to your role I need just 500 of you to just shout out loud God's bringing them back home It's for this reason of generational blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

31:57 It is for that reason the enemy keeps trying to break the line. He does not want Abraham connected to Isaac and doesn't want Isaac connected to Jacob because he knows that generational blessings are getting ready to flow. Hallelujah. But don't break the line. Ecclesiastes 4 and 12. Ecclesiastes 4 and 12 says, though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves, but a three-strand cord is not easily broken. I want you real quick, would you just hold that neighbor's hand real quick and tell them, hold the line. The enemy's trying to separate grandparents from grandchildren, parents from children. Hold the line.

32:50 Pull on that neighbor and say, ain't nothing gonna separate this family. Hold the line. Come on, squeeze that neighbor's hand and say, the way I just squeezed your hand, that's how tight your family's getting ready to get. Hold the line. Y'all ain't saying nothing. Whatever it is, y'all can get past it. Y'all can handle it. Take me through there. God said I can handle what's happening with your hands.