which we talked last week about how to train your kids how to teach them the word of god and also how to speak words over them because they are like a sponge they write the way they accumulate everything and they start speaking out even if we don't thing they pay attention when you talk to each other you know many times kids are around us and we talk something you know within  maybe husband wife or between friends and they you think they play with the toil were there but actually they pay attention and they heard what you say there but what came back thank you i'm so glad you came back and today i would like to talk more about you guys in the have kids for three years almost i since we got married but after that when you start to have you know you're you guys kids then then things change in your life you know you don't you go and you get your guys together by themselves but i like many times to come a least once a week to have prayer with you when our grandkids which is so our daughter both because they they good sign because i know the kids are trained to see that things and their family and so they're allowed to talk about what is the importance to pray for your children i think a year ago we have over gracie but she's younger and doesn't quite understand it yet but one day i was by myself a man i was at work and so i went over to the all and i i was wholly z kill and i put i put my hand on this hand and i said the lord bless you and keep you easy kill the lord and as soon as i said the lord he said make his face shine upon you and i looked at him and i said this is what what just happened did he just did he just repeat beyond words i was speechless i looked at him and i said good job how do you know how do you know this first how do you know pop up pray for me so as he was hearing you two was hearing mom as he was hearing us pray over him he actually remembered as young as he is two and a half years old he it was remembering the the the the the verses as much as much as he could for his age and so that's kind of when i don't want to say that it wasn't important to me to do that before but it became even more important for me because i was seen how crucial it is and how much use of how much of it is a really absorbing i didn't know i  idea he was even paying attention to the usually trying to squirming trying to get out of my arms when i'm holding him and so to see him like that it's like it was a it was as a lightbulb goes off in your head and you think wait a minute not only am i doing this because out of obedience i'm blessing my children and this is what we are called to do over children but my child is actually learning he's he's he's picking up he's starting to remember these words and and then and then you start thinking well what else is the remembering of my saying everything right in my doing everything right as it is he picking up words that he shouldn't and so that's that's when things started to change for us when we started to realize wait a minute like you say he could be playing but he's always listening there's one ear that's always paying attention to our conversations and you can see that in any two three year old they start to say sentences that they they heard from us they'd have nowhere else to hear them from you ever and only so that's when it became very important to us and when we realize that he's absorbing more a lot more than we think and the importance of of blessing him became even more crucial to us on a daily basis and that's a that's a very powerful words to lead the lute child who said to his mouth and it's amazing to realize you know how powerful is this you cannot do that unless you you got up and he looked amigos pay me pay me and i first i said why in the time i thought he was saying play with me and i said no money can't play with you right now you have to go to sleep and he looks amigos knowing he's frustrated  he goes pay me paying me and after a couple minutes i kept saying you know i kept guessing what he was saying and finally i said pray pray for you he goes yeah and he i realize that he was so he had gotten so used to being prayed over whether it was from you and mom before he went to sleep with your at her house or whether it was his dad when you put him down for an to bed and now he was developing this this i think this great habit and also it was kind of a security for him it was something that he he needed to have a before he went to sleep and so i prayed for him i finally guessed it and he goes yeah i prayed for him and of course he took his bottle and he it up sleeping so phrases or yeah it's it's amazing to watch it and to see your child start to develop those good habits as good characteristics that that are only by the grace of god that that we're able the beginning and everybody has to learn from other people and i'm so glad you know we were able to talk to them and tell them what to do and they was able to do that over their children i didn't know that one of my children were small and but little by little i understand how important my words speaking over my kids speaking over myself speaking over the house speaking over the minutes even speaking to speaking things what you need to see accomplish in your life more  when you see your own kids which you actually invest all your life and your kids for the people they work all their life for their kids the they decay themself everything for their kids you know i mean and that's why it's very important to dedicate  the words which is the word of god over them also i want to talk to you more about the importance of atmosphere what you create in the house i realize you know even when i come to you once in awhile come to your house and and i heard the music in the background you don't have the t v on but you have the music done and always as a christian music and i was wonder about experience one day and say no i'm not going to listen to any other secular music because i going to try to see what's happening you try that for a week or so and after that it can go back right music is it does it creates a warship atmosphere it creates an atmosphere in your home in your car where you're not thinking about the things of the world and the the pressures of life or or how how or are you going to get through the day you know you when that word in the music begins to infiltrate you and get to your core ben you begin to be in that atmosphere of worship before the lord and when you start that from the beginning of the day to the end of the day i'm not saying to keep the music on twenty four seven but in our case if we owed the kids are awake or we know we if we have the t v off which is usually but we have music on in the background when i know why i noticed in my own life it changes your way of thinking it doesn't you're not concentrating on the lyrics of the secular music that you heard that day or of what so and so told you you or your mind is in meditating the word of god says to meditate on the word day and night i believe that you can meditate on the word you don't have to read the word of god at every moment of every day it's impossible to actually we were people we live yesterday we need to eat and work but when you infiltrate your mind with that music it does change the atmosphere it changes the way it changes your children it brings that peace to your home and brings a sense of calmness where if it if it was if there was a different kind of music that was not inspired by the holy spirit or that was you know secular like you said it just brings turmoil in your spirit it doesn't bring you peace it doesn't bring you  joy it just leaves you thirsty just like drinking soda you're never really you're never really satisfied by you still need water and the word of god is aren't living water so that's very important and you know a lot of a lot of people will say well you know if i if i'm in the car and i want to listen to a different kind of music or i want to change a station but your children are always listening they know the difference between the music that is christian music and the music that's not for example if i for some reason get in the car and i'm trying to switch stations and i'm going to the stations and for some reason atlanta artists are on a secular station my son will actually say mom what's that he knows already his ears have been have been accustomed to listening to the word of god in this thing to music that's life and he knows now the difference and it whether you whether you notice it or not your children will notice and the atmosphere will change drastically when you make that change and also as a not goods you know in you know many kids i mean that kids maybe thirty forty years old the still listening to a secular music music is something for your soul and go deep in your soul in the league start changing your r t to towards anything i mean if you if the music is a movie with  away our peace joy and nothing about to music which is in the world right now like heavy metal rock n roll which many people live and doing crimes and pornography in doing all kinds of things penitentiary for many years or for life which they did crimes all these things and some of the they said they'd been inspired because of the leading what they heard and that's why i'm not talking about that kind of music because that kind of music is actually brainwash  take you away completely from this world and make you to become a master sometimes but i'm talking about the easy one you know the you know the secular music like love songs and all these things and and many days even those can or fourteen days to talk only to a christian music in your car and are listening more to other music except to christian music for a least a week or two weeks and after that find out what is  that we play in our home especially when you have small kids like easy kill and grace they accumulate everything and you want your children you want your children to be according with the word of god and you want them to to know jesus as their personal savior later on in their life and and are said to know the you know the distinct the good and bad the evil and good i mean all those things to do have the distinction and to know exactly what to do in a certain situation one is something is not there or what he used to listen and our program is always today and the second one but i'm so glad we cover so many things in the first program t let our kids to listen to our words why do you not ask them things where invested in them and the second time how to bless them how to speak blessing over them for the important things in the first program was to not call them names on the even they are bad you know they are bad kids sometime and you should i tell them you are a bad kid you should tell if you are a good kid you are a blessed kid you should do these things you're your guys first kid maybe in a few minutes you know we have another six seven minutes in this program maybe you can explain to people how did you choose the name musical well because you a name and you know we had a lot of baby name books as i'm sure every first time parent and however many kids you have you want to make sure that you the name is very important so  at first when claudia my sister in law she's she said well why did why do you have to look at some of the means of this gives me a headache why don't you just pray about it i don't give you a name and i have to be honest at that moment and even in the moments after that i thought god isn't god or that is not going to give me a name he doesn't care i mean i knew i knew he cared but i was like he does he won't speak to me so as specific as that well i started i put it into practice i said you know why not we have we do have to come to the lord with everything and especially something like a name a name is is what defines a person name is with specially the meaning behind the name is is very important so i my husband  i began we began to pray about it and i know that the our whole family was sort of praying and asking i when it was going to be a boy so we started praying and one day we were praying together and i'll five of us and we what we should name him and it was it was good practice for us and a good way for us to get in the rhythm of of asking god for everything including you know including what to name your child what what what school will you send your child to what which people will you let your child stay with or you know it's important to to it's important to involve god in every little thing and to not ever think that god is too big and you are too unimportant and insignificant to him because you are important to him and your choices and your decisions are important to god and they matter to him and that's that's something that that i want every parent re even if you've made mistakes in the past and if you've done things without asking the lord and you you've seen the consequences and you you've come to terms with wow i made a mistake now i'm paying for it it's never too late it's never too late to ask god for forgiveness and start fresh when you see the face of that little child and maybe you did have called your kids names or you said you're dumb your name your stupid these are this is this is how this is how the world talks is the vocabulary of of of everybody around us but that does not mean that that is how we are and god gives a second third fourth fifth sixth chances he gives us one hundred chances as long as we're breathing we're alive and we ask for forgiveness there is no no limit as to how much god will forgive us and even if you are one of those parents that begin to speak negative things over your child to day is the day where you can ask the lord lord please forgive me i don't want to speak those to my children i'm seeing the effects of it maybe your child is in high school maybe your child is about to enter middle school it doesn't matter what matters is ask for forgiveness and talk to your children and say listen i wasn't perfect i didn't i didn't do those things because i didn't love you i did and it was it was a mistake i should have been seeking go to the lord seeking god and god will honor that and you can start fresh this moment any day and that you will say a prayer at the end which we observe as we are given this there is no perfect parent even if you start out with the word and you know your your you are very disciplined about praying with your children and maybe for a while you've been slacking on it or you you've been in a situation where you've been too busy and it happens often you can start back up because the children our children are what we invest in them they become what we invest in them they will eventually become the words that we speak to them they will become they will not do well in school they will not prosper and what they do if we keep speaking those words but if we begin to speak life you are a smart kid you are smart girl you will go on and do great things you can do anything you put your mind to you will accomplish anything that that is set before you in this life because christ is in you than your child will become whatever you spoke to them and i'm a firm believer in that and i i i will never i will never take for granted the word of god and how important it is to speak life into our children each and every day praise the lord yes as the w praise the way how you receive it but believe it if you would like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight eight eight six two two five seven eight eight four new mail us at john  illinois and if