The Father Difference
This podcast is about helping dads become better fathers.
It’s for dads who want to make a big difference in their kids’ lives (and be the best dads they can be) and want their children to have a loving and present father to help them.
It’s the reason we call it The Father Difference.
When God the Father makes a difference in us, we can make the same difference in our children's lives.
Imagine being the father God desires you to be, actively contributing to your children's dreams and future. Being a dad in their life story is crucial, and I believe it’s your most important role in life.
It only takes one Loving Father to change the course of a family for generations - and one perfect heavenly Father to begin the process in us.
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The Father Difference
From Broken to Blessing: Rewriting Your Fatherhood Story
Fatherhood is a high and holy calling, not just a blessing but a divine stewardship through which God watches over all of us. When fathers discover how to embrace this calling, they can make a profound difference in their children's lives.
• Fathers provide critical identity and security that help children navigate life's challenges
• The difference between fathering from brokenness versus fathering from wholeness
• How our own father wounds affect our parenting despite our best intentions
• God's desire to "father" us so we can better father our children
• Breaking generational cycles by forgiving our own fathers
• Practical ways to be fully present with your children
• The importance of speaking blessing and identity into your children's lives
• How government and culture attempt to replace parental influence
• The spiritual dimensions of fatherhood and its reflection of God's character
Join us next Tuesday as we continue our series on "The Father You've Always Wanted" and discover more about God's plan to heal father wounds.
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Speaker 2:Well, welcome tonight. I am so grateful that you're here and welcome to thefatherdifferencelive. And it looks like we got a hang-up in the screen here. Boy, that's just not a good deal, good deal. So we let me refresh everything and see if we can get back to where we need to be. So sorry that this is happening. Craziness is definitely part of the game here. Not sure why this is happening. Okay, let's see. Okay, looks like we're back. Are we live here? Yes, we are Got the screen back.
Speaker 2:Well, hi, I'm your host, ed Tain-McGlatton. I'm talking to you from our Tandy Studios here by Mount Sinai, the place where I get to pray for you, and excited about sharing with you today about this incredible gift you are as a father and the difference you can make. You are as a father and the difference you can make. And so, before we do that, just a few introductory things. We are on chapter two of this book, the Father you have Always Wanted, and I want to make sure you get a copy of this. It's available on our website. It's also available online. You can get a digital copy. We'd love for you to get it and it's the Father You've Always Wanted, and the subheading is how God Heals your Father Wounds, a book that I did a few years ago with Baker, and we're going through this with the guys on Tuesday and on Thursdays with the gals, and so I'd love for you to get that and be a part of it. And, by the way, oh, somebody said love that hat. Look at that. Make fathers great again. No, I'm not endorsing Trump with this hat, although it's the same color. This is what God wants to do, and if you want—thank you, justin—if you want to get a hat like this, well, maybe we'll put it up on our website and you can get one too, because that's exactly what God wants to do in the world.
Speaker 2:Now, that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about the incredible difference that you can make as a father in the world. Now, that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about the incredible difference that you can make as a father in the life of your children, the life of your sons. You might be tuning in for the first time, going who the heck is this guy? Well, I'm Ed Tanney-McGlasson, and I am so grateful to be your host. Yes, I am sporting my journey, a journey that used to have shoulder pads underneath for the New York Giants. I got to play football for a little while and had some incredible moments and incredible days, but nothing comes close to doing this and being with you and helping you become the father God's meant you to be.
Speaker 2:Because we live in a world right now where probably the point of the spear has been aimed by wicked people against you, dad, if you're a mom, against you Mom. They basically want to take over the parenting of your children. The government thinks that that's the job of the government, but it's not. It's a job of mamas and papas out there, and to the level that you learn how to be the best mom or dad you can be to your children, the more they're going to be bulletproof from this crazy world, from social media, from everything else that's kind of going on, and so tonight I want to share with you the second part of chapter two to get you to think a little bit more about what God's doing. I just want to welcome Evelyn, mama there, and also Hogan, welcome tonight, and those of you that are streaming in, and my Facebook friends my Facebook Live, instagram Live friends and looking forward to sharing with you. I'm just honored and it's just great being able to be here. And it's just great being able to be here at yes, at the young old age of 68 years old Just turned 68, just had our 43rd wedding anniversary and my wife still likes me. What a great deal.
Speaker 2:So tonight we're going to talk about how God wants to make fathers great again and what he does in us. When he begins to change our story, he begins to change everything in our life. And if you want to hang with me and connect later, on a matter of fact, the whole group of us are going to be online at 6 o'clock and Icy can let you know how to connect in and we're going to watch the debate, the presidential debate. You might be outside of the country, it doesn't apply to you, but we're going to talk about what the Bible says about it. We're going to pray.
Speaker 2:It's a very important time in our history in America because right now we're not making fathers great again. Our culture is broken because dads have been so demonized, marginalized, so many divorced away from their kids. Oh, yes, there's responsibility, there's hurt, there's things that people go through, but the truth of the matter is so goes the dad many times. So goes the family, so goes the wife, so goes the kids, and so how does kind of God do that? Well, I'm going to start out by telling you one of those incredible stories in my travels.
Speaker 2:And I was on an airplane heading to Seattle, going up for a men's event that I was preaching at, and I sat next to this gal with a Greenpeace shirt on. She was sitting next to me and we were starting to have a conversation, have a conversation, and so I looked at her and I said sweetheart, do you know why God has made you? And she looked very intently at me and she goes I don't believe in God. And I said you don't? I said well, what do you believe in? He goes well, I'm a scientist. I'm on my way to Antarctica, we're going to go up and study the penguins and all that. I said, man, good for you.
Speaker 2:And just listen to her story about what she's into. And I said why don't you believe in God? Why don't you? Why did you choose to be an atheist? She said well, I, you know, I was raised by a single mom. My dad was a monster and wasn't in my life, and I spent a lot of my life alone trying to figure out who I was, and the only thing that's ever given me any kind of life is, you know, to pursue something and I work for Greenpeace and I'm doing all these things and I'm grateful to be able to do that. And I said well, can I ask you a question? Why do you think that it's so important to you to connect in and do these things in your life? He goes because I want to know who I am. And I said, well, and she goes.
Speaker 2:She's looking at me with a strange look and she said well, why are you on this airplane? I said, well, I'm about to go up to do a big conference with men there in Seattle to teach them how to love daughters like you. And she looks out the window, she looks away and she was just she's hurting and I could see it in her eyes and she looks back at me. I could see it in her eyes and she looks back at me and she goes well, what kind of a dad are you? And so I started telling her stories about my daughters and how God had to change my heart, because I wasn't good at loving the girls in my life. I was struggling, and so, as a result, the heart of my daughter started slipping away. And sometimes the wrong boyfriends show up at the door and she laughed. I said the ones where you kind of clean your shotgun on the front porch and we're talking this conversation.
Speaker 2:She looks away, looks back at me, her eyes are teary and she said you know, if I'd had a dad like you, I wouldn't be so screwed up, boy. It just hit me like a ton of bricks and I said sweetheart, there is a father who absolutely loves you. It's God the Father. It's God the Father. And could I pray for you that you would encounter him, because when he comes in your story, it won't be like any father on the earth. He'll really be the father you've always wanted, the father that will resource you, love you, support you, and he loved you so much that he sent his only son into your life. She said, sure, and here she was an atheist before this conversation and I laid my hands on her and I just blessed her, like a dad blesses a daughter, and we landed and got up and she gave me the biggest hug and I said you know, every time I think about Greenpeace I'm going to pray for you because I know that you sit next to me in this airplane, because God wanted to kind of telegraph a move that he's doing. He is setting you up for the greatest romance of all time, and that's when you connect to God as your father and Jesus as your savior. He's going to love you and heal those things that are broken. She said I hope so, and so they're all around us, beloved.
Speaker 2:There's young people, there's people that are suffering, and they just need an encounter with their life, with God, the Father, and I've just started wearing my hat. Now People are doing the double take. You know, make fathers great again. Double take. You know, make fathers great again. And at first it's like their looks are like oh, I'm going to nuke you.
Speaker 2:You're a Trump supporter, which I just think is craziness. You know why would you want to demonize somebody for wearing a hat? And because you know this election has gotten so much vitriol in it and so much anger and hate, and part of it is that the identity of people in their life has shifted from the normal way that God brings identity into your life and to your son's life and daughter's life through a loving father, to where you're secure about who you are. Then you go to college and you begin to invest yourself and get educated and learn about you know what you might want to do with your life. But now all that's shifted in our world, where kids go away to college to try to find out who they are. And when I went to college, if people did that, they ended up coming home and they discovered they were really alcoholics because all they did was party all the time. They didn't get a true identity that could stick on them because of the way they were raised. And college is the worst place, by the way, to get an identity, unless it's a school that has great values and they're not interested in transforming you into the vision of what they think you should be, but they're interested in giving you tools so you can think for yourself and discover, because you know Jesus is big enough that we shouldn't be put off by the vitriol of the craziness of the world, even the attacks. I know that I'll get attacked. When people see my hat. They won't read it, they'll think of something and just attack me, which that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2:I played against Mean Joe Green. I played against Randy White and the Dallas Cowboys. I played against Randy White and the Dallas Cowboys. I had incredible games and football against these world-class heroes and at the end of the game we're buddies. We're not beating one another up Now. If we talk online or we connect with one another, we're talking about all the injuries we got and we remember those days being together.
Speaker 2:Boy, that used to be America. That used to be a place where we could agree to disagree and still love one another. Families could do that. We could just love one another and stay in that place. And the way God's going to restore that, I think, is he's going to restore dads and fathers and equip moms.
Speaker 2:And so the next slide I want to share with you is you know, I quoted this last week from Robert Bly. He's a poet and he wrote not receiving any blessing from your father is an injury. He wrote not receiving any blessing from your father is an injury. Our sense of self-worth, confidence, courage to take risks is directly proportionate to support a father gift. And you know your children. When they feel secure about who they are and that you're in their story and you're not going anywhere and you're present, they do the craziest things. I mean I can't tell you how many times I went to the emergency room with broken, jammed fingers, cuts, scrapes, burns on the head, scrapes, burns on the head. I mean my kids got a sense of confidence because they know that God did something with me as a dad. And I mean it was such a profound shift in me from where I started, where my only identity was in wearing this jersey and playing football, and God started to do something in my heart, at the deepest place of who I was, to help me discover that the ultimate call of my life was to be a loving present father and a loving present husband with my wife.
Speaker 2:But when you don't have the blessing, it kind of wounds you in your life and so you know last week when we were talking about you know when blessing your kids helped them discover the answer to some of their deepest questions. That's why your kids act out sometimes, because they're not clear about who they are or they're not sure where to go to. They go to their friends. It doesn't work. And one of their questions is do I have what it takes to discover all that God has for me? Now, they might not put God in there, they might just say I just don't know that I have what it takes. They learn in the playground right away by who's picked.
Speaker 2:As a matter of fact, I was talking to a dad today and his son got really mad at him because he was late for school. Son got really mad at him because he was late for school and he was like well, why are you mad, son? And what he discovered was his son. You know, by the time he got to school and you know, can we have a little camera problem again here by the time he got to school, if he got late, then he wasn't picked up for you know some of the things that the other kids were and he felt like he was out of the loop, that the other kids were, and he felt like he was out of the loop and his father realized well, man, I need to be on time. Man, I am sorry that I was late. And you know, when you begin to learn how to father and parent your son that way, then you're not displaced or upset when your son or your daughter is having a bad day, because you can begin to understand what they're really going through. And I'm really sorry that things are locking up here. We're just going to keep resetting this until I'm not sure what is really this until I'm not sure what is really. But we are definitely, you know, not exactly where we need to be, and so we'll try it one more time. If not, we'll just continue to go back and forth here. So all these technology things aren't they great, and so you know part of you know.
Speaker 2:What I wanted to share as well with you tonight is this thought is about no matter what age we're from, from child to parent, we long to know the same things. I meet dads all the time, whether 80 or 90 years old, and they say Dad, do I have what it takes, do I really have what it takes to be a man, to be a daughter? You know, daughters want to know that, and you know, for a daughter, what do you really think about me? Do you really love me? Do you see me?
Speaker 2:All these kind of questions are inside of our children that we don't discern right away. We just see the actions or they're not doing what they need to do and we miss that. And it's a painful thing when our kids don't think that we see them and it's a hard question. It's really hard to answer these things for our sons and daughters if we've never received that answer ourselves. It's very painful. It's painful for you, it's painful for all of us when we're trying to parent our children in a way that we never got to experience, and so you know he goes on in writing this in my book it isn't that fathers don't want to bless their kids. It isn't that dads don't want to bless their kids. It isn't that dads don't want to be in.
Speaker 2:The simple truth is like it's almost impossible for a man and I would say a woman, if you're a mom here to give away something that you've never received for yourself. Because we've been made that way by God. We're a great grace activator. We need God's grace in our lives to operate. We're also activated by words. When words are spoken over us, they either ignite us or they push us down. And so when we've had harsh words over our life, or no words, or many times some of the biggest killers of dream killers for us, and when our dads are silent and they don't say much to us, and when we live that way, it can affect us and cause us to not say much with our kids. We don't mean to do that, but we'll end up starting our parenting many times, by the way we were fathered and you know, I write this in my book as well and what that person has received, even if it's absence or abuse, usually becomes the way he fathers his own kids, even when he promises to never hurt his children in that way, they would hurt by their death. I mean, how many of you made a promise to never do some of the same hurtful things your dad did to you, like talk to you in a, in a, in a bad way or do anything like that? I mean, I, I did. How about you? And what happens in our life? We make those vows.
Speaker 2:I meet guys all the time. I met a guy a few weeks ago and I said so tell me, how are you doing as a dad? He goes well, I just do everything opposite of my old man. Really, yeah, you know, my dad was a jerk and so I just figured, if I do the opposite of what he did, I could be a pretty good father. And I went oh, that's an interesting theory, can I ask you a question? And he said what's that? You ever broke those rules? He looks at me and he goes yeah, all the time. I don't know why, because I was so hurt by my dad. I said, well, maybe the hurt inside of you is informing you more than your own will's ability to do the opposite.
Speaker 2:What if you were really learned how to forgive your father and let him off the hook because he didn't have much to give you, and you learn a whole new way of being a dad to your kids? And he looks at me and he goes well, how am I going to learn that? Because my dad's not there to teach me? I said well, there's a guy in heaven who really wants to make fathers great again. He sent his only son so that you and I could be fathered by God.
Speaker 2:It's one of the most powerful promises in 2 Corinthians 6.18, and I'll bring that scripture up later. And he says and the Lord says I will be a father to you and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord. God Almighty Gosh, I remember reading that. That scripture just blew my mind that God the Father wants to father us in our stories. God, the Father wants to father us in our stories. He wants to father us in places where we've been wounded, when we've been marginalized, when we've been even abused in our life. He loves coming in and re-fathering us, re-fathering your heart, so your identity is not locked in to the hurt and the pain that you've lived your life in.
Speaker 2:Isn't that good news? I know it is great news, and so see, because one of the devil's you know main goals is to convince you— now look at this, read this with me— to name yourself by your brokenness. The devil wants you to name yourself by your brokenness. The devil wants you to name yourself by your brokenness. Think about some words that you say over your own heart and life, about who you are. Think about the way the world wants to label you Right. To label you right, the devil wants your future horizons to be limited, completely limited, by lies. You know, one of the names for the devil in the Bible is that he is the father of lies. I mean, he is the father of lies, not political people, though they probably say a lot of them. Not political people, though they probably say a lot of them. The issue is the devil's the father of lies, and from the very first moment of your life, he's been lying to you to get you to name yourself by your brokenness. I hear it come out of people's mouths sometimes when I talk to them. Well, I'm really nobody. You know I'm really nobody. You know I'm really nobody. Hey, kay Rudy, welcome here. Rachel, welcome here. So good to have Rachel here. She is an amazing mother. I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 2:On Instagram Live and see if the devil can spend all of his resources in hell on getting you to believe a lie about yourself. Guess what happens with your relationship with God. You stop receiving. They experienced a spiritual death, a separation occurred inside of their hearts and they lost the inheritance of being completely loved by God as their Father. And see when that happens in your life. You're left to name yourself by what you own, by what you have, by your mistakes, about the lies the enemy says about you, about the attacks that you've gone through in your life. And when you're in that place in your life, it's devastating because you never feel like you catch up. You never feel completely seen or completely loved. You could even have the best dad, and I coach dads all the time who had great dads, but they weren't perfect fathers, and so they all have flaws and weaknesses and things in their life. Yet God wants to move us from this, you know, from fear, to this amazing life of faith in Him and the way he does that. He changes the way we see ourselves. He transforms us.
Speaker 2:This next quote that I have that I want to share with you is that before Adam and Eve, you know, sinned against God, their identity came from being born into the Father's house. Their identity is to have relationship with God, the Father. And what's so profound about that? Remember Jurassic Park when it came around, and there's this scene where this guy is. You know where the dinosaurs are starting to walk and when they walk, the little pools of water were going.
Speaker 2:I was just thinking what was it like to hear God moving around the garden, to hear his voice? That's an incredibly profound thing, and if you want to know what it sounds like, just listen to the words of Jesus and the way he heard him. And so he wasn't a raptor to be afraid of a dinosaur, he was his voice. That was so loving and penetrating that no performance for love was needed. You didn't need to do anything to get God to love you more and, as a result, no shame existed. And the Father loves you was the song of the day. And the Father loves you was the song of the day and you know, even Zephaniah says that God rejoices over you with singing and he sings over you with love. That's what Jesus came to bring us. He came to bring us that place in our life. And so, excuse me, adding the cameras again. Not sure why this is all happening here, but it's just part of the groove of being online, and it could be that I'm 68, I'm still learning how to use all this stuff. So thanks for bearing with me, appreciate you, appreciate your prayers, your support.
Speaker 2:So we were talking about this whole thing about the Father's love, and so can you imagine what before I get there—but that changed the day that sin entered the world. In the picture, adam and Eve didn't have this unfettered connection with God, the Father and His love. And now the result of that, because we were all born into sin. Now all of humankind would be born outside of the Father's house as well and into human families where futures would be affected by the kind of mom and dad that we had. They would either be limited or expanded. And yet he doesn't leave it there. His plan is to change that. That's why he sent his son and, as a result, can you imagine what the world would look like right now if every family had a loving father who gave his life to love his wife and bless his children. That's part of the reason that we have the ministry that we do is because I imagine every day, I pray every day for you and for your family, for your children, for your grandchildren one day.
Speaker 2:But can you imagine what would happen, you know, in your family, happen, you know, in your family, if you really learn. Maybe, you know, came to a place where you're in, a place right now where you really want to grow and you want to learn how to be even a better dad or even a better mom. And I'm here to tell you that's God, the Father's priority is to father you so that you can be the best mom and dad you can possibly be for your kids. Because right now your children need you fully present to be able to navigate the craziness of this world. Because the broken governments of the world right now, you know, especially when they're leaning into socialism is they want to become the mother and father of your children. They want to become, they want to wear this hat, they want to be the ones who dictate to you as a dad or you as a mom, and so that can change and, you know, one of my sisters here has been depressed about this my whole life.
Speaker 2:I'm on crazy people in this mad world. Well, they might be crazy, but there's a loving God, the Father, who, through His Son Jesus, jesus, who wants to love you and care for you and break off of you that craziness that maybe you got in your own story, from your family story, and God's not meant you to live that way. And God, you know he's the only one who you know can break that depression and we're going to pray about that at the end and he's the only one that can fix that. Because here is His promise for you. Right, his promise for you is that's God's dream for you, sweetheart. God says that he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. God is right now setting the entire world up through His Son Jesus, and I believe this is going to be a worldwide move, no matter how wicked the culture tries to be, no matter how much in their face they're saying things.
Speaker 2:Because our battle, by the way, isn't it against wickedness and crazy people. Our battle is over our known hearts, of learning how to connect to God, the Father in such a powerful way that His true identity of us being sons and daughters of a loving Father in His Son, jesus, then to go out and encounter these people that are living crazy lives and give them a different way, like that girl on an airplane who thought that Greenpeace would be her Savior and all along you know she said. You know, at the end of her story with me on an airplane as I prayed for her, if I'd had a father like you, my life wouldn't be so screwed up. I meet people like that every single day. They're desperate for just one person and you know my sister comments as well and truth hurts is that I hate the evil people. What evil people do, even I'm as guilty, and that's the deal. The only thing that's predictable that we can deal with is our own stuff. That's the only way that we're going to be healthy and loving and full and we let God to deal with the big picture of all that other stuff. And I have seen some of the most. Just to let you know, I've seen some of the most crazy, screwed up people in my life get new beginnings.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you this story. I had a man come in my office for coaching a while back and he comes in with a trunk, like a big trunk you'd put a whole bunch of stuff in and it was filled with pictures of women he got connected to in the wrong way outside of his marriage in the wrong way outside of his marriage, and I mean it was I can't tell you how many, we didn't count them, I didn't look at them and he just came to confess the secret life that he had. And boy did God do a deliverance in his life and set him free. And some of his early memories this was many years ago this guy Coach. His memories were his father. When he was getting ready to. You know, he became 13 years old, his father took him to a brothel or a whorehouse to help him learn how to become a man. In other words, manhood was about connecting to this and it affected his life until he encountered Jesus. There's nothing God can't do, there's nothing God can't hear. There's no evil people that God can't change. And I want to share one more story for you before we get off tonight. And I want to share one more story for you before we get off tonight.
Speaker 2:And I was on an airplane a number of years ago, because you know that. You know, joe Kennedy's been on the in the news and his uncle, ted Kennedy, who was a senator for many years, was on an airplane and he was flying from Washington to Boston and I was on that same flight, but I didn't know he was going to be on that flight. Evidently they didn't have a private plane. I'm not sure what happened, but they held up our plane and there was only one seat left and of course, everything hangs up. Just keep hanging with me. There was only one seat left and it was right next to me, senator Ted Kennedy, with a crazy background, crazy dad, that whole family Camelot story and all those things, and he was sitting next to me. So we started talking. We had a great, a great conversation and so, as I was talking to him in fact I think this you know something's happening here. So I'm just going to go to this camera and you know, we were sitting there and talking and we're talking about a lot of things.
Speaker 2:But I had a dream about him a number of months earlier and I thought a scripture or a word from God for him, but I didn't want to give it to him because I knew that everybody would be listening in the plane and it would maybe expose him in a wrong way. And it would maybe expose him in a wrong way. And so we land in the airplane and he looks at me and he goes man, I got to pee something terrible, do you got to pee? And I went yeah, I do so. Up we go, secret Service takes me and him out of the plane. Everybody thinks that I'm like one of Kennedy's buddies that he rode with on the airplane and they're all clapping for him as he's leaving. Full of Boston people, great folks. I love Boston, best fans in the world, unless you're playing against them.
Speaker 2:And so, anyway, we go off to the restroom. The Secret Service clears the restroom and I'm standing there with this guy that is either celebrated or hated in the world, and so I'm sitting there, we're staying at the funeral, doing our thing, and I said you know, I had a dream about you and I think God has given me a word for you. You want to hear it? A little awkward, because he looks at me and goes can I finish peeing? First I said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just excited about being with this guy.
Speaker 2:So we go to the sink, we're washing our hands. He goes okay, who are you? And I tell him and introduce myself ex-football player, pastor. He goes okay, padre, what's your word? And I said in Isaiah 40, verse 31,. It says those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength, they will mount up with wings like eagle, they'll run and not be weary and they will walk and not faint. And he looks at me and I said you know, senator Kennedy, I had a dream about you and the Lord showed me that you and your wife would come under some really serious attacks physically. But he wants you to know that if you'll wait on him, he's going to renew your strength and you're going to mount up with wings like eagles and run and not be weary and walk and not faint. And I just want to honor, to pray for you. And he goes, please, and I put my hand on his head and I blessed him. Hand on his head, and I blessed him. And the Lord gave me private words for him that I won't share. And just he embraced me at the end. We're just all alone there in a restroom in New York City and he looks at me and goes tell me your name again. I'm never going to forget this moment. And I told him and he shook my hand, he goes. I can't tell you how much that meant to me. And off he went, secret service took him away. Well, about three months later later, um, they discovered that, uh, he had him. Both him and his wife had cancer. And a really good friend of mine, uh, brian Holloway, who is friends with the Kennedys and, you know, paid for the Patriots. I mean a world-class human being, my best friend since high school told me he never forgot that moment.
Speaker 2:See, in the midst of all the craziness that's going on, the vitriol, the, the political posturing, the uh, the hate, the anger, the brokenness in families, boy, do we need fathers and mothers more than ever right now. And I, I just want to encourage you. No matter how you started your story, no matter how many, what the crazy EVA people are doing, the truth, the matter is that God loves them too, just like he loves you. Because when we were still stuck in sin, the Bible says that Christ died for us In sin, the Bible says that Christ died for us. And so glad to see Jesus' lover, and we are the children of the Lord. And Rachel and Crudy thanks for joining in, but God's made us in such a way that it's time for us to rise up and be the light of the world and loving people, and you let Jesus do the confronting. He is the master at it. It's amazing what happens.
Speaker 2:I mean, just think about how your heart turned when Christ came in it. Was it the sermon that was hanging you over hell with a weak stick that got you to change, or did Jesus walk into your story and his love revealed how far away you were from him, how broken you were? See, that's what evangelism truly is is when we create a moment with people, by loving them, where Jesus can show up and in the midst of that they encounter a Savior who changes their life. So maybe you're in a place where you've never truly just yielded and yielded to Christ, received Him in your life. Or maybe you're stuck in fear right now with everything that's going on and you're overwhelmed by the news. You're overwhelmed by all the stuff back and forth, and I'm going to tell you that God's here with you. Good to see you, helen Pike, and my friends that are online now. They're kind of joining in and I'd love a chance to pray with you. Then I'm going to give you a link if you want to join me for a live Zoom.
Speaker 2:We're going to look at the presidential debate with some of the men in our ministry and just talk about it and pray, and not that I have anything profound to say about this is that I'm praying. I'm praying for both of them that God's mercy would be poured out and truth would come out. I mean, what a concept that the truth would come out. So let me pray for you right now, if you're watching, father. I thank you for my friends. I thank you for the life they have. I thank you, Lord, that you brought them to this live show tonight, because they want to change parts of their story and grow and be better moms and dads. They want to make an ultimate difference with their children.
Speaker 2:So, father, I pray right now, in the name of Jesus, that you would meet my brothers and sisters that are watching, that are responding right now. If you've got a prayer request, just send me a comment and I pray you would meet them, you would love them, you would pour into them and reveal who you are. And I speak right now. And the Scripture says for God has not given us a spirit of fear that leads again to slavery, but love, joy, peace and a sound mind. And, father, I pray you would bless my sister that shared that. I pray that you would fall on and that your mercy would fall.
Speaker 2:I pray for the debate. I pray that your truth would come out, lord, and ultimately, lord, you would put somebody in place that would really help us, as fathers, become great again, to where dads get bragged about again and not demonized or marginalized by the next Hollywood movie. Father, I pray you would heal families. I pray that you would heal those that are here, and I ask you to do this in the matchless name of Jesus. You're the only one who can turn these things around in our world, not just our country, but France and Germany and Spain and Italy and much of Europe and much of Africa and all the places where you're sending our book, in 128 different countries, lord, that people are crying out to be loved by you, father. Father, I pray you'd bring your revival that you've promised over and over again, and you would do something in us right now, in our homes, with our children, that would create a legacy of love for generations to come. And, if you agree with me, say Amen, god bless you. So great to be with you.
Speaker 2:We have a special Zoom. If you want to grab that number and join us, we're going to watch a presidential debate at 6 o'clock. When it comes on, I'm going to stream it here and then restream it to you through Zoom. We're going to have a bunch of different people on here tonight and you know it's not going to be about spiking the football as much as it's going to be about learning and educating ourselves about who has the best policy, because God created government for the sake of protecting two things Government's job is to protect the family and to protect his people, his church. It's not supposed to replace those two.
Speaker 2:And so, god, we need a reboot. How many would say we need a reboot? Amen there, my friends, for doing that. So the Lord bless you. I've got to bounce out and get ready for that event in 10 minutes. If you want to join me, make sure you grab that link. If this has blessed you, I pray that you would connect in. You can go to our website it's a fatherdifferencecom and we'd love to connect with you and share Christ you and help you become the best husband or father and mom on Thursdays that God wants you to be. The Lord bless you. Got to go, got to bounce. The Lord bless you. We'll see you next week.
