THE UNITY OF THE FAMILY BRINGS SUCCESS

For the family to be successful, it is imperative that the family is healed. If the family is not healed and functioning fully, then both the Church Government and the Civil Government will be affected. Generally speaking, the family institution has been broken and divided as a result of a lack of proper leadership/headship. The absence of the fathers has created a vacuum, and division, disappointment, death, and debt have been filling it.

Every nation, instead of focusing on gender issues, should create a Ministry of Government for Family Affairs and have a full-time government minister to head it — one who is married. Their focus would be on adoption, nutrition, and insurance for the family, child maintenance, mentorship, welfare, conflict resolution, low-income homes, pension, national money management training programs, parenting programs, and family planning. We would see major changes in the economy of every nation that would employ this approach.

It is very difficult to achieve economic goals and growth within a nation when the family is broken. Empowering the family must be the number-one priority. The institution of marriage is being broken, while common-law relationships are increasing and highly promoted; this negatively affects the economy of a nation. We must get on the path to eliminate the promotion of common-law relationships and promote marriage again. Common-law relationships entertain a bastard curse, which negatively affects the nation. Having a sound education is one key element for anyone to have before considering having a child/children. We need to begin again to teach the roles of mothers and fathers. The responsibility and importance of children honoring their biological and spiritual parents must be encouraged and highly promoted; they must be taught the importance of getting the blessings of their parents and the value and impact that it has on their future.

Fathers must step up in their roles because they are the first man in the lives of their daughters and the first mentor in the lives of their sons. They must teach their children discipline, how to pray, how to be principled, and how to be the best they can be in any sphere they enter. Fathers must begin to decree and declare blessings over the lives of their children daily. They must teach their children how to serve and how to avoid the mistakes their parents made.

The Church and the Family

It is also the responsibility of the church to pray that the family is united and that more couples will begin to enter the kingdom so that stability and purity will return to the family. We need to pray for revival, restoration, and healing to come to the family.

I have observed many times the churches hosting conferences and conventions, but very few are for the family, and the greatest problems that now exist within the Church are broken families and financial issues — even within church leadership. The failure of leadership within the Church is the result of the broken family. The Bible specifically speaks about managing his household properly before management of the house of God. Many leaders within the Church have families that are broken and scattered, and God wants us to be the example that the world will follow.

There needs to be more intercession within the Church for the family. It is time for all stakeholders — the three levels of family — to create laws that will bring positive change within the family. God did not create a divided family. The first man and woman were a microcosm of the Church; hence, blessings and prosperity will come as we function according to the blueprint God set for families.

The enemy of souls hates a Godly family, and only through division of the family can he rob us. Genesis 1:26–28 states: "Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'"

We must rise up and pull down the aggressive satanic forces that are coming against the family. We have the authority to bind and to loose and to tear down every wicked law and every wicked system that seeks to destroy the family. We cannot allow the enemy to take away the authority that God has given us.

Many are pushing self-rule and independence from God, but any rule without God brings chaos, disaster, crime, and violence. Recognize that attacking the family is an attack on the government of the Church and of God. The more man pulls away from God, the more turmoil, trouble, pestilence, perversion, rapes, murders, death, and destruction take place. We see it in the schools and on the...