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WORLD UNIVERSITY OF PRAYER AND FASTING
Missionaries-Church Planters-Leaders and Pastors
31st March 2020
!!! UNEDITED !!!
Brother Theodore Andoseh
Halleluiah!
Spiritual parenting. We want to look at what goes into producing sons or children that
are useful to God. Who serve in God's purposes.
SPIRITUAL PARENTING : ISAAC AND REBECCA
Gen 25:19-26
19 This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac.
Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married
Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the
Aramean.
21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The Lord
answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each
other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of
the Lord.
23 The Lord said to her,
"Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger."
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The
first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him
Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was
named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
NIV
Brethren, the Bible says clearly that flesh gave birth to flesh and spirit gave birth to
spirit. The children that will serve in God's purposes come from two wombs, come from
two matrixes, a physical matrix: the womb and a spiritual matrix: prayer.
Abraham had taken 25 years to pray, to have the child of God's purposes. But to have
a normal child, he did not make an effort, he just arrange levirate arranges with his
wife. Sarah realised that she had made a mistake but it was too late. When God Himself
told Abraham: listen to Sarah and don't mind about your slave woman, it was because
Abraham had already entangled emotions. God had to warn Abraham, "do as Sarah
has said, don't be thinking about how you will be unfair to this slave girl".
So, there was the natural matrix and there was the spiritual matrix. The children that
will be useful to God are produced by prayer.
1When it was Isaac turn, Isaac did not have too many quarrel with God, he himself was
a miracle child, so it was easy for him to pray. When you see what we have just read,
Isaac had prayed for twenty years, his faith was steady in God, he had no problem
with believing God, that is why his life of prayer is only two sentences. There is no
trouble chapters, there is just: "He prayed and his wife got pregnant", it took twenty
years for that, there was no trouble chapters because his faith was a stable faith.
And then also, when Rebekah got pregnant, it was a difficult pregnancy, a lot of kicking
in the womb, and she had learned from her husband. When she was in Paddan Haram,
she did not know God, but after marriage, after twenty years, the dominant
characteristic of the husband robbed on on her. Sa femme aussi té ait devenue une
femme de prière. Regarde bien ta femme, ce qu'elle fait naturellement, ce sont les
caractéristiques dominant es de ta vie. Applaudissons pour Isaac. La priè re était le
climat de la maison. Isaac n'était pas un homme de bruit, ni de grande capacités, mais
il était un homme de prière. Quand les enfants font d u bruit dans le ventre, la maman
prie. Ces enfants, avant d'être conçus et accouchés, ils étaient baignés dans la prière.
La parentalité spirituelle c'est par la prière.
Donc Isaac a prié, les enfants sont venus. Rebekka a prié et Dieu lui a donné une
révélation par rapport à l'identité de ces enfants, le rôle que chacun devait jouer par
rapport aux desseins de Dieu. Dieu lui a simplement dit: tu n'as pas des enfants, tu
portes des nations qui seront perpétuellement en guerre. Rebecca est partie prier,
prier, prier et Dieu lui a dit: Rebecca, ce qui est dans ton ventre, ce n'est pas seulement
les difficultés avec la grossesse, tu as deux nations qui seront toujours en guerre.
L'aîné va être assujetti au cadet. Les parents avaient les yeux pour les voir
différemment. C'est par la prière que Dieu te révèle même tes enfants, ce n'est pas
par leurs comportements. Leur maman connaissait les enfants par révélation reçue au
travers de la prière. Il n'y avait que la mère qui savait que l'ainé sera assujetti au c adet.
On connait les enfants par révélation, et Dieu révèle aux parents qui s'enquièrent. On
moule les enfants par la prière. La parentalité spirituelle est au travers de la prière.
Celui qui prie pour les enfants connaîtra les enfants. Il y a beaucoup d'e nseignements
sur comment il faut laisser éclore les caractéristiques des enfants, mais la parentalité
spirituelle c'est par la prière.
La deuxième chose qui a façonner ces enfants, Esaü et Jacob pur Dieu était la
bénédiction prophétique. La bénédiction c 'est donner ce que Dieu t'a donné à
quelqu'un d'autre au travers des mots prophétiques. Les gens de la Bible donnaient
beaucoup d'importance sur les mots de bénédiction. Même les gens indépendants et
frivoles comme Esaü ont pleuré pour qu'on lui dise certa ins mots qu'on appelle
bénédiction. Qu'est -ce qu'ils connaissaient qu'on ne connait pas. Les bénédictions vont
loin.
And I was blessed, blessed, many times. Brother Zach blessed me many times.
Unfortunately I was foolish, I did not record all eh blessings. The last blessing he gave
me was January before he went. When he asked me what should he bless me with? I
told him: pray for me that I will rapidly finish my assigned task and go and be with the
Lord. So he told me to sit down and he put his hand on me and he said: In the name
2of Jesus, I bless you with power to carry no weight. I bless you with the power to
leave all burdens at the feet of Jesus and to carry no weight, I free your heart from
all weight coming from God's service. So you see me like this, see my hear inside, my
heart is "like a poêle Tefal". It is about brethren I believe the brethren, I believe wicked
people, even when I se that they are wicked, God is stronger than the wickedness of
anybody's heart, I received it by blessing. And there are other blessing, I remember
patches of them.
Spiritual parenting is blessing.
Blessing is moulding people spiritually
Prayer is moulding people spiritually
And blessing is moulding people spiritually.
I am not an admirer of Joe Osteen, but his father left a church of about 6000 members,
within five years of when he took over,
He carried the church to 45000, and he did not complete his studies at the university.
One da somebody asked him; what is the secret of your life. He told the person
blessing, blessing. He told the person: form when I was small, my mother everyday
never allowed to go to school without calling me, no matter how late I am to lay her
hands on me and bless me. He said: I have been blessed every day, since I was born
by my mother. That is why I am the way I am, that is why things work in my hands.
Compare him to you, your own mother spent the time cursing you, "look at you, good
for nothing child, you shall see pepper in your life. All that you are doing to me like
that, your children will show you pepper".
But Isaac, he blessed, he blessed, he blessed, and even when he was blessing the two
children, I realised that even Isaac had discern the spiritual condition of the two
children clearly. When he taught he was blessing Esau, he blessed him with the
blessing of the country and the blessing of the open heaven. He blessed him with food,
food, rich blessing, of the rain on the mountain. That is the blessing he gave to Jacob
thinking that Jacob was Esau. There is nothing there about God' s purposes (Genesis
27) - Go and see in chapter 28 the second blessing he gives to Jacob, what he has
originally intended to bless Jacob with (Genesis 28) - ici, il sort le patrimoine spiritual:
la terre, l'alliance et la bénédiction que Dieu a laissé dans l'alliance. Quand il savait que
c'était vraiment Jacob, il lui a donné la vraie bénédiction. Jacob n'avait pas besoin de
mentir. Isaac, bien qu’aimant la viande, avait la lucidité spirituelle.
La parentalité spirituelle c'est par les bénédictions, par la prière.
On façonne les enfants par la prophétie, la révélation et les bénédictions.
On connait même les enfants qu'on élève spirituellement, Dieu a besoin de te révlé er
chacun de tes enfants.
We should be very careful about carnality. All the gift so King Saul were outside, he
had a big height, all the gifts of Esau, outside: with all his hair, all the gifts of King
Saul, outside.
In this parental spirituality, we are talking about, the pastors who has people in front
of them, only God can help you to know the people in front of you and help you to
direct them. Prayer moulds, fasting moulds, that is how we produce those who will be
3useful to God. I have backsliding a lot in praying for individuals. I used to see
temptations that will come for some of my flock long before it comes and prayed for
them. In that, I have backslidden and I repent, it is a shame.
It is prayer that moulds people that will be useful for the goal;.
It is prayer that shows us the place everybody will occupy in the vision.
If in the SKSG, if we have time to pray for the student, maybe we will discern and stop
consulting flesh for directives. We use prayer, blessing, revelation, to mould those who
will be useful to God's purposes.
• Pray that our pastors, our leaders, our church planters will pray for their people
and so produce those who can be useful for the goal.
4SPIRITUAL PARENTING: JACOB AND LEAH
In Genesis 29: 31-35, we find Jacob and Leah in spiritual parenting.
Gen 29:31-35
31 When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was
barren. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she
said, "It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now."
33 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Because the Lord heard
that I am not loved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon.
34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband
will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi.
35 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "This time I will praise
the Lord." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
NIV
All the children of Leah reflected the spiritual condition in which their mother was when
they were born. Our spiritual condition is formative. The people who enter your life
when you are spiritual will go further than those who enter your life when you are
carnal. When the Bible talks about Zacharias and Elizabeth, the coming of John the
Baptist as the one who will serve God, was influenced by the same factors, John was
a child of prayer. But John was also a reflection of the spiritual condition of the parents.
The Bible says, : thee was a priest by the name of Zacharias of the clan of Abiathar,
he and his wife Elizabeth were upright in the ways of God, walking in all the ways of
God. Zachariah and Elisabeth were not only praying for a child, but the bible draws
attention to the spiritual condition in which they were. John the Baptist was born into
a matrix of holiness. The parents were walking with God. The parents were righteous
before God. The one time that Zacharias doubted, later on influenced John the Baptist,
because John the Baptist later on doubted: are you the one who is to come, just like
the father had doubted. They stamped their spiritual condition on the child who was
born.
This is one of the most important factor of spiritual parenting.
Abraham lied, Isaac lied.
Jacob deceived his father, with the dress of his brother, and Jacob was deceived by
his children with the dress of their brother. He carried the brother's dress to go and lie
his father, and later on, his sons took their brother dress and pour blood on it to also
come and lie to him. The children we produce will carry our spiritual condition.
Look at Jacob and Leah, God gave children to Leah, but every time, Leah used the
children for her personal battles and her insecurities and for her covetousness, she
was looking for a husband's love and every child was just to secure her husband's love,
until the fourth child. When Judah was born, she said I am tired, this time, I will praise
God. Judah was born when she was at her best spiritually. And in 1 Chronicles 5, the
Bible says that Judah became the strongest of his brother and the king is form Judah.
5The second thing to notice there is the power of proclamation. When every child was
born, Leah made a proclamation. Naming is a proclamation. Naming is a proclamation
and it shapes the child. So these children were shaped by the proclamation of those
who were in authority to them. Naming is a proclamation. If you allow a bad name,
you have proclaimed and it will follow. Naming is a prophetic proclamation. Even in
the church, Jesus named Peter, he gave Peter a name, proclaiming what he will be He
gave James sand John a title, proclaiming where they were.
To be in a position of authority like a pastor, like a leader, like a missionary is to be in
positon to make prophetic proclamations in the lives of people, and we do it every day:
you are a disappointment and the child becomes a disappointment. "you hurt me" and
the person will do more. "you are independent" and you have proclaimed". Why can
you say like Paul: "you are my joy". Why can you say like Peter: "you are my
encouragement'. Why don't you call people: "you are my strength". Why don't you tell
some brethren: "you are my glory, you are my pride", why don't we proclaim? And you
tell somebody: "you will be the death of me"
Les noms que Léa donnait, " Siméon : mon mari va m'aimer" elle prophétisait et ça ne
marchait pas. Dieu a vu ma misère , il sait qu'on ne m'aime pas : Ruben - apitoiement
sur moi-même.
Si les dirigeants sont des chercheurs de Dieu, on va produire des gens qui vont suivre
Dieu.
Si les dirigeants sont des voyous, on va produire des église s remplies des
abominations.
Si les dirigeants sont les amoureux de l'Eternel, on va avoir une église qui est une
grande poubelle où les gens jettent le s poubelles du monde, où chacun jette ses
diplômes, son argent. Une église avec un grand incinérateur, où le s frères enlèvent
toutes les choses du monde, on est libre et on avance.
Alléluia .
Dans la parentalité spirituelle, la condition des dirigeants, la condition des pasteurs, la
condition des missionnaires, surtout par rapport à la sainteté est déterminante. On va
soit produire des Judas, soit produire, des Lévi, soit produire de s Simon, ca dépend de
la condition spirituelle dans laquelle on vit quand on est en train de rendre ministère .
On peut bâ tir des enfants qui aux yeux des hommes sont du potentiel mais qui n'iront
nulle part parce que la condition spirituelle qui les a formés n'était pas profonde.
Plus tard dans Genèse 49, Jacob a donné des directives prophétiques par rapport à
chaque enfant.et, dans toutes les directions prophétiques , un élé ment ressort. Quand
il prend chaque enfant, il proclame ce qu'il a remarqué pendant que cet enfant
grandissait. Ruben: prémices d e mes forces, mais tu ne vas pas prévaloir, parce que
tu es monté sur mon lit et tu as couché ave c ma femme. Cet acte de Ruben a coloré
tout son avenir. Siméon et Lévi : vous vous emportez dans la colère. Votre col ère est
comme la glaive, je vais vous éparpiller partout. Leur colère les a rendus des gens qui
ne pouvaient pas former une équipe. C 'est pourquoi il a distribué Levi dans toutes les
villes pour prier. Soit là en train de garder la colère, tu ne vas jamais bâtir une équipe ,
6quel que soit ta spiritualité . Plusieurs dirigeants ne jugent pas la colère, mais c'est la
colère qui a jugé Siméon et Lévi. Et il dit: Joseph, tes frères vont t'acclamer, tu as été
persécuté , acculé mais tu es resté fort dans ta marche avec Dieu, tu es le prince de
tes frères .
Tu ne peux pas donner des directives spirituelles si tu ne connais pas tes enfants; ce
sont les choses que les enfants ont faites pendant qu'ils grandissaient qui définit leur
avenir prophétique. Benjamin qui était toujours là pour consoler son père: Dieu dit, il
sera le bien-aimé de Dieu, celui qui cherche la relation avec Dieu. Judah, tes frères
vont se tournent vers toi pour toutes les directions, le dirigeant viendra de Judah
jusqu'à ce que le règne vi ent à Shiloh, tous tes frères vont se tourner vers toi. C’est la
vie qu'ils ont menée q ui a fini par définir tout leur avenir. Quelle vie? La manière dont
chacun a traité son père, c'est ce qui était prophétique. On peut être tintin avec ses
amis, mais avec ses parents il faut être sérieux .
Si tu veux avoir un avenir, traite tes parents bien. Ça ne dépend pas de la manière
dont tu as été traité, ça dépend de la manière dont tu as traité tes parents.
J’espère que pendant que tu bâti les gens, tu les observes et quand tu vois leur manière
de traiter les autorité s spirituelles qui sont au-dessus d’eux, tu vois leur avenir pour
qu'on ne finisse pas par nommer le gens qui ne sont pas spirituels. J’espère que tu
sauras lire l'avenir spirituel des autres, j'espère que tu sauras lire ton propre avenir
spirituel. 'je veux être comme tel' et on ne sait même pas sur quelle base se tenir
Dans la parentalité spirituelle on façon ne l'avenir par les prophéties , des prophéties
qui sont les choses essentielles;
Les proclamations sont prophétique s
La condition spirituelle est formatrice
Les directives prophétiques sont à base de comportement moral
C’est comme a ç que les pasteurs font les église s
Que les dirigeants assurent les co-ouvriers pour les desseins de Dieu.
Maintenant que nous connaissons un peu plus, faisons mieux.
Que quelques-uns prient.
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