turning the hearts of men to their children

There have been Christian leaders who have been guilty of immorality, and their fall brings a disgrace to the name of the God they serve. We as Christians know the nature of sin and how it is the grace of God that cleanses us daily, and not through our own efforts that we are clean. We pray for our leaders, and for ourselves also lest we fall in our own weakness. But above all, we trust in a God Whose plan for us is that we become as He is, and we know that His love will keep us from the wrongful desires of our yet unpurged heart, if we will listen and obey Him. Today’s word came as a reply to one leader’s fall, who wants to stay with his Christian mistress and divorce his wife.

"Is this man an apostle of the god who gives men new wives, or of the God who turns the hearts of the fathers to the children, whom this man has not seen since his fall? He is not in his God’s movement because he became drunk on power. My movement breaks power; the power of curses. The other god brings a curse (see Malachi 4:6).

The true God is a God of His Word. If a man will not know Me this way and be formed by My Word, he will be formed by the eventual emergence of his sin.
I am about building history between men and their wives and children. But Man gets bored and wants new and exciting relationships. He wants to 'think big', and calls that 'faith'. My Spirit gets down to the minutia of the lives of men and calls this 'holiness'.

Man thinks he will take My kingdom by works of power, but I say Man will reign with Me in power when he overcomes the world, sin, and the deceit of loving his own ways. Always, as before, a tree is known by its fruit, not by its works.

The biggest battlegrounds are often found in one’s own family. Didn’t I say that betrayal and persecution would happen there, and a man’s enemies would be those of his own household? If a man or woman would do exploits for My kingdom, let them begin there, in the home. Surely I will redeem families and build back up the heritages that were lost. But if a man has his eye on his own gain he will not see that My work needs to be done in him, and in his family. And that man will bring a curse instead of a blessing to the earth.

I have a plan for families. I have a use for their talents. I have a work for them to do, and an example for them to set in the earth. My hand has raised each and every son of God in a family by the hands of those who would shape and mold him. If there were none to love that child, I Myself became his God that he might know a Father. Therefore if a man would be My minister on this earth and represent Me to thousands, he must be a father to his own first. He must set this example in the earth to show My nature. He must love his own wife as I love the Church and bathe her with the washing of the Word, as this sets My example in the world before unholy and ungodly men. If a man would be a light to those in the darkness, let him do as I do. Let him be even as I am. Then I am come in the flesh of men and the kingdom will settle down around his ankles, for satan will be under his feet. Amen.