WE CAN NULLIFY OR MAKE OUR PRAYER OF NON-EFFECT !

WE CAN NULLIFY OR MAKE OUR PRAYER OF NON-EFFECT: Often people undo their prayers ! They may have prayed and even asked others to pray, but then they nullify or turn around and make their prayers of none effect and the faith of those who are praying with them by speaking negatively. Talk faith which is the Word of God, not doubt which is the language of the world ! I once heard of a minister who asked for others to pray for his son. However, at the same time he was requesting prayer, he would tell his son, "you'll never amount to anything. I don't know what in the world I'm going to do with you ! I have done everything I can do. I have prayed and prayed, but it looks like my prayers don't do any good." This man was confessing defeat and failure rather than victory and faith. He was building doubt and insecurity into his son. This is why so many people have lost their children. As we pray for our children, we must not do anything in our home that would nullify or make your prayers of none effect. We must build confidence and trust in our children. We must instill a sense of security in them. The world is doing the opposite ! Before I was married I usually stayed in the home of pastors doing revival meetings, and I often felt sorry for their children. I particularly remember one pastors 12-year-old son. His parents were inpatient and short tempered with him. They were always telling him he will never amount to anything. Sure enough, he didn't ! He broke the hearts of his parents. He was married several times, and he never provided a living for his family. These parents may have prayed and asked their congregation to pray. They may have shed many tears and even faster. But their lives nullified the effects of their prayers. From the spiritual standpoint as well as the natural standpoint, the things that happen to children in their early years are what mold their lives as adults. Human nature without God in the world shapes everyone to think and do as the world does; that is the nature of the devil to keep you and I in the realm of the natural. Let those years be spiritually rich and meaningful for your children. Let your life match your words. Work with God; don't work against Him. In order to work with him you must be born again ! I also have seen pastors children neglected. The pastors wives were so busy working in the thing that they called church that their children were left alone to do as they pleased. That's why I told my wife when we were first married, "I'll run the ministry and you run the house." In the first ministry we pastored after we were married, we were told it was their custom for the pastor to teach the adult Bible class of men and the pastor wife to teach the women. I told them my wife didn't teach Sunday school. They augured, "But it's our custom here. We have been doing this for more than 20 years !" "Well, I just change that custom," I replied. "We'll consolidate the two classes and make one big auditorium class, and I will teach it. My wife doesn't teach Sunday school." When they asked me why, I told them, "I am going to preach and teach the congregation. My wife is going to stay home and keep house and take care of me and our children, when we have them. I want her to run things there, and I'll run things here. There are many capable people in the congregation who can work, so let's put them to work."