Write down what you’re believing God for

Hey good morning family I'm excited to be with you all today I brought my best friend Diana on here my wife you know I she's behind the scenes person she's been there answering the emails and I brought her on before in a past video but never really let her talk a lot about our life and our and how we make things work you know we get a lot of emails of people that are saying my we my marriage is falling apart I'm in shambles here my kids are backsliding or going to hell my 12-year-old's doing drugs I mean email after email after email and I feel in my heart it's it's time to talk about how to put God first place in your home you know I can honestly tell you all if you are not putting God first place in your house you're not going to make it there's nights you don't want to pray you know and you're just ready to go to bed you're no hold on it's priority y this is priority I don't care how tired we are we're going to pray and we're going to go before the father for our children and we're going to seek him even in when we're dead tired where you feel like I' I've worked all day I don't feel like doing this how bad is your want to do you want your children to know how to live by faith whenever they get older do you want your wife and your marriage to be strong do your you know vice versa putting God first taking communion daily we take communion daily we pray together every day every day uhhuh we read our Bible we listen to the word all the time it's like so much so that I don't even realize it that I do it even as the head of the house that I'm always continually praying or singing or inviting him into our home as the head of my house being a leader man being a leader of your home teach you know getting you know you being the leader and in and praying with your wife praying with your children before they go to bed anointing them with oil doing the things that you can do as a leader of your house you know it's like they say 70 75% of all marriages with special needs children in a divorce you know 50% of all body of Christ marriages in a divorce here we are we work together you know back whenever I got laid off at the church work there for so long you know when they came to me and they said you know cuz our pastor fell morally and they couldn't afford to keep a lot of the staff on they eliminated a lot of things and everything and so we stepped out by faith and started doing our business selling online just seeking him and the Lord said Brandon I'm going to speak to you every single day and I'm going to show you things that thrift stores I'm going to show you things where to find it to for the provision for that day and so we I would you know she was still uh doing things and she quit her job because like I said she had a master's degree she finished for with a 4.0 in college and graduated top of the class with a su sumade right yeah I graduated from U um and yeah I uh we had I did it while we had little kids um it was really it was really a lot it was a it was a it was a lot to do but um it was a way of like we were we were trying to find the path that God had for us and um and then that's whenever we just found out about like I was selling we started doing the thrift store thing um and that's what the path that God blessed in our life um was just like going to a thrift store and finding stuff and that's was our provision for the day like I remember when it first started um the Lord just gave me the idea of doing that and we didn't have enough money to last us through that month and um Brandon and I were talking about it and you were like we don't have enough money it was the month of May and you're like we don't have enough money to pay all our bills this month I don't know what we're going to do so I went to God In Prayer about it and I was like Lord I want to help and I want to try to I we need we need a miracle we need some a creative idea and so um he brought that to my mind about you know going and just finding something you know at a thrift store or used and that would maybe hold a profit and you selling it online and so that's what we did and the Lord really blessed and that's how we got through that month and so um it's like the Lord's just breathed on things like that little things and that's how we've just lived our life you know staying in prayer um taking communion every day and whenever you stay rooted and grounded in God he um He blesses he'll bless you like in the little in the little areas and he's always made he's always provided for us he's always taken care of us and so that's just how we've lived and so if we have a problem or a need we ask God what do we do God we need your help right now we have no idea what to do we're at the end of our rope um and he's never early he's never late he's always shows up right on time for us and so uh that's just the way we've lived even in everything in everything yeah and it was that way even like what she was talking about in May uh I it was it was thousands of dollars we needed yeah to pay our bills cuz we had such a terrible month after me getting laid off of the church and I thought you know God this isn't fair how are we going to get through this you know and you can feel sorry for yourself and whine and everything but I'm telling you that ain't going to get you nowhere God is not moved by your need he's moved by your faith and he's moved by a seed when you seed time and harvest when you sew you'll reap and a lot of people think well you know you're I'm helpless here I'm just going to sit back and I'm just going to let this happen by the Bible says whatever you put your hands to will prosper but and he said he gives you the power to get wealth it never told you that to sit back and just let God do things no he gave you dominion and Authority on this Earth to do it and so what we don't have the mailbox mentality of always looking for a handout looking for people to bless us with money we oh well Lord help us we need a holy ghost handshake today at church please somebody give us $100 I never one time ever to sit there and whine about money and go well God because I realized what my Covenant says and what how he said he said never seen the righteous forsaken nor seed beging bread and I said Lord if you said you put your hand whatever I put my hands to would prosper and you give me creative ideas to get wealth you're going to give it to us and you know what I was looking for I was the one I was praying fasting and guess who he spoke to my best friend he came to her and he said this is what you're going to do and she came to me and she said Brandon I have an idea and I said and you know what was my response back to that that's crazy that's not going to work I said I feel like God told me this and I feel like I feel like it's going to work I just do I just had you know when the Holy Spirit speaks to you it's that still Small Voice and that's always the way he spoke to me um I don't like I haven't had like visitations like you but I've always I've always had that have been led by that still Small Voice that the Holy Spirit In Me leading and guiding me giving me ideas like even when my kids were little um like when they were born like we didn't have money for to even pay the hospital bills and so we would just believe God by faith that their bills would be paid when I was like 9 months pregnant and then he would always come through like I said he's never early he's never late he's always right on time and like even provision in like finding like I've always tried to be a proverbs 31 wife to just try to take the resources we have and like make them stretch as far as possible so I would go to garage sales for everything for like you know baby blankets anything that I had to have to repair for the kit for when they were little um baby bottles and everything just finding them used and just trying to make everything stretch because God gives you resources and then um you don't just go bu everything new you make it stretch as far as you as far as you can because if you if you're faithful with the little he will make you ruler over much and so I feel like we've always just been so faithful and every that Frugal we've lived such a Frugal in everything so um buying everything used and going to garage sales and things like that that's just how we've always lived and uh never really never like just going buying something brand new it's it's thinking how do I find the best deal how Lord lead me to find that deal and so um I mean he's always he's always helped me go hey you know you should look over here you should go to a garage sh to and so that's how like I go but it was even whenever you came to me and you told me the idea for doing uh selling online I thought there's there's no way that's going how are we going to get to do that that but I trusted her I trust the voice inside the Holy Ghost inside of her just as much as she trusted the Holy Ghost inside of me and I wasn't getting anything I wasn't and you know I it took me humbling myself and say okay I trust the voice of the lord inside of you babe let's go for this let's try it what do we got to lose let's try it so we had $100 and we took that $100 and we went to the thrift store and we bought the things that the Lord put on our heart to buy and we turned in and was able to pay our electric bill and I said wow it worked we paid our electric bill let's keep going so I took I took a little bit more and I bought I bought another $50 worth of stuff from what the Lord would leave me because every single time I pray the Lord would show me there's this shirt this or whatever in the thrift store and he would he would lead me and he say it's over off this street go to this one over there and you're going to find it so I pray and I say babe this is what the lord gave me and I had a vision and I'm praying this morning and he told me if you go in this store this shirt is in there and it's I name the brand I name what it looks like everything go in there and find it and she goes okay so she go looking for this item that the Lord showed me in a vision so she start going through all of it and she go I found it so she goes and get it and we list it and we sell it within a week or so and we were to pay our bills again that's the way we've lived our life for S years now uh going on seven years living by faith for every single thing you have and then asking for favor and Lord give us favor with the thrift store owners give us favor with wherever we got to go at the garage cell today you know when we go through the garage CS we go through the rich neighborhoods we ask the Lord show us father where to go today we need your voice you become desperate for hearing him he will start speaking to you on a daily basis all the time of where to find things just for your needs and that's the that's the way we live our life and we got to the point now you know we teach our kids we teach them how to live by faith we teach them how to believe God you teach them how to sew a seed we believe in all our hearts that that tithing is for today tithing and giving I my life is an example of being at the bottom of the barrel and the barrel will be on top of you thinking you ain't going to make it to being able to say hey our bills are met on time to be able to say hey we've got a little extra in the bank to be able to say hey look what God has done this year that we didn't struggle like we did being janitors and stuff at the at the at the at the church barely making it to be able to say hey we had our bills paid we could we could do it and thank you Father it is so there's so much Financial stress in this day and day and hour I'm telling you when you make God priority in your life God will start will he makes you priority it's like it's like he is he is he is there and ever present help in a time of need God is faithful and I'm saying well you got to keep your marriage strong you got to pray you got to take communion together you've got to start you've got to make peace a priority in your home keeping Strife out of your house because it's a cancer Strife is a cancer it when you allow the enemy to come in through Strife it is it is it is a major uh blockage to the financial overflow it is a major blockage to peace and to any kind of flow of the Holy Ghost make peace and joy your umpire of your life and the Bible says where there Strife there's every evil work yep and so I and so you know we're not always perfect about it I come across I'm cranky some days of course not me but yeah I'm teasing uh but you know um just being real with y'all you know I think a lot of times people think well you all are super you know I get all kinds of people oh you know you are like super people in the spirit no we're we're we're just human we just we have decided with all our heart we are going to fight through this life with all we've got to make Jesus priority to stand on in the gap for the for the lost and to preach and to and to keep decreeing and declaring things to say that God is more than enough to take care of us no man you remember like it the Bible says that Abraham said no man I'm not going to let any man say that he made me Rich only God that's the kind of that's the way we feel God it God is our source God is our provider he take care of us he's our Jehovah Gyra and that's why we believe it every single day and that's how we stand we still live this every day and then we started doing therapy dogs and helping out kids with special needs with therapy dogs and they the parents coming by the therapy dog and they and that was a side thing for me to do and something for me to help out with and uh you know it's a joy to see kids that that have special needs or uh elderly people that need a dog you know it's not always elderly people or special need people that you know we've got open it up where about anybody's been able to get a dog from us but it's it's been a blessing doing things and working for yourself instead of working for the man God give me ideas give me creative ideas I know father that you know how to take care of me and being open and listening and being willing and obedient you e good Al land and it took her it took her it wasn't me I didn't have it in both cases the Lord spoke to her and his and his and she said Brandon this is what I believe the Lord has showed me in prayer and it's been big picture things that have totally changed the course of the direction of our lives have come through a word from the Lord from her I'll get the small picture things I'll hear things I'll see things about the future and everything but the a lot of the main things the Lord will use her in a dream or whatever and he'll come to give her an idea and I'll be like wow and so I just want to say that's what though should be in a marriage it's not just a oneman show it's it's we're we're a team and that's the way you should be in your home you guys got to be a team it's not a well I'm alpha male hear me roar I'm running this house no whatever you are a covenant joint and you are a family you're you're you're joint together and you got to make it work like a like a like a like a baseball team or a football team the there's no just one oneman show if it is you're not going to win no games and so that's the way I look at it is right y yep and just not putting God in a box like I've I've always just whenever I pray and ask God for creative ideas and things I'm always just open to any Avenue that that the Lord will show me not putting CU a lot of people will just put God in a box so they'll say God I need this amount of dollars and they just feel like it can only come through a certain Avenue so like someone giving them the money or through maybe like a family member or um something like that friend of the church friend of the church yeah so they'll um put him in a box and so when you close your when you close yourself off like that when you put God in a box like that you're not being open to hearing him and um he can speak to you and he can use any way a million way he's the big he's the biggest he's the greatest he has no limits he's infinite he's powerful um he is mighty and he cares about us and he cares about the small things he cares about the littlest needs he cares about what you care about he cares about your desires your wants your needs and um he's like the Bible says I've not SE the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging bre so I've always just said God I'm open for any anything any way that you can help us in our life or if I we have a need I'm always just open to hearing him in any Avenue that he chooses to use and usually it's something that we can use our hands to do like to work or to do something and um because he the Bible says He blesses the fruit of the fruit of our hands and so um usually like whenever I'm a sleep in my dreams or like whenever I'm just praying um at night or um like I journal to God I tell him my desires like I always think it's super important to be writing down your prayer requests and your needs and your wants um and because you'll you won't see God in you'll think well because if you only think about the big things that you're asking God for then you won't notice that he's been there that entire year cuz you had a hundred small things that he answered your prayers for but you're like but God that one big thing didn't get answered and so you just dismiss it completely and say well where's God but he's been there a hundred times through the whole year for the small things that you asked that new pair of Nike sneakers or um maybe just the like you know praying you know for you know to you know to lose 10 pounds or whatever you don't know whatever the small things are and then you think it but then if you don't write it down you'll miss it and so it's super important to write every single little thing down and just be like check look he answered this he answered this and I mean God cares about every single thing and um like I said just being open to it being willing being uh just being in prayer about it I mean he's he's he's always there he loves us so much he's infinite he's powerful and um just living your life that way we every year every year in January we set out a list and we come before in January and we say what are we believing God for this year by the end of 2023 what are we believing for our household and we make a list of everything that we for it could be vacation it could be whatever it from the biggest thing like she's talking the smallest things it doesn't have to be well you know it he can be even the most hairbrain idea whatever I'm just saying nothing's off limits mhm we put a list out there and we try we push as hard as we can to believe for that now if it don't come to pass that's okay we put it on 2024 but we're still believing for it and we're still setting our faith out to achieve it we put Megan on the list every year for Megan to be completely whole talking well all manifestation of everything that we've ever believed for Megan to be every single time that Megan is going to be completely restored but what we're saying is what I'm saying is we even put down even for her to be potty trained and she's getting out of that there's we still have our days that that she'll have an accident whatever but we always look at where we came from and so the next year we put it on there we're believing God for her to start talking full sent we're going to believe God for her to her to uh sleep through the night whatever 18 years we never give up we never give up on that we always believe her to be healed completely believeing for a new house right now you know we write down for our vision for our house Lord I Thank you that you're going to give us a new home that's bigger that's be able to fit our family to be able to have a bedroom for Megan because she needs a special room for her and all the things that uh that that you need write it down at the beginning of the year and for your marriage Lord I Thank you that this year our marriage is going to be stronger we'll be more in love at the end of this year than what we are at the at the beginning of this year oh Father I thank you and then I just write it all down and then we pray over it we take communion over it yep and even before we met um I like I if you're single and you're believing God for a Godly spouse I highly recommend that you write it down write down the things that you're asking God for in your spouse um the characteristics the qualities write it all down because Brandon and I both wrote it down before we ever met before we even knew each other I was like 13 when I wrote it down and um I he I don't know how old you were but he was a teenager too I was I was wrong 14 and 15 prayed we pray I like I would pray over him before I even met him I made the list and I would say God keep him pure keep him um uh keep him away from danger uh thank you that you protect him and that you cover him and that um he's on fire for you always and keep him on fire for you and so I would always pray over him whenever I was just a teenager didn't even know who he was so I would highly recommend if you're believing God for a Godly spouse that's so important because when you're writing it down and you pray over that it there's something that happens in the spiritual realm over that and so I strongly believe that my life of my childhood where I've been is uh the protection the covering and things that I've been through has been because of him because he prayed over me before he ever met me and so um there was a covering there for me in my life um because he prayed for me so yeah and then after we got married we uh showed each other our list like we didn't even know and we were we were just like I made the list too even that color of the eyes everything yeah I wrote it down the personality type all of it I wrote it down this is what I'm believing for in a spouse father I thank you that you said you'd give me the desires of my heart I thank you Lord that there's nothing too big for you and I take communion over and I believe and I lay hands on it and I thank you Father I'm not settling for second best I'm not sett settling for an ishmail yeah I do not want a ishmail I want my Isaac bring my Isaac forther wherever it need wherever she may be and you know what it was interesting my mom and dad said we feel we're called to move to Fort wor Texas and that's where she was and they just felt like it was to go to Bible school at the time and they moved me down they moved us down there I was uh 15 14 years old and it's about time and if my mom and dad wouldn't have moved to Fort Worth to go to Bible school that that's where I met her as a Bible study down there and we were young we dat it for a long time and so the footsteps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord and when you put him first in your life he'll he'll lead and guide you into all things he's going to he'll show you where to go he may tell you to move he may tell you to go here or there whatever but God is faithful and he will always guide you and Lead You In the path of righteousness I'm telling you've got to put him first in your life even in your marriage I believe with all my heart that that if it wasn't for Jesus if it wasn't for keeping God priority in our marriage we would we would have been divorced a long time ago but and I'm going to tell you it hasn't always been easy it we have our struggles just like everybody else does but it's putting it's saying you know what we're not going to bed angry we're going to repent we're to each other I'm sorry I'm always quick to repent I'm always quick if I've had a bad attitud or we fuss at each other I said I'm really sorry I want to be always quick to say I'm I'm quick to have a soft heart towards this God I do not want to be a hard man help me to be a soft pliable person before you and the Holy Spirit said he'll rebuke me all the time I'll be in there he like listen you need to go back and make that right you were cranky today and I didn't realize I heard her feelings or whatever said but he always has her back the holy spirit's always got you back and it's like and he'll go back and he'll tell me say you need to you need to make that right and I'll go here babe I the Holy Spirit just corrected me on how I talk to you and I'm really I want to tell you I apologize and she'll start crying she goes I'm so glad you know because the holy spirit will uh will well she goes I'm so glad he cares about me like that yeah because the Holy Spirit loves you and he and he that's how you can make your marriage you when you make the Holy Spirit uh Your Leader the and the Lord leader of your life and you let him be the captain of your life and you're not it's like Jesus Take the Wheel you car Carri underw say Jesus Take the Wheel no you drive the car you be the pilot the co-pilot whatever you've got to be I don't even I you just I'm not going to pretend I don't even exist in this car you lead Lord I want you so bad in my life to lead me and my wife and my children I need you so badly because I refuse I refuse to let anything in my intellect to lead me because the carinal man he knows not the things of the Lord I want to be filled with control by the holy spirit in all areas of my life the it's it's his will on my life I don't have I don't have anything for me I'm telling you if it was if you're leading your life you're messing up the holy spirit will he will he will even every path made straight he will show you this is what you need to be doing we don't have enough time on this Earth to mess up and keep making bad choices we don't have many years you know whether if it's 100 years or whatever come on now we Let's Make Every Day Count and that's why I try to say Lord please help me to make this day count if you have a plan for my life today and I'm missing it God please rebuke me quick and show me how to get my life right before you because I want you to be the leader of my house that's why I think intellect and people uh thinking that they know the way that's what can get you in trouble and in danger is trying to lead yourself based on facts based on what you've learned in school what you've learned and see knowledge sometimes just gets in the way of God because you feel like well why do I need him I know already know how to do this I know how to build this and do this and see that's when that's when things don't work is because is whenever you close yourself off to hearing God and letting him guide you in everything opening doors for you shutting doors that need to be shut and just everyday life I think that's good today we just wanted to come on come on with y'all and um and just kind of talk just being real about marriage just trying to trying to tell you all about our life you know I've never really got Diana she's never had the opportunity really to come on and talk and I thought babe I want you to come on and sit beside me and let's just do a video together um so I hope this blessed you all today let's pray for you father we just thank you for every couple that every married couple whoever's watching this video we pray blessing over their marriage right now we thank you Father that you said in your word that no weapon formed against them would Prosper Satan we take authority over you right now in the name of Jesus we bind you off of their marriages we bind you off of their homes we command you to cease and assist in your maneuvering against them right now in the name of Jesus get off their children get off their workplace get off their finances we bind you and we break your power in the name of Jesus we command you to cease and you stop it right now we have authority over you we have authority over you we are seated with him in Heavenly places we are seated with Jesus Christ and he's given us a name that's above every name and we take authority over you in the name of Jesus the name of Jesus is powerful and we command it we command you in the name of Jesus to Bow your knee and get out of our Lives get out of our houses get out of our marriages get out of our children get out of our finances now in Jesus name we call healing and wholeness and wellness over our marriages father if there's hurted hurt Hearts here if there's wounded Souls with from adultery or from whatever if the is the marriage is in Jeopardy we pray peace and deliverance over that in the name of Jesus there's no there's not a heart that's hurt enough that that you can't fix it there's not one that's that's too Wayward of a husband that's to Wayward that father that you can't bring them back or a wife that's too far gone father I thank you Lord that you're the restorer of all things we call restored marriages we call restored homes in Jesus name if there's children that have run away we call them home in Jesus name we take authority over those children father we thank you Lord that you said train up a child and way he should go and when he gets older he'll not depart we thank you Lord that we train our children up in the things of God we teach them the things of God we thank you Lord that we take our Authority we take our covenant rights father with you in jesus' name and we see we're we're seated with you Lord we're so grateful father for everything you did for us on that cross that what you bore in your body we may not bear in our own body we thank you Lord that we're healed and whole and well in the name of Jesus We call we curse cancer right now I just saw bre breast cancer leaving somebody I speak to breast cancer to leave right now in the name of Jesus I call Healing over that breast tissue right now in the name of Jesus Oh I thank you Lord that that that lump is gone I curse lumps in Jesus name I call healing and wholeness and wellness over that woman's body right now in Jesus name from the top of her head to the souls of her feet we call you delivered by the power of the blood and the power of the name of Jesus we thank you Lord for your healing power going through her body right now father we give you praise for it right now in Jesus name we thank you Lord we thank you Lord we thank you Lord for it we call Healing over their bodies from the top of her head to the SES of her feet every single oh I just saw it I what all these female things D that's interesting father I thank you Lord I call ovaries healed right now in the name of Jesus you're not able to have a baby I speak to it right now in the name of Jesus I call your womb to be filled and you have a child in the name of Jesus you're believing for a child I call your body to have that baby right now in the name of Jesus I call that home that that that that that home filled with children we say in the name of Jesus the doctor says you can't have babies but you we know the word and they said our Vine will not cast fruit before the time we lay hold to Children right now they're a Heritage an inheritance of the Lord and I call Healing and deliverance over that woman's body right now I thank you Lord and then we call even his seed father if there's a man's seed problem we call him to be healed and whole and well in Jesus name that his body would produce the seed that it needs to have a child we call Deliverance over her body because it was a womb that I saw and I speak to that womb right now in the name of Jesus I speak to that uterus and I command you to be healed and whole and well in the name of Jesus right now and we stand in agreement for a for a full-term healthy delivery with no problems at all in jesus' name and we believe we receive that we stand in the Gap with you that you are delivered from that that that uh condition of your of your body we thank you Lord right now in the name of Jesus that she is delivered he is delivered all of and they'll have many children to come in the name of Jesus beautiful healthy whole children in jesus' name is it endometriosis what is this father I thank you Father I thank you we believe it we believe it and we receive it right now in Jesus name in Jesus name jobs and better jobs over I call jobs better jobs in Jesus name raises and bonuses benefits sales and commissions and inheritances father I thank you Lord that you're bringing all these things to pass great blessing is on their homes in Jesus name Jesus amen well I feel good with it we did good babe huh that was fun it was fun I'm glad you I'm glad we did this well I well we just want to say put a smile on your face yeah I was just going to say I yeah I'm usually taking care of Megan and stuff while you're she was good she fell asleep it's great we'll put a smile on your face and a song in your heart Jesus loves you so much and we love you and we'll see you next time y'all have a blessed day bye