# Monday night marriage conference

Date: November 8, 2021

They showed up. It was 40 of us. And they brought, let’s see, three or four of the families brought their dogs. So we had five dogs, including ours. And so the front door would open, the back door would open, and it would be 26 kids and five dogs run through. And it was insane.

Pray for us. The other thing is, is pray for us because my wife likes to give presents to everybody. No, pray from me. Because our conversation goes like this. She says, “We’ve got to get it.” And I say, “We can’t afford it.” And she says, “But Rob, we’ve got to do it.” And I say, “But we don’t have it.” “But Rob, we’ve got to do it.” And guess what? We do it. So I’m just trying to help your marriage here. Just go ahead and yield before you go through all that conversation.

I’m really glad to be here with you. Do you have, I know everybody’s got kind of a mental time frame when they’re going to shut me off whether I’m done or not. So kind of where are we? They’re on board right now, by the year. And the Tennessee Titans have already played and lost yesterday, right? Oh, they won? Oh, okay. You know what? I should have known that. I guess I was just too surprised.

How many of you are really fans? Tennessee Titans. Do you have fans? Oh, wow. Nobody. Okay. What are you fans of? Vanderbilt. Okay. The Valls? Do you know where you are, don’t you? No. No. Better just shut up and move on, huh?

Okay, well, I won’t tell you that I played at the University of Memphis. So, of course, there was Memphis State back then. But, well, again, I want to try to do this as briefly as I can because I’ve come to a lot of things where there’s banquets and different things. And we get in a mental frame of mind, and I hope I could get this truth to you as quickly as it can.

You know, early in my… about preaching. I’m wanting to tell stories, tell a lot of stories, and do a lot of things. And I love to enjoy people. But I’ll be honest with you, we’re in a battle in our world today. We’re a great battle. And we’re losing too many of our children to the world. We’re losing way too many. And you say, well, this is supposed to be about marriage. It is. Because honestly, it’s from, you know, we point to the church and say the church failed our kids, but let me just tell you, it all hinges on the home. My kids have been through a lot and seen a lot through the church and through the Christian schools, but it’s the home that kept them loving the Lord.

There’s got to be a consistency in the home, not a perfection. There’s not a perfect person in here. And we’re far from being perfect. You know, I do okay, but my wife struggles. No, none of us are anywhere close to being perfect, but the fact is that we’ve got to be real and what we believe has to be real. It’s got to be real. And I believe if it’s real between us as husband and wife, I believe that our children see that even though imperfect people live in that home, they still love the Lord.

You know, one of the things that I said to my children over the years as much as anything I ever said was, “I’m sorry. I blew it. I messed up.” I even hate to say this one, but there was time once when, I don’t know you won’t believe this, but girls may sometimes fight. Anybody got girls?

Well, I was downstairs. We had a little house, and I was downstairs, and I was studying, and all of a sudden, man, I hear the biggest ocean upstairs. It sounded like World War III going on up there. And so I came running up the stairs, and I got up there, and there was three, my three oldest girls were tangled up like a spider web on the floor. So I just started peeling off bodies, and I did absolutely everything opposite of what I had been taught. So I’d peel one off, and I’d peel my belt off, and I just swatted her, put her down on the couch, and I grabbed the next one, swatted her, and put it down on the couch, and grabbed the next one, swatted her, and put it down on the couch.

And then, after I got them on the couch and everybody’s crying, now I’m going to ask what happened. The procedure is a little out of whack there. And so I went down the line, and I looked at my daughter, my second daughter, Ashley, and I said, “Ashley, what did you do?” And Ashley looked at me and said, “Heather hit me.” I looked at Heather and I said, “Heather, what are you doing?” And Heather looked at and she said, “Daddy Ashley hit me.” And I looked at Brooke, my oldest daughter, said, “Brooke, what in the world are you doing?” She said, “Daddy, I got here just before you did. I was trying to break them up.”

Now I could have looked at her and said, well, you just got, you know, I mean, that goes for something else. I’m sure you got away with something. But I fell down on my knees in front of her, and I began to cry. And I looked at her, and I said, “Baby, I’m sorry. Your daddy was wrong.” I took her to the belt, handed up the belt, and I said, “Baby, you whip me.” I’m glad she didn’t. But, no, she slipped out of her seat, and she put her arms around in my neck. And she’s about 12, 13. She put her arms around my neck. She said, “Daddy, I love you. It’s okay.”

They need to see. Our children need desperately to see us loving each other. They need desperately to see us being real with what we believe. And they should not walk in, you know, you were there at school. I sat and I talked almost 30 years to college young men and women. And it was too many times that they walked in the door, and they were having trouble. And as I would start to work back to where the anger and the bitterness came from, they would say, “My daddy, my mama, my parents are hypocrites.” And I’d say, “Well, why would you say that?” And they’d say, “Because they act and show everybody one thing, but that’s not who they are at home.”

Now that’s a hard pill to swallow, but I’m going to just tell you this: we can’t be perfect at home, but we can’t pretend that we’re perfect in front of our children because they know we’re not.

Now, I know some of you, and you say, man, my children are grown and gone, and it’s, I don’t know about you, but I found out somebody’s got to raise those grandchildren because my kids sure don’t know what they’re doing. They still got to see, and they call us Pop Pop and Nani, they still got to see us loving each other. They’ve got to see us loving the Lord, and they’ve got to see that it’s real.

And we’ve had, I guess, probably, what, three or either four of our married daughters have lived with us for some span of time after being married for different reasons. They’ve, you know, their husband, they get married, their husband, one of them, she lost her husband to cancer, just two and a half years after they got married and she lived with us and then they got married, you know, she got married again and they lived with us for a little bit while they were getting house ready and then missionaries come back they live with us for a while and you know what our grandkids get to see who we are all over again.

Now, I just, as I delivered this, and please help me, you know, I want to make sure I’m okay with time. I want you, if you would, open up to Ephesians Chapter 5, and I’m going to actually skip some things on this Ephesians Chapter 5, but I want to read this, and I want to show you something that I believe. So often in the scriptures, we see and we talk about what’s so obvious, but there are a lot of times there’s what I call these hidden jewels in there, and they’re vital that we dig them out and see what’s really what God’s really trying to tell us.

So if you look at Ephesians chapter 5 in verse 3: “But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For know that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit: Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify it and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.”

Now, I’m going to stop there with the reading. And that’s a lot of verses. And I have to do, Joe Beth, could you grab that water there? I mean, something there. I meant to tell you this. About eight years ago, I almost died. Had to be opened up, gutted like a deer. And because of that, my stomach came all apart. And about a month and a half ago, they had to go and reconstruct my whole stomach. This is about the third time I preached since doing that. And it’s really, it cuts off my wind, so I’m kind of, don’t be afraid. I’m not a wind-sucking preacher. But I’m sucking wind. All right. So, and I didn’t mean to criticize your pastor either. So, no. So everything’s okay, but I just can’t expand to get the breath that I need. So I apologize for that.

But now, in this passage of Scripture, and again, I’m going to condense this down just hopefully just take it as it is. But in this passage of Scripture, we see the two great needs of men and women. God, what God knew, the needs of man and the needs of a woman. And in this world, we fight against it. We bristle against it. But I like to soften it a little bit and just say this: The greatest need of a woman, and they’ve done all kinds of research, they’ve done all kinds of statistics, all kinds of surveys, but the greatest need of a woman is to be loved. Now, it doesn’t mean just, you know, like the thing up there, well, I love her, but, you know, she has to know it. She actually has to know that she’s loved.

The greatest need of a man, now the way the Bible presented, it says to reverence, but I’m bringing it down on kind of our terms today and what really means a lot to me, and that means to be believed in. You know, the reason I am still here, I’ve gone through now a couple of major times of real health issues. One back in about 1989, and it went for several years, and then here eight years ago again. And I’m going to tell you, one of the reasons I’m still up and going and still preaching and still in the ministry is because she has stood beside me every time. And these have been her words every time: “You’re going to make it. God’s going to use you.”

A man needs to love his wife. A wife is to reverence, respect, believe in her husband. Now, it’s very, very crucial that we understand, men, that God gives us how to love our wives. He describes it in great detail, but it’s a very sacrificial love. Now, the simple truth is, we’re to love our wives the way Christ loved the church, and Christ died for the church. The truth is that our wives should know that we love them so much that we would be willing to die for them. Now, if we’re willing to die for them, we might be willing to live for them.

You know, my son-in-law just said in this preaching that his dad always said, if you won’t live for the Lord, then you probably wouldn’t die for him. Well, if you won’t live for your wife, you probably wouldn’t die for her. And I understand that, you know, sometimes our wives, you know, kind of expect too much of us. I think she’s a Kentucky woman. One woman, she was in counseling, she said, “I just, my husband, I just don’t believe he loves me because he always says he’ll die from me, but he never does.”

So now it’s very, very important that we understand that these are vital, and I’m not going to go into the great detail. I’m going to go past this, but I’m going to try to show us from the scripture why we struggle. And I made this error for a long time. We’ve done a lot of marriage counsel. We have a ministry called Faith and Family, and we’ve—that’s all we did for several years. His travel and do family, marriage, child rearing, all those kind of things. Don’t have all the answers, but we’ve sure learned the hard way what not to do. So we help people by saying, “Don’t do that.” But the fact is, is that I’ve found that this is true.

I would say to people that counsel, I would say, “You’ve got to love her, and you’ve got to love her with a sacrificial love, and you’ve got to love her the way Christ loved the church, and you need to start showing it to her, and you just need to do it.” Now, I’d look at her, and I would say, “Now, you need to reverence him, you need to respect him, you need to believe in him.” And many times they would say to me, “Well, we tried. It’s just not working.” And I would say that’s because you don’t try. You just do it. Great advice, isn’t it?

Until I found in the scripture that God tells us that we can’t do it unless. And here is what I want to do tonight. You see, we failed to see what enables us to do what we’re commanded to do. And it’s found right in the passage where he commands us to do it. See, no man can truly love as God loves without God’s power. If I’m going to love as God loves, it’s a love another human being as God loves. If I’m going to love another human being, a person of frailties and sin and weaknesses, if I’m going to love that person as God loves—it’s a love that brings forth action in my life toward her to live for her and be willing to die for her. How does that happen? How do I have an agape love for my wife? I find it in the scripture. And we’re going to show you in just a second.

No man will ever be willing to do the hard—no woman will ever be willing to do the hardest command in the Bible. And listen to me, I really believe this. All these years of working with couples, maybe the hardest command in the Bible is for one human being to be willing to submit to another human being completely. When you really start looking at you, thank God, that’s an unreasonable request.

How many times they’ve looked at me and I say, “If you’ve got to believe in him, how can I believe in him? He’s failed me. How can I believe in him? He’s broken my trust.” “You’ve got to love her.” “How can I love her when she speaks to me and she doesn’t believe in me and she doesn’t trust me and she doesn’t care about anything? How can I do that? How can we do what God has commanded us to do? It’s just so extreme.”

You see, I believe the only way is when she is fully submitted to God. It’s a term, not a lot used, but Spirit-filledness allows a woman to see that a man is not superior to a woman. A man is superior at being a man, just as a woman is superior at being a woman. God simply made us different, and through that difference, we can unite to be one. The only way that a woman can truly yield to biblical submission is by yielding to the Holy Spirit of God. Spirit-filledness is the only answer.

Last year, the theme of our church, God, and this year God will just, I try to walk in, I try to talk to him, and last year long, I couldn’t get away from the simple little truth that he showed us in the Lord’s prayer in the example in Luke chapter 11. And he gets to the point, and he says, “How much more shall the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask?” And when he’s really realized that the heavenly, my Father, and he begins to say, “My Father, our Father, my Daddy, my heavenly Father,” how much more? And I know I love my girls and I would give them everything that I possibly could if they were in need. And I do even to this day. And I know how my daddy treated me, but bless God, God, how much more does my heavenly Father will he give me his Spirit? And it doesn’t say if I walk in perfection, if I do everything exactly right, if I’m some superhuman being, no, if I’ll ask him as his child.

And as you go through the passage of scripture and it talks so much about love and respect and it talks about some other things, but in verse 15, if you look at verse 15, it tells us how we can do what he is commanding us to do. Verse 15 says, “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.” And oh, God needs us to be wise. And I beg him for his wisdom. And he says, “I need you to walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.” And what’s a wise man do? Redeeming the time because the days are evil.

Now listen to me, we got to buy back, redeem, we’ve got to purchase. We’ve got to use all the time that God convicts me, and I was praying my wife a few minutes ago, I waste too much time. And God says you need to redeem that time for what purpose? What’s the purpose that I need to redeem? “Wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” I’ve got to redeem the time. I’ve got to do the will of the Lord. And what is it? “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.”

I’m not going to do, you’re not going to do what God has commanded you to do. I’ve told so many couples retreats, so many conferences, I’ve said you come, and I’d like to think it to help you. And when we first started out, made him come up with, you know, okay, these 22 points to having a better marriage. And what I came to realize is that’s going to help you to have a better marriage, at least to you get out of your car. Because that’s about how long the flesh can do it. It might help you get, have a nice little drive back home. It might help you have a nice weekend. But we’re not going to last in the flesh. We’re not going to last when we just say, I’m just going to determine to do it. That determination is going to give out someday. That attitude is going to give up someday.

God needs us to be able to come to him on a daily basis and say, “God, I’ve got to have your Spirit.” If I’m going to treat her the way I should, and listen, I failed treating her the way I should. Can I tell you, when I failed treating her the way I should, it’s when I failed to yield to the Spirit of God. When I’m yielded to him, then the fruit of the Spirit is present and I treat her differently. But when I let anything snatch away, anything take priority into my life, anything that takes over my mind and my heart, other than the Spirit of God, and God gives us a great example. He said, “Be not drunk with wine.” It’s such an extreme example, but he’s saying, you know what? When you get drunk with wine, you give over your spirit. You give over your mental faculties. You give over the control of your body and your mind. You give it over. I said, don’t do that. Give over your body to God. Give over your mind to God. And when I do that, I can love, at least for a moment, the way Christ loved.

I mean, do you understand, fellas, listen, do you understand what he really said that we’re supposed to love her as Christ loved the church? How do I do that? How can I love like Christ? I can only do it through the love of God that comes to me through the Spirit of God. And folks, I believe this: why in Luke chapter 11, it goes through the Lord’s Prayer that we call it, the model of prayer, and immediately goes into a whole illustration about a friend at midnight. I’m going to get a loaf, go get bread for a friend at midnight. Can I tell you, that whole illustration is about the Holy Spirit. And it’s about us going every day, every night, for Holy Spirit bread. And if I want to give it to a friend, surely I’d want to give it to my spouse. And God says, if we’ll knock, he’ll open. He even came in an illustration says he gave him as much as he needed. And he knows how much we need.

You see, if we are to fulfill the great command in marriage, I have a great marriage, we must have God’s Spirit. See, it continues, and I’m not going to take much time with it, but as you continue in this passage, he then tells us in verse—speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. You know, if we have God’s Spirit, it changes our spirit. And God says if you yield to his Spirit, he said, here’s what I want you to do next. He said, “I want you to sing and make melody in your heart.” You know what? You’ve got the love of God. You’ve got the peace of God. Do you sing and make melody? You know what it is? God’s Spirit changes my spirit.

I’m a slow learner, but I’ve learned that when Satan comes in and just starts to tear up my mind and bring fear into my heart or bring confusion, and folks, we live in a world that’s racked with fear and confusion. More so than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. I don’t know about you, but it is in such, so many people are living in such fear, but God says we don’t have to live that way. He can do God’s Spirit. We can have a right spirit.

And then he says this. He says in verse 20, “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus.” He says that’s a thankful spirit. I believe we have God’s Spirit. If we took a few minutes tonight, and if we joined hands as husband and wife, and we knelt down and we said, “God, you said you’d give your Holy Spirit to them that ask. And we need your Spirit. We need your presence. We need the fruit of the Spirit, the peace, the love, the joy, the meekness, the goodness, the long suffering, the temperance. We need that, God. We need that. I need it for my wife. She needs it for me,” and we ask God to give us that. Do you understand if we stand up, our spirit’s going to be different? We’re going to have a right spirit. And I’m going to just tell you this: when we walk, you walk to the car, when the Spirit’s right between you, you can’t help but be thankful. And thank God for what he’s done and what he is doing. And under the most adverse situations, and I’m going to say this again, I sometimes feel so unworthy because I’m going to just tell you, I sometimes I let the mind—my wife told me when we first got married and in God in church, she said, “Rob, I just feel like you have discernment. It’s like God’s kind of giving you the gift of discernment.” And I thought, what does that mean? You know, because I don’t know what you’re talking about.

And as the years went by, I started to realize I would describe it. I would see things and everybody else is okay with it, and I would tell her, “Man, it’s like red lights going off in my head.” She said, “That’s your discernment. You’re recognizing something. You’re seeing something.” And I started as to start to realize, I mean, college kids hated it because I would recognize them lying like that. Guys who tried to date my daughters hated it because they would come up and say, “Can I go out with her?” And I’d look at some of them and say, “No way.” And one of my girls came up to me one day and she said, “Dad, we’re never going to get married.” I said, “Why, girl, you’re pretty girls?” And she looked at me and she said, “Dad, because everybody’s afraid of you.” And I like that. My son-in-law works with me right now, Dennis, he reminds me that every once in a while that the time he came and asked if he could take Heather out, I slapped him. It just felt like it. But you know, I started to realize that it was very helpful, but there’s a danger in discernment. And you may have, you may be somebody that kind of sees it. I didn’t realize when I was a police officer. I didn’t realize that I would see things at times. And I’m not talking spooky. I’m just saying, you know what I’m talking about. Some people are just like, okay, that body language, those eyes, the breathing, the things.

But I came to realize something else. When you have discernment, you also, on the flip side of that, it’s very easy to have a critical spirit. Because once you’ve looked and saw this in somebody and you were right, and then you saw it in somebody else, and boy, was I right, you didn’t get that, did you? And you start to thinking that every time those go off that you’re right, and you’ll start to label somebody because of what you think. I’m going to just tell you that still creeps up in me. I was told years and years ago that you can’t know another man’s heart, and that started to help me. You cannot know another man’s heart. So no matter how much is going off in my head, I have to look and say, I don’t know. This is going to cause me to be careful. This is going to cause me to move slow. This is going to cause me move cautious, but I’m not going to condemn. I’m not going to label. But I’m going to just tell you, sometimes the danger I see, sometimes it starts to affect my spirit. And the moment it starts to affect my spirit, I treat her differently than I was treating her. I don’t treat her the same way. And it’s not until I catch hold and come back and say, “God, I’ve got to have the peace that your Spirit brings. I’ve got to have the love that your Spirit brings. I’ve got to have the joy that your Spirit brings. I’ve got to have the long suffering, the temperance I’ve got to have, God.” Because it’s so easy for me to go back into the flesh. I can’t believe I’m a whole lot different from everybody else.

We’re in a battle, folks. I tell the people of my church, turn off that stinking news. I read enough little black headlines that discourage me. I won’t devour it. I won’t listen to it. Because if I do, I can’t even come into the church with the right spirit. So I can’t do it. Because the world’s gone insane. I told our people recently we’re on one side of this thing. These people over here think we’re crazy. And we over here know they are. There is no middle ground. Boy, if I deal with that much, I’ve tried to be open with you tonight. I’m trying to try and be trying because how our spirit is—grandmas and grandpa, moms and dads—how our spirit is in the home, it’s going to affect how we treat each other. How we treat each other representing Christ is going to affect how our children believe whether this is real or not.

He was counseling a boy the other day, and I’ll stop with this. I counseled a boy the other day, his wife, and he was struggling. And he grew up in church, but he’s left church, bitter against church, and we’re about to get him back in. But he said this statement: He said, “I never saw my mom and daddy even kiss.” Folks, I’m not saying you’re supposed to get on the couch and make out in front of your kids. But they ought to see you loving each other a little bit. You ought to see you snuggling up. You say, “Oh, we’re too old to do that.” I sure hope I’m not. But I want my kids to know that I still love her. I want my grandchildren to know that I love her. Well, we just exist in the same household. They don’t see why I would even want that. Why would they even want to be married? If they’ve been married 43 years and they don’t even want to be in the same place together, they don’t talk to each other, they don’t see each other, they don’t hold hands, they don’t go up, they don’t do anything. Why stay married? And you see a lot of that, not all of that hinges on whether I’m yielded to God. Because my flesh is going to fail me. It’s going to fail her.

I hope that’s made a little sense to you. I’m going to ask us here tonight if we could just bow our heads and take a few moments. Truly ask for God’s Spirit. Ask for God’s Spirit because I just can’t do. He told me to love her as Christ loved the church. I can’t do it without him. Pray together and ask for God’s Spirit that God, men, that God would allow you to love her and help you, enable you to love her as Christ loved the church. And ladies, if you could just understand how much he needs you to believe in him. But our humanity won’t let us believe in somebody who has failed. But God’s Spirit will enable us to do whatever he’s commanded us to do. Father, I pray that you’d bless him. Father, I do need your Spirit. And you said that you would give your Spirit if we would ask. So I’m asking you, Lord, because I can’t in this flesh live the way that you’d want me to live and treat others the way that you’d want me to treat others. I’ve got to have your Spirit, your power, your presence. Father, I know that you dwell in me, but do you really have me, my mind, my heart? Please bless us in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I want to say this as I go through this: If I have God’s Spirit, have a right spirit and have a thankful spirit, what that does for both of us is that leads us to a spirit of submission. And that’s what this is all about. Why, how many times they looked at me and said, “Don’t talk to me about submission.” And I say, “You don’t understand. Submission is for both of us.” I must submit to the will, the power, and the authority of God to love her like Christ loved the church. She, by command of God, is to submit to this piece of frail flesh to believe in me, to trust me. And that’s what God does. He will bring us to that place through his Spirit, through which gives us a right spirit, which gives us a thankful spirit where we can look at each other in love and say, as she does, “I believe in you.” I hope that would be a little bit of help to you tonight.

I hope that gives you just a hunger to be aware if you’re Spirit-filled or not. And it was a good day for me. I heard another preacher talking about it: when you don’t have those fruit of the Spirit, and you’re not Spirit-filled, when you’re there, you just catch yourself living in fear. You’re not Spirit-filled. If you catch yourself just agitated everything, you’re not Spirit-filled. But you learn to be aware of that. “I’m not Spirit-filled, something’s not right.” And you need to go back and get things right with the Lord and ask for the fullness. But just the hunger for the awareness: are you Spirit-filled or not? It’s such an important thing. And I hope tonight, Lord, put that in your heart. I really, really do. Thank you for coming tonight. We’re honored to have every person here. And I got a blessing at it, but I believe you did too. And looking forward to tomorrow night. At 7 o’clock we’ll meet here. We’ll all be in here at first, 7 o’clock tomorrow, and then we’ll have the split session. Us men will go across the parking lot. Ladies will stay inside here. I know a lot of you’re working. You’re going to get up early in the morning. You’re busy. I believe it would be worth it. You’re coming if you can make it. I believe it would be worth it. So stay in there. I appreciate—appreciate you being here tonight. It was a blessing. Thank you so much, brother. And looking forward to tomorrow and Wednesday. I just write down the bottom shelf and let’s be aware: am I Spirit-filled or not? And you catch yourself if you’re not, all right, let’s get things right, get Spirit-filled. He’ll do it, you ask. And it’s a moment, my moment, thank—He wants to fill you, and he will. But thank you so much for being here tonight.

Original File: Monday Night Marriage Conference with Pastor Bob Hooker 1182021