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This we pray today would be a day of equipping the saints towards family and connection.

Amen. Amen. If you haven't been present for anything I've done in the last few weeks,

maybe you wouldn't know this, but otherwise I've been speaking about fathering, fatherlessness,

establishing family out of the Malachi 4 verse that says, in the last days I'm going to send you

a large of the prophet. He's going to restore the heart to father's sons and sons to fathers.

Three nights ago I had a dream and in the dream I was teaching about the skills of communication

and family. Kind of a strange dream, but I had an imprarying for a few days like, okay, what am I

supposed to do this week? What am I supposed to teach on in the weekend? And then out of that dream,

I'm like, I think I'm supposed to teach on communication. So I'm going to do that. So I want to talk

about developing a noble family and most of the message will be around communication.

And one of the main goals of healthy of a healthy family is to create a safe place for each family

member to thrive. And this requires honest heartfelt communication and caring and loving

environment. I want to give you four goals of communication, four goals of communication. In other

words, when we're communicating, what are we actually trying to accomplish? And number one is

understanding. We are communicating to understand one another. Let me tell you what we are not communicating

to do. We are not communicating to agree. We are not communicating to make the other person know

I'm right. We're communicating so that you understand what it is I'm actually feeling sane. And I

understand what you're actually feeling sane. And we understand each other. Number two, connection.

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