FAMILIES, YOU ARE GETTING YOUR PEARLS BACK

For my last word on family for the week, I want to share a revelation and a very simple charge. Yet, if we catch it in this hour, we're going to see such a turnaround of so much of the warfare and assignments of the enemy that have been against our families for a long time.

I remember a season when I was really asking the Lord why we were experiencing warfare against our kids, sickness, chaos in the home, in our marriage, and in our finances. And the Lord said one simple phrase...

“You have been casting your pearls”

Now, when we normally hear that phrase, we think of when you've shared too much or when you've given away your dreams or the things that are valuable to you. However, in this context, the Lord was saying to me that I'd cast my pearls, meaning that I had not been protecting what was most valuable to me.

What has this got to do with the family? What if the family were those pearls?

What if your marriage, your kids, and everything within that responsibility circle of our first ministry are our pearls?

Our relationship with God, our marriages, and our kids.

Had I been casting them? Have we been casting them, meaning have we been putting them at a lower or lesser importance than everything else in our lives?

Have we been putting ministry higher up on the rung of life?

Have we been putting church higher up on the rung? Have we been putting our work or commitments higher up?

Have we been placing other things that are lesser, that don't carry any weight or legacy, in a higher place than our families?

I believe that the Lord is saying to us, it's time to get back your pearls, but in order to do that, we need to change our value system.

Right now, brokenness is doing that before our eyes. Many are realizing what’s been at stake and are leaving behind all facades and counterfeits, and beginning to rebuild their families again.

Many reading this are looking at ruins, and if that’s you... I am sorry, but God can and will restore you.

I'm reminded of this parable that Jesus spoke about pearls...

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then, in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” - Matthew 13:44-45

May we enter back into the heart posture again, where we sell everything for family again?
I know some of you have sold them in the past to appease the Jezebel spirit in your families.

For acceptance. Out of pain and rejection. Some of you have run from your posts because you have felt disqualified. Then, for MANY...shame has kept you from holding onto pearls and guarding them like you should.

But today... the Lord is calling you out of those lies and putting a new fiery decree of, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!”

I believe the Lord is saying to us right now that if we prioritize those pearls again, if we prioritize the secret place in prayer, if we prioritize our marriages and our children, and if we put them first. If we seek first the kingdom of God, all those things shall be added.

The war has been on your home because family isn’t just revival - it’s outpouring. It’s reformation. Any time we leave family on the back burner, the enemy will create a toxic ideology and counterfeit to fill that space. And right now, God is not just doing a powerful work of restoration for your legacy, but for the legacy of many others and the future generations.

I believe the Lord is saying to you today, “I know you've lost much. I know that you're looking right now, and there are many Ishmaels you've created. There's a lot of regret you're carrying a lot of grief and a lot of pain from failure, but I'm about to restore those pearls to you. I'm about to bring all those shattered and broken pieces of your life back together. I'll bring the prodigals home. I'll restore your marriage. I'll restore your finances. I'll restore everything that the locusts have eaten.”

I decree this and prophesy this over you in the mighty name of Jesus.