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Welcome to the Raising Up Fathers Podcast. We are here to champion men to thrive in their four main roles: son, husband, father, and brother.
Through testimonies and best practices. Our goal is to help you look a little more like Jesus in the areas that matter the most. Our vision is to raise up ten thousand fathers in the name of Jesus. You can find out more at raisingupfathers.com
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When we first got here, I said something that I learned over the last, I would say, fifteen years from walking with the men that I've been fortunate to walk with, one of whom is Thomas Bohm. But if you are a man and you have a house or you live in with a family, you are the priest of your home. Whether you have children, whether you just have a wife, you are the priest of your home. What does a priest do? A priest represents the people to the father, and presents people to the father.
Speaker 1:Now, you may not feel like a priest. Okay? That's where I would go back to what Papa Don says. Look yourself in the mirror and say, I didn't ask you what you feel like. You're a priest.
Speaker 1:And as a priest, you have a responsibility. So the priests in ancient Israel would, especially the high priest, would would have to cleanse himself first. And then he would go through a ritual cleansing before he could go through the rituals of cleansing the nation. And so as a priest, we have an obligation and a responsibility to cleanse ourselves. Confess, repent, grow, put, invest spiritual food into ourselves.
Speaker 1:Starve the things that are evil. The evil desires of our house in ourselves. Whatever you feed will grow, and whatever you starve will die. Zach, also said the first night, he talked about the word husbandman. So the word husbandman literally means gardener or worker of the soil.
Speaker 1:So what does a gardener do? A gardener can prepare the soil. He can pull weeds. He can water. He can put nutrients into the soil.
Speaker 1:He can he can prepare. He can he can nourish the soil. He doesn't make the plant grow. But the gardener creates an atmosphere in his garden for the Lord to come and cause growth. As a husband, it's tempting to wanna fix our wives, and correct them, and be mad at them when we feel rejected by them, and and manipulate them, and all that.
Speaker 1:That none of that is our responsibility. Our responsibility is to nourish the soil, to create an atmosphere where our wives and our children can flourish. It's not a domineering lordship. It's a servant empowering role, where you you literally create the atmosphere where they where they can they can flourish. I'm gonna read, Ephesians five.
Speaker 1:It's the famous pass passage for husbands and wives, but it says, husbands, love your wives just as Messiah also loved his community. And he gave himself up for her. Are you giving yourself up for your family, for your wife? To make her holy, having cleansed her by washing her in the word. Jesus did this so that he could present to himself a glorious community, not having stain or wrinkle or any such thing, but in order that she might be holy and blameless.
Speaker 1:In the same way, husbands love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Messiah does his community. Some key words from that passage, he gave himself up. He washes her in the word.
Speaker 1:Have you ever thought that your love for your wife makes her holy? Your love for her makes her holy and blameless. Do you ever think loving your wife is loving yourself? So it's so easy to feel like we're on a different team, and we're opposing each other, and But have you ever have you ever stopped to think, like, wait a second, by loving her, I'm loving me? And we're not talking about cowardly doing whatever she wants.
Speaker 1:That's not that's not manhood. That's not manhood. And that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about loving. Jesus isn't a coward.
Speaker 1:He doesn't let us roll all over him. He's confident. He knows who he is. He's patient. That's another thing the gardener has to have is extreme patience.
Speaker 1:It's waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. I just think about my parents and their patience with us, just waiting for us, waiting, praying, waiting, praying we'd get caught if we did something wrong. What if you determined that your spiritual act of worship to the Lord was to love your wife? No matter how she made you feel, no matter if she rejected your advances, no matter if she's depriving you of sex, which we all know is intimacy, regardless of her behavior, is that not how Jesus loves us? You know, in in the garden where when Jesus is weeping and crying out to the Lord, and he's and then Judas comes with the soldiers and the the and to betray him, how many disciples stayed by his side when he was captured?
Speaker 1:None of them. Zero. Everybody left. And after Jesus died and rose from the dead, he came back and he said, what happened? Where were you?
Speaker 1:You totally abandoned me back there. What was that all about? Right? No. He never he never said that.
Speaker 1:He didn't punish. He didn't give the cold treatment, silent treatment, whatever. No. He loved. He actually went to Peter, who denied him three times, and he said, do you love me?
Speaker 1:And he gave him three times to answer that question. Do you love me? Yes. I love you. Do do you love me?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Amen. You do love me, and actually, you you will follow me, is what he said to Peter. Not only I I know you I know what's in your heart. I know you wanted to follow me.
Speaker 1:I know you got scared, but you will follow me, and I know you love me. If we could act that way, we would be the most powerful people in the world, most powerful man in the world. Rick, I'm not I'm not loving based on what I'm getting. I'm loving because I'm loving. I've made I have made a covenant to love.
Speaker 1:And there's nothing, no behavior you can do that is gonna change my love for you. I asked Zach if I could share this, but for the last several years, Sarah's been going through a really hard time. And, it was like a postpartum after the third child never left. And, Zach's a strong man. He calls me when he's angry.
Speaker 1:He doesn't do it perfectly, I know. But he calls me when they're in a in a struggle or when he's when she's being really difficult to love and and asks for prayer. Help me. How do I do this? And then he goes back in, and he loves the hell out of her.
Speaker 1:That's why we need brothers. So we can go to our brothers and complain. Go ahead. Complain. You have permission?
Speaker 1:I mean, I know the Bible says do everything without complaining and arguing. But you have permission to go to your brother and say, hey, she is not being good to me. Like, this is not like, I didn't sign up for this. And you can do all of that. And then, as long as you've got a safe brother, he can say, actually, you did.
Speaker 1:You did. You did sign up for it. We're called to be like him. How does Jesus What's his posture? Here I am.
Speaker 1:You're gonna hurt me. I freaking love you. There's nothing you can do about it. That is the strongest man, and that's what we're called to. So I was we had this marriage seminar we hosted last week and invited several couple couples and I I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:We hosted it. We invited a speaker who was capable competent to speak on this. I was a participant. But he was, he, he said, men don't need your wives too much. You know, they can, they can, what your, your wives can fellowship with you, they can care for you, make food for you.
Speaker 1:They can touch you. But but the the feeling of, like, champion, I need to be a champion. I want I want something to conquer. That's that's the the role that your brothers that your brothers, possess for you. So don't need your wives too much.
Speaker 1:Get with your brothers. And I don't care if it takes every single week getting together. Todd McDowell and I are trying to start something where every single week we get together, and we pump each other up so that we can go home, we can we can complain to each other, we can go home, and we can walk in that door ready to freaking love. So I encourage you to wash your wives in the word. This might feel awkward, guys, but listen.
Speaker 1:Grow a pair of testicles, put your hands on your wife, and tell her who she is. You may have never done that, and okay, so, I don't know. How do I do that? I don't I don't care. Think about it on the plane, on the way home.
Speaker 1:What do I freaking love about my wife? Who is she? Not how's the behavior been, but who did I fall in love with? And then get home, give her a freaking massive kiss, put your hands on her face and say, this is who you are. And that's why I freaking love you.
Speaker 1:That's why I chose to love you. Wash your wives in the word of God. The word of God is scripture. Read passages over them. We have a every Friday night, we do a Sabbath meal.
Speaker 1:And, every Friday night, I read Proverbs 31 over my wife. And we get to the part where it says, she laughs at the days to come, and my kids all laugh. A few verses later, it says her children rise up and call her blessed, and my kids stand up on their chairs and say, bless you, mommy. Bless you, mommy. And my wife.
Speaker 1:And I put my hands on her, and I pray for her. And I bless her. Oh, God. Thank you for the the work of the week, and how hard it was. And thank you that all that's over.
Speaker 1:For the next twenty four hours, would you just come and fill her cup to overflow, so that she can pour out next week. And I'll be with you for the next twenty four hours. I'm gonna help the I'm not going into the office. I'm gonna talk about family for a second. Genesis 12, God does this beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:He chooses a man, one man, and he says, Abraham, I'm gonna make you into a great nation. And through you and your family, all of the families of the earth will be blessed. Some scriptures mistranslate that and say nations. Nations is like not even really tangible. The nations that existed then don't even exist today.
Speaker 1:That's not what it says though. It says through you all the families of the earth will be blessed. The family is the most important group in society. It is where it is the basic group in society that forms everything. And I know as a man, you have a mission and a purpose in life.
Speaker 1:Okay? You have a mission and a purpose. And and and whatever that is is probably what you're spending the majority of your day doing, and that is good. That is godly. Okay?
Speaker 1:My my call, I realized, in 2015, was to help other people awaken to their call and then empower them to go pursue it. And I created, some real estate companies and was excited to, you know, bless my society through these real estate companies, and I'm gonna do and I'm gonna raise up other guys and and disciple people and still do my call while but but I have this mission. I don't know if anybody in here works for an organization that uses the EOS system or or traction, okay? So so we implement and in 2021, I had my ten year target. Our company we're we we had our ten year target and our three year, whatever it's called, our one year goal, you know, mission, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I don't know. There's all that stuff. And and we were on fire excited excited, ready to go conquer it. And I'm sitting with my wife in the room, she's pregnant with our third child, sitting by her bed just I wanted to be there because I wasn't, you know, you never know what's gonna happen. Might get some devastating news.
Speaker 1:And even though it was our third time, I was like, I'm gonna be here. And the technician looks at me and she goes, You have three babies. And all my plans came crashing down. It was not a chance I would ever be able to have the life that I thought I was gonna have. Not a chance.
Speaker 1:Two kids, one barely out of diapers, still using a diaper at night, and three babies on the way. Our average diaper count after they were born was 42 diapers a day. 42 diapers a day. We counted. I promise you.
Speaker 1:This was during COVID, and then you had the formula, like, thing, and you couldn't get and, I mean, groceries are through the roof. We could we're we're going through over a Costco sized diaper thing a week. And and formula I mean, you know, Emily did a great job producing milk, but she's got two of those and three babies. The lady that Emily just crumbled, and she cried. She said, I don't want three.
Speaker 1:I used to tease because twins runs in our family. I used to tease her and say, what if we had twins? I was I used to joke with her about that. I would do that just to, you know, because I'm the guy that likes to push buttons just to see the reaction. What if we had twins?
Speaker 1:I don't want three babies. She's just sobbing, and I'm holding it together. I'm I'm I'm processing. Like, inside, I'm freaking out, but I'm going, okay, God. Okay.
Speaker 1:I I think my heart's gonna explode with love for these kids. I know it will. Help me be strong for her. We were walking out the door, and the technician goes, hey, your quiver's full. And I thought, she was just trying to add that word of, and I'm so grateful
Speaker 2:she did.
Speaker 1:You know where that comes from? In Proverbs it says, blessed is the man, but children are a blessing from the Lord. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They are a blessing. I was telling somebody just at breakfast, I was like, I hate it when people look at me and say, oh, wow, your hands are full.
Speaker 1:I'm like, that's not Nope. They are. Yeah. I'm blessed. And I began to discover over the next till now, that children are truly a blessing.
Speaker 1:And I have two missions. I have two missions. One is to accomplish my calling, which is to help people awaken to their destiny and help them fulfill it. And I have some real estate companies, and we do that. And I do that in real life.
Speaker 1:And and one is to my family, To help awaken these people to their calling, and send them into the world. I remember riding back from Lubbock with my mom one time, and she said, you know, I would have loved. I was asking her, she was I was asking her, because she had this ministry to girls in our high school, and and, she's like, do you ever wanna do something, you know, bigger? Would you ever wanna do something bigger? And she just said, she said, I I think it would be fun, But, you know, I've got four disciples that see me every day, and I'm sending y'all out.
Speaker 1:And, I mean, what an awesome how many I mean, think about everybody that's here is here because someone else brought them here, Okay? At some point. That someone else was was transformed at some moment in time, maybe because of their parents, or their families, or maybe in spite of their families. But what if we could every man in here could commit that I'm going to raise up my family to be a blessing to every other family in the earth. That is the biggest dad gum call I could ever imagine.
Speaker 1:I don't get you can you can keep your hundred $50,000,000 companies. I don't I don't care. I want my children to change the world. Not because I, like, did something awesome, but because I put my hands on their head, and I told them who they were. That's all it takes.
Speaker 1:Alright. So what does this look like? On a practical level, you know, we are really, we we become what our habits are. So this isn't super sexy. But I'm gonna encourage you to start thinking through some habits that you can implement in your home.
Speaker 1:Okay? I I'm actually I'm gonna tell a quick story. So, okay. So 2021 comes. We have the triplets.
Speaker 1:We got five kids. And 2022, I'm I'm flying over to Italy. We're buying some property there. This is September, so almost a year later, our triplets were like nine, 10 months old. I've got a business trip over there.
Speaker 1:And and, I'm realizing I'm gonna leave my wife for for five days. Now this is actually, rewind the story, in July of twenty twenty two, Zach and Michael Berkland and two other guys that aren't here, and I came out here and met with Steve. And, I heard a guy named Ruston Carlson share about his 15 year old son who once he kinda like realized, wait a second, I'm my mission is just as much to my kids as or more so even to my kids in my profession. And he's a real estate agent. He began to bring his 15 year old son into meetings with him.
Speaker 1:And he said, if he's not welcome, then then I'm not welcome. And I thought that happened. And so I came home from that weekend, and I told my wife, I said, hey, what if I took Elisha, our oldest, who was only four? Prior to this time, when I would walk in the door, Goldie, my second, they, Goldie and Elisha would run into the door when I'd walk, run to the door when I would walk in from work. And Goldie would throw herself into my arm run right up to me and stop and like do do this and kind of look and smile and wait and see what am I gonna do.
Speaker 1:Am I gonna and I would reach for her and hug her and all that. But so I take Elisha to Italy with me to this business trip, and I'm telling you, like, it was it was powerful. We're meeting with bankers. They're like, I'm like, do you have some highlighters that we can you know, like, we had meetings, professional meetings, business meetings, and she was welcome. And she felt welcome.
Speaker 1:She was when we came home from that trip, and ever since then, when I walk in the door, my daughter runs and throws herself into my arms. I don't I'm That it that did mark the difference between then and now. Elisha was a mama's girl and Goldie was a daddy's girl. Now I've got two daddy's girls. It's powerful, guys.
Speaker 1:K. Habits. I already talked to you about Shabbat. We bless our kids. My wife and I put our hands on our kids.
Speaker 1:We bless them. There's some traditional blessings. If you wanna Google that, you're welcome to. We we kind of sometimes do those and most of the time we make our own. We tell them who we see in them.
Speaker 1:Everybody gets to know what mom and dad think about me gonna be I'll skip the story, but basically I watched someone my daughter was having a meltdown. I'll tell the story. We were we had just we we were traveling and as a family, this is 2023, daughter was just having a meltdown. And she's, like, so stubborn. She she's amazing, but she is, like, stubborn and there was nothing we could do to pull her out of it.
Speaker 1:And we're just, like, you know, Emily and I are kind of losing our own control and patience with her. And this we had just arrived from Israel as a family. We were in Italy walking out the airport out out of the airport and just like, I'm I'm spanking. I'm, you know, I'm doing everything I can that's allowed in public places to try to get her to just calm down and obey and, like, use her feet to walk instead of dragging, you know, sitting there while we're trying to carry five tons of luggage. And, and this Italian guy that was picking us up sees us come out of the doors and sees her, and he runs down, and he goes, oh!
Speaker 1:And he just starts, in his Italian accent, he says, my beautiful, what is the matter? And he kisses her on the cheek, and he like picks her up and swings around, and she flipped immediately. And Emily and I processed later, we're like, Oh, my gosh. The whole time, we're like, Get up. Get up.
Speaker 1:Get up. And now, you know what we do when we're trying to connect with Hey, are you okay? What's what are you feeling? I need you to, like, get down on their level. Does Jesus stand up there?
Speaker 1:And we I know we all think that actually sometimes. I grew up in a church very narrow, and I did think, like Don, trying to be good. I did think that he's up there waiting waiting for me to get out of line so he could whack me. I wanted to teach you a lesson. That's not how he works.
Speaker 1:That is not how he did. It's his kindness that leads us to repentance. Okay? For your sons and daughters, I'm going to share some books, actually, that I recommend. There's a book called Habits of the Household.
Speaker 1:If you've got smaller children, there's a really good book called Habits of the Household. We use a lot of those. Won't go into the all the details. There's a book called The Intentional Father. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Speaker 1:You know, we we it's about creating a rite of passage for your sons. And I don't care, you know, one thing in our Western society, a huge miss, and I think it's why we developed the new, like, adolescent people group, you know, two decades ago. It's like, oh, we we had children and then teenagers and then adults, and then that wasn't good enough. So we had to add adolescents because we realized there was this time where, you know, after teenagers that well, I guess they're not really acting like adults and I think the reasons we had to do that is because we didn't have a right of passage that said, you are now a man. You are now a man.
Speaker 1:So my wife and I are I'm working on designing that even now. I've got three year old boys. If you've got 13 year old boys, if you've got 35 year old boys, I don't care. Put your hands on them. Tell them that they're now a man.
Speaker 1:Give them a father's blessing. But if you've got boys that are still in the house, design a rite of passage. I've I think I've talked to Clifton about this. I was like, I would love to have my kids Well, part of it for me is I'm going to send them to Fort Worth from Nashville to spend a week with these two men of God that are my brothers. And they're gonna learn stuff from Dan, and they're gonna learn stuff from Cliff.
Speaker 1:They're gonna pick things up, and then one day, we're all gonna meet around the round table, and we're gonna say, you did it. You're a man. I am proud of you. The Intentional Father. Get that book.
Speaker 1:You can design one of them for your girls, too. If you have, girls I was telling somebody at breakfast. Kendall Hewitt gave me a book after I had two girls, and, called What a Difference Daddy Makes. Man, it is a good book. Get the book.
Speaker 1:Read it. Take your kids on dates. Take your wives on dates. And when you do, prepare two or three questions that you thought about beforehand that y'all are gonna answer together, and connect over more than just delicious food and whatever. I'm gonna share one that's pretty, vulnerable, but maybe helpful.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna share where I got the idea from, but I learned it from one of my mentors. For those of you that do find yourselves, which I think is probably every married man in this room, but I know of one that might not fit in this bucket, but do find yourselves not getting as much sexual intimacy as you would like. And I mean, I was I had the conversation with my wife so many times. It's like, hey. I mean, you know, you're bearing your soul.
Speaker 1:I mean, they have so much power. It's like you roll over in bed, you're like, arm. She's like, not tonight, hun. You're like, ugh. Just like, they don't realize you were just crushed, rejected.
Speaker 1:You know, and I I was so and I had said so many times, like, I just want you to understand, like, I do so I'm like, I'm just asking you to not roll your eyes. Will you please just, like, can you tell your body to, like, go, oh, you know, something. Just, I don't care. And she goes so at one point, she goes, I just don't want it to be this actually this conversation the conversation I'm talking about right now, we'd had, like, a dozen of them, and there was one conversation she goes I was like, I don't understand. I've asked you, you know, like, I'm I'm asking you to throw me a bone here.
Speaker 1:Make me, you know, it would it would go a long way. You see what happens on those Saturday mornings when we actually, and then I'm awesome the rest of the day. I'm like, what what do you need now? You know, like, just tell me to come bone. And she goes, well, I don't wanna be fake.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, I'm asking you to be fake. Pretend that you In that conversation, I said, what I'm about to suggest, I heard from someone else that I love and admire, and I know you're gonna It's gonna repulse you when I ask for it, but would you just humor me? Scheduled sex. We scheduled sex, and it was awesome! And she loved it.
Speaker 1:And because she was able to wake up that morning going, okay. I'm gonna prepare myself. He's gonna stroke my arm tonight. It became real fun. Practical tools, guys.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm so that's what I'm here for. Alright. So, we're gonna be men. We're not gonna punish our wives for anything. Not thinking about what we want.
Speaker 1:We're gonna declare Proverbs 31 over them, whether you have children or not. I I would you be willing to try this for let's try something for seven days. Would you be willing to try anything I suggest for seven days? Would you? Okay.
Speaker 1:Seven weeks. Sorry. Seven weeks. It's seven days, but each week, you have one day. On Friday night, read Proverbs 31 over your wife.
Speaker 1:Talks about being a woman. And part of being a woman is bearing children. And there are women in, that are married to men in this room, that aren't sure they want children. But you read Proverbs 31 over them, and you talk about the mother, and the wife, and then you pray behind her back that the Lord would would turn her heart. Just see what happens.
Speaker 1:So we're gonna be mighty men. I'm wrapping it up. We're gonna be right at mighty men. And I wanna tell you something. We're not gonna do it perfectly.
Speaker 1:This is why we need brothers. This is why Zach calls me and says, I freaking blew it. That's why I called him and said, I freaking blew it. I called Todd. Any any number.
Speaker 1:I've I've got a bunch of brothers I can call and say I am up to here with with it. You know? We're not gonna do this perfectly, But let me tell you something wonderful. The I mean, the best that you're gonna do is clunky. That's the best you're gonna do.
Speaker 1:You think just go ahead and think for a second. Can I really ask my wife to schedule sex? It's gonna look it's gonna feel and look clunky. Can I really put my hands on her head after all these years? It's too late for me.
Speaker 1:No, it's not. No, it's not. Same thing with your children. Can I really give my children the father's blessing? They're 50.
Speaker 1:It's not too late. Amen. Our families don't need us to be perfect. They really don't. That would do a disservice to them.
Speaker 1:They need us to be real and they need us to repent. And they need us to show them how to do anger. They need to show they need us to show them how to mess up, and get on your knees, and say, I'm so sorry. I I I yelled at you because of my problem, not because of your problem. Rage comes from fear.
Speaker 1:I've taught my children that. I learned that just in the last two years. I thought I had an anger problem. No. I was terrified, and it came out as rage, because I can't control.
Speaker 1:And so now my three year old sons know that when I blew up at them, I'm scared. I'm so sorry. I'm scared. Half the time, I don't even know what I'm scared about, but that that's the deal, guys. They don't need you to be perfect.
Speaker 1:They need you to be real. They need you to be honest. They need you to repent. They need you to show them how to mess up, and show them how to fix the mess ups. Okay?
Speaker 1:So I want everybody to stand up real quick. As I commission you, we're going to do two things. I'm going to speak a scripture over you. I don't want you to close your eyes. I want you to look me in the eyes.
Speaker 1:I'm going to speak a scripture over you, then I'm going to ask Justin, my cousin, to come up, and he's going to give the ironic benediction. So as we go into small groups, I'll just give all the announcements before so that we can dismiss after this. As we go into small groups, we're not answering any questions today. If the Lord is speaking something to you, then sit down for five minutes and write it out right now. Don't wait.
Speaker 1:Be late to small group because you'll forget. In small groups, we're just gonna encourage each other. Okay? Hebrews ten thirty five through 39 says this, do not throw away your confidence, men, for it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere, so that when you've done the will of God, you will receive all the things he's promised you.
Speaker 1:Guys, for just in a little while, Jesus is coming back and he will not delay. But my righteous ones will stand by faith. And if you shrink back, I won't be pleased with you, but you are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed. You are of those who believe and are saved. That is your destiny.
Speaker 1:Do not throw away your confidence. Do not get angry or or disgusted with yourself when you mess up. Get back up. Righteous man falls, falls. He falls, and he falls, and he falls seven times.
Speaker 1:The righteous man gets back up every time. So I want to bless you. I want Justin to come up. God gave a command to the priests to bless Israel with this blessing. And that's what we're gonna do, it's the last thing we're gonna do before we go to small groups.
Speaker 1:But I love you guys. Thank you all for being here.
Speaker 2:Thanks, Ben. Hey, I'm gonna take a page out of Zack's playbook and, say if you want to record this, go for it. So, number six, priestly blessing that the priest would pronounce over the people. And, I have the privilege of doing this in military ceremonies and at my home church and our liturgy and everything else. And so I I asked Ben, I said, if you feel it's appropriate that the Holy Spirit moves you, I would love to sing this over these guys and just so that you guys will leave knowing that God's peace be with you and that, in those times when, you know, you do fall, that God would remind you, that he's with you and fill you with his peace and turn his turn your eyes to him.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 1:Put your hands out, guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Let me sing this over you.
Speaker 3:The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. And be gracious unto thee. And be gracious unto thee.
Speaker 3:The lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace.
Speaker 2:Amen.