Released: For Fathers For Sons

The interesting thing for me is that God began to use me in order to minister to women who had been offended or violated or abused by men in their lifetime. I was in a meeting and ministering to women who had been abused and seeing the Spirit of God move upon them and heal them. As we came to the end of that ministry that morning, one of the guys spoke up and said, “What about us men?” I looked at him and I said, “Sir, I’m sorry, it just never hit me that men would need this kind of ministry because they had been abused.”

The interesting thing is, I just read an article the other day, that 40% of the prostitutes in Hollywood are men and that 100% of them had been somehow, just like the women, violated or abused by authority figures as children. Isn’t it interesting that today, the average age of the prostitute in Hollywood, California, where it used to be 20, 21, 22 is now down to 14 and 15? Isn’t it interesting that incest today is one of the most prevalent problems in our society? Think what’s it like for a woman to have to forgive her father of incest. Think what it’s like for a man who has been abused or misused by his dad of what he has to bear in his lifetime. Do you understand what I’m saying?

You just literally need to forgive because if you don’t forgive, you don’t release that out of your lives.

I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we had about 1,000 women on a Monday night women only meeting. Women just want to get into a meeting where we are. And, so the pastor set up a women’s meeting and everybody came, every woman did. We came to the end of the meeting and I had taught little bit on the principle of release. I said, “How many of you ladies here have been emotionally deprived by your fathers? You’ve never had a father’s hug, you’ve never had a father’s caress or a father’s love in your life, you’ve been emotionally deprived? How many of you are here?” I guess about two dozen hands of the women that went up. My wife was there with me and so I turned to Nancy and I said, Nancy I want to minister another way, and I think what I want to do is just minister to these women first and then we’ll go on. I’m at an age and my ministry is such that I can get do this and get away with it. I wouldn’t advocate anybody else doing it. But, I said to the women, every one of you that’s never had a father’s hug and you’ve been emotionally deprived, I said, why don’t you just come down and line up over here and I thought we’d have a couple dozen women who’d come down and line up. Lo and behold when I said that and the organ started to play, they started to get up all over the building and they lined up all around that building. I looked at that and I said, everyone here has been emotionally deprived? You’ve never had a father’s love? They all said, yes! Well, I was committed at that particular point, so my wife stood right here beside me, I was up one step high and my wife stood right here and the pastor’s wife stood right here and I said, c’mon ladies. So, they began to come and I’d put my arm around them and I just give them a little fatherly hug. I mean I had mascara, I had powder, I had to send my clothes out to have them cleaned. I will never do that again the rest of my life. I mean I learned my lesson at that time. It was incredible.