Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Family plays a crucial role in either building up or burying God’s strategy.

12 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this sermon, the speaker argues that the family is intended by God to be the primary training ground for a person's destiny, a place where giants are cultivated. He explains that growing up in dangerous or impoverished environments imprints a survival‑first mentality, leading to behaviors such as quitting easily, an inability to negotiate, and a poverty mindset that devalues relationships and social capital. These patterns arise because the individual is never exposed to constructive conversations, role models, or the concept of human value beyond money. The speaker warns that without intentional, God‑aligned parenting—teaching intellectual conversation, fostering a mindset of abundance, and prioritizing hunger‑relief before other ambitions—children will inherit and perpetuate these limiting habits. The message concludes with a call to use the Femi Lazarus Digital Library app for further teaching.

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The family can be the ground of God's strategy and can be the bearer ground of many destinies. When you come from a dangerous place, it's not just about upbringing, it's about the quality of conversations you hear, the quality of individuals. You wake up every morning, what is fight for? 2k data, gaslighting, all those kind of things. Those are the things you have to fight through. You, you, you, you cannot ever imagine God using you at a level where you're a blessing to the world because that is not factored in the ideology of this kind of place. We've got to survive first. So every plan, vision, dream, and intentions, everything must be that we settle hunger issue first. The person who is exposed to this kind of thing is going to build survival instinct. He's going to self-preserve. Um, so you're going to see many things with this person. He's going to quit easily, quit on people. Once it becomes stressful, I'm done. Quit on relationships. Don't stress me. The moment something happens that he's not taught to negotiate because nobody negotiated with him, once something is said in the direction he doesn't agree, he curse. You pass that because it's not saying relationship produce. It's only known money that they give. It doesn't understand human value or social capital, doesn't understand all those things. He throws his name around, there's no weight to it. It's a construct. The family is supposed to be God's, God's biggest strategy. On earth, supposed to be the training ground for giants. Anything you didn't see, you can't do. Look at how, look at how serious this is. Say, train up a child in the way he should go, when he grow, he will never— will never— raise him with poverty mindset, he will never depart from it. Raise him to react, he will never depart from raise him not to be able to hold intellectual conversations, he will never depart from it. Get the full message on Femi Lazarus Digital Library app today.