>> Hi, my name is Amy Gagnon,
and I wanted to share a powerful moment in my family's life.
So when we were in our home, we bought a brand new home
and my oldest daughter at the time
was two years old, and we were in her room,
just myself, her and my six month old, my second oldest.
We're unpacking her room, getting things set up.
My husband was away on a camping trip with a bunch of youth.
And we're sitting there in the room,
it's about six o'clock at night
and my back is to the door and my two year old looks at me
and says, Mommy, who is that man standing behind you?
Now, to be honest, my first thought was fear.
I thought there was somebody that just broke into our home
and they're standing behind me.
And as I turned around, to my relief, there was nobody there.
And I said, Baby, what, what, man?
And she said, Mama, that man right there.
And again, she saw this man.
And I turned around, and in that very moment,
I realized,
I wonder if she's seeing something that I can't see.
So I started asking her questions and I asked her,
What does this man look like? And she's like, Man,
mama he's a tall man. I said, Is he good or is he bad?
Mama, he's good.
I said, Oh, is he an angel? She said, No, mommy, it's Jesus.
And at that moment, my eyes were just filled with tears.
I could feel the presence of God.
And to my relief,
Jesus was being seen by my two year old daughter.
Now, at the time, we could think that this was just
maybe something that she was imagining.
But this happened over and over and over.
And not only was it Jesus, she started seeing angels
and she would tell me, one time my husband
and I were in the living room
and she came running out after we put her to bed
and she said, Mom, the angels are not with me,.
And I'm like, Oh, where are they?
And she goes They're with you! And I'm like,
Well just tell them to come to the room with you,
because it brought her great comfort
to know that these angels were there.
So these angels would follow her to her room
and they were on assignment.
And so shortly after that, she started seeing the demonic.
She started seeing different things
and that a lot of fear was now instilled in her heart.
So we would be woken up in the middle of the night
with a lot of moments of terror in her heart,
and we had to figure out, at this time she was about three,
we had to figure out what do we do?
What do we do in this moment with a three year old
where I do not see in the spiritual realm, but she does?
How do I teach her how to do this powerfully?
Like, I can understand her fear. I can understand
seeing something that nobody else can really see.
And at the time, I had a friend who says
that she had also seen things in the spiritual realm.
So I asked her questions like, How do I help my daughter?
Because I actually can't even connect to this?
I don't understand what this is all about.
And she said,
Well, the first thing you need to do is just believe her.
So, my friend, just to let you know,
she actually, her parents
thought that she was making things up,
and then they actually started doing psych evaluations on her.
And this was a really hard journey for her
as her young childhood,
that this was a big part of her parents
trying to understand what was going on inside of her.
We actually went back to my daughter and said,
OK, well, let's see what God's word says.
He's given us power and authority over the angelic
and the demonic.
So we just need to know that you are powerful.
And where is Jesus?
And she said, Jesus is inside of me.
And I said, greater is he who is in you
than he who is in the world.
So we need to, when these scary moments happen,
all you have to say is Go away in Jesus' name,
and they have to leave. They have to leave.
And so this was a very scary thing for her
because if you can imagine
being in an environment at that young of age
and seeing something in the demonic realm,
I am pretty sure, like, remember the Bible stories
when the angels appear and they say,
Do not be afraid, and those were angels.
They have to tell us to not be afraid.
Imagine the demonic, what that feels like to a child.
And so she couldn't do it.
And at this time it was about three or four,
and her little sister would say, I'll say it!
Go away in Jesus' name!
And so she would start saying it for her,
so we got to do this together as a family.
My oldest daughter right now is 16 and a half,
and the other day I actually asked her,
Do you actually see anything anymore?
And she goes, No, and I'm like, Do you remember that? She goes,
Oh yeah, I remember that. Well, a couple weeks ago,
my husband and I went out of town,
and when we came back, she said,
Mom, I got up in the middle of the night
and I saw these two huge angels in my room.
I haven't seen angels since I was little.
And she said I just felt the love of God fall on me,
and I could just feel him loving me,
because she started to just, she was navigating fear.
I mean, we just moved across the nation. We're starting over.
She was going through some internal stuff with the Lord,
and these two angels to her signified his presence
that they were just there to stand post,
to guard and to usher in the presence of God.
And so for her, this was just something a couple of weeks ago,
so she was still seeing angels. Now why do I say all this?
I just want you to know that our children
can encounter and see things.
There's gifts on our kids' lives,
there's gifts on our lives
and they're all going to be different from each other.
And I think that
because sometimes we don't understand things,
we try to explain it away
or we try to kind of figure things out.
But I just want you to know that, make sure when we're doing
this that we're always inviting the Lord and his Holy Spirit
to counsel and guide us, find others who are similar,
who walked similar roads, ask them questions.
But to remember that God's truth is always going to guide us.
It's always there for us,
and God is here to lead us through these moments.
These are not new moments for the Lord.
These are things that he was not surprised will happen.
He's known that these things will happen.
He knows that people experience God in different ways,
and our kids have different gifts.
And just because we ourselves, as parents, don't know
what those are doesn't mean that we can't help our children.
And I am so incredibly thankful that the Holy Spirit is at hand.
The Holy Spirit is next to us. We are not alone.
One of my favorite phrases to tell parents is
Have an ear to your child, have an ear to Heaven
and pull the Holy Spirit close to your face and say,
How do I translate these two? How do I connect what my child
is saying, what heaven's realm is,
and give me the wisdom to connect these.
So I'm just going to pray for you right now
for your homes and your family and your children.
So, Lord, we just pray right now over every person watching,
God, whatever it is that
they are in, whatever they're experiencing, father
God that you are not surprised by any of it.
You've always been there every moment of their life.
You will always be there in every moment of their life.
Father,
I ask that you would exchange fear with your perfect love,
your perfect love that casts out fear.
Father God, I pray that they would always experience you.
We cancel the assignment of the enemy.
You have no authority. You have no authority.
And you need to leave respectfully in Jesus' name.
So Lord, we just declare homes
would be filled with your presence.
Homes would be filled with your peace.
Homes would be filled with encountering you.
And I pray for deep revelation, deep relationship,
and that our children
will surpass us in their experience with you.
They would go to the deepest parts of you.
We just pray in Jesus' name, and Holy Spirit,
be our counselor and guide. Lead us.
I pray, Holy Spirit, that you're the loudest voice
in our, in our minds and our hearts,
and that you have the deepest parts,
father God, of his spirit that you're releasing to us.
We just pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Well I bless you, parents. You've got this.
You've got, you've got the best helper in the world
and it's the holy spirit.
And we just pray blessing. We pray increase.
We pray, we pray that your home would be filled with joy
and that your children,
you're going to see different parts of them come alive
because you are partnering with the Holy Spirit
to see who God's put in your home,
who God has put in your life to raise.
And this is going to be an amazing opportunity
as you walk through,
together with the Holy Spirit and with the Lord,
I bless you in Jesus' name, Amen.