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George Walter North (1913 - 2003). British evangelist, author, and founder of New Covenant fellowships, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. Converted at 15 during a 1928 tent meeting, he trained at Elim Bible College and began preaching in Kent. Ordained in the Elim Pentecostal Church, he pastored in Kent and Bradford, later leading a revivalist ministry in Liverpool during the 1960s. By 1968, he established house fellowships in England, emphasizing one baptism in the Holy Spirit, detailed in his book One Baptism (1971). North traveled globally, preaching in Malawi, Australia, and the U.S., impacting thousands with his focus on heart purity and New Creation theology. Married with one daughter, Judith Raistrick, who chronicled his life in The Story of G.W. North, he ministered into his 80s. His sermons, available at gwnorth.net, stress spiritual transformation over institutional religion, influencing Pentecostal and charismatic movements worldwide.
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of finding love and acceptance in Jesus. He warns against seeking love in worldly pursuits such as pornography and promiscuity, as these are tools of the devil. The preacher encourages the congregation to let go of bitterness and hardness in their hearts and to love those who have wronged them. He also addresses feelings of loneliness and rejection, stating that these are conditions exploited by evil spirits, but can be overcome through belief in God and opening one's heart to Jesus. The sermon concludes with the promise that Jesus can remove the cold and isolated condition from one's life, just as easily as taking a book from one place to another.
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This matter of parents and children is a very, very real one, something which I have had to discover as the years have gone by, something which God has had to teach me, and you must all learn this. Everything that psychologists say is not wrong, I'm only telling you they haven't got the answer, and when they trace things back to parents, mothers, and fathers, they're right. They haven't got the answer to it, but the seeds of these things are laid in young hearts, often before the hearts are old enough to understand what it's all about. Now listen, you young people, or older ones for this matter, if you are going to grow up, and you're going to love and marry, and you're going to bring children into this world, you must love and love one another, you man and you woman, and you must love those children. If you don't, you will be laying a foundation for nervous breakdown. You will be laying a foundation for mental pressures and troubles in the lives of your offspring, and you may very piously go along to church and say your prayers, and confess to be a Christian, but if you don't treat your children as your first mission field, and love them, it's very doubtful whether you'll ever love anyone else, as you should. That doesn't give you children an excuse for blaming things on to parents, but it does mean this, that God intended everything to be done in love, everything. Everything must be done in perfect love, and anything outside of that is an open invitation for the devil to come and exploit things in families, anywhere, in churches, in any form of relationship into which human beings can come. Remember this, I cannot tell you the numbers of people that come, and when I get down to it with them, whether they be young people, or whether they be 60 or 70 when I get hold of them, I go back, they never knew a father's love, or they never knew mother's this, they never knew it. That's right, that's right, and it's this beloved that the devil comes in on, all unknown to the person concerned, and works all terrible things and sows seed there that will later develop in the life. Bitterness is all this. Let me ask you a question, is there anyone here today that feels all sort of hard, lonely, lonely inside, you feel that, all lonely inside, feel that you're rejected, nobody wants you? Hey? Yes. That's right, anyone else? Come on, just be honest, just, yeah, I can see other heads nodding, that's right, that's what happens, you see, and I'll guarantee that somewhere it's lack of love back in your, your mother, your father, your family, that's right, that's right, you young people, you remember this, now I'll tell you this, that that's a condition that an evil spirit is exploiting in you, and if you believe God now, it can go, that condition. It is not true that you've got to be lonely the rest of your life, and this is why so many people get into sins, and very often sexual sins, because they think this is the answer, they think this is the answer, and I want to tell you it isn't, and the further you go along that line, the more isolated you'll feel. Let me warn you, and this is the tremendous truth, that if you've got this sort of cut-offness, this rejection feeling, that nobody loves you, and nobody wants you, that is a condition exploited by a demon in your life, that cuts you off. Now, if you believe the Lord, and open your heart to him, I'll rebuke this thing in the name of the Lord, and it'll go, and then you let the Lord Jesus take that stony, cold, isolated, hard condition right out of your life. Did you know you could be rid of it? You needn't have it, and he can, he'll take it right out of your life, simply as I can take that book out there, and put it over there. This is the miracle, this is what Jesus excels in, he's the only one that can do it, and he'll do it, and he'll give in place of that, a heart that's warm, and wonderful, and throbbing, and knows it's in, and knows it's wanted, and knows it's loved. The amount of people, I put my arm around, when they feel all cold, and I think, they look here, come here, know that a big brother loves you, somebody loves you, now come on, that's right, I tell you that everybody's looking for love, the devil's got people chasing along the wrong roads for it, that's all, pornography, and filth, and perverse sex, and promiscuity, that's right, that's the devil, he doesn't lie along that road, it lies only through the bleeding heart of Jesus, and you can be free, now come on, you look to the Lord, go on, look up to him, but first of all, do you want to cling to your bitternesses, do you love your hardnesses? No. Do you hate these people that have been so wrong to you? I did. Not now, glory, that's right, because I want to tell you this, you've got to love them, this is one of your conditions, Jesus loves that person, even though they've been so terrible, glory, and in your heart, you must turn and embrace them, go on, not their sin, not their rottenness, but them, in your heart, you turn around and embrace them, go on, put your arms around them in your spirit, receive them, doesn't matter who they are, what they've done, some man, some woman, some mother, some father, go on, some child, hallelujah, Lord I'll do anything for you, all right, now then, and repent of your own sin in hating them, in the name of Jesus, now I come against this devil, go on, get off this man here, get out of him, and get out of this woman, in the name of Jesus, Lucy, let him go, now go on, you let the Lord take your old heart out, let him take it right out of you, don't cling to it, that heart determines your disposition, your life is issuing from it, Jesus said, or the scripture says, that you're to keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life, your life, your living is issuing from your heart, you are that in heart, all right, now then, take it away, go on, say, please Jesus, take my old cold hard heart away, give it right up to him, Lord Jesus, let him take your heart right out, hand it right over now, that's right, Amen, that's right, now take it, don't ask for it without taking it, go on, receive it, inside, take it right deep inside, glory, that's right, take it there, be a new person, now then, go on, drink in, let the love and warmth of the Lord fill you, just believe him, take it from his hand, go on, that's right, come out of him, devil, put your hand on him, brother.
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George Walter North (1913 - 2003). British evangelist, author, and founder of New Covenant fellowships, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. Converted at 15 during a 1928 tent meeting, he trained at Elim Bible College and began preaching in Kent. Ordained in the Elim Pentecostal Church, he pastored in Kent and Bradford, later leading a revivalist ministry in Liverpool during the 1960s. By 1968, he established house fellowships in England, emphasizing one baptism in the Holy Spirit, detailed in his book One Baptism (1971). North traveled globally, preaching in Malawi, Australia, and the U.S., impacting thousands with his focus on heart purity and New Creation theology. Married with one daughter, Judith Raistrick, who chronicled his life in The Story of G.W. North, he ministered into his 80s. His sermons, available at gwnorth.net, stress spiritual transformation over institutional religion, influencing Pentecostal and charismatic movements worldwide.