Generational

We will not hide these truths from our children, we will tell the next generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders

Do you believe that things are passed down from one generation to the next to the next to the next and so on? Do you believe you can change those things that are passed down through our genes or our customs? Do you believe that God’s Word says from generation to generation.

As I look at my hands, sometimes they look like my fathers, sometimes they look like my mothers. If I look at my children’s hands, they do not look like mine, but they resemble their father’s hands.

I have a picture of 5 generations with my oldest daughter and if I look at those in the picture it doesn’t tell me what will be passed down and what won’t. However, if I look at my children, their children, and their children, YES I have great grandchildren. I can see at times different things from their mothers and fathers, from my side of the family, from my husbands side and so on.

God’s Word says there are curses and blessings. Why do we always look at the curses and not pray for the blessings? You see when my father would talk about his passing he just KNEW that he was going to die suffocating. He just KNEW that he was going to die like one of his relatives. However, he had a stroke and died peacefully 3 months later, I always say he died of a broken heart. So no he did not die from COPD.

Sometimes we say to our children you are just like your father and we don’t mean it in a good way. I have found in my darkest moments going to the bad thoughts of my genes, but you know we are new creatures in Christ. Maybe you have a person in your family that just had a knack for making money. They could take something that someone had thrown away because that person had thought it was garbage and your relative turned it into a profit. My grandmother worked hard as a woman of 7 children and always made sure that the “drunks, loners, those less fortunate” had a place to sleep and a blanket to keep them warm. She owned much when she died, but I believe her heart was more full when she passed than her pocketbook might have shown. That gene got passed down in my family. I want to look at that and not my relatives that had a negative impact on them or others.

As I see what our world is showing my great grandchildren, I cry. Life may not be an easy road, but the road that leads to salvation is the path we should pray for. We sometimes want our children to take the easy path and that will lead to destruction. We should be teaching them the path to LIFE.

My mother was a powerful prayer warrior. She was like a dog with a bone once she had a “word” from God about a person. She would not stop praying until God’s perfect will was done and that person’s life was changed. I am challenging you today to start asking God for a word for the generations of your family. What word is he giving you, what scripture is he saying STAND on this, what word are you to give THEM.

I want my children to know how to pray for their children and the friends of their children. Learn to pass that on, not pass on the baggage that we each carry. Let’s teach the next generations how to PRAISE God even in the storm how to trust his Word and the promises he has given. EVEN if we don’t see it before we die. Let’s teach our children how to pray, seek God’s Word, want a life of freedom though God’s Word and being on their knees.

Just think if we could turn a family around and change the path meant for destruction to a path of walking with Christ. What would this nation look like? What would other nations look like? We have been taught to believe that the generational things can not be stopped, but I am here to tell you that Alcoholism, violence, addictions, rebellion, spiritual deadness does NOT have to be passed on. We can pass on prayer, faith, joy, purpose, love, spiritual growth, unity, forgiveness, deliverance. What the enemy has meant for evil ( the destruction of our families) God will turn around for GOOD.