Thursday, 16 June 2011

GENERATIONAL PROBLEMS

READ: HAGGAI 1:6-11
If God has opened your spiritual eyes you will have discovered that a good percentage of mankind’s problems are generational in nature. Perhaps, some of the deep problems you are going through now have found their ways into your life through generational roots. To deal with such problems you will have to identify the source of the generational problem and deal decisively with it. A curse that is generational in nature will introduce hereditary diseases and problems. In some families, there could be a particular disease running through the family generations. In Exodus 20:4-5, God said: “You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” The above passage seems to put many of us in trouble. If we trace our generation back sufficiently, we are likely to meet someone who had bowed down to idols. A sister once came to us for prayers on hereditary problems. In her family, from her grandmother, they normally had just one child. The mothers were dying after childbirth. When this sister realised that there was a curse on the family, she came for deliverance and she is a proud mother of four children now. What you are going through today may be traced to ancestral curses. Do not allow parental curses to remain in your life.
MEMORIZE: HAGGAI 1:7 –Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways!