Something Worth Fighting For: My Future

Spiritual Strongholds Have Generational Consequences.

Exodus 20:5 ESV

5 You shall not bow down to them or 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me,

To Those Who Hate Me/ This is Best Translated as Those Who have rejected me or turned away from me.

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My Family History:

Hosea 4:6 ESV

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

1. Identifying Generational Curses

Addiction

Sexual Sin

Divorce

Adultery

What about these?

Laziness

Gluttony

Passiveness

Aggressiveness

Dishonesty

Offensiveness

Lack of Structure

Anxiety

Fear

Depression.

How do we begin to break the bond of our Generational Curses.

Realize that Jesus is the Source of our Freedom!

1 John 2:1–3 ESV

1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

2. Make a Decision to Go in a Different Direction.

Joshua 24:14–15 ESV

14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

3. Begin to Pray through and Move Away from the Generational Curse.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV

14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

For Me I have had to draw some hard lines for my family.

God Does not Charge your children for your sin

Ezekiel 18:19–20 ESV

19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. 20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

However your descendants will struggle with what you don’t fight against.