So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
Matthew 1:17
Family is important to God, and He’s not only concerned with individuals but also with generations, as we see in today’s passage of Scripture.
When God looks at you, He also sees your family. He knows where you came from. He looks at your ancestors, your children and grandchildren. When making a covenant with Abraham, God never once said, ‘I’m going to bless you alone.’ He always said, ‘I am going to bless you and your descendants,’ as we read in Genesis 22:17-18.
Just as blessings run along bloodlines so do curses. In Exodus 20:3-6, God warns the children of Israel not to follow false gods, saying, “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 upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
We see that the iniquity of the parents is carried on to the children to the third and fourth generations. So, a child will behave like his or her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. They will have an inner inclination toward the same sinful habits.
Lamentations 5:7 says, “Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities.” In other words, even though they may be dead and in the grave, their iniquity is still hindering our progress. Generational influences have the ability to bring blessings – or curses – to your life. An understanding of this reality brings the power to change not only your life but the lives of your family members as well.
If you are living under a generational curse, today it will be cancelled when you, through faith, appropriate the blood of Jesus for your deliverance. You can pray and confess your life and family.
Prayer
Thank You, God, that generational curses are broken through faith in the blood of Jesus. I put my faith in the blood of Jesus. I believe that the blood of Jesus cancels every curse and breaks generational iniquities. I believe, by the blood of Jesus, that the generational curse from the law is cancelled and broken off my family now, in Jesus’ name.
Thank You that sins, bondages and iniquities are cancelled and the curse is stopped by the blood of Jesus and that a curse cannot pass Your blood onto the next generation. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
Read: Genesis 9:12; Exodus 20:1-6
Bible Reading Guide: Proverbs 16:28-33; Proverbs 17:1-4; Acts 28:17-31; 2 Kings 21; 2 Kings 22
