Choosing Life Today

Are you still aligning yourself to Generational Curses or Sins? Are you still allowing them to affect your life and the lives of your children and those generations after them? Have you gone down the route of blaming your parents, grandparents, etc for the issues in your life? Do you use your bad behaviour or your misfortune as an excuse – ‘I can’t help it, it’s just something in my family line’? Or have you chosen to stop the curse or sin and take responsibility for your part in perpetuating the curse in your life and in the lives of the generations after you through forgiveness and changing the way you speak and do things?

My testimony is that for about 40 years of my life, I chose to believe that I was the victim – the one who had been hurt by the emotional abuse of people in my ancestry and was justified in my hurt, anger, hatred etc. Until I learnt the truth about Inner Healing, and God revealed to me that I was complicit in allowing the Generation Curse to continue in my life and into my children because of my choices – or lack of choices.

Because I had aligned myself with the hurt, pain and anger, I was, in turn, speaking death and curses over myself and the generations to come because I was saying things like ‘I hate what they’re doing to me’ and ‘I hate them’.  It was only when I chose to forgive those in my generational line for what had been done to me and what had been passed down to me and made a choice to put a stop to that kind of abuse, did I see and know the start of freedom and the life Jesus created me to live. I also saw a change in the relationship between myself and my daughters.

However, I still today have a choice to make – I need to be aware of my responses and reaction and be mindful of not falling back into that way of life - the way of curses, death and destruction. I still need to choose to, of course renounce the sin, but speak life and blessing over my generations past and the generations ahead of me. And I am learning how to bring forward the Generational BLESSINGS.

Ezekiel 18 (read it in the Passion Translation because of the very helpful commentaries that come with it) makes it very clear that we cannot keep blaming everyone else for the sin, curses, wrongs, imperfections in our lives. We are solely responsible for the sin, wrongs, aligning with curses and imperfections in our lives and we have to make a choice to confess them, repent of them and receive God’s forgiveness. Then we need to choose to move forward in the way of blessings and life.

Ezekiel 18:4 (b) says “The one who sins is held responsible and will die”. Thank goodness for Jesus and what He did for us on the cross, because if we have Him as our Lord and Saviour, His grace is extended to us along with forgiveness. So the only thing that needs to be put to death is the sin/curse in our lives.

Ezekiel 18:30-32 continues “'So from here on, you people of Israel, I, Lord Yahweh , say to you: I will judge each of you by what he does. Repent, turn away from all your sins, or your own wickedness will be your downfall [or “so that iniquity will not be a stumbling block to you”]. You must get rid of all the guilty sins you have committed and clothe yourselves with a new heart and a new spirit. People of Israel, choose life! I find no pleasure watching anyone die, so repent and live! I, Lord Yahweh , have spoken.”'

We must all “stand or fall according to [our] relationship with God. The sins of others can never determine your destiny” (TPT comment on verse 4).

How about you? Are you allowing generational sins/curses to impact your life? Are you allowing the comments or thoughts of others about you affect how you live? Are you battling with your relationship with God and with others? Are you using those things as an excuse for bad behaviour or ‘bad luck’? Are you living with a Victim mentality?

Don’t allow generation curses/sins, your own sin, the effects of the lives of others to affect your destiny.  Choose today to repent of your alignment to those things and receive God’s forgiveness.  Choose today to put a stop to the curse/sin and to move forward in the plans and purposes of God. Choose today not to speak curses and death over your life and the lives of your children and children’s children and choose today not to believe the lies of the enemy.

We each have a destiny that has been prepared in advance for us by God. Move forward in that, run the race set before you and know God’s blessings, favour and honour on your life today.

Be blessed

Jean

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