Generational Blessings [Part 2]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright when you discover generational blessing in your life that you hadn't previously discovered you didn't invent it when you see it you can appropriated in a whole new way. That's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for a whole new light.

I'm Dino. Excited for you to hear today's message in the series titled exponential rates as presented at renewal the church in North Carolina.

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Because the power of the blessing flowing through the generation is greater than the power of the curse the cars to be broken and the blessing can never disappear or job, because matter.

Beloved vote in the election influencer government, but our hope is not in a government or an election. It is in the change of a generation for God has set up a plan where it can happen exponentially. You never know when you get started one seed grows one tree that bears so many pieces of fruit and inside each piece of fruit punch more seed is a great plan. It means all I gotta do maybe is impact one person who grows into a tree of righteousness by their family and their friends all grows exponentially. The whole exponential thing is mind-boggling. I know mathematician I can't figure this stuff out. There is a legendary story of a beggar who meets a generous King and the King offers to feed the poor man for a couple months at his banqueting table and to give the poor man clothes so you could maybe get back on his feet. Maybe get a job and the better the surprising thing he asked his Majesty if instead of eating at his lavish banquet table for two months and being adorned with all the finery of Royal raiment. The beggar said I'm a humble man and would it be. Instead you might give me tomorrow one grain of rice and the next day, two grains of rice and the next day for grains and so forth. The King himself not being a mathematician, thought the poor man to be a fool but he said if that be your desire so be it. The next day that beggar showed up, held out his hand in the King but one grain of rice. The next day placed in his palm, two grains of rice. The third and the fourth day so on. So a week later, the beggar brought in a teaspoon for the hundred and 28 grains that was due to him.

But in two weeks to call the King's attention because now it was 1/2 a kilo at the end of the month. The daily portion had grown to a whopping 35 tons of rice and so the story goes.

A few days later the king had to declare bankruptcy and give his kingdom to the beggar you heard the one about a penny. I read a blog this week of a father who did the age-old trick on his kids. You can have an allowance. He told his eight-year-old and 12-year-old of a dollar a day for two weeks or I can give you a penny and it'll double each day. They-year-old tried to do the math got today seven and realize that after a whole week, he was still only get a dollar 27 and he said this is a ripoff.

No way. Give me the dollar a 12-year-old didn't feel like doing the math and so he went along with the dollar deal also. The dad said finally gave him a dollar dutifully each day for doing their chores, but he put a chart up on the refrigerator that marked what they would have been receiving, and they felt quite happy about it.

During that whole first week, but on day 11 they started getting upset when they realize that if they gone with the penny route that it would've been worth all day 11 $20.47 and it didn't take much more math. From that point to realize that if it Gobbling for two weeks. It was going to add up to hundred and $63.83 instead of their $14 that they receive and what it really gets interesting is that if you carry out the math for a month of doubling the penny and adding it up that it adds to over $21 million.

One more illustration just to make the point. Take a sheet of paper of the ordinary letter-size variety folded in half folded a second time and 1/3 time. It is about as thick as your fingernail. Continue folding it if you can in its sevenfold statistic is a notebook and if you could fold it 10 times it be as thick as the width of your hand. Unfortunately it's not possible to keep folding the paper more than about 12 times if you tried it yourself.

But if you could keep folding it at 17 folds to be taller than your average house.

Three more folds and that sheet of paper is 1/4 of a mile and 1/4 of the way up the Sears Tower. 10 more fold in its cross the outer limits of the atmosphere another 20 and its reach the sun from the earth at 60 folds that piece of paper folded 60 times would have the diameter of the solar system at 100 folds.

It has the radius of the universe. Now if that is true, what does it mean when God says his love goes on to a thousand generations is bigger and better than what we can comprehend.

So everything according to the seed principle reproduces, according to its own kind, and everything in God's world that is good is designed for increase the design of God for this shows up.

Sometimes you can notice it in in the in the your own children are in your own life from your from your parents. And this is such a fascinating thing when it happens it makes you wonder is interesting.

Our son Bennett are seven euros a senior. He's gotten into debate and when he first started bait debate a few years back I honestly I didn't say so, but I wasn't really in favor of it because our gas bill from driving kids to accurate extracurricular activities was already too high and the time wasn't there, and between golf and other extracurricular activities and church and doing school out and see how we had time for debate. And so we started kind of with no particular affirmation for me and sure enough, Bennett and his first debate partner by their own admission were terrible, and in fact one of the funniest lines that we've got going right now and with regards debate is when Bennett was in one of his early debate rounds against some very experienced debaters and his partner Andrew sitting at the desk with him all the team was offering their rebuttal speech. Andrew just leaned over to Bennett and said we are getting slaughtered and so it was for most of the first year there were very few wins there were no qualifying for any other events, and the next year I was in a whole lot better. But something happened this year and they got they got pretty good. And in fact I wasn't there but there is a regional debate term of the Washington DC and call me and she said your son just got voted as the number one speaker in this regional debate over the six or seven states and I like my side. They stunk at this and they made the nationals this year actually came in about 20th Pl. in the nation this year and got really good and here's what the thing is that when Bennett started all of this.

It wasn't until sometime later that my own mother is Nana came and start talking to them about debate and embed as I will like you know anything about debate amazing is when you're little you like my grandmother she sweet but she didn't know anything and she was asking him about his one day see about that. What the dog what all these things I and he had to come to learn that my mother and father met each other in their college debate team, my son, this thing is interesting, but Bennett is there is a good golfer and I love golf but IRKIK pili Bennett place, but my grandfather. I didn't play any golf grown up. I got thought those boring while you my play golf and I don't know what it took to cast the demon out of me.

But anyway I came to my senses and realized the best sport but anyway is not too much later my life I played golf in my grandfather on my father's side DC right he was on several occasions, the city Champion and city of Greensboro is a scratch golfer, and I was walking with my daughter Abby acid have you see how these generational blessings just come right on through.

She said no, that is, that when jumped over you silo debate website know it came through me.

She said no. We went around I said no. It comes in visibly through you. Abby said will what about me. She said I was you I like dance and I like horseback. She said we got annoyed by our family rode horses as it all. I said I know you have people write horses because it would net me to generations. They didn't have cars so you have talent right will have more teaching moment from today's important series when it would be like to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of injection don't roll their eyes make fun of you. I love you last no more than she's feeling deep down that you feel like a pressure is always on lotto really lacks right here in my longing for your life with no shame in paradise before sin came into the world.

The Bible tells us on this relationship. No shaking ever since the fall of the human heart has been riddled with shame surrounding size can tell you that you can't be truly acceptable shame because it is Sunday so I'll try to be perfect in order to meet others to decide listens on the measure at them as well but now the road ahead is pleasing fashion. And there's only one the grace of God in Jesus Christ and his highly acclaimed book for yourself yourself not only exposes the lateral sexual he leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discover freedom, joy, and destiny as you shall performance-based living, shame, or fear, for good life-changing full-length book from Alan Wright for yourself. The gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer today is the last day. This special offer is available to you. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan writing say it is the design of God. The good gifts come from God, but they came through the generations, and it wouldn't be astounding thought just if you started to realize that I might receive some negative things which can be praise God broken in Jesus name I can replace ungodly beliefs with the truth.

I can replace the consequences of those previous generations send by my new status in Christ. I got a new identity going to be a powerful thing that in the midst of doing that.

He also started an exploration of all the things that were good because the negative things that impacted you do not invalidate the good things that were important to you as a family. Just in the natural illustration as I okay I admit it. I didn't inherit whatever genetic code to have good eyesight got nearsighted in fourth grade were glass never sent, but I do have good teeth. I never have cavities I go and they claim I things they look good. See again I had good teeth and be crazy for me to say well you know I'm just curse. I got bad outside as everything else is wrong with me to now I had good teeth up. I'll keep him emphasize the more powerful thing in your life which is blessing to be something no. 11 grandfather walked out this morning service is this making wanted to sit and have a conversation my grandson. One of the things that get woven into the life of Israel was the telling of the story's after the pastor got this unbelievable thing for the people of God parted the Red Sea.

He delivered them out of slavery so they would be free. He opened up the Red Sea and then he gave them inheritance and as he did so became a feast to celebrate called Passover and everything in the Passover is symbolic and has a purpose so that the fathers could tell the children. This is what God did for our family. This is your ancestry and I want you to understand this because I never want to look on your life is if you're a slave you were set free and that is ended. I want to see your life in the context of the blessing that God is brought in this amazing rescue by which he liberated you and you can remember the bitterness of that slavery was you also taste of the saver of the goodness of God for this defines who you are. The definition of God's affection on you is seen in this blessed Passover and several these fees, while those those fees also pointed to how God provides for us where in difficult times in and I did a whole study on this and call the God moment because in rehearsing and remembering God's presence in your past, you activate faith for today so when you discover generational blessing in your life that you had previously discovered you didn't invent it. But when you see it you can appropriated in a whole new way is like imagine that there is a family that had artistic genius and it but along the way. There was brokenness in the family and there was no time for the children for a couple of generations. Their budgets were surviving, but in their whole genetic code. There was artistic genius and then someday somebody says your great-great-grandfather was an incredible artist look at this and then hands the child canvas and paint as suddenly discover there was an artist where you didn't know there was one you didn't invent the artistic genius but you uncovered it is like a seed that you water and you watch it grow and you want you want to flourish, so I'm a little bit of a treasure hunt right now my grandfather on my mother. My mother's father, who he died at age 90. When I was six.

He was a preacher. I really want to get hold of some of his sermons always heard he was kind of a stern man that he thought drinking Coca-Cola was a sin. And so I thought well they met in there for me as I will drink my Coca-Cola Diet Coke to and but there's something that's awakened in me a prompting from the Lord's side. Yeah, there might've been some things it missed, but there are some things, it came down to you, stop and appreciate your preaching the gospel and I didn't start with you. What about you, and wouldn't be an extraordinary change in the way you looked on relationships. If you saw that God's plan for transformation in the world was generational blessing for the way in which you decide to spend your time for whether you're a parent or not, whether married or single, you can have spiritual children your greatest impact might be the impact one person that you love and disciple. If you're a parent no matter what you're seeing from your kids no matter how frustrating a day can become. I invite you to so fix your mind on generational blessing that even when you get your most mad that what comes out of your mouth is not your no good and you come from Alana no good people.

But what comes out even in the moment of discipline or anger is that you got a blessed life and God is passed along blessing to your generation and I'm to see that it comes to pass in your life. Even if we have to have a little discipline right now training yourself in this the way that we are going to change the world is through the pattern that God set up in the beginning I generational blessing that becomes exponential go out and vote influence your government be a good citizen, but let's never despair and listen never put our hope in the wrong place because the hope of the world is the gospel of Jesus Christ growing exponentially through the generation both in the natural but then in a way that is even greater. And that is to understand this, that there was a first. Adam and he send and therefore all have fallen short of the glory of God. But there is a second Adam, who came his name was Jesus. He lived a sinless life and on the cross he the Bible says, who knew no sin became sin.

He became your sin and mine and Galatians teaches us that he bore in himself. All the curse for cursed is the one who hangs upon the tree you have Christians in Christ, a new identity, and it is an invitation to a celebration that begins here on earth.

It will go on and on, for though the iniquity of the fathers may be passed to 1/3 and the fourth generation, the love of God goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and that is the gospel right today's teaching generational blessing. It would be like to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of rejection affected. I don't roll their eyes make fun of you. I love you last no more anxious feeling deep down that you feel like a pressure is always on the matter really lacks right here in my longing for life with no shame in paradise before sin came into the world. The Bible tells us only one thing in this relationship and found the notion ever since the fall of the human heart has been riddled with shame around until you can't be truly acceptable seemed condescending, so I'll try to be perfect in order to meet others to decide. Since I'm not a measure at them as lover now. Well the heart is poisoned by Shane and there's only one the grace of God in Jesus Christ and his highly acclaimed book for yourself. Being South Ehrenreich not only exposes the lies of shame. He leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discover freedom, joy, and destiny as you shall performance-based living, shame, or fear, for good life-changing full-length book from Alan Wright for yourself. Being South gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer today is the last day.

This special offer is available to you. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like I will refer generational curses in today's teaching and were just really in the middle of this is about generational blessing. We know when you come to Christ before the term born again and there's a new birth a new identity, and boy that really starts things fresh to know that we are greatly blessed and highly favored it all is a beautiful thing Daniel, if you even if you've been in a difficult family. The beautiful thing to go back and look so you know their blessings that have come down from generations to me the things that have been been passed down to me and I think that people like me been through a lot healing in their lives emotionally and we can almost spend so much time focused on one of the things I need to get fixed and made in in the things that got handed how that work helpful right that we can mess limit. What about the beautiful gifts of been passed along and that's what this is about today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries