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Family identity cannot bar you from divine blessing

Opinion & Analysis
One lame excuse often used to justify poverty is family poor background. While family inheritance is a handy launch pad, you can defy ancestry and emerge rich through divine blessing.

One lame excuse often used to justify poverty is family poor background. While family inheritance is a handy launch pad, you can defy ancestry and emerge rich through divine blessing.

Devotion with Erasmus Makarimayi

Many feel disfranchised because of where they come from. Their families do not make it in the who is who of achievers and royalty.

Origin shouldn’t stop the future from yielding to your aspirations and commitment to do well. The battle can be spiritual but it’s very mental and psychological. Many have defied the odds and shot to the top disregarding any historical disadvantages.

Remember the blessed families started with one person who set on changing history and negative predicament. Generational curses have to be broken and assumption of new identity in Christ effected.

Seeing certain families apparently making it is frightening and to some is cause for envy and jealous. This unfortunately is a major cause for witchcraft. There is a serious danger in our societies when blessedness is seen as a preserve of certain families.

You may not come from the monarchy or royal family but lead a blessed life. Hexes and spells are fired on those succeeding ignorantly assuming the blessing will be transferred to the curser or satanically to pull others to one’s level.

Many families are at loggerheads because of accusations of bewitching each other. Brothers don’t see eye to eye and clans are at war. Yes it’s possible to bewitch others to acquire wealth but true riches come from divine blessing. Blessedness comes from keeping the Word of God. You may come from a not so rich family and rise to the pinnacle.

This is asserted by Jesus in Luke 11:27-28 which reads, “[27] And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. [28] But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” Jesus admits that His mother, Mary was indeed blessed and that it was an honour to be His mother, but He says that the chief blessedness, the highest honour, was to obey the Word of God. Jesus here declares that her blessing did not so much lie in that her womb bare and her paps gave suck to Him, as in that she was one who heard and kept the Word of God.

Scripture points to the fact that Mary kept the Word of God from where she derived her blessing. Jesus also kept His Father’s commandments, the Word of God, and was thus called blessed. Based on this one can prosper by following biblical teaching. Jesus made it crystal clear that one cannot be denied blessing because one was not born by certain parents.

This should help those who scorn their parents and accuse them of their stagnation and misfortune. Indeed you might have certain inheritance if you were born next door but you’re not denied access to blessing based on mother or ancestry but the Word of God offers anyone who so wishes chance.

Our God is a just God and offers level playing field to us all regardless of lineage. Peter got this revelation and remarks in Acts 10:34-35, “[34] Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: [35] But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”

True blessedness therefore comes from fearing God and obeying His statutes.

Origin can help you advance but if squandered by departing from God’s Word, generational wealth can vanish like dew in the morning. Safeguard family inheritance but don’t assume others cannot rise from obscurity through obedience to God’s Word and take up the seat.

If you were suffering from demonic lies that you belong to a family cursed to perpetual suffering, grab the Word of God and live a blessed life.

Through divine blessing derived from obedience to His Word, you can work your way up the ladder. Desist from accusing your family from denying you blessings; you are going somewhere.

All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible Feedback: [email protected] Fellowship with Pastor Makarimayi on Facebook and on www.twitter.com/PEMAKARIMAYI