[Faith-talk] dank and generations

[Poppa Bear]

Hello Maureen, that is a great testimony. You know, I didn't grow up with my father, but as I look at his life now and other family members on that side of the family I unfortunately see a lot of the traits that I have struggled to overcome in my life. In their lives many of them were born with a small bent, or a little seed of these bad habits, sicknesses or diseases but instead of uprooting them, they have spent a life cultivating them. I definitely believe in that the sins of the father can be passed down, but I don't believe that they have to be kept or passed on to the next generation. 
Below is a short peace from a book I finished the other day that hints about this a little. The writer is alluding to the fact that the young boy in the story comes from a long line of family members who idolized beautiful things so much that it was to their down fall. It may take a couple readings to get the direction of it if anyone is even interested 
"in going that far, " the shadowy loveliness of Lady Joan, had a hold of his heart that
savored of idolatry. The love was born in him, had come down into
him through generation after generation of ancestors, had a power
over him for whose existence he was not accountable, but for whose
continuance, as soon as he became aware of its existence, he would
know himself accountable. For Cosmo was not one of those weaklings
who, finding in themselves certain tendencies with whose existence
they had nothing to do, and therefore in whose presence they have
no blame, say to themselves, "I cannot help it," and at once create
evil, and make it their own, by obeying the inborn impulse.
Inheritors of a lovely estate, with a dragon in a den, which they
have to kill that the brood may perish, they make friends with the
dragon, and so think to save themselves the trouble of doing away with it.
"
The last part is so true, we find ourselves born with amazing gifts, prospects and hopes but we run into these dragons that our for fathers left in the basement and rather than go and vanquish them we end up making friends with them, feeding them and then passing them down to our off spring.
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Subject: [Faith-talk] dna and gnerations

Hi
Papa Bear and all
I found your message under the topic old soul very interesting in that I have experienced this.
Some years ago I became involved in a Ministry called Be In Health.  They believe that there are spiritual roots to some diseases and that pplying Scripture and saying in Jesus name that you repent from whatever the rootis and break it off of your generation brings healing because of the power of Jesus name.
Anyway I was born with a genetic bone disease which is traced back to my great grandmother and even perhaps past that but we have no records beyond her.  It through her generation, half of my grandfather’s siblings and their children, to my mother and one of her sisters, to me and half of my siblings, to my neice and to a second cousin.  
Since praying, repenting and breaking off the disease in my families generation I’ve had a second cousin born with the disease, the same exact bones affected at birth that I had but when they did dna testing on her they said, “Okay we can’t explain this, she has all the symptoms but it does not look like the disease in her dna.”  And since birth she has shown absolutely no symptoms.
So I think there is real power in repentence and even in breaking things off in our generations.
Also my last x-rays showed no sign of the disease just the aftermath of having had it for 60 years.
Maureen
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