It is very important to pray against any generational curses that may be attached to each new child that the Lord entrusts you with. Many of you have taken the responsibility of parenting your grandkids due to their parent’s involvement in drugs or prostitution or other forms of irresponsibility and sin. I strongly recommend that you diligently pray over each of your charges. All foster children, adopted children, and some natural children will also fall under this need.

Recently, I was praying over a little angel the Lord had briefly blessed us with, and I said, "Oh Lord, please bless Sandy, he's such a fine baby!" I could almost hear the Father chuckle as he quickly responded, "I have blessed him, that's why he's such a fine baby!" When we are expecting a child to leave, which means that a new placement will follow, I begin to pray that the Lord will bring just the child that He has planned for us. I also pray for the child's health and safety, and sometimes for their parents if I feel led by the Lord. This particular child had been on my heart two months before we got him. The Lord had given me a dream and showed me that the mother was in a very abusive relationship. For anyone that doubts that dreams may be of the Lord, here is what the Bible says, And the Lord said to them, "Even with a prophet, I would communicate by visions and dreams." --Numbers 12:6.

Sandy was from a Buddhist family and it was a complete fluke that he came into foster care, since the mom had gotten out of the bad relationship and was an extremely fit mother. I truly believe that the only reason that the baby came into the system is so that we could expose the family to the gospel and break any generational curses over the little guy. We now primarily care for newborns and I know that for some it's hard to comprehend that anyone so small and innocent could be under a curse. "...I am a jealous God, and I will bring the curse of a father's sins upon even the third and fourth generation of the children of those who hate me; but I will show kindness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."--Deuteronomy 5:10. The upside of this type of investment in prayer is that it costs you nothing but time, and if there isn't anything attached to the child, you haven't hurt anything. As you have seen by our case studies, you may save yourself a lot of frustration and the child a lifetime of pain.

The whole concept of generational curses is both baffling to some and offensive to others. The statement that I hear most is, "I can't believe that God would punish my children or grandchildren for something that I did. Why wouldn't he just punish me?" First of all, God's ways are not our ways. "This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours."--Isaiah 55:8. Secondly, the people making these statements obviously haven't read the Bible. I believe that a dust-covered bible has less value than a rust-covered sword. But what a mighty weapon once you dust it off, open it up, and store its truths in your heart. It has all of the answers. Want to know what to believe about capital punishment? Read the Book. Yes, it says thou shalt not kill. It also says, "And murder is forbidden. Man-killing animals must die, and any man who murders shall be killed; for to kill a man is to kill one made like God."--Genesis 9:5-6. Guess what? It says almost the same thing in Numbers 33:30. "All murders must be executed...In this way the land will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for murder except by the execution of the murder."

What about eating meat? It's in the book. Genesis 9:2-3 and in Leviticus 22:30, we are almost commanded to eat meat, when God tells how to eat the sacrifices. And in Deuteronomy 12:15 "Eat as much of this meat as you wish and as often as you are able to obtain it, because the Lord has prospered you."

Baby a mistake? "For thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well."--Psalm 139:13-14. "God’s ways are as mysterious as the pathways of the wind, and as the manner in which a human spirit is infused into the little body of a baby while it is yet in its mother’s womb."--Ecclesiastes 11:5. It's simple, just read the Book. God almost never tells us something just once, often the same verses are repeated in different ways through out the Bible.

Do we serve a fair God? The opinion may depend on if you are man or God. When God chose to destroy the earth because men were wicked (Genesis), even the animals paid the price of death. Also, was it fair to kill men for being wicked when the Mosaic Law had not yet been given? Apparently God thought it was fair. Was it fair when Joseph was thrown into the pit by his brothers (Genesis 37) and later into prison by Potiphar (Genesis 39)? Not only had he not sinned to get there, but also he was in God's perfect will by being there. Joseph later acknowledged God’s sovereignty in the matter when he told his brothers, "..God turned for good what you meant for evil."--Genesis 50:20.

Right after God tells Abram that he's going to bless and multiply him, in the very same chapter, God tells him what I would consider to be less than good news.

"Your descendants will be oppressed as slaves in a foreign land for four-hundred years . But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and at the end they will come away with great wealth." --Genesis 15:13-14. Then in verse 16, God makes an incredible statement: "After four generations they will return here to this land; for the wickedness of the Amorite nations living here now will not be ready for punishment until then." Did it come to pass? Sure, read Exodus. But let's consider the statement "for the wickedness of the Amorite nations living here now will not be ready for punishment until then." Certainly, God wasn't talking about punishing the people who were committing the sins at the time, because he was referring to a time more than four hundred years in the future. Yes, people did live a long time, but by this time, no one is recorded as having a four-hundred-year life span. God was talking about punishing the Amorite's children's children. Let me be clear here, sometimes when we speak of generational curses, we are talking about consequences of the father's sins being past down to the children. Other times we are speaking of the spirits being passed down. End Sample

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