FACE YOUR FATHER'S DEMONS

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"How was your growing up like?", someone would pause, think a bit and probably ask "in what aspect?", because that no doubt is a bogus question. It contains many parts and many dimensions to it. So in order to adequately answer that question, one would need to be specific as to what part of one's growing up experience is being examined.

I don't want to be all educational this morning, or anything like that; but to bring to your attention something I consider vital. Most of us live our lives not aware, or rarely talking about this fact. Ironically its an enormous problem, as it were. Someone said, "at some point in your life you'll have to face your father's demons."

Many years ago, his father had a janitorial business. Started it at a time when not many people were going into business. His father worked at it, dedicating time, energy and everything into the business just to make it work. After a while in the business he became ill and died form high blood pressure and and swollen feet. Many years later, T.D Jakes, started strong and after awhile he started to experience the same symptoms his father did, high blood pressure, and his feet started to swell. He started a workout program, started to diet and do things his father never had the privilege to do. Today, he's healthy and strong. But by the time he started to notice the same symptoms, as his dad. The devil tried to make him believe that he was going to die the same way his father.

In life there are cycles that tend to repeat themselves for generation to generation. David had a weakness with women, and if you look down his lineage, you'll discover how that same issue ravaged his family. Solomon the wisest king that ever lived, was so weak that his record of the number of women he had hasn't been broken till date.

Abraham, the father of faith. Gods right hand man, lied about Sarah being sister, instead of his wife; he was afraid of being killed for her sake. Many years later Isaac, even though he wasn't there to experience his fathers lie and the circumstances under which he did, lied himself. As a matter of fact, word for word, that Rebecca was his sister.

It is no coincidence that most of us are experiencing exactly the same issues that some of us saw our parents go through. Delays, failed marriage, divorce, anger, being broke, always giving up, etc. Some of us saw our fathers leaving our mothers and now we're grown up and yet in relationships, we can't explain why, but it doesn't seem to be working. You sit down try to find out why and you can point out one tangible reason, but you just don't want it anymore. Its a cycle.

It's time you rolled up your sleeves and engage God in this fight for your life and your father's demons. Your children shouldn't have to go through the same "cycles". Stamp your feet down and declare, "this has got to stop". This is a cause for great concern. Receive grace to defeat your father's demons today, in Jesus name.