Day 300
Ezekiel 18:19-20
"Yet say ye, Why? Doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful, and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."
During the time of Ezekiel the prophet, people used to say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge." They believed the children would be punished for the sins of their fathers. God spoke through the prophet Ezekiel to inform them that they should not continue to say that. He declared that each person had a right to establish his own record and either suffer the consequences or reap the benefits of his actions.
This is good news. Although it is obvious that children can suffer from the wrongdoing of their parents, God wants us to know that He does not count a parent's sin against the child, nor does He count a child's sin against his parent, once that child is grown and has the right to make his own choices. Each person stands before God alone. Curses that have been in our families due to our parents' evil deeds do not have to come on us. The devil will try to use our families' history as an excuse to burden us with bad habits, diseases and other problems, but we need to know that God gives us the right to break free of all the works of darkness. If we live right before God and trust Him, regardless of what our ancestors did, we can be blessed and pass on a godly heritage to our children. Each of us has the ability to make a new start and claim the blessings of God upon our lives and the lives of our family members.
Let us refuse to accept anything that "ran" in our family that is not of God. Let us refuse to accept lack of any spiritual blessing as punishment for what our fathers did.
We will not miss out on anything God has for His children, if we meet the conditions He set forth in His Word, regardless of what family we were born in.
I will refuse any heritage that is not godly. I will not lack in any way spiritually because of ancestral wrongdoing. God judges me as an individual I have an individual relationship with Him, and will receive all He has for me, as I walk with Him day by day.