INTRODUCTION Families are tied together by the cord of blood and gene and these make it easier for there to be common occurrences many times negatively in families. This is referred to as family patterns. What do you observe in your life and family that you can trace to any other member of your family line either immediate or distant. Such experiences may well not be circumstantial; they may be a reflection of a pattern already being established in your family line.
Evil family patterns are mostly responsible for delays, degradation, denial, disappointment, dejection, and most times rejections. It works under cover to frustrate destinies and activate repeated negative occurrences. They represent evil holds that destroy family lineage.
Using the Abrahamic family line, some examples come to therefore:
1. PATTERN OF CHARACTER FLAW & MORAL FAILURE:
Carrying daddy’s demons and mummy’s madness (a) Abraham: Gen 12:10-13(KJV)
(b) Isaac: Gen 26: 7(KJV)
(c) Jacob: Gen 25: 27-34;(KJV)
(Jacob was not a only a liar, but a supplanter)
Gen 27:15-22(KJV)
(d) Jacob’s children: (in the case of Joseph’s death)
2. PATTERN OF BARRENNESS AND DELAY IN CHILDBIRTH
(a) Abraham: Gen 16:1(KJV)
(b) Isaac: Gen 25:21(KJV)
(c) Jacob: Gen 30:1(KJV)
3. PATTERN OF PROMISCUITY & POLYGAMY
(a) Abraham: Gen 16:1-4(KJV)
(b) Isaac escaped
(c) Esau: Gen 28:8-9(KJV)
(d) Jacob: Gen 29:22-29(KJV)
(e) Reuben: Gen 35:22(KJV)
(f) Judah: Gen. 38:12-26
(g) David: fell for it in the 10th generation in 2 Sam. 11.
(h) Solomon: in the 11th generation fell into it headlong.
4. PATTER OF FAILURE OF THE FIRSTBORNS: their first-borns never made it to family inheritance
(a) Ishmael versus Isaac: Gen. 21
(b) Esau versus Jacob: Gen. 27 & 28.
(c) Reuben versus Judah & Joseph: Gen. 49 :1-8 ; I Chr. 5 :1-2
(d) Joseph’s sons:
(e) Judah’s two sons at birth: Gen. 38:27-30; & Deut. 23:2 cf Matt. 1:3-6
(f) Jesse’s Sons at the Kingship Anointing: 1 Sam 16:8-13
(g) David’s sons at the ascension to the throne
(h) Judah’s incestuous relationships affected his generations and hindered the divine mandate of Gen. 49
5. SOME CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES:
(a) Pattern of particular sickness
(b) Pattern of death
(c) Pattern of failure –diverse kinds of failure
(d) Pattern of marital struggles – marital delay, divorce, rejection, wife feeding husband,
(e) Pattern of limitation
(f) Pattern of life experience- downward slope of glory
(g) Pattern of limitation
(h) Pattern of struggle
(i) Pattern of servitude
6. EXPERIENCING THE BLESSINGS OF REDEMPTION
(a) Christ has done it: Jer 31:11-14(NLT), Gal 3:13-14(KJV)
(b) Believe it has been done and enforce it:
* Prayers – ask God in prayers: Matt 7:7-11(KJV)
* Confessions - Matt 12:37(KJV)
* Declaration - Job 22:28(NKJV)
(c) Key into it: Isa 59:20(NLT)