Your Family in the Generational Tree

The Power Point slide below shows two marriages with a divorce after two children, a girl and a boy. The mother remarried and that couple had one son. As you can see, once a person is married and has children they can never be fully separated. There will always be a connection with the children, grandchildren, birthdays, holidays, weddings, etc.

As the Bible puts it, "They became 'One Flesh' and even a legal divorce cannot totally separate that pair emotionally, spiritually and generationally. The two children brought forth in that union will always have the genetic and spiritual marks of both parents. No matter what a judge says God has rightly described the facts.

 We have been sharing our thoughts about being "Uptight" in families and how that anxiety/stress is transmitted from generation to generation. In the Bible, the term SIN is used primarily to describe aspects of our being that keep us from being perfect. It does not always mean a conscious willful act. So, when the scripture says our sins will be transmitted from generation to generation it can simply mean that the pain, stress, dysfunctions and imperfections of one generation are transmitted like a virus from generation to generation.

Divorce causes stresses, patterns, fears and emotions to go from generation to generation. But healing is possible.

Have you started drawing your genogram yet? No? Are you waiting a few years until the old folks are dead so you don't disturb the family skeletons? (Remember, if you open the closet door and let the skeletons out you have to dance with them!)

Just as the Bible says, "The sins and blessings are singing and playing music in the children of several generations." So, many of us have discovered in our researching past generations that we have a strange desire to dance a certain dance just like Great Grand Dad did.But healing is possible.

It can be daunting to face the past in your family. Who knows what we may find or the music we might hear. The nice thing is to see patterns in your family tree that can be reversed or prayed over. We must live with some of our inherited traits and spiritual dynamics but there is also hope.

I discovered that my maternal great grand father was an evangelist, preacher and pastor.  My mother and grand mother both said I was just like him. He split of from a Missionary Baptist Church after a Holy Spirit revival in 1894 and planted a new church in 1895. I recently spoke at that church.

I split off from a Baptist Church in 1969 after a Holy Spirit revival and founded a house church in 1970. I had it in my bones it seems to plant my own brand of church very similar to the brand my great grand dad was led to plant 165 years prior to me. I heard some strange music and started to dance to it without knowing Pa Dempsey heard similar music. Is the music you hear deep within coming from past ancestors? Can you face the music? 

If you can face the music get our books, How to Be Me in My Family Tree and Breaking Free from the E book store and download the PDF. files to learn how to heal your branches. 

Maybe your skeleton can help you take the next step in a rising career.