RICH: Now let me say something about iniquity. You know in the Book of Exodus the Bible talks about the iniquity of your… the Lord says I’m a jealous God visiting your children for the iniquities of the fathers. Now this is something that the Lord is still revealing to me. That the iniquity somehow is always connected to the fathers. Nowhere in the Bible it talks about the iniquity of the mothers. If you read the Bible you’ll find out there’s no iniquities of the mother. There’s always the iniquities of the fathers. And I asked the Lord why the fathers? And the Lord says because the fathers carry the responsibility. They carry the authority from God and the fathers they carry the blessing. So now check this out. What happens if when a child, when the Bible says the Lord will visit the iniquities? Now transgression is an exterior thing. The iniquity is the inclination of the heart that causes you to eventually produce the fruit of sin. Now what is it that God mentions the fathers and not the mothers? Because everything that happens in a house it is the father that has the power to open the door or to close it in a house. And that’s why in America one of the things that the enemy has attacked is homes to be raised without fathers because he knows that the authority lies on the father to shut the door of the devil and to let the blessings in. And that’s why we’re in the state we’re in right now. Brings me to another point. God in this season will begin to heal families. I’m telling you God is going to raise up a generation that is going to do it right. A generation that will be a father, a mother because the fathers are the covering. Now check this out. What if you are born in a house and you are a female and you are experiencing consequences of things that you inherit because of your dad? And we see it many, many, many times. You know the people said well you’re just like your daddy but usually that is being said in the negative way. Right? You know what happens if you inherit that and you get married? You see the Lord showed me this. The moment you inherit that and you get married and you come under the covering of your husband, that husband if you’re living free by God you have the power to cancel that generational curse from your wife and restart your family under the blessing of God. You see a woman in the Bible is not, is never without covering. You see the covering is transferred in a lady when you get married. Of course in America you turn 18 and you go live your own way. Well that’s in America but you know in the Bible there is until your daughter belongs to your husband you’re still under the covering of your father. And this is the beautiful thing about marriage. Not only there’s a union when you become one, but if the man of God, and I’m talking to every male that’s listening to me right now, if you get rid of the issue of iniquity, if you deal with the things in your life and you break that generational curse in your family line when you get married and your wife comes under that blessing it gets canceled out of her life. Number Two: it gets cancelled out of your children. I have a nine month old baby. And I’ll never forget this. The first day she came to my house we put the little crib right next to my bed on my side. And my wife was early in the morning taking a shower and I happened to just look up to see if my baby was okay. You know how I was a new father, just wanted to see if she’s breathing, you know? And then when I’m about to go to sleep I saw this black shadow come around my baby and I turned and looked and it hovered over my baby. And I got up and I rebuked that and I said I command that devil get out! But I saw it hovering and I asked the Lord, said Lord what is it? And the Lord says that’s… you see when babies are born you’re born with an empty hard drive. Do you know what I’m talking about? Babies begin to form who they are by the experiences they have in life and by their parents. So my baby was just a couple of days old and there was that shadow of that generational curses that wanted to come. And when I saw it and when I dealt with it and I command it to go I saw the shadow go away and I understood one thing. When children are born, if the fathers have not dealt with the issue of iniquity in your life the enemy has the open door to come in without being your child’s problem to come in and manifest and visit that iniquity on your children causing them to act out the things that you did when you were younger. I mean if you understand what I’m talking about. I hear a woman who says well I’m divorced. My mom was divorced. I’m just like her! You know and it’s an incredible thing because Isaiah 53 deals with the whole package of wholeness. Wholeness entitles the entire person. Wholeness deals with the spirit, the soul and the body. And when we understand that we carry the power, when we understand that in the cross our sin was dealt with but we still have to make sure that the work of the blood of Jesus goes deep into our life. It’s not just a prayer you pray. You have to get in the presence of God and now let the presence of God transform your nature into the nature that God has for your life. And I believe we’re living in a season where God wants to bring wholeness. Where God wants to bring revelation of what was done in the cross. You know how many times people fly from all over the world to my meetings and say I came here so you can pray for me. And that’s fine. I don’t mind praying. But why didn’t you just raise your hands while you were in Hawaii and you just you know go ahead and worship the Lord and have a vision of that cross of Jesus and you will be healed. You know and that’s one of the things that I appreciate about the Catholics. My ministry is very influential with the Catholics. I’ve been in Rome several times. And people say well the Catholics, they have the cross and Jesus is still hanging out and you know this and that. But you know what? I sat in a Catholic church a few months ago. And I went just to see this beautiful, beautiful four million dollar facility they built in Orlando and I’m looking at the cross they have of Jesus with Him hanging and I’m looking at it and suddenly when I’m looking at it I have scriptural verses going through my mind and I begin to realize and I just stare at the cross and suddenly the presence of the Lord comes on me and I’m in the Catholic church. And I begin to cry and I’m trying to hide now from people seeing me that I’m crying in case somebody knew me from watching me on television and I begin to realize this and I walked away and I said God, what happened? And I remember the scripture in the Old Testament when the snakes were biting the people and the Lord says tell them to build up a brace and pole and put serpents around symbolizing the crucifixion of Christ and tell the people to look and whosoever looks, that word “looks” entitles revelation, not just looking with your eyes, whosoever looks shall live! Can you imagine people being bitten by snakes and they’re dying and all they have to do is turn and look and they’re instantly healed? Now in the New Testament if we can get that revelation. If we can see that the work of the cross was more than just for us to go to heaven. If we can see that the work of the cross it was more than just for us you know to become Christians. But in that cross all of our sins were dealt with. Our iniquities were paid for. And our torment of our mind was paid for. And all of our sickness were paid for. If we can get a revelation of that I promise you that without anybody praying for you, you will receive miracles from God, you will be delivered from generational curses and you will be free from the burden of your sin. Somebody say I believe it!
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