Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

As we trace our generational lineage we will find that there are certain issues that keep recurring among us that were prevalent among our ancestors. The typical example of this is when you go to the doctor for a check up. To determine what the likely cause of your problem is the doctor will ask a few pertinent questions, such as: is there any sort of illness that runs in your family? Did you dad or anyone in your family suffer from that ailment? And so on. Now if even those who are using natural means to bring healing recognise that issues pass from one generation to another, how much more should those who are dealing with the whole individual be aware of this? The need to remember our past is vital to be able to deal with issues of the past. An example of this is the prevalence among people from Caribbean heritage who chose not to get married but will live together for many years as a couple. Back in the eighteenth century in the Caribbean slavery was the order of the day. One theory which was employed to keep the slave impoverished and totally disjointed was to forbid them marry and to systematically take the men from plantation to plantation to ‘breed’ with other women just like prize stallions. This instituted the curse of illegitimacy which is still very prevalent among people from the Caribbean today.  After slavery was abolished in 1834 and slaves would now legally be married to their chosen partners, the propensity to do so was seldom taken up. More people chose to co-habit that to get legally married. The incident of men going about from woman to woman fathering children was still prevalent. What was instituted 300 years before was very hard to eradicate from the psyche.  Sadly today the situation is no different. I know a man who has ten children with as many different women and he feels no way about it. And sadly some of his off-springs will undoubtedly carry on the same pattern unless the curse is broken. The Willie Lynch curse was instituted to break up the community, the blood of Jesus was shed to bring us back into community and break the curse! Today let us chose the latter so that we can eradicate the former.  Read 1John 3.