What is the foundation of your family?

And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.bondage. Exodus 20: 1-2 KJV

A lot of people have been born into bondage. The grandchild of a slave is a slave. The children of Israel went into slavery by an invitation of their forefathers. They were not conquered in war but they walked into it. They went in to solve a problem that came from famine and ended up as slaves in a place where they went in as free men.

In a lot of homes, mostly African homes, have altars that generations are tied to. This altars serve as a covenant between generations to come and the initiators of the altar.

Isaiah tells about the foolishness of man. He talks about the how man makes images to worship from those same things we make use of. Wood that we use as fire, furniture; the same we use as graven images. A lot of us do not have graven images in our homes, but our jewelry, paintings and other things we hold dear have become our own altar and graven image. Such that things begin to go wrong because these things have more importance in our homes and our lives.

Without our knowledge we bring into our lives idols and things that will become a door for which the enemy enters into our lives. Even some of us have unknowingly become a part of idol worship by a reason of where we come from, where we go, who we move with, and those things we hold dear.

God does not take kindly to those people who give more importance to images, lust, material thing above Him. Sometimes we may not have contributed to this, but the effect of it affects us generations after. Why? Because our bloodline has the remnant effect that affects the generations to come after.

Due to this effect a lot fail at the edge of breakthrough, a lot are faced with alcoholism, a lot are faced with lust. Most of these are as a result of the works of our forefathers. Leviticus 26:38-39
A lot of people are wasting away as a result of the iniquity of their fathers, or father’s house. Almost any family is under one of the following or the other

1. A family covenant - an agreement with something or one of the other to do something for with and for them
2. Ancestral yolk - similar to a covenant but different in that it is an attachment to something we are tied to. Some families are tied to alcoholism, some are tied to their women not marrying, and so on
3. Family curse
4. Family inheritance

Some of us bring on ourselves and the life of our children a curse by wanting to buy our way out of laid down family principles.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.~ Winston Churchhill
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

What are the remedies to repairing this fault in your foundation? And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. Acts 16:25-26 KJV

• First we have to have identify what the problem is
• The we need to pray and praise. This shakes the foundations and opens doors. God's presence comes down when we praise and combining it with praying without ceasing seals it
• Repentance from all wrong doings
• Restitution
• Accepting Christ as your Lord and Saviour (be born again into the the new life that Christ offers with open arms)
• Take God seriously, do all you can to do what God wants you to do.

The Secret of Life

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.should make…: or, delight his senses. For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 KJV

What is the secret of life? Is it to obey God’s commandment, to do God’s will, live a holy life, live a content life, living in God’s favour, have the fear of God and love your neighbour as yourself? If you obey all the commandment of the law, does that mean that all things would work out fine for you? Is living a fulfilled life hinged on righteousness?

Life is very delicate, small things can cause big problems. Just hissing at an old woman and moving on, can cause us problems in our life. Just by ignoring to help the neighbour beside you can result in a major challenge in our life. But then who can know which of this things can be a trigger? Except we know that secret of life that puts us right before God at all times.

What then is the secret thing that we can do in life that would make everything go our way? If we look at the word of God we can x-ray our life, we can see who we are in God’s eyes. We can see the little areas where we are not doing things right in accordance to the will of God. As children of God we have that mirror which helps us see who we are in God’s eyes. Seeing who we are helps us have an understanding of where we have to adjust.

Solomon was the wisest and richest man who ever lived. According to him wisdom is not the best thing in life. Therefore it is not the secret of life. Then he goes further and talks about pleasure of life, looking at this he sees that this is not the key to having a fulfilled life. He says that the accumulation of wealth and doing good works does not also give us fulfillment.

The secret of life is pleasing God. When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverb 16:7 KJV. So pleasing God is the secret of the Christians life. Every morning as we wake up we must ask God what it is we can do to please Him. According to Solomon and Jesus Christ pleasing God is the key to living a fulfilled life. For us to be able to please God we must first seek the kingdom of God. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you Matthew 6:33 KJV.