Destroying an Inheritance of Family Bondage

Dear Lord,
You have said in Your Word that a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. (Proverbs 13:22) I pray that the inheritance I leave to my children will be the rewards of a godly life and a clean heart before You. To make sure that happens, I ask that wherever there is a sinful trait in me that I have acquired from my family, deliver me from it now in the name of Jesus. I confess my sins to You. I ask for forgiveness and restoration, knowing Your Word says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (I John 1:9) I know that cleansing from sin through confession lessens the possibility of passing the habit of sin on to my child.
Jesus said, "I give you the authority...over all the powers of the enemy." (Luke 10:19) If there is any work of the enemy in my past that seeks to encroach upon the life of my children and grandchildren, I break it now by the power and authority given me in Jesus Christ. I pray specifically about alcoholism, addictions, a lying spirit, unstableness of mind. Whatever is not Your will for our lives, I reject it as sin.
Thank You Jesus, that You came to set us free from the past. We refuse to live bound by it. Thank You, Father, that You have "qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." (Colossians 1:12) I pray that my children and grandchildren will not inherit any sin trait from their earthly family, but will "inherit the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world." (Matthew 25:34) Thank You, Jesus, that in You the old has passed away and all things are new.
I release my children into Your hands,
In Jesus' Holy name,
Amen

(Prayer and scripture from "The Power of a Praying Parent"--Stormie Omartian)


"WEAPONS OF WARFARE"


Galatians 5:1 (Amplified Bible)
IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].


1 Peter 1:3-5 (Amplified Bible)
3)Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4)[Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
5)Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God's power through [your] faith [till you fully inherit that [a]final] salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time.


Isaiah 61
THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound,


2 Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!


Titus 3:3-7 (Amplified Bible)
3)For we also were once thoughtless and senseless, obstinate and disobedient, deluded and misled; [we too were once] slaves to all sorts of cravings and pleasures, wasting our days in malice and jealousy and envy, hateful (hated, detestable) and hating one another.
4)But when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Savior to man [as man] appeared,
5)He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6)Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.
7)[And He did it in order] that we might be justified by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), [that we might be acknowledged and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action], and that we might become heirs of eternal life according to [our] hope.