A Lineage of Breakthrough and Blessing

I Samuel 13; I Chronicles 2-3; 2 Corinthians 12 

“The sins of Perez: Hezron and Hamul…The sons born to Hezron were: Jerahmeel, Ram and Caleb…Ram was the father of Amminadab…the father of Nahshon, the leader of the people of Judah. Nahshon was the father of Salmon the father of Boaz…the father of Jesse…”

1 Chronicles 2:5, 9, 10-12

The spiritual lineage and heritage of a family matter. God’s heart is to redeem, restore, and renew his covenant with his people. Some families live in covenant with God. The spiritual heritage they pass on to their children is a blessing to many. Perez means breakthrough, or breakout. From this one man came a long line of spiritual breakthroughs in Israel’s history. Caleb had a different spirit and followed God wholeheartedly, even defeating giants in his old age. Nashan, leader of Judah, had a son Salmon who married Rahab, the Jericho prostitute. Through an act of redemption a home was built, the home in which Boaz was raised. He didn’t marry until later in life when Ruth, the Moabite, approached him. Another redemptive act brought Ruth into a breakthrough story that God was writing. Ruth became the great grandmother of David and was in the lineage of Christ.

Are we willing to covenant with God, live a life of redemption, and pass on a blessing to our descendants?

“Lord Jesus, bless our children and descendants to be people of breakthrough in their generations.”