2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
Faith is a transferable asset that can be transferred from one generation to another. Paul witnessed about the sincere faith of Timothy that was first found in Grandmother Eunice and then in his mother Lois. Timothy was born to a Greek Father and a Jewish-Christian mother (Acts 16:1). Timothy did not come from a perfect family. Greek theology had many gods and goddesses and also had a range of supernatural beings. The pluralistic religious practice was referred to as Hellenism. Timothy had mixed religion in his home but he had a praying grandmother and a faithful mother who travailed in prayer for him.
“If you have a praying mum/dad, there is no where you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”
Praying parents, grandparents, spiritual fathers and mothers can never lose their children to waywardness or to worldly distractions. Faith is not passed on by constant preaching to our children; faith is transferred by fasting and praying for our children, grandchildren and our generation to come. “Faith” is an eternal covenantal wealth. “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord (Isaiah 59:21). Fasting and praying for our generations to come (whom we will not even see with our human eyes) will seal the ‘legal will document’ of a faithful generation and seal it with the blood of Jesus.
Faith is a transferable asset/wealth that will inculcate the contractual relationship between our lineage and our Heavenly Father:
1. Contract: Faith indoctrinates the closeness and the intimate relationship that we have with God our Father. Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). Start early. Establish the relationship that we have with the Lord from a very early age. Foster faith in children and hand-down faith to the next generation.
2. Caveat: Faith inculcates the conditions and the cautions into the generation to come. Teach the children right from wrong. Teach them the Word and warn them about the dangers of disobedience. Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation (Joel 1.3). Cultivate faith in the hearts of the next generation.
3. Conduit: Faith is the conduit that can touch the third, fourth, fifth generations and the generations to come. Our prayers can outlive us if we sincerely fast and pray for faith to be the foundation of our family line. Faith is the conduit and the voice that will speak into our lineage.
Faith is the transferable asset that should be passed on to our pedigree.
Psalm 145:4 One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts.
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