What if I told you the keys to open many answers for prayer for your children lie in your hand?
Simple.
Powerful.
The collective turning of these keys unlocks chains that bind a generation.
It requires no money.
Its power lies in two qualities that you possessed in great measure as a child.
Father’s Kind, Wise Choice
To grasp the depth and power of each key and these qualities, first know that your Heavenly Father chose you to be the parent of your child(ren). It was His kind intention and wisdom that placed this child(ren) in your care.
He knows that you have done the best you could with the trouble you faced.
Through our human forefather, Adam, sin, and death entered the world and spread like a virus to all mankind (Romans 5:12).
Yet, through Jesus, the Last Adam, grace entered for righteousness to all who believe and receive (Romans 5:15).
Doors – the First Adam and the Last Adam
Jesus said, “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture” (NASB, John 10:9).
A door opens and the atmosphere, presence, and contents in that different room or place are released.
Adam opened the door to sin and death to the world, and those who live in it.
Jesus opened the door to righteousness and eternal life through His grace, to the world and those who live in it – who believe and receive (through agreement by faith).
Doors to sin and death opened through parents, impact children.
In our first father, Adam, we received the fallen sin nature which grew to include iniquity. That’s the body of flesh (the fallen iniquitous nature that desires all that contrary to Heavenly Father – the part that wants to disobey as soon as a directive is given).
The body of flesh with its lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life engages with corrupt world systems which are anti-God – and joins with His ancient enemy – and forms within each person a false personality, an image fallen short of His glory.
Through that door (of the flesh with all its entanglements) flows greater floods of sin, iniquity, and death. It sows and reaps perversion (which starts by adding to or detracting from Heavenly Father’s word, His word in Scripture, and His living word residing in each person).
It appears that suddenly we look up and our land is filled with perversion, and our children (our personal children and the collective children in each nation) are taken captive. It is important to note here that iniquities which defile the land include idolatry, immorality, bloodshed, and broken covenants. These exist to some degree in everyone’s bloodline and they are immersed in world systems.
Which Door Lies with You
Here’s the change point.
Parents are the door like Adam was the door. That door has collectively and generationally led us, our children, and our land to the brink of destruction.
Yet.
There’s wonderful, glorious news in the midst!
THE LAST ADAM, the Lord Jesus Christ, is The Door.
What Qualities to Open
The qualities needed to go through the door of the Lord Jesus Christ by His grace and your faith which you had in great measure as a child are humility and courage.
The Keys
The first key you hold in your hand is repentance.
As parents, it’s our desire and labor to make things better for our children (no matter their age). I have to say that our best labor in our own efforts falls short. Coming face to face with this reality accelerated the transformation process in me and through me.
Reflection in the Mirror
Children are our mirror.
They reflect us – to us.
That’s how we were created to be, but it’s in corrupted form. Each person was created to reflect their Heavenly Father. Through the Last Adam, we can!
Often, parents try to correct behaviors or situations in children without first recognizing it in themselves.
Through us (the door) to them has been imparted: 1. the overall door of iniquity as part of the human family, and 2. the iniquity that’s personal to us and our specific generations.
As a side-effect come loss and trauma-responses.
This reflection is how we were created to be but in corrupt form. Each person was created to reflect their Heavenly Father. Through the Last Adam, we can!
These patterns have been completely destroyed by the work of our Lord Jesus Christ!
This is Our Part
It is our part (our labor in the Lord) to recognize where these fallen, corrupt patterns have been at work in us, the parents (and grandparents and caregivers), and to repent to Heavenly Father and to receive with great thanksgiving the cleansing power of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving great honor to Him.
Go by faith through the Last Adam’s door! Go as many times as it takes to clear it out. Father does not ask us to continually repent for the same sin, but there are often layers associated with them, and that’s where the process of demolition and renovation with Him occurs.
Expedite It
It greatly speeds up the generational process, and unlocks answers to our prayers for our children, when we acknowledge our fallen patterns to our children and ask their forgiveness. If the situation does not allow, a prayer-bathed letter is also highly effective.
A Much Greater Impact
Romans 5 gives us such wonderful news.
The door that evil entered the world opened through our first father (Adam) – and through him to us. God bless Adam, if it hadn’t been him, it would have been us. It’s in humanity to choose wrongly apart from Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yet, the gift is not like the original sin (trespass).
“But the gracious gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one offense, resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the gracious gift arose from many offenses, resulting in justification. For if by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ” (NASB, Romans 5:15-17).
Through one sin, one man, one door, all mankind were condemned to sin and death.
In great contrast, through one act of righteousness through the DOOR of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Last Adam), all mankind was set free from death to life – and granted access to stand in the riches of His grace with His righteousness given.
The door through Adam impacted us all really badly.
But, the door through the Last Adam impacted us all with much more impact because there is no comparison, and Father rolled it all away for us all and made us NEW (and for the world as well, John 3:16).
Practical Application
Let us, therefore, TAKE IT. Take it personally! Take it for ourselves and our children!
The key to the house of David which is on Christ Jesus our Lord’s shoulder is that the doors He opens cannot be shut by man and the doors He shuts cannot be opened by man (Isaiah 22:22).
After repentance, come into agreement with the Lord that the door to sin, death, and iniquity is closed and sealed in Him – in you and through you to your family (seed) before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4, 10).
By your faith and agreement, pray, “I awaken and enter through You, The Door (Last Adam), to your resurrection and life. In You, I live and move and have my being” (and my family (seed)).
The more we recognize the fallen door to sin, death, and iniquity in us and bring it to the Lord, the faster it clears out for us – AND OUR CHILDREN.
Key to Unlock Treasure
The second key is blessing.
It unlocks treasure from Father to our children, and treasure in our generational lines to our children.
This starts or accelerates the process of growth in formation of the new creation personality that’s formed in His image in His rightness.
Even in the Old Testament, the Father directed priests to bless the people, and He personally spoke about punishments to four generations, but blessings to one thousand generations.
HOW MUCH MORE does the GIFT of GRACE in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ ABOUND to us and our children!
Bless your children! Acknowledge their good points. Bless them in person, and bless them in prayer. You are opening THE DOOR in the Last Adam through you to release them from iniquity and to establish them in the rightness of God in Christ.
How To
A key aspect of blessing is to acknowledge. When we acknowledge (and honor and celebrate) a quality that is right and good in our children, such as initiative or kindness or significant growth from investing time to hone a skill or tact and grace in conversing, it grows. This is the spiritual act (through your heart and mouth) of pouring living water on a little green plant in your child’s spirit being.
By the way, this works for your spouse and people in general, not just children!
Aside from acknowledging, honoring, and celebrating their good, right qualities, speak Father’s word, because in and through Christ, His words are spirit and life.
It’s a good place to start with the priestly blessing in Numbers 6:24-26 because that’s the specific blessing Father directed the priests to place on the people.
From there, add Psalm 103.
You can take Scripture and speak it in the form of blessing. This is what sparked the digging into His word to extract treasure from which to bless my children. Some are available on our webstore.
I will say this, the more you take His word to heart and meditate on it, taking it in rather than letting it glance off your heart and thoughts like torrential rain on famine-parched soil, the greater impact it will have on your child (or whoever you’re blessing). Mixing it with your faith through your meditation and receiving it into your heart causes it to grow in you. From there, speaking it releases an impartation to them.
This is wonderful, you can have impartation blessing in your own home! Yes. All this without expending money and time to garner an impartation in a prayer line.
Three Levels of Blessing
Further, as you clear out the door to sin, iniquity, and death through repentance, and apply it to them, and 1. bless them, you’re paving the way for 2. Father’s blessing and 3. the generational blessings to flow to your children.
When Father imparted the generational blessing to Eliakim, he became the prime minister of the nation of Israel (Isaiah 22:20-25). Father waited and guided the generations forming up and through Naomi and Boaz to create a bloodline that would grow lovingkindness for which the greatest earthly king of Israel was known (David) and which formed the physical DNA that would house the King of Kings, the Lord Jesus Christ. Spiritual generational blessings from the faithfulness of previous generations imparted to us from Father’s storehouse transform physical life on earth – not in nebulous ways, but in real, practical ways. These are stopped or squeezed from flowing as Father desires by the presence of open doors (sin, iniquity, and death).
Leave the door of Adam and go through the door of the Last Adam! It’s simple, powerful, and requires no money. This process clears stones that create hardness of heart and paves the way for Father’s love to flow into our children – and transforms the course of our children’s lives. Yes, it sets them on a new course, the path of righteousness (Proverbs 2:20; 4:18).
Wherever you are in this process, know this: It’s transforming your children’s lives and future for good. And collectively, as the body of Christ embraces it, it’s impacting our land and transforming the future for all the children. Yes, Father still has a good future for us all.
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Hope Streams
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