Pioneers

2 Timothy 1:5 when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

In this portion, we see Paul point out a remarkable pattern of inheritance. Paul points out that the faith in the recipient he’s writing to was the same for the past two generations!

The emphasis I’d like us to focus on is Lois—the pioneer of this faith!

Adam was a pioneer to human life. Abraham was the pioneer of all believers. In the Bible, there were so many pioneers of so many things, and today God is calling you to be that pioneer. To be that Adam, to be that Abraham. To be Lois. To be the point of reference in your generation… Just like Billy Graham, just like Kathryn Kuhlman, just like Kenneth E Hagin.

They’ll look at people and say, “you have a boldness which dwelt first in Biggie…”

They’ll say to them “…you have revelation that first dwelt in your grandmother Ruth.”

“…you feed nations like your grandfather Doug.”

“…you’re so committed like your mother Eva, and wise like your great grand mother Lily.”

It goes beyond your bloodline or lineage. I’ve been told I write like Apostle Paul. Others have said the descriptions of some of my visions look like Prophets Ezekiel & Daniel’s.

God positions you as a starter of things … of mantles, of anointings, of what no eye has seen nor ear heard, nor mind imagined. He ignites you to start fires that will burn for generations! Notice the faith wasn’t just passed on to only Eunice. It went over to het grandchild. And who knows, perhaps it reached her great grandchild.

… Longevity!

God is starting covenants in you such that your posterity in 1000 years will still be benefitting from them in case the Lord Jesus tarries. Imagine you’re Abraham now as we speak, there’s a David coming in about 1400 years. There are things David enjoyed, pioneered by Abraham. Don’t think short term!

Lastly, I also realized that the gifts working on or in you, are not yours alone. What if my prophetic gift isn’t just mine but for my children’s enablement to establish God’s covenant power on the earth! Let me put it this way; if I’m African, my skin color is dark. By default, my children too will be dark. In the same way, I’m believing, that the things I’m receiving in my lifetime, will become part of my DNA, and then my children’s, and then their children!

So don’t take it lightly!

Your love for prayer, your joy, your interpretation of dreams, your discernment, your faith — all of it! I believe these virtues can be translated from the spiritual well into the physical until they become hereditary!

So on top of God making you a pioneer of things never seen before, He wants you to notice that those same things you pioneered can adopt the nature of being reincarnated into the next generation.

Of course some will say ‘Ah, but that pastor’s kid didn’t turn out like their father…’

Well, Eunice turned out like her mother, and Timothy too turned out to be like his mother!

‘Alas, he didn’t turn out to be rich like his father,’

Well, Isaac was more prosperous than Abraham his father, and Jacob as well, having fled with only a stick, gained all the wealth of his forefathers again!’

Choose to believe this pioneer blessing! Choose to believe that this good blessing will never go quiet in your next generations. That as His favor has been upon you, it shall be also on them. That as His face has shone on you, it’ll shine on them too. That as you’ve grown in the prophetic, it will be akin to them too!

Happy Pioneering!

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Psalms 78:4-7 We will not hide them from their children, but we will tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonderful works that He has performed. For He established a testimony (an express precept) in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, commanding our fathers that they should make [the great facts of God’s dealings with Israel] known to their children, That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born might arise and recount them to their children, That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but might keep His commandments