Family Fundamentals Part 4 “Legacy”

Family Fundamentals – Part 4

Legacy

We have looked at ____________ words that are _________________ to the health of ____________ relationships.

Review

  1. __________________ describes the _______________ between family members where we have the most ________________ relationships which demand extra _____________ to maintain.

God makes a covenant with His people and gives His        ________________ as a ______________.

  1. _____________________ leads us to ___________ those we’ve wronged and _____________ “yes” to those who have wronged us.

God gives us the desire to ________________ forgiving                and the ______________ to do it.

  1. _____________________ helps us see _____________ relationships to ______________ in our family.
  2. _________________ describes how the ________________ and _______________ of one generation impacts another.

Are you _________________ the impact of your legacy?

Decisions today help _____________ your legacy and/or ______________ a pattern of life which impacts your legacy.

Two Foundational “Footers” for Legacy

Caution:  A legacy is ________________; not ____________________.

  1. __________________.

Prayer is an important _____________ of legacy because          it brings God into ____________.

___________ is a man who saw prayer as his ________   description as a father.

Job 1:1-5

Prologue

1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

Three ______________ reasons people don’t ___________ for         family:

  1. _________________
  2. _________________
  3. __________________

Prayer is vital for YOUR ___________ and THEIR ________.

  1. ____________________.

________________ lays out a clearly defined _____________               statement for his family.

Joshua 24:14-15

14 “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Purpose has both an ______________ and an _____________.

____________ and _______________ are vital whether you                are the ________________ of a generation of legacy or a    link in a __________  ____________.

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