Date: 30-June-2025
Name: Michael Ngethe
Topic:
REDEFINING INHERITANCE - MORE THAN WEALTH
Content:
What Will You Leave Behind? Redefining Inheritance God's Way
Genesis 25:5-6
And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.
Luke 15:11-14 and 25
To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.
“A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
Luke 15:25-31
“Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, and he asked one of the servants what was going on. ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’
“The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him, but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’
“His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.
What Is an Inheritance?
An inheritance refers to the acquisition of assets, rights, or traits passed down from predecessors, typically from parents to their offspring. This transmission can encompass:
• Property and Wealth: Physical assets such as real estate, financial holdings, and personal belongings.
• Legal Rights: Entitlements conferred through legal instruments like wills or through statutory succession laws.
• Genetic Traits: Biological characteristics inherited through genetic material, influencing physical and health attributes .
• Spiritual wealth This are the spiritual convictions, mantles, blessing that can be transferred to the next generation (generations blessing)
Deutronomy 6:1-2
“These are the commands, decrees, and regulations that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you. You must obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy, and you and your children and grandchildren must fear the LORD your God as long as you live. If you obey all his decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life.
Verse 7
Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
Verse 20:21
“In the future your children will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of these laws, decrees, and regulations that the LORD our God has commanded us to obey?’
“Then you must tell them, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand.
THE FIVE THINGS THAT QUALIFY AS AN INHERITANCE.
YOUR CONVICTIONS.
Your philosophies, beliefs and mindsets.
Your convictions are a summation of your philosophy, beliefs, mindset.
Genesis 18:19
I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and their families to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then I will do for Abraham all that I have promised.”
Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
but his heart is not with thee.
• This philosophies will frame your mind and eventually your world.
• What do you believe about God, money, education, failure, success, challenges, victories, relationships, honour, marriage, love etc.
• Your convictions can be transferred to the next generation either good or bad. The same mindset that transfers excellence is the same mindset that transfer success.
• Always ensure you transfer your a clear understanding of your convictions to the next generation.
• How you are wired? What makes you tick? What keep you going? What the cloth your cut from?
• “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings”. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Prayer item:
Pray that the Lord will help you pass on your convictions to your children, so that their minds may be transformed and renewed, enabling them to discern what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God."
YOUR NAME.
Your name, credibility and value.
Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
Your name is a summary of your:
• credibility.
• Track record.
• Your value and contribution to this world.
Proverbs 22:1
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Eccl 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
• Your name is your track record, your credibility, your value, impact and contribution.
• “Names have POWER”
• Even Jesus gave us his name. Philippians 2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name.
• The name of a man is a track record of investments of many years.
• Do not play with your credibility or track record.
• Every day your making investments in your name or adding pain.
• “What is in a name? That which which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
• Your name will either be a key or lock.
Prayer item:
Prayer that you will have good name which is rather to be chosen than great riches,and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
RELATIONSHIPS.
Relationship and connection.
• Pass your relationship and connections to the next generation so they can use as leverage.
• This are the relationships and connection that you have built over the years.
• “He who hates you doesn’t matter but he who loves you”
• You have not transferred real wealth until you transfer your relationships.
• Your blessings is from God to man through men.
• Relationship are a potent leverage that you can pass to the next generation.
• Everyman is made by his relationship because every blessing comes from God to men through men.
• Do not downplay the power of strategic relationships (not taking advantage of people)
• Value men and value relationships because it’s an inheritance you can pass on your children.
• Relationships can create exceptions.
John 19:26
When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.
Genesis 41:12-14
Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his own dream. And it came to pass, just as he interpreted for us, so it happened. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; and he shaved, changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.
Prayer item:
Pray that we may value, nature and have strategic relationships that we can pass onto the next generation.
PHYSICAL INHERITANCE.
Your physical assets as inheritance.
• A good man leave an inheritance to his children’s children.
• As the Lord gives you time and strength ensure you have something physical to pass to your next generation.
• Physical things are a blessing to the next generation they don’t have to start from where we started.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
Prayer item:
"Pray that you will wisely use all that the Lord has given you to build a physical inheritance for the next generation, so they will not have to struggle to obtain what has already been secured for them."
Remember: A good man leave an inheritance to his children’s children.
MANTLE & ANOINTING.
Your mantle and anointing upon life.
• For every man, there is a spiritual factor that defines him. Beyond the physical traits or accomplishments that make a man, it is the spiritual dimension that truly shapes and sustains him."
• To successful transfer all your inheritance you finally need to transfer you our mantle, spirit and anointing.
• Blessing the next generation and speaking a blessing over there life.
• You don’t only transfer but your teach them on how to maintain and to do exploits.
Genesis 25:5-6
And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.
Genesis 26:12-16
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.
Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
• Abraham gave Isaac all that he had!
• This is the reason why children fail to reproduce because we don’t pass on the mantle.
Genesis 27:1-2
Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
And he answered him, “Here I am.”
Then he said, “Behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death. Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
Genesis 27: 32-34
And his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”
So he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed.”
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me—me also, O my father!”
But he said, “Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing.”
And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
• "Men are not merely shaped by circumstances, but by the unseen spiritual realm that governs what we see in the physical."
Prayer item:
Pray that the Lord will anoint your head with oil; your cup runs over. That you will pass the mantle and anointing to the next generation.
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