THEME:   ANOINTING / GRACE TO BREAK GENERATIONAL RECORDS ( BATTLES  ) AND SET GENERATIONAL RECORDS (GENERATIONAL FREEDOM/ LIBERTY).      TEXTS: 1 CHRONICLES 4: 9 - 10/ ESTHER 4: 12 - 14/ MATTHEW 5:13-14    INTRODUCTION  • There is one person that must rise up in every family/ church/ Locality/ community/ local church/ that department/ office etc as a Record Breaker .      • Jesus Christ gave us birth to become record breakers      • Record breaking is the essence of Matthew 5: 13 & 14.      • Every family has a negative Record/ Ancestral and Generational Records that must be broken.        FOUR  AREAS OF BREAKING GENERATIONAL RECORDS AND SETTING NEW RECORDS:      1. Where our Ancestors could not reach.      • The story they wanted to tell that they couldn't tell.      • The testimony they wanted to give but they could not.      • They could not because of Ancient Hostilities and gates that stood against them as in : Ezekiel 25 :15/ Psalm 24 : 7- 10.      2. Going beyond where they reached = Going beyond their limits or standards.      • The limit/ standards of my fathers can not be my standard, I am going beyond.       3. The desires and dreams they couldn't fulfill because of too many battles.      4. Battles they couldn't win: Common battles associated with families.      • Mental battles.  • Emotional battles.       • Psychological battles.   • Health battles.       • Economic battles   • Financial battles.      • Marital battles / eg marriages never work.      • Career battles / career instability, jumping from job to job.      • Social battles.   • Spiritual battles.      • Legal battles     But God has raised us up as ;      1. Record breakers.  2. Record setters.      3. Game-Changer.   4. Change - Makers.      5. Way - makers.      6. Take your stand in Christ through intensive prayer/ Persevering Prayer/ Consistent Prayer/ Sacrifices/ Faith Actions and whatever the Holy spirit Inspires to break that evil and wicked Record.      Scriptural Background.  1. Jabez was born into a Generational Record.      • His brothers accepted the way things were as normal.      • The brothers settled with the negative family image and identity and story.      • But Jabez said NO WAY / NEVER IN MY TIME.      • That is why the bible says he is the most honourable among his brethren.      • He built an Altar of Prayer.      a .Persevering Prayer ie Praying every day about the situation.      b. Consistent Prayer ie Praying on the same thing at a particular time.      • God answered him       • Jabez broke the Record of poverty to becoming an entrepreneur = 1 Chronicles 2: 55.      2. Esther / Esther 4  • An orphan in Captivity without hope.      • But God arranged an opportunity.       • Mordecai provoked her to make good use of her position to terminate an Ancient enemy = Heman.      3. Gideon was a Record Breaker = Judges 6.      • His father was the custodian of Baal.      • Baal worship has brought a major setback to the nation.      • The Angel asked Gideon to destroy the fathers Altar To Baal and build a proper kind of Altar.      4. David was a Record Breaker and Record Setter.  • 1 Kings 5: 1 - 6 & 2 Samuel 3: 1- 2.      • David's major Record was his defeat of Goliath, Israel's most feared, stubborn Ancient enemy.       As A Record Breaker and Setter.      1. Generational battles must end with you/ You must become the last stop to that particular battle.      2. You must become the beginner of a new era / a new realm.      3. Note: Jabez fought poverty and the whole family became wealthy/ Esther fought Heman through fasting and Prayer and She, her cousin and the whole Israel ruled and reign/ David fought for Solomon to rest / Jesus Christ fought for us to rest.      4. Note: Solomon Sacrifice is  • Battle free Anointing/ Grace       • Breaker of Generational Record      • Generational Record Breaking Anointing/ Grace.      5. Avoid sexual immorality = In order for the devil to stop you from breaking that Record: