Getting your Inheritance;

What do you think of when you hear the word “Inheritance”? Most of us go right to money, because we like money and
the word is usually connected to it. I believe the Lord loves us to give an inheritance of money, in- fact, He commands it, but He has something else in mind as well…

From about the time I was 5 years old to 12 we were basically a poor family. My dad was a farm boy from Nebraska, rode bulls in the rodeo, never was really fathered and had to make it all on his own. I remember a few Christmases, sitting around a 2ft Christmas tree; we would get one present each. One year I was given this shiny red match box car, and it was the best Christmas I ever had! Those times really brought our family together.

At about 12 or 13 years of age my dad began to make millions of dollars in Real-estate. We built our own home, had airplanes, horses, but my dad and mom never changed. We still sought God together, had great family trips and times just sitting around telling stories. My dad always gave away, more then he made. During this time, he planted hundreds of Church’s in Eastern Africa, paying for all of it himself, and established an inheritance for his kids. My oldest son Tyler was born on a day that dad had flown over Patrick Okumo, a Kenyan pastor that fasted the last 10 days he was in America; he said, “I don’t want any of this American materialism to go home with me, it would ruin our people and work in Kenya”! He dedicated Tyler to the Lord the day he was born in1991 and Tyler has been dreaming of Africa ever since and has known in his spirit that one day, he would live there.

Proverbs 13:22 says,
A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s, children. In Matthew 25:14 Jesus gives us the parable of the talents; the idea is that we are given “talents”, “gifts”, or an inheritance from the Lord and our family. If we dig a hole in the ground and hid it, we are in big trouble!

My dad’s children and his grandchildren have been given an inheritance called Africa. We must steward this “talent” and turn into double as the men that were given the five and the two talents did in the parable. A double portion comes from my dad imparting to my spirit and then to my kids, what we do with it is up to us. We are going to Africa!