Sometimes even though we know God has a plan for our lives, we can’t seem to get in alignment with it.  If it’s not sin prohbiting you access to your destiny – why don’t you read the scriptures below.  Then begin to talk to your family about what they think your family calling is, what they see as your family inheritance and destiny.  You will find hints to living your own life more successfully as you observe the patterns of success in their lives, or see the mistakes they made and how it cost them.

Enjoy the trip.

All the scriptures references are from the New American Standard Updated – my fav for accuracy and readability!

Read up on what happened before you were born; dig into the past, understand your roots. Ask your parents what it was like before you were born; ask the old-ones, they’ll tell you a thing or two.  Deuteronomy 32:7

Please inquire of past generations, and consider the things searched out by their fathers. For we are only of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are as a shadow. Will they not teach you and tell you, and bring forth words from their minds? Job 8:8-10 

Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘ My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure’. Isaiah 46:9-10

Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, and let the peoples gain new strength; let them come forward, then let them speak; let us come together for judgment. Who has aroused one from the east whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up nations before him and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as the wind-driven chaff with his bow. He pursues them, passing on in safety, by a way he had not been traversing with his feet. Who has performed and accomplished it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He. The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and have come. Each one helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!”  Isaiah 41:6

Thus says the LORD, “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and you will find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16

He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation. Acts 17:26-27

A bit of interesting info from Nelson’s Bible Dictionary, Copyright © 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers

GENEALOGY A technical term that means “family history,” “record,” or “genealogy” occurs in 11 places in the Book of Genesis in the phrase, “These are the generations of.” This phrase divides the book in such a way as to suggest that the units thus formed were the actual sources from which the first 37 chapters of Genesis were compiled. These “family records” sometimes included genealogies (Gen 10) in much the same way that tablets from ancient Babylonia would occasionally have “family trees” written on the back. This practice helped to date these tablets since they would obviously belong to the last generations to be mentioned.

GENEALOGY

The main purpose of genealogies was to establish the broad line of descent without furnishing all the details. Just because certain relatives were left out does not mean these records were inaccurate or invalid.

The vast majority of biblical genealogies occur in the Old Testament. An important one deals with the descent from Adam to Noah (Gen 5). The descendants of Noah (Gen 10) the line from Shem to Abraham (Gen 11:10-26), and the long list of Abraham’s offspring are extremely important for the early history of the Israelites.

The longest Old Testament genealogy contains a detailed list of persons from Adam to the time of Saul (1 Chron 1-9). This list was probably compiled at a later time in the history of the Hebrews to enable people to trace their descent from proven Israelite stock. The house of David was reckoned back to Judah (Gen 46:12). This was an important genealogy because of the promises of the prophets about the Messiah.