Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

I also want to say my dad, Pastor Robert Morris, will be back next week to continue the series Dream to Destiny. Hasn't it been a great series, though?

I've heard this series before, guys, and this one is even better. There's a newness to it, a freshness to it, that God is speaking to him right now, and just he's hearing so many more things that I've not heard before in this series.

So it is a terrific series. One thing I want to share is talking about my dad is recently Bridget and I, we went on a work trip. So we were going to be out of town, out of the country, actually, for a little while, and so we asked my parents to watch our kids while we were gone.

Anytime we do that, we pray hard for the health and safety of our children, and then we pray hard for the endurance and ability to watch my kids during that time, because my kids are high energy, and so here we are, we were praying for them, we got back, everything went great, but there's always great stories that come out of that.

And so one of the stories is that we have three kids, Parker Mitchell and Bray, and Parker Mitchell, something to know about them, is when they wake up, they are ready for the day, like it doesn't take them any time, they're ready.

Bray, our five-year-old daughter, she needs a little while. She is going to be the type that is going to love coffee one day.

So she actually gets up one day, she's moving real slow in my dad, which is papar to them, is sitting at the breakfast table talking to Parker and Mitchell, they've been up for a while talking.

And so Bray, our little girl wakes up, goes real slow, she's still in her pajamas, and she's barely awake, she sits in Papua's lap, and my dad sitting there just telling a story to Parker and Mitchell.

When Bray said, papar, you have to stop it. And he said, stop it, stop what? And she goes, he said, stop talking, yes, papar, you have to stop talking.

Clearly, she needed some time to wake up, and now I realize I need to work on her on being more kind to her elders, and so we're working on that, and that's what we're doing.

And so I share that because the title of today's message is the generational God. God is a generational God, God is the God of all generations, and we are going to look at some scripture and see how God is the God of all generations.

This is part of who he is, and if God is a generational God, shouldn't we be generational people? If we should be all about what God's all about, and God is a generational God, we can be generational people.

So point number one is there is meaning in his name. Now over a dozen times in the Bible, God refers to himself as, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Why did he do that? I think we would have gotten hint if he just said, I'm the God of Abraham, right? We would have known what he was talking about, but with every one of God's names, he is declaring something about who he is.

He's declaring about his character. And so when he lets us know that God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he's telling us something about him, and that that is he is a generational God.

I want to give a couple examples of this of just how a God says who he is within his name that he gives us. So God says, I am a manual, which is God with us.

He says, I'm the Alpha in the Omega, the beginning in the end. These are part of who he is. A couple of the names is God of God, which is Jehovah Rafa, which means the Lord will heal and restore.

It's good for us to be reminded of the God we serve and that he is the God that heals and restores and that his name even says so.

Jehovah Jairat, the Lord will provide. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord are peace. Now this one in order to get this Hebrew word right, I always have to say in my head first, like sit in a canoe.

That's what helps me memorize this word is sit in a canoe. So it's Jehovah sit canoe, which means the Lord are righteousness.

So now if anyone asks you to be like, oh, sit in a good, oh yeah, well, you know Jehovah sit, sit canoe means and you guys all have it now.

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