The following is a transcription of the word released by Bishop Jane Hamon on January 30, 2026:
Digging & Redigging Our Wells
At the beginning of this year, I really felt like the Lord took me to Genesis chapter 26 for 2026. [To read more about this, click here.]
Genesis chapter 26 talks about Isaac going in, going into the land where the Philistines were ruling. They had actually thrown dirt in the wells that Abraham had dug. Now, this was so important, because the wells signified ownership. When you dug a well, you were basically saying, "I own this territory. I own this land. I own this region."
Abraham had gone in a previous generation and dug those wells, and Isaac came along later and found that the Philistines had thrown dirt in the wells.
(Now, what's very interesting is that the word "Philistine" actually comes from a root word which means "to wallow." We're full of revival, we're full of zeal for God, we're full of God's promises, and the enemy tries to come in and throw dirt in our wells, and tries to get us wallowing in ourselves, [saying,] "Nobody loves me. God's forsaken me. God's promises won't come to pass." Listen, just dig the dirt out of your wells. Dig the dirt out of your wells and redig wells of first love. Redig your wells of zeal and fervor and favor with God. Amen.)
What happened next is that he [Isaac] dug some new wells. He redug the old wells and dug some new wells.
In this examination of looking at how we redig wells in a personal way, sometimes we've got to go in and examine some things. And in [my own personal] examination, I feel like there were places where maybe I had not been as proactive as I could be, and I needed to actually break some generational curses...
Generational Curses
Exodus 20:5 says, "For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me" (NKJV). That's one Scripture that talks about how there can be generational iniquities that get passed [from] generation to generation. Those iniquities actually create generational patterns—patterns of sickness or patterns of behavior or patterns of emotion.
Exodus 34:6–7 says, "The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, 'The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation'" (ESV).
It's just part of original sin. Adam sinned and caused a domino effect of sin on every single person in humanity.
When we come to Christ, we come to Christ and we become a new creation. Old things are passed away; all things are becoming new (2 Corinthians 5:17). But what we have to understand is we've got to appropriate those blessings and those promises. That's really what breaking generational curses is about. It's about taking authority over anything the enemy would try to pass to us generationally, whether it's a sickness, whether it's a mindset, whether it's a propensity for addiction, whether it's fear or trauma or poverty or fatalism or any of these things... God has given us authority to appropriate the blood of Jesus and to break off every iniquitous curse, every iniquitous pattern.
Digging Out the Dirt from Your Wells: Turning Generational Curses Into Generational Blessings
Today I'm going to talk about generational blessings, because I would much rather talk about generational blessings, and I would much rather emphasize the fact that the Bible teaches that blessings travel farther than a curse. As a matter of fact, Deuteronomy 23:5 says that the curse is turned into a blessing for those who love the Lord. (Photo via StockCake)
I believe we're in a season right now where God is digging the wells, digging the dirt out of our wells, and turning the curse into a blessing.
What is the dirt? It's mindsets. It's trauma. It's fear. It's hurt. It's unforgiveness. It's all the things that cause us to get stuck. God wants to get you unstuck this year so that rivers of living water can flow out of you.
Listen, I'm not trying to minimize your pain. I'm not trying to minimize the trauma that you've been through. But I believe that, in Christ, we have an answer to those things, and that Jesus came to break us free from the curse. Jesus came to set us free from the pain that we've lived in and to bring us into a place of the Kingdom of God. And the Kingdom of Heaven is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost (Romans 14:17).
Grafted Into the Generational Blessings of Abraham
Let's look at what the Bible has to say about generational blessings. Isaiah 59 verse 21 says, "'As for Me,' says the Lord, 'this is My covenant with them: My spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants,' says the Lord, 'from this time and forevermore'" (NKJV).
We've already read Scriptures about how the curses get visited on the third and fourth generation. God's saying, "My word's going to be in the mouth of your children and your children's children, and the promises of generational continuity."
Proverbs 20:7 says, "The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him" (NKJV).
So, we previously looked at how sometimes fathers are idolaters, and then their children follow in their fathers' footsteps and they become idolaters, and then their children's children become idolaters, until the generational pattern stops. And God is saying, "I'm going to break those generational patterns, break those generational iniquities. And every demon that's associated with them has to go, has to flee, so that I can release to you the generational blessings."
Listen to this Scripture. This is out of Galatians 3:14. It says, "... that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith" (KJV). We know that Abraham is the father of our faith. Number one, he had faith in God before there was a Bible, before there was the Torah, before there were Scriptures. He heard the voice of God and became a friend of God, had relationship with God, and established faith—covenantal faith—with God. That began to set a whole new era in motion. He became the father. It was Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jacob's sons, and then the nation of Israel.
What we have to understand is that God is saying the blessings of Abraham can come upon us. I mean, that [was] like thousands of years ago, but God is saying the blessings of Abraham can come upon us.
In Galatians 3:29, it says if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed. Another way to say it is you're his descendant. You're Abraham's descendant and heirs according to the promise. In other words, you've been grafted into the very seed, the inheritance of Abraham.
Abraham, we know, was the father of the nation of Israel and the Jewish race of people. But we as Christian Believers get grafted in, and we are given access to every one of the blessings that are given to the natural descendants of Abraham. That's exciting. We have to understand that as Believers, we don't just receive blessing; we become carriers of blessing.
God said to Abraham, "In you all the nations of the earth will be blessed"; He said, "I'm going to bless you and I'm going to make you a blessing" (see Genesis 12:2–3). You can go back and read it. God said, "I'm going to bless you and I'm going to make you a blessing." God wants to bless you so that you can be a blessing for others. It's just not about you. It's about all those that you will touch, all those that you will affect. It's about the example that you'll set for your family to break generational patterns, break generational curses, and instead release generational blessings, because, ultimately, God loves to deal with the individual. But for God, it's not just about the individual. It's about families. It's about bloodlines. It's about generations. (Photo via Pexels)
In our church, we are so blessed right now. My father-in-law, Bishop Bill Hammond, is still alive and well. He's ninety-one years old. He still comes to church on a Sunday morning. He comes in a wheelchair because he's not very mobile, but he listens to the message, he worships, he sits in his wheelchair. He's always got these beautiful, shiny, fancy shoes and these wild socks on. That's just who he is. And he participates in the service.
So, we've got his generation; we call it the "Abraham" generation. Then we've got my husband and I, and my husband's brother and sister [who] are serving with us in ministry. We call it the "Isaac generation." And then we've got our children. Our daughter Tiffany and her husband Jason are the associate pastors in our church. So, there's a third generation that's actively serving the Lord from our church. And then their daughter Madison, who's eighteen years old and is one of our worship leaders.
So, on any given Sunday, we could have four generations participating on the platform in our church, let alone four generations out in our congregation, where the great-grandparents, the grandparents, the parents, and the children are all worshiping together. What a beautiful picture of the Kingdom that God wants to pass things, pass blessings [from] generation to generation. We are grafted into the lineage and the blessings of Abraham.
What Are the Blessings of Abraham?
1. Right Relationship with God
What are the blessings of Abraham? Well, one of them is having a relationship with God—having a right relationship with God. Abraham cut covenant with God. He had dreams. He had visions. He heard the voice of God. Genesis 15:6 says he believed the Lord and it was counted to him for righteousness. Now we know as New Testament Believers that our righteousness comes through Christ. But this was the first human that God interacted with in this way and birthed a nation out of him. And it says he believed the Lord and it was counted to him for righteousness (Romans 4:3).
So that's one of the things. There's a faith, there's a righteousness, there's a right relationship with God that comes as a blessing of Abraham.
2. The Promise of the Holy Spirit
Number two, there's the promise of the Spirit. Remember what I just read to you? It says, "The blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith" (Galatians 3:14 KJV). So, when Jesus came, He talked about the Holy Spirit, and He called Him the "promise of the Father" (Luke 24:49 GDB; Acts 1:4). He told His disciples when He was getting ready to go to the cross, "Listen, after this go back to Jerusalem and wait for the promise of the Father, for you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth" (see Acts chapter 1:4, 8). The promise of the Father.
So, the blessings of Abraham actually involve being filled with the Holy Spirit and everything the Holy Spirit brings: revelation and freedom and dunamis power—miracle-working power—and strength and capacity and capabilities. All of these things come with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. It's part of the blessings of Abraham.
3. Faith and Spiritual Sonship
He (Abraham) is the father of our faith. Sometimes I think the blessings of Abraham are God just giving us that level of faith, that measure of faith that we need to believe God in difficult, challenging seasons. Some of you just need to lift your hands and say, "Man, God, I need that faith. I need new, fresh, fiery faith in You to press into all that You have for me." It's an example of spiritual sonship: God the Father and Abraham becoming His son. It's an example to us of prophetic fulfillment. (Photo via Public Domain Pictures)
Listen, this guy set an example for us in hearing the voice of God and obeying, even if he didn't understand how it was all going to happen. God started by speaking to a man named Abram (which was his name before it was Abraham). And he said, "Get out of the land of your fathers. Go to a land that I will show you. Walk and look." God did not tell him what direction to walk, did not tell him how long to walk—what he was looking for on his walk. He just basically said, "Walk and look."
Do you know that Abraham actually walked right past the Promised Land and settled in a place called "Haran" for twenty-five years? After twenty-five years, God went, "By the way, you missed it twenty-five years ago. Let me get you back on track." But he heard the voice of God (see Acts 7:2–4).
4. Prophetic Promises Fulfilled
God promised him a son. His wife was barren. It took twenty-five years for that word to come to pass. (They did kind of help God out there by producing Ishmael. Let that be a warning to all of us about trying to do it our way.) But Abraham had a son when he was one hundred years old. Even more miraculous was that Sarah had a son at the age of ninety. But God renewed their youth and they became an example to us of prophetic promise.
Part of the blessings of Abraham is seeing your prophetic promises fulfilled. Part of the blessings of Abraham is being grafted into that seed, being grafted into that lineage, and seeing the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the way that God was faithful to Joseph, the way that God was faithful to Israel down through the ages; that promise of fulfillment, that promise of the word of the Lord coming to pass.
Hebrews 10:35–36 says this: "Do not cast away your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. For you have need of patience in that after you have done the will of God, you can receive the promise." Don't throw away your confidence. Don't give up your faith. Don't give up your perseverance in believing to see the word of the Lord come to pass.
5. Increase, Provision, Blessing, and Favor
The blessings of Abraham include things like increase, provision, blessing, favor. Listen, this was all about the fruit of his covenant, which was multiplication and increase. Yes, he became a very wealthy man, but let's not just define wealth as material provision. Health is wealth. Friends are wealth, family is wealth. Living the dream of your prophetic promise—that's wealth. Yes, it's prophetic provision and provision of promise, but it's also everything else. Amen. And God wants to bring that.
Joint Heirs with Jesus Christ and the Provision of the Cross
Then the Scripture tells us that we're heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. We're talking about generational blessings. So, we can lay hold of all those blessings of Abraham by virtue of our relationship with Jesus. We also got grafted into every blessing and everything that Jesus did when He died on the cross: salvation, healing, deliverance, freedom—freedom for our mind, freedom for our soul—joy instead of sorrow.
He bore our grief. He carried our sorrow, lifting us out of depression, bringing us a sound mind, giving us vision for the future, giving us open eyes of revelation. Every bit of that is what Jesus died to give us. We are grafted into those promises through the blood of Jesus. We are grafted into Jesus Christ. We are grafted into Abraham. And if we don't realize it, we fail to appropriate the blessings that are ours.
Listen, it's like this. You can be a Christian your whole life and not believe that healing is for today. That's a provision of the cross. That's something Jesus died to give us. Healing is in the atonement. But if we don't know that, or if we don't believe that, we generally won't receive it. It's like a man that said, "I don't believe that healing is for today." And another man said back to him, "For you, that's true. For me, it's not true." What we have to understand is that when we put our faith in and believe to receive the wholeness of the promise, we can receive every generational blessing that's coming to us.
Why do I talk about it this way? Because sometimes when we think about generational curses, we always think of our bloodline, of course, which we get from Adam. But sometimes we think of our generational blessings as only being able to come from our natural bloodline. We're not just the product of our natural bloodline when we're grafted into Christ. When we're grafted into the seed of Abraham, it's not just about who our mother and our father and our grandparents are—those generational blessings. It can be that, but also our "dad" is Abraham, and we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ. God says this in Genesis 17:7: "I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you [through your] generations for an everlasting covenant." (Photo via Wallpaper Flare)
Bless Your Children
We can go back and read Genesis and watch how the patriarchs always laid their hands on their children and blessed them. Noah blessed Shem, Isaac blessed Jacob, Abraham blessed Isaac, Jacob blessed his sons... We have to understand that there's a blessing that comes, and if you're a parent and you want to bless your children, lay hands on them and bless them. Release prophetic promises to them. Anoint them for the future. I think it's good parenting to do that, to release generational blessings onto your family.
We are a product of generational blessings, my husband and I. We've received from the previous generation, and we're passing it along to our children's generation.
A Decree to Receive Generational Blessings
I am going to lead you in a decree to receive generational blessings. Feel free to take it, replicate it, personalize it, add to it; add some Scriptures to it that are personal to you. I'm going to take you through this decree based on what I was just teaching you. If you want to lift your hands up, repeat this after me:
I decree that the blessings of Abraham rest upon my household. I am Abraham's seed and an heir according to the promise by the blood of Jesus. I am grafted into the lineage and blessings of Abraham. This includes right relationship with God, covenant, spiritual sonship, faith, prophetic fulfillment, increase, provision, blessing, and favor. What was planted in faith will be reaped in fullness. I activate and receive every generational blessing afforded to me through Christ: salvation, sonship, love and acceptance, freedom from bondage, wholeness, physical and emotional healing, a sound mind, a healed heart, and open eyes of revelation.
What was sown in righteousness will be reaped in mercy. I will not merely survive. I will pass on an inheritance, and I will leave a legacy. My children will be blessed after me. My children and my children's children will walk in favor, truth, and calling. My children will live in the fullness of blessing. They will choose Christ instead of the world, freedom instead of bondage, and blessings instead of curses.
I receive and activate freedom and blessing for my generations, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
I want you to say, "I receive generational blessings in Jesus' name."
I hope this has been a blessing to you. And please share this with your friends. I think it'll be a blessing to them.
Walk in your generational blessings. You've received them, now walk in them every single day. God bless you.
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Bishop Jane Hamon
Vision Church @ Christian International
Email:Â vcci@visionchurchci.org
Website:Â www.visionchurchci.org
Bishops Tom and Jane Hamon are the senior pastors of Vision Church @ Christian International in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Their ministry together is an example to the Body of Christ of a husband and wife team working in tandem and unity to accomplish God's purposes. Their ministry is characterized by a rich deposit of God's wisdom to provide apostolic covering for the Church, prophetic teaching and ministry, and demonstration of Kingdom anointing and power. They travel as an apostolic/prophetic team to the nations, imparting both the spirit of wisdom and revelation to establish the Church and break open territories through spiritual warfare for the Kingdom of God to be experienced in a powerful and practical way. Jane has also written several books, including her very practical work on Dreams and Visions, her call to marketplace ministers called The Cyrus Decree, and her proclamation over women in the Church to arise and be The Deborah Company.
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