{"id":2492,"date":"2020-08-05T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:20:41","slug":"do-genetics-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\/do-genetics-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Genetics Rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-ca5ff7a6 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div style=\"font-size:24px\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color adobe-reg-italic wp-elements-85a8a21107b8ee66b96e773a6aa630b7 wp-block-post-date has-text-color has-web-light-green-color\"><time datetime=\"2020-08-05T13:56:24+00:00\">August 5, 2020<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:45px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:4px\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color proxima-font wp-elements-8489a226fd32958d683121eb2fa02d00 wp-block-post-title has-text-color\">Do Genetics Rule?<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-7c4cb470 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f5c32218d6cf7b763c5639bc8387f44c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Like so many others have done, do now, and will do when they search for their identity, I was looking for my core sense of who I was. Is one\u2019s identity tied inexorably to his or her genetics and genealogy? Are we destined to be the product of our ancestors\u2019 genetics and parenting styles? Can we rise above bad parental examples?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38fe13b43e0b39f64e94040805aaeca1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">I come from Polish and Indian roots. My family was deeply broken and full of pain. And, had I not met and married Mark Shick, who introduced me to my Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, I suspect I would have succumbed to those troubled family ties. But Jesus did help me to rise above. He made me a new person. He helped me see that identity is more an issue of the heart than of nature or nurture. When a person places his or her faith in Christ, He gives that person a new identity (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). Then He sends His Holy Spirit to enable that person to live up to that new identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b493e8bfa9c92f0bd1a8b950d8e69ba wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">As a new person in Christ, I\u2019m no longer the little mother, the confused confidant, the teen trying to find meaning in her looks, or even just a wife and mother (as wonderful as those last two are). I am Denise Shick, daughter of the Lord of the universe!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b374ec004e389d59957346af06ba6900 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am God\u2019s workmanship, created in Christ unto good works (Ephesians 2:10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5f249c8a1d2f4d0793af55e027484f9a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1240582c4267f9226953f86735e510d6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am delivered from the power of darkness and translated into God\u2019s kingdom (Colossians 1:13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cc6dcde1c4c02cae8d3d35c9d72acf37 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am greatly loved by God (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-02f2a711eb776b9260299b4feaf6ce13 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power (Colossians 1:11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8eafc841914ef82a6803937b2c76e820 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am firmly rooted, built up, established in my faith, and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-88909f2f5fa8d23c8ddf0c51363e8047 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e7ccd3a65e2be157f03abf2642964b74 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have no lack, for my God supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4f3e2415ce5573ab141c70d770a2e646 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am forgiven of all my sins and washed in Christ\u2019s blood (Ephesians 1:7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b40c7ff51d83b09cfdedbad9d065857d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I can do all things through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-80c7ed9d2c1115fe8589d8b0d10913e0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">What an incredible identity! What an incredible family! How would you like to have your identity as part of this family? If so, it\u2019s easy. Jesus made it clear that entrance into His family is simple. He said it like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-798af347527fd15f972e4a3a62f248b9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son [Jesus], that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him\u201d (John 3:16-17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f737f5120838d9cb8210e44848fe8cba wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c\u2018I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die\u2019\u201d (John 11:25-26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7fe9735675174fe277206614610600e0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And when a terrified jailer asked the apostles Paul and Silas what he must do to be saved, the apostles answered, \u201cBelieve in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved\u2014you and your household\u201d (Acts 16:31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d711ede91fda91e28cb387f37082021e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">If you have not done so, will you choose now to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Will you choose to become a son or daughter of the Lord of the universe? Will you choose to find your identity in Him? And when you do so, will you then choose to live in a way that reflects your royal identity and draws others to that royal identity?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1596635784\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Do Genetics Rule?\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many others have done, do now, and will do when they search for their identity, I was looking for my core sense of who I was. Is one\u2019s identity tied inexorably to his or her genetics and genealogy? Are we destined to be the product of our ancestors\u2019 genetics and parenting styles? Can &#8230; <a title=\"Do Genetics Rule?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\/do-genetics-rule\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Do Genetics Rule?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Denise Shick","author_link":"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\/author\/denise\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Like so many others have done, do now, and will do when they search for their identity, I was looking for my core sense of who I was. 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