Jesus spent at least a third of His time healing and casting out demons. Spirits can gain access into people or into the personalities of individuals. When there are spirits that go from generation to generation, manifesting on a piece of land, or in an actual family or bloodline, those spirits are called familiar spirits.
So what you want to consider is:
- What generational patterns are at work in your life? What kind of spiritual forces have been in your lineage, family, and bloodline for many years? The Bible speaks about familial or familiar spirits. There are spirits that are familiar with your life journey, perhaps from generation to generation. Many believe that trauma can induce the transfer of spirits from parent to child. Addictions, poverty, and divorce are examples of patterns that can pass from generation to generation.
- Some of your battles didn’t start with you. These bents and inclinations toward fear, mistrust, abandonment, depression, and even suicide can be generational. These patterns are rooted in family history and in some strange way were passed down from generation to generation in the bloodline. An iniquity is a bent or inclination of the soul toward a certain pattern of ungodly thinking—BUT the good news is YOU DON’T HAVE TO YIELD to any spirit or generational pattern. Not for one split second!
- What can you do? When something is exerting an influence over your freedom of will and occupying your mind, it is often a spiritual assignment that is intent on breaking up your freedom to follow Christ. If the pattern has been evident in your bloodline, perhaps you are the one who gets the task of finally breaking it off of your household and the next generation! This is where you become the champion that cuts off the pattern of iniquity or the power of a familiar spirit from operating because you choose to resist it and break the cycle in your own life. That’s really what an overcomer is. Perhaps the Lord has called you for such a time as this to bring His freedom and deliverance to your family and future generations?
Annabelle and I have decided that we would discern and judge anything that was operating in our lives that was trying to transfer to our children. We found that when we confronted it and broke it off of us, we emasculated its power to transfer to the next generation. All we had to do was alert our children to the family story and history so that they could be enlightened and resist. Their power to resist was multiplied because we had brought it to the light and already dealt with it!
Question: What generational patterns is your spirit alert to even now? Ask the Lord to pinpoint the areas that it is time to address.
Give me some feedback and share the process God has you in!
As One!
Lance
I have always believed that those clinging to our Labry Household is one I label as Music Busters, suffered by all who tried a musical career but was discouraged somehow. And another accusing us of being gay when not-we will label as Gay Bashers, other Poverty that only a certain few in family suffer, such as grandfathers, great aunt, daddy, and me but parallels along lines of mental illnesses.
Lance.
For sevsral years, I have sensed a very power ful sense of ” familiarity(dejavu) that. omes up from time to time still, mor3 so over the last 2 to 3 years.
It certainly is an evil being deom another realm.
I parsy, and usually fervency is needed to disspell it. But I do dispell it each timw. Except this lst time, it persisted for threedays or so.
Thr spirits you reference are in refernece to the general sense of spirits following and. uesing bloodlines uto the third and fourt generation. I get that, and if unbroken, then, ofcourse, bad habits(spirits) will persist. But what about these actuall bad forms of energy(spirit), to which I make reference, that do not bring tempting tgoughts but just bad mo jo- in the form of a scary , if you will( cuz my faith IS stronger than fear/ opposite thereof)….
It is a trippy world I percieve. Ive experienced special things. Usually rhey are of the senses, internal. And ,no, I am not schitzo.
Eht youb5hing about that , sir? As what you refer to is not what i have (familiarly) experienced… Do tell. Im curious to know what you think.
i dream of familar spirit in the form of my long dead mother appearing every night for over 2 years now. i want deliverance please
How about if you just clearly state what is to be done to rid one’s self or family of a familiar Spirit.
I do not need to hear chit-chat explanations and motivations. I am a born again Servant of Jesus by His blood.
Hi Lance,
My question is–can a familiar spirit disguise itself in my mind as “the book of my past,”and continually remind me of past mistakes and bad choices that keeps insisting I have debts to pay (not financial) and I should be ashamed of myself because of my past? It acts like a constant harassing of my past that insinuates I need to keep trying to fix things but there’s never a resolution. Do you think this could be the works of an evil spirit!?
God spoke to me through you. Thank you so much. There is a spirit spouse that is trying to claim me and I am literally at war with this wicked spirit. There is no way it will get passed on to my nieces and nephews. Freedom is at hand. Thank you God! I have the power because Jesus Christ is on my side. God Bless!
You can get delivered like I did from Dr Patricia green. Her ministry is called “Joy ministry”. She’s an American with blonde hair and has a lot of YouTube videos of the teaching of the word of God. Shes a powerful woman of God.
Shalom
What if you sense that something has already attached itself to a small child? Then what are we to do?
My sister in law and niece just moved in my house because they were homeless. I usually place the musics in the house and prayers. Pray for rebuke the Spirit of Evil. My sister in law believes different religions, depression, and anxiety. How can I rebuke those in my house?
Tell them that no ungodly things are allowed in your home. Be it music, tv shows,items, nothing! The Bible clearly says in Joshua 24:15 “as for me and my house we shall serve the Lord” If they cannot abide by your Christian household then tell them they are free to live elsewhere. but it’s a choice mainly on you that you take the stand for the Lord n resist the devil who uses our loved ones mostly to cause us to stumble. If they stay start having Bible study n prayer inside ur home together. Get scriptures to stand on n quote them like psalms 91. Rebuke n denounce all family curses n plead the blood of Jesus!! shalom
Im in a public school system working with students that have special needs ( which includes ADHD, autism, developmental delayed etc..). We ( 2 other teachers besides me) had student last year that was aggressive towards students & us, used vulgar language, would run out the classroom, anything to disrupt tbe class. His parent was not supportive, unconcerned, living in poverty and student looked like a product of his environment. This current school year we have another student that demonstrates the same behavior as the previous child. The parent behavior resembles the other parent behavior as well.
***We were able to get rud of the other studemt before the end of the last school year***** Niw have another student that behavior is exactly like the other student.
Would this be a famlluar spirit
This is so true. when I became filled with the Holy Spirit one of the exercises I did was to renounce any activities that I had participated in that were not Godly…one was playing with a ouija board (when they were sold as a game-YIKES!), horoscopes, etc. I also had alcoholism on both sides of my family which I rebuked, and my maternal grandfather had a ‘spirit guide’…his ‘indian’ that he would consult with before making any major decisions. He also had some kind of ‘psychic’ power over women that he could get them to do whatever he wanted-but it left him with a horrific headache so it didn’t happen often. I was determined that these things were not going to affect me or my children yet to be born, so I took the authority of Jesus Christ and kicked some spiritual butt. Not one of these things has come back at me. Thank you Jesus!
thanks, my story is way to complicated. However, I can relate to the warfare. I will continue to pursue this topic and see how it goes. I have adult children ages 40 to a young son age 13. I and my husband have been born again and alive in Christ. I for 40 years, my husband 25 years. We have seen the demonic spirits rip our families apart as well as the children. Thank God we are still together fighting the fight.
Hi my name is Jillian. I participated in some activities and I am so oppressed. Is there any way I could get in contact with you?
Indeed there are generational spirits and curses that are passed. The best teaching and information on this subject I have seen and experienced is Bob Lucy. His website link is below. He is currently working on a book with this as one of the chapters. There are specific prayers and methods he uses to help deliver people. One the key things I learned from Bob is, “You can tell the Devil to flee all you want but if you have given him a right to be there he won’t leave.” He’s (Devil, demons) legalistic, so he’ll claim any legal reason to be there.
I’d encourage you to look into it. It changed my life dramatically several years ago when I spent a weekend with him (Bob). Thanks Lance
boblucyministries.org
It looks like he doesn’t understand basics. Dead people can possess people, and shrinks call this alters.
No they cannot.
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”
Ecclesiastes 9:5 KJV
https://www.bible.com/1/ecc.9.5.kjv
Breaking off poverty mindset from both mother and father. Tired of ‘just enough’. Have broken this off…pursuing what God has for me in this season.
What I have understood about generational issues.
In Jerem. 31:31 – Gotasted the sourned talks about the new covenant, made a lot of statements about it
In v 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
A picture of generational curses/issues- children teeth set on edge by what previous generations did.
At the cross, Jesus said he was thirsty and they give him vinegar, He drank it – sour taste, His teeth took the edge of the sourness, so we don’t have to, and then He said ‘it is finished’ and gave up His Spirit
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the SCRIPTURE might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
So Jesus at the cross took care of all of our generational issues, we have to know and stand on that truth and revelation and avoid going back to the old man way of thinking and doing, we have been made new in Him
He was given something earlier, but he did not take it
Math.27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink
And Jesus took care of all the curses under the law Gal.3:13
Thanks Rachel…We going thru a hard time 5 years but every time the accusor comes I stand on Jesus love the cross and know He will come thru for us!He has done it before and He will do it again!
Correct, I don’t agree with generational curses and the doctrine surrounding it. When Jesus went to the cross he took all of the debt, pain, strife, and guilt of sin upon himself.
When we first believed, repented, then received Jesus as Savior, as Messiah, we received him as healer, as keeper, as friend, as King, and completely as God with us always.
No, Jesus did not remove suffering, pain, temptation, or tribulation. Once we received Christ the curse and the stain of it was completely removed.
If Christ died for us to remain in bondage then what is that we preach? We say we preach the Good News but what good is this news if it does nothing? Then if you are not free then what Gospel (Good News) have you heard?
“A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed”. (John 8:35-36)
i dream of familar spirit in the form of my long dead mother appearing every night for over 2 years now. i want deliverance please
wow! Thank you! This article blessed me. I broke off unworthiness and inferiority. I felt the shift in me. Thank you JESUS!!
Brother, why do we have similar patterns in bloodlines?
In Jesus’ name I renounce the spirit that has led to divorce in the last 2 generations on my mother’s side.
I also renounce the spiritualism that has pervaded our family, again through my mother’s side.
This is so good Lance. Lately have been dealing with family stuff and what has been coming up is anger. Thought I worked through all that stuff but I guess we’re working on another layer. Just prayed and asked the Lord to show me again where any familiar spirits are operating. Thank you for the timely word.
Injustice or even perceived injustice is the father of anger. Dealing with the acknowledged injustice with forgiveness closes the door and many times, releases the anger.
How many times am I going to have to say “another right on word!” Incredibly timely – if only you knew.
Thank you so much! I felt I saw what I call an A Type familiar spirit from my father, a stress driven spirit, which I need to come against harder I see. Under it is a guilt one for feeling like I didn’t do enough or do things right. When I didn’t get to the Cano trip, I really think I was afraid of my mother. So fear is there too. Then I felt so guilty, like I had let you down.
These I will take authority over. I would appreciate your agreement- for living with my mother, I can’t let those things try to dominate me and keep me from the destiny God has given me.
Thank you for your discernment- I think it is right on!