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
Pay attention to your dreams. They try to manipulate you there as well.
Be thankful to the Lord that you realize their existence and help make others aware.
Someday soon enough the veil will be dropped and all will see, most will still be deceived.
Hello Dr Lance,
i really appreciate your article on this, i was just going through the net this morning and came across this.
I am currently battling with a whole lot of issues related to familiar spirits, and i feel deep down in my spirit that, it is the root cause of my struggle for substantial breakthrough in finance, emotional and spiritual growth. I am actively seeking out solution for my total freedom through Christ, from every spiritual exerted forces that is affecting my person, which has it roots right from my fathers. I want to completely break free from it, if not for anything, at least for the well-being of my future offspring.
I came from a community that practice physical, psychological, emotional abuse on children that are independent minded and free spirited. There is more like an invincible chain holding every member of my immediate community/family to unwanted psychology and emotional hostage. Truth, honesty and freedom of will is undermined, shame and subdue emotional pain is encourage, and projections, character assassinations and gossip is celebrated. If anyone tries to speak and condemn wrong doing among them, he will targeted and subdue the person in everyday. They do this by scapegoating children (mostly younger children, teens and young adults) through false accusations, character assassination, then taking them hostage using other youths, physically traumatizing them, then using dissociation and mind control tactics to keep the abuse in place.
I was a victim of this, after the death of my parents some 13 years ago. And out of strong will and grace, i was lucky to escape with my sibling, from influence of the community members and my own immediate extended family who were actually the people that submitted me through deceit to be abused.
The last phase of my struggle right now, is total spiritual break off from the effects of the trauma, and also total freedom in the mind, body and soul from the memories of the abuse. I have gone through years of PTSD and misfortune both in academics and work, but I have also done a lot of deep healing, therapy and processing. I just need the support of a more spiritually aware person, biblical mandates, resolutions and truth to pull through this last phase. Please also note that, over the years, i have struggle get myself free from this wickedness, but it seems like there is a kind of spiritual trip that always try to sabotage my effort to freedom.
That is the worlds way because they are cowards.
I have the curse of FREEMASONS I know this for sure I am trying to save my 4 children pray for us this is a powerful and cruel spirit they are trying to take me out my mother the Jezebel spirit and my daughter hails to satin the Queen has declared war on being persecuted and punished I fear for my safety they want me dead what do I do please help
Lance “Bacon”??
I would love more info on how to address and break the cycle and transfer. My family has carried familiar spirits for generations. Once God has revealed these spirits then what? I’m aware of prayer and fasting…is there anything else?
I agree with you
Would love for some more and b free at last
I’m in my 3rd rental and in these homes behind the walls or vents I keep hearing the same repetitive words from “men’s and women’s “ voices.I am bothered by clumsy neighbors that intentionally do odd sounds repeatedly.Only in my home do these Godless beings relate to one another and not even know it!Lots of mass prayers are pleaded for in my situation that started out obscenely.”Mmmm.”is when at times trying to eat at which at times I discard.All day,every day.
Christ follow, do not follow antichrist Paul. Hear Christ who says when an evil spirit is cast out of a man [male & female, any age; also see Isaiah-‘transgressors from the womb’], it travels over dry ground and then says to itself, I shall go back to my house from which I was cast and he finds it swept and empty and goes out and finds seven spirits worse than it and they go and dwell in that man. And so the last state of that man is worse than the first. When the people brought possessed children to him, Christ said how much longer must I put up with you, you wicked generation (whereas deceived Christians pour out sympathies on such). Neither true apostles Matthew and John confirm the lie in false apostles Luke and Mark that Mary Magdalene was once possessed by demons. Matthew 7:22-23 is speaking of converts to false apostle and antichrist (1 John 2:18) Paul’s lying filthy gospel aka doctrine, Romans 3:7.
The Lord revealed the spirit of retention. The inability to retain knowledge. This is definitely a generational spirit. Having trouble shaking it.
What does it mean whenever my wife doesn’t sleep in the bed next to me I sleep with peace.
Then there are other times when she dreams I get bad dreams. I usually never ever dream.
Is she carrying something unclean that effects me in my sleep?
Thank you for this writing. As I have dealt with fear at different times in my life, I felt led to research familiar spirits. This article has helped me very much. The spirits of worry, dread and fear have come against me at times. I have learned to rebuke those spirits and not allow them to torment my life. I like what you brought out about bringing things to the light.. I have often experienced when I bring fears to the light .. they do lose their power over my life!! I may still have to confront and move forward at times. What can I do to become even more Free in the area of fear, worry and dread concerning doctors appointments and the fear of getting a bad report? This is something that seems to try and come back to plague me!