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
Dear Lance,
Thank you for your writings on familiar/familial spirits and generational curses. I have read supporting and conflicting comments on your article and I am happy for the Scriptures that were cited in some of the comments. What I would like help with though is the question of being told by Pastors who are called to the ministry of “deliverance” that when someone prays for a person, that is possible for the spirit or things affecting that person could transfer to the person doing the deliverance. Can you please confirm this with Scripture as I have not been able to do so. I am not referring to the Scripture of “when the unclean spirit has been cast out, it goes about roaming looking for another “body/home” to inhabit etc etc. I specifically would like spiritual confirmation of spirit transference. Many thanks and God Bless you and your Ministry abundantly.
I always felt this was my calling, but I’m dealing with the spirit of Leviathan and all his demon’s realm of hell. I need help.
Lance,
Thank you for writing about this…it describes perfectly our family situation. When I was a little girl, the Lord gave me repeated dreams how he would remove me from my family. When I finished my studies, He did take me far away to teach me, to bind me to Him. It was a long, hard, intense, but also wonderful journey with Him. With the distance from my family came perspective and recognition, I clearly saw the demonic patterns repeating itself over generations. It must be almost 20 years that I’ve been interceding for them; even though they are churchgoing believers, I cannot discuss this with them..I’ve tried at times but was met with violent reactions or complete denial. 8 years ago I was diagnosed with an auto immune disease and had to resign from my job. The Lord clearly showed me that I had to go back to my family, to the town I was born. When I think logically about it, it doesn’t make sense…it feels as if I do the opposite of what is written in Hebrews…’make level paths for your feet do that your injury can heal and not become worse…’ I find myself amongst the same people that have caused me so much suffering (and possibly contributed to this disease); I am so grateful for all the wonderful blessings of the Lord, but sometimes it feels as if my life was stolen from me by this family I was born into and the familiar spirits in them. The happiest times in my life were the times when I lived on my own, many miles away from them. Every time when I was traveling to visit them, there was a prayer that just came out of a very deep place in my heart :’Lord, please help me not to be pulled back in bondage again’…and after a visit I had to fast and pray for a few days to get back my peace again. Now there’s no escape; I keep praying and fasting, but it seems like the hold of the familiar spirits is getting stronger, and even though I resist these patterns with everything in me, I recognise that I’ve been pulled in to some extent. And my injury (disease) has gotten worse…I regularly end up in hospital. Yet, I have this firm conviction and believe that our Father is the God of the impossible; in this situation where everything looks like ( to put it in the words of David), ‘my life is going down the pit’; He gave me the picture where He showed His might and power when Elijah had to face Ahab, Jezabel and the Baals.
My husband loved God and served him, but he often cursed and took God’s name in vain when he was upset. He didn’t like this in his own life, but he could not overcome it. He has passed away now. Now I see this same thing in my young adult son. How can I help him to overcome it?
I would like deliverance from familiar spirits
When you are adopted not knowing your natural blood line . I have the blood line of Christ in me that breaks all strong holds . I know this to be true and I receice the word of God . However this fimilair spirit still comes to buffit me . I need a word of wisdom. May the Holy Spirit give wisdom on this issue . I must get past this, it is a stumbling block and Gods call on my life is restricted . Thank you brother
I have spirits that call themselves God and Jesus one that calls himself the demon devil one that calls himself the devil and one that calls for sale Shannon Michelle willsey someone like you before she died here on Earth they have a lot of power there putting things that can crawl on me in my nose in my my eyes and none of my prayers are being answered and I don’t understand the one thing they did say is that I’m not the one that he was looking for and also if they’re not going to quit until I’m dead can you please help me thank you.
Just had someone pray for me at Glory of Zion International Ministries for breakthrough concerning my health – knees and legs in pain – hips making it difficult to walk. Kevi said he believed it was God robbing in my bloodline – iniquity from former generations giving the enemy a legal right. We prayed together – he said there might be some prophetic acts the Lord requires of me to walk this out. The Lord told me in June my healing is coming – and I have a promise of Him spoiling me with His fullness. I am a tither and give first fruit offerings – I am an intercessor and know how to hear the Lord’s Spirit in some things. This is something I need help or teaching about so that I can walk it out. I pray in the seven mountains of society daily over our nation. Holy Spirit is my teacher. He will lead me into all truth. I am reaching out for insight about familiar and familial spirits – in depth. I am willing to stand for my own health and generations after me. Help!
God has shown me the common cause, why the calling from God has been a struggle in 3 family ( including me ) , through a familiar spirit, my mom, I will confront and break this off in this month, what is best way to do, of course with Holy Spirit as guide.
Thank you so much for this article.
I am watching over a disabled person, who has been baptised as God told me to.
He was good after that. Because God showed me that the spirit of anger was a generational curse.
We had him visiting his sisters two weeks ago, and since his been there all the cursing and aggressiveness is back.
Throughing tantrums like before, as he is acting like a two year old child.
I was asking God to show me, help me with answers as I couldn’t understand his behavior, as he was good after we baptized him.
And then out of the blue someone Just mentioned the familiar Spirit…. Reading your article cleared up all my answers.
May God BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY.