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
One thing I noticed a pattern of is poverty. And it was a generational issue because I remembered hearing my grandfather say it when we were kids. He repetivly would tell the grandkids that we didn’t need education because the world was gonna come to an end and none of that would be necessary. But even before I found Jesus, I always thought when i get old enough I will did associate from my family and go to college so I wouldn’t be as stupid as most of my family members. So I went to college. Its still been a breaking off process with my kids, because they believe everything grandma says. And I’ve been challenging my adult children to do what sounds impossible. Ignore the negative outbursts of old family tradition and become who you want to be. Its been a challenge, but we are making progress, because God loves us.
Dear Bro Lance;
Thank you for this post. I have identified patterns in my family and the bloodline from both my father’s family and mother’s that I have noticed in me and my siblings, and since I began to identify these patterns I have been speaking with some of siblings who are saved and we have been praying to destroy these wrong patterns. However, I have come to discover that not much is taught about this in the body of Christ and many people have come to accept certain patterns and familiar spirits as either who they really are or they think these are gifts from God – but I say God forbid and I am praying that we as believers must work out our salvation, victory and freedom not giving the enemy any chance by living weakly.
Praise God
could you please offer scripture regarding familiar spirits in the land?
thank you,
Sharon Mott
Different ministers use different terminology which has similar or same meaning. Familiar spirits are those spirits that found an entry way or open door in the generations or family bloodlines to legally come and basically harass a family through the generations. This is why we hear about generational curses or familiar spirits. Here are some scriptures that will help. First, the ones showing that generational curses do happen. I haven’t met a person yet that does not have some of these in their bloodlines. So no need for embarrassment because this is common to us all. But then, the GOOD NEWS comes in the last scriptures.
Exodus 20:5
Exodus 34:7
Deuteronomy 23:2
Jeremiah 2:9
Matthew 27:25
Good News
Galatians 3:13
Nehemiah 9:2 gives us the pattern to receive Freedom from generational curses by CONFESSING or REPENTING for the sins of our forefathers/mothers and for our own sins. Apply the Blood of Jesus (Exodus 12) our PASSOVER Lamb to each area. Then the enemy loses his LEGAL right to have his hook in us and he must GO!
Hi Lance,
In British Coloumbia we are First Nation People’s. This is quite prevalent
With First Nations people. But yes it starts with me to recognize those pattern’s and pray and break those things off the family linage. So my children will have freedom from the past that has haunted for so long. Thanks Lance
Chief Underwood
Chief Underwood,
I applaud you for recognizing that this is such a problem with First Nations people. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Chief express this truth about their people! I lead prison chapel in Alberta & I have had 3 generations in prison, at the same time & my heart breaks! I’m about to lead a chapel on this very subject!!!! What wisdom from God’s spirit would you have for me, leading First Nations through this truth? I want to see them set free & see God’s glory rein in the First Nations people here!!! I want them to be set free
thank you for bringing this message to those in prison. I do jail ministry but it is not faith based so I don’t have as mush freedom to bring truth as I would want, but my prayers are someone will — and this truth will change lives and set our beloved inmate on fire for God!!!
When I became Christian over 25 years ago, I was not expecting the severe rejection and hostility from my father’s family. It was almost as if they couldn’t believe I betrayed them. There is a tendency for rebellion, hatred of Christianity and sharp Scottish tempers. I learned that my father’s family came from the Scottish borderland with England and, a long time ago, an English bishop did a formal curse against the violent border clans, even naming certain clans and my family name was among them! The curse was spoken aloud in churches along the border. It gave me an understanding of how to pray for my family. I still pray for God to replace hatred with love, bitterness with forgiveness, and for His grace to displace judgment.
Yes and amen! I wrote about this very thing on my last blog and several people wrote me back asking for more information. This is hitting at a very personal level for me right now but I also believe many are being confronted with it in order to prepare the way for an upgrade and increase in the Spirit. The Spirit of Unbelief is a major familiar spirit that must be dealt with. We won’t be able to receive the new wine with old wine skins. Thanks for publishing!
I needed this reminder today, thank you Lance! One of the generational patterns I feel like I’m here to break is that of losing a home. My husband & I had to walk away from the first home we purchased as a married couple in 1990 after having owned it for 10 years. This due to job loss by both of us (he worked for one of the phone companies, I worked at a utility company) during the time of deregulation. I was a new believer & I tried to fight in the spirit to keep my home, but in retrospect I think I was too young and I didn’t do all I could in the natural. We rented for about 2 years then were forced to use our faith to be able to purchase again after the owner of the rental decided to sell. Praise God, We were able to purchase the home I’m in now but my husband ended up passing away suddenly in 2005 (another generational issue) . Now I find myself in the a SAME situation where it seems as if I will lose this house because I’m struggling financially and can’t seem to get help! After my husbands death, my focus of course was on my children. My youngest child, a daughter, just graduated from a four year university; my two older boys ( 1 is ex-army, the other also graduated from a 4 year university) are for most part out of the house. Anyway, come to find out, my GRANDFATHER (my mothers father, a distinguished career navy man) had to give up the house my mother lived in as a child in D.C. because of the Great Depression! I don’t know if it goes back farther than that, I imagine it probably does. One of the things I find interesting is that my mother, who was also in the service (WWII vet & still going strong) has never faced this problem. On the other side, my father, who was an alcoholic & whom my mom divorced when I was very young, did not have great money handling skills …
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Hello Lance thank you for writing on this topic I have been teaching on breaking generational bandages and curses for awhile my family cones from a background of Shaman my grandfather was a medicine man I am the only one out of 6 children who has been set free from so much Glory to God! One that has held my family in bondage for soon I would like advice on is the jezebel spirit and poverty in breaking it off us. As well on my husband’s side is masonic background . I’ve found as I ask Holy Spirit to expose more He does and I thank the Lord all that Christ did on the cross has dealt with this area for our freedom.and Victory I thank you Sir for your wonderful ministry God truly blessed you Always
Rev Deborah Minoose-Morgan
Aboriginal Ministries Association of Alberta. Canada
RAM Ministries Colorado Springs, CO
Bill Suddeth deals, in depth, with breaking Masonic or Shaman ties in the bloodlines.
All I heard about when I was young that “this person died of this or that thing, and it runs in the family”…heart attacks, strokes—I have said “NO”…I also said “NO” to the poverty thing…Early on, I said “NOT ME”