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 been noticing things my adult children have gone through, were the same things I have been through. Poverty and divorce mainly. My parents didn’t go through that. Now, you said you and Anabelle renounce these things together and you are breaking things off your kids. I have been divorced for ten years and my kids dad wouldn’t go along on this with me. My question is, can I break these things off them by myself?
Hi Lance,
I would refer you to Elijah House Ministries who have excellent teaching in this. I am a Christian psychologist in Australia and often lead people in prayer to break off these spirits in their lives. It involves forgiving any ancestors who have engaged in this behaviour but also asking the Lord to show you where you first came into agreement with it yourself. Then going through a forgiveness, repentance and coming to The Cross to remove it and the reaping of it.
Thank you for your work.
Kerry
I’ve been trying to discern what parts of my life (struggles) are due to familial spirits. There are a lot of problems I could attribute to this. I even had a pastor once tell me that my current struggles with a brain aneurysm (multiple surgeries and subsequent disabilities) could be from demonic oppression. Could have ties to my grandmother and the Masons… Help with this would be so welcome, Lance. Thanks for bringing this to the forefront of my mind again. I really want to know HOW to break these strongholds.
Thank you Lance. This is excellent teaching and so needed in the Body of Christ. God bless you!!!
Hi Lance!
Will try to keep this short. For people living in or near the Colorado Springs, CO area. We have access to RAM Ministries (Righteous Acts Ministries). Bill Suddeth or Teia Martinez, who effectively ministers to children, adopted or natural born, down to 2 years of age). Teia has a seminar July 16, 2016 from 9am-5pm
& I believe Bill has a seminar coming up also. I personally went through RAM’s training school. Their ministry is the most thorough, effective, quick, and financially reasonable program I have seen, compared to long term counseling strategies. People also fly in to get ministry.
Four of our family members went through this process of identifying and removing the enemy. There was an IMMEDIATE shift in us four and because my husband and I repented for our bloodlines before us, and chose to forgive and release them for their failures that inadvertently allowed any harm to follow us, we even saw a major shift in the family members who have not yet submitted to this process. We are praying that ALL of our family will walk through this process.
And Good on Ya Lance! For bringing this to light publicly. It is a KEY and it is TIME for God’s people to break free from every hindrance of the enemy that followed us through the bloodlines!! Amen!
In case you have no way of getting ministry for this, I felt I should write the Main list of common spirits that resist us through our bloodlines so we are more equipped to recognize and DEFEAT them. mark 16:17, Luke 10:19, John 14:12. How exciting to know God is freeing His people!
Each of these produce their own fruit when they are unchallenged.
BUT!! Jesus gave us AUTHORITY OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY. So we can dismantle them ALL. Holy Spirit will help.
Abandonment/Rejection, Poor Stewardship, Anxiety/Fears, Anger/Rage/Violence, Deception/Rebellion, A Religious Spirit, Unwortiness/Unbelief, Manipulation/Control, Shame, Bitterness, Pride/Mocking, Performance/Failure, Infirmities/Disease, Addictions/Escape/Dependencies, Mental Problems/Depression, Sexual Sins/Perversion, Witchcraft/the Occult, Victim/Trauma/Grief
Then there are Stronghold spirits that produce their manifestations and fruit that you can dismantle also.
Antichrist-1 John 4:3
Bondage-Romans 8:15
Deaf and Dumb-Mark 9:25
Death/Premature Death-1 Cor 15:26
Divination- Acts 16:16
Spirit of Error-1 John 4:6
Familiar Spirit-Leviticus 19:31
Fear-II Timothy 1:7
Haughtiness- Proverbs 16:18
Heaviness/Rejection-Isaiah 61:3
Infirmity-Luke 13:11
Jealousy-Proverbs 6:34
Lying-II Chronicles 18:22
Perversion-Isaiah 19:14
Seducing Spirit-I Timothy 4:1
Whoredoms-Isaiah 5:4
After booting out the bad guys, then replace those names with the opposite. Holy Spirit will help you. Then don’t open the door again… if or when they knock!! Keep em out. God desires to Bless us to a THOUSAND GENERATIONS. God Bless Us All.
I had witchcraft done against me regaurding a picture of mine that I sadly and unwisely gave to person at school, my freshmen year of high school, I was also sadly befreined by a witch posing as young girl but who was actually an adult, she unfortunately got hold of the picture, and did terrible works of witchcraft against me with it, i spent a lot of my teen years and young adult years in mental and spiritual bondage, then i eventually decided to get saved, and on that day i was delivered from a terrible amount of evil spirits, and I started walking in my christian life, in my walk through out the years I would encounter spiritual warfare here and there, but praise christ, his all mighty power would help put these attacks under submission, then came a day, and I hope I’m not disturbing anyone when i say these things, where i found out that this witch and several other enemies of mine who practice voo doo, wanted to use this picture of mine to try to steal my spiritual identitity and have an evil spirit find place to hide in my body and be permenanly attached to me and never leave.
Hi Laura! Your situation is not uncommon. BUT!!! The GOOD NEWS is that as a Believer in JESUS, you have been given AUTHORITY over all of it and there is NOTHING the enemy can do to stop God from RESTORING back to you the years you feel were taken from you. It’s time to Take Back what the Devil stole. YOU are seated with CHRIST in Heavenly places. Goad has already revealed so much to you. God Bless you Laura!
Great teaching Lance! Yes its time to have a great spiritual clean up. I’m doing this at this time too regarding heartproblems in the family line. Broke this off my children as well.
I agree..most of the profound growth and healing I have had always involves deliverance and family patterns. Dealing with a generational addiction to beauty….bonded with an object of the feminine for sense of being didn’t receive from mother because Infant abandonment issues be fore three. But this was true many generations of my Danish maternal line.
Art and loving decorating in the family but to the point of the using this to make one feel good. The lord showed me we were trying to make our own sense of home. Lots of envy and weird relationships between family members. God gave Jesus at loving whole mother who was present to him so he could give what he received. Satan had no in road to his heart.
God wants us to not build for our selves cisterns not of him. I am calling on Him to heal my heart and open me to real relationship of love with him and not stuff and others.. Being such a old pattern of satanic lies is what I am walking out of now. So cool you brought this up . I have been moved by John Eckharts book and you tube of “prayers that rout demons.” 4 hours of prayers from The bible. Many by King David who contented for his life and family and kingdom and the coming of Christ his whole life.
I really didn’t start healing till deliverance became part of my life with the Lord.
Precious Lance & Annabelle & team & dear community
Big hug to you all !
I joyfully and confidently stand with us all in the spiritual warfare.
You all often bring a big smile on my face and comfort to GOD also!
Everything satan steals,
(or manipulates lawlessly)
when he is found out
he must restore sevenfold
and his house must give it up!.
Kindly lift us as a couple
for the full manifestation of
our prayer language in symphony
so that GOD will permeate our home.
Kindly lift up a precious assistant nurse at the hospice who
sheds precious tears for the patients she washes every day
for a spiritual family at the hospice and a blood family complete with h. & c.
Kindly lift up musicians in hospices and hospitals worldwide
who sing to our Lord and bring joy to patients, their families
and those who wash them and weep for them alone only for a short while.
Vince (and Anne in her sleep)
Vince bless your heart, your comment really moved my heart. The Lord bless and keep you and give you peace in Jesus name.
I come into agreement for the lovely hospice assistant, musicians and other care givers that volunteer their tome to setve others. May they be filled with Shalom joy, laughter, light & love as they labor among us in Jesus name amen.
Invite sweet Ruach to come into your home, clear out debris, may the spirit of God tarry there in Jesus name amen.
Thank you dear sister, where two agree on earth, it does something both in heavena and on earth ! What a joy !