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
YES! I PRAYED AND TOOK AUTHORITY OVER THE spirits and WILL STAND!!!!
Good words!!!
Yes The Lord has called us for such a time as this!!! Great picture to encourage us! “A picture is as a thousand words!” J.A. Comenius said, The author of the first picture dictionary !
Thank you!!!
Dear Lance,
You are so right in the things that you are saying. A few years ago we became involved with a ministry called Restoring the Foundations ministry. I would encourage you and others who are listening to your teaching to check it out. http://www.restoringthefoundations.org We minister to and train others to minister to the very things that you’re talking about.
We have seen tremendous healing, restoration and freedom in individuals, marriages and families of those who break off the generational patterns, and who come out of agreement with the lies associated them. As they experience the healing from painful traumatic roots and then they are set free as the demonic spirits are disempowered. Please check us out!
You are sooooooo right!
Blessings,
Cindi
Dear Lance,
You are so right in the things that you are saying. A few years ago we became involved with a ministry called Restoring the Foundations ministry. I would encourage you and others who are listening to your teaching to check it out. http://www.restoringthefoundations.org We minister to and train others to minister to the very things that you’re talking about.
We have seen tremendous healing, restoration and freedom in individuals, marriages and families of those who break off the generational patterns, and who come out of agreement with the lies associated them. As they experience the healing from painful traumatic roots and then they are set free as the demonic spirits are disempowered. Please check it out!
You are sooooooo right!
Blessings,
Cindi
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The one who THE Son sets FREE is FREE indeed!
Familiar spirits are very Mosaic Covenant (limited covenant) based. We are now in THE new covenant ratified by Christ’s blood sealed in THE Holy Spirit, We no longer wrestle with flesh or blood (relatives) only with powers and principalities (natural forces that dominate large segments of society and culture) and with wickedness in the heavenly realms (or places). We as the Beloved of Christ, are the heavenly realm here on planet earth, and there is wickedness in the ranks!…and in the 3 heaven that we cannot see, there is a WAR raging because Satan knows his time is short. According to new testament doctrine- no Holy Spirit sealed, blood bought saint that is filled, can be indwelled by an evil spirit or a familiar one. But we can be overwhelmed by our own emotions and thoughts to the point of illness if we give into the intention due to the wrong of others.
Right on Lance, not only do most families have familiar spirits bit also most churches and denominations. It is not something we should shy away from but confront and deal with it even on the church level.
I remember as a teenager hearing stories about my grandfather, who was an alcoholic, and my uncle who died from drug addiction. My parents (who weren’t very spiritual) brought light on how those addictions destroyed many things for our family, and how the effects of it were devastating. I also remember in my teenage formative years, never being tempted to go down that path, although it was very possible to do so. Why? I believe it’s like you have said, when the curse is exposed for what it really is, the ability to resist is multiplied. I never had the desire to dabble in that stuff, because I knew what it would lead to. Exposing something is the key to resisting it, and as James says, resistance causes the enemy to flee!
That was really Powerful. It was Eye Opening as well. In a day where people are afraid to talk or let alone think about the unseen demonic world at work trying to unfold hells kingdom, people are perishing for lack of knowledge. If we know how these demons work, we will know how to shut them down from sabotaging our lives and abortion the plans of Our Father for / with our lives.
This is one of my FAVORITE subjects. Bring on more 🙂
glad to hear you talking about familiar spirits, bring an awareness to this subject!! thank you
You are absolutely right Lance, I came from a family that was controlled by a demonic spirit of hatred. The Lord said I had been born into the house of the Destroyer. My family was under a curse but when I got “born again” Jesus started bringing me out of the demonic bondage that came with my family. I also married a man with a similar spirit before I got saved. After 25 years of marriage I found Jesus and the truth of the Word of God. After about 10 years my husband passed away after getting saved and I am now a Licensed Professional Counselor doing Christian Counseling. Within a few sessions after teaching clients the Word of God we pray for generational curses and iniquity to be broken off of the clients.
This is so powerful..wow!! Keep it up this really blessed me as I ready this.