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
Lance, pray for my son …yes, i have suspected many times he is manipulated against his will. So is my daughter. I agree with you god binds and breaks that familiar spirit. So have i. The Devil is a defeated foe . we are covered with the blood Covenant of Jesus Christ to exercise our free will.
Problem with shyness and low self-esteem. Asking God to give me victory over both of these.
I really appreciate your ministry. Thank you for sharing and caring. Thank you for your wisdom. I think our family is dealing with several familiar spirits and you have helped. Please keep our family in your prayers. God bless you and your ministry.
Dude this was so powerful man..I felt like a layer of yolk come off of me when I renounced to manipulation and sexual immorality linked with women..burped like two big times. Man I need deliverance in Jesus name. But as I read I felt darkness in me hiding, like it was actually hiding within me. Then I was like man I got to confront this. This opened me up to see I need Jesus to do a deep cleaning in my life…is there any prayers to this?
Thanks for this
I never understood this to be so easy. Thank you for the clarity. I have seen some pretty strange things being done in churches. This gives me peace.
I found this article to be very timely for me. My husband and I both struggle with what we call “anxiety.” I even recently went on medication for it. The other night I had an encounter with the Lord and He helped me see that I am very fearful.
After reading this and praying for God to show me where there is a familiar spirit he Said “fear.”
Hello Lance,
Thank you so much for your post. It is such an encouragement! For several years I have been learning about this subject of familiar spirits and its relation to me and family. Abandonment & a jezebel spirit are two major ones that God has identified that I have been battling to break off in me and my future generations.
Thank you for asking for feedback. I greatly appreciate your prayers & support!
God’s blessings to you & yours!
Thank you Lance. I have been trying to deal with familiar spirits and various bondage for years with counseling, church prayers, deliverance books on iniquity and decrees. for at least 15 yrs i have been asking,seeking and knocking and crying out in tears for deliverance from a few areas of bondage and seeing temporary deliverance but never any lasting freedom and i have become angry at myself and God and my hope deffered for so long i dont really care to live anymore ive had so much stolen, killed or destroyed. im not suicidal but like a lot of people would rather just go on to Heaven than continue in bondage in this world as you know im sure…15 plus yrs is a very long time to be praying and asking for something while it is normal to sit at Jesus feet in His presence and worship him in songs, liufe,etc. Thanks for your prayers
Meanness. as in narcissistic very mean bad meanness.
i broke it for me, but one of our 8 children has it.
we have talked to her and explained how it runs in the family
she has seen it in my sister and my dad and knows it is awful
but she still sees nothing wrong with her being that way
i don’t know what else to do