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
This is brilliant! Thank you!! Confronting away!!
My father was a spirit filled tongue speaking Christian. But on my mother’s side it was different. Her father was murdered by a neighbor. I later married a man whose father was alcoholic and committed suicide. Then my husband committed suicide at age 34. I heard about familiar spirits from a well known preacher, Kenneth Copeland. I and my children were terrorized by my husband who was an alcoholic who became violent when drinking. I spoke many times to the familiar spirits in the name of Jesus and broke them off on me and my children. There are many factors to this story. I could write a book. I made a decree on earth that there shall be no more violent deaths in my family. But the alcoholism has remained with one son who seems to have a personality like his father. I sure could use more help. I refuse to let the enemy have him. He is a Christian and a good husband and father, but
My fathers father was an alcoholic. My father was an alcoholic. Both are deceased now. I was an alcoholic. In 1997 my wife became pregnant with my last child, a son, my first one. I was determined some three years later that my son was not going to witness what I, my father and I suspect my grandfather had seen while growing up. I quit drinking and picked up God’s word. My son saw a father reading the bible. My wife saw the man she fell in love with sober. Today my marriage is the best it has ever been and my son at 19 years old has daily bible reading and is a believer. As I look back I felt through the years I had with the Spirit of God “broken” the chain of destruction set upon at least three generations.
hi just yesterday I saw a gal from Texas (she’s a teacher of the Word of God) on u-tube, say that we might have some ‘soul tie’ issues: if we are continually thinkin of the past trauma’s in our lives, divorced, un able to start a new relationship, etc… so we need to cut off the soul ties with our past mates/husband or wife, boy or girl friends that had any sexual relations. Since I’ve done this there has been no feelings or thoughts of my past experiences with my x-husband. whew! I feel actually able to keep a thought, and it’s like, I’m lighter !
I have had a few say to me-“Fear, being too hard on myself, and someone has said I have a demon following me around, trying to kill me”.
I am sick n tired of this!!
Grandparents-free Mason’s
Mom-believer; although her struggle is as mine, I somehow believe a bit of a narsasist
Husband- addict, died 2009 dui
My children
Son-24, some addiction struggles, LA Dream Center and now lead guitar at church, and AOD college
Daughter 1-21 Life Pacific College
Daughter 2- YWAM
Daughter 3- school, life guard, and soon YWAM
I have identified some of the major generational patterns in my bloodline which is evident in my family and the three major ones are : rejection, pride and religious spirit. It has been a tough fight and I’m still in the process of resisting it and renewing my mind and finding and building my identity in Christ and revealing the true personality that God created instead of one that is influenced by those patterns. Still fighting and resisting!
DEAR LANCE>> I CAN’T TELL YOU ENOUGH HOW GRATEFUL I AM TO YOU FOR EXPOSING THE MOST DANGEROUS SPIRIT IN THE UNIVERSE >>>> THEY WORK UNNOTICED IN EVERY PLACE OF FAMILY AND BUSINESS >> THE PEOPLE GET THE BLAME IN THE SITUATIONS THAT STARTED BY THESE EVIL EVIL SPIRITS TO CAUSE THE PROBLEMS>> I TEACH PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE THE PROBLEM(SPIRITS) >>THEY ARE VERY INTELLIGENT AND PLOT AND PLAN AGAINST PEOPLE>>REMEMBER JESUS SAID” FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT DO” FOR THIS REASON >>>JESUS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING>>THIS WHY THEY ARE SO DANGEROUS TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD>>THEY MUST BE EXPOSED KNOW!!!!>>>FROM NANCY
Nancy
I like your comment. About how the spirits work in businesses, and other areas, AND THE PEOPLE GET THE BLAME. When I’ve tried to expose them then I’ve ended up being suspect. This has to stop. We have power over all the power of the enemy so God please show us what to do. We have to stick together.
Tricia
Some would be lustful thoughts, over eating when not even hungry, my wife had has many miscarriages just like her mom, the biggest one it seems for me is my eyes it is a daily battle fighting lustful thoughts. Thank you for this word ..
Hi ya Lance,
I have a question: does the spiritual influence over a husband affect the wife?
I ask as I have worked through a lot of my junk (still going I might add) & have always been of the belief that we have to deal with what’s buried inside – from childhood traumas, & the like…(I had plenty!)
I am married to a lovely fellow who came from another culture/country to myself. And although him & his family are all born again Christians, they have come from the background of it’s all been done at the cross & there’s no need to do any more. They are not ones who believe in generational curses (I do & have dealt with many generational spirits/curses etc in my own life).
Does this affect me? I have noticed that in our walk we get so far & hit this “wall” & cant seem to get beyond it.
Any advice on this would be so helpful…thanks so much for all you do…we appreciate you & your lovely Annabelle so much…Julie xxx
Lance I have had more than I can say broken off me and I’m a reader not only of the Bible but also books by Prayers that rout demons & break cursed by John Eckhardt, also Perry Stone, and have attended 5 CLEANINSING STREAMS at Jack Hayford Church on the Way! I at 13 was in Job’s Daughters Mason teaching was never aware how devious that was all broken off my life & family! Also poverty spirit but seems to raise its ugly head! I’m 75 and been in the Chairsmatic movement since 1995! I want to be free and have more financial freedom I’m a giver too! Thank you Susan