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
Generational patterns that God has revealed: Claims to Christianity, but lack of commitment to living out Christian values. False starts (business and relationships). Arrested development (talented and able adults failing to progress and refusing to take responsibility for their lives and choosing to live lives of emotional and financially dependency upon other family members and the government). Marriage destroying, denying or delaying spirits. By the grace of God, I’ve overcome all with exception of the last one, which I am trusting God to manifest in my life in the near future
Lance,
I have really enjoyed these videos on dismantling strongholds and unlocking your genius. I believe these are messages the church “needs” to hear and understand. Keep up the good work!
I’ve felt for some time that I, too, have a thorn in the flesh. It’s a spirit that causes trouble for me with people around me…sometimes. Not all the time. But something that has happened recently has drawn my attention to the spirit that my mother had. It was a spirit of envy towards me to the point that she worked behind the scenes for my demise. Now, there’s a man at my church that we have been getting to know each other and are starting to care about each other. He is good friends with a woman who I tried to be friends with, but she’s not all that receptive…still we and some others go to lunch together after church. (It’s hard to write this succinctly… ). The point is that she has said and done things, underhanded things, to come between us. I just discerned yesterday that it is that spirit of envy. I feel like what can I do? How do I work this out. It is covert and I am the only one who sees it. My guy friend kind of sees what is going on but they are friends. I think is taking my word for it that a demonic force is involved. This is a huge challenge as I never was able to resolve it concerning my mother and it greatly affected my life. She cut me off from the family 15 yrs ago and died two years ago leaving all the inheritance to my sister. I really would like some help. I am a warrior, a kingdom builder and have a special mission from God. I know God is wanting to take down this stronghold. But right now I’m pretty much alone in the battle, humanly speaking, and am wondering how to proceed. I have renounced and “been delivered” and all of that over the last 40 years, so this is deeper than that.
Lance, thank you so much for this topic discussion. My husband actually alerted me to this one and we spent some time in prayer that very day. We have several areas to address in our lives; but particularly for me, the Lord has highlighted a spirit of divorce in my life. This is my second marriage and we have had a very difficult past 6 years or so during which time my husband has become disabled. Over the past 2 years or more, I didn’t know if I could stay in the marriage. A year ago, my husband actually moved out for 4 months. After listening to your message here, and praying about spirit of divorce, the Lord highlighted to me that the timeframe is even the same as my first marriage which ended after just over 10 years. The Lord spoke to my heart, alerting me to the fact that I am in my 12th year of marriage to my current husband and that I must persevere and pray through this season. He also spoke to my heart that if I endeavor to do that, our marriage would be wonderful.
Thank you for this timely message!
I had a lying spirit come against in 1988 and it stole my joy and I felt responsible for my parents losing their money in a business that I managed for them. I was depressed. We went to a prophetic conference and I was called up first and the Lord delivered me through the word of the prophet. I haven’t lost my joy since the night that I was delivered. I have been praying for the sick now 29 years and seeing God heal them all of the time. In the last few years, I have found out that the devil has to have a legal excuse to attack us. Everything is legal in the courts of heaven. Revelation 12:10-11 says that the accuser accuses us night and day before our God. He uses generational curses to get us most of the time if we are Christians and are trying to live a good clean life . So I apply the blood of Jesus up both sides of the family trees of the person that I am praying for all of the way back to Adam and Eve, our natural father and mother, then we repent of their sins and then we repent of our sins. Then I tell the devil that every legal excuse that he has been using to attack this person is broken because the blood of Jesus has cleansed them from every sin and they are pure and righteous in God’s eyes because of the blood. We also put the spoken words of whoever has spoken negatively, like doctors, family members, people in authority over the person that I am praying for under the blood too, to break their power. Then I speak healing in Jesus’ name, new parts, whatever they need. Now about 100% of the people are healed when I pray for them. I had a lady with spina-bifida one night. I asked where you born with that and she said yes. I asked do you think that you sinned in your mother’s womb to be born that way. She thought a while and said no. I said of course not. God gives all things good, He didn’t do that to you. That was the devil who caused you to be born that way and he used a generational curse as the legal excuse to put that on you. I said that I can break that curse with my words and the blood of Jesus and speak healing to you. She said great, I’m ready. I broke that curse and told the devil that his legal excuse was broken and I spoke healing to her in Jesus’ name. In about 5 to 7 minutes, the Lord had her all healed and straightened up after being twisted up like that for over 40 years. He is so good. She was a born again believer that had been going out to start a new church/mission for the Lord about 20 miles out in the country for months. You can be doing your best for the Lord and the devil will try to slow you down or stop you. You just need some knowledge to get your deliverance or whatever you need. God has already provided whatever you need to live this life. Read 1st Peter Chapter 1 Verse 2:24 and then read 2nd Peter Chapter 1 Verses 2,3 and 4.
God Bless. Keep up the good work Lance!!!
Thanks for the insight, Blessings
I am 56 years old and all my life I have been plagued by the same abuse from everyone I love. My mother abandoned my brother and I when she divorced my dad. I was 2 years old at the time. She has been in and out of my life, more out than in. She often blamed me for things that happened to her, told lies about me and treated me as if I was unimportant. As a result, I became paranoid to let anyone down. I have tried hard all my life to resist failure. Pushed myself to be perfect for everyone in my life to no avail. Now I have 3 children, I have been very close to, until they became adults. Their father and I are divorced. He is extremely manipulative, refuses to take responsibility for his wrong actions and blames everyone else. Now my children are seeking his approval and beginning to act like him, they are doing things that are just crazy, then lying about it and trying to blame me for it.
It seems they take turns “picking” on me. As I prayed about this the Lord revealed to me it’s a familiar spirit they have picked up from “idolizing” their father who goes to Church and seems to have it all together, but behind the scenes, they think he is cheating on his wife. Which is why we are divorced. He is a deacon in his church!
I have prayed against this demonic spirit and I am writing you today to ask you to pray or what your thoughts are about this. Thank you.
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Hi,
Wouldn’t things like trauma, addiction, poverty, divorce, etc, be broken off through the process of sanctification, for a Christian? I understood when we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, that He would break these bondages off our lives over time.
Lance, my discernment regarding familiar spirits in my family has long existed. We’re all oppressed by jealousy, insecurity and depression. I didn’t know about generational curses and familiar spirits until a few years back. The spirits have destroyed mother-daughter relationships, marriages and psychological health. I’ve taken authority over them, but some family memebers will not stay away from evil occupations. I want to be delivered from these forever; I won’t date because I don’t want to be foolish and accusatory towards my mate. It is embarrassing to me to be a Christian who has these spirits haunting me.