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
My mom died in 2008 with cancer. Every since she died every year I been having dreams about my mom can you help me That’s been over 10yrs.
I had heard of familiar spirits but always via the usual interpretation, namely a spirit that assists a fortune teller or that impersonates the dead, or is associated with a witch. Bt I think that the definition and understanding needs to be broadened to include the simple fact that even if we don’t know what’s in our life and our bloodline, to some degree the enemy does. He is somewhat familiar with our weaknesses and vulnerabilities, esp. ones he had a hand in creating or augmenting somehow. As far as sharing with our children our life narratives and family history, I would issue a caution. Only share such things after you have dealt with them and received healing and deliverance, and be extremely pointed and careful to emphasize what God did about it and how He changed it for you etc. Sharing our traumas with our children, our griefs and sadnesses, can actually traumatize them due to their love for us, and then they form a bond of sympathetic loyalty if we have shared about something we are still stuck in. We are either sharing dysfunction and bondage or we are sharing a journey towards truth and wholeness. They may even feel guilty about moving ahead or achieving success, victory or happiness in their own lives if we are still stuck in failure, wounds or bondage in our past. I saw this happen in my mom’s life, my life and the life of my daughter. Its not wrong to tell the truth; secret keeping is no healthier than unholy and unguarded blabbing in detail. Its the WAY in which you share, the reason that you share and the content of what you share, that’s important.
My husband is addicted to drugs, alcohol sex with women and men.
he also has the exact personality of a male Jezebel
How can I save him if he does not want to repent to jesus.
And how can I leave him without breaking the generational curse of divorce.
So, I was wondering can i just seperate from him, and I will not be having the generation curse of divorced placed upon him and me.
what can i do about my difficult situation.
I appreciate any biblical and honest help.
God Bless you all..
You fail to mention the cure: using The Authority in The Name of Jesus, declared in faith, that frees us from all influence if familiar spirits
I can identify some familiar spirits in myself but I know next to nothing about my family history. How can I break spirits if I don’t know what they are.
Bless you and your ministry, refreshing and simple truths shining His Light in the darkness.
I bless you in Jesus name thank you for sharing
Certain denominations do not believe in familiar spirits, deliverance, gifts of healing, discernament, etc.
Great and we encouraging article.
My 29 year old daughter asked Jesus to come into her heart when she was about 5 years old. When we went to pick her up after church service, the Sunday school teacher told us she asked Jesus into her heart. As an adult, my daughter says she didn’t really understand what she was doing, and just wanted to please her parents, though we were not present when the Holy Spirit moved her heart to do so. She is violent now, filled with rage, curses me out and God and Jesus, with the filthiest words I’ve ever heard, and has some crazy destructive mental health and behavioral problems. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life! My other 3 children have made a decision for Christ, but only one of the 3 is walking and living that out. None of them have the issues my oldest daughter has. She told me a couple years ago that she feels like she’s possessed at times, even though she doesn’t believe in any of that stuff or the Bible, hell, etc. I believe she needs deliverance and healing. She grew up in a highly dysfunctional home…I was married to her father for 28 years. He is a classic abusive spouse, with all the characteristics of a “Christian” narcissist, that used God and the scripture to manipulate, bully, judge, condemn, intimidate, and abuse and control me. My daughter says this is the reason for her rage and hatred of Christianity… A Christian counselor at church told me that she can’t be possessed if she asked Christ into her heart, even if it was years ago…because she can’t be plucked out of the hand of God. Is this correct? I pray for the strongholds of the enemy to be broken in her life daily! I also pray for her healing and restoration.
How do i breaknoff familiar sprit