Hello bloggers, I am so excited about this study on Generational Curses. I hope that the understanding gained from these seriese of blogs will bring freedom to a countless number of people. Please feel free to post questions/comments. And don't forget to tell a friend to join us too! Let's dive in.
First let me ask you this, have you ever seen a family where the son was an alcoholic and people would say things like, "He is just like his father and his grandfather",or maybe it wasn't alcohol, maybe it was a sickness and all the women in the family seemed to suffer from the same sickness or ailment like miscarriages? If you answered yes, then more than likely you were witnessing the effects of a Generational or Family Curse. Where did this Generational or Family Curse come from? Good question let's look at some scripture. The Bible uses the term "Iniquity" and it simply means sin, mischief, guilt or perversity. And the first place we see this word used in conjunction with generational curses is in the book of Exodus 20:5. In this text God was giving Moses the Ten Commandments. In verse 3 God commanded us that we are to have no other gods but Him. Then is verses 4-5, God commands that we are not to make idols or bow down and worship these idols. If we do these things then our iniquity (sin, mischief, guilt, perversity) will visit our children and grandchildren. This is where generational curses come from.
You may be saying, I don't bow down and worship any idols and neither did my parents or my grandparents. But because we live in a western culture we have a picture in our minds of what idol worship is and it may be that of those in an Oriental/Asian culture where they go to temples and literally bow and worship statues/idols, so we don't see ourselves as having idols and worshipping other gods. But actually we do in the sense that any time something or someone other than God rules us, we are in essence bowing down and serving that thing or person. When we do this, the spirit that is operating through that thing or person (idol) will come into our lives and make us bow down to it again and again, but it will also pass from us to our children and our children's children. So we can have a spirit of iniquity in our life because of something we have done or it can be something that has landed on you because of something a member of our family did years before we were even born.
An example of this is a family where the Dad or Mom or even grandparents had a history of divorce, their children will more than likely be faced with this iniquity. I can tell you in my own personal life this happened. My grandparents on both sides divorced, my parents divorced and I was married 6 months and divorced. On my husbands side, his grandparents divorced, his parents divorced and he was divorced too,but God! We recognize divorce as a generational curse in both of our families and we have broken the curse of divorce and decree that divorce will not be our children's portion. Because of the understanding that I now have, I have been praying for years about my son's wives and their marriages and release the blessings of marriage to them(till death do them part). Marriage is an honorable thing and he that finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord! This is their portion!
According to Hosea 4:6, people are perishing because they lack knowledge and that includes knowledge about generational curses. Families are in vicious cycles of sickness, abuse, addictions, suicide,anger, poverty and the likes and don't understand how and why these things are happening. But there is good news for you in this blog today. The curse started somewhere and it can end somewhere and I believe that you are the key to ending the curse/curses in your family whatever it is!
In my next blog I am going to look at specific iniquities(sins) and what curse may be the result of this particular iniquity. We are also going to look at the very first generational curse and trace it through scripture. I look forward to your questions, comments, and suggestions. (ie the blog was to long, the blog was not long enough)
In His Purpose
Dr. C
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