Today at 11:20 AM FaithtoFaith said this in Post #18
So, what I have gathered from a couple of your replies is that:
1) You do believe they still exist, and could be because the believer is still living under the law instead of Grace which made them vunderable to the curse or because of sin/judgment in their walk with Christ has opened them up to the curses.
2) You don't believe they exist because we are new creatures under Christ and we are not under the law.
Now, with that said, how is it that a family can carry the same sicknesses, bondages, and addictions generation after generation as Christians (yes, I know they are true believers) if they don't exist? Something isn't fitting somewhere.
I personally became sick after I received salvation and the Holy Spirit. So, if I have some type of sin or judgment that I've made that has opened me up, I am not aware of it and have asked the Lord to reveal to me the truth behind the sickness.
I believe in prayer and in faith that God will answer our prayers so I guess I will just keep seeking the Lord for understanding and wisdom.
Thank you for your responses.
I guess it can sound pretty confusing.
The only thing that keep believers under generaltional curses is continuing to live as if they are there. Such as, in another thread I shared that one of the generational problems in my family is "high blood preasure".
When the doctor told me that the results of my tests showed the blood pressure higher than it's supposed to be I had a choice of response. Of course I'm taking the medicine she has told me to take and I'm working on the part that I play in the blood pressure being too high, such as incorrect eating, stress, etc.
But I'm also watching what I claim with my tongue. Instead of saying "I have high preasure", I say "the doctor reported high blood preasure". In my way of thinking once I say "I have", then I have. Scripture says, "death and life are in the power of the tongue". I'm choosing to speak life, not death. To me increasingly high blood preasure is death and to increasing say "I have" is speaking death.
I know that may sound silly, but there is another thread
http://www.christianforums.com/threads/36981.html where
nikolai_42 explains it quite well.
It's really not about us, it's about Him and what He did.