Are there such things as curses?

Steve Petersen said:

Remind me again: What century are we living in?

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In the last days. Do a Bible study on verses about the last days, and you will have your eyes opened on what exactly is going on with the world right now. Why people ask questions like "what century are we in?".

seekingmuch said:

"God revealed to me that my Great Grandfather was a Grand Master mason who was in charge of several Lodges. In the higher levels they understand who it is they are worshipping. The reference to satan as 'Father' enabled the curse to fall on my father’s line. My dad's father died when he (my father) was thirteen. My mother and father divorced when I was ten and my father moved into a new house eventually remarrying and having three more children. The Lord showed me that divorce enables a spirit of tormenting fear to hit vulnerable children, so this hit me as well as the curse ‘Lack of love from the Father’. We still kept in touch, and I knew he still loved me dearly but of course my life was never the same from that moment. God showed me that my belief of 'God might let me down' came from my father leaving. The moment my father left the curse of anxiety and the fear of someone I trusted letting me down was able to alight upon me. I wept and wept as God put healing into the wound 'lack of love from the Father' within me. As He did this Father God kept repeating over and over to me that He would never leave me nor forsake me."

"The Father's role is to protect and provide security."

http://www.christianconnection.co/index.php/healing-a-deliverance/anxiety-fear-a-depression

Is there such a thing? I asked a Christian Counselor and she had no clue. I actually said to her, "why are you a Christian counselor then?" LOL

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Well, we are all under the curse of sin and death..., Jesus cursed the fig tree and it withered and never again bore any fruit....and sometimes God Himself is the one who places that curse.

But here are some scriptures relating to curses....

'Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"--

Deuteronomy 11:26
"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

Deuteronomy 30:1
"So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the LORD your God has banished you,

Deuteronomy 11:28
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.


Deuteronomy 11:29
"It shall come about, when the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.


Deuteronomy 27:13-26
"For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. "The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 'Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret ' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

Deuteronomy 27:26
'Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deuteronomy 28:15-20
"But it shall come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Joshua 8:34
Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Daniel 9:11
"Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.


Nehemiah 10:29
are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God's law, which was given through Moses, God's servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of GOD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;


Jeremiah 11:3
and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of this covenant


Malachi 1:14
"But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King," says the LORD of hosts, "and My name is feared among the nations."

Malachi 3:9
"You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!


Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM."


Deuteronomy 21:23
his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.


Deuteronomy 29:20
"The LORD shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.


Deuteronomy 29:21
"Then the LORD will single him out for adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.


Deuteronomy 29:27
'Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;


Deuteronomy 30:7
"The LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.


Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, "This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.


Revelation 22:3
There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him

You better believe that curses exist today or you will be surely be living under one. Once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are no longer subject to the curse under the law which is death. Christ paid the price for us to have eternal life and took the place of our sins, iniquities, and transgressions which are forgiven at the cross. God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

You can be saved and be in bondage and not be completely set free due to generational curses operating in your life. How is that you might ask? If you are struggling in a certain area in your life with sin, most likely it is because you have a generational curse that has been past down through the bloodline. Also, there are people that speak curses on other people with the words that come out of their mouth which is a form of witchcraft. How do you break generational curses you might be wondering? You first have to acknowledge that the curse (struggling sin) exists in your life. Let's say you have a problem forgiving people that hurt you in the past. You have to repent from unforgiveness to whoever that person/s is/are, ask God for forgivness of the unforgiveness to whoever that person/s is/are, then you have to renounce all unforgiveness operating your life (generational curses) and ask God to break them by the precious blood of Jesus.

Repentance is a daily walk with the Lord. You have to break off these curses (generational/spoken) in your life when you feel them working against yourself. We have to understand that we are spirit beings walking around in a body here on earth. There are two worlds operating at the same time and we have to understand how they both work.

seekingmuch said:

"God revealed to me that my Great Grandfather was a Grand Master mason who was in charge of several Lodges. In the higher levels they understand who it is they are worshipping. The reference to satan as 'Father' enabled the curse to fall on my father’s line. My dad's father died when he (my father) was thirteen. My mother and father divorced when I was ten and my father moved into a new house eventually remarrying and having three more children. The Lord showed me that divorce enables a spirit of tormenting fear to hit vulnerable children, so this hit me as well as the curse ‘Lack of love from the Father’. We still kept in touch, and I knew he still loved me dearly but of course my life was never the same from that moment. God showed me that my belief of 'God might let me down' came from my father leaving. The moment my father left the curse of anxiety and the fear of someone I trusted letting me down was able to alight upon me. I wept and wept as God put healing into the wound 'lack of love from the Father' within me. As He did this Father God kept repeating over and over to me that He would never leave me nor forsake me."

"The Father's role is to protect and provide security."

http://www.christianconnection.co/index.php/healing-a-deliverance/anxiety-fear-a-depression

Is there such a thing? I asked a Christian Counselor and she had no clue. I actually said to her, "why are you a Christian counselor then?" LOL

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The bible does not go into detail regarding curses, but what God has blessed can not be cursed. Ballam tried to curse Israel, but God would not allow it, rather He forced Ballam to bless Israel. In Christ we inherit the promises given to Abraham and his children (Israel). The NT says "Christ became a curse for us that we may inherit the blessing of Abraham".

What a curse is essentially is giving our selves to Satan, giving him lordship over an area in our lives. Be it through direct witchcraft, or just sin in general. Christ has died so we can be free from the curse of the law. So as long as we are not in direct rebellion to God Satan has no legal right to us. The only time Satan has power over us is if we walk outside the covering of Christ and partake in sin. Sin brings a curse.

Because the bible says the sins of the fathers visits to the third and fourth generation, if I sin, the demon I allowed into my life, will visit my children, but they have a choice whether they submit to it or turn to Christ for power over it. We should cleanse our lives of sin so those who follow us are not impacted by it.

FutureAndAHope said:

The bible does not go into detail regarding curses, but what God has blessed can not be cursed. Ballam tried to curse Israel, but God would not allow it, rather He forced Ballam to bless Israel. In Christ we inherit the promises given to Abraham and his children (Israel). The NT says "Christ became a curse for us that we may inherit the blessing of Abraham".

What a curse is essentially is giving our selves to Satan, giving him lordship over an area in our lives. Be it through direct witchcraft, or just sin in general. Christ has died so we can be free from the curse of the law. So as long as we are not in direct rebellion to God Satan has no legal right to us. The only time Satan has power over us is if we walk outside the covering of Christ and partake in sin. Sin brings a curse.

Because the bible says the sins of the fathers visits to the third and fourth generation, if I sin, the demon I allowed into my life, will visit my children, but they have a choice whether they submit to it or turn to Christ for power over it. We should cleanse our lives of sin so those who follow us are not impacted by it.

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I agree in what all you are saying and is correct in theory but the problem is that this generation cannot discern if they are living in blessing or cursing. In the last days the Bible talks about people will think wrong is right and right is wrong. That is happening today and is in direct correlation of curses that are operating in peoples lives. Read 2 Timothy 3. Repentance from the curse is not enough to break it completely off of you and close that door. You have to repent, renounce, and cleanse that area by the blood of Jesus. We then have to have faith and believe we have been delivered and live holy lives unto the Lord. The cure for a “generational curse” is repentance of the sin in question, faith in Christ, and a life consecrated to the Lord (Romans 12:1-2). Personally, years ago I went to a Christian retreat where they had us go through an assessment to find out what generational curses were operating in our lives. They walked us through how to determine if you have a curse working in your life and how to be set free from it which I talked about before. I was set free from some things from my bloodline that I did not even realize that was there.

After we have been set free from whatever the bondage is, we have to continue to read the word of God, prayer, and live Holy lives sanctified and set apart unto the Lord. If not, we can fall right back into the same bondage and it is worse than before. Luke 11:25

Ungodly soul ties is whole other topic I will write about in a different post that most people do not understand how they affect people in a negative way.

seekingmuch said:

Yeah, I thought when you got Jesus that stuff was gone. The curse stuff probably was alive in the OT times, but ended with the NT.

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I agreed with you in your post No1, and then this post completely contradicts what you said there.

@seekingmuch, regarding "Are there such things as curses?" I agree with @Emli's posts.

I would like to add that for those that do not believe in curses (whatever that means), we are commanded not to curse (Romans 12:14), which reveals that if one curses, he sins. That means curses are real for the person doing the cursing.

Presumably what people are actually interested in is whether cursing has a supernatural effect. One approach to examining this question is to ask: Is there a supernatural effect to blessings? How would that be different than praying a blessing?

Anyone who claims there's no such thing as curses in the New Covenant needs to have a word with Paul, as he didn't get that memo.
Gal1v8But even if we or an angel out of heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed! 9As we have said before, even now I say again: If anyone is preaching a gospel to you contrary to what you received, let him be accursed!

And he was referring to believers.

seekingmuch said:

"God revealed to me that my Great Grandfather was a Grand Master mason who was in charge of several Lodges. In the higher levels they understand who it is they are worshipping. The reference to satan as 'Father' enabled the curse to fall on my father’s line. My dad's father died when he (my father) was thirteen. My mother and father divorced when I was ten and my father moved into a new house eventually remarrying and having three more children. The Lord showed me that divorce enables a spirit of tormenting fear to hit vulnerable children, so this hit me as well as the curse ‘Lack of love from the Father’. We still kept in touch, and I knew he still loved me dearly but of course my life was never the same from that moment. God showed me that my belief of 'God might let me down' came from my father leaving. The moment my father left the curse of anxiety and the fear of someone I trusted letting me down was able to alight upon me. I wept and wept as God put healing into the wound 'lack of love from the Father' within me. As He did this Father God kept repeating over and over to me that He would never leave me nor forsake me."

"The Father's role is to protect and provide security."

http://www.christianconnection.co/index.php/healing-a-deliverance/anxiety-fear-a-depression

Is there such a thing? I asked a Christian Counselor and she had no clue. I actually said to her, "why are you a Christian counselor then?" LOL

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I believe that generational curses don't apply to a born-again believer. This is because the believer is born of God and a new creation in Christ. This means that spiritually (and that is all that matters) the believer goes back only one generation - to Christ.

But there can be other curses - criticisms or angry comments directed at you which need to be renounced and the persons who made them totally forgiven by you. That way, those curses become ineffective as far as you are concerned.

Oscarr said:

I believe that generational curses don't apply to a born-again believer. This is because the believer is born of God and a new creation in Christ. This means that spiritually (and that is all that matters) the believer goes back only one generation - to Christ.

But there can be other curses - criticisms or angry comments directed at you which need to be renounced and the persons who made them totally forgiven by you. That way, those curses become ineffective as far as you are concerned.

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I can't give you a perfect Biblical reason for it yet, but generational curses very much applies to a born-again believer. I had to deal with so much to get delivered, and so has others that I have helped.

Because generational curses come from generational sin, to which we are guilty up to the fourth generation. We aren't automatically forgiven our sins from the past by believing in and confessing Christ, we also have to confess our sins to God as part of our repentance. And those sins are still there from our past until God removes them as we confess them, and so are the curses and the evil spirits that came from the sins. When we are born-again, we are born-again in the spirit, but the flesh, the sinful nature, is still there. That is why we still sin, and why Paul told us to crucify the flesh by the Spirit, putting it to death (by accepting by faith that it's already dead with Christ). The flesh isn't ever changed or renewed at all. We become free as we walk in the Spirit and stop living by our old ways. And it is the flesh that carries sins and curses.

How a curse applies to one's life is that a demon is given room in your life, and that demon has legal rights to you until you have repented of the sin and broken the curse. When it comes to a generational curse, that spirit has haunted the person's life since childhood, and has probably caused a lot of sins in his or hers own life, most often addictions, strongholds or childhood trauma, because those curses destroy families. The demon takes root in our lives, and we are personally responsible to confess those sins and repent from them, and we are also responsible for confessing and renouncing the sins of our fathers. That is how we become free from the generational curses. Christ became a curse to set us free from the Curse and from curses, but that doesn't happen automatically, it's a process of repentance and sanctification, crucifying the flesh by the Spirit, putting our old ways behind and learning to walk in our new natures according to the spirit.

It is very dangerous to say that generations curses doesn't apply to born-again believers. Just like saying we cannot have a demon, it causes false comfort, but ignores the problem. It makes us feel good, but it doesn't set us free. Generational curses will keep causing problems in someone's life until they are dealt with, so we should make it a practice of dealing with them, but dealing with them Biblically, because there is a lot of false doctrines about them and generally about curses too.

Emli said:

I can't give you a perfect Biblical reason for it yet, but generational curses very much applies to a born-again believer. I had to deal with so much to get delivered, and so has others that I have helped.

Because generational curses come from generational sin, to which we are guilty up to the fourth generation. We aren't automatically forgiven our sins from the past by believing in and confessing Christ, we also have to confess our sins to God as part of our repentance. And those sins are still there from our past until God removes them as we confess them, and so are the curses and the evil spirits that came from the sins. When we are born-again, we are born-again in the spirit, but the flesh, the sinful nature, is still there. That is why we still sin, and why Paul told us to crucify the flesh by the Spirit, putting it to death (by accepting by faith that it's already dead with Christ). The flesh isn't ever changed or renewed at all. We become free as we walk in the Spirit and stop living by our old ways. And it is the flesh that carries sins and curses.

How a curse applies to one's life is that a demon is given room in your life, and that demon has legal rights to you until you have repented of the sin and broken the curse. When it comes to a generational curse, that spirit has haunted the person's life since childhood, and has probably caused a lot of sins in his or hers own life, most often addictions, strongholds or childhood trauma, because those curses destroy families. The demon takes root in our lives, and we are personally responsible to confess those sins and repent from them, and we are also responsible for confessing and renouncing the sins of our fathers. That is how we become free from the generational curses. Christ became a curse to set us free from the Curse and from curses, but that doesn't happen automatically, it's a process of repentance and sanctification, crucifying the flesh by the Spirit, putting our old ways behind and learning to walk in our new natures according to the spirit.

It is very dangerous to say that generations curses doesn't apply to born-again believers. Just like saying we cannot have a demon, it causes false comfort, but ignores the problem. It makes us feel good, but it doesn't set us free. Generational curses will keep causing problems in someone's life until they are dealt with, so we should make it a practice of dealing with them, but dealing with them Biblically, because there is a lot of false doctrines about them and generally about curses too.

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It may be that there is a lying spirit that is telling you that you have a generational curse. But you can be in bondage to previous activities, such as occult, traumatic experiences, or sin in your life that you may need to renounce and put under the blood of Christ.

Oscarr said:

It may be that there is a lying spirit that is telling you that you have a generational curse. But you can be in bondage to previous activities, such as occult, traumatic experiences, or sin in your life that you may need to renounce and put under the blood of Christ.

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No, a lying spirit wouldn't put our focus on repentance and deliverance, they would deny that there is a problem and they would point us away from Christ and our freedom in Him.

In every case it has been the Holy Spirit revealing it to me and to my friends and to those I have worked with that there are generational causes. It is something that God has brought to my focus, and it sets people free. When we can't find the sin in our own lives, that's when the Holy Spirit puts our attention to our parents and grandparents. It doesn't always seem logical or fair, but it is the way God works.

Emli said:

No, a lying spirit wouldn't put our focus on repentance and deliverance, they would deny that there is a problem and they would point us away from Christ and our freedom in Him.

In every case it has been the Holy Spirit revealing it to me and to my friends and to those I have worked with that there are generational causes. It is something that God has brought to my focus, and it sets people free. When we can't find the sin in our own lives, that's when the Holy Spirit puts our attention to our parents and grandparents. It doesn't always seem logical or fair, but it is the way God works.

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A lying spirit could tell a person they have a generational curse and hide the fact that being born again means a whole new creation. The act of being born again means that any effects from our natural ancestor cut off, because as far as their influence is concerned we have died to them and their influence. Generational curses cannot affect a dead person. We are dead to our past life and all its influences, including generational curses. Otherwise being born of God isn't real - isn't true. Either we are born of God with one generation back to Christ, or we are still alive in our sins. There's no halfway point.

But there are the effects of other curses and influences that have arisen in our minds and emotions (not our renewed spirit which is alive in Christ), and these, as I have said have resulted in occult activities, sinful habit patterns, cursing criticisms and comments from others, hurtful and traumatic experiences, etc. Neil Anderson, in his book "Discipleship Counselling" has an appendix which a person can work through all the areas in which these effects can exist, and how to get rid of them.

When I met the Lord in the middle of a park in 1966, one of the first things I did was to go through all the events in my life that could have had a negative effect on me. It took 2 hours, and after that I felt really free and had the sense that any hindrances to my faith were gone. Charles Finney, in his book on revival, along with Winkie Pratney's "Youth Aflame" goes through a comprehensive list of the things we need to confess and renounce. This is on the basis of 1 John 1:9.

Oscarr said:

A lying spirit could tell a person they have a generational curse and hide the fact that being born again means a whole new creation. The act of being born again means that any effects from our natural ancestor cut off, because as far as their influence is concerned we have died to them and their influence. Generational curses cannot affect a dead person. We are dead to our past life and all its influences, including generational curses. Otherwise being born of God isn't real - isn't true. Either we are born of God with one generation back to Christ, or we are still alive in our sins. There's no halfway point.

But there are the effects of other curses and influences that have arisen in our minds and emotions (not our renewed spirit which is alive in Christ), and these, as I have said have resulted in occult activities, sinful habit patterns, cursing criticisms and comments from others, hurtful and traumatic experiences, etc. Neil Anderson, in his book "Discipleship Counselling" has an appendix which a person can work through all the areas in which these effects can exist, and how to get rid of them.

When I met the Lord in the middle of a park in 1966, one of the first things I did was to go through all the events in my life that could have had a negative effect on me. It took 2 hours, and after that I felt really free and had the sense that any hindrances to my faith were gone. Charles Finney, in his book on revival, along with Winkie Pratney's "Youth Aflame" goes through a comprehensive list of the things we need to confess and renounce. This is on the basis of 1 John 1:9.

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Lying spirits also tell us that everything is fine when it isn't, saying that sin has no consequences, denying what God has taught us.

The Holy Spirit and experience has proven to me that it's not always as easy as to just have blind faith and live like everything is okay. It wasn't for me. I couldn't walk as the new creation, because my past was haunting me, constantly oppressing me. I had to confess generational sins, which then removed the influences from my life. I am talking about influences mostly from the outside, like constant temptation, voices etc. Addictions, intrusive thoughts, OCD, insomnia, madness etc all went away after I confessed the sins and broke curses and legal rights. My life got so much easier, and that was the Lord leading me to confessing those generational sins and breaking those curses, because they were what was giving legal rights to demons and curses. No amount of rebuking them or confessing my own sins helped. And that wasn't a lack of faith, I have cast out hundreds of spirits from my self and others, and I know what to do. But it didn't work, I would confess the same sins over and over in desperation, and I would claim God's promises or believe that I'm free, and I knew I had been forgiven personally, then I would rebuke the spirits and tell them they had no legal rights, but the demons wouldn't leave but kept tormenting me, I had madness and addictions, no freedom in huge areas of my life. Then I would confess my family's involvement in those sins, and the oppression left me.

I stayed blind to this for a long time, because lying spirits were keeping me in unbelief, constantly making me doubt and even mock those who believe in generational curses, but it's real and it does affect our lives, even if we are born-again. You may not have suffered from generational curses, but a lot of people do. We have to take it seriously.

What we need to do is to own up to our own sins and confess them, then break the curses in the name of Jesus and by the Blood of Christ, once the Holy Spirit has led us to a conviction, and do the same with the sins of our fathers. Then we're free. But the devil wants to keep those legal rights, and he will deny truth and the spirits will hide and place the blame everywhere else, so they are free to keep tormenting us. A born-again believer in Christ is set free, but it's not just by faith then poof we're magically free. It's by repentance, and being refined, sanctified and renewed in our minds, constantly breaking free from our pasts, from sin, from influences of our family and the world etc. We have been given a one-time gift of salvation, and a new nature, a new spirit, a new life in Christ, but salvation becomes a process after this, and it's not just about believing and having blind faith, but about surrendering our entire lives, our entire heart, souls, minds and bodies to Christ, step by step, being delivered from our old ways. That means that we sometimes have to surrender parts of our lives that are still holding on to the past, because our past is holding on to us due to sin. We inherited the sins from our parents when we were born, and there is no difference between those sins and the sins that we commit ourselves, they both have the same consequences and they both affect our lives. We are spiritually cut off from our families when we are born again, once we accept it, but God doesn't remove the sins until we repent of them personally. All sins have to be confessed and repented of before God removes them from us, and pretending that it isn't real isn't gonna help us.

Double post.

Steve Petersen said:

Remind me again: What century are we living in?

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Well, more and more people believe the Earth is flat, some believe the ice-wall at Antarctica keeps the oceans from spilling out, and still others think the sky is a giant dome under which we all are trapped... You tell me!

Emli said:

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Lying spirits also tell us that everything is fine when it isn't, saying that sin has no consequences, denying what God has taught us.

The Holy Spirit and experience has proven to me that it's not always as easy as to just have blind faith and live like everything is okay. It wasn't for me. I couldn't walk as the new creation, because my past was haunting me, constantly oppressing me. I had to confess generational sins, which then removed the influences from my life. I am talking about influences mostly from the outside, like constant temptation, voices etc. Addictions, intrusive thoughts, OCD, insomnia, madness etc all went away after I confessed the sins and broke curses and legal rights. My life got so much easier, and that was the Lord leading me to confessing those generational sins and breaking those curses, because they were what was giving legal rights to demons and curses. No amount of rebuking them or confessing my own sins helped. And that wasn't a lack of faith, I have cast out hundreds of spirits from my self and others, and I know what to do. But it didn't work, I would confess the same sins over and over in desperation, and I would claim God's promises or believe that I'm free, and I knew I had been forgiven personally, then I would rebuke the spirits and tell them they had no legal rights, but the demons wouldn't leave but kept tormenting me, I had madness and addictions, no freedom in huge areas of my life. Then I would confess my family's involvement in those sins, and the oppression left me.

I stayed blind to this for a long time, because lying spirits were keeping me in unbelief, constantly making me doubt and even mock those who believe in generational curses, but it's real and it does affect our lives, even if we are born-again. You may not have suffered from generational curses, but a lot of people do. We have to take it seriously.

What we need to do is to own up to our own sins and confess them, then break the curses in the name of Jesus and by the Blood of Christ, once the Holy Spirit has led us to a conviction, and do the same with the sins of our fathers. Then we're free. But the devil wants to keep those legal rights, and he will deny truth and the spirits will hide and place the blame everywhere else, so they are free to keep tormenting us. A born-again believer in Christ is set free, but it's not just by faith then poof we're magically free. It's by repentance, and being refined, sanctified and renewed in our minds, constantly breaking free from our pasts, from sin, from influences of our family and the world etc. We have been given a one-time gift of salvation, and a new nature, a new spirit, a new life in Christ, but salvation becomes a process after this, and it's not just about believing and having blind faith, but about surrendering our entire lives, our entire heart, souls, minds and bodies to Christ, step by step, being delivered from our old ways. That means that we sometimes have to surrender parts of our lives that are still holding on to the past, because our past is holding on to us due to sin. We inherited the sins from our parents when we were born, and there is no difference between those sins and the sins that we commit ourselves, they both have the same consequences and they both affect our lives. We are spiritually cut off from our families when we are born again, once we accept it, but God doesn't remove the sins until we repent of them personally. All sins have to be confessed and repented of before God removes them from us, and pretending that it isn't real isn't gonna help us.

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Excellent.
I agree, and have experienced all you've said, but I don't think people want to hear it.

Francis Drake said:

Excellent.
I agree, and have experienced all you've said, but I don't think people want to hear it.

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Yep, that's usually the case. People do not want to have to deal with things like this, because it is very uncomfortable. But it's necessary for our freedom. But I also want to make the point that curses aren't exactly what people think they are, because they are used to seeing them from an unbiblical perspective that comes from the occult, new age or from media. But it's obvious that it's real when we look at it from a Biblical perspective, as God wants us to look at it.

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But I also want to make the point that curses aren't exactly what people think they are, because they are used to seeing them from an unbiblical perspective that comes from the occult, new age or from media. But it's obvious that it's real when we look at it from a Biblical perspective, as God wants us to look at it.

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Over 20 years ago I was asked to pray for a man who was struggling in business.
Everything he turned his hand to seemed to go wrong and he went from one business idea to another, all eventually going down the pan.

He and his wife were in despair.

I sat down with them and started to seek a word and very quickly the Holy Spirit starts to show me stuff from the man's childhood.

In the spirit I could see a boy, maybe eleven years old at a school parents evening. Mum and Dad are sitting with the boy on one side of the desk and his class teacher on the other.

I could see the teacher is speaking very negatively of the boy and I told the couple the impression I was getting, including these words, "..............and David is a waste of space and nothing he ever does will amount to anything...….."

At that point the man David interrupted my flow with, "that's right, that's right."
I didn't respond but went on describing the scene until David told me to stop.
"You're not listening!", he said. "When I kept saying 'that's right', it was because the words you saw were the actual very words spoken over me. You were quoting the specific words that day.
I remember that parents evening vividly, including those very words my teacher spoke over me. I didn't realise the power they had, but they've been there for over 50 years at the back of my head."

I was shocked, I had thought what I described was a generalisation of the words, not speaking them verbatim.
I merely expected that my prompt would enable him to remember it vaguely.

Ihe position of that teacher had even higher power than most schools. Not only did he have academic power, but an unwitting spiritual power.

His words were like a knife cutting a deep wound in that child, and unleashing a demon of failure which took up residence within him, interfering with all that he did after that day.
The more David failed, the more he believed the whispers from that demon of failure.

Curses don't have to be deliberate, like some witch doctor carving an image and sticking pins into it.
Words have power, and can produce devastating effects.

Had his father understood, he would have been able to lovingly counteract the effects of the teacher's words.

To break the power of those words, I instructed David to speak out forgiveness to his teacher for those words and the damage they had done,. Once that was done, I commanded the demon of failure, plus various other associated demons to leave.

Francis Drake said:

Over 20 years ago I was asked to pray for a man who was struggling in business.
Everything he turned his hand to seemed to go wrong and he went from one business idea to another, all eventually going down the pan.

He and his wife were in despair.

I sat down with them and started to seek a word and very quickly the Holy Spirit starts to show me stuff from the man's childhood.

In the spirit I could see a boy, maybe eleven years old at a school parents evening. Mum and Dad are sitting with the boy on one side of the desk and his class teacher on the other.

I could see the teacher is speaking very negatively of the boy and I told the couple the impression I was getting, including these words, "..............and David is a waste of space and nothing he ever does will amount to anything...….."

At that point the man David interrupted my flow with, "that's right, that's right."
I didn't respond but went on describing the scene until David told me to stop.
"You're not listening!", he said. "When I kept saying 'that's right', it was because the words you saw were the actual very words spoken over me. You were quoting the specific words that day.
I remember that parents evening vividly, including those very words my teacher spoke over me. I didn't realise the power they had, but they've been there for over 50 years at the back of my head."

I was shocked, I had thought what I described was a generalisation of the words, not speaking them verbatim.
I merely expected that my prompt would enable him to remember it vaguely.

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he position of that teacher had even higher power than most schools. Not only did he have academic power, but an unwitting spiritual power.

His words were like a knife cutting a deep wound in that child, and unleashing a demon of failure which took up residence within him, interfering with all that he did after that day.
The more David failed, the more he believed the whispers from that demon of failure.

Curses don't have to be deliberate, like some witch doctor carving an image and sticking pins into it.
Words have power, and can produce devastating effects.

Had his father understood, he would have been able to lovingly counteract the effects of the teacher's words.

To break the power of those words, I instructed David to speak out forgiveness to his teacher

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for those words and the damage they had done,. Once that was done, I commanded the demon of failure, plus various other associated demons to leave.

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That is a wonderful testimony, though very, very sad. Praise God for finally setting him free! Thank you so much for sharing.

And it is exactly what the Holy Spirit has taught me about word curses as well. I have been hurt by many of them myself, and spoken to and helped others who have. They are very destructive, which is why we must be so careful with our words. It doesn't require a lot, but if we agree to the words, they can hurt us for the rest of our lives unless God intervenes.

I have a testimony about how witchcraft can put curses on us in real ways that aren't obvious.

I was cursed in the womb by my grandmother, my dad's mom. She was a practicing witch and she did the pendulum test to see if I would be a boy or a girl, and she said I would be a boy, but I came out a girl. My mom was an atheist and she thought it was a funny story to tell, so she later told me. But I struggled with my gender my whole life, wanting to be like a boy (though I never went as far as being a homosexual or transgender) until after I got saved and brought this to God. The Holy Spirit reminded me of this story and I broke the curse then cast out a spirit that had been in me since before I was born. It changed my entire life, and allowed me to be myself for the first time, free from an intense inner struggle. Praise God! My brother have the same issues, because my grandmother did the same thing to him claiming he would be a girl, and unfortunately he is still in bondage to that spirit. My grandmother didn't mean to put curses on us, she had good intentions, but she hurt both of us more than most could understand. As my mother realized later that we were both struggling, she thought that maybe our grandma was correct and she told us, only increasing the hold that the demons had over me, making me even more confused. I also ended up doing witchcraft in a very early age, despite never talking about it with my grandma or anyone, and it increased very much after she died when I was 10, I suddenly had psychic powers, and that only proves how spirits travel through the generations due to generational curses. And those curses were still affecting me after I got saved until I took authority and dealt with them led by the Holy Spirit.

There is so much spiritual garbage that we carry around inside, keeping us in bondage and preventing us from being free, confusing us. And God is so willing to overcome it for us, if we only seek Him. Praise Him!

I wonder if there is a curse and spirit of unbelief that is affecting the Church today that is preventing people from believing.

Emli said:

That is a wonderful testimony, though very, very sad. Praise God for finally setting him free! Thank you so much for sharing.

And it is exactly what the Holy Spirit has taught me about word curses as well. I have been hurt by many of them myself, and spoken to and helped others who have. They are very destructive, which is why we must be so careful with our words. It doesn't require a lot, but if we agree to the words, they can hurt us for the rest of our lives unless God intervenes.

I have a testimony about how witchcraft can put curses on us in real ways that aren't obvious.

I was cursed in the womb by my grandmother, my dad's mom. She was a practicing witch and she did the pendulum test to see if I would be a boy or a girl, and she said I would be a boy, but I came out a girl. My mom was an atheist and she thought it was a funny story to tell, so she later told me. But I struggled with my gender my whole life, wanting to be like a boy (though I never went as far as being a homosexual or transgender) until after I got saved and brought this to God. The Holy Spirit reminded me of this story and I broke the curse then cast out a spirit that had been in me since before I was born. It changed my entire life, and allowed me to be myself for the first time, free from an intense inner struggle. Praise God! My brother have the same issues, because my grandmother did the same thing to him claiming he would be a girl, and unfortunately he is still in bondage to that spirit. My grandmother didn't mean to put curses on us, she had good intentions, but she hurt both of us more than most could understand. As my mother realized later that we were both struggling, she thought that maybe our grandma was correct and she told us, only increasing the hold that the demons had over me, making me even more confused. I also ended up doing witchcraft in a very early age, despite never talking about it with my grandma or anyone, and it increased very much after she died when I was 10, I suddenly had psychic powers, and that only proves how spirits travel through the generations due to generational curses. And those curses were still affecting me after I got saved until I took authority and dealt with them led by the Holy Spirit.

There is so much spiritual garbage that we carry around inside, keeping us in bondage and preventing us from being free, confusing us. And God is so willing to overcome it for us, if we only seek Him. Praise Him!

I wonder if there is a curse and spirit of unbelief that is affecting the Church today that is preventing people from believing.

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There are many demonic ruling spirits enthroned over the institutional churches. I have seen them in the smallest fellowships and the largest cathedrals.

About 15 years ago, the Lord told three of us to go to Oxford, the UK's seat of learning, to do some spiritual warfare around the city in both academia and church.
We had already been led to various other cities by dream or revelation etc. so were reasonably wise to prophetic action.

On this day we arrived, obtained a city map, and after studying the map started to do a prayer walk around the city, stopping and praying/prophesying at various edifices. We then stopped off in a park to have lunch and seek the Lord for more clarity.

On checking the map, the others felt that we had covered most of what God had given us to do. However, I was uneasy, I felt there was something missing. Then, on the map I spotted a large church we had missed. The Spirit was giving me a real sense of urgency to walk back into the town and have a look at it.

The road was busy with traffic when we arrived across the road from the church, so we stood in a line waiting for a break on the flow. Together we walked quickly across to the other side, but about two thirds of the way across the road, it was as if we had suddenly walked straight through an invisible wall of some sort. Like entering another dimension.
We all looked at each other and collectively gasped out, " Did you feel that?"
Although it was spiritual, it was so strong that it felt it physical, almost making our hair stand on end.
We had clearly passed through a spiritual wall of some sort that surrounded the church. But the most horrifying thing was, we absolutely knew it was a wall of deep Satanic evil!

What on earth was going on here that such evil emanated from a so called Christian church.

Exploration was needed, and although it was still a functioning church, it turned out to be of great historic significance, with explanatory signs and directions outside and within.
The church was the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.

It was in that church that in 1555
three key Godly protestant leaders were tried for heresy and sentenced to death by burning at the stake.
The three martyrs were the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The evil ruling deity that tried to halt the spread of spiritual freedom in England by murdering its leaders 500 years ago was still in residence!