BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES

Curses are legal grounds that demons have to operate in people.

 Demons know their legal rights: they know when they can stay and they know when they have to leave.

Lamentations 3:64-66 (KJV) – “Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands. Give them SORROW of heart, thy curse unto them; PERSECUTE and DESTROY them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.”

 Anytime a person is operating under a curse, their life tends to be full of sorrow; something negative is always happening in their life.

 A person living under a curse always feels as if something is persecuting and harassing them.

 A person living under a curse always feels as if something is in their life that seeks to destroy them.

Galatians 3:13-14 – “13Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. 14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

 It is illegal for a believer to be under a curse; legally, Jesus has redeemed us from the curse. What we must learn to do is to take the word of God and enforce it against the powers of hell.

To Detect a Curse On A Person’s Life:

1. Chronic financial problems

2. Chronic sickness and disease

3. Chronic marital problems

4. Being accident prone

5. Miscarriages and female problems

6. Mental problems

7.   Premature death

8.  A wondering or vagabond lifestyle

9.  Being abused by other people

 A curse is like a doorway or an entry point for demons to come into a family; they tend to go from generation to generation.

 Sometimes generation curses may skip a generation within a family bloodline.

The Basics of Deliverance Series “HOW TO BREAK CURSES” Session IV – Pastor John Eckhardt  A familiar spirit is one that is familiar with the history and details of a particular family or bloodline.

 One person getting saved within a family is a major key to the deliverance of the entire family, for that one person gives God access into that family.

 Often times, demons leave at the point of salvation or when a person is water baptized, but not every time.

 Deliverance can come through praise and worship or through a person entering into a service where the presence of God is strongly manifest.

 A person who is saved, has been baptized, regularly worships the Lord, or has been under the Word and has some knowledge of the deliverance process is easier to minister deliverance to.

The Demon Hit List

Ephesians 6:12 – “We wrestle not flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world.”

 Demons are called “rulers of darkness”; that means they are able to rule where there is darkness or ignorance.

 When light, revelation and knowledge comes to a person, the demons no longer have authority.  Forces do not like to be exposed.

 One of the most powerful ways to begin casting our demons is to expose them and identify them.

Mark 5:9 – “My name is Legion: for we are many.”

 Once you identify a demon spirit, it can no longer hide.

 Many times, when you are praying for people you do not have to know the name of the type of demon being cast out.

 There are other times when you will need to know the different types of spirits or the different groupings of demons in order to be effective.

Matthew 12:28 – “But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God…”

 The most effective deliverance worker is someone who knows how to flow with the Spirit of God.

·         The Holy Spirit also works through us according to the amount of knowledge that we possess.

 For every sin listed in the Bible, there is a demonic spirit operating behind it.

 Demons have proper names (Leviathan, Abaddon, Appolyon, Belial, etc.)

have functional names (Lust, Fear, Pride, Rejection, Sickness, etc.)

·         God may often tell you what spirit you are dealing with in deliverance by giving you a Word of Knowledge

 Demons may be identified by certain creatures or animals

 Demons may be located in and operate in different areas of a person’s body

·         Because demonic forces are spirits (the Greek word for spirit is “pneuma,” which also means “breath”), they can often be expelled through the mouth or the breath

 Demons can be cast out by knowledge of their point of entry, either though a particular event (a rape, a traumatic event, etc.) or a particular time period (the time of birth, a particular age, etc.)

 Demonic forces know your level of knowledge and your level of ignorance

Isaiah 52:1-2 – “Awake, awake; put on they strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of they neck, O captive daughter of Zion.”

 We loose ourselves from our bondages by:

Repentance of our personal sins and generational sins

·         Renunciation of the cursed acts, events and cursed things in our lives

·         Breaking curses and strongholds

Isaiah 52:3-6 – “For thus says the Lord, You have sold yourselves for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money. For thus says the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. Now therefore, what have I here, says the Lord, that my people is taken away for nothing? They that rule over them make them to howl, says the Lord, and My name continually every day is blasphemed. Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore they shall know in that day that I am He that does speak; behold it is I.”

 One of the greatest benefits of deliverance is that the name of Jesus is glorified.

 Your reaction to the ministry of deliverance will find out what is in your heart more than any other ministry.

 If you really want to go all the way with Jesus, you must follow Him in his deliverance ministry, because Jesus came to set the captives FREE!