How do curses target your life? This spiritual process of evil isn’t as simple nor as direct as you may think. It has taken me decades of ministry in spiritual warfare to understand what I’m going to share in a few words. But before I begin, we must dispel the theological myth that curses can’t affect Christians. I methodically demolish this faulty supposition in my book entitled “Curse Breaking” and in the courses of Bob Larson University. The premise for what I’m about to say is this: Generational curses may affect Christians to varying degrees, especially lukewarm Christians who don’t take proactive measures to break curses.
Curses operate in these three basics ways:
1) A direct attack from bloodline evil caused by recent ancestors.
2) Spiritual land mines, traps set for the unsuspecting generations to step on.
3) Curses that skip a generation so they aren’t obvious to directly link them to the origin.
Let’s break down these three ways curses operate one by one.
1) BLOODLINE EVIL: Curses passed down by ancestors can originate in the distant past or more recently. The more obvious curses are those in the family bloodline remembered by living descendants. These are the easiest curses to break because they can be historically verified. Become aware of the serious sins of parents, grandparents, and great grandparents by speaking with all living ancestors, including extended family members. Find out if there is extreme evil within family memory. A list should be made of who did what in the event that their actions possibly opened the door to demonic
incursion. Renounce such evil deeds immediately.
2) SPIRITUAL LAND MINES: A spiritual land mine is a ticking time bomb of evil consequences. It lies in wait for some unsuspecting individual in the bloodline to step on it and activate its evil. It’s not something anyone in your family may be aware of. It could be a family secret that no one wants to talk about, or no one knows about. Ask the Lord to bring into the open extreme evil that family members have done, a curse that could be waiting to strike an unsuspecting person in the bloodline. These are curses you can’t break specifically because you don’t know for certain what they are. Leave them in the
Lord’s hands to be dealt with and to be removed from your path. Remind the devil that he won’t be allowed to attack you because there is something in your spiritual DNA you know nothing about.
3) SKIPPING CURSES: I sometimes have people say to me, “I don’t have any bloodline curses in my life because all the ancestors I know have been godly.” That is wonderful. But what about the evil of ancestors hidden from your knowledge? I’ve discovered from experience in spiritual warfare that curses sometimes skip one or more generations. They can’t land on the intervening generations because these ancestors walked with the Lord. Suppose that your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents have all been devout Christians. But what about other ancestors going back further? In our book “Curse Breaking” we teach the importance of renouncing all the evil of every ancestor going back to Adam and Eve, and everyone in between. Why take the chance that you may not be aware of a curse because it hasn’t fallen on someone in living memory? For example, if I speak to someone in India, I remind them that going back far enough they have Hindu ancestors. If I speak to someone in Africa or of African descent, I remind
them that it’s almost certain that they have distant ancestors who practiced witchcraft. The same concerns should be regarded by people with Irish ancestry, Nordic ancestry, and European ancestry, etcetera. Each ethnicity has it’s own unique evil.
There is no perfect and complete way to break every curse in your family bloodline. So, when you pray to break curses make your declarations contingent on what you do know and ask the grace of God to cover with the blood of Christ what you don’t know.
The ESV version of Genesis 4:7 says this: “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.” The Living Bible puts it this way, “It can be bright with joy if you will do what you should! But if you refuse to obey, watch out. Sin is waiting to attack you, longing to destroy you. But you can conquer it!” Think about these words when you pray over the evil curses of your bloodline.
