BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES ~ PART 1 of
2
Evangelist Todd Bentley
http://www.freshfire.ca
In this new teaching article on different curses and blessings in the bible. You
will learn about specific curses of sickness, infirmities, poverty, witchcraft,
death and many more. We will also talk some specifically about how they are
passed down through the generational lines. We will also share revelation on the
curse of the law, what it is and how to be free from it, the blessing of
Abraham, and more. This teaching is a must for everybody who needs deliverance
in their life, finances or family from the curse of sin, sickness, disease,
death and poverty. If you are not experience the full blessings and promise of
God this teaching will share with you what to do and how to be free to
experience the full manifestation of blessing in your life.
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THE CURSE OF THE LAW
(Galatians 3:13-14)
Christ has 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”), that the
blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Where did the curse of the law
come from and how did it start? In Gen chapter 3 after mans fall. Before man
fell in the garden there was no sickness or disease in the earth.
(Romans 5:12)
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin,
and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned — When Adam and Eve
sinned in the garden death came. Death opened the way for the curse which opened
the door to sickness, disease, death, decay and poverty. The curse affected
three major areas of life. First the spirit man, relationship with God was
broken. The second was the soul realm, mind, will and emotions. The third would
be in health the physical body. The Curse of the law is also found in Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law
of sin and death.
What is the law of sin and death? There are two kinds of death caused by sin,
one is spiritual death that requires the forgiveness of sin and the other
natural death through sickness or disease, which requires the healing of
disease. ( Ps 103 ) That is why we have the connection as well in James to
forgiveness and healing ( James 5:16) Confess your trespasses to one another,
and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer
of a righteous man avails much. The curse of the law works in five major
categories. These are sin, sickness, disease, death and poverty and affects us
in the body, soul and spirit.
God's promise is (3 John 2)
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as
your soul prospers.
Have you ever felt like you were not experience the full manifestation of what
God promised even though you claimed it positionaly? There may be a curse
hinders the full release of God's power.
WHAT IS THE DEFINTION OF A CURSE?
A Curse is evident in a person’s life by continued defeats, unseen resistance
that seems to hinder your every decision and there is no obvious reason why.
Patterns of struggle evident in your family whether it is inherit sickness or
financial lack.
A Definition of a curse - by Derek Prince
A curse or a blessing is a word spoken with some particular form of spiritual
power and authority either for good or evil that sets in motion something that
will probably go on from generation to generation.
It has three attributes:
1. Pronounced audibly (can be written or wished as well)
2. Continues on in time - generation to generation
3. Usually are not just individual, but family-oriented
GENERATIONAL CURSES
People ask me Todd is there a need to receive deliverance from curses after we
receive salvation? Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us. We are no longer affected by the curses in Deut 28. I do
believe that the curse is to have no power in our lives and we have the right to
be free. Salvation is a process of working out our salvation with fear and
trembling. Also I believe in divine healing and by his stripes we were healed.
Do we struggle with sickness? Is there a need to contend for the full promise of
God in our lives? The bible is our road map to every spiritual blessing but
experience truth, application and positional truth are two different things. The
devil is wanting to resist Gods blessing in your lives. In Romans Chapter 6 Paul
the apostle speaking to born again Christians deals with the reality of the
power of the curse of the law (sin) functioning in our lives when we choose to
sin after being saved.
(Romans 6:12)
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in
its lusts.
(Romans 6:16)
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that
one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience
leading to righteousness? Then we have Paul the apostle warn us in Eph 4:27
"Nor give place to the devil". The word here for place
is translated 'inroads, avenue or opportunity'.
Another example of a curse is Abraham the father of faith, when God said to him:
(Gen 12:3)
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in
you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
This is a promise today, old or New Testament. Abraham was before the law. In
Abraham all families are blessed and in the same all can be cursed who curse
Israel. We can still see this throughout history how this has started wars and
brought tremendous sadness and sorrow in many nations. God has also ordained
blessings today.
(Psalm 122:6)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.
(Numbers 24:9)
He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him?
"Blessed is he who blesses you, And cursed is he who curses you.”
(Deut 28:45-46)
“Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you,
until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your
God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. And they
shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants
forever."
(Ex 20:5)
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third
and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
These verses deal with a generational curse. Some don't believe in the power of
the curse of the past but they believe in word curses in Proverbs.
(Prov 18:21)
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat
its fruit.
(Prov 12:18)
There is one who speaks like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise
promotes health.
CURSES IN OUR LIVES
Here are some different scenarios of how curses can work in our lives. Around
the world we have dealt with each one in ministry scenarios and more. We hear
people today say this happened to my grandfather, I feel like I am paying for my
father’s mistakes or this is just the way it has always been in the family.
I know to many that have developed learning disabilities from the word curses
spoken over their lives, You are stupid, You will be dumb like your father, You
can never do anything right and they become that word curse and never succeed.
Their are those wounded in their emotions today and words have forever shaped
their personalities. I know a woman who told me she was pretty ugly and year’s
later feels that way. When she looks at herself she is in her eyes ugly when in
fact she is very beautiful and could even be model material having been asked to
model in pictures.
I have a friend that has always been plagued with poverty regardless of
bettering himself in school, computer training, and hard work ethics. He has
done everything within his own strength, fasting, tithing, devotion to God,
faithfulness you name it. He has never prospered though he had the most giving
heart of many I have met. I believe it is a curse of poverty which has been
passed down and is now resisting, restricting & choking out the blessing
that should be in his life.
I know of many people who struggle with this but of one man specifically who
feels like something is out to get him. He has wondered who it is that is
opposing my success. I am not in any sin I know of and I have done all the right
things to prosper. He is clumsy, sloppy and klutzy in almost everything he does.
I have been a witness seeing him tripping over his feet, breaking what he
touches and I have thought there is a curse around him of some sort.
The curse of under achievements and lack has long been a part of my own family.
Some of the hardest workers in the family struggle to do anything else than
laborer work. Part time employment, I was raised on welfare. Few that I know in
my family finished regular high school education. Even as a new Christian I
sensed a spiritual cap to attaining excellence. I had developed a poverty
mindset and had resolved my self to why would it be any different for me.
I know many ministries, gifted and anointed, gifts of preaching and teaching.
They are called of God to great things. Their ministry never had enough; the
church would never grow passed a certain number less than a hundred. Some had to
work part time and there seemed to always be a lack not just in money but in
numbers. The poverty curse said "Todd, why should you expect any different
report than theirs". I had to break the poverty curse that seemed to linger
and whisper in my ear "you don't deserve more, be satisfied with what you
have if God wanted you to have more then you would have it. Resolve yourself to
your present circumstances it is who you and your family history has always
been". I sensed a hidden power resisting anything good and believed that
when any abundance would happen to me I would quickly lose it. Companies I
worked for went broke, others never had enough work. When I looked for
employment I sensed a resistance to favor. God spoke to me about all of this and
my poverty mindset of small. I stopped repenting for asking big, dreaming big
and never being satisfied with what I had, though thankful, I believed for more.
The curse is broken and now its favor, favor, favor like a river. Opportunities
are always knocking.
I minister to individuals like this man the other day with a crippling brain
disorder. 8 out of 10 people in his family already died of the rare brain
disease. This is a generational curse. I have found in my own life I am just
like my father. My mother used to say you are just like your father and many
times the father like his father and so on. We see sons inheriting the ungodly
traits of alcoholism, pornography or different addictions. The same with mothers
and daughters or vice versa sons and mothers. I minister around the world in
healing meetings and countless times I will minister to one with the same
infirmity as their grandmother and mother. The sister has it to. I just prayed
for healing the other day for two young boys with osteoporosis in the spine and
spinal conditions of scoliosis before they were teenagers.
Numerous times I have called out words of knowledge for individuals who have
been afflicted with sickness since returning from the mission’s field. Do you
remember an encounter with witchcraft or a curse spoken over their life? I have
called out words of knowledge like accidents several in your life and a history
of accidents and trauma in your family. Some people find themselves in the same
abusive relationship or trauma just finds them repeatedly. There may be a
history of certain kinds of trauma or abuse in the family.
There are to many testimonies of reoccurring sickness in the family or you get
sick and sick and sick again. An endless cycle of sickness in your body and even
family. How many times the medical and scientific tests fail to confirm your
illness and the doctor says this is inherited. How many people in your family
have heart disease or diabetes. God created us as a 3 part being and if one part
doesn't function right its like a car with only three wheels. God's design has
always been that we be a whole man. Right in relationship with him (spirit)
healed in our emotions (souls) and healed of every sickness and disease (body).
Curses are designed to keep us from the fullest experience of Gods blessing.
DIFFRENT CURSES AND HOW THEY OPERATE
Curses do not have effect without a cause.
(Prov 26:2)
Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause shall
not alight.
Here is a brief list of how curses can work in our lives :
1. Curses are released by words we speak.
(Prov 18:21)
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will
eat its fruit".
On numerous occasions, especially while praying for pastor’s wives who take
most of the judgment, complaints and gossip in the church, I have found that
they are the objects of slander, criticism and back biting. This can give power
to the enemy to afflict them with infirmity. This promise in Isaiah is a great
way to be free from how you have been affected by the words others have spoke.
(Isaiah 54:17)
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against
you in judgment you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. Be sure to first repent of any
times you have slandered, gossiped, judged, criticized or spoke evil of any
other. Then release them in Jesus name. God I release any man or woman affected
by my speech and break in Jesus name how my words have affected them. Release
them now I pray. Then you can ask the same of the Lord for you.
2. Objects
I believe that even different objects we have in our homes can be a open door
for curses. I remember the story of a young girl aged five or so with a cabbage
patch doll in the home. She said that it would turn into a old woman and torment
her at night. They threw it away and it stopped. I use to have different kinds
of music in my home even after I was first saved. I remember how evil spirits
were tormenting my mother at night and I was sensing the presence of demons.
When I got rid of it, even though I was not listening to it, it stopped.
Maybe you have something in your home even put away that needs to be cleaned
out. Could be a picture you’re holding onto, a good luck charm or a symbol of
demonic power. I have traveled around the world and at times I pick up different
crafts and what not, toys and gifts for the kids. Many times the very night I
bring it home and every night after until we got rid of it my one daughter had
nightmares. I brought an African drum home and every night my son was tormented
with nightmares. God showed my wife the drum may have been used in rituals in
Africa so we got rid of it and the dreams stopped. In the same way God worked
miracles by Paul’s hands so that aprons and handkerchiefs were brought to the
sick and demonized and they were healed. (Acts 19:11) God uses the symbol of oil
to empower and sanctify and HE even uses the emblems of communion to impart the
blessing of the blood and body of the Lord. Witchdoctors and witches do the same
with different symbols that represent healing or sorcery. They deliver curses by
placing them on different articles of clothing, objects or even animals.
Remember the curse of defeat in Israel because of Achans sin.
(Joshua 7:10-11)
So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? Israel
has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them.
For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and
deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff".
3. Disobedience to God in a area of our life.
(Deut 28:15)
“But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God,
to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you
today that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you...".
Any area of disobedience to any of Gods words and principals can be the open
door.
4. Witchcraft curses.
I have prayed for people many times who have felt a tight band against their
head or a pressure resisting them and it is witchcraft. The power of witchcraft
is an external attack unless you have opened the door through continued sin and
rebellion. I have had to break witchcraft off numerous people who have been
controlled, manipulated and dominated in a relationship with a wife or husband,
family or even ministry. The power of witchcraft works like prayer in many ways
but their intent is harm. They petition, request and loose evil spirits or the
devil himself to cause harm or tempt, destroy, work through others, or to add
circumstances to afflict your life. They may not be able to directly hurt me but
others and situations around me that create external struggle and even more when
I am defeated by them. Witchcraft or sorcery can work through some of the
following:
1. Any objects used in idolatrous worship. These can even be so called Christian
religious items.
2. Any objects that represent or illustrate false religions or occultist
practice.
3. Any items that have been used as a vehicle of the occult to bring harm or
even good like healing or blessing. If the person invoking the supernatural
power is of the occult it carries a curse.
4. Superstitious objects like a rabbit’s foot, lucky coin, a religious figure
or horoscope, crystal or a charm.
5.Generational Curses
(Ex 20:5)
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third
and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
(Deut 28:45-46)
Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until
you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to
keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. And they shall be
upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
These are the sins of the fathers or Spirits of infirmity passed down through
the family lines. The same devils that had an opportunity to work through those
in your family through witchcraft, alcohol, drugs, sex, and the spirit of false
religion, still believe it has a right to you. Remember, all the curses in the
verses Deut 15-45 God has ordained to come upon your descendants forever or
until there is repentance.
6. False Religion and images.
God has also ordained curses on false religion and idol images.
(Deut 27:15)
Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to the
Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.
We see this around the world in nations given over to believing in many God's,
idols, and religions. There destruction, confusion, poverty and all kinds of
disease.
7. Rebellion and our parents.
(Eph 6:1-3)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father
and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well
with you and you may live long on the earth.
8. When we make another man stumble.
9. Sexual sins.
(Deut 27: 20-23)
Cursed is the one who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered
his father’s bed. Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal. Cursed
is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter
of his mother. Cursed is the one who lies with his mother-in-law.
10.Forget the poor.
(Prov 28:27)
He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many
curses.
11. Dishonest in our business dealings or life’s affairs.
We don't cut corners, that is a way of repaying evil for good. One man said to
me recently Todd to make it in this economy we need to be shady in our deals.
Another man I know and I can even testify that years ago not being honest with
welfare or unemployment earnings when I collected monies was a hindrance to Gods
blessing.
12. Religion and dead works.
(Jer 17:5)
Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his
strength, whose heart departs from the Lord.
When we put our trust in traditions, rituals, and our own dead works we are not
depending on the supernatural grace of God. Man always wants to help God do what
he said he would do and we end up with an Ishmael instead.
