25/12/2022
STOP THE CURSES THAT VISIT YOUR FAMILY (Part 2)
The Blood of Jesus
Hebrews 9:22 tells us, “According to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”
Here are two basic principles you need to know:
1) A generational curse comes through the blood line.
2) A generational curse can only be cancelled by blood.
It Is all about the blood of Jesus Christ.
In Romans 3:23-25 (NIV), we read…
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood. He did this to demonstrate His justice, because in His forbearance He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.”
To define “justified” in simple terms, you could say, “I’ve been made just as if I’d never done it.” This is possible only because God presented Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement, or as Young’s Literal Translation puts it, God set Him forth as a “mercy seat.”
If you remember, the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant was where, once a year on the Day of Atonement, the priest would sprinkle the blood of animals. The blood was a barrier between the curse of the law and the people of the covenant.
The ninth chapter of Hebrews tells us that Jesus placed His blood on the mercy seat in heaven, not once a year, but one time for all of eternity to obtain eternal salvation for all who put their faith and trust in Him. Today, Jesus is to us a mercy seat.
It is extremely important to note that we must appropriate Jesus’ sacrifice through faith. Yes, His death on the cross paid the penalty and broke the power of sin for everyone from Adam to the last person standing at the end of the age. However, salvation is not effective in our lives until we personally accept Jesus’ sacrifice by faith and appropriate it for ourselves.
The same is true of deliverance from generational iniquities and curses. These are the “sins committed beforehand” mentioned in Romans 3:25, and just as salvation must be appropriated through faith, so must deliverance from generational iniquities and curses. Until you personally appropriate Jesus’ sacrifice through faith, it is not effective in your life, and the curse can remain.
Breaking the Curse
If you are living under a generational curse, it will be cancelled when you, through faith, appropriate the blood of Jesus for your deliverance.
You can pray and make this your confession:
Thank you, God, that generational curses are broken through faith in the blood of Jesus. I put my faith in the blood. I believe Jesus is my mercy seat and that His blood cancels the curse and breaks generational iniquities. I believe, by the blood of Jesus, that the generational curse from the law is cancelled and broken off my family now, in Jesus’ name. Thank you that sins, bondages and iniquities are cancelled and the curse is stopped by the blood of Jesus. Thank you, God, that the blood of Jesus on the mercy seat is a barrier and that a curse cannot pass the blood. Amen.
Choose Life and Blessing
We saw previously in Exodus 20:5-6 how God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth of generations, but did you notice the rest of that verse? It says that the blessing goes, not only three or four generations, but up to a thousand generations – and the blessing is much stronger than the curse!
How do we pass this blessing on to future generations? By loving God and keeping His commands – and it starts by choosing life
and blessing.
God, in Deuteronomy 30:15,19 says…
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil…I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”
(All scriptures are from the New King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.)
Kicking Out Unforgiveness
Matthew 18:21-22
Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
Forgiveness can be a difficult subject to apply to your life, but thankfully we have a great model to follow in Jesus. Jesus taught us to pray until we forgive. When we refuse to forgive, we let the enemy in and give him access to our lives.
There is often a misconception that forgiveness sets the other person free from their sin, but it really sets you free from bitterness and resentment. Holding unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Unforgiveness and joy cannot coexist in your heart. But forgiveness kicks the bitterness out of your heart to make room for God’s peace and joy to return. We can all understand that forgiveness is hard because what was done caused deep hurt and disappointment. Some offenses and betrayals are deeply wounding, and forgiveness does not make what they did okay, but it does release you from the weight of it.
Many people think that forgiveness is based on your feelings, but
forgiveness is a decision not a feeling.
James 2:26 says,
“for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
So as you exercise your faith and forgive someone, your actions
need to follow. Your anger may still pop up, but your actions need to follow your faith. The biggest action to take is praying for the person you have forgiven. When you pray for someone, God enlarges your heart for them and will show you how He sees them.
If you are working on showing forgiveness, ask God to help you do the work in your heart so that you can show the supernatural forgiveness you received to those around you.
