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Hello this is Dr. Don Ibbitson and I like to welcome you to Above & Beyond Counseling
Ministries ongoing teaching series on entry points for demonic torment. Today were going
to talk about generational curses as an open door or entry point. We always like in these
videos to give a brief review about deliverance ministry, what it's about and what we're talking
about when we talk about open doors for demonic torment. Briefly, here's our body soul and
spirit model that we use. We are a triune being. A born-again believer gets saved, comes
to Christ becomes a new creation him and gets a new spirit in them the Holy Spirit comes
and dwells within them. Then we become a disciple or of Christ and walk with him and become
good fruit bearers for him
The reality is that people can be born again, be saved in the Holy Spirit and still be tormented
by strongholds and bondage is areas of darkness these can be fear, depression, addictions,
anger perversions and more. What we teach people and help them to understand that behind
the strongholds can be demonic spirits. And yes, Christians, born again Spirit filled
believers can have demonic spirits residing in their sole and yes even in their body physically.
We see instances in Scripture where people were healed and delivered from demonic spirits
that were behind their infirmities. So this is the essence of Ed believers and non-believers
can have demonic spirits. A person can be trained to walk with the Lord and bearing
good fruit in their life but things that we do are done to us can open the doors for demonic
spirits to enter in. The video exaggerates for effect but that spirits can grow they
get fed me a more powerful and they want to get fed and so they can become stronger. And
they can choke off the fruit in a person's life. And this is what a person might look
like before deliverance there tormented and oppressed by demonic spirits.
We believe that operate in the reality that deliverance is for the church it's for today.
We call spirits out when a person is prepared and we send them to dry and uninhabited places
and window spirits are gone, the person can see again much more fruit in their lives.
So that is the essence of deliverance ministry. A typical Christian if you like, can have
some level of demonic oppression in their life and truly benefit from deliverance.
Let's move into today's teaching about generational curses. It is one of the open doors or entry
points into a person's life for demonic torment. The Bible talks about her Exodus 34:7 and
in Lamentations about the sins of the father and that God does not leave the guilty and
finished but punishes the children and their children for the sins of the father down to
the third and the fourth generations. Lamentations fives says that our father seen in more than
bear our punishment. Will leave for another time the theology behind how and why there
are curses still in our life and how to visit upon the third in the fourth generations but
the reality is that he does. In those curses can and the spirits operating still upon believers
even though the curse has been broken.
How will I know if there are curses operating in my life? By the evidence. We suggest people
look up the family tree. Are there things in the bloodline that you see a lot of a preponderance
of? Artist sickness cancers, depression, fear could be addictions could be perversions.
Once again there evidences of generational curses.
What is the nature of curses? Some of them are quite frankly ethnic in origin. We minister
to people from different ethnic backgrounds grounds. African-American backgrounds may
have roots curses working, Spanish people may have Santeria curses working in their
bloodline people from the English speaking islands in the Caribbean might have obeah
curses working. In Africa others spiritism and no ethnic group is immune from that. Certainly
there can be cultic in a cultic sin that's in the family that can be behind us as well.
They can be Freemasonry operating in the family and curses upon the family because of that.
Also people of Italian just sent can have potentially family involvement in the Mafia
and that can be an open door and we have seen that be a resulted in curses operating in
people's lives because of their family history. There can be any number of cultic activities
in the background there can be Indian curses voodoo curses Santeria curses.
Then there's a grouping spirits are familiar spirits that are in the family. We see this
just looking up the family tree a lot of things that are there generates the depression, anger
addictions and so on we would call lease familiar spirits. They are in there in the family.
Let's talk a little bit about these generational curses. We need to understand that there are
spirits behind these curses and the spirits can lay dormant in the person sometimes it
might take as specific event, or trauma traumatic event or fear maybe that can trigger this
spirits activity in a person's life. In other words they can lay dormant for a season. Then
they can manifest in a certain point. The fact of the matter is to that spirits do not
die even though people do die we talked to many people who have seen generational things
manifest in their life when someone in their family dies.
Phyllis Tarbox of our ministry has a blog post where she talks about how after her mother's
passing and even, even though she was miles away from her physically, that spirits tried
to come upon her after her passing even if she lived in Florida. That's an interesting
post and encourage you to check it out on our website. That's an aspect that spirits
will travel down to the bloodline. People point out quite rightly that generational
curses have been broken it says that Jesus has regained us from the curse of the law
by becoming a curse for us. And that is true. The reality is that when Christ died, and
rose again he broke the power of curses in our lives. The fact is there are Kurt spirits
behind these curses and many times these spirits still remain and we still need to be cast
out. That's an important thing. It's like salvation. Deliverance doesn't always just
happen there is provision for deliverance from the spirits but we still must appropriate
the victory of Christ and once again declare the curses broken and provision for those
spirits to be called out. And I would say that we view breaking of generational curses
as part of the complete deliverance process that we use. Once again, we appropriate that
victory and have the person confess the sins of the forefathers not repent and declaring
that the specific curses are broken and that's important. Finally, we expel the demons associated
with that. Many times, curses can be broken but the spirits still there and spirits many
times do not leave until they are called out. That is the essence of deliverance prayer
or deliverance ministry seen people set free from demonic spirits.
In a nutshell, that's an overview of generational curses. The spirits can be operating in the
bloodline and curses upon us and spirits upon us and that victory must be appropriated and
those spirits called out. We hope you found this teaching useful and will check out some
of our other teaching videos thank you