In the last couple years, God gave me the opportunity to receive something I had asked Him for many times in the past. It was the kind of answer that didn’t exactly come the way I imagined it might. My prayer was that I would be delivered from generational curses that were passed down to me from my ancestors which, if not eradicated, would result in many roadblocks to my future success. I’ve dealt with this somewhat in past episodes but this time I need to elaborate on something here that I believe most people miss about their family patterns. I want to give you another extremely valuable piece of my testimony so you can use it for yourself and likewise be given the opportunity to change your future in ways no one in your family tree may ever have done. If you take what I’m saying and deliberately act on it, you will experience a miracle in your family that will last many generations.

Four-Plus Generations

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Exodus 20:5 (KJV)

Most of us who are familiar with deliverance know the above verse that deals with the Biblical precedent where the sins of our ancestors are passed down through our bloodline to at least the third and fourth generations. From my study of deliverance in past years, I have seen evidence that points to a much longer timeline than just four generations regarding certain generational curses. In fact, a very good case can be made that some of the sins we commit can be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve. I’m not here to get into a long dissertation on the Biblical technicalities of all this because I am focusing today specifically on what I experienced regarding my own process of deliverance from generational curses which I have observed myself going back to at least my great-great grand parents.

Going back several decades, I remember thinking that if I were to just put a great geographical distance between myself and certain people in my family, I would be free of their patterns and I would not repeat what they did. My logic was, different environment, lack of daily contact and just my own desire to be different would be enough to accomplish what I wanted — to end the problems I saw with certain people. That line of thinking was long before I knew anything about Biblical truth and how generational curses are spiritual matters, passed down in your DNA, through your bloodline which cannot be voided by mere humanistic actions. NO.

Unless you have a very comprehensive understanding of spiritual matters, rooted in Biblical truth, there are some things you will NEVER be able to deal with. And… going back to what I used to think several decades ago, that was the part I was ignorant of. An ignorance, caused by lack of knowledge, which blinded me to all the patterns I was already repeating myself without knowing it!

Blindness Leads to Repeat Cycles

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Hosea 4:6 (KJV)

So, my first problem in my pursuit to be different than my ancestors came in the form of my own Biblical ignorance, which was passed down to me from my ancestors. A little background here… I was raised in a very “religious” family. When I say “religious”, I’m talking about people who practice the typical outward routines of church on Sunday, putting on an appearance of being “pious”, claiming to believe all sorts of doctrinal beliefs and all the rest. I’m talking about (with emphasis) the outward, superficial expressions of religiosity, that make a person look a certain way and yet they do absolutely nothing regarding the extremely important elements that exist only beneath the surface within the heart of a person.

What I’m trying to say here is that I was raised to be a “religious person” who had absolutely no knowledge of, or connection with, the God who created all things and gave life to each of us here. I had a “form of godliness” (2 Timothy 3:5) but in reality, I was almost completely spiritually lifeless. Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit were theological theories to me and they were trillions of miles away from me. I knew they existed but I had no meaningful connection with them and I could not identify any real interaction from them in my life.

So, when it came to knowing how to properly and effectively get the results I wanted in my life, there was no way I could get them. It was exactly like Hosea tell us in the passage above — we are destroyed by lack of knowledge. Knowledge that first begins in very personal ways with God and His word as I explain here in all my hundreds of blog posts. Unless we have spent thousands of hours getting very personally acquainted with the real God, and His word in the Bible, we are living our lives in the realm of destruction, void of the many things that are critical to our life.

And that includes the knowledge of true deliverance from generational curses that began in our family tree long before we were ever born. So… let’s get very practical here now and I’m going to tell you how God used circumstances I never expected to grant me my request for full deliverance.

How God Answered My Prayer For Deliverance

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:5 (KJV)

Within the last couple years, God unexpectedly put me in a very unpleasant situation of being forced to live again within close proximity to my biological family. Not only was I forced to live near them but (even worse), I was forced to depend on them for my basic daily needs. Not as a single person in their twenties — as a 50+ year old man who was recently married. Yep. I think you know my story, right? The part where I had a very good and respectable 20-year career with good pay and all the rest? And now I was forced (by God) to live like a helpless child in the face of the kinds of people I just described above. Yep. People who have the outward appearance of “religiosity” and yet have absolutely NO actual connection with God or the true knowledge of how spiritual things work.

Let’s fast forward a bit because I’m still trying to tell you how God began the process of deliverance I had asked Him for many years ago.

In the very unpleasant experience of having to be forced to deal with people who became extremely hostile towards my wife and I, I began to see how their glaringly horrible character flaws had been playing out in me in the last 5 decades of my life.

I saw how every one of their abominably horrible and sinful traits had in many ways been manifesting in me in different scenarios from a very early age, continuing right up to the present time.

I saw how their judgmental, haughty, high-minded, self-righteous, arrogant, hostile, nasty, racist attitudes had been planted in me decades ago. I began to realize how many times I acted exactly like them, but dismissed it as a serious problem because “I had good reasons” for the way I acted. Well… if you think about it, pride will make you excuse all the worse sins away and lead you to give yourself a pass (as if you were God on His throne making a true, correct, unbiased judgment).

Detailing The Sin of Pride

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit [elation, grandeur, arrogance: — height, high, loftiness, pride] before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) with Strong’s Concordance definition

Pride is like that. It gives us a pass from all our sins and yet makes sure we hold even the slightest error over someone else’s head. Pride makes us want to condemn everyone else but lets us walk free. Pride gives us the false belief that we can elevate ourself over everyone else.

Because I have studied pride using the only book I will ever recommend about it, I began seeing how every one of my family’s abominably hideous character flaws were rooted in pride. I began to see how I had been giving myself a pass for their same demonic behaviors for many years and that it was not working out well for me. I began to realize that God was answering me in my prayers for deliverance by forcing me to go through a horrible process of being on the receiving end of shockingly evil and hostile attitudes many times so that I could choose whether or not I really wanted to be delivered from all their generational curses.

If you also want to learn all the many manifestations of pride and how to be delivered from them, read this book:
Triumph in Humility: Victory over Pride, by David E. Taylor

This is something I have emphasized repeatedly in this series — that God does not often instantly change things in our lives. Almost everything I have written about here in these 100+ episodes illustrates the fact that God uses a lengthy (and often unpleasant) process to form things in us and deliver us from things that will destroy us. It is in that process that we must choose whether to work with God for our long-term good or rebel against Him. This is what deliverance is like. We must choose every step of the way whether to continue in sinful ways that leads to destruction or to do the extremely hard work to put our flesh to death and allow God to re-form us into something that looks much more like His son Jesus.

True Deliverance Began Manifesting

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Galatians 4:19 (KJV)

So that’s really how it’s been for me. I asked God many years ago that I would turn out differently than some of my ancestors. The simplified process…

• At first, how I tried at first to gain deliverance the wrong way, by humanistic means, only to realize years later that I was blindly repeating (and excusing away) every single sin that my ancestors lived every day of their lives.
• Then, after gaining a real actual personal connection with the real living God, I began learning how deliverance actually works.
• Next, I was then forced to endure many shockingly evil attitudes from my own relatives because of the very unpleasant circumstances God required me to live in.
• Being on the receiving end of horrible attitudes and being treated like trash, I then had the opportunity to honestly admit to God that I had lived my life just like my relatives had.
• My key to deliverance came as the result of my honesty with God about my own sinful traits and then repeatedly asking Him for deliverance (with fasting) every single time I saw myself doing the things I did not want to do.

As I continued this process of honest admission, repentance, fasting, and trusting in God that only He could fix what was wrong with me, only then did I begin to see the results of deliverance in my life.

If you really want to get serious and stop repeating the sins of your ancestors, this is the process you must go through. From experience, you can see the proof that unless you do it this way, you will never be freed from ancestral curses that began long before you were born. They are spiritual matters and they must be dealt with God’s way, not the humanistic way (as some of my relatives have tried and failed miserably at).

The Path To (Your) Generational Success

You can choose to be an outwardly “religious person”, blind to their own sins, in their pride, excusing away and falsely giving themselves a pass, and they are all on the highway to Hell. Or you can choose to be truthful and honest with God about what is wrong with you and allow Him to form the Christ-like traits in you over a process of time and your own deliberate effort.

Your future success, along with that of your children, depends on YOU doing the hard work NOW. To be honest, this is some of the hardest work I’ve ever done. But there is no other way. I will not be like my ancestors. I will not fail to do what God put me here for in this life. I will not allow generational curses to stop me from all that God planned for me in this life before the world was created.

So what about you? What will you choose?

Do yourself and your future generations a massive favor — give them the gift that no one else in your ancestry ever did.

To be continued…

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