Breaking the Generational Curse

Breaking the Generational Curse

What is a generational curse? Well, what is a curse? First of all, we’re not talking about some voodoo, mysticism thing. Curses are real. They are bad habits and wrong thinking. No one curses you; you curse yourself. Or, in the case of generational curses, your family curses you. But curses are not unbreakable. They are net permanent or inescapable. There are ways to break a generational curse.
Let’s talk examples. What are some generational curses that are common? Alcoholism, child abuse, drug addition, spouse abuse, inappropriate sexual urges, laziness, selfishness, divorce. There are many, many more. If your family has no history of this, if you are the only one with these problems, then you are not under a generational curse. However, if your family has a history of these, you are under a generational curse. What do I mean by that?
A generational curse is part nature and part nurture. Your DNA comes from your parents. They affect your color, your race, your hair, your height, and your health. They also affect your personality and habits. How you are raised affects you just as much as whom you were born from. Not only are you born with certain proclivities, you are raised to embrace or discard them.
But you’re an adult now. How you were raised doesn’t affect who you are now, right? Wrong. If you don’t realize that who you are now is connected to who your family is, you will never be able to break free of the curse. A generational curse is powerful because it is omnipresent. If your parents did it, if your aunts and uncles and cousins did it, then it is no longer strange or shocking when you do it. It is just a natural part of life. That is how curses work. They trick you into believing they are natural, normal, or unavoidable. But they are not.
So, how can you break a generational curse? First confess your own participation. Claim your own rebellion, repent of your own participation. But you don’t want to do that. You want to claim that you’re just like your mother, so it’s not really your fault. Well, okay then, your kids are going to end up just like her too. You are an adult now. Claim your own participation in the curse so that you can overcome it. You can’t overcome what you won’t face.
Second, confess your family’s participation. You will get nowhere by covering up the past. You must dig up the who and why and how and bring it to light. Even if the participants are long dead and gone, the curse must be brought to the light so that it can be wiped away. It might be from your grandfather or great grandfather, but it must be shown and confessed. Only once the source is discovered will the curse be broken. The issue is not whether they are alive, but is their curse alive?
Generational curses can be huge. They can affect whole groups and races of people. It has effects in slavery and prejudice and family structure and it goes so, so deep. Whole countries can be based on generational curses and the problems that accompany them. So never think you are alone in this. This is not easy. You are breaking a chain. A chain that can have many, many links.
Biblically, there are many examples of breaking generational curses in just this way. Daniel 9:16 “Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.” Zach 1:3 “‘Return to me, declares the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will return to you’.”
God made a promise to help you once you’ve broken the curse. Leviticus 26:40-42 (NIV) says, “But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors… I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham”. God didn’t forget his covenant. He ignored it. He didn’t relate to them based on their covenant with Him. They made new gods (drugs, alcohol, sex), so He waited until they returned to Him so that He could remember. So what was His covenant? His promise to bless you.
So when you break the curse, you not only are freed, you are also blessed.
Author Bio
Nancy Parker was a professional nanny and she loves to write about wide range of subjects like health, Parenting, Child Care, Babysitting, nanny background check tips etc. You can reach her @ nancy.parker015 @ gmail.com http://www.enannysource.com/