Breaking Generational Curses: Understanding and Reversing Spiritual Forces
Curses are real, to deny their existence or reality is to become a cheap victim. What are curses? They are negative forces in the spirit realm that works the ruin (failure, destruction) in the life of man, no matter his effort.
Two Basic Things to Understand about Curses
First, they are often generational in nature. In essence, they don’t end with an individual, they can be inherited. The scriptures show us that curses will run for at least three (3) to four (4) generations, which is 300 to 400 years. Therefore, every cycle of evil in one’s life or lineage is an indication of a curse, like business and career frustration, marital spell, bareness, infertility, diseases and sicknesses, addiction, indebtedness etc.
Second, curses are reversible. In essence, they can be broken or terminated on a life, including inherited or generational curses. The way to reverse all curses is to come under God’s blessing. But we must understand that God’s blessings are free by availability, but there is the price-tag to access it.
| Example | Biblical Reference | Nature of the Curse |
|---|---|---|
| Cain | Gen. 4:11-12 | A curse was released on his life that made his effort never to deliver. |
| Jabez | 1 Chr. 4:9-10 | Everything in his life will always end in sorrow no matter what he does or the help he enjoys. |
Covenant Ways to Break Curses
These refer to the price to pay to access God’s blessing, and reverse every curse:
- Be saved and remain so. Salvation brings the believer into the Abrahamic blessing, which is the blessing of God thereby terminating all curses. Being born again therefore is an initiation into a new life full of God’s blessing, which erases all curses on the individual’s life.
- Engage the force of faith. Everything in the kingdom including God’s blessing can only be accessed through faith. We build our faith through feeding on God’s word.
- Serving God and the interest of His kingdom. This is a vital demand to sustain God’s blessing. Serving God and His kingdom essentially is about engaging in what brings growth to God’s kingdom.
- Engage the force of word practice. Every scripture that is applied releases God’s blessing on the believer. In essence, living by the dictates of the scriptures will terminate curse in a believer’s life.
- Engage the force of obedience to God’s instruction. The lifestyle of obedience to every instruction of God brings the believer into the blessings of God. Every believer that will be free from curses must sign-in to the lifestyle of obedience completely.
- Engage the force of faithfulness. Faithfulness is identified in scriptures as a covenant virtue that multiplies God’s blessing on the believer. Faithfulness can be defined as the quality of doing what is right both in the open and secret, when supervised and when not.
- Engage the lifestyle of righteousness. Righteousness invokes God’s blessing on the believer, thereby terminating all curses in his life. Righteousness is a personal choice that demands one’s commitment to become the experience of the believer.
Christ has delivered us from all curses in life by His death and resurrection. You can be free from all curses, never to be found under it again. But it is a personal choice, which no one can make happen for another or do on another’s behalf.