If you think of yourself as an evil and worthless piece of meat, you will live like it. You cannot live contrary to what you believe. The truth is, you have died to the old self, you are no longer associated with your past! If you have accepted Christ, you are a whole new person! The Bible refers to us believers are saints! We are not simply sinners who are forgiven, we are saints! It may be true that we ‘were’ sinners, and that we’ve been forgiven, but we are no longer sinners, we have been washed by the blood of Jesus, and we are whiter then snow! You are not just a servant of God, but you have been adopted into God’s royal family as a child of God!
Generational Iniquities
Curses also run along blood lines. In Exodus 20:5-6, God warns the children of Israel not to follow false gods, saying, “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
The word “iniquity” means to be bent toward a certain sin, and we see that the iniquity of the parents is carried on to the children to the third and fourth generations. So, a child will be bent like his or her parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
They will all have an inner inclination toward the same certain sinful habits. Lamentations 5:7 says, “Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities.” In other words, even though they may be dead and in the grave, their iniquity is sticking with you.
Stage One: Ignorance, strong holds and deception
The first stage of bondage is caused by ignorance, strong holds, and the enemy’s greatest weapon in this stage is deception. Understanding a correct picture of who God is, and who we are in Christ will dissolve a lot of cases involving stage one bondages.
The primary weapon of the devil to put a person into stage one bondage is deception. It is extremely common and there isn’t a person alive who hasn’t been deceived in one way or another. If you keep in God’s Word, which you use to pull down strong holds, Jesus said that you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Stage one bondages are caused by deception and lies from the devil, so the way to combat them is with the truth, which is found in God’s Word. God also says that, “My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge.” Ignorance is a nasty disease that we need to defeat!
Your picture of God
If you see God has a taskmaster, you will act like He’s one, and you will hurt the intimacy that God wants to have with you. You will put up a wall between yourself and God when you don’t see Him as a loving God. Is there one person in your life that you know loves you to pieces? Maybe it’s your spouse, parent, friend or even your pet. You can feel that person’s love, and have a very special relationship with that person (or pet). Now think if you saw that person as a cruel taskmaster with a cold personality? Even though it’s not true, it would kill your relationship, wouldn’t it? Think how God feels when you see Him as a cold and cruel taskmaster? It kills the relationship that He gave His son so that you could have with Him! Why did He give His son? So that we could be reconciled with Him, like it was before Adam sinned! Our relationship with God means so much to Him, that He gave His son so it could be restored!
Generational Blessings
Family is important to God, and it is clear that He does not think merely in terms of individuals but also in terms of generations. Matthew 1:17 tells us: “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.”
When God looks at you, He also sees your family. He sees where you came from. He looks at your ancestors, and He looks at your children and grandchildren.
When making a covenant with Abraham, God never once said, “I’m going to bless you.” He always said, “I am going to bless you and your descendants.” An example of this is in Genesis 22:17-18, where God said, “In blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Abraham obeyed God and was blessed, and his descendants were blessed, too, because blessings tend to run along blood lines.
Physical or Medical Symptoms Correlating With Histories of Trauma
- Bothersome or worrisome health issues that don’t show up as positives in lab tests (no medical validation)
- Neck, spine and back problems
- Muscle weakness, muscle pain
- Digestive problems, e.g. IBS
- Immune system problems
- Skin disorders
- Myofacsial pain syndrome
- Environmental sensitivities
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Neuralgia
Adult Life Patterns Indicating More Severe or Sustained Childhood Trauma:
- Attraction to or attracting dangerous situations or people
- Frequent illness or accidents
- Estrangement from family, sibling issues, bitterness, unforgiveness
- Anger towards opposite sex, anger towards self
- Denial of the past, denial of pain, inability to cry, dissociation from emotions
- Addictive behaviors, eating disorders, isolation, introversion, existential depression
- Avoidance behavior, avoiding foods, places, activities, memories, situations or people
- An exaggerated sense of responsibility for the underdog
- Giving more than receiving, personal gains always followed by losses, over-functioning, overworking, under-rewarded
- Unwanted supernatural or spirit presences, inexplicably sensitive, large antennas for sensing danger
- Excessive introspection, thinking, contemplating, worrying, working to figure things out, survival strategies
12 Signs of Unhealed Trauma that Adults and Children Can Feel Inwardly
These signs are pretty hidden. These are secret experiences a person goes through. An anxious or nervous person will not speak about it unless they have to.
- Racing heart, palpitations, breathing problems
- Anxiety, including chronic low level anxiety
- Being on ‘red alert’, or hyper-vigilant
- Panic attacks
- Nervousness, fidgeting, holding oneself or one’s own hands
- Can’t sit still
- Overwhelming fears or seemingly irrational fears such as something falling from above
- Flashbacks and intrusive memories or images
- Unexpected or explosive emotional responses but normally calm, kind persona
- Extreme sensitivity to light, sound, smell, suggestion, language, images or touch
- Insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, vivid dreams that seem real, dreaming while awake
- Physical, mental or emotional exhaustion (seems inescapable)
The next 4 signs are a little bit more visible and may indicate repeat or sustained trauma.
- Mental ‘blankness’ or spaced-out feelings, whole body tingling, constant self observation, derealization
- Unexplained bouts of grief, sadness or rage – hiding away or acting out
- Don’t want to be touched, pulls back at offers of affection, clings to parent’s leg (child), extremely shy
- Longer than normal thumb sucking – into later childhood and sometimes adulthood
In cases of early childhood trauma and traumatic stress, the self-regulation capacity of our autonomic nervous system and physiology is disturbed, preventing us from regaining a ‘relaxed normal’ state. Otherwise benign events or triggers may exhaust our nervous system whose distorted ‘normal’ settings are hypersensitive, unresponsive or erratic. Over time, after months or even several decades, this can result in unwanted life circumstances such as the following:
Trauma Healing Through Jesus Christ
Many Christians have telling symptoms of unhealed trauma and don’t even realize it. Let’s look at some common signs of unhealed trauma so we can identify what might be hiding under the radar in you, your spouse, your coworkers, or your children. Once you discover signs of hidden trauma, the next step is to begin trauma healing through Jesus Christ. Thankfully, God has already provided ALL trauma healing through Jesus Christ.
So let’s take the first step. Please take a look at the symptoms of trauma listed below. Do you have any of these symptoms?
BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES Duane Vander Klok
“She has her mother’s eyes.” “He looks just like his father.”
We have all seen how the physical characteristics of parents pass on to their children. You may have a big nose from your dad or your mother’s smile. You might be short or tall, light-skinned or dark based on the physical traits of your ancestors, but one thing is sure: much of who you are physically is influenced by heredity.
Heredity also has an influence on your talents, abilities, traits, and even how you think and behave. We have all heard the phrase, “Like father, like son.” But did you know that it is just as true in the spiritual realm as it is in the natural?
Generational influences have the ability to bring blessings – or curses – to your life. An understanding of this reality brings the power to change not only your life, but the lives of your family members as well.
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