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5 Types Of Generational Curses And There Biblical Remedies

In Life, there are two powerful forces that is at work in the life of individuals, they are Blessings and Curses, you are either walking under a blessing or you are walking under a curse. Today we shall be examining 5 types of generational curses and their biblical remedies. The purpose of this article is to open your eyes to see the primary source of the problems most people face in life. The greatest tragedy in life is to be under a curse and not know it. Before we go into today’s article properly, I will love us to see the definition of blessings and curses. When a thing is not properly defined, it cannot be understood, and it takes a proper understanding of a thing to master it. This article will not only open your eyes to see your problems, it will also show you the solutions to your breakthrough in the name of Jesus Christ.

What Is A Blessing And A Curse?

The word blessing or to be blessed and curses are two of the most misunderstood words in the body of Christ. A lot of people associate blessings to earthly riches and possessions. They believe that if you are rich and successful, you are blessed, while if you are poor and broke then you are cursed or at least not blessed. But a closer look at the scriptures, we see that, that is not the absolute truth.

Now what is the biblical definition of Blessing, or to be blessed? To be blessed means to be recognized and accepted by God. To expand this definition, let us look at the bible in Luke 10:17-20. We see the story of the disciples of Jesus Christ telling Jesus with excitement how that devils where subject to them while they were on outreach, Jesus responding to them told them how He watched satan fall from heaven like lightening, and He also went on to tell them about their authority over the devil and his demons. But more importantly is verse 20, which is the verse I want to draw your attention to, Jesus told them that having power over the devil is not worth rejoicing over, but having your names written in heaven is worth rejoicing over.

Child of God, to be blessed means to be known by God and accepted by Him. Blessings can attract riches, but blessings is not measured by riches. You can be blessed and be poor, like Lazarus, (John 16:20) and also be blessed and be rich like papa Abraham (Genesis 13:2).

Also you can be rich and be cursed like the rich man in the bible (Luke 16:20-24) and also be poor and be cursed like achan the thief in the book of Joshua 7:1. A lot of believers today have been led to think that because they are broke, they are not blessed, that is a lie from the pit of materialism. To be blessed is a spiritual word, and it cannot be measured with material and canal entities. To be rich or poor is a product of life choices, it has nothing to do with whether you are blessed or cursed. There are many evil men today that are billionaires and many poor men today also who are evil, the same goes with good people, some of them are rich, many of them are not.

Now let us go to curses. What is a curse? A curse is said to occur when someone becomes a victim of an evil pronouncement. A curse is also said to occur when someone deliberately involves him or herself into something that can trigger a curse that is an evil pronouncement. Curses are generational; this means if they are not reversed or broken, they can pass down from one generation to another. Shortly now we will be going into 5 different types of generational curses and how to break free from them through the help of God.

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Breaking the Curse

If you are living under a generational curse, it will be cancelled when you, through faith, appropriate the blood of Jesus for your deliverance.

You can pray and make this your confession:

Thank you, God, that generational curses are broken through faith in the blood of Jesus. I put my faith in the blood. I believe Jesus is my mercy seat and that His blood cancels the curse and breaks generational iniquities. I believe, by the blood of Jesus, that the generational curse from the law is cancelled and broken off my family now, in Jesus’ name. Thank you that sins, bondages and iniquities are cancelled and the curse is stopped by the blood of Jesus. Thank you, God, that the blood of Jesus on the mercy seat is a barrier and that a curse cannot pass the blood.  Amen.

Choose Life and Blessing
We saw previously in Exodus 20:5-6 how God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth of generations, but did you notice the rest of that verse? It says that the blessing goes, not only three or four generations, but up to a thousand generations – and the blessing is much stronger than the curse!

How do we pass this blessing on to future generations? By loving God and keeping His commands – and it starts by choosing life and blessing.

God, in Deuteronomy 30:15,19 says, “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil…I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”
(All scriptures are from the New King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.)

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The Blood of Jesus

Hebrews 9:22 tells us, “According to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.” Here are two basic principles you need to know:

1) A generational curse comes through the blood line.
2) A generational curse can only be cancelled by blood.

It is all about the blood of Jesus Christ. In Romans 3:23-25 (NIV), we read, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood. He did this to demonstrate His justice, because in His forbearance He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.”

To define “justified” in simple terms, you could say, “I’ve been made just as if I’d never done it.” This is possible only because God presented Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement, or as Young’s Literal Translation puts it, God set Him forth as a “mercy seat.”

If you remember, the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant was where, once a year on the Day of Atonement, the priest would sprinkle the blood of animals. The blood was a barrier between the curse of the law and the people of the covenant.

The ninth chapter of Hebrews tells us that Jesus placed His blood on the mercy seat in heaven, not once a year, but one time for all of eternity to obtain eternal salvation for all who put their faith and trust in Him. Today, Jesus is to us a mercy seat.

It is extremely important to note that we must appropriate Jesus’ sacrifice through faith. Yes, His death on the cross paid the penalty and broke the power of sin for everyone from Adam to the last person standing at the end of the age. However, salvation is not effective in our lives until we personally accept Jesus’ sacrifice by faith and appropriate it for ourselves.

The same is true of deliverance from generational iniquities and curses. These are the “sins committed beforehand” mentioned in Romans 3:25, and just as salvation must be appropriated through faith, so must deliverance from generational iniquities and curses. Until you personally appropriate Jesus’ sacrifice through faith, it is not effective in your life, and the curse can remain.

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Evidences of Curses

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 contains fifty-three verses listing generational curses. Here are just a few of the symptoms of curses listed there:
~ Poverty
~ Hereditary disease
~ Divorce
~ Child abuse
~ Sexual abuse
~ Domestic violence
~ Alcoholism
~ Drug addiction
~ Immorality
~ Adultery
~ Perversion
~ Depression
~ Confusion
~ Fear
~ Indecision
~ Panic attacks
~ Mental illness
~ Suicide
~ Destructive attitudes and behaviors

Each of these can be, but are not always, the result of a generational curse, and most have their root in idolatry and iniquity.

Many people, if not most, can identify some of these symptoms that have passed on from generation to generation. How about you? When you look at your family tree, do you see a pattern of any of these things?

Do you struggle with a particular sin and see a history of that sin in past generations? Maybe you’ve been told that the depression or fear you deal with runs in the family or perhaps you struggle with marital infidelity and can identify a pattern of affairs and divorce going back to a parent and grandparent. These could be symptoms of a generational curse.

The good news is that generational curses can be stopped today!

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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.

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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.

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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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How Satan oppresses

When a person is said to be turned over into the hands of the tormenters (Matthew 18:23-35), they are not directly tormented by Satan, but by the army of evil spirits in his kingdom. Satan may issue a command in his army to oppress a person or to carry out a certain task, but he himself rarely gets involved because he’s only one spirit and cannot be everywhere at once. When we hear of Satan oppressing a person, it is actually a demonic spirit within his kingdom that is doing the dirty work according to Satan’s rule and leadership. For example, if you look at Luke 13:11, we find the woman with the spirit of infirmity. It clearly tells us that she was bound by Satan, but who was carrying out the actual dirty work? A spirit of infirmity!

Luke 13:11,16, “And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself… And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”

Our enemy is obviously Satan, but it’s not him that we directly struggle against, it’s against the demonic army of evil spirits that is under his rule. It is important that we learn who our enemy is and how he carries out his plans, so we can effectively wage spiritual war against them.

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Demonic Hierarchy

Satan dictates or rules a host of evil spirits in a well organized demonic hierarchy. There is proof of this demonic structure in scripture. A good example is found in Daniel where an angel had to fight the prince of Persia, which is clearly not a human being, but an evil spirit that was placed in charge of the kingdom of Persia to carry out Satan’s plans there:

Daniel 10:13, “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.”

Further insight into this hierarchy and how Satan oppresses people, is found in the book of Acts:

Acts 10:38, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

If you look up the word for oppressed in this verse, you will find the Greek word katadunasteuo, which means, “to exercise dominion against, that is, oppress.” The word dominion here does not refer to ownership of a person (it’s God who owns every soul, see Ezekiel 18:4), but rather an army that is under your rule. Satan exercises his army of fallen angels (his dominion) against us.

Now if you look up the word dominion in the the 2006 Merriam-Webster dictionary, under definition #3 it speaks of an order of angels, referencing to Celestial Hierarchy, which speaks of a host of angelic beings, including principalities, powers, etc. In Ephesians 6, we find that the powers of darkness come in different ranks and powers:

Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Satan’s kingdom is made up of an army of fallen angels. When Satan was cast out of heaven, he drew with him a third of the angels, which are now fallen and known as demons or devils:

Revelations 12:4, “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

Revelations 16:14, “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”

Satan is known as the lord of the flies (Beelzebub), because there are so many evil spirits that are under his rule in the kingdom of darkness:

Matthew 12:24, “But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.”

Satan is the leader, and a host of fallen angels are under his rule carrying out his evil plans.

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Putting things into perspective

Let’s stop for a moment and picture yourself in a war against another country. You realize that your country is fighting Country X, but should your attention be focused on the king of Country X? Or the troop that’s standing 50 yards from you with a gun in his hand ready to kill you? Far too often, we as Christians point our fingers at Satan, but completely ignore the troops the enemy has sent out against us. It’s about time we guard ourselves against the messengers that Satan has set against us, lest we become vulnerable of the plans Satan has against us.

It’s time that we recognize the messengers that were sent to directly oppose us. Satan indirectly oppresses God’s children, but it’s the various ranks of troops under Satan that carry out the actual battle plan and directly oppose the children of God. Ephesians 6 isn’t saying that we struggle against Satan himself, but against the various ranks of demons that are under the lordship of Satan:

Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Let’s not wash Satan clean here by putting everything on the demons, but let’s also not forget who’s standing 50 yards from us who would love to put a bullet through our skulls!

Your enemy would love for you to approach the war with your eyes on the evil leader and ignore the troops / messengers coming towards you. If you did such a thing in a physical war, wouldn’t that put you at a very vulnerable position? You wouldn’t last 10 minutes on the battle field before getting struck down! The same is true in the spiritual realm. It’s only wise to keep your eyes on the direct enemies in any war.

Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t to see demons so much that it’s all that we’re looking at. I am a strong advocator of keeping our minds and hearts on the Lord Jesus Christ, and on positive things that uplift us and keep our eyes on the Lord. But on the same token, it’s never wise to ignore a messenger that Satan has sent to destroy us. Paul himself made it clear that it’s never wise to be ignorant of Satan’s devices:

2 Corinthians 2:11, “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

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