Have you noticed in your family the same or familiar
patterns of behavior occurring over and over again with different family
members? These are generational strongholds or sins that have been passed down
from one generation to another.
Generational strongholds are repeated patterns of
sins in a family such as with addiction, idol worship, divorce, lying, and
sexual immorality.
The enemy
does not want anyone in the family system to begin to recognize familiar patterns
of sin.
Why? Because if just one person in the family repents and begins to turn from
generational inequities the power to touch future generations will be demolished.
However, much resistance from the enemy will come to the one or the few in the
family who turn from generational wickedness. There will be seasons and times
for the ones that have chosen to break-free from generational strongholds, that
strong opposition will occur. This opposition comes mainly for two reasons.
One, to get you to go back to your old lifestyle, or to your former ways of
living godless. Second, to torment you with that the others in your family that
are still under the generational strongholds will not be set-free.
Generational strongholds
can only be broken by turning away from your sin, and choosing to walk in a different
direction than what may have been passed down generationally to you.
You must be aware of what strongholds are in your
family, repent, turn from them, and choose to follow after the Spirit not your flesh.
Will doing this be difficult? Yes! Without a doubt, breaking free from
generational sins will not be an easy task. Will the enemy try and seduce you
back to the familiar, or what you grew-up around? Yes! Be on guard for when you
are around people in your family who are still under bondage to generational
sins, and make sure to go to your quiet place afterwards and allow the Holy
Spirit to speak to you. Those pesky demons that are still attached to some of
your family may try and speak to you, so you must get alone with the Father to
be still and hear His voice.
→Reflect:
Do you know the generational strongholds in your family?
Have you turned from these sins and began living a different way? Have you confessed
these sins in your family?
If the enemy comes lurking to persuade you to go back
into the familiar ways of what you were raised around, remind yourself that you
are a new creation in Christ and your former self is no more.
The younger
generation is looking to you, be an example to them how to follow Christ and
overcome generational sin.
→Meditate:
So,
if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36
Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold,
the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
I,
the Lord…visits the inequity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth
generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of
those who love me and keep my commandments (Exodus 20:5; Numbers 14:18).
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