Generational Curses Do Exist

If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. ---Deuteronomy 28:58,59

Time and distance between the words written in Deuteronomy and now, in 2009 make this seem barbaric and non-applicable. People say, “Jesus came and made a new covenant with God’s people, so this no longer applies.” Let me set this kind of thinking straight. Jesus told us that He came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill the Law. (Matthew 5:17) What He came to do was to destroy the works of the enemy (Satan).

To help us understand the purpose of Jesus regarding the Law, He came to make an even playing field in a world that is controlled by Satan. “What?” you may shout back. Let me explain. When Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, authority and dominion was turned over to Satan and he became the god of this world system. (Cor. 4:4) God never stepped down or gave over His Omnipotence and Sovereignty. However, Satan has a majority vote on the earth when it is given to him.

Jesus (God in human form) came to bring an opportunity for all mankind to choose to obey God through a belief in Jesus who lived on earth a short period of time to demonstrate the love of God and explain what the Kingdom of God is all about. He then allowed Himself to be sacrificed on the cross because no one else in the world, then or in the future, would qualify to break Satan’s power of sin over us. After lying in the grave three days, God raised Him to life to break the power of death and then walked among men for 40 more days to prove that He lived after being dead. Then He ascended into Heaven in view of many witnesses and is now sitting at the right hand of God the Father ever making intercession for you.

So, that is why Jesus came to the earth. "But," you may ask, “where do generational curses come in?” Glad you asked. As the verse says in Deuteronomy, when we know the Law of God, which is now written on the hearts of man under the New Covenant that Jesus established, and don’t obey it then there is rebellion against the Most High God. God clearly established that when we do not obey the Law, He will allow terrible plagues to enter our lives. According to Strong’s Concordance, PLAGUE means a blow, wound, carnage, also pestilence. Literally it means a physical attack against your body or life circumstances.

A generational curse refers to a family member in your lineage that rebelled against God that has been passed on to his children and grandchildren for many generations. You say, “That’s not fair, I didn’t do anything! I haven’t rebelled! I love God and want to obey His laws!” That is true, and there is good. . .no, great news for you. You have the power and the authority to stop that generational curse right now! Your parent(s), and their parent may have had the same disease or had a life of calamity or no opportunities given to themwhere they qualified, and now you have the same symptoms or circumstances in your life. However, now you have knowledge that will break that curse.

Jesus told us that He gives all power and all authority to those who believe. If you believe in your heart what I wrote in the above paragraph about the life of Jesus, then you have the ability, power and authority to renounce the sins of your heritage and plead the blood of Jesus over your life and break that curse. That is why Jesus came. To give you the tools to break the destructive strangle hold the devil has on us. That is why Jesus came with a new and better covenant; to give you an opportunity to live a victorious, healthy life.

If you want to break that generational curse, make this declaration out loud:

Declaration: I am a child of the Most High God and realize that my ancestors were disobedient against God. I have been given authority and power by the Son of God, Jesus to make a clean slate. I ask God to forgive me of all my sins, and I ask God to forgive my ancestors of their sins. In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, I command Satan to cease and desist all maneuvers against my life and the lives of my children. I declare and decree health to my body and wholeness of mind over me and my descendents. I thank you Jesus for your life that allows me the victory in this life now as well as an eternal destiny with You.