Meg
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The following insights on the "generational curse" issue came through in this morning's prayer. When we bring a matter to prayer, and the Lord "speaks to us", as so many growing Christians have heard of and openly wondered about, when the Lord speaks to our hearts, it comes through as thoughts so profound and sophisticated that we know it wasn't our own ability or intelligence that came up with that level of insight. Adrian (Mattfivefour) has described this exact same process in conversations he's shared with me. The following theological refutation of "generational curses" is an example of this sort of thing in my own prayer life. For the record, this has been happening to me on and off for several years, but it was at least 3 years of this sort of instruction, and 5 years overall, before the Lord thought me well enough trained to speak of these sort of insights in a public arena...
Ephesians 2:6-9
The "generational curse" concept is just plain wrong on all kinds of levels. First, it short-circuits the need for repentance and denies the need to seek the Lord. Secondly, it claims that the dead have power over the living, a classic occult deception. Third, it introduces the possibility of a mysterious influence which requires guesswork and the drawing of unsupported conclusions based on flimsy evidence at best, as the deeds of the deceased can be invented at will, since they can neither prove nor disprove what cannot be supported by facts.
John 8:32
The TRUTH will set you free, not the assumption, not the guesswork.
Ephesians 2:6-9
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
The "generational curse" concept is just plain wrong on all kinds of levels. First, it short-circuits the need for repentance and denies the need to seek the Lord. Secondly, it claims that the dead have power over the living, a classic occult deception. Third, it introduces the possibility of a mysterious influence which requires guesswork and the drawing of unsupported conclusions based on flimsy evidence at best, as the deeds of the deceased can be invented at will, since they can neither prove nor disprove what cannot be supported by facts.
John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
The TRUTH will set you free, not the assumption, not the guesswork.