We’ll start with the easy ones, OK? Probably not going to get any argument from you on these. Let’s not argue right now about whether these will pass down spiritually to your children someday, let’s just agree that if you DO this stuff and you have children, it will affect them negatively right now – including their relationship with God.

Unforgiveness

Verse Reference: Matthew 18:35 – “So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” Mark 11:26 – “ But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Way to Get Under Curse: By not forgiving someone for something – worst of all by being angry at God and not forgiving HIM for something!! Like taking your Dad away when you were two or raising you in a rotten family or not rescuing you from that guy that raped you. VERY bad to have unforgiveness. Worst of all to have it toward God.

Effect of Curse: God will not forgive you for anything during the time you’re not forgiving others. You may or may not be His anymore. He may not come and rescue you from demons that are oppressing you. This is a BIG wall between you and will likely clog up your ability to hear with God a LOT.

Way to Get Curse Off: Forgive them all the way and mean it. Ask God to help scrub it out. Say you’re sorry for disobeying Him and not acting like Jesus – especially if you told people you were a Christian. Ask Him to forgive you. Look around your environment to see if you’ve opened the door to this and taught it to you children – that would make it a generational curse.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it’s up to you.

Does it Affect Christians: You betcha. No exceptions. It doesn’t look like there is any Biblical exemption that says that if you are “saved” and then later start holding an unforgiveness it’s OK. By all indications, during the time that you are holding on to unforgiveness, you will not be forgiven by God. If you die with unforgiveness in your heart, you can’t Biblically be sure you’re going to heaven. I don’t see any other way to read that.

(This might help you see the danger here – http://www.shepherdserve.org/special_reports/daniel_main.htm )

Illegal Soul Ties

Verse Reference: I Corinthians 6:15-17 – “15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are parts of Christ’s body? Should I take the parts of Christ’s body and make them parts of a prostitute’s body? That’s unthinkable! 16 Don’t you realize that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her? God says, “The two will be one.” 17 However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” (God’s Word) Genesis 2:23-24 – “24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Exodus 20:14-17 – “14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” (KJV)

Way to Get Under Curse: Sex before marriage – or during marriage with someone other than your spouse. Because Jesus says that if you even THINK about having sex with a woman, you’re guilty of adultery, it’s possible to have soul ties with people you only fantasized about. What happens in your mind is very powerful. God holds you responsible. Spiritually, you became one flesh with that girl in the centerfold when you had sex with her – you created a soul tie and God will hold you responsible for fornication (or adultery).

Effect of Curse: Going to taint future relationships. Maintains a connection to a past love that can reestablish – in person or in the spiritual (thought life). If it happens after a time that a person has become “saved” there is no indication that it’s consequences are invalidated. You became one with some flesh other that the one you were supposed to. That spot is taken and the right person can’t fully fill that spot. And God is mad at you because you’re unrepentant. Because of the effect it may have on marriage relationship, may also have substantial negative impact on children. If they grow up seeing illegal soul ties and lust and unrepentant hearts, they will likely respond to God likewise. (I see black umbilical cords coming from a persons back or neck.)

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it’s up to you.

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and to others as needed, break the ties completely in the natural and in the spirit, make life changes as needed, cover in the Blood.

Does it Affect Christians: Surely. Yes, they are a new creation in Christ and these are broken and washed clean if they repented – but if the ties are new, then they’re still active. It’s a multiple violation of the Big Ten. If a kid grows up in a lust-filled home, it’s likely that they’ll related to God like this and be adulterous and disobedient.

Sin

Verse Reference: John 8:34-35, 44-47 – “34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.” “44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.”

Way to Get Under Curse: By sinning – in any of it’s flavors or frequencies.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it’s up to you.

Effect of Curse: Will make you the son of satan and you will do the lusts of your father the devil. Because you’re no longer of God, you can’t hear and understand Him anymore.

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent, if you can, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you stop sinning once and for all. Believe that it’s possible and stop cutting and pasting parts like this out of the Bible. If you are doing this in your house and your children are watching, you’re probably going to pass it down to them and it will affect their relationship with God and thus become a generational curse.

Does it Affect Christians: Not if you stop sinning. You’re exempt and you will abide in the house forever if you are a servant and stop sinning. If you’re a son of the devil, then you’re in outer darkness. Probably going to reall keep you from hearing His voice, too. Unlikely you’ll have peace and joy and victory and walk in the fullness of all God has for you – you can’t drink from the cup of demons and from the cup of the Lord. Pick a team.

Hate

Verse Reference: I John 4:20 – “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

Way to Get Under Curse: By hating your brother – any brother.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it’s up to you.

Effect of Curse: God hates liars. And you’re a liar if you say you love God and hate your brother, PLUS you’re hating your brother! This will REALLY clog up your pipeline to God. It’s unlikely you’ll hear His voice at all. Then you’ll just have to lean on your own understanding and direct your own paths. You’ll probably end up surrounding yourself with other men that will tell you what to do, who are also full of hate. If you raise your kids up around this, it will probably affect their relationship with God, fill them with hate and become a generational curse.

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and to the people involved. Make changes in keeping with repentance.

Does it Affect Christians: Not unless you’re hating somebody that you’re supposed to be loving. You are acting like One Body with all the other Christians, aren’t you?

Fornicators, Idolaters, Adulterers, Homosexuals, Thieves, Greedy, Drunks, Haters,

Slanderers, Extortioners

Verse Reference: I Corinthians 6:9-11 – “9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Way to Get Under Curse: Doing any of those things.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it’s up to you.

Effect of Curse: You will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. That means you can’t walk in the fullness of what He has for you right now and you won’t go to heaven. Is there another way to read that?

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and those harmed. Make fruit in keeping with repentance.

Does it Affect Christians: Not unless they do any of those things. And if they do, they stop being washed, sanctified and justified and they get dirty again. They will get seperated from God by their sin and it will clog up their hearing really good. If they have kids that watch them and grow up around this as they get more and more depraved, but think they’re fine because they go to “church” – the kids will surely grow up with a whacked relationship with God and will probably do many of these things themselves. Then it becomes a generational curse. Know any greedy Christians? Seen any on TV? Any drunkards? Doesn’t have to be alcohol, could be donuts or fried chicken.

Are you getting this yet? You’ll find lots of websites that say that talk of Generational Curses is a heresy because once we’re washed with the Blood of Jesus none of that stuff can stick to us. I hope I just showed you that it can clearly still affect Christians. If you raise your child in a home full of rebellion, you can expect a rebellious child. My point is that people may want to dismiss Old Testament curses, but they don’t get the very

practical, real world FACT that family systems cycle and repeat. There HAS to be something in play here. Never mind your theology and your interpretation and your desire to diminish and dismiss the Old Testament – what’s happening in the REAL WORLD?

In a previous career I was Director of Residence Life and Student Life at a small private college. We had a freshman girl who was having a horrible time. She had attempted suicide twice (mostly to get attention), she was cutting herself, she started a fire in the student union. She had decided she was gay, but that was only because the idea of being with a man disgusted her so much. The lesbian students didn’t want to have anything to do with her because she was so mangled up. She had been raped by her older brother from when she was five to about fifteen (as I recall). Nobody in the family had ever done anything about it. Mom was oblivious. Now, finally, just before she went to college, it all came out and the family was torn into pieces. The father was defending the brother, it was going to court, the brother was in jail, she was going to have to testify against him, and she was a wreck. I told the father that we couldn’t have her on campus anymore because she was just too big a mess and

we weren’t equipped for that. She was consuming six or eight hours a day of staff time by herself without any progress! He looked me in the eye and said to me, “We sent her to college here, now she’s your problem.” Then the mother, between tissues, looked at me and said something I’ll never forget. She said, “I just don’t understand how this could have been happening all those years right under our noses. I should have seen it!

The same thing happened to me.” And they were ALL church members.

OK, so what is that?! Is that a bunch of demons in a family tree or what? Is that a house full of lust and adultery and rebellion or what? If there is such a thing as a generational curse, they got a big one. Way back then, I had no idea how to handle anything spiritually, so I recommended they put her into residential treatment and medicate her. That’s probably what they did, because I never saw her again. I pray to God that she’s still alive and there’s a way for her to find peace and joy and victory in Jesus. And I’m sorry for not being better prepared to handle that the Godly way.

Those same people that say Generational Curses aren’t real, also probably don’t believe in witches or cursed objects or that satan has ANY effect on us anymore. They probably think the war is over and done with and there’s nobody left to fight. Or you can just quote the Bible to anything that comes for you and they’ll run away. I got news for you, they’ll quote the Bible right back to you! If you’re not walking clean before the Lord, you don’t have any authority to be throwing around the name of Jesus any more than the sons of Sceva did. (Acts 19)

Here’s another shocker for all those folks that don’t believe Generational Curses are real.

The word “heresy” means “a difference in doctrine” or a “faction” and those who participate with them will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. For example here –

Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV) – 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 (Amplified) – 19 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, 20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), 21 Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 (Darby) – 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God’s kingdom.

So try this Generational Curse on for size:

Denominationalism (Factions, party spirit, heresies, disputes, strifes, envyings, idolatry, hatred)

Verse Reference: See Galatians 6:19-21. I Corinthians 1:12-13, I Corinthians 3:1-4

Way to Get Under Curse: By being a part of, supporting, encouraging, agreeing with, or otherwise fomenting a division/sect/denomination within the Body of Christ.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it’s up to you.

Effect of Curse: You WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. How much more clear does a verse have to be? And that’s the New Testament by the way. You are carnal and you are worldly and you will not inherit the Kingdom of God. If you have made up your own doctrine and dogma that explains away this CLEAR, UNAVOIDABLE instruction in the Word of God, then you have cut and pasted the Bible and you’re also subject to the curse in Revelation 22:19 that says you will be erased out of the Book of Life. You have created your own mystery religion, set up your own idols, followed men instead of God and you’re off the reservation. You will not inherit the fullness of what He has for you right now and Biblically it seems clear that you’re not going to go to heaven. Since it’s likely that you will take your children into that same cult you joined and indoctrinate them into your mystery religion, it’s likely that this generational disobedience and rebellion will continue and become a curse upon you and all your children. You are also under a Red Dragon curse from God (See Appendix B).

Way to Get Curse Off: If you can and you’re eyes are still blinded, repent to God for not obeying Him and His Word, repent to all the people that are also trapped because of you, put all sects behind you and produce fruit in keeping with repentance. Listen to Him really good and do whatever He tells you.

Does it Affect Christians: ABSOLUTELY NOT. Biblically speaking as soon as you joined a “Faction” you went your own way and stopped inheriting the Kingdom anyway. So you’re not really a Christian anymore and you’re not in the Book of Life. Is there any other way to read this? If I were you, I’d be VERY afraid, just in case.

I Corinthians 3:1-4 (KJV) – “1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? 4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?”

Rev 22:19 (KJV) – “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.“

Did that get your attention? You don’t think there are Generational Curses? Go look what people that said they were Christians have done to oppress and dumb down and make sure whole family trees were on the Broad Path to hell while they were all being told they could be absolutely sure they were “saved” and safe. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m just going to proceed with my discussion of Generational Curses from the Old Testament. Just in case they might also be affecting people spiritually.

Witchcraft

Verse Reference: Exodus 20:5 (KJV) – “5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;”

Way to Get Under Curse: The best way to show you hate God is by worshiping false gods and messing with witchcraft. I’m not going to quote all the witchcraft verses here because they’re in Appendix E. But ANY dabbling with stuff from foreign gods (which doesn’t mean un-American, it means ANY God that ain’t Jehovah!) will invoke this upon you.

Length of Curse: Three or four generations. About 100 to 150 years.

Effect of Curse: Increasing rebellion and distance from God. Increasingly difficult to turn back. Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God substantially and thoroughly. Wash it all in the Blood. Break any ties to Familiars. Get anything out of your house that is related. May require lifestyle or location changes. Repent to all the people you took down a path to hell.

Does it Affect Christians: If they mess with witchcraft, it sure does. Even if they washed it clean before, if they pick it up, it can still affect them. If a child was dedicated to satan, that child is tagged. The Blood of Jesus can wash it off, but not unless you ask Him to. If you don’t have, it’s because you don’t ask.

Bastard Curse

Verse Reference: Deuteronomy 23:2 (KJV) – “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

Way to Get Under Curse: Sexual illegitimacy either by babies born before marriage or babies born by people you’re not married to. The Ammonites and the Moabites were the descendants of Bennami and Moab the sons of Lot’s daughters that were conceived by incest. Later on, God curses them, not just because they are rebellious and fail to come to the aid of family, but also because they are illegitimate, bastard sons to the 10th generation. King David brought this curse on his family line by his relationship with Bathsheba – complicated by his murder of her husband – the result was increasing rebellion and perversion in his house for generations. Even though he repented for the act, and that particular child died, it remains an active curse on the family tree.

Length of Curse: Ten generations – minimum 400 years.

Effect of Curse: Rebellion, inability to get along in fellowship with others, inability to develop intimacy with the Lord, increasing sexual perversion, increasing problems in each subsequent generation. (I see this as a big fat black umbilical cord coming from a person’s back.)

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and confess your sins and the sins of your forefathers. Ask the Lord to break it and sever it on you and all of your descendants to the tenth generation. Cover it in the Blood of Jesus. It’s important that you have legal ground for this. That means that you need to be the head, or the spiritual leader of the family. If the husband doesn’t know Jesus, the wife can do it. It should be the first born or the eldest living male, if possible to scrub it out across all cousins and nephews and all.

Does is Affect Christians: I have definitely seen it affect Christians and make a huge difference in their walk with God when it’s broken. The Blood of Jesus is sufficient, but if we’re taught to disregard parts of the Bible and that they’re not even real, then we don’t ask the Lord to apply the Blood to those things and they remain “live”. If this is in play, it will really clog up communication with the Throne. It’s like a glass ceiling, where people are trying to grow in Christ and have intimacy, but just seem to keep bouncing off of this ceiling and can’t get any farther. MANY lives have been changed by breaking this one.

This particular curse is REALLY nasty and satan wants to get it instituted across all the world. The African- American community in America has been decimated by it. This trend of young girls having babies is creating massive spiritual problems and will keep many from the kingdom

if we don’t start breaking this off of people. This curse can last 400 years!! We’re talking about someone in your family tree that was a Christian but misbehaved even many generations ago. This curse isn’t on the “world” for doing what the “world” does. This is a curse on the children of God for not obeying His laws about sexual behavior. People that say curses are real, but not on Christians need to explain why God keeps cursing His own children over and over in the Bible, but He won’t do it to us? (Read Deut. 28!). He loves us more than He loved the children of Israel? We’re the grafted in vine, THEY are the natural vine. Why should we think we’re going to get more grace? If we was willing to whack them, He’s willing to whack us just as hard. Those curses on natural Israel had natural consequences with spiritual after effects – the women actually did end up eating their babies in the book of Lamentations, just like Deuteronomy 28 said would happen. On spiritual Israel, those curses have spiritual consequences with natural after effects. We’re still turning our children over to foreign nations, but we call them MTV and Wicca and Islam and Humanism and Evolution. They may not go in chains marching across the desert, but they’re just as much in chains.