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Generational curses... This is a hot topic with all kinds of viewpoints. On one hand, some people believe that if your great-great-great-great-grandmother practiced witchcraft, you somehow inherit little demons from her activity and cannot be rid of them until you are delivered from the generational curse. On the other hand, others believe there is no such thing as a generational curse because Christ has set us free. The problem is that both groups of people are right.
God's Word is full of paradoxes--this is one reason why people often say that it contradicts itself. God never contradicts Himself. He is a God of mysteries, and He desires that His children come to know Him and understand His mysteries, that we might give glory to Him.
When a person sins, a pattern of behavior is begun. One sin needs to be covered up--and the very act of covering sin, deceiving God and ourselves, is another sin. In our shame, we reach out to lift ourselves up, often looking to acts that are sinful. If our parents are caught in these patterns, we will learn them as very young children and live in bondage to them. This is why we are "by nature" sinners. In a sense, we all live with generational curses. We live in bondage to the sin patterns we learned from our parents--and the ones they learned from their parents, and so on.
But life is not hopeless, and we are not to continue living in bondage to other people's sin. We are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, made new in Christ who is at will and who is able to keep us from falling. It is not the conversion experience that makes us able to stand but the newness that comes from growing daily in relationship with Jesus Christ, from following him and becoming like him, from doing whatever we do to the glory of God. When I do something with a pure heart for God's glory, it can never be sinful! Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me! Cast me not away from Your presence, Lord. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation! Teach me to walk in Your ways!
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