Generational curses cast a persistent shadow that spans generations, akin to a threatening cloud hovering over your family’s past. However, as Christians, we need not be victims of this inherited burden.
By means of Christ, we can surpass these limitations and embrace the blessings that God has intended for us. This isn’t about any mystical nonsense; it’s about restoring our spiritual heritage, grasping the spiritual truths involved, and deliberately choosing freedom in Jesus’ name.
A generation curse can be defined as “the effects of sin and how it affects generations. Unacknowledged sin, fractured relationships, lack of forgiveness, and idolatry can establish spiritual strongholds that adversely affect future generations.”
Have you noticed unhealthy or traumatic patterns in your family that you want to break as you now raise your own kids? How has that been difficult, and what has helped along the way?
The article below explore how we, as believers, can break family curses and embrace our divinely appointed destinies:
Speaking for myself… I don’t like ‘click bait’ article titles like this. I don’t believe in “generational curses” and it turns out, neither does the author. What the article describes and makes clear is that there are consequences and familial factors (social, economic, moral, --upbringings) that can effect us, our children, and even generations of family-- these are consequences, not curses…
Instead, think about it as the effects of sin and how it affects generations. Unacknowledged sin, fractured relationships, lack of forgiveness, and idolatry can establish spiritual strongholds that adversely affect future generations.
Think of it like a bad habit passed down from family members: a tendency toward addiction, financial instability, or unhealthy partnerships. These aren’t inherently curses, but they may seem that way, serving as obstacles to spiritual growth and blessings.
100% we are fighting and overcoming generational curses in my family. core beliefs sometimes seem to surface more when things are hectic or not going so well. learning more and more about triggers, managing triggers, being self aware.
a big part of it has been being able to acknowledge it. the abuse, the sin, the way it transfers over to generation to generation. being aware of it seems to make it a bit easier to overcome but not exactly the only key needed.
id love to see more people wanting the level of healing that we push to every fiber of our being even past the bone and marrow into the genetic codes, wiring, every chemical , every conditioning and pour it all out empty vessels ready for holiness, truth,wisdom, purity, love, joy.
God forgives our sins totally, he doesn’t leave some traumatic sin hiding away, rather he deals with it.
What can cause problems is if people do not recognise that certain behaviours or attitudes are sinful and need to be repented off and stopped or changed.
If someone regularly gets drunk there is little point when sober of lamenting his sins if he is not going to stop drinking.
yes. my mom had an abortion way before i was conceived. she remained pro-choice. never told me about her abortion, but i definitely knew growing up that she was pro-choice. i ended up choosing abortion around the same age she had. many years later, when she knew id regretted it, she admitted her abortion, but doesnt want to regret it though she’ll admit it still hurts her to remember it.
it hurts to know she could have prevented my unwanted pregnancy if shed ever given me a single clue that abortion resulted in emotional pain for her or at least for someone else. she could have kept her secret and still warned me, but instead i was given the impression that its about women’s rights and no big deal to have an abortion. i flippantly became pregnant in high school, thinking i can “just abort.” it proved to be scarier and more invasive to my body than id assumed. id never known what it actually entails. ill make sure to tell my kids the truth about all this. so it will be highly unlikely to happen to them. right now my daughter is only 2 and im pregnant. so it might be a while before they can understand, but already i discuss this stuff with my husband openly around them, so they are growing up with some knowledge from the beginning.
i think communication, openness, and honesty go a long way, and those 3 things are what i lacked from my parents growing up.
There is trauma in my family of origin; abuse~ physical, emotional and some repetitive behaviours which carry through 3 generations, going on 4 generations. I don’t want to name specifics, which I could, but what’s the point?
I think when one generation doesn’t want to face it and confess, seeking forgiveness from God and the one traumatized, it can go on and on. Even in a home that has God as head of household.
just because we are Christians doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I’m a single old lady and have watched from the outside my married siblings and have seen some behaviours perpetuated. It’s painful to watch. Just today I wrote my sister and asked…”can’t we be sisters instead of strangers?” It’s painful. The hurt can be forgiven.
I read just today that Gods forgiveness is not to shame us but to free us by His grace.
