9.How to get rid of Family inherited curse?

Dear reader, If you have come to this chapter before reading the previous chapter, I urge you to read the previous chapter and come to this one.

In the previous chapter we saw whether Christians have curse, and about inherited curse. Our disobedience is the worst guilt that can be upon us and our generations.

The LORD cursed the ground which we live because of Adam’s disobedience.

Genesis 3:17 records as To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. (NIV)

More than any sacrifices, Prayers obedience to the LORD is better. See what Israel’s first King Saul did. He disobeyed LORD's word and brought cattle for sacrifice.

Please read 1 Samuel 15: 14-23 below.

But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?” Saul answered, “The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but we totally destroyed the rest.”

“Enough!” Samuel said to Saul. “Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.

Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.’ Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?”

“But I did obey the Lord,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king. The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

But Samuel replied:

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the Lord?

To obey is better than sacrifice,

and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as king.

Rejected as king because he disobeyed LORD’s word and brought cattle for sacrificing in LORD’s altar.

Whatever Prayers you pray, whatever offerings you give, Tithes, why, even you could sell all your belongings and donate, however that would not be taken into account. Not heeding to the LORD's word is Disobedience.

Let us see one more incident from the New Testament. In the book of Acts of Apostles Luke records an incident as below.

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.” Acts 5:1-9 (NIV)

Ananias and Sapphira sold their property. Before selling their property it, its fruits were theirs. After selling the property also the money from the sale proceeds is theirs. However they “kept back part of the money” and this is seen as Lying to GOD.

Lying is a very big sin. Lying to LORD should absolutely a forbidden act.

Now let us see how does people get affected by inherited curse.

Due to the iniquities of forefathers, they might have got the curse and got affected in their body as well as psychologically. Due to this the Genes could be transferred to the generations. The LORD’s righteousness is same for all. Be it Jews, Christians, any other human tribes. Iniquity shall be punished and good deed shall be shown loving kindness. Even if you don’t know HIS righteousness, ignorance will never be an excuse.

I will cite a few instances.

In my family many are infertile. I believe this is due to the inherited curse. Starting from my aunt (mother’s sister) and in my generation 4 people are infertile. Such serial infertility is caused due to inherited curse.

I will cite one more example.

In our family 3 of the family members are handicapped, due to different reasons. I believe this is also due to inherited curse.

Let us now see how to get rid of such inherited curse.

Christians, when they confess their sins and believe that their sins were atoned by Jesus blood and believe that Jesus was lifted on the cross and he nullified the curse. Let us see the verse in Bible which says Christ became curse on the cross, for our sake.

But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree (Galatians 3:13) NLT Meditate this verse in your daily prayers. Openly declare that your forefathers have indeed sinned. Pray to the LORD and seek forgiveness. Continue to meditate till you are assured that the curse is alleviated.

Live a holy life for the LORD. Be a living witness to the LORD. Be a True "Christ I am" than a name sake Christian. If you live such a life, same way as Jesus said when he healed a Blind in Bethsaida "LORD's Glory shall be revealed" in your life also.

I pray for the deliverance of your curse in Jesus name. May the LORD bless you. Amen.

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