BREAKING THE GENERATIONAL CURSE

LIGHT FOR THE WAY
(Daily Devotional)

Sunday 24th April 2016

Topic: Breaking The Generational Curse

Text: "Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God,
the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and
mercy with them that love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations
(Deuteronomy 7:9).

Generational curses don’t exist because God
punishes the children for the sins of their parents
(see Deut. 24:16). What happens is that the sins
of parents are often picked up by the children,
and the effects of sin get passed down from one
generation to the next. When a parent has a
sinful lifestyle, the children often follow that
pattern. Because of
this tendency we see God having to punish the
sins of families several generations in a row.
Typically in Scripture it lasted four generations
(see Exod. 20:5; Num. 14:18). We who are born
again are literally inducted into a new bloodline
through the blood of Jesus (see 2 Cor. 5:17). As
we draw closer to Him and choose to shed our
old lifestyle, we break the curse from our natural
family line (see Rom. 8:1). This becomes the
seed of righteousness for our descendants. Then
Deuteronomy 7:9 says that God will keep His
covenant with us for a thousand generations.
This generational blessing is much more powerful
than the curse, which only extends to four
generations.
To break the generational curse against your
bloodline, begin by living a righteous lifestyle.
Then speak a blessing over your bloodline and
command every curse to be broken. You are a
righteous seed for every generational curse to
come to an end!

PRAYER
Father, I thank You that I am in the bloodline of
Christ and am the righteous seed for my
descendants. I command every curse over my
family line to be broken, and I declare a
generational blessing to be upon it. In Jesus’
Name, amen!

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

Joshua 3-5; Luke 22:1-38; Psalm 50:1-5