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Generational curses or sin (GCS) is a total fabrication orchestrated by demons to keep believers living in guilt and condemnation and thinking that they need to be delivered from these in order to be free. What happens is that believers struggle with certain sins that they believe to be passed down from previous generations and actually start looking for these sins as curses that were dominate in their family's past and start doing what the scriptures forbid them to do in searching them out (Job 10:6, Ps 64:6, Prov 25:2). The only thing that God wants us to be occupied with in relationship to any form of sin, retro or otherwise, is that they have been crucified and put away through the blood of Christ.
Demons take advantage of this doctrine they have fabricated to keep believers and others in bondage to these forms of sin by getting the believer to take his eye off Christ and onto himself (Col 3:1,2). The letter of the law is legislated by those claiming to have spiritual discernment and used to reinforce and strengthen these forms of sin in the believer's life (1Cor 15:56). And through this legislated law of their own understanding and through the counsel of others that call themselves your friend (like they did with Job - Job 2:11), they get you to consider the depths of these sins through ungodly counsel (Job 42:7, Ps 1:1). Anyone can label a stronghold in the believer's life as a (GCS), and the believer has to admit to it because they are experiencing that stronghold, but that is identifying sin outside the cross and outside His death, burial and resurrection. What these so-called friends are doing through their legislated and spiritual understanding is giving ungodly counsel that imputes sin to those having problems with strongholds.
If a believer has a stronghold in their life that is bringing them into captivity to sin you don't charge them with a (GCS). Getting someone to admit to a stronghold of sin is not how you get them to overcome it. What you do is to get them in a place where they can hear the word of God on a daily basis and minister grace to them. They need to transformed by the renewing of their mind and that will not happen through spiritual legalism and ungodly counsel. They need a steady diet of what God thinks about them and what His thoughts are toward them. We are to magnify Christ and Him crucified through the word and the Spirit of life to deliver them from the body of sin and death. Jesus Christ never had a deliverance service for anyone with (GCS), but the masses came to Him and He healed them and when it came to the issue of sin, He preached the word and gave them the power of mercy and grace to walk in and be free from the captivity of sin.
Demons take advantage of this doctrine they have fabricated to keep believers and others in bondage to these forms of sin by getting the believer to take his eye off Christ and onto himself (Col 3:1,2). The letter of the law is legislated by those claiming to have spiritual discernment and used to reinforce and strengthen these forms of sin in the believer's life (1Cor 15:56). And through this legislated law of their own understanding and through the counsel of others that call themselves your friend (like they did with Job - Job 2:11), they get you to consider the depths of these sins through ungodly counsel (Job 42:7, Ps 1:1). Anyone can label a stronghold in the believer's life as a (GCS), and the believer has to admit to it because they are experiencing that stronghold, but that is identifying sin outside the cross and outside His death, burial and resurrection. What these so-called friends are doing through their legislated and spiritual understanding is giving ungodly counsel that imputes sin to those having problems with strongholds.
If a believer has a stronghold in their life that is bringing them into captivity to sin you don't charge them with a (GCS). Getting someone to admit to a stronghold of sin is not how you get them to overcome it. What you do is to get them in a place where they can hear the word of God on a daily basis and minister grace to them. They need to transformed by the renewing of their mind and that will not happen through spiritual legalism and ungodly counsel. They need a steady diet of what God thinks about them and what His thoughts are toward them. We are to magnify Christ and Him crucified through the word and the Spirit of life to deliver them from the body of sin and death. Jesus Christ never had a deliverance service for anyone with (GCS), but the masses came to Him and He healed them and when it came to the issue of sin, He preached the word and gave them the power of mercy and grace to walk in and be free from the captivity of sin.
thanks Red. I agree that "Generational curses or sin (GCS) is a total fabrication orchestrated by demons to keep believers living in guilt and condemnation and thinking that they need to be delivered from these in order to be free."
and that sin is a mental stronghold that needs to be torn down.
However I don't think it harms a person to admit to having one and identifying what it is. It is when they try to make it that person's responsibility to do something about it because have faith in Jesus and His redeeming work on the cross does it become an issue.
I think it would be find to say for example "I have a problem with drinking and so did my parents, but I place it before Jesus. Please Lord help me to overcome it"
or something like that. we can do nothing without the help of the Holy Spirit and acknowledging His mercy and grace is always a wonderful thing to do. I think a lot of people underestimate the power of heartfelt prayer.
I believe the confession of sins should be a private thing between the person and God. Everyone else can pray with and for the person but don't need to know the grimy details. all they need to know is their brother or sister needs them and their prayers. God knows the heart and minds of those who pray to Him and He can transform it for His glory.
hope you are having a blessed day