Showing posts with label deliverance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deliverance. Show all posts

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Breaking Generational Curses - Abraham Bloodline of Lying

See an Example of Lying - Abraham and His Son - Generational Curses


Generational curses are sins of the forefathers but do not have to be yours, but there is a bent to participate in the sin. Watch the Video below:



Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree,’” Galatians 3:13

Revelations 22:3 "And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:"

We see there are curses to attend to until Satan is destroyed.


Generational curses are curses assigned to an individual(s) based on the sins of his/her parents. The person’s parents, not himself, cause the curses assigned to him/her. A person gets punished for the wrongs of the parents. Such are called generational curses.

Generational curses can come from both parents. This can be if each parent has an unrepentative sin. Generational curses act like familiar spirits traveling down the family tree.

An Example of a Generational curse in the Bible is seen in the life of Abraham:

Abraham travels to Egypt to escape the drought and tells Sarah to lie to Pharaoh because she is beautiful, and he is afraid he will be killed. Sarah agrees to lie, but Pharaoh discovers the truth in a dream. It was out of fear, fear of man, that he lied.

Abraham does it again – he travels to the land of the Philistine (Gaza strip) and lies to Abimelech. She says the same thing to Sarah, and Sarah agrees to lie.

His son, Isaac, travels with Rebecca (Gaza Strip), and they lie to Abimelech. He says the same thing to Abimelech and Rebecca as his father Abraham did 40 years earlier.

Abraham and Isaac taught their wives to lie. Rebecca lies later to Isaac with his son when it is time to bless Essah and Jacob.

4th generation – now Jacob’s sons lied to Jacob about Joseph being killed by an animal when he was sold for slavery. 10 sons are liars and are fearful.

Satan is the executor of the curse of the law

Christ didn’t do away with the law. He fulfilled it – Matthew 5:17 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

Jesus made it possible for you to be free of your disobedience and to be free of the executor. He did that on the cross for us to make a way for our disobedience when we sin.

How to do it? Appropriate through obedience!

Exodus 20:5 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;”

In ministry, it is clearly observed that what has been in a family tree is currently in people's lives: same sin issues, same disease.

Charge

God wants to know what you are going to do with creation.

Curse

Deuteronomy 28 is an excellent chapter on blessings and cursings that affect you (mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, relationally, and financially).

Where does Disease Come From?

Disease is a type and shadow of Satan’s kingdom. It comes from Egypt and not Zion. For example, every time you go to a new doctor, don't they ask about your family history of diseases? Those are generational curses because of the sins of the forefathers.

Deductive reasoning

Disease is a curse, not a blessing (even today). The response of sick people, when asked if they consider their disease a blessing or a curse, some said curse (good answer, the Bible agrees); some said it’s from God (then why are you going to the doctor?). Those people don’t have an answer for disease, and they’re giving God credit to increase their spirituality. No, that’s ignorance.

Conclusion: Disease is a curse

The only way to break it is in your generation

Psychologists have been able to document that many of our personality characteristics, including rage, anger, predisposition to mental disorders, and certain diseases, can be found in humans without any genetic component, but it can still be inherited. No genetic or defective gene has been isolated, but the condition is still passed on in families. We consider those situations to be inherited familiar spirits that follow families, creating various breakdowns in the psyche or the soul.

Cause and Effect

If you don’t allow the Holy spirit to bring you to a place of repentance then God has no more to do.

The Pattern for Freedom

Neh. 9:1-2 “1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.


Final Charge

To encourage the church to bring people back into repentance

To help encourage others to look at generational curses

Do a family tree chart for four generations.

List all mental predispositions, sins, and tragedies and discover what flows from generation to generation.

If the flow is not stopped, it will flow into you, your children, and your grandchildren.

How does one get rid of the generational curse?


You read Deuteronomy Ch: 27 and Ch. 28 make list and take responsibility

You then take responsibility for your sin and forefathers and repent and renounce your sin and their sins back to Adam and Eve.

Next, remove the sin by casting out the spirit of alcoholism or whatever it might be.

Say, "I take this curse and cover it with the Blood of Jesus." (It is now washed away.)

By: Traci Morin
Touch of God International Ministries of Healing and Deliverance - Setting the Captives Free

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Spiritual Strongholds

What are Spiritual Strongholds?


First of all, we need to realize there is an enemy, "satan," and his effort is to capture the minds of men and women and their souls through spiritual strongholds. The mind is the strong tower of the soul.

Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the mind rules our hearts and emotions and directs our lives. Satan knows if he can get hold of the way we think, he can expand his rule into every other area of our life.

Prov. 23:7 "for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."

Satan wants to control your thoughts in the conscious mind but also your motives and thoughts in our subconscious minds.

II Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses/storngholds. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ."

What is a fortress/stronghold? It is a walled city with access to its water supply and plenty of storage space for food. The enemy attacks with warfare against fortresses. When trying to break into a fortress, the enemy will dig under walls, climb over walls, bust down the main door, or whatever to get entrance by hurling bounders against the walls and firebombs over the walls.

Paul uses this knowledge to describe the attack needed against the spiritual strongholds of the mind. We can destroy every stronghold because our weapons are eternal and invincible.

The enemy tries to break in with lying thoughts, negative thoughts from others, or feelings that have developed a life of their own within us. We were created in the image of God, but somehow we believe what others have said, what satan says, the accuser or ourselves believes the opposite of God, and that is what a stronghold is. It is a thought or belief that is not true about you, but you believe it.

An individual stronghold is more than a habit. It is a belief of fleshly control within us that uses habits to maintain control over us. Like for example, through belief or feeling, a habit of temper can develop to defend or cover up the insecurity or jealousy of wants, believing God does not want you to be blessed, or developing alcoholism to cover up the pain you are not loved. God's word says you are the apple of his eye.

These strongholds are the fortresses of thought, emotion, feeling, or negative belief about self or what God says about you.

The function of a stronghold is to put up smoke screens to keep things like sermons, teachings, and counseling from piercing our inner man with truths that could bring repentance and freedom.

A stronghold guards the untruths that bond us to self and the flesh. It keeps you from being able to renew the mind from seeing your own deceptions.

Strongholds give us tunnel vision, preventing us from seeing what common sense would tell us is wrong. It creates an inner captivity to deception and misery.

Again, the central core of strongholds are lies the enemy wants you to believe in, getting you to believe they are true about you.

God does not want your past to hold you back! God has made a way out, a way to unpack your bags of grief, pain, unforgiveness, guilt, shame, or even old patterns of relating.

Keywords: strongholds, demons, deliverance, possession, evil spirits, exorcism, casting out demons, deliverance ministry, questions, faq, spiritual strongholds, legal grounds, deliverances

by: Traci Morin

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Silva Mind Control

Silva Mind Control 


(Silva Method)*Christian or New Age Mind Cult?
The Silva Method (formerly Silva Mind Control [SMC]) was developed by José
Silva. Over six million students in 71 countries have taken the Silva
International courses (formerly Silva Mind Control International). (One
Silva's goal is to have the Silva Method course taught to all
school children in grade school and college.) He claims that anyone taking his 48-hour (four-day) course will develop psychic powers. A student is shown how to enter an altered state of
consciousness and, in that state, is taught how to tap into "higher intelligence in the universe." The student is taught how to function psychically and clairvoyantly and invites counselors, or psychic guides, into his mind to help him with his problems. By the third day of the course, students are supposed to be able to operate psychically enough to project their awareness outside of their bodies, i.e., have out-of-body experiences. Their minds are believed to be able to tap into any source in the universe for information, including the minds of other men, alive or dead.

Silva's Method uses visualization and guided imagery quite heavily; both
have long been recognized by sorcerers as the most
powerful and effective methodology for contacting the spirit world to acquire supernatural power, knowledge, and healing. This sort of thing has been going on throughout history. It's known as "shamanism" or witchcraft. Yet, Silva claims that God sent Jesus to teach us all 
this!

Obviously, the Silva Method is little more than a New Age psychological
mind control technique rather than a cultic system of teaching with
readily identifiable followers. Nevertheless, it does have spiritual
underpinnings (see Silva's book Keys to the Kingdom), and it considers itself Christian in many ways. Below are the highlights of what Silva Mind Control/Silva Method teaches concerning its source of authority, Christ, sin, salvation, the Holy Spirit, and prayer:

1. Source of Authority. The authority for the Silva Method student is José
Silva and his official publication, THE SILVA METHOD.

2. Jesus Christ. The Silva Method teaches that Jesus did miracles in
the same way that the Silva Method teaches its students. The Bible
teaches that Jesus was not doing miracles by mind over matter. He did them by the power of His Father. Silva's Method fails to differentiate between
the miraculous, genuine supernatural power of God and that which man
attributes to his own mind, which is nothing more than the usurping of the
authority of God and trying to be little gods themselves.

Silva Method also teaches that "Rabbi Jesus was assigned by Almighty
God of the Universe to Planet Earth to teach humanity, in a step-by-step
procedure, how to look for and find what is called the kingdom of God
within us all. ... Jesus came to give us a message to correct the
problem of human development on this planet because Moses didn't do it and
Noah didn't do it, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob didn't ... Zoroaster, Krishna,
Buddha, Mohammed didn't do it. So Jesus finally came to straighten out
their mess and problem ..." Silva says that Jesus said that we are to go
into an alpha state (an altered state of consciousness) with our spirit
guides, thus gaining the psychic powers necessary to correct the human
situation. (Silva also says, "Jesus is not coming back, so we've got to
do it. But He gave us the keys; He gave us the message. Look inside;
find this power; you've got the power, and you can make Earth 'paradise
earth.'")

3. Sin. Silva denies original sin and sees only "problems to be
solved." Silva teaches that the present is a process of materializing
thoughts, while the future is composed of conceived thoughts not yet
materialized. He talks about being able to prophesy, a process of projecting into
thought patterns to see if we can detect information that can help us
solve problems. According to the Silva Method, this information is for
no other thing than for solving problems -- "to make this planet a
better world to live in. ... if you get information to solve problems, where
people are suffering, and you do alleviate that suffering and you
correct the problem, who cares where the information comes from? The idea is
to get it any way you can to stop a problem and forget everything else."
Silva's done away with the blood of Jesus Christ; he's done away with the
sacrificial death of Christ for our sins. According to the Silva
Method, it's not a sin problem anymore; it's ignorance!

4. Salvation. Since Silva believes that we have been sent to the planet
to solve problems (i.e., "to convert this planet into a paradise"),
salvation is earned by one's success in problem-solving. The emphasis is
one of total pragmatism. But just the fact that one is solving problems
does not answer whether an activity is right or pleasing to God. "Positive" results can occur through the occult or psychic worlds.

Being "born again" also has a unique meaning for Silva Method
practitioners: "When we enter the kingdom of heaven, once there, we become
centered and have access to the use of the right brain hemisphere ... This
would truly be the concept of being born again ... being 'born again.'
means, 'Go back and retrace your steps and use the right
brain hemisphere like you did when you were born.' ... when you
use both brain hemispheres, that is really being born again."
Silva sums up what salvation is not in the Silva Method: "Somebody who
died 1,900 years ago or 2,000 years ago, his blood cleansing us from sin
and so forth, that doesn't help solve problems today." Salvation for
Silva leads the lost away from the sacrifice of Christ for their sins
upon the cross. They don't need that anymore. All they require is alpha in
the right brain.

The message of the Silva Method is one of complete rejection of the
redemptive work of Jesus Christ upon the cross, i.e., a claim that we have
power within us. Silva overlooks the central problem of evil in the
human heart, the sinful nature of man, to which Jesus specifically said, "I
come not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." One hears no
repentance from Silva, no acknowledgment of any real guilt. Instead,
it's just something that's a state of mind that you can get rid of by
going into your alpha level.

5. Holy Spirit. In the Silva Method, the Holy Spirit is a "dimension
that we can create -- a state of mind to enter it and make use of it for
problem-solving situations. ... We were sent to do a work for God --
help God with creation in thinking of His creatures."

Rather than the Holy Spirit as Counselor, on the third day of Silva
Method training, students are asked to pick two counselors. The lecturer
explains how to invoke them. In the last session, during meditation,
two counselors appear in the laboratory of the student's mind and are available from that point on whenever the student needs them.
 
Silva says that you consult your counselors anytime you find yourself with a problem and 
do not know what to do next: "They are here
to do the work for you; they are here to help you evolve ... become ...
as good as they are, whoever they are." This, of course, is spiritism;
and the nature of spiritism is ultimately demonic. One can hear the
same things from mediums and spiritists who talk to their advisors or
their spirit guides or counselors, all of which is prohibited by Scripture
(cf. Deut. 18).

6. Prayer. For Silva, praying is psychic -- the use of mind: "... we're
praying; we're using psychic systems to pray, to visualize ... imagine
what's to happen, and believe that you already have it and you shall
receive it." (Sounds like the "name-it-and-claim-it" teaching of the
Positive Confession movement.)

Friday, May 13, 2005

Spiritual Dangers of Meditation

Spiritual Dangers of Meditation


Meditation ~ Meditation is a mental discipline that induces total relaxation and inner harmony [and an altered state of consciousness]. Various techniques involve focusing the mind on an object or activity. In Eastern societies it is used as a means of spiritual enlightenment. In Western societies, it tends to be used to deal with stress...Meditation is a state of heightened mental awareness. Meditation is ... in the world's major religions, including Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Meditation was mainly introduced to the West through Indian Yoga practices brought to England in the 19th century...Meditation involves withdrawing from external reality and achieving deep relaxation. [21]

MANTRA MEDITATION: A word or phrase that is continually repeated. It may be recited aloud or in silence. It may be a positive statement or relate to personal beliefs. [Note: Wilkinson's 'Prayer of Jabez' falls in this category, although it is once daily]

ROSARIES: Rosary beads may be used in the meditation process to count repetitions.

TIBETAN PRAYER WHEEL: Each rotation of this cylinder will stand for one recitation of a mantra.

OM: A sacred mantra widely used in meditation, particularly with yoga [Note: Om signifies the Hindu pagan trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.]

BREATH AWARENESS: Focus your attention on your breathing. You think of a peaceful world with each outward breath. [22] [Note: Bill Bright and many others endorse spiritual breathing]

by: Traci Morin