EFFECTIVE PRAYER

AGAINST FAMILY

CURSES

by Jonas Clark

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EFFECTIVE PRAYER AGAINST FAMILY CURSES

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EFFECTIVE PRAYER

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AGAINST FAMILY CURSES

ome say what happens in Vegas stays in

SVegas. That sounds like an invitation for

sin. Sin, however, affects you, your family and

your family descendants. Sin, no matter the

location, opens the door for family curses.

Family curses are reoccurring problems that

steal, kill, and destroy.

There are many family curses that plague

from repeated sicknesses, marital problems, to

financial failures. If you go to a medical doctor

for an examination they will ask you for your

family’s medical history. They do that because

they know certain diseases reoccur within

family lines. It’s the same for generational

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curses.

The honest person must ask himself how a

Christian can suffer from a curse. The short

answer is ignorance. For example, most

Christians believe that healing belongs to

them through the atoning blood of Christ.

Scripture confirms this belief declaring,

By His stripes ye are healed. (1 Peter

2:24).

There are thousands of examples of

Christians receiving healing in their bodies

after salvation. It is evident however that

other Christians are sick. If healing belongs to

them then why are they suffering sickness?

The answer is that healing has already been

provided but they have yet to experience it.

Another scripture says “Faith cometh by

hearing and hearing by the Word of God”

(Romans 10:17).

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To appropriate anything from the Lord

one must know what belongs to them and

receive it by faith. The same goes for

deliverance from family curses.

The word salvation is the Greek word sozo.

“For by grace are ye saved (sozo) through

faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift

of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Sozo can also

translate as deliverance. Jesus spoke of

deliverance. He said the Spirit of the Lord was

on Him because he was anointed to preach

deliverance to the captives. Deliverance is the

children's bread (Matthew 15:22-28). It

belongs to you thorough the will of Christ. He

is the one that “went about doing good and

healing all that were sick and oppressed of the

devil for God was with him" (Acts 10:38). It is

not until a believer knows what belongs to

him or her can faith for that promise be

received.

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It is comforting to know that deliverance

from family curses belongs to you. Freedom

has already been promised. Scripture declares,

Christ hath redeemed us from the

curse of the law, being made a curse for

us: for it is written, Cursed is every one

that hangeth on a tree. (Galatians 3:13).

Redeemed means the recompense for sin

and iniquities has already been paid for by the

atoning blood of the only begotten Son of

God. So as we discuss freedom from family

curses in this essay read it with the assurance

that deliverance has already been provided to

those that receive Christ’s redemption by

faith.

INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS

Scripture is clear that God visits the

iniquity of the fathers upon the children.

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These are oftentimes referred as generational

curses. I want to use the term family curses to

explain. Here is one of our foundational verses

toward understanding the source of family

curses.

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. (Exodus 20:5)

Notice it is iniquity that God visits upon

the family tree of the disobedient. Iniquity is

unjust acts, wickedness, amoral behavior,

idolatry, sexual sins, rebellion, witchcraft, evil,

and mischief. All of us have parents, four

grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and

sixteen great-great-grandparents. That’s a total

of thirty two relatives in our family tree.

Could it be possible a family curse was passed

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down the family line because of one of them?

THE KENNEDY CURSE

The Kennedy family curse has been well

documented. Wikipedia writes:

The Kennedy tragedies, colloquially

called the Kennedy Curse, is a term

sometimes used to describe a series of

tragedies involving members of the

Kennedy family. Some have called the

continual misfortune of the Kennedy

family a curse. Several members of the

family have died from unnatural causes,

most notably brothers John and Robert,

who were assassinated by gunshots in 1963

and 1968, and John, Jr., who was killed in

an airplane crash along with his wife and

sister-in-law in 1999.

The existence of such a curse has been

disputed by others who have claimed that

many of the tragedies have been caused by

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preventable reckless choices like driving

drunk or flying an airplane in unsafe

conditions, that others are the natural

result of events likely to occur in such a

large family like cancer or pregnancy

miscarriage, and that the notion of a curse

is superstitious and created and fostered by

the media.

The last Kennedy family member to

suffer was John F. Kennedy, Jr. John was

the oldest and only surviving son of

President Kennedy and was killed in a

plane crash along with his wife and sister-

in-law off the coast of Martha's Vineyard

July 16, 1999. This was a national tragedy

bringing back more discussion of the

possibility of a Kennedy family curse.

THE LEE FAMILY CURSE

Many remember the martial arts master

known as Bruce Lee. Lee was born Lee Jun-

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fan. He is considered one of the most

influential martial artists of the 20th century,

and a cultural icon. Lee was born in San

Francisco, California in the United States, to

parents of Hong Kong heritage but raised in

Hong Kong until his late teens.

Upon reaching the age of 18, Lee

emigrated to the United States to claim his

U.S. Citizenship and receive a higher

education. It was during this time he began

teaching martial arts, which soon led to film

and television roles.

One night he took some medication for a

simple headache. Sometime later he suffered a

serious allergic reaction causing a cerebral

edema. He died at the early age of 32. A

month later his classic kung fu move Enter

the Dragon was released.

Twenty years later his only son Brandon

Lee was working on a movie called "The

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Crow” about a rock musician revived from the

dead to avenge his own murder. During the

final days of filming his character was to be

shot. The day before a props team member

mistook a “squib load”, a real bullet in the

barrel. The next day another props team

loaded the gun with blanks but when the gun

was fired it had enough gunpowder to fire the

squib load killing the 28-year-old Lee. Like his

father, Brandon Lee died young. This was also

reported in the media as a family curse.

THE BRANDO FAMILY CURSE

Marlon Brando Jr. was named the fourth

Greatest Male Star of All Time by the

American Film Institute, and part of Time

magazine’s Time 100: The Most Important

People of the Century. He was perhaps best

known for his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A

Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and his

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Academy Award-winning performance as

Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954),

both directed by Elia Kazan, and his Academy

Award-winning performance as Vito Corleone

in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather

(1972). In middle age he also played Colonel

Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979), also

directed by Coppola, and delivered an

Academy Award-nominated performance as

Paul in Last Tango in Paris (1972).

Brando’s mother suffered from alcoholism,

and his first wife, Anna Kashfi, developed

drug and alcohol problems after giving birth

to their son Christian. Along with his own

drug problems, Christian shot the boyfriend of

his half-sister Cheyenne. Dag Drollet, the

Tahitian lover of Brando’s daughter

Cheyenne, died of a gunshot wound after a

confrontation with Cheyenne’s half-brother

Christian at the family’s hilltop home above

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Beverly Hills. Christian, then 31 years old,

claimed he was drunk and the shooting was

accidental. He was convicted of voluntary

manslaughter and served six years of his ten

year sentence.

In an effort to prevent Cheyenne from

testifying at Christian’s trial, Marlon Brando

sent her to Tahiti so she couldn’t be

subpoenaed by U.S. authorities. A year before

Christian was released, she committed suicide.

Christian Brando died of pneumonia at age 49.

These are three examples of family curses

discussed in American newspapers. There

have been many more including the

Hemingway, Barrymore, and Redgrave

families. Some would say this is just plain

superstition and think nothing of it. Others,

however, might want to think a little more

about it especially when they see signs of

family curses within their families. If anything

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these stories make us question the possibility

of real family curses and ask if there is a way

of escape. Even though these accounts are

saddening, the good news is that family curses

do not have to continue. They can be stopped.

THE RECOMPENSE FOR INIQUITY

Curses come on families because of sin and

disobedience to the Word of God. They are

the effect of broken sanctions. Our God is a

God of covenant. Every covenant has

sanctions. Without sanctions there is no

covenant. Sanctions are penalties or other

means of enforcement used to provide

incentives for obedience with the law, or with

rules and regulations. Just as the Bible is full of

blessings for obedience there are also penalties

when sanctions are broken. These penalties

we call family curses.

A curse is a payment or “recompense for

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iniquity.”

Render unto them a recompense, O

LORD, according to the work of their

hands. Give them sorrow of heart, thy

curse unto them. Persecute and destroy

them in anger from under the heavens of

the LORD. (Lamentations 3:64-66)

Sin has consequences. Scripture declares

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of

God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our

Lord" (Romans 6:23). Recompense can come

as failure, premature death, sickness, diseases,

destruction, tragedy, marriage problems,

mental illness, suicide, torment, depression,

sorrow, grief, lack, hopelessness, confusion,

guilt, shame, setbacks, accidents, addictions,

reprobate minds, sexual perversions,

whoredoms, vagabondism, barrenness, lack,

female problems, and fear.

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WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS

Las Vegas is known as Sin City. Perhaps

you have heard the official Las Vegas tourism

slogan “What happens in Vegas, stays in

Vegas.” Not so when it comes to the

repercussions of sin and iniquities flowing

down the family line. Scripture says,

Moreover all these curses shall come

upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and

overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;

because thou hearkenedst not unto the

voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his

commandments and his statutes which he

commanded thee. (Deuteronomy 28:45)

One may sin in Vegas but the results of those

sins never stay in Vegas.

You can run but you can’t hide. That’s

because curses pursue and overtake. As we

have already discovered disobedience opens

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the door for family curses, and the

recompense for iniquities. These curses can

enter through generational curses: sin, fantasy,

pornography, unforgiveness, rape, drugs,

witchcraft, sexual perversion, serving other

gods, and rebellion.

Sociologist Richard L. Dugdale wrote The

Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease

and Heredity in 1877. He was a member of the

executive committee of the Prison Association

of New York that was delegated to visit jails in

upstate New York. In a jail in Ulster County

he found six members of the same family and

recorded their family history. According to his

research he claimed to have traced the

family’s Hudson Valley roots back seven

generations to a colonial frontiersman named

Max, whom he described as having been born

between 1720 and 1740, a descendant of early

Dutch settlers, who lived in the backwoods as

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a “hunter and fisher, a hard drinker, jolly and

companionable, averse to steady toil." He

traced the branch that had produced so many

criminals back to a woman he called

“Margaret, the Mother of Criminals,” who had

married one of Max’s sons.

Max Juke and his wife are examples of a

family curse. They were godless atheists. They

had 560 descendants. 310 died in poverty, 150

were criminals, 100 alcoholics, 7 murderers,

and more than half the women were

prostitutes.

Contrast that family tree to the Edwards’

family. Jonathan Edwards played a critical role

in shaping the First Great Awakening, and

oversaw some of the first fires of revival in

1733-1735 at his church in Northampton,

Massachusetts. Edwards sermon Sinners in the

Hands of an Angry God, is considered a classic

of early American literature, which he

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delivered during another wave of revival in

1741, following George Whitefield’s tour of

the Thirteen Colonies.

Jonathan Edwards and wife were

committed Christians. Of their 1394

descendants, 294 were college graduates, 13

college presidents, 30 judges, 65 college

professors, 75 military officers, 100

missionaries, 100 lawyers, 80 held public

office, 3 were U.S. Senators, 3 State Governors,

3 Mayors, 1 Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury

and 1 Vice-president of the United States.

The differences between the Juke and

Edwards’ family trees are eye opening. God’s

word is clear, “The wicked are overthrown

and are not; but the house of the righteous

shall stand” (Proverbs 12:7). The bottom line is

that the wages of sin is death. What happens

in Vegas, does not stay in Vegas, it follows

down the family linage.

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You can experience deliverance from a

family curse. A study of family curses brings

to light information in areas people don’t talk

much about. When topics like this are

addressed it demystifies feelings that you are

the only one experiencing such feelings.

Understanding family curses takes the mystery

away and helps you find the road to freedom.

I’ve got good news for you. It’s a new day.

Deliverance from family curses has already

been provided. You don’t have to wait any

more. Understanding what belongs to you is a

key in stopping family curses. Christ has

already paid the price for iniquity and

provided deliverance through his sacrifice on

Calvary.

Just like every promise in Scripture, you

must receive it by faith. That also includes

deliverance from family curses. We know that

faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the

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Word of God (Romans 10:17). In other words,

you need to know what belongs to you as a

son or daughter of the Father first, then you

can pray, believe, receive, and take action.

Knowledge plus faith leads toward freedom.

Christ has already redeemed you from the

curse of the law of sin and death. Redemption

means the price for sin has already been paid.

The curse of the law is the recompense for

iniquity. Recompense includes the rightful

payment for iniquities from sin in your family

tree. A family tree is a chart representing

family relationships in a conventional tree

structure. Scripture confirms this truth,

Christ hath redeemed us from the

curse of the law being made a curse for us:

For it is written cursed is every one that

hangeth on a tree. (Galatians 3:13)

A Sister from Kerala, India wrote me her

testimony that knowledge of the Word of God

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helped her get free from family curses. She

said,

The Word of God helps people free

themselves from family curses that follow

them without their knowledge. A few

years ago, before I realized what was

happening to our family, we were

experiencing all kinds of sorrows and

pains. These were coming from a family

curse. The Holy Spirit gave me the

revelation to submit to God, resist the

devil, and use my faith to fight back in the

mighty name of Jesus. I started decreeing

that we were God’s children and family

curses had no authority or power over us.

A mother living in North Carolina in

another testimony discovered why she and

her family suffered from addictions and

marriage problems. She wrote,

Our family line has been under curses

of addiction, poverty mentality, men in

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prison, men that committed murder,

women having kids out of wedlock, and

women not marrying. The Lord delivered

me from alcohol and a life of ignorance

and poverty. I have seen family curses

trailing my family as we came through

many fiery trials with our children. I was

able to trace certain strongholds in my

own life and learned why I responded to

situations the way I did. Many of these

were unbroken family curses.

Another testimony came from a woman in

Georgia. She was concerned that occult spirits

were waging war against her because of a

family curse. She testified,

My father was a 33rd Degree Mason

and mother part of the Eastern Star. They

both renounced their involvement before

passing away. The information about

family curses helped me break them.

Knowledge of these types of curses needs

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to be taught in the Church. Many believers

don’t know the effects of generational

curses on their families and the

importance of breaking them. I was one of

them until I gained knowledge of this

teaching. After breaking the family curses

over my life and children, I noticed a

change when praying. I did not have to

war in the spirit as much. The spiritual

resistance when praying was gone. I

repented for the iniquity of my father,

mother, and past leaders in my family. My

husband and I shared this insight with our

children too. We don’t want any

generational curses attacking them.

Scripture declares, Jesus was “bruised” on

the cross for the penalty of family iniquities.

Surely he hath borne our griefs and

carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem

him stricken, smitten of God, and

afflicted. But he was wounded for our

transgressions; he was bruised for our

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iniquities: the chastisement of our peace

was upon him; and with his stripes we are

healed. All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned every one to his own way;

and the LORD hath laid on him the

iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:4-6)

The crucifixion—death, burial, and

resurrection—of the Lord is great news. Now

all you have to do is receive what Christ has

already provided, deliverance from every

family curse. Scripture says,

And it shall come to pass that

whosoever shall call on the name of the

LORD shall be delivered: for in mount

Zion and in Jerusalem shall be

deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in

the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

(Joel 2:32)

The right to call on the name of the Lord for

deliverance from family curses belongs to you.

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Don’t let anything hold you back. Call on His

name right now.

Here is a part of the biblical pattern you

can pray against family curses:

•

Confess all known and unknown sins

both personal and up the family tree.

For with the heart man believeth unto

righteousness; and with the mouth

confession is made unto salvation.

(Romans 10:10)

•

Repent of rebellion and unforgiveness.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance

to salvation not to be repented of: but the

sorrow of the world worketh death. (2

Corinthians 7:10)

Godly sorrow is a deep heart-felt

repentance that leads to deliverance.

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if

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ye have ought against any: that your

Father also which is in heaven may forgive

you your trespasses. But if ye do not

forgive, neither will your Father which is

in heaven forgive your trespasses. (Mark

11:24-26)

•

Confess Jesus as Lord, Savior, and

Deliverer.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

because he hath anointed me to preach the

gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal

the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance

to the captives, and recovering of sight to

the blind, to set at liberty them that are

bruised, to preach the acceptable year of

the Lord. (Luke 4:18-19)

Some want Christ as savior, not lord. Jesus

said, "Why call me Lord and do not the things

I say?” (Luke 6:46)

•

Renounce all contact with the

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forbidden such as witchcraft, the

occult, satanic involvement, idolatry,

involvement in secret societies, and

forbidden activities.

And many that believed came, and

confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many

of them also which used curious arts

brought their books together, and burned

them before all men: and they counted the

price of them, and found it fifty thousand

pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word

of God and prevailed. (Acts 19:18-20)

•

Claim this promise of deliverance for

yourself and family.

If they shall confess their iniquity,

and the iniquity of their fathers, with their

trespass which they trespassed against me,

and that also they have walked contrary

unto me; And that I also have walked

contrary unto them, and have brought

them into the land of their enemies; if

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then their uncircumcised hearts be

humbled, and they then accept of the

punishment of their iniquity: Then will I

remember my covenant with Jacob, and

also my covenant with Isaac, and also my

covenant with Abraham will I remember;

and I will remember the land. (Leviticus

26:40)

There is therefore now no

condemnation to those who are in Christ

Jesus, who do not walk according to the

flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Romans

8:1).

This is key when breaking family curses.

As you walk in the Spirit, doing what’s

pleasing to the Holy Spirit, curses lose their

control over your destiny. As a child of God

you are no longer a servant to sin. Whom the

Son sets free is free indeed.

•

Get in agreement with this Scripture.

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If we confess our sins, he is faithful

and just to forgive us our sins, and to

cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1

John 1:9)

So after you have confessed, repented, and

prayed, believe this too. “What things soever

ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye

receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark

11:24).

Family curses are real. They can visit

because of your sin or sins by relatives up your

family tree. It is written that God visits the

iniquities of the fathers upon the children to

the third and fourth generation. It is

comforting to know that deliverance from

family curses belongs to you through the

atoning blood of Christ.

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Document Outline

- Effective Prayer Against Family Curses

- 1 Effective Prayer Against Family Curses

- Iniquity of the Fathers

- The Kennedy Curse

- The Lee Family Curse

- The Brando Family Curse

- The Recompense for Iniquity

- What Happens in Vegas

Table of Contents

Effective Prayer Against Family Curses

1 Effective Prayer Against Family Curses

Iniquity of the Fathers

The Kennedy Curse

The Lee Family Curse

The Brando Family Curse

The Recompense for Iniquity

What Happens in Vegas