“Messed up over and over and over AND over and OVER….. “

By: Monique Smith

Generational curses are so terrible but are oh so real! In my reading 1 Kings, I have been TRIPPING at the kings that have ran through Israel. I’m sitting here reading everything like, is this for real?! WHY are they doing the EXACT opposite of what God placed them in charge to do? ANDDDD if they saw the previous king get punished for that behavior…whyyyy would you go back and do it again?!

So if y’all have never read Kings before, basically it’s the information about the Kings who were over Israel and Judea and what they did while they were reigning. I have noticed a steady trend of generational curses, more so than I’ve ever noticed in the Bible before. Here’s a small excerpt from 1 Kings 16 & 17:

v.23- In the thirty-first year of Judah's King Asa, Omri became king over Israel;….Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; he did more evil than all who were before him. He followed the example of Jeroboam son of Nebat…… vs. 29- Ahab SON of Omri became king over Israel…. But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight more than all who were before him.

It goes on and on and on in Kings, and its really sickening. Outside of Bible world, just last night, generational curses reared its ugly head in my own family line. My younger cousin called me with family issues and in the background I heard her father yelling at her and being really boisterous. She later told me he was fighting her. She’s in high school. Her dad’s a grown man. The generational curse here: His dad abused his mom and was mean and yelled all the time. He’s just following suit. THIS IS A SHAME and should not be! I’m still having trouble grasping the idea that people repeat things that were traumatic to them!

But Thanks be to God that there is a way out! His name is Jesus and he fixes everything, all the time! Ways to break generational curses is to pray over the curse itself to be broken and then really analyze the sin/curse and cover yourself (or other individual) in prayer and scripture even more in those areas. Pray in the spirit! Just like the situation that happened to my little cousin last night, I don’t know HOW to pray for that because my mind is still in so much disbelief, but God knows exactly what is needed and Jesus, my homie, is at the right hand interceding and praying too! (Romans 8:26-27) “²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Prayer: God I love you! Help me identify bad patterns in my life that resemble the same bad patterns of my parents and other family members. I do not want to continually hurt you by being ignorant to any generational curses that I am passing along in my genes. Lord teach me how to pray and scriptures to read to help! You’re tha MAN! I love you! In Jesus name, amen!