What’s In Your Blood?
The more spiritually mature I become, the more knowledge I uncover about the mystery of our blood, our bloodlines and The Blood (of Jesus). I am learning that most of the repeated patterns of negativity and/or adversity we suffer in our lives, and in our families, might be rooted on sin curses introduced into our ancestry through demonic covenants, witchcraft, idolatry and other sinful practices of our ancestors. Conversely, some of the unexplainable graces we enjoy in our current generation might be due to seeds sown of righteousness and righteous covenants made by other ancestors who had the mindfulness to live uprightly.
What is so insidiously scary about this phenomenon is that these patterns, devious as they are, are so rooted and etched within the framework of our families and even societies that we recognize, yet accept them as culture and/or acceptable familial traits. For instance – the family where the females never marry, or the family where the males never amount to anything, or even that family where children die young and/or never get to a certain age of maturity. Conversely, you have those families who are swimming in the graces of the righteous seeds sown by their ancestors; they live to a hundred, everything they touch turns to gold, businesses thrive and yet you see no spectacular effort made to achieve these things.
Exodus 20:5 – God forbids the worship of idols and says, “you shall not bow down to them or worship them: for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.” Numbers 14:18 describes God as slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving the iniquity and transgression, but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation”.
Then enters the blood of the eternal covenant through our Lord and savior Jesus Christ – Colossians 2:14 “having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross” The Lord’s sacrifice on the cross canceled our legal debt and condemnation, but even more important than Colossians verse 14, are the requirements/expectations of the preceding verses 9-13 which speak of our baptism in Christ. God is not a respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of Covenants, and those who are not with Him are against Him. Pick a side, choose your covenants, and choose them wisely.
A caveat – I have learnt that just being in Christ alone does not automatically reverse bloodline curses. We have to rise up, through prayer, consecration and warfare, and denounce these curses. We have to invoke the blood of Jesus “which speaks better things” for us through Christ our mediator and silence the voice of the accuser (Hebrews 12:24). We have to become watchmen for our families (Isaiah 21:6-9) and be alert to keep watch against Satan’s relentless wickedness (1 Peter 5:8) as he prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
Spiritual covenants could be personal, familial and/or territorial – I am learning. There are people, families and nations held in bondage due to the demonic covenants of those who were probably charged with their governance or charged with being their watchmen. If we say we are followers of Christ, we need to yield the governance of our lives, families and nations to Him, to whom the earth and all that’s in it belong (Psalm 24). When we seek to govern ourselves outside of the sovereignty of the Lord by covenanting with the enemy, intentionally or inadvertently, then we mortgage not only our lives, but the lives of those coming after us, our children, their children and their children’s children to lives of repeated patterns of the demonic, strife and adversity.
The questions that follow therefore are – what’s in your blood? Are you fully baptized in Christ? What are the identified patterns in your bloodline? Are they good (righteousness) or bad (Sin curses)? What then will your legacy for your children be? What covenants have you roped them in to? What foundation have you prepared for them?
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3)
What’s In Your Blood?