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Passing Down a Heritage of Words Notice God said that your words not only affect you, they impact your descendants. They either bring life or death into your family line. That’s where the term “generational curse” came from. It’s an inaccurate way of explaining what happens when family members speak the same cursed thing about themselves over and over. It’s someone in the family line opening the door to the devil and then using words to pass down the same demonic thing to their children and grandchildren. The more that thing is passed down, the more it gets embedded in the family mindset and vocabulary. The more it gets embedded, the more powerful it becomes. Most believers don’t realize this, but you can do things in the spirit long enough to change your physical body. You can believe and rehearse the curse of sickness, or addiction, or whatever, until it damages you genetically, and that damage winds up being passed down through your family tree. In the natural that’s called heredity, but it started out in the spirit by someone believing and saying death-filled words. Can that kind of curse be stopped in a family once it’s been started? Sure, it can. I’ve seen it proven time and again. One of my favorite examples is what happened in the life of my good friend Jimmy Hester. He and I used to ride motorcycles together. One day I walked into a motorcycle shop and saw him sitting on the counter, talking on the phone, with a big grin on his face. He motioned me over, and after he finished his conversation he told me he’d been talking to his doctor. “Kenneth, I just had a physical exam,” he said. “Today is my 60th birthday, and my doctor told me I have the heart of a 16-year-old boy!” I knew he’d had heart problems in the past, so I understood right away what a miraculous report that was, but that day he told me the details. For generations, the men in his family had died in their 40s or 50s from heart problems. He’d been reminded of it repeatedly ever since he was a child. “Jimmy,” his mother would say, “you have to be careful. Your granddaddy had a bad heart, your daddy had a bad heart, now you have a bad heart too.” As predicted, by the time he was in his 50s that became a physical fact. Jimmy’s heart began giving him serious trouble. Someone who knew about it, took him to one of my mother’s Monday night prayer meetings, and just before she prayed for him, she looked him in the eye and said, “Tell me the truth about this.” “Well,” he replied, “my grandfather died with a bad heart, my daddy died with a bad heart, and now I have a bad heart.” Not satisfied with his answer, my mother tried again, “No!” she said. “Tell me the truth about it!” “Lady, I just told you the truth!” Jimmy said. “My granddaddy died with a bad heart. My daddy died with a bad heart, and now I have a bad heart.” “Kenneth, by that time, I was mad,” Jimmy told me. “I flat didn’t know what she wanted me to say. But she finally answered her own question. ‘Isaiah 53 is the truth about this,’ she hollered. ‘By Jesus’ stripes you’re healed!’ Then she slapped her hands on both sides of my head and cast that devilish condition out of me. “I walked out of her house a different man! I broke that curse, and today is my 60th birthday, and I have the heart of a teenager!” You Be the One to Reverse the Curse “Yeah,” someone might say, “but our family has a different problem. We’re just genetically inclined to have cancer.” No, shut that up right there! Be the one who ends that curse by getting it out of your mouth and replacing it with THE BLESSING. Start turning that situation in your family by applying the wisdom of Psalm 91:1-3, "AMPC". It says: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. I WILL SAY OF THE LORD, HE IS MY REFUGE AND MY FORTRESS, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! FOR [THEN] HE WILL DELIVER YOU from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.” * * * * * article continues on p. 8 * * * * * ********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** events Teaching You How to Use Your Faith 2018 Branson, Mo. : Oct. 19-22 Autumn Assembly of Prayer billyebrim.org/events Autaugaville, Ala. : Oct. 26 Greater Glory Canaan Land canaanland.com Woodland Park, Colo. : Nov. 3 Charis Bible College Building Dedication andrewwommackministries.ticketspice. com/building-dedication Washington, D.C. 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