A Kingdom Key Devotional by Bishop Thomas Wesley Weeks, Sr.
Breaking Generational Curses - Part 1
HURTING PEOPLE HURT OTHER PEOPLE. WHEN WE ARE HURT, DISTRESSED OR ABUSED IN SOME FORM, WE OFTEN CONSCIOUSLY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY TAKE IT OUT ON SOMEONE ELSE.
There is more to you than what you feel. Yes, you feel pain, anguish, hurt and discouragement. Part of your pain stems from the fact that sometimes you seem compelled to mishandle situations in the same way your parents mishandled them. But, in the back of your mind, there is something you know. You know that accepting a repeat of your parents failures in yourself is not satisfactory. You vowed not to, but those failures are staring you in the face. The thing you said you would not do, you do and you feel no compulsion to stop. This is called a generational curse.
A family curse is an issue of the parent and is passed from one generation to the next, usually through pain. As blood is the channel that passes on many deadly diseases, so pain is the channel that passes on curses. It is noted that when you find an abused child you will then find a parent who was abused. Usually, out-of-wedlock children have out-of-wedlock babies. Prisons are now full of fathers who are now serving time with their sons who in turn are having sons, who are growing up with the thought of joining them. Can you imagine, a boy growing up knowing his father and grandfather are both in prison? Unfortunately, the pain usually commits him to follow the same path with the same results.
When a parent is abused as a child, he or she carries the pain of that abuse. When that adult is a parent, the pain does not go away but rather, manifests itself with abusive behavior to his or her child. I am purposely including both genders in this paragraph because I want you to know that generational curses cross gender lines. The pain the parent received from his or her parent is now passed on to the grandchildren through similar behavior patterns. No family is excluded from these curses. Every family has them. Notice, I said them. It does not matter whether your family is rich or poor, educated or not, respected or disrespected, each family has issues that must be dealt with.
It is incumbent upon an individual to decide whether the curses of his family will stop with him or will continue to the next generation. Deciding to crucify your issues with yourself, and not to pass the pain on, is easier said than done. But, when done, this is a profile in courage and the first step on the road toward greatness. Rather than repeating your past and slapping your child from one corner of the room to the next at that intense moment you find another way of correction. That can be extremely difficult, but courageous. Your child's legacy will reflect your sacrifice when he is free to do things you had to struggle with!
