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The five minute Bible study- Understanding generational curses Part 2 · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Welcome back to my podcast spending time with
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  dr. Christina. We're still in season 7 we're
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  on episode 6 and we're talking about generational
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  curses So let's begin where we left off the last
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  time I gave two brief examples of what? generational
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  curses could look like say maybe it's a history
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  of fornication or maybe it's poverty and the
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  family. But overall, what we're dealing with
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  when a generational curse exists is not just
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  sin and iniquity, but it's a mindset, a very
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  defeated mindset that brings us to a point where
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  we are engaging in sin. For example, if you have
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  a defeated mindset, you may be thinking, well,
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  Everybody is pretty much engaging in fornication.
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  I might as well do it with the idea that What's
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  gonna be the repercussion? Well, if you're a
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  Christian walking with the Lord you begin to
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  experience a separation from the Lord, right?
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  see God is a holy God and he tells us in his
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  word that he loves us and hates the sin and We
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  know that when we do sin we are to turn away
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  from it But when we don't turn away, we walk
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  into areas where we have a reprobate mind. This
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  means that we don't know right from wrong. And
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  our relationship with the Lord just begins to
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  deteriorate. We just hear less and less. God
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  is always talking, but we can't hear him because
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  sin is blocking it. The enemy is talking to us
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  and he is putting all sorts of ideas and Types
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  of thoughts into our heads and if we don't know
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  the Word of God then we begin to walk in defeat
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  and This is what the enemy is trying to do He's
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  trying to separate us from God where we can't
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  hear from him and we're engaging in sin daily
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  Thinking that it's okay, and it's a norm and
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  it really isn't so let's talk about how we can
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  begin to identify patterns in our lives that
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  are destructive patterns that could even be generational
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  and or generational curses and I know many of
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  you are thinking how can I begin to even start
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  in this area because you may feel that you are
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  so defeated maybe it's just numerous things that
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  you think that you're dealing with in your family
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  or you yourself well you start with any problem
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  one issue at a time Start to think about areas
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  that you have sinned in and you haven't repented
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  about or that you know that occurred in your
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  family. Just start small. and begin to work your
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  way out of it. Start with taking one issue. Maybe
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  you know that your family struggles with unforgiveness
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  and unforgiveness leads to bitterness and we
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  know that the Bible tells us we should forgive
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  so God can forgive us. You start small. You repent.
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  You repent about the unforgiveness of any forefathers
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  that didn't forgive anyone. You repent about
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  your own unforgiveness. and then most importantly
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  you receive God's forgiveness because the Bible
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  tells us that when we repent of our sins God
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  will even separate us from them as far as the
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  east is from the west so we know that when we
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  confess these sins God is forgiving us and then
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  the next step you want to work towards is renewing
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  your mind Today so many struggle with renewing
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  their mind they get stuck in a particular belief
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  system and Sometimes they think that belief system
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  is from God. They say no, it's the Holy Spirit
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  telling me this well You know, it's not the Holy
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  Spirit if it's talking about doing harm to someone
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  else or operating in bitterness or anger or any
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  kind of evil towards someone else. That is not
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  the Holy Spirit. That is the enemy. So when you
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  renew your mind you want it to line it with the
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  Word of God. God says forgive so I may be forgiven.
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  God says forgive 70 times 7. God says when you
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  forgive it's just like it never happens. Now
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  with renewing your mind forgiving others you
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  begin to establish a new thought pattern and
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  this new thought pattern is a pattern that lifts
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  up the name of the Lord it's a pattern that doesn't
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  leave defeated it's a pattern that puts the Word
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  of God against anything that man can say For
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  example, if someone tells you you're just like
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  your father and maybe your father wasn't so great
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  in their eyes, you say, no, the Bible tells me
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  that I'm the apple of God's eye. So with that
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  being said, you live an encouraging life. When
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  you begin to think and walk like God. When you
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  begin to identify these generational curses that
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  can exist that is blocking you from your success
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  or even your relationship with the Lord. We're
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  going to talk more about this later in this season.
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  This is all for this episode but I'm hoping that
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  it's been a blessing to you and until the next
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  time I'm wishing every one of you a very good
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  week.