What Are Generational Curses?

By: Anthony Joseph Hopkins February 1, 2020

A generational curse is basically a defilement that was passed down from one generation to another. For example, if your mother has been heavily involved in the occult, then she has become quite defiled (polluted or unclean), and has opened herself up to various demons to enter her. The Bible tells us that the sin of the parents can cause that same pollution to be handed down to their children:

Lamentations 5:7, “Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.”

What happens is that not only is the uncleanliness handed down, but demons move right in and take advantage of this often at a very young age in a person’s life (often before birth). The person then goes throughout life struggling with the same bondages that their parents struggle with. The good news is that the Blood of Jesus is more powerful than any bondage that may have been handed down to you! You can be set free and completely released from the effects of any generational curses handed down to you!

If you struggle with the same bondages as your parents, or see siblings with the same problems, then it is quite possible that you are suffering from the effects of a generational curse. Many times when you see three generations suffering from depression…

It’s almost always a generational curse at work and a spirit of heaviness took advantage of those cures in each of their lives through the defilement that was passed down.  I believe generational sin curses (curses caused by sins of the forefathers) are automatically broken at the time a person receives salvation, but the unclean spirits that entered in before they accepted Jesus still need to come out.

Other generational curses such as encountered in Freemasonry, need to be renounced and broken in order to be set free from them. Once a curse is broken, the next step is to drive out the spirits that may have entered in because of that curse.

Finally, I am bringing this topic up simply because our society consists of breaking down family relationships, and immorality.  I have noticed that; the rich are getting richer, and the poor continue to suffer.  However, I want to inform everyone that generational curses consists of sexual immorality.  It also has a whole lot to do with the activities that are inside of families that deteriorate relationships.  

For example, if a mother or father have children by multiple sex partners.  To be perfectly frank with all of you, I want to inform all of you that anytime that: there is a lot of alcoholism and drug abuse inside of the families.  This means that parents are passing their bad habits to their children.  Another example, is when parents that have children by different people.  It really hurts because there are some children that are following their parent’s path in life.  In which, leads to family dysfunctionality.

 I know that there are children, who are following their parent’s paths in life.  Even though, there are success stories in a dysfunctional family.  For this reason, children are moving away from their family of origin.  There are so many children, who decide to pick up bad habits that their parents tend to have.  What kind of pattern that you are setting inside of your homes?  It varies in one way or another.  It really hurts me because I grew up in a family that was filled with generational curses. This is very serious because there are some parents who are teaching their own children how to use vulgar language.