Finally

Recommended Reading:

Breaking Generational Curses (~Marilyn Hickey)
The Breaking of Curses (Spiritual Warfare Series, Volume 5) (~Frank Hammond)

Every step at the left builds on the previous step, and all are important including this one.  Every step takes a burden off and should make you feel a hundred pounds lighter.

If the other steps made you feel lighter, this step will make you soar like an eagle.  There is a verse that says, “They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength, they will mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”  This is what you have been doing, if you have gone through the other steps completely.

This step is to repent for the nation and your society.  We have been living in approval and defense of some of the most grave sin known to man.  We need to repent of it.  We need to separate ourselves from that sin and take a firm stand against it. If we do not, then we participate in that sin and bring the curses of it upon our nation and upon our families.

It isn’t enough to abstain from a sin. When confronted with a sin, we must stand against it.  It offends God and hurts people.  Here are some of the sins we need to be repenting from and taking a very strong stand against:

• The sin of adultery which we covered.
• The sin of covering adultery with divorce and remarriage instead of repentance.
• The sin of performing such weddings.
• The sin of attending such weddings and approving of them.
• The sin of giving gifts and blessings to such adulterous unions.
• The sin of helping to break up little children’s families.
• The sin of abortion and the approval or condoning of it.
• The sin of cowardice and laziness in regard to this offense.

If we will take a firm, courageous, public stand on these issues and will show integrity by making our views on this known, then this communicates to our families and our spouses that we value faithfulness, that we will deliver faithfulness, and that we expect faithfulness from them as well.

If there is one thing lacking in all of this, why not do your very best with God’s help to make sure your marriage and others marriages are as blessed as possible and free from the curses of sin?

Making This Repentance Complete

Where we once stood in defense of adultery and unfaithfulness, where we once made excuses for it, we must take a firm stand against it and renounce it at least as publicly as we supported it in the past. We need to make repairs for the damage we once did, and we need to do that diligently with the grace of God supporting us.

We may have to take a very unpopular stand and literally pray for the angel of death to visit the very families of those who continue in this sin whether it is to do this sin or whether it is to support this sin. To do this out of hatred or bitterness toward people would be terribly wrong, but there are times when a sin is so grievous that the sin must be hated fiercely and uprooted.

Understanding the Justice of This Curse Upon Family Members

For years I could not understand, for instance, when Daniel was thrown to the lions and God shut up the lions’ mouths, but when those who wanted to have Daniel executed were thrown to the lions, they were not thrown to the lions alone but also with their wives and children.  It sounded like a terribly unfair and unjust thing to do.

To get around this, I just reasoned that this was something that the king did. But, there is a problem with that reasoning. Why did God shut the lions’ mouths for Daniel but not for the wives and children of those who tried to take Daniel’s life?

We tend to equate justice with revenge.  They are not the same.  Justice seeks the greatest good of all.  Sometimes a person would be less likely to go into sin if they knew that the curse of their sins would be visited upon future generations down to the third and fourth generation. Perhaps I might sin if I know that the curse of that sin would only hurt me, but if it would hurt my parents or my daughter or my pastor or others around me, I might feel a greater weight of responsibility for my actions, and that might cause me to make better choices that would honor God more and bring a greater good to those around me.

Acceptance and Thanksgiving for Justice and Forgiveness

So, for this reason, and this reason alone, I do honor God and thank Him that there is a curse upon this sin, and I thank Him that this curse indeed goes for the families of those supporting this sin of adultery. I pray for that curse to continue and the angel of death to hover over every pastor who defiles marriage with the union of those into adulterous marriages, and I pray for that curse to carry across to their families, just as I pray for their protection once they turn from this sin and repent from it completely.

I pray for the curse over adulterous unions to intensify, that it will be unbearable, that it will be detested and that it will drive a wedge of hatred and separation between parents and children of those in adultery just as I pray for the same things amongst those who pretend to be Christians while honoring or defending or excusing such behavior whether they participate in it themselves or not.

Forgiveness is reserved for those who repent and those only. There is no forgiveness whatsoever for those who continue in the sin of adultery or in support of the sin of adultery.  There never can be and there never will be. Forgiveness is when anger and revenge for past sins is set aside in love.  It is not the same as condoning the continuing of sin which brings harm to everyone through its bad example.

As a person supports this sin, they hold nails up to the face of Jesus and declare to Him, “With these nails, I savor the feeling of pounding them into your feet and hands.” It is an offense of unmeasurable evil.  It defiles the earthly symbol of the relationship between Christ and His Bride the Church. It would be better for a pastor to turn his church into a ritualistic brothel for the goddess Diana than to lie and use the precious Name of Jesus to solemnize an adulterous marriage declaring it holy when in fact it is not. Jesus said it is unholy.  He called it adultery.  To call it holy is to shake one’s fist in Jesus face and call Him a bold faced liar. This may be the act of a religious leader, but I assure you it is not the act of a holy man of God, but rather a liar, a cheat, a swindler, and a whore monger--a pimp acting in the name of Christ.  And amongst sins, outside the sin of abortion and supporting it, I do not see how any other sin could be nearly as grievous.

Hard Prayers for Justice

We should pray that the Lord would level such churches to the ground and replace them with Godly ones--with sincere churches, with churches of holiness and integrity and courage. So many churches today are full of money grubbing, lying, cheating, sin loving, self indulging, petty, gossiping, whining sinners who will not make the first commitment real let alone grow up from milk to meat.  And, much of the time, this is because the people tend to mirror their pastors.

It is time to grow up, get serious, give up this sin, come out of this harlotry, repent, get a backbone, and say what needs to be said. Until then, may the churches of harlotry and their pastors and their families, and those who support them and those who support adulterous marriages feel the constant breath of the angels of death upon them.  May they have trouble sleeping at night until they break down and weep for the sins they carried out throughout the decades.  May they repent and go back to those they have wronged and make amends.

May the angel of death visit those who stand in defense of adultery and may their families be affected unless they take a stand against this and pray.  May prayers be met with silence. May they fall on deaf ears.  May they feel no relief until repentance is full and complete.  May the damage that they have done be overshadowed by their repentance, and may they do this and find success at last in overcoming this curse upon their lives and their families.

When they repent, may their curses die quickly and may blessings and grace and joy return in abundance so one day they will thank God in heaven for the curse that drove them to run to Him and turn from insincerity and hypocrisy and give up sin.  May their joy be complete.

In Jesus Name I pray, Amen!