Break Every Chain

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for sending Jesus to die on the cross for my sins. I acknowledge that I have sinned and that I cannot save myself.  I believe Jesus came to give me life and by faith, I now choose to receive you as my Lord and Saviour. May the power of your indwelling presence enable me to be the person You created me to be.  I pray that you would grant me repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth so that I can experience my freedom in Christ and be transformed by the renewing of my mind.

I ask that in the coming weeks your Spirit will lay on my heart all the beliefs, habits and sins that you want surrendered to your authority.  Please bind the evil ones.  Please speak into my spirit with your truth and walk with me each day.

In Jesus name I pray,  amen.

Keep your notepad and pen handy and write things down as they come to mind .  God's Spirit may speak into your life in your room, when you're walking in a forest or he may wake you in the wee small hours with something profound on your heart. Whenever the Spirit moves ... write it down and then test it against God's Word.

And remember  ...

"I knew you before you were born."
Jeremiah 1:5

I chose  you before the foundations of the world." 
Ephesians 1:4

The Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. 
John 16:13

You are sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.
Ephesians 1:13

Your heavenly Father sent His Holy Spirit to bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God.
Romans 8:16

God has given us eternal life and this life is in His son, Jesus Christ.  He who has the Son, has life, he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 
1 John 5:11-12

Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father but by me." 
John 14:6

Dear Heavenly Father, please bring to my mind anything and everything that I have done knowingly or unknowingly that involved occultic, cultic, pagan or false religious teaching and practices.  Grant me the wisdom and grace to renounce any and all spiritual counterfeits, false teachings and deceptive practices.
I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

This conversation with God may take a week or two or three:

List the elements as the Spirit brings them to your mind:

• imaginary friends, spirit guides or "angels"

• repeated voices in your head pulling you down

• psychics, mediums, channelers, spiritists, shamans, witch doctors

• secret vows made in or to any organisation

• satanic rituals, concerts, fires, shrines

• contact with dead people - seances, circles, ouija boards

• games - charlie charlie, light as a feather, bloody mary et.al.

• mental telepathy, astral travel

• previous life healing, past life adoption, reincarnation 

• fortune telling, palm reading, tarot cards, astrology, horoscopes

• witchcraft, sorcery, wicca, satanism

• spiritual partners / lovers

• sexual spirits

• aliens

Write them down. 

"Father I renounce every practice on this page.  I pray that you will fill me with your Holy Spirit so that I may be guided by you and you alone. Grant me wisdom to defend against false accusations from the evil ones and stand firm in your presence as your child.

I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen."

Write a letter to God and surrender each one to Him. He wants to fill you with His truth and His love.

Your transgressions have been removed from you as far as the east is from the west.  Psalm 13:12

Now, or at the end of this journey, you may want to tear out this page and burn it.  You have brought these matters before the Lord.  They no longer have a role in your life.  They are finished.

Dear Heavenly Father, You are the truth and I desire to live by faith according to Your truth.  That truth will set me free.  I have been deceived by the father of lies, the rebellious sons of God, the philosophies of this world and even by my own selfish passions and desires.  I choose to walk in the light, knowing that You love and accept me just as I am.  As I consider all the possible deceptions, I invite the Spirit of truth to guide me into all truth.  Please protect me from all deceptions as You search my soul and know my heart.  Try me and know my anxious thoughts and any harmful or hurtful way in me.  Lead me in the everlasting way.

In ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

List the deceptions that you may have adopted.  They may include. but not be limited to:

• I am dumb, I am not educated

• I have lived many lives before and will live many more

• sexual promiscuity will bring lasting satisfaction

• I can live alone and not depend on anyone

• I am God and I have free will

• little sins don't matter

I have wrongly responded to this world by:

• avoiding reality

• seeking spiritual power

• withdrawing from people to avoid truth / accountability / honesty / rejection

• creating false narratives - rainforest communities, utopian transformations, alien visitations

• taking refuge in promiscuity, serial monogamy and/or masturbation

• projecting a false image of success

• rationalising my bad behaviour

• lying to cover my tracks

Father, I have wrongly protected and projected the child within me.  I have responded wrongly to the pain and hurt and fear.  I come to you for truth.  I come to you for healing.  Please fill my mind with your truth and love.

I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

Write a letter to God surrendering your false self.

Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the riches of your loving kindness, forbearance and patience toward me.  Your patience has led me to repentance. I confess that I have not shown that same kindness and patience toward those who have hurt or offended me (Romans 2:4).  Instead, I have held onto my anger, bitterness and resentment toward them.  Please bring to my mind all the people I need to forgive in order that I may now do so.  I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

Spend an hour, or a week, and list the names of the people who come to mind.  You don't need to question why, just who.

Your name may be on that list too.  We often hold things against ourselves, punishing ourselves for wrong choices we made in the past. 

You may have God's name on that list too.  Perhaps He didn't do what you wanted.

Now, it is important to note that forgiveness is not forgetting.  The memory may last for many years.  The memory becomes easier to manage when we let go of the bitterness.  Forgiveness is a conscious choice.  It is a decision of the mind. 

Forgiveness is often learning to live with the consequences of another person's actions.  AND that can suck ... but it may not be not your doing or your fault.

We are to forgive as Christ forgave us.

Go back through that list and record what and how you felt.

Ask yourself, honestly, was it all their doing?  Did you contribute or provoke or fail to take responsibility for your own actions?

If someone has hurt you, take it to God.  You don't need to seek out the other person.  That may not help.  Just give Him your pain.  He will soak it up.

Dear Heavenly Father,   I choose to forgive _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , for _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ because it made me feel  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.  I choose not to hold onto the resentment.  I relinquish my desire to seek revenge and ask you to reset my emotions.  Thank you for setting me free from the bondage of my bitterness. 
I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen. 

Have you hurt others?  

Then it's time to take responsibility for, and seek forgiveness for, the pain you have caused. 

Ask God to bring to mind those people you have hurt.  List them down and ask God The Father to guide you in the appropriate repair.  Don't let Satan influence your thoughts on this one.  Never, ever.

Dear Heavenly Father, I confess and repent of my sins against my "neighbour" _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Please open the door to confession and reparation where appropriate.  Please heal and bless the people I have hurt.  I am sincerely sorry for my selfishness.  I ask and pray this in Jesus name,  Amen.

Write a letter to God handing all the pain and bitterness to Him.  He wants to take it from you.  If God wants you to take steps to repair the pain you caused, then you know what you have to do, don't put it off.

Intergenerational pain, intergenerational damage, intergenerational curses, intergenerational patterns of behaviour are quite common.  The sins/psychology/beliefs of the parents are "visited upon the children to 3rd and 4th generations".

Deuteronomy 5:9-10 is a dangerous verse if taken in isolation.  Children are not held accountable for the sins of their parents.  However, they often wear the consequences.  Parents have an extraordinary impact on the values, beliefs and behaviours of their children.  Some are constructive.  Some are destructive.

The opportunity for changing that inheritance rests with you.  You have the opportunity in this life to break the bonds of generational "curses" and establish healthy loving foundations going forward.  Deuteronomy 5 is clear that God is a jealous God.  He wants our total love for Him ... not because he is egotistical but because he knows the damage the rebellious sons can do.  It is the love of a protective Father at work.

Those curses could be spiritual.  They could be conceptual.  They could be behavioural.  Whatever their root, you only get one life time to deal with the consequences.  There are no second or third bites at life's cherry.

Dear Heavenly Father, please reveal to my mind all the sins/psychology/beliefs of my ancestors that I have inherited that are contrary to your intended purpose for creation.  I want to be set free from those beliefs and walk in your love as your child.  I ask and pray in Jesus name. Amen.

List them down over the coming week/s.

I hereby reject and disown the sins of my ancestors.  They are not mine.

I renounce any and all satanic attacks on me and my family.

I reject any and every way that Satan may try to lay claim over me.

I command any and every enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ to leave my presence.

I am a child of God.  I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.  I know He paid for my sins on the cross and conquered the power of sin and death.  

I seek the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit and seek His wisdom to defend against further attacks.

Father please bless and protect me and my family. Please lead us in your truth.

I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

Write a letter to God handing over all those influences.  They stop here and now.  Thank Him for setting you free.  You shall be free indeed.   John 8:36.

Freedom ?

Sexual freedom and bondage to sexual sin are two sides of the same coin.  They bind us to a lustful mindset at the expense of our relationship with God.  

God gave us sex not to sleep around but, rather, to share in marriage and to share in the privilege of parenthood.  God is clear, fornication, adultery and homosexuality are sin and are deserving of His punishment.

Many times as believers, we feel trapped in a cycle of "sin-confess, sin-confess, sin confess" that never seems to end.  However, God's Word gives us these promises:

1. God who is faithful, will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide you with a way of escape.  1 Corinthians 10:13

2. Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.  James 4:7

3. If you did not choose the way of escape and instead yielded to sin , then you should confess that sin to God, ask Him to fill you with His Holy Spirit, and resisthe devil by pitting on the whole armor of God. Ephesians 6:10-20

Sin that has become habitual may require that you seek help from a trusted brother or sister in Christ. James 5:16 says to confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed.  

John 1:9 says that if we confess our sin, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Dear Heavenly Father, I have allowed sin to reign in my mind and body. I ask you to bring to my mind the incidents where I have used my body for unrighteousness so that I may confess, renounce and repent of my sexual sin and be set free of the physical, emotional and spiritual bonds.  

I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

It is our responsibility not to allow sin to reign in our physical bodies.  To avoid that, we must not use our body, or another persons body, as an instrument of unrighteousness.  Romans 6:12-13.

Sexual immorality is a sin against the temple of the Holy Spirit ... that's me ... my body ... my mind.  God's Spirit does not want to co-engage in pre-marital or extra-marital sex.  That's not what He ordained sex for.

Dear Heavenly Father, I renounce and repent of the sins that I committed with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.  I ask that you will break the physical, emotional and spiritual bond that were created between us.

Sexual sins committed against us can dig deep into our souls.

Sexual sins committed against us can hurt us deeply - emotionally, psychologically and developmentally.  The profound pain of rape, incest and/or prolonged sexual abuse cuts deep into the core of our being and can ripple through our lives for decades. The experience can impact our future relationships and future generations of children.

Victims of sexual abuse often require specialised help in PTSD counselling.  Victims of prolonged and systemic sexual abuse need help in CPTSD counselling.

If you are a victim of such abuse, please ask God to lead you to specialised help to begin the journey to healing.

If you are the perpetrator of such abuse then get down on your knees and seek God's forgiveness and instruction in healing the damage you caused.  Take your pad and pencil to your prayer room and seek the Spirit's instruction.  Do not shirk God's direction.  Total honesty and repentance may lead to further prison time.

Pornography and masturbation.

Dear Heavenly Father, I confess that I have looked at sexually explicit material for the purpose of self stimulation. I am sorry for my sin and ask for your forgiveness.  I commit to destroying any pornographic material and sex toys.  I seek your power to turn away from these stimulants.  Please help me shut out all the sexually explicit triggers in the media.  Please guide and direction my choice of television shows, films and web sites. I seek your Spirit to renew my mind and think pure thoughts.  

I ask and pray in Jesus name, amen.

Father, thank you for taking away my sin.   Please grant me wisdom to make better choices going forward.  Please indwell me and use this body for your righteousness.