Sid: We want everyone everywhere to be free of generational curses. You see the Messiah said “I’ve come to set the captives free.” There are many people that genuinely have had an encounter with the Lord and yet there are areas of their life that they are not free in. I have on the telephone Lori Strong. Lori there are many that would say “What is this business about talking about curses? I mean once you’re born again Jesus became a curse for you so you don’t have to bare the penalty of the curse and it’s finished you don’t have to dredge up something your mother or your grandfather or your great grandfather did think was passed on because it was finished when you said that prayer with Billy.” What would you say?
Lori: Well why then are you functioning as if He didn’t die on the cross? When I wrote the book God really showed me that so many people know that He died on the cross and that He did take those curses for us then why are we still living as if he didn’t die?
Sid: I have read your book and the notes tell me; actually I read the notes and I read a good portion of the book. The notes tell me that you have picked 20 specific curses; explained what they are and show people how to they can walk in the blessings; give the scriptures involved and give an actual prayer to break the curse, then examples of people that have had victories in those areas. Obviously there are many curses; why did you pick 20?
Lori: Well I had 40 written down to write about and the Lord really directed me each step of the way the certain curses that He I believed that He believed to whoever would read the book and hear about the book would really need to deal with those primarily first before we get to the next 20 which may be in the next book. (Laughing)
Sid: Well let me read what in your opinion are some of the most important ones; lack of faith and trust. You know most people don’t think in terms of that being a curse. Fear of man; problems in marriage; lack of communication; lack of affection; adultery; divorce; parent-child relationships; disrespect; making bad choices; addictions of all kinds, poverty; sickness; anger. Now Lori there are so many that we can deal with but let’s start out with just the basics. Explain what is a generational curse, and what does the word curse mean and what does the word blessing mean?
Lori: Okay, first of all a generational curse which is described it’s taught a lot about in the word of God of course is a curse that is passed down from maybe just one generation but usually in the Bible it says that the curse can be from your 3rd to 4th generation. And so it’s not a blessing it’s a curse so it’s the opposite of blessing. It’s anything that’s going to hinder you from walking completely free from any bondage. And it’s something that’s passed down from generations even hour grandparents or your great-grandparents who you might never even know about. Even an Aunt or Uncle that you have never had met.
Sid: By the way that’s an interesting point, we know from the Bible that what you’re saying is true but I can’t go beyond my grandparents and tell you anything about the ancestors so if I don’t know it can I break it?
Lori: You can and I think that’s one of the main points that I want to get across in the book is that just by praying those prayers and believing in faith that you don’t have that curse anymore if you had it or didn’t have it you are covered. And that’s what the word of God does it covers us. So if we use the word of God and we pray that word of God back to the Lord then we will be healed or delivered from those curses whether they were in our lives or not, so then you’re just covered. So I suggest to the reader when they read the book to not just go the chapters that might seem like they affect our…
Sid: And I might add that’s what I started to do until I read that in your book; I really see the wisdom in what you’re saying. For instance I know areas that you talk about that I really wanted to read on but I felt that I was supposed to go page by page. It’s almost like I want to be totally clean and even if I’m not aware of something there could be some vestiges there and it’s just part of me getting totally clean.
Lori: Amen and for every believer it should be that way. We should want to be clean in every area.
Sid: Listen I don’t want anything that’s going to interfere with me fulfilling the destiny God’s put me on earth for; nothing.
Lori: That’s right, that’s right amen and you know what that’s my heart I don’t want to see and I know that’s God’s heart the same He doesn’t want any believer to function under curses anymore. He wants you to be delivered; He has a heart; He’s so grieved when He sees His believers still functioning under lack or sickness because He died for that. So why are we still functioning that way; so I believe His desire, as mine is also, that we use the word of God as it was designed to be used. It’s not designed to be sitting on a coffee table with dust on it.
Sid: Just out of curiosity I want to ask you how this plays out in your life, you have by today’s standards a fairly large family four children and one on the way. How do your children handle it when symptoms of sickness try to attach themselves upon them?
Lori: Well we’ve really been blessed to have children of faith and they’re being raised up in a home that speaks of faith all the time. So if they get parents might call a little “owie” usually the parent might kiss the owie. We just have our children come over to us and we pray for them and we lay hands on them like the Bible says we have authority to do. We pray for them in Jesus Name and they walk away healed you know. I wish as adults we could do it that easily and not look at the symptoms; they walk away healed. And just recently our children have started praying for each other instead of just running to mommy and daddy they just lay hands on each other when they get hurt. And they pray for each other and that’s just all they know because they’re young and that’s just all they’ve been raised up. And so it’s just such a blessing to watch that; I wish I had that when I was a child but…
Sid: Me too! I was 30 when I became a believer in the Messiah. Lori, one of the things that intrigues me so much is the ministry that you have for people in prison. Moms and dads have to literally be educated Biblically on how to be parents. But in prison you said you’ve bumped into combinations of mothers and daughters in prison at the same time. I mean that’s as obviously a curse as you can possible see.
Lori: Right, right and that you know that has devastated me throughout the years of our ministry. When I see a mom and a daughter in prison at the same time and that to me that’s the ultimate curse and it’s the most obvious curse I should say because all of our curses are pretty much. So sin is sin and you know for me though it is devastating to me though that mother would lead a child in that way because “We’re supposed to train up our child in the way that they should go” which is according to the word. And a lot of these moms and dads don’t have a clue of how to raise these children because no one ever taught them.
Sid: Well the other thing is that you point out in your book and that is most people are aware of in prison populations many of them are single parent. And that single parent ends up in prison imagine what’s happening to the children.
Lori: Yes and that’s the largest part of our ministry is working with the children; because my heart goes out to them. I know God’s heart is with the children and we might not have a great influence on the parents because they have a choice when they get out to stay rooted and grounded in the ministry or not. But the children no matter what we need to be ministering to them all of the time even after mom and dad gets out to be the consistent person in their life. And then lead them down a different path which is breaking that generational curse of crime and drugs and those other things that are attached. And leading them on a new vision that they can have a vision for their lives that doesn’t include those things. Because they believe that they have to do what their parents did because children live what they learn.
Sid: So the parents in prison they believe they’re going to be in prison; if their parents are drug addicts they believe that they’re going to be drug addicts. If their parents don’t respect their parents it just passes on. In fact you have a chapter on that, in fact talk a little bit about which is something that affected you this disrespect. How do you get rid of it? Let’s suppose you have children that disrespect you and you know that you did it to your parents; what would you advise someone?
Lori: Well we’ve had to practice that in our own home because I’ve watched not only my daughter start disrespecting her dad but also and we cut that off at the core because I recognized it right away. She sounded just like I did as a child but as soon as I heard that tone in her voice we stopped it right there and we pray. And we talk about what the word of God says; it says “Honor your parents in the Lord for this is right and you will live long life.” And my daughter whose 12 just the other day said that to my son. She said that to my four year old she said “Don’t you want to live long, you’ve got to honor mommy and daddy.” And so we just pray the word back even if you have to do it more than once that’s okay to keep doing it because you don’t want any of those seeds to be planted. And the first time I recognized it outside of our immediate family was in my sister’s home. I was sitting there one day and they live a distance from us and we were visiting. I heard my niece disrespect her dad and that was just… my mouth hung open for a moment realizing she sounded just like me too when I was a kid but nobody stopped her from saying that to her dad not only didn’t her dad stand up for himself like my dad didn’t but her mom didn’t say anything. And that’s my sister; and so again it was it’s like a duplication of how our home was how their home was. But I believe it gets even worse as it gets passed down.
Sid: Well you know I’m just looking at all of these arenas that you talk about especially marital problems. Most people don’t think in terms that these are curses but what is it 1 out to 2 in the church are having divorce.
Lori: Yeah, which is not; it’s so grieving to God because He hates divorce he says that in His word.
Sid: But you know what I’m speaking to someone right now you can cut it; you can stop it right now if you understand what’s going on in the invisible world and get at the roots of it and get free. There are so many of these areas and this book as I explained to you on yesterday’s broadcast. That it just takes you step by step; identifies the curse; tells you the blessings, the scriptures to use for the blessings rather than having the curse. Then the prayer is literally written out for you an example to encourage you. And there’s so many areas not just marriage and children, but making bad choices and addictions and lack of faith and poverty.
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