The devil uses different avenues to perpetuate family bondages; it is called negative patterns. Negative patterns affect lives and destinies. Negative patterns are peculiar to families and are generational. The enemy has taken advantage of our ignorance to sell to us what is not our portion. God can never and will never ordain suffering for any family that he created ~ Isaiah 8: 18 KJV; Psalm 112: 1 – 2 NLT. We suffer because we are ignorant. You may have a solution with you but still suffer. Our God can deliver to the utmost, there is no captivity that is too hard that God cannot deliver us from ~ Lamentation 3: 37 NKJV. God has a right of way anytime he wants to move into any family.
Reading: Luke 1: 74 NKJV; Luke 1: 45 NKJV/ KJV; Lamentation 5: 7 – 10 GNT; Jeremiah 31: 29 – 30 GNT
Why does the devil keep families in bondage?
- To ensure that families do not fulfil their divine mandate. Every destiny has a mandate and there are three people interested in each destiny i.e God, the parent and the devil. The devil knows that carries destinies and he goes ahead to frustrate such agendas.
- To afflict families
- To waste potential in families
- To steal the peace of families. There are so many dysfunctional families in our times.
- To stop the progress of families. The devil knows that once people are successful in a family everybody will be home and dry.
- To bring reproach upon families where people disdain families.
- To mock the God they serve.
Some of the negative patterns in families to deal with;
- Marital failure. People in the families never marry.
- Marital delay. They marry but marriage does not come early ~ Psalm 90: 14
- Premature death.
- Rise and crash
- Barrenness
- Sexual immorality
- Sicknesses and diseases
How do you deal with the negative patterns?
- Identification of the negative patterns. You cannot deal with what you do not know or you will be 'shadow-boxing'. Families differ and there is no copy and paste in the kingdom. READ: Genesis 47:9 GNT. Jacob gave the account of his life to the Pharaoh. * What you fail to deal with, will deal with you.
- Deal with the negativity: After identifying the negative pattern, go into the proper treatment of the negativity with the word of God, sacrifice, prayer and fasting.