The experience of most Christians who are in pain looks something like the following: they come to a place in their lives where the hurt causes them to reach out to someone they trust or someone they think can help. The seekers become transparent and begin to share deep heart issues. We calm them do...

The experience of most Christians who are in pain looks something like the following: they come to a place in their lives where the hurt causes them to reach out to someone they trust or someone they think can help. The seekers become transparent and begin to share deep heart issues. We calm them do...

The experience of most Christians who are in pain looks something like the following: they come to a place in their lives where the hurt causes them to reach out to someone they trust or someone they think can help. The seekers become transparent and begin to share deep heart issues. We calm them do...

Ethnic bondages can result in negative cultural traits that are contrary to the fruit of the Spirit. Common beliefs of different nationalities or cultures are often stated and can be true for most of the people in that group. However, some of those beliefs can be untrue for some individuals within t...

Generational sins are recognized family patterns such as alcoholism, divorce, adultery, illegitimate births, and others. We receive from our parents—and then pass on to our children—family values, belief systems, blessings, curses, and patterns of behavior. The way we handle conflict in the fami...

False religions or occult involvement is an open invitation to demonic influence in our lives. This is true with anything we put faith in or practice that is not true to the Christian faith. Involvement in the Occult We once worked with a woman in her thirties who was having difficulty with confusio...

When we fail to live up to expected standards or social values in our family or social group, we experience guilt and shame. Shame is sometimes the consequence of dishonor. We have dishonored our parents, ourselves, or the body of Christ. We also experience shame if we have been dishonored by anothe...

The most empowering prayer in the ministry of soul ties is the prayer to break inappropriate authority that others might have over a person. I have seen a spirit of slavery come into a child’s life and exerciseinappropriate authority in his/her adult relationships numerous times. This spirit of sl...

The Bondage of Soul Ties God created us to have relationship with Him. We are relational beings. When our relationships with others are inappropriate, we break relationship with God and directly affect our relationships with others. Soul ties can also be acquired from emotional ties or in a relation...

Curses are often the result of negative words spoken over us. When an authority figure or even a peer speaks negatively over us, we may internalize the negative statement by repeating it to ourselves over and over. Doing so can result in this negative statement seeping deep into our spirit, thus bec...