Generational sin patterns are just like our definition of sin -- wrong actions that stemmed from wrong belief about yourself or God. These wrong belief patterns have been passed along from generation to generation.

These wrong beliefs may have begun as a sort of coping mechanism learned as individuals encountered tragedy or difficult things.

In this episode, we discuss our own struggles with generational sin. Secondly, we take a look at a very familiar family in the Bible that passed on the generational sin for over three generations. Lastly, we pray a prayer of release as we hope to leave the wrong belief behind and discover the truth.

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Did you know that a judgemental mindset desires consequences or punishment rather than growth for the other person. Yikes? At one time or another, we have probably all found ourselves living with a judgemental mindset. However, this isn’t what we see in the life of Jesus. Actually, when we look at John 8, we find him to be lacking in condemnation and instead pointing all people to freedom. Join us for this episode, as we explore the ways of Jesus in John 8 AND share a little bit about how we practiced moving away from a life led by judging others.

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Strongholds are anything that has a strong hold on your life that keeps you from an intimate relationship with God. They really distort our view of ourselves and Jesus. They keep us from living an abundant life.

In this episode, we discuss the stronghold of curses. Curses are negative words that have been spoken over you that distort your view of yourself, others or God.

We invited my sister, Alyssa, to join us for this conversation. She had a curse spoken over her by a high school coach that began to cause her pain later in life. It took years for her to recognize how this specific curse had been plaguing her.

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Would you like to take a peek into one of our journals? You can read all about Sue’s journal moving towards freedom as she uncovered a curse spoken over her during her childhood. 

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In this episode, we share the next two steps that we follow to continue on our journey towards becoming fearless. Through an imaginative prayer we take a look at the story told in Luke 1:5-23. Journey with us as we discover that Zechariah, a man who was righteous in the sight of God, struggled with his fears. Together, we learn that there is HOPE in not only overcoming our fears, but continuing to live the rest of our days in freedom of fear.

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We find ourselves asking the question: How do we become fearless when fear seems to come as naturally as breathing!?

We have found that fear is just a negative emotion that we need to bring to God. The problem is we wear it so close it's hard for us to identify. It is almost as if fear becomes a part of who we are.

We can read in 2 Timothy 1:7 that fear isn’t what God had in mind for us. Instead, He has given us access to the spirit of power, love and self-control.

Well, how do we access that power?

First, we talk about how to identify the root cause of your fears. Next, go over a few tactics that fear uses to keep us stuck. Lastly, we practice releasing our fears through an imaginative prayer.

We hope you can join us!

God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

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Join us as we talk about our second negative stronghold that can block us from truly connecting with God. This month, we are going to talk about unforgiveness. So what is Unforgiveness? Unforgiveness is an inability to show mercy to yourself, to God, or to those who have wronged you.

On the other hand, Forgiveness is showing mercy, but even more it is making a choice to see people how God sees them.

Do you think we could actually get to that place where we see people, especially those who have hurt us, as God sees them? And honestly, how and would this even be possible?

We can’t wait to share this episode with you!

Are you having trouble connecting with God? Negative strongholds put a wedge between our relationships with God. One such negative stronghold is self-hatred. At one point or another, we have probably listened to our inner negative critic telling us that we are too fat, not good enough or even too loud to be loved. It sometimes leads us to deep feelings of guilt or shame. 

What does God have to say about self-hatred? 

How do we go about moving through it? 

Join us as we share the tool we use to break down this negative stronghold.

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Have you experienced something that caused you pain? During the pain, you most likely realized you also felt hopeless or powerless. Maybe you even believed and therefore felt, unworthy, fearful, shameful, abandoned, incompetent, inadequate, unlovable, unacceptable or a number of other negative emotions and lies.

You guys, these lies we believe in our painful moments most times become our truth and define our reality. They can create even more brokenness and pain, causing us to become stressed out, confused, sad, depressed, angry. It's definitely not what God wants for us!

How do we overcome these painful moments? How do we not let them shape us into distorted, worn out versions of our true selves?

Join us for Episode 8: Taking Back What the Enemy Stole

In our last episode, we made space to talk to God about the lies we believe when we live in our false identity. We took time to give them to Jesus. As we released our lies, we wanted to make sure we fill that now vacant space with truth. God’s truth so we can live in our true identities.  

Join us for episode 7 as we ask the question we are burning to know: “Who am I, God? What is my true identity?” We look forward to hearing from you as you discover the True Identity name that God has just for you.