Topic: Generational Curses
Text: Exodus 20:3-5

My prayer for you is that at any time the salt of God is required in your life, God will apply the salt, in Jesus’ name. Elisha went to the spring of the river to apply the salt. Why did he do this? He did so because a curse is like a river. It flows downwards. When the father is cursed, his children and his grandchildren are affected by the curse, automatically.

In Exodus 20:5, God says: “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” Once a father is cursed the children are in trouble. Fortunately, a blessing is also like a river.

If you deal with a curse on a father at the spring and replace it with a blessing, all his children will be beneficiaries of the blessing. Why was the salt put in the cruse? The cruse is an earthen vessel and is almost useless without salt. Human beings are almost nothing without the Holy Spirit. In fact, Jesus Christ said that without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5). A look at the origin of man reveals a fact: “And the LORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.”

Before the Holy Spirit entered into man he was ordinary clay. When Adam was being cursed for his sin, God said he was an ordinary dust and to dust he would return (Genesis 3:9). We thank God that today things have changed. For those of us baptized in the Holy Spirit, we have the Holy Spirit living in us. One day, our bodies will be transformed.

Memory Verse: Genesis 2:7 - “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”