How to Use This Prayer to Break Patterns

In a family, you inherit characteristics and tendencies.  Eye color, height, hair color, and personality temperaments often run in families. You may have noticed tendencies or problems that run in a family.  For many reasons, there can be dysfunction (divorce, addiction, abuse, etc.) that can plague a family for generations.  Prayer is an effective way to bring your concerns to the Lord.  Although prayer is not a substitute for the treatment of a problem,  we know that prayer that uses the word of God can break spiritual strongholds that may hold certain patterns in place across generations.

Pray Using the Word of God

Here is a prayer from my book “Correcting Distortions in Your View of God“.  It is based on Scriptures (listed below).

Lord, You created family and intended them to be a source of joy and safety.  Through the generations, Your plan has been corrupted and families pass down bad things as well as the good You intended.   I pray this prayer, Lord, to cleanse anything I have done or inherited through my family line.  I want my children and myself to be free from destructive patterns.

I repent on behalf of my family line, on both sides, as far back as You can see, Lord.  I repent for breaking commandments where we did not put You first, used Your name as a curse, worshipped false gods, failed to honor the Sabbath, rebelled against parents, caused violence, lied, stole, or committed sexual sin.  I repent for myself and on behalf of my family for secret sins, secret vows, and occult practices that You call an “abomination” in Your word (Exodus 20:1-17).

I renounce those practices, sins, and the addictions in my life and in my family line.  I ask for You to apply the shed blood of Jesus (Exodus 12:21-24, Isaiah 53:4-12) to cover those sins. I thank You for dying on the cross, voluntarily, so that we have Your resurrection power to break these patterns that have passed from generation to generation.

I worship You as the only true God.  I ask You to continue to draw each of us closer to You, Lord Jesus. I ask You to fill our eyes with Your light (Psalm 36:9, Ephesians 1:18) and draw each of us to Your path of life (Psalm 16:11). Thank You, Jesus, that You are releasing all the blessings that You originally designed for our family.  Amen.

I would encourage you, when you pray for your family, to keep praying positive Scripture (such as Psalm 36:9; Psalm 91; Ephesians 1:18; and Psalm 16:11)  for each of them.  God honors His word (Jeremiah 1:12).

This prayer is taken from my book  “Correcting Distortions in Your View of God” available on Amazon.