Objects That Carry a Family's Power
"Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it." — Deuteronomy 7:26
Heirlooms With Instructions
There is a pattern that appears wherever families have served other powers for generations: objects are handed down, and they are handed down with instructions.
Consider a young woman from an old European family — a family that had served darkness for centuries and possessed a family tree drawn on parchment reaching back to the fifteenth century. She was the first person in that line to come to Christ.
Before her mother died, she was given a number of items and told to guard them carefully and one day pass them to her own daughter. She was warned that if any of them were lost or destroyed, she would die.
When she asked why the items mattered so much, the answer was direct: they ensured the continuation of the family's power.
That is an extraordinary sentence, and it is worth reading twice. The objects were not sentimental. They were structural. They were the mechanism by which spiritual power remained attached to a bloodline.
What She Did
She brought the items and prayed over each one, breaking the lines of inheritance and every curse attached to them. Then, as each object was destroyed, she commanded every spirit associated with it to leave her life forever in the name of Jesus Christ.
One item was unexpected. It was a certificate of citizenship, issued to the first ancestor of her family to arrive in a new country in the previous century. Her mother had emphasized its enormous importance to preserving the family's power in that branch.
When they prayed to understand why, the answer that came to both of them at once was this: that document had functioned as a legal doorway, granting the spirits attached to that family line clear entrance into a new nation.
As it was destroyed, she commanded not only that they leave her life, but that they leave that nation, and she asked the Lord to close the doorway behind them.
The Principle Behind the Story
You do not need an aristocratic family tree for this to apply.
Ordinary families pass down ordinary-looking things with extraordinary attachments. A ring worn in a lodge. A ceremonial apron folded in a drawer. A grandmother's deck of cards used for readings. A charm given at a birth for protection. A carved figure brought back from somewhere and never explained. A family Bible with occult symbols inked inside the cover. A medal, a pendant, a doll, a mask.
Ask two questions about any inherited object:
What was it used for? Not what does it look like — what was its function.
What was I told about it? Warnings are informative. Never get rid of this. Keep it in the family. Something bad will happen if you lose it. Those are not sentimental statements. They are the language of attachment.
Point to Ponder
Some heirlooms are not memories. They are anchors.
Verse to Remember
"Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing." — Deuteronomy 7:26
Question to Consider
What did my family hand me, and what was I told about it?
Today's Practice
Go and look at what you have inherited. Physically open the boxes.
For each item ask: what was this used for, who used it, what religion or organization was involved, and what was I told about keeping it?
Ask the Holy Spirit specifically about anything you are uncertain about. Pay attention to items you feel strangely reluctant to examine.
Where an object is connected to a lodge, a false religion, occult practice, or a family "protection," deal with it: renounce the line of inheritance and every curse attached, command every associated spirit to leave in Jesus' name, and then destroy the object rather than selling it or passing it on.
Sentimental value is not a sufficient reason to keep an anchor.
Prayer
Father, I did not choose what my family handed me. But I do choose what I keep.
Show me anything in my possession that carries an attachment — anything given to preserve something in this family that should never have been preserved.
I renounce every line of inheritance that is not from You. In the name of Jesus Christ, I break every curse attached to anything I have received from my family, and I command every spirit associated with those objects to leave my home and my life now.
Where a door was opened for my family generations ago, I ask You to close it and seal it with the blood of Jesus Christ.
Give me courage to part with what needs to go, even where it costs me sentiment. In Jesus' name. Amen.
When you are warned never to destroy something, you have learned exactly what it is.