Family Patterns
Week 2
Sin Patterns

PATTERN is “a reoccurring way of acting by an individual or group toward a given object or in a given situation.”

Family Patterns are IMPORTANT because they will make or break your Family.

Your BATTLE is against Spiritual Forces within Yourself!

A “Stronghold” is a military term that refers to a FORTRESS or PRISON.

DISTORTED or WRONG thinking leads to Sinful Actions and Attitudes that allows the enemy to gain control over us forming a Stronghold.

1. Rebellion

2. Control and Manipulation

3. Fear and Insecurity

4. Sexual Impurity

5. Sickness and Infirmity

Within a period of a couple of years my Father was diagnosed with 3 auto-immune deficiency diseases.

The First way is through “OPEN DOORS,”

The Second way is through INTRUSION.

1. Willful Disobedience

2. Inner Vows and Judgments

3. Curses

4. Emotional Trauma and Hurt

5. Unforgiveness

Unforgiveness imprisons and torments US not the other person.

First, forgiveness is humanly IMPOSSIBLE!

Second, forgiveness is NOT dependent on the other person asking for it, deserving it, repenting for it, or recognizing that they’ve hurt us.

Third, forgiving someone doesn’t CONDONE or make what they did right.

Ephesians 6:12 tells us that we need to IDENTIFY, UNDERSTAND, AND DESTROY the real enemy in our Family…the SPIRITUAL FORCES that have set up STRONGHOLDS in our lives.

Families become healthy when THEY IDENTIFY, UNDERSTAND, AND DESTROY the Strongholds in their lives!

- What strongholds have you been identifying in your mind as I’ve been talking?
- What are you willing to do about them?
- What do you need to repent of and make right?
- What lies do you need to replace with truth?

Fourth, forgiveness doesn’t mean You have to trust them again.