This link is to an excerpt from Dr Curt Thomason’s episode 13 of season 11 on Rupture and Repair. It can be viewed in full on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. Being Known , his ministry’s website
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In a worship service in Houston in Sept. ‘23, the Lord firmly told me to go stand next to a Black woman. As I stood by her and raised my hands to the Lord beside her, The Lord said, “Generational wound.” I had not understood such a thing until he called me to deliverance ministry. Any family can have generational woundedness…. It is not just a race thing, though. As Dr. Thompson observes, it was more systemically perpetuated by the broad structural acceptance of slavery in the American history. a demonic stronghold, not like being possessed, but by deception’s stronghold of the mind. Christ can free one from such oppression and heal the mind and heart.
Any abuse one experiences, verbally or physically arises from evil’s presence in the world and touching individual’s lives. Abuse and selfish use of one person against another or for the selfish benefit of another is abuse that instills lies in the mind of the abused and give rise to the perpetuation of evil’s desire to fulfill its own ends, not always consciously known in the mind and heart of the abused. Evil’s goal is to destroy one’s capacity for joy and fellowship with God and others, locking them in a perpetual posture of grief, grievance, complaint, striving, victimization, defeat or defiance….Christ’s ministry of reconciliation can break that hold and free the whole person for joyful freedom.
When I was in graduate school and was first introduced to concepts of white privilege and the impact slavery had on the Black race, I resisted it. My heart was proud, thinking I’d made my own way in life and any other person could do the same, that each generation and person enjoys total agency to become what they want. But I’ve seen the impact of generational failures, abuse, and wickedness and perpetuation of the hopelessness, anger, defiance, and defensiveness that it incites to the 3rd and 4th generation in a wide variety of families now. It is real, but not inevitable. It only takes 1 person having eyes opened to the truth to break its hold on a family. And I’ve seen that happen,too. But only through Christ’s healing work have I seen it happen.
Dr. Thompson’s most recent podcast season on rupture and repair of relationships is enlightening and instructive in this regard.
This is a photo from that worship service in which racial reconciliation became a spontaneous topic and repentance and healing was occurring. The Lord had to tell me three times to “Go stand by that woman.” I dragged my feet, moving slowly. Two more times He emphatically said, “GO!” The lady I am hugging is not the one He told me to stand by. That lady’s vibes were so hardened, defensive, and angry that she would not even look at me. I finally embraced her anyway and her stiff body told her reaction to me even as her voice said, “I forgive you.” She then left the area. This young lady was dancing in joyful freedom. It was clear she carried no generational racial wound. We hugged like the sisters in Christ we are. I talked to a dozen or more Black women over those three days. I did not find the same hardened posture in others I’d experienced at the altar from the one God told me to go to. For the most part they were open, loving, kind, generous, hospitable, and we were free from racial distancing. I live now in a community where I am a racial minority. I am comfortable among racially diverse community. For the most part we all greet one another as friends. I’m sure there are others of all races in my community who bear the woundedness of evil and imprisoning generational abuse. I’m confident God will guide me in each situation in how to present the love of Christ.
