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Warfare: Curses & Captivity I

  • Writer: Praying Scripture
    Praying Scripture
  • Jun 30, 2024
  • 10 min read

Updated: Oct 30

Start Here: Forgive Our Sin

Then Here: Armor of God


Invite The Holy Spirit

Lord our God,

  • Let Your Holy Spirit help us to pray because Your Word says that we do not know how to pray as we ought but that the Holy Spirit helps in our weaknesses and makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26)

  • Let the Holy Spirit make intercession through and for us according to the will of God (Romans 8:27)

  • Let the Holy Spirit guide us into all the truth and declare to us the things that are to come (John 16:13)

  • Let the Holy Spirit baptize us fully as with the apostles, let tongues of Holy Spirit fire rest upon each of us and let us receive Your Holy Spirit power so that we are led by the Holy Spirit in everything pertaining to this life (Acts 1:5-8 & Acts 2:1-4)


The Sword of The Word

Satan, the Lord rebuke you (Zechariah 3:2 | Jude 1:9). Behold, you are fallen from heaven like lightning. Christ beheld you fall from heaven like lightning, and He has given us authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy so that nothing will harm us. (Luke 10:18-19)


Oh Lord, our God

  • “Is not Your Word like as a fire? and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29)

    • Let Your Word that we speak below burn all curses and captivity of our spirits, souls and bodies as a fire. Let Your Word that we speak below break as a hammer all curses and captivity of our spirits, souls and bodies

  • Let the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, slay all principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in any high places that have held any part of us captive in any way or under any curse (Ephesians 6:12 & 17)


Bloodline Repentance

  • In the Name of Jesus Christ, forgive us the sins of the parents that caused You to punish the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation (Exodus 20:5)

    • Forgive us and the generations before us for making ourselves images in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below (Exodus 20:4-5)

    • Forgive us for bowing down to them or worshiping them (Exodus 20:4)

  • They have said that ‘God lays up one’s iniquity for his children’ (Job 21:19) and that that one has not cared for his household after him (Job 21:21)

    • Forgive us all iniquity of our ancestors that was laid up for us

  • Lord, You said that You would pay it back into our laps, both our iniquities and those of our fathers (Isaiah 65:7)

    • Forgive us for whatever fault our ancestors found in You, that they strayed so far from You, and followed worthless idols (Jeremiah 2:5)

    • Forgive us for whatever sin has caused You to bring charges against our ancestors' children (Jeremiah 2:9)

    • Forgive us for exchanging our glorious God for worthless idols (Jeremiah 2:11)

    • Forgive us where our ancestors sinned such that they are no more, but we still bear their punishment (Lamentations 5:7)

  • Let it no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’  (Jeremiah 31:29)

  • We come to You, Jesus Christ, who brings the new promise from God, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's (Hebrews 12:24). Let the blood of Jesus speak better things than the Blood of Abel


Captivity Repentance

  • Forgive us for having been taken captive by the devil to do his will - bring us to our senses and help us escape the snare of the devil (2 Timothy 2:26)

    • We renounce and denounce all captivity and servitude to Satan and to any of his fallen angels, evil spirits, false religions and false prophets. Everywhere that we did his will, we repent, renounce and denounce that captivity and that sin

  • Forgive us where we've been taken captive, loaded down with sins and led away by various lusts (2 Timothy 3:6)

    • We renounce and denounce all service to, partnership with or worship to any principalities, any powers, any rulers of the darkness of this world, any spiritual wickedness in any high places (Ephesians 6:12)


Void The Curses

  • We now stand on Your Word that an undeserved curse does not come to rest (Proverbs 26:2) and that if we confess our sins, You are faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9)

  • Now that we have repented, let these curses not rest upon us any longer


  • We break every curse that came from we, our ancestors and our bloodlines turning to mediums or necromancers, seeking them out, and so making ourselves unclean by them (Leviticus 19:31)

  • In the Name of Jesus Christ, let not the children of this bloodline be put to death for their parents any longer (Deuteronomy 24:16)

  • Let no weapon formed against us prosper, for we are now the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and our righteousness is from You (Isaiah 54:17)

  • Let the child no more share the guilt of the parent, and let not the wickedness of our fathers be upon us (Ezekiel 18:20)

  • Lord, You are in our midst, the Mighty One, who will save us (Zephaniah 3:17)

  • For the Son has set us free and we shall be free indeed (John 8:36)

  • For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2)

  • For we are now new creations in Christ, old things have passed away, and all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17)

  • Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” (Galatians 3:13)

  • Let us be redeemed from every curse sent or operating against us because Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (Galatians 3:13)

  • We stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and we will not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1)

  • You have delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the Kingdom of the Son of Your love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13)

  • You rescue us from every evil deed and bring us safely into Your heavenly Kingdom (2 Timothy 4:18)


New Covenants

  • Let the new covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ (Luke 22:20) replace any covenant we made with the kingdom of darkness that is affecting our bodies, souls, minds or spirits

  • Redeem us from the transgressions committed and covenants made under the first covenant (Hebrews 9:15)

  • In standing on Your covenant, Jesus Christ, we make the first one obsolete (Hebrews 8:13)


Fight The Oppressors

  • Under compulsion, let the devil let us go, and under compulsion let him drive us out of his land (Exodus 6:1)

  • For thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me." (Exodus 9:1)

  • Cause our enemies who rise against us to be defeated before our faces; that they shall come out against us one way and flee before us seven ways (Deuteronomy 28:7)

  • In the Name of Jesus Christ, let all wicked ones return the captives taken captive, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon these wicked (2 Chronicles 28:11)

  • We call on You, Lord, to lead captivity captive (Psalm 68:18 / Ephesians 4:8)

  • We will take them captive whose captives we were, and we rule over our oppressors - principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that have set themselves against us (Isaiah 14:2)

  • Let the captives of the mighty be taken away, and the prey of the terrible be delivered, for You will contend with them who contend with us, and You will save Your children (Isaiah 49:25)

  • Let the bonds of wickedness that were put on us be loosed, and the straps of the yoke be undone, let the oppressors set us free and break every yoke upon us (Isaiah 58:6)

  • Against all evil that has touched the inheritance You have caused Your people to inherit—pluck them out of our land and pluck out our houses from among them (Jeremiah 12:14)

  • Lord, break their yokes from our necks, and tear away their shackles from off of us, and cut off the carved images and cast all idols from the houses of these false gods (Nahum 1:13-14)


  • Let the angels of God, mighty in strength who carry out Your word, who hearken to the voice of Your command, all Your hosts, Your servants who do Your Will (Psalm 103:20-21) sent forth as ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14) deliver us from the domain of darkness and transfer us to the Kingdom of Your beloved Son (Colossians 1:13)

  • Let the angel of the LORD that encamps around we who fear You deliver us (Psalm 34:7)

  • Lord, command Your angels concerning us to guard us in all our ways - let them lift us up in their hands, so that we will not strike our feet against stones, so that we will tread on the lions and cobras that attack us, so that we will trample the young lions and serpents that attack us (Psalm 91:11-13)

  • Let no evil befall us, no plague approach our tents (Psalm 91:10)


Freedom From Captivity

  • Bring us back from any captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the South (Psalm 126:4)

  • Stretch out Your hand from above, rescue us and deliver us out of great waters (Psalm 144:7), reach down from on high and take hold of us, draw us out of deep waters. Reach down from heaven and rescue me (Psalm 18:16)

  • Lord, we once went into captivity because we had no knowledge (Isaiah 5:13), but we now know that You bring back the captivity of Your people and we call on You to lead captivity captive (Psalm 68:18 / Ephesians 4:8)

  • You are the Lord who causes captives to return, and rebuilds them as at the first. You will return the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: “Praise the Lord of hosts, For the Lord is good, For His mercy endures forever”— and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. You will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first (Jeremiah 32:44 / 33:7 & 11)

  • You who brought back the captives of Moab (Jeremiah 48:47)

    • Bring us back from any captivity

  • You who brought back the captives of Ammon (Jeremiah 49:6)

    • Bring us back from any captivity

  • You who brought back the captives of Elam (Jeremiah 49:39)

    • Let the angel of the Lord that encamps around we who fear You deliver us (Psalm 34:7). Command Your angels concerning us (Psalm 91:11)

  • You who brings back the captives of Jacob, have mercy on the whole house of Israel, You who is jealous for Your Holy Name - let us know that You are the Lord our God, who brings us back and leaves none of us captive any longer (Ezekiel 39:25-28)

  • For You Lord our God will intervene for us and return us from captivity (Zephaniah 2:7)

  • For the Spirit of the Lord God is here, anointed to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound (Isaiah 61:1 / Luke 4:18)

  • You have said that You will bring us back, even at the time You will gather us - for You will give us fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when You return us from captivity (Zephaniah 3:20)

  • You have said that You will bring back the captives of Your people Israel, and we shall build the waste cities and inhabit them, we shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them, we shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them (Amos 9:14)


Restore Our Souls

  • Lord, in the Name of Jesus Christ, restore our souls (Psalms 23:3)

  • Bring our souls out of prison, that we may praise Your Name (Psalm 142:7)

  • Give us a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit, that we may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that You may be glorified (Isaiah 61:3)

  • Let our light come, and the glory of the Lord rise upon us (Isaiah 60:1)

  • Isaiah 61

    • We pray You'd rebuild the old ruins

    • We pray You'd raise up the former desolations

    • We pray You'd repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations

    • We pray You'd restore upon us the garments of salvation and robe of righteousness

  • May The Lord once again call our names, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit (Jeremiah 11:16)

  • Let the angel of the Lord instruct that our filthy clothes be taken off, take away our sin, and put fine garments on us (Zechariah 3:4)

  • Restore to us the years that the swarming locusts, the hoppers, the destroyers, and the cutters ate (Joel 2:25)

  • Lord Jesus Christ, the glory that the Father gave You, You have given to us, that we may be one even as You are one (John 17:22). Restore that glory and that oneness to our spirits, souls and bodies

  • Restore all the inheritance that is due to us as heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17)

  • Restore every spiritual blessing that You gave us in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:3)


Deliverance

  • For we know that we have the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, that whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matthew 16:19 | 18:18)

    • We therefore loose ourselves from all captivity that once bound us to any iniquity

  • Let the angels of God, mighty in strength who carry out Your word, who hearken to the voice of Your command, all Your hosts, Your servants who do Your Will (Psalm 103:20-21) sent forth as ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14) deliver us from the domain of darkness and transfer us to the Kingdom of Your beloved Son (Colossians 1:13)

  • Let the angel of the LORD that encamps around we who fear You deliver us (Psalm 34:7)

  • Lord, command Your angels concerning us to guard us in all our ways - let them lift us up in their hands, so that we will not strike our feet against stones, so that we will tread on the lions and cobras that attack us, so that we will trample the young lions and serpents that attack us (Psalm 91:11-13)

  • Let no evil befall us, and let no plague approach our tents (Psalm 91:10)


In the mighty Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.


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