Healing the Broken Hearted
Part 1 — Generational Influences (Wednesday, June 10, 2026)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYycwRDZ-ac • Handouts: Healing My God Image / Self-Image / Foundational Beliefs; Genogram, Checklists & Prayer
Main Points
Healing is God’s idea
Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted, set captives free and destroy the works of the devil
“Sozo” (salvation) means saved, healed and delivered: it’s a package deal
We either embrace healing or reach for a fig leaf to hide
Why healing matters: guard your heart
Everything you do flows from the heart (thoughts, emotions, desires, motives)
Heal the heart first, then learn to guard it
Three barriers to healing (handouts)
Our image of God: see Him as He truly is (merciful, gracious, long-suffering)
Our self-image: who God says we are (accepted, complete, free from condemnation)
The finished work of Christ: total victory over darkness; the only authority darkness has is what we give it through agreement
How the enemy gains access
He counts on two things: our ignorance and our unbelief
All access comes through sin; when we sin we trade away our authority
Four main doors: personal sin, wounds (sins against us), occult exposure/involvement, generational sins
Generational influences
Definition: the cumulative effect of what our ancestors did, believed or practiced, and the residual consequences passed down
We inherit physical traits, hereditary predispositions and spiritual inheritance (positive and negative)
Spiritual laws at work
Blessings and curses
Sowing and reaping
Multiplication: what’s sown grows in later generations
Binding and loosing
Real-life examples and statistics (Margaret’s six-generation pattern; divorce/adultery patterns)
Biblical examples
Adam and Eve; Cain vs. Abel: each generation still chooses
David and Bathsheba → Amnon/Tamar → Solomon’s lust; David: “in sin did my mother conceive me”
Abraham → Isaac → Jacob → Jacob’s sons: a family pattern of lying
Only Jesus breaks the curse
Christ became a curse for us
“It ends with me”: we choose whether the pattern carries on to our children
Three steps to freedom
Identify: map a genogram to the 4th generation and use the checklists (spiritual problems, rejection/self-worth, sinful behavior patterns, health patterns)
Renounce and repent: come out of agreement; repent for ancestors’ sins and our own
Appropriate the finished work of the cross: know it, believe it, declare it
Q&A highlights
If it doesn’t look like God (not fruit of the Spirit), it isn’t from God
Honor parents while getting free: “look back with mercy”; forgiveness doesn’t validate the wrong
After breaking a curse, stay a watchman: pray over and instruct your children
Nehemiah’s model: weep, fast, pray, and confess “we have sinned”, including the father’s house
Scriptures Referenced
Psalm 147:3 — He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds
Isaiah 61:1 / Luke 4:18 — He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted (session theme, on slides)
1 John 3:8 — To destroy the works of the devil
Proverbs 4:23 — Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it
Galatians 6:7 — Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap
Matthew 13 — Law of multiplication (sowing yields more than sown)
Matthew 16:19 — Whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven
Genesis 4 — Cain and Abel
Romans 5:19 — By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners
2 Samuel 11–13 — David and Bathsheba; Amnon and Tamar
Psalm 51:5 — I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me
Genesis 12, 20, 26, 27, 37 — Abraham’s and Isaac’s lies; Jacob’s deception; Joseph’s brothers’ lie
Galatians 3:13–14 — Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us
Proverbs 23:7 — As a man thinks in his heart, so is he
Romans 6 — Reckon yourselves dead to sin (appropriating the finished work)
Isaiah 53:5 / 1 Peter 2:24 — By His stripes we are (have been) healed
Exodus 20:5–6 — Iniquity to the 3rd/4th generation; mercy to thousands
Nehemiah 1:1–7 — Nehemiah weeps, fasts and confesses the sins of Israel and his father’s house
Scripture references are as cited or quoted in the session. Where a speaker described a passage without a verse number, the standard reference has been added.
Reflection / Homework
Work through the ‘Healing My God Image’ handout and pray the prayer at the bottom
Fill in the genogram and mark patterns from the checklists with the Holy Spirit
Pray the sample prayer for healing from generational influences, naming each pattern