How the Body Works?  This article is from the book "Body Life" by Ray C. Stedman. Eph. 4:11-12 11 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up  In his letter to the Ephesian Christians, the apostle Paul uses two great figures of ..

Remedial Prayers to Break the Curse If you already have a child conceived outside the protective hedge of the covenant of marriage  I encourage you to follow the steps below. You may pray steps one through three without your child present. While it’s not essential, I suggest you pray steps four through seven in the presence of your child. If you are married, it is important for you and your spou..

God’s Protective Measures in Ancient Hebrew Culture  As we look at each of the seven critical times of blessing, we will discover that God placed protective measures in the ancient Hebrew culture to ensure that children would receive His message through blessing and not Satan’s message through cursing. God’s protection usually was established in the form of laws, cultural attitudes, ceremonies, ..

Freedom for Susan’s Son  Susan came up to me during an Ancient Paths Experience I was conducting to talk with me about her five-year-old son, Billy. Though just a young boy, Billy was consumed with an unusual sexual lust. He was continually spouting sexual obscenities. He knew all the latest sexual jokes, and he devoured any type of pornography he could find. “Worst of all,” Susan told me, “a co..

Section (2-1) of Ch.4.Section (2-2) of Ch.4. Potential Consequences of Blessing and Cursing  When a child is blessed at the time of conception, the parents are giving God authority to impart His message into the child’s heart from the very beginning. This means that right at the time of conception, a strong sense of being valued, loved, wanted, accepted, and welcomed will be present. A clear sen..

Blessing Your Child at Conception  We will spend the next several chapters looking at each critical time of blessing. Before we dig deep into this topic, I want to remind you that there is an intense spiritual battle over whose message of identity and destiny will be imparted deep inside the heart of a child. If parents are not aware of this battle, the devil will use them to inadvertantly impar..

Blessing and Cursing Impact Generations  As we have discussed, family blessing or cursing often determines the course of a child’s destiny not for one generation but for many generations. Both blessing and cursing are seeds that will reproduce after their kind for generations. Noel and Phyl Gibson in their book Evicting Demonic Squatters and Breaking Bondages discovered some very interesting sta..

Blessing in Eighteenth-Century America  Although it is an ancient path established by God, it seems parental blessing and the resultant prosperity of soul were much more common even in American culture as recently as the eighteenth century. I was shocked some time ago when I heard Christan historian David Barton give an American history lecture. I knew it must have taken tremendous courage and i..

Why Do Jewish People Prosper ?  Recently I came across a book called The Jewish Phenomenon by Steven Silbiger. 1 This book confirmed what I had suspected. Silbiger begins by saying his book “takes a positive position, that the Jewish people have been successful because of a combination of factors related to the Jewish religion and culture and a collective historical experience.” He then says the..

God’s Ancient Path : Seven Critical Times of Blessing  Imparting Blessing as a lifestyle and at seven critical stages of life sets the foundation of identity and destiny that will empower generations to prosper. Although this life style of blessing is found in the Bible and is expressed through the Jewish culture. this is not just a Jewish way to live. God established these principles of blessin..