This morning I awoke from a dream in which someone placed a folder of information in my hands. When I opened it, it was a file from many sources and scholars on the Inuit people. I woke up wondering what this meant and what I was supposed to do, but the way the Lord most frequently works with me is to research something and then write a prayer, so that is why I am writing this particular article and prayer. This was something that was not even on my radar. I did not have any thoughts whatsoever to research this topic, but the Holy Spirit knows who needs this!
In researching the history of Inuit beliefs and practices, one thing I noticed that is common with many of native ancestry is that they tend to syncretize their history and traditions of storytelling along with religious beliefs. Many do believe in Christianity but they may also feel it is a betrayal of their identity should they forsake the customs and traditions of their ancestors. Thus, the two belief systems merge into a combined religious system that incorporates all of these beliefs and practices into a new form of religion. Neither is completely pure or exclusive of one another. This results in polytheism, or the belief of many gods, but scripturally this is considered an offense and idolatrous to the one true God, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
According to Wikipedia, the Inuit people originated from Artic and subartic regions of Greenland, (Denmark) Canada, and Alaska. Their religion has many forms and variants, but other cultures have traditionally had similar spiritual mediators known as Angakkuq. Angakkuk are trained in the culture, history and language of the Inuit, but they also depend on familiar spirits or spirit guides for their counsel, and are also known as shamans. Shamans play a prominent role in the lives of the Inuit. They act as healers, counselors, and are sought out for their wisdom and knowledge, but the spiritual reality is they practice witchcraft and magic that is banned by God. The myths, legends and folktales of the Inuits (as well as other native tribes) that are passed down from generation to generation involve fear of punishment and other fears, which opens the door to a spirit of fear. These familiar spirits are given legal permission, accessing the lives of each family member that practices these traditions. Inuit live in fear of unknown forces due to the harshness and randomness of life in the Arctic. Many of the Inuit depend on the sea for provision, so many of their legends involve gods & goddesses of water spirits. The stories they tell their children often involve a fear of what will happen if they break certain taboos or get too close to the water. It is only through obedience to custom, avoiding taboos, and performing the right rituals that the spirit of the dead can be placated.The spiritual beliefs are as diverse as the culture.
The Inuit people have long incorporated oral traditions of storytelling which include animism and shamanism; the belief that their spiritual healers have the ability to meditate with spirits and then release healing to individuals. They look for life lessons to impart to others from legends, folklore and storytelling, but the repetition of telling these stories can also give familiar sprits the welcome they are looking for to remain in families. Not to offend, but the truth and reality is that this is a practice of occultism, which can only keep people under the oppression of demonic spirits and a curse. When the source of their wisdom and "healing" is from the demonic realm and not the Holy Spirit, it is channelling demonic spirits, and nothing good can come from that. It actually releases a curse upon those that partake of those activities. Truth is not found in folklore, legends and myths but in the Word of God alone. Myths, stories and legends are void of power and wisdom because they are fabricated by someone's imagination. Truth must be anchored in Someone greater and mightier than all mankind, and be pure and holy. The Bible has proven it's truth to be real over and over again by the many followers of Jesus Christ who have discovered Him to be real, authentic and true to scripture. God is the only true source of wisdom. God's word contains spiritual laws by which all creation must operate, whether they believe in Him or not. For every action we sow, there is a consequence. He is the highest authority so it is His word that matters more than anything else. Legends and myths are not seeking truth, wisdom or guidance from the Holy Spirit, but from familiar spirits that originate from the demonic realm. The word of God counsels us against such practices.
Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:31
I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people. Leviticus 20:6
When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. Isaiah 8:19-20
…if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
The penalty for disobedience to God is inheriting a curse. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 list the penalties for disobedience. Curses are often manifested in different ways. Chronic illnesses, premature deaths, repetitive accidents, and financial problems are some of the common indicators of an unbroken curse. Chronic strife, repeated suicides or thoughts of suicide in the same family, mental torment, depression and insanity, a failure to succeed in life, barrenness or repeated miscarriage are all signs a curse needs to be broken off of a family or an individual. One indication of the generational attack of the enemy (Satan) is the spiritual oppression, depression and sense of hopelessness that leads many to suicide. This, too, can be a spiritually inherited curse that can be broken. No one needs to live with the thoughts of self-destruction and hopelessness. Jesus Christ is our redeemer and rescuer, but he alone is the one true God and must be worshiped as such. It is so important to reject and renounce the mixture of beliefs, customs and traditions of religious syncretism so that people can get healed. The Lord wants us to live free from demonic oppression!
The prayer at the end of this article is constructed as a guide to help break curses and close doors that may have been opened for generations. It is important to renounce the false gods, traditions and rituals that have compromised the purity of the Christian faith because otherwise those other spirits want to remain a person’s lord and master. God created us in His image to have dominion over all the power of the enemy, but when people mix their religious beliefs and practices, it gives away the power and dominion God gave us and puts it in the hands of the enemy that only wants to destroy us.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26
“Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.” Luke 10:19
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:14
Our Heavenly Father loves us so much that He wants us to commit to knowing Him and living in the truth.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20
What was our Creator's first command?
You shall have no other gods before Me. Genesis 20:3
Jesus said, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.“ Matthew 22:37-38.
It is not disloyalty to one’s family, culture or tribe to decide to worship God the Father, Jesus Christ his Son, and the Holy Spirit in purity, without the mixture of other beliefs and traditions. It is not rejection of one's family, tribe, or community to have a personal relationship with the Lord. God loves all mankind and wants to be in a real, personal relationship with us. It may seem incredulous, but it's true! That is why Jesus came to earth, to be fully human in a form we could understand, but he never sinned like we do. He was also fully divine, because it takes the pure blood of a sinless God to atone for our sin. He took the punishment for the sins of all mankind upon himself, dying in our place, so that we could accept His free gift of salvation and having our sins forgiven. He alone provided the solution for our sin because no sin is allowed in heaven. It is a holy place. Our sin would keep us eternally separated from God our Father because He is holy and cannot be in the presence of sin. But, Jesus Christ, His only Son through a miraculous birth, paid our debt so that all who believed upon Him and invited Him to be their Savior would be reconnected to their Heavenly Father and adopted into the family of God.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
"If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.…" Romans 10:9, 10
"But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. " John 1:12
Children are part of a family. They have a father. This is how we relate to our heavenly Father.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. "John 14:23
"And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!…" Romans 5:5-10
Our heavenly Father would not have written this if it were not true. He did this because He loves us and does not want evil spiris to usurp His place in our lives and become a false father and wicked oppressor. Demons are incapable of love. They are incapable of telling the truth. Their only assignment is to act as a destroyer of people’s lives. These are Jesus’ words:
Jesus said, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. "John 10:10
God made each one of us unique, and he knows the culture, beliefs and traditions involved in each person’s life. He made us to live in community, and He also gave us this scripture.
"And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well." 1 John 4:21
Loving others is still being involved in the community in which we live. It's not disloyalty to a person's cultural identity, but to recognize that our identity is found in Christ, as we are adopted into the family of God. Our position as God's child is secure. This is His truth. Only a Holy God that loves us and sent His only Son to die on our behalf to cleanse us from our sin has a right to tell us who we are. As we align with what HIs word says about us, we realize that we are made in His image and likeness, and that is who we are.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:26,27
Do you see how we are created to have dominion over all that is in the earth, instead of other spirits having dominion over us? Do you see how that contradicts what is implied through legends and myths? The fictional characters from legends and myths have no right to be gods or goddesses in someone's life. They have no power to deliver, save or heal. They have no power to cleanse a person from the stain of their sin. Only the blood of a Holy God can do that, and it was shed by the only begotten son of God Almighty, Jesus Christ. Our identity is imparted from our heavenly Father just as much as our identity is found in the DNA of our parents. In as much as we inherit certain characteristics in the natural that we received from our parents, so do we also inherit certain qualities and characteristics from our heavenly Father, because once a person invites Jesus into their heart to be their Savior, the DNA of his Holy Spirit floods us with a new reality. We receive HIM and He lives in us. Our identity is directed tied to the Spirit of God living within us!
Our identity does not come solely from the culture we live in. Identity is imparted from a person's parents, their values and sense of affirming a person in who they are as an individual. The Inuit have a long history of being known for their abiity to adapt to change, a strong connection with their community, and a love and commitment to respect the land. It is their heritage and legacy, and an inspiration for others in their ability to overcome adversity. They have had to learn how to adapt to changing times and because of those qualities, they are survivors. The Inuit are a strong, resilient people. Please understand that I mean no disrespect towards anyone. It is not my intent to bash anyone's beliefs. I am simply writing to make a distinction between common beliefs and practices that are contrary to the word of God. When a person is not in agreement with the truth of God's spiritual laws, it opens them up to demonic spirits. All demonic spirits look for ways to inflict harm and carry out curses. That is just the nature of what they do.
Have you noticed anyone in your family that seems to have repeated the same pattern as a parent or a grandparent? Do you or anyone in your family have a history of things like addictions, alcoholism, anger, rage or abuse? What about adultery, broken relationships, divorce or controlling behavior? Many of these things repeat from one generation to the next. Who do you think gave you and your family those things? Who placed those curses into the family line?
We can be saved, but people still perish for lack of knowledge. Salvation is not the same as deliverance. The effects of unbroken curses are not a salvation issue. They are a deliverance and sanctification issue. There can still be areas of a person’s life – habits and mindsets that are not yet renewed. We have to appropriate that victory Jesus won for us by cooperating with our own deliverance. Many people may not practice certain customs, beliefs or call on the names of false gods, but still have the effects of unbroken curses active in their life. This is because no one has confessed the sins of their ancestors and asked God to forgive them. Where there is no blood covering, there is no forgiveness of sins.
God gives each person an ultimatum, and it’s found in Joshua 24:15. Joshua, who was the commander of the people of Israel, said:
“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Every person has to make a choice whom they will serve. People either serve God, or they serve the world and the ruler of the world. Proverbs 26:2 tells us,
“As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.”
The enemy cannot throw a curse on a person for no reason, so he looks for open doors that we might not understand are there. It becomes our job to pursue God and find out if the enemy sees something about our life that gives him access to us and our family. Jesus became the answer we need to redeem us from the power of the curse!
Here is a deep cleansing prayer that can help break off curses, close doors to the enemy and release a fresh start with the Lord. I pray it blesses you!
Dear Heavenly Father,
I seek Your help, the help that is only available to me through Jesus Christ, the blood of the lamb, and His Holy Spirit. I desperately want to be cleansed from demonic spirits, unbroken curses and familiar spirits that have been a part of my life, through my family members, from even before my birth. I ask You, Jesus Christ, Lord of all, to be my Lord and Savior. I ask You to cleanse me from all unrighteousness and set me free.
I repent for any way that I have knowingly or unknowingly given place to demonic spirits and allowed them to access my life. I renounce the sins of my parents, grandparents, and other ancestors; this day I divorce the enemy, Satan, and all other false gods and religions.
I break every ungodly covenant, oath and vow that may have been spoken by myself or any of my ancestors, knowing that this is forbidden by Your word. Lord Jesus, please let me be released from any ungodly alliances, covenants, or legally binding treaties that were enacted between me, my family, and demonic spirits.
I renounce all shamans, spiritual healers, mediums and familiar spirits, ungodly priests, priestesses, sorcerers and wizards. I command all soul ties with these individuals and spirits called upon to be broken now in the name and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I send all soulish connections back to them. I call for any fragmented or disconnected parts of my soul to come back to me now.
Forgive me, Father, for seeking wisdom and knowledge from the forbidden tree of good and evil, and evil practitioners of magic arts. Let every evil seed wither and dry up now and bear no more fruit in Jesus' name.
I renounce and divorce the enemy, Satan, and any evil spirit that may have been called into my life, including:
All tuurngait spirits
The spirit of Aglooglik, evil goddess of the sea
Ahkiyyini, the skeleton spirit.
Akna, mother goddesses of fertility
Amaguq/Amarok, the spirt of the wolf god
Anguta, spirit of the underworld and death
Igaluk, the moon god
Malina, the sun goddess
Nanook, polar bear spirit
Pinga, the goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine
Qailertetang, weather spirit, guardian of animals, and matron of fishers and hunters.
Saumen Kar also called Tornit or Tuniit, spirits of giant animals
Sedna, the mistress of sea animals. Also known as Nerrivik, Arnapkapfaaluk, Arnakuagsak, and Nuliajuk and other names.
Silap Inua or Sila, spirit of the air. Also known as the Prince of the power of the air.
Tekkeitsertok, the master of caribou.
Tizheruk, snake-like monster spirits.
Pukkeenegak, goddess of domestic life.
Qallupilluit or Qalupalik, and all mermaid and mermen spirits.
I renounce all demonic spirits by any other names. I renounce divination and conjuring of all familiar spirits of the dead and those that me. my ancestors and family members have participated in. I renounce all soul ties to familiar and familial protectors, spirit guides, scribes and messengers, diviners and ungodly priests, false fathers and mothers.
I renounce all animal and material sacrifices made on my behalf or those in my family line. I renounce all human involvement for the sake of divining information, the use of familiar spirits, spirit guides, and false gods. I renounce all blood that was shed from any source that was tied to my life through the use of occult practices. I renounce all herbalists and root workers that concocted medicines, potions, magic and incantations.
I repent and renounce any participation of myself or those in my family line in the indoctrination, apprenticeship, spiritual journey, rituals or rites of passage of myself or others into occult or forbidden practices.
I renounce all lying, devious, deceptive and manipulative spirits that were inherited as a curse.
I renounce and break any soul ties now to the bondages, mindset, beliefs and emotional pain and bitterness that came through slavery, as a result of injustice, fear and oppression.
I renounce and break all associations with idolatry, familiar spirits, witchcraft and rebellion.
I renounce the spirits of fear, suspicion, rejection, loneliness, inferiority, insecurity, poverty, death and hell that have come into my life.
I renounce the spirit of abandonment, unloving spirits, guilt and condemnation. Lord Jesus, fill me with Your peace and love.
I renounce and forsake any and all customs, traditions, practices and beliefs that are forbidden by God, so that I may be accepted in your sight. I renounce the belief in reincarnation because the Bible does not teach this. It is a lie.
I lift up myself to You right now. I pray that You would help me embrace whatever memories that I have either blocked out or forgotten, if recalling those memories can be used to release healing. Holy Spirit, please lead me into the truth that will shatter any lies in my belief system so that I can be healed and set free. I ask You, Holy Spirit, to show me anything else that is significant to my life or family. I give You permission to dislodge memories that are stuck. I pray that You highlight any specific memories or situations, objects or possessions that are related to anything that is connected to a curse that you want me to destroy and remove from my home.
I repent for any sin or involvement of myself and my ancestors that opened doors to the occult through witchcraft and occult magic. Let the blood of Jesus cover all these sins and close the door to demonic spirits.
Thank you, Holy Spirit, for the revelation of my heavenly Father’s love, acceptance and adoption as His child. Help me sense my Father’s heart and His presence in my life. Thank You for forgiveness and cleansing from all unrighteousness. Help me to walk in the truth and be obedient to what You show me. I am grateful for Your mercy and restoration in my life. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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