Breaking Cycles

Introduction

A boy entered a grocery store one morning and asked the grocer for a box of Tide detergent. The grocer was puzzled and asked why he wanted a box of Tide. The boy said that he was going to wash his cat. The grocer said, "Young man, you shouldn’t wash your cat with this kind of soap." However, the boy insisted that it would be okay.

A few days later, the boy returned, and grocer asked how his cat was. "Oh, he died," the boy said. The grocer said, "Well, son. I warned you not to wash your cat with Tide detergent."

The boy replied, "Oh, the soap didn’t hurt him a bit. It was the spin cycle that got him." {Pause}

Isn’t it the spin cycles that get us sometimes? Where you are going and going and you ask God, can I just have a moment to breathe, and start over? Oh, that’s just me? Pastor Steven, it looks like we are going to be out of service a little earlier than usual.

This month, we have been in a sermon series called “New Beginnings—Doing things differently”

Week 1, Pastor Steven came in saying

Week 2,

Week 3,

Week 4, Pastor Jesse said,

Common Cycles

Recently, God has put it on my heart to get rid of or stand up to and break the cycles. You may ask me what I mean by cycles. Here are some just to name a few:

The Israelites — went through cycles the entire old testament it seemed like! They were going good with God, Then they started worshipping other gods and slipped into bondage and slavery. Then they repented and God delivered them. And the cycle repeated itself.

Addicts — go through cycles. Things are okay but then something sets them off and they cannot stop until they get their fix. They have their fix and then the high wears off. And the cycle starts all over again. Then, this addiction cycle a lot of times runs in the bloodline.

Molestation — a cycle that can run in a bloodline. Her mom was molested and raped and then her mom and her mom before that and so on.

relationships — people who are constantly going back to the abusive relationship that they had with their father and then it turning into the boyfriend and they are on and off for a time but they can never see they are not meant to be together.

Coming to church and checking a box — could be a cycle. Going to the same church that your grandparents were raised in, sitting in the same seat, talking to the same people, singing the same 30 minute worship set and getting upset if it changes. Oh and let’s not forget about getting out of church “On Time”

a. I am here to say, the days of coming to church to check off a box are over. We are living in a time where we need to be on guard and point at every waking moment of our life so we can in fact face the enemy and his flaming darts AND withstand them!

Even sleeping on the same side of the bed, sitting in the same living room or dining chair.

driving the same way to work in the morning.

These are all small examples in our real life that are cycles.

If we as creatures of habit continue to walk in these daily cycles, where will we end up? Today, I am here—and I hope others are too—We are here to stand and confront bad cycles. Cycles that will tend to take us away from God and not closer.

Get angry with the cycle

The Bible says,

Ephesians 4:26–27 ESV

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Being angry isn’t a sin. God is the Creator of everything living, He created those emotions. Let me ask you, why would God create something and then withhold that thing from us? That isn’t how a loving God is. If I make cookies for my family, but withhold them from my family, my efforts in the kitchen were counter productive. Wouldn’t God be wasting His time if He created something and then told His creation that we couldn’t use or do or touch whatever it was that He created?

What we do with that anger is so important. Here, we are breaking this down. “Be angry and do not sin.” that means, use what God created and do not do something that goes against His Word.

going deeper, what is “sin”? As a Children’s Pastor, I had to bring some of that Children’s Ministry in with me today. “sin is anything we thing, say, or do that displeases God and breaks His law.”

So back to the verse, when someone does something to me that is wrong, it is okay for me to be angry at the same time, I need to be aware of what my next actions or words will be. then it says, “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” that part means that don’t forget about the problem, if you need a moment to regroup before you say something you would regret, make sure you go back to the issue and address it. If you leave it alone and don’t deal with it, it’s not going to ever go away. You might think it is going away, but in reality, whatever it was that made you angry without dealing with it is going to be pressed down and pressed down and pressed down until eventually, it is going to explode! When things explode, it’s not pretty.

Here at Generations Church we believe in communication and when in doubt, talking it out. We also believe in forgiving people and that forgiveness is fatal! I was at a conference when I was going through my divorce, one of the speakers said, “to forgive means to completely give it over to God and if it ever comes back up again in a negative way, you didn’t actually fully forgive in that situation.” What she was saying there is that God doesn’t want an opportunity for the enemy to come into your life, so get rid of all malice and completely forgive so the devil cannot come in and use it against the Kingdom of God. So going back to failure to forgive is fatal, if we don’t forgive and completely turn those feelings over to God, we will not be able to be used for the Kingdom the way God has destined us to be used.

Back to my conference in 2015, there isn’t enough time to go into detail about that whole mess, but let’s just say, I didn’t forgive the person I was previously married to that day at the conference, I would have been put on a cycle of being paranoid, always looking over my shoulder. Always making sure in fear that my daughter was safe and he wasn’t trying to come and get her. I would have been bound and bottled up trying to not explode. How many husbands out there that your wife is emotional. You don’t have to raise your hand, just be with me on this. I don’t want anyone to get into trouble for exposing your bride. She is so emotional sometimes that even the slightest spilt milk will make her cry and you have no idea why she is even crying! Stay with me, I am trying to paint a picture, okay? If I didn’t forgive him completely that day at that conference, I would have been trying to bottle up all my feelings. I would have been scared to death as to what I was going to do as a single mom. I would have been constantly worried that he would explode on me or emotionally explode and take Angelina. But because I found freedom in Christ, I was able to let it all go and release the pressure slowly so there wasn’t an explosion. And in that situation, I am sure I didn’t do everything perfect, but God was with me through it all. He loved and cared for me. because He set me free and I was able to lay down the offense that could have very easily been an opportunity for the enemy to use BUT because I was able to give it all to God, I have been healed. I have been restored. I have been redeemed. I have been delivered the way that God intended so that I can be used as a voice of healing for the brokenhearted.

Admit there is a cycle that needs to be broken.

If you grew up when I did, the big thing in the church was following the “A, B, Cs” of being a Christian. The first is “A” that is to admit that you have done wrong. “B” is believing that Jesus Christ is Lord. And then does anyone remember the “C”? “C” is confess that you are a sinner, confess your sin and ask Jesus to forgive you. We are going to go back to admit though. If there is a problem that needs to be fixed but there is no one who actually says that they were in the wrong, how can we make sure that it never happens again?! When my son tells me that he is sorry for something, I try to always ask, “What are you sorry for?” I want him to know what happened so he can learn not to do that again.

Part of admitting something means that we need to get rid of all the excuses! 1 John 1:8

1 John 1:8 ESV

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I don’t know about you, but I want to have communion with my Heavenly Father and in order to do that, I have to be living, eating, breathing truth! I cannot do that if I am not willing to admit that there is a problem.

Get help!

If I ask Angelina to do something not realizing that they don’t know how to do it, I would rather go help her with it than having to help clean up a mess. I would rather her ask me more questions to make sure she understands what I am asking her to do than for her to miss something that she needed to do.

Know what camp you are getting your help from. Know that just because someone is a faithful member here at the church, their council may not always be given with your best intentions in mind. When I hear this phrase, I think of Gideon in the Bible. Turn with me to Judges 7:1-23 As you are turning there, I am going to give some back story on this. The Israelites were in the “worshipping other gods” part of their cycle. and they were under the attack of the Midianites. Gideon was hiding and beating out wheat in the winepress. HIDING from the Midianites! the Bible says that the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.” Gideon was HIDING!! Why would anyone who is hiding be called a man of valor?! The Angel of the Lord called him a man of valor because he saw that Gideon’s destiny was great. That is something that we really don’t have time to get into right now, but I know someone needed to hear that today. When you have time, go back and read Judges 6 then you can learn more about the backstory. So, Gideon is hiding, the Angel of the Lord finds him and says that he is a mighty man of valor and says that he wants Gideon to get an army and fight the Midianites. Gideon accepts the call, tears down the false idols, gets an army of about 32,000 men together to fight. God told him that he has too many men to fight and through a series of events loses all but 300 men. But God promises that He will deliver the Israelites. and don’t you know, God always follows through with His promises? Okay, are you at Judges 7 now?

Judges 7:1–23 ESV

Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’ ” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained. And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.” So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.” And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.” So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley. That same night the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand. But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant. And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance. When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.” And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.” As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.” And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars. And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do. When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’ ” So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled. When they blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.

Okay, this is a lot to unpack. But focus with me, Gideon, the man who was first hiding by the grain bins has been put in charge of the Israel’s army was told that he had too many people to fight in the battle that God was getting them all ready for. So he weeded out some of the men who were already scared like he was before the Angel of God visited. Then, God said he still had too many men, so Gideon refined his army even more! Gideon now has 300 men to fight and win this battle that God had brought them too. One night, he was lead down to the enemies camp. He listened to the enemy stating that they were afraid. God downloaded a plan for him to lead the army, God’s power showed up and the people of God were spared and won the battle against Midian.

How many know that when God calls you and you consecrate yourself as holy, HE. Shows. Up.

Now this is not in the Bible, but let’s paint a picture here. Let’s say Gideon was the enemy and the Philistines were on God’s side. Gideon went down to the other camp, listened to the plans and then went back to their own camp. Now This did not happen! but what if it did?! Gideon went back to his own camp and gave the wrong plans back to his army that resulted in an ambush. What if the army of the Lord let their guard down and shared their plans of attack to the enemy? What if the army of the Lord saw someone they thought was a friend and they confided in them. This would expose them to the enemy. When you confide in the wrong person, the enemy sees your plans and your efforts to keep things quiet may be for nothing. When you talk to the wrong person to get advice, you are telling the enemy your hand. I am here to tell you that Holy Spirit says that we are doing this more than we even realize.

My son, David, likes to play the card game, “Go Fish.” Does anyone here not know how to play the game, “Go Fish”? Okay, you each get your 7 cards and then one by one ask each player if they have the corresponding card that you have. As you make matches, you lay them down and then the one with the most matches wins. Right? Now, David hasn’t quite learned how to hold his cards so we cannot see. So we have to be intentional that we don’t ask for his “2” when we know he has one! Or we have to be intentional that we don’t say, “Do you have an 8?” When two seconds ago, he fell off of his little stool and dropped all of his cards on the floor!

How many know, the enemy is a liar! the enemy is not a gentleman because he is jealous of you! the enemy had the job that you do and that is to worship the King of kings and now he doesn’t have that job anymore! So the enemy will cheat and lie and do everything he can to let you expose your hand. he doesn’t care if you accidentally dropped your cards because you were messing around on the stool. he doesn’t care that your hands are too small to really hold the cards. he doesn’t care if you make a mistake and say, “yay! I have a King! …Oops!” the enemy doesn’t care! what he cares about is the fact that he can lie to you and trip you up so that you can slip up and tell your hand. he cares about you befriending the wrong person and confiding in the wrong person. the enemy cares if you tell what Holy Spirit is telling you because he is no longer in communion with the King and cannot know what the King of kings is doing! The first part of John 10:10

John 10:10 (ESV)

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

Make sure you are surrounding yourself with people who are for you and for the complete Will of God or it can be fatal! Last year, Angelina came home crying almost every day because of the way she was treated at school. I was talking with her one day and through her tears she said, “mommy, I don’t know why this girl is treating me like this. she goes to church.”

I then realized that even at this young age, I needed to equip my son and daughter on how to distinguish between someone who is for you and someone who is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. We as believers—even if you are a non-believer—we need to be on guard and ask God who we can talk to and who we cannot. If you are here today and you don’t know who Jesus is that I am talking about I pray that you would see Him today through every person you come in contact with here. If you don’t know Him, in a nutshell, sin entered the world by Adam. And what was sin again? sin is anything we think, say, or do that displeases God and breaks His law. Because we are living in sin and breaking His law, we aren’t able to be in communion with God. Because God’s authority and even presence pushes out the the enemy, if we are allowing the enemy to be in our life, then, God cannot be in our life. Now, going back to the beginning God created us. When we create something, we want to be one with that thing. We have a child, we want to do everything we can to protect them. We build something and create something that was a pice of junk or a piece of wood, we want to take care of it so it can last. It’s the same thing about God. He created us and He wants to be with us. He cannot because of the law of Authority. BUT John 3:16

John 3:16 ESV

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

so that means that Jesus, God’s Perfect Son, came as a living sacrifice to make it right and give us the opportunity to come back into communion with God. Side note, let me just tell you, I lived the life in the world from party to party, I was searching for something more and that was Jesus. Now with Jesus, I am able to commune with God and talk to Him whenever I need to. Not to mention, because of the communion I have with God, I am able to say with confidence that I am the daughter of the King and the King takes care of his children, am I right?

Okay, going back to the main point, If you don’t know Jesus, talk to one of our prayer teams later in the service. If you are seeking advice on something to do in life, and you don’t get advice from the same camp, you will be confused. I had a friend who said her attorney told her to stop coming to church with me. My response was, “Is your attorney a believer?” Because of course, if the attorney isn’t a believer, then the attorney is operating from the enemy’s camp. And the enemy is out to steal her joy, he is out to steal her freedom, he is out to steal her relationship with Jesus because he is jealous of the position she has with Christ!

Make a change!

Make a change in our words — stop making excuses!! In Luke 1, we don’t have time to look it up and read it, so please after this, go back and do that, God sent an angel to Mary asking her if she would be willing to be used by God. Mary said she was willing. So let’s look at this, God, who is a God of free will, left it up to a human to decide to birth His Son. Did you hear me, God who is a God of free will, left the decision for the birth of His perfect Son up to a young woman. What if Mary was actually Martha, a busy-body, and what if Martha said, “No, I am too busy to have your son.” or “No, my career is about to explode, so I don’t have time to have a child right now.” Isn’t that what is happening when God gives us a gift and we don’t use it? We are saying that we are too busy or our jobs are too important or our boyfriend or our girlfriend are too important because they are the only one who loves me and knows what I am going through. This list of excuses could go on and on. I am here to tell you, Holy Spirit is done with the excuses! He is here to set the captives free and in order to do that, we need to prepare our hearts. We need to change our words. Yes, even if an excuse would be easier to say, Holy Spirit is here to say that we are done with those excuses! He isn’t here to condemn us and make us feel bad for the decisions we made without Him. He is here to love us. To protect us. To guide us so that when those attacks from the enemy come, we are able to say, “Not today satan! I have the Helmet of Salvation on so that means that I cannot hear your lies!” We are able to say, “Not today satan! I have the Breastplate of Righteousness on and that means that my heart and all my intentions are made in right living with the Father!” We are able to say, “Not today satan, I have the Shoes that are fitted in the Gospel of Peace, so that irritation you are trying to make me talk and walk out of in my flesh about, get behind me! I walk in the Shalom Peace that only a daughter of the King can walk in.” We can say, “not today satan, I have the Shield of Faith and the Sword of the Spirit. Nothing that you can say or do against me will prevail!”

Make a change in our actions — Look at your life right now, imagine with me that it is 2024. Do you want to be in the same spot you are now, a year down the road? Do you want to be struggling financially or do you want to be financially free? If that is you, turn to God and surround yourself with people who know finances like the back of your hand and start learning from them. If you are living with someone because you cannot afford the payment of a house on your own and you don’t want to be there a year from now, turn to God and find someone who can help you in this change and season of growth so you aren’t in the same place a year from now. If you are caught in this cycle of a string of “bad boys” or “bad girls” and you cannot figure out how to get out, turn to God and ask Him to help you, then find someone who can be an accountability partner to make sure you don’t fall down that path anymore! If you are caught in a cycle of any kind of substance abuse, turn to God and find someone who can help cut that out of your life. If you are caught up in going back to the computer screen or your phone addicted to pornography or fornication, turn to God and find someone who has been there and found complete deliverance from that. If you are caught up in something—some kind of sin, make a change! If you are an alcoholic or suffering from substance abuse and every day or every Friday, you stop on the way home to pick up your fix, start driving a different way home. If someone in front of you in a class, work, or here at church is causing you to be distracted or stumble, sit it in a different seat or get a transfer in your job. Get away from the evil the enemy is trying to get you tangled up in. If you tend to like the spotlight and whatever serve position is causing you to be prideful, it’s time to find a different serve team to be on. We could be here all day talking about all the “if you are” scenarios. Basically, if you are doing anything that breaks God’s law and you want to have complete freedom and deliverance from that and you are tired of waking up in the same cycle of a mess, turn to God and find someone who has been there and reached the other side in freedom and deliverance in Christ. Whatever it is that is within you that God needs to make a change in, ask Him what it is first if you cannot see. Then ask Him to show you how you can change it! Maybe ask someone! Ask someone that you are intimate with to help you come up with a plan to get whatever it is in your life out and keep it out!

The key and drive to help keep all this sin out and walk in complete freedom and deliverance that God has ordained for your life is being intentional about what you think, say and do. Daily picking up your cross and following Christ and using the emotions you had at the beginning to get upset that it is in your life and keep it out.

There are countless things that I have done or said that I know aren’t down the path that God has for me nor my family. If I am not upset and angry about those things, then I cannot be intentional about breaking the cycle. I don’t want my son to fall prey to promiscuity, so I have to be intentional about getting jezebel out of my life. I don’t want my daughter to be a doormat, so I have to be intentional about keeping ahab out of my life and bound where he cannot come in and be with Angelina. I don’t want my kids to be rebellious, so I have to be intentional about following the chain of command in authority over me and keep that rebellion as far away from me as possible. those comments about, “How old are they, oh it’s coming!” Those are comments of death and I as a parent and spiritual leader over my children need to rebuke those comments and bind that rebellion or manipulation or lying and keep it out of my life! I need to look at whatever demons taunted me and say, “Jesus, it stops with me!” The enemy cannot bring unfaithfulness into my marriage! Jesus it stops with me! The enemy cannot bring poverty over my finances, Jesus it stops with me! The enemy cannot bring death into my family, Jesus it stops with me! The enemy cannot bring religion on my family, Jesus it stops with me! The enemy cannot say that I have abandonment issues, Jesus this stops with me! These are all examples that I have had to get upset about and stand up to the enemy about.

It’s too easy to sit back and say, oh I am good with God and dismiss the Word He has for you. God want’s to go with you even FURTHER than you can even imagine going with Him! I remember a week after my first wedding asking myself, “Is this what marriage is supposed to be like?” Because I didn’t feel true, pure love. God wants you to feel completely loved and taken care of. He wants to take you further than you can think. If you are just starting out and learning about Jesus, get ready because this will be the ride of your life! He wants to fill you with your own personal prayer languages! He wants to know your thoughts, He wants to you know each and everything about you. He wants to use your story to set the captives free! Mark 16:17

Mark 16:17 ESV

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Jesus is saying, if you believe in Him, you will cast out demons and you will speak in new tongues! Instead of praying these elementary prayer of “Father God, please help me not do bad things anymore. I want to be Holy.” We need to pray prayers that will conquer the enemy and smash him like the bug that he is.

Now, I have heard this lie in the church, that we need to not say prayers that are written down and say words like we are in a cult. We aren’t in a cult. Jesus in Matthew taught us how to pray. Matthew 6:9-13

Matthew 6:9–13 (ESV)

Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

The deliverance is all over this prayer. We are to ask for His Will, His Kingdom. We cannot have that if we are caught up and bound. We are to ask for our daily bread. Jesus referred to the daily bread as being deliverance. We are following Christ and growing deeper in Him each day! We are to ask Him to forgive us, how can we forgive if we refuse to forgive others? Then at the end, we are to ask Him to keep us from temptation! That means we are asking Him to keep us away from the temptation and DELIVER us from evil. Those elementary prayers doe not work anymore! This is war, we need to stop hiding in the winepress threshing wheat and get out in front of the enemy and fight!

We as believers and followers of Christ need to say:

In the name of Jesus, this cycle of substance abuse and addiction stops with me! I no longer want it to run my life and keep me bound. I don’t want my kids to go through these feelings as well. I want them to be set free. I don’t want to talk to my family this way anymore, I want to only have words of Love, kindness, and life come out of my mouth! So in the name of Jesus, this addiction come up and out of my life. come up and out of my bloodline. you cannot be here anymore. I am a Blood bought child of the King. and that means I am not bound by you anymore! in Jesus name!

Holy Spirit, this cycle of anxiety and depression stops with me! I no longer want to be bound by anxiety and depression I no longer want to be constantly looking over my shoulder or jumping every time there is a spider walk past me. so in the name of Jesus, anxiety and depression come up and out of me!

Abba Father, this cycle of promiscuity, lust, pornography, bad relationships, homosexuality, molestation, I don’t want it anymore! I am standing against the enemy, So in the name of Jesus, it stops with me! jezebel and all her daughters get out in the name of Jesus!!

Jehovah Jireh, you are my provider! I don’t want to have this cycle of infirmity, lack and poverty in my life, nor do I want it in my children’s life for a thousand generations, so in the Name of Jesus, you have to go!! The Word says that I am blessed and highly favored! Come up and out!! I am the son or the daughter of the King and I should not lack anymore in Jesus name!!

Let’s all stand. Whatever bondage you have today, if you want to get rid of it, just start praying. If you don’t know or don’t think that you have a bondage to something that is controlling your life and you aren’t living in the complete fullness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, let’s all call this bondage out and call it what it is. Let’s get rid of things right now! Here at Generations church, we believe in Unity and that we are all Better together, so together, let’s pray!

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Notes:

When you say a prayer and you open the door to whatever it was again and the enemy comes back into your life then you pray it again. THAT is a ritual! but when you say it and actually mean the words to a prayer, you are saying a prayer!!!

Sermon Outline:

I. Introduction

a. Story of the Boy and his cat

b. review of the other sermons in the New Beginnings Series

II. the cycles

a. Israelites

b. Addictions

c. Molestation, infidelity, etc.

III. Get angry with the cycles

IV. Admit there is a cycle