Healing Generational Curses 2

Peasants after the Revolution

Ladies at our seminar

The story continues:

I heard the telephone ring outside my room and a flurry of talk in Russian but I turned over and went back to sleep. At breakfast I heard the rest of the story. Grandmother Sveta was there with a beaming smile as she herded her grand daughter Maria through the line. The entire room was bursting with excitement and chatter. I don't understand Russian so I was in the dark.

Galina came over and excitedly said, "Did you hear what happened? Did you hear the telephone early this morning?"

I said, "Yes, but that is all. What was it?"

She waved for Sveta and Maria to come over and tell me the news. She would interpret. Sveta was beside herself with joy as the story poured out. Last night when we prayed for her genogram it became apparent that every generation since the Russian Revolution in 1917 had seen an epidemic of alcoholism, family dysfunction and divorce. She and her daughter were just the last two.

As the group sought God's wisdom it occurred to them that their ancestors had been forced to deny God and Jesus Christ in order to join the Communist Party. The ladies checked the genograms and saw that their ancestors had indeed denied Christ in order to get jobs and welfare.

The entire group gathered around the three females and worshiped the Lord and asked for wisdom about how to pray. They asked for God's mercy and forgiveness and repented for their own divorces.Anya, the young mother had also asked God to provide $500.00 so she and her daughter could attend a Bible school in St. Petersburg.She wanted to study art and photography to write for a Christian magazine. Anya had held it up up during introductions as an example of her calling to serve the Lord.

The early morning call was from Sveta's ex husband, Pavel, an alcoholic not heard from in years. He had abandoned the family long ago and disappeared from sight. He was working in a gold mine in Siberia. During the night he felt the Lord come to him with a strange message. He was convicted to call Anya  and offer her $500.00.  He did not know why. Nor did he know she was in a camp near the village of Saltikovka. He found her and called and told her to take a train to meet him in a small mining town in Siberia. If she made it to meet him that day he had $500.00 for her. Anya gladly left on the 6:00 AM train to meet her father whom she had not seen since she was a little girl.

The group of us wept for joy and thanksgiving. Our faith soared to hear the wonderful testimony. Not only had God broken the curse, He spoke to the alcoholic father and convicted him to send his daughter the exact amount she needed for school. And, how he found her at a small camp in the woods outside Moscow was amazing! It was obvious that God has a built in GPS!

You can read more stories like this in the book How to be me in my Family Tree. Most of our materials are on PDF and can be downloaded and printed out from our bookstore.  

You can also send Sweeten Life a donation to support the Russian Ministry and people like Sveta and Anya. Galina and her team are continuing to bring hope and healing to the lives destroyed by Stalin.

(The names are changed to protect the innocent.)