5 Answers Convert Intrusion Into a Family Curse-Breaking Case

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Synopsis of Demon Spotting Code Word Analysis and COH Case Study

When a family member turns cold or hostile right when you need them most, it’s easy to assume they’ve broken a law of loyalty.

This Demon Spotting case study untangles legal obligation from cultural and biblical obligation — using a real story (a half-sister who surfaced decades later demanding instant closeness) to show what happens when someone else’s assumed obligation collides with your right to say no.

That boundary becomes the unlikely opening for something deeper: a Courts of Heaven case examining the generational curse running through the bloodline itself, closing with a ruling for reversal, release, and healing — proof that saying no and doing the deeper healing work aren’t opposites.

This case shows why the pivot — changing position from fighting her to fighting Satan together — was the key to defeating Satan… again.

Declining a “family” invitation that came with strings attached

This post is Part 2 of a case study series.
Read Part 1 here: Is this my problem to solve? Generosity or a Trap?

An invitation extended by a stranger with a family connection opened a door that seemed innocent at first… From the start, she was welcoming and friendly, but then things took a creepy turn for the worse.

The moves that hurt the most often don’t look like attacks. On the surface, they look like love, care, and family loyalty.

But later, when the moves are revealed as domination and control, you realize that your usual ways of fighting back to escape the trap just won’t work.

I’m guessing that some of the worst emotional or mental damage you’ve experienced came not from a stranger, but from someone known to you. Sometimes, an immediate family member becomes the enemy.

Maybe the reasons are obvious:

• Bitter divorces
• Political disagreements
• Money issues
• Abuse of all kinds
• Broken promises
• Basic disapproval towards lifestyle or career choices, for instance.

So, how do you navigate needing help or accepting help when you’re facing anger or cold silence from the people you think are legally, morally, or culturally responsible to help you?

You might believe that “family” comes with a legal, enforceable duty of care, meaning you think that covenant blood creates a sturdy, solid floor beneath you. Someone made a promise (covenant), and you expect them to live up to it.

However, that covenant floor (based on promises of commitment) is legal only in a few narrow relationships: spouse, minor child, and sometimes an indigent parent (depending on where you live).

So, if you ask for and expect help from a family member, then you’re standing on the fact that there’s a cultural obligation (expectation) for someone in your family to help you and to love you... not a legal obligation.

Example: One of my birth father’s children (a half-sister) has unresolved expectations for family intimacy with me.

True story: One day, when I was 53, I received a phone call from a detective who inquired about my initial arrival to the USA at the age of 11. He wanted to know if my family had moved from the UK. Nosy! Weird questions.

Of course, my next words were, “What is this all about?”

He told me that one of my birth father’s children was searching for me.

I felt a strange mix of emotions and sensations course through my body as I digested whatever he said next and contrasted that with the fact that I had never met my birth father. He left England before I was born.

My birth father was a Black American GI stationed at Ruislip AFB (pronounced “Rice-slip” Air Force Base). He met my mother in London, and they had a good time. He did, in fact, marry my mother (age 19) after a short courtship and resulting pregnancy.

But he lived in Georgia and didn’t want to remain in England. My mother, a white Welsh woman, would have gladly moved to the States, but in those times, mixed-race marriages were a no-go. No one would have welcomed him and his new bride into the family or the community.

Curiosity opened a door to a family visit.

So, after chatting on the phone with the half-sister, I was curious to see what everyone in my new “extended family” looked like, so I visited them in Georgia. I had the chance to see where I might have grown up since they still lived in the same place where my birth father grew up and raised his family (3 children).

As it turns out, even with all the hardships we suffered (I was sent to two different children’s homes to live in for several weeks when hospital-required illness happened to my mother or money ran out), I still preferred to have grown up in London, surrounded by an ever-growing number of cousins, plus my favorite aunts and uncles.

Back to the visit in Georgia: Long story short, they are very nice people. They told me that my birth father succumbed to alcoholism and died in the 70s before I graduated from high school.

The half-sister who performed the diligent search informed me that her father always set a place for me at the dinner table and he lamented over the fact that we couldn’t all be together.

That must have felt weird, strange, unsettling, and uncomfortable… because she also revealed that he wasn’t very nice to them and that no one missed him after he passed away. He was miserable. Therefore, they kept no photos of him. That was disappointing. The reason I agreed to the visit was to see pictures of my birth father.

I thought I would have the chance to see his face, but I never will.

Demon Spotting Code Words: Creepy Wally plus the Eddie attack in play.

Fast-forward, the half-sister started blowing up my phone and insisting that we have immediate closeness based on daily conversations. She called one day, freaking out that she hadn’t spoken to me in three days. I told her I didn’t speak to my mother that often. So, stop calling me and freaking out, please.

I blocked her number. So, she blew up my mother’s phone.

But check the move she made to control me using MY mother. She falsely assumed that my mother would agree that I needed constant monitoring. Ganging up on someone to make them comply is the definition of the Demon Spotting code word Eddie Attack.

And, in case you’re wondering, no — my mother did not want to be reminded of the man who abandoned her all those years ago. Besides that, she has no interest in talking to his children.

Notwithstanding, I don’t have any interest in dealing with a new extended family. Only my Heavenly Father can tell me that I have to integrate my life with theirs.

She became a nuisance. I spoke to the police to see what I could do to get her to leave me alone. A Boston policeman called her and talked to her at great length to convince her to stop calling.

She’s blocked everywhere. But now and again, she slips into an unblocked channel. And I block her again.

Mixed reactions to my family reunion story from my friends

Culturally, my father’s family is from Georgia, and I have a European point of view. Different as night and day.

My friends were in two camps. One set were appalled that I wasn’t crying and expressing great joy over meeting distant family members. They thought I should be finding ways to integrate them into my life.

The others sided with me. I wasn’t looking for my birth father’s family. I don’t need anything from them. What do they want from me? We didn’t grow up together. I don’t have a space for them to fill.

If my Heavenly Father wanted us to be close, then I would have moved to Georgia with my birth father.

But God had other plans.

And one of those plans was to remove me, at age 11, from my extended family in England by putting the Atlantic Ocean between us. We moved to the States and lived in Illinois for 3 years before returning to Europe to live in Germany for five years. I was 19 when we moved here permanently.

So, do I owe the half-sister from Georgia anything, culturally or biblically?

In the biblical world, much of what we’d now call “just cultural” was actually law. Obligation to family had teeth. Modern secular law kept almost none of that.

There’s a difference between cultural norms telling us to behave in certain ways, and what the Bible says about how things should go.

That’s a sharp reversal: In today’s frame of reference, family obligation has legal backing, or cultural backing.

What used to have legal Biblical precedent has shifted, changed, and been quietly downgraded.

Demon Spotting Code Words: Porcupine, Chameleon, and Vampire attack previously hidden, now revealed.

Nurturing remains important, both biblically and culturally. Nurturing is supposed to come from family. But nurturing can morph into something smothering when administered by the wrong person.

Savior Complex: an overwhelming need to fix, rescue or save.

In this case, I felt like my birth father’s daughter (my half-sister) cast me in the role of needing to be rescued, and then decided she was the one to rescue me as a demonstration of nurturing.

I’m not close with my birth family, so maybe she saw an opportunity to fill that emotional gap.

Very noble indeed. But I’m no longer a child who needs a rescue mission.

The Chameleon Position is always interesting. In this instance, for the position to work, she had to cast me as someone who needs to be rescued. That created an opening for her to stand as a nurturing (pretending) rescuer.

But because I wouldn’t stay in the role she assigned me — as someone she needed to keep track of since no one else was — there was no backdrop for her to blend in with. No rescue needed, Sis.

In a relationship built on that pretext, domination and control are the levers to push to keep me trapped.

If monitoring me is her only relational connection to me, then any move I make to escape her monitoring causes upset.

Once that dependent structure is built, both of us are headed for a short trip down the River of Shame, with our destination being the Altar of Guilt. Trapped!

Familiar Chameleon lament: “After everything I’ve done for you! How can you leave me now?”

Fake family nurturing provides the cover that allows someone to keep you trapped.

Which brings us to the Porcupine Position and the Vampire Attack

• Porcupine plays the bully and the victim, depending on who is listening. “All I’m trying to do is connect with her as family.”
• Vampire attack encourages others to drain my confidence by shaming me, saying, “Something’s wrong with her. She doesn’t want to be around family.”
• But in this case, what does family imply, and whose family is she talking about?

The whole situation feels like a sticky tar baby dilemma to me.

Courts of Heaven Analysis: Prep Questions and Tests

Clarity: And, of course, there are two sides to every story.

Now, you’ve heard my side.

I’m curious to see how Jesus the Advocate deals with the case of an invitation extended by a distant family relation, but consequently refused by me.

The Complaint: At age 53, and having never met this person or had prior knowledge of this person before, I refused an invitation to be in a family relationship with my birth father’s daughter. To end any connection or attachment to the Altar of Guilt, I am asking Jesus the Advocate to review my case and to decide whether it needs to go higher to the Courts of Heaven or be dismissed.

Does standing exist to bring this case before the COH?

Standing: A case moves forward (or the Complainant — my half-sister — loses on the spot) for the following reasons:

1. Jurisdiction: Based on earlier arguments in this case study, she doesn’t have authority to present a complaint against me in the Courts of Heaven (COH).
2. No formal agreement: Based on the fact that both people are over the age of 21, neither one has made a formal agreement with the other. The half-sister pushed to make some kind of agreement stick.
3. After opening the door by accepting the invitation to visit, I closed the door on developing a relationship.
4. No breach of promise. We don’t know each other. There’s no legal reason for a relationship to develop.
5. Is there a generational curse involved in this situation? YES!

Standing exists based on a shared generational curse. So, we revisit the questions with Satan as our joint adversary and Jesus as our Advocate.

Now, there’s a reason for family togetherness. Principally, to do battle with Satan to nullify and eradicate a generational curse. And I agree with that positioning.

Wrong defendant: Satan’s claim is being pressed against two people who didn’t make the original agreement, but we are paying the price for it.

So, we suffer the consequences of a poor decision made by an ancestor.

If we don’t interrupt this pattern, Satan continues to exact punishment on our family for generations to come.

Satan’s only hope for winning this case is based on agreements he made with ancient ancestors. But unfortunately for him. we are not those people.

Now, instead of fighting each other, we have the authority to take the fight to Satan directly.

COH Prep: 5 Answers to Determine Merit and Results

Now that we’ve determined we have standing to take Satan to the COH, it’s time to answer the Merit Questions.

For more info, read this: Unlock 5 Courts of Heaven Prep Questions and Tests

1. What’s the actual harm? Broken and bent family relationships. Distance and unhappiness.
   
2. What does Scripture promise instead? This result is so rampant that God addresses it at the end of Malachi 4:5-6: “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. ⁶ He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”
3. What remedy am I asking for?
   • Release from the burden of wrecked family relationships.
   • Remove the generational curse.
   • Break the initial agreement so that the pattern of broken/bent family connection stops propagating forward. Free our families from the Altar of Guilt that keeps us trapped and unable to move forward.
   • Healing by removing hearts of stone and replacing them with hearts of flesh. God promised, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you… remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:22-32
4. What’s the evidence? Jesus died for our sins. His blood washes Satan’s agreements away. Plus, God’s promise: “I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed. I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands.” Ezekiel 36:24-28
5. What’s the ruling I’m asking the Righteous Judge to make? “I ask the Righteous Judge to rule that the generational curse of broken and bent family relationships on my birth father’s bloodline is reversed by the blood of Jesus, that I am released from the Altar of Guilt tied to it, and that my heart is healed.”

Conclusion: Setting a boundary for the win

So, if the half-sister from Georgia hadn’t located me and shown her Creepy Wally side by barging into my life, this generational curse would still stand.

The code words revealed the frame of the dispute. After analysis, I felt confident setting a strong boundary.

Sometimes saying no and setting a boundary is what clears the fog enough to see the real case.

God works in mysterious ways. In the Christian Bible, Malachi 4:5-6 (see Merit Question 2) are the last recorded words to end the Old Testament.