Self-Assessment for Identifying Ungodly Covenants

Set aside quiet time with God before beginning this self-assessment. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal every agreement, covenant, and practice in your life that opposes the Word and will of God. Do not rush through these questions. Answer each one honestly.

Personal Sin

• What sinful behavior have I excused, hidden, defended, or repeatedly practiced without genuine repentance?
• Whom have I refused to forgive?
• Where have pride, anger, bitterness, or offense controlled my decisions?
• What has God instructed me to stop doing, yet I continue to do it?

Words and Vows

• Have I spoken destructive words or vows over my own life?
• Have I repeatedly declared failure, death, poverty, rejection, defeat, or hopelessness over myself?
• Have I made vows, promises, or agreements with people or spirits that violate the Word of God?
• Have I accepted names, labels, or identities that oppose who God says I am in Christ?

Relationships

• Am I maintaining a sinful, immoral, controlling, or manipulative relationship?
• Did a present or former relationship involve ungodly vows, sexual bondage, occult practices, manipulation, or control?
• Am I seeking emotional comfort from a relationship that weakens my covenant with God or violates my covenant with my spouse?

Spiritual Practices

• Have I consulted mediums, psychics, diviners, astrologers, witch doctors, or other occult workers?
• Have I participated in rituals, ceremonies, or practices that invite, honor, or invoke spirits?
• Do I possess objects that were dedicated to false worship, occult activity, or demonic practices?
• Have I mixed biblical prayer with occult customs, rituals, charms, or superstitions?

Dreams

• Have I repeatedly accepted food, rings, money, gifts, vows, sexual encounters, marriages, or proposals in troubling dreams?
• Does the same person, place, house, school, relationship, or setting repeatedly appear in my dreams?
• Did I verbally agree to, receive, or participate in anything in a dream that opposed the Word of God?
• Did I reject, renounce, and cancel that agreement through prayer after waking?

Practical Conduct

• Am I calling a financial consequence a curse while refusing to budget, save, plan, or practice discipline?
• Am I praying for healing and good health while refusing responsible medical care and healthy choices?
• Am I asking God for restoration while refusing to apologize, forgive, correct my behavior, or make restitution?
• Am I rebuking delay while repeatedly procrastinating and neglecting my responsibilities?

This examination should lead you to repentance, correction, and action. It should never lead you into fear, torment, or obsession. The Holy Spirit exposes what is wrong so you can repent, close the door, and walk in truth.

Steps for Breaking an Evil Covenant

1. Submit Yourself to God

Begin with your relationship with Jesus Christ. James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." Notice the divine order. Submission comes before resistance. You cannot protect rebellion in one area of your life while expecting spiritual authority to operate properly in another.

2. Identify the Agreement

Ask God for wisdom and revelation. Examine the words, vows, actions, relationships, dreams, rituals, and family practices connected to the pattern. Do not build conclusions on fear or speculation. Work with what Scripture, facts, and repeated evidence reveal.

3. Confess and Repent

Name your sin before God. Do not hide behind vague or general language. If you practiced divination, confess it. If you held on to unforgiveness, acknowledge it. If you entered an immoral relationship or ungodly agreement, admit it. Genuine repentance requires honesty and a decision to turn away from the sin.

4. Renounce the Covenant

Declare before God that you reject, renounce, and withdraw your agreement from every covenant contrary to Jesus Christ and His Word. Renounce every word, vow, ritual, promise, dedication, and spiritual claim connected to that covenant.

5. Remove Your Participation

Stop participating in the behavior that gives the covenant access to your life. End every unlawful spiritual practice. Remove objects under your control that belong to occult worship. Leave relationships that demand disobedience to God. Where necessary, seek sound pastoral, legal, medical, or professional help.

6. Replace Error With Truth

Study the Scriptures connected to the area of bondage. Renew your mind with the Word of God. Speak the truth of Scripture and establish new habits. Replace financial disorder with a budget. Replace bitterness with forgiveness. Replace isolation with healthy Christian fellowship. Freedom requires you to remove the lie and live by the truth.

7. Resist Reentry

The enemy often attempts to reenter through temptation, deception, old relationships, familiar habits, and recurring dreams. Do not rebuild what repentance destroyed. Guard your thoughts, words, relationships, decisions, and spiritual practices.

8. Walk in Consistent Obedience

Freedom must become your way of life. One prayer is important, but a consistent life of obedience protects the ground you gained through repentance, renunciation, truth, and disciplined choices. Prayer does not replace obedience.

What Genuine Spiritual Protection Looks Like

Spiritual protection does not come from placing salt in the corners of your home, wearing colored strings
around your wrist, taking ritual baths, burying objects, burning smoke, using candles as charms, or wearing religious costumes. These practices place your faith in objects and rituals instead of God.

Biblical spiritual protection includes:

• Faith in Jesus Christ
• Genuine repentance from sin
• Obedience to the Word of God
• Forgiveness
• Consistent prayer
• The whole armor of God
• Wisdom and spiritual discernment
• Godly relationships
• Truthful and disciplined speech
• Resistance to temptation

Ephesians 6 does not instruct believers to purchase protection or trust in religious objects. It commands us to stand in truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, the Word of God, and prayer.

The armor of God describes a life aligned with God and His Word. Truth must govern you. Righteousness must guard you. Faith must answer the fiery darts of the enemy. The Word of God must shape your thoughts, decisions, and responses. Prayer must remain part of your daily life.

Key Principles

1. The curse causeless shall not come. Proverbs 26:2.
2. A curse is the fruit. A cause, covenant, or agreement is the root.
3. Agreement creates spiritual access and establishes a legal right.
4. Deception often conceals the true meaning and consequences of an agreement.
5. Test every dream by the Word of God and examine it within its proper context.
6. A familiar face in a dream does not prove that the natural person represented is responsible for the spiritual activity.
7. Salvation does not remove every earthly consequence produced by disobedience and poor decisions.
8. Repentance, confession, renunciation, and consistent obedience close unlawful spiritual doors.
9. When direct spiritual attacks fail, the enemy often changes his strategy and approaches through temptation, deception, or compromise.
10. Giving money does not purchase deliverance, spiritual protection, prophetic direction, or favor from God.
11. Not every hardship, delay, loss, or consequence is the result of a curse.
12. Your faith must rest in God, His Word, and the finished work of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Kevin L. A. Ewing
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