and thus destroying the person. (Familiars are discussed more fully in later chapters.) Whoever ministers may, therefore, also have to pray about the person’s generational sin patterns in order to ensure that the familiar and its blocking spirits do not regain their hold. (See our teaching on “Generational Sin,” chapter 9, in Transforming the Inner Man.) In short, whatever sins and sinful practices have not come to the cross within the family history can serve as points of access and control for demonic