Prayer to Break the Power of Idol Worship and Evil Spirits

Dear Abba Father, I confess that I, my family, and my ancestors have followed the traditions and customs of Chinese culture. During festivals and traditional holidays such as the Lunar New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Qingming (Tomb-Sweeping Day), Ghost Festival, or the death anniversaries of our loved ones, we have engaged in ancestral worship — visiting graves, offering incense, burning spirit money and paper gold ingots, setting up altars or ancestral tablets, and offering gifts, water, wine, fruits, and other food as sacrifices to our ancestors. We have even erected images or built ancestral temples and shrines for them.

During these festivals or anniversaries, we have participated in ancestral rites held in ancestral halls or temples, expressing Confucian and Taoist concepts of filial piety. We bowed, knelt, and worshipped ancestors during rituals, praying to their spirits for peace, blessings, and protection. At funerals, we set up memorial halls or spiritual tablets for the deceased for worship, prepared offerings and sacrifices, lit candles and incense, and even invited Taoist priests or Buddhist monks to chant scriptures for the dead and hired mourners to cry.

I confess that all these practices and customs are rooted in belief in false religions, worship of the dead, and communication with the dead — which are sins of spiritism. They are sins that invite evil spirits and occult influences into our family line, and they open the door for generational evil spirits to enter us and our descendants. Lord, I ask for Your forgiveness for all these sins. Please cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I break and cancel all of these acts — every sacrifice, ritual, and celebration that I, my ancestors, and my family have ever performed toward ancestral tablets, altars, statues, portraits, or photos of deceased relatives. I cancel every altar that was erected, every offering and food item that was presented, every drink offering of water or wine, every incense burner that was used, every piece of spirit money that was burned, every candle that was lit, every stick of incense that was offered, and every word of scripture or incantation chanted by Taoist priests or Buddhist monks. I cancel every word and phrase recited, every use of wooden fish, bells, or ritual instruments, and every act of petitioning, vow-making, declaration, or oath. I nullify every bowing, prostration, and kneeling act in Jesus’ name.

Now, in the name of Jesus Christ, I declare all of these acts null and void. I apply the precious blood of Jesus to completely cover and erase them. I break their power and cancel every curse in Jesus’ name. I bind every evil spirit and unclean spirit that was invited in through these ignorant and foolish rituals, declarations, and vows. I command them to be completely bound and sent to the feet of the Lord Jesus. Let the cross of Jesus Christ stand between me and them, and let them no longer influence me or my descendants.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I break and cancel every covenant made through these rituals, objects, oaths, mourning speeches, declarations, vows, and all pacts made with death and the realm of the dead. I declare them fully broken and cancelled.

Because I stand in repentance before God for myself and on behalf of my ancestors — confessing our sins and fully forgiving — I now proclaim that all of these things are utterly powerless, ineffective, and have no authority, portion, place, or remembrance in our lives or in our family line, both in the spiritual realm and in the physical realm. I claim the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross to fully break, crush, and cancel all of them.The punishment that brought me and my descendants peace was upon Jesus. By His stripes, we and our descendants are healed. On the cross, Jesus became our sin offering, guilt offering, and atoning sacrifice. He has borne all curses and death for me, my children, and my family line. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen!

Lord Jesus, thank You for forgiving all my sins and cleansing me from all unrighteousness. Now, by an act of my will, I choose to forgive my parents, ancestors, relatives, and everyone who has ever influenced me to worship ancestors, to offer sacrifices to the dead, or who taught and led us into cultural and traditional Chinese practices that offended God — through their words, rituals, or actions. I forgive each of these people and release them into the freedom of my forgiveness.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I command all the power of death, the realm of the dead, and every ancestral spirit, guardian spirit, idol, and demonic power that was invited in by my ancestors — leave me and my descendants completely, right now.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I command and give orders to all evil spirits that have entered through the practice of Qigong, yoga, all kinds of spirit-invoking and energy-cultivating activities; spirits that have come through belief in feng shui and fortune-telling; and spirits of curses and death brought by disasters, grief, fear, sorrow, and despair — I now command you all to leave! Leave my home, leave me and my descendants, and go to the place where the Lord Jesus commands you to go. You are never permitted to return or disturb any of us again.

I now renounce you. I surrender the lordship of my life, my family, and the authority over my children and descendants to my Lord Jesus Christ. We no longer belong to you or to any powers of darkness. You have no power, no claim, no place, and no position in my life, in my family, or among my descendants. If you try to return to harass or invade again, you are illegal intruders, and I will strike you down and burn you by the name of Jesus!

This prayer is made in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

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