The Process is the Journey: A Cycle-breaking Article to Get you Back to Producing the Results You Want in Life by Nancy Hunter and Patty Graham

By Nancy Hunter and Patty Graham
Often we spend our time wanting to achieve certain outcomes in our lives. However, it can become frustrating when the very things you've hoped and dreamed about don't come to fruition.   This short article is designed to help you break the cycles that may be holding you back from achieving your goals.   Dreams and good intentions are no fun unless they come true and are fulfilled in real life.
 
 
 
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Often we spend our time wanting to achieve certain outcomes in our lives. However, it can become frustrating when the very things you've hoped and dreamed about don't come to fruition.   This short article is designed to help you break the cycles that may be holding you back from achieving your goals.   Dreams and good intentions are no fun unless they come true and are fulfilled in real life. Patty and I want to see God's vision for your life fulfilled and we want to encourage breakthrough to happen in your life.  
 
Breaking Through
 
Deferred hope is a by-product of pursuits that don't produce results and it gets harder to live with unfulfilled dreams and good intentions.  Follow the steps below to break through deferred hope.
  • Identify areas of your life that have been shipwrecked such as dreams, jobs, relationships, life milestones that didn't work out or come to fruition the way you wanted them to. Write them down and please include behavior patterns you want to break.
  • Group these areas by the following broad categories
    • Blood relatives
    • Friends
    • Patterns of behavior you notice in yourself or others
    • Love
    • Career Aspirations
    • Your life calling/purpose
    • Dreams
    • Reoccurring issues in your life/stuck areas
  • Acknowledge to God that you want to see healing and "unstuckness" in your life to pursue what you desire in your heart.  Ask the Holy Spirit to bring up memories around the issues you've noted in Step 1.  Write these memories down, no matter how painful, meaningless, or abstract they are.  Big and little memories count, no matter how trivial or reoccurring they may be.
  • For the following broad areas, pray these prayers specifically and out loud.
    • Heavenly Father,  I realize there are blockages and cycles in my life that are keeping me from realizing the dreams and desires that you have for me. Holy Spirit, please bring to mind those memories of traumatic events that have embedded in my soul and are holding me in a cycle or pattern that I can't break out of without your help.  I ask you to help me forgive those who have hurt me and my bloodline and release them from unforgiveness.  I ask that you show me how these sins have held me, my ancestors and family captive and kept us from fulfilling our calls, destinies, and desires. I receive your Spirit of Truth to guide me through the bloodline to break these cycles off of me and generations to follow and call back into my life the blessings that they never received.   In Jesus' name –amen.
KEY:  Write down each cycle or event as you remember them.
  • Heavenly Father, I acknowledge and take responsibility for any and all participation I have played in these cycles that have hindered me from fulfilling my destiny. I ask for forgiveness for perpetuating these cycles in my life by these actions and behaviors (list/name the specific activities or behaviors.  Some behaviors that may come to mind are control, manipulation, fear, hate, unforgiveness, immorality, covenant breaking, enabling, etc. etc.) which you call sin.  You promised that if I confess these as sin and ask Your forgiveness, you will forgive me and cleanse me of all the effects.  I receive Your forgiveness in Jesus' name.   
KEY: 1 John 1:9 is a good verse to reference.
  • Heavenly Father, I forgive all my ancestors, my parents, my grandparents (name the particular people in your life you forgive) who participated in ( name the activity – some activities may be witchcraft, abuse, idolatry, etc) which perpetuated the effects of these sins on my bloodline and manifested in my life through (abuse, fear, etc).  It hurts me and it was wrong.  I forgive because You said if I forgive that you would forgive me of my sins. I release them from my judgment into yours and ask that you forgive me for participating in these sins as well*.  Please wash my bloodline all generations past and all generations future in the blood of Jesus Christ.  I receive your forgiveness and blessings. I command every spirit of (fear, hate, abuse, etc.) to go to the dry and uninhabited places never to return to me or my bloodline. Fill me with your Holy Spirit and love and restore my soul.  In Jesus' name – amen.
For more optimal results during this cycle-breaking process, consider partnering with AIN, Jeremy Lopez, Doug Addison and other trusted prophets that can speak into your life.  Ideally, they do not know you personally and have absolutely no vested interest in your success beyond the simple love of Christ. 
 
Their contact information is listed at the end of this article.
 
Breaking the Cycle
 
Cycle breaking is also a time of healing.  Have your trusted friends pray peace, joy, and love over you during this healing time.  I've found it important to protect your heart and spirit a bit more during this time - if you can manage it, extra sleep helps too during this step in the process. 
 
Finally, please pay attention to your dreams during this time and write them down.  Ask God to show you what He is saying or get help interpreting them.  Many times God works out painful memories during our sleep.
 
After the breaking of the cycle prayers, create a notecard of key bible verses that come in the spirit OPPOSITE of what you've been battling.  Every time one of your old behaviors/thinking patterns comes up, war with the Word of God and declare it over your situation.  Verbalizing and coming in the opposite spirit cannot be overlooked.  You are who God says you are; you are not who the people or situations are that have held you back.   So tell your current situation who you are in Christ and do not back down.  This is war and you will prevail. 
 
Verse and Opposite spirit examples:  Daniel 11:32; Phil 4:13; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 144:2; Isaiah 40:28; Psalm 46:7; Romans 8:31
  • As you do Step 5, ask God to reveal next steps you can take on your journey to the goals/desires you've set.
    • Specifically prayer for and ask for divine connections, divine situations, insights, additional prophetic words to light up the path and encourage you.
    • If you don't have clearly defined goals and desires, ask God to bring them up in you.  Often this may come as you sleep, workout, relax, etc.  Jot these ideas down.  Take time to delight in the Lord- Psalm 37:4-6 is good encouragement.
    • Again, prophetic words can be helpful during this time to encourage you and bring up ideas and feelings that can guide you to the next step.
  • Finally, and most importantly, ask God for tangible results.  Breaking cycles, healing, prophecy and actively combatting negative situations you want changed should warrant TANGIBLE results.  Remind God of what he has said and promised to you in the past and push in for tangible results.
Patty and I pray for the transforming love of Christ to surround you and to break through those stuck areas in your life.
 
In Christ,
 
Nancy Hunter
 
 
Patty Graham
 
* Please note:  If you were abused, it was not your fault.  All that is implied by "participating in these sins" is that even against your own will, you were unwillingly a part of the sin.
 
For further information or to be guided through this process, contact: 
 
AIN (Apostolic Intercessors Network) www.ainconnect.com.
 
Additional help with dream interpretation or encouraging prophetic words can be found at:
 
Patty Graham at www.roseofsharonokc.com.  Click on the prophetic ministry tab.
 
Jeremy Lopez at www.identitynetwork.net.
 
Doug Addison at www.dougaddison.com.