Breaking the Curse
In 1525 the Archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin Dunbar issued a curse over the Border Reivers and all their descendants. This cursing was read in every pulpit and at every mercat post within the Borderlands. The curse was so vile that it has been known as the ‘mother of all curses’. Since this curse was more directed at people who are no longer living, it is not right to vocalize these cursed word onto the living so I will not post them on this page. You may click the link about, to view it for yourself, if you wish. It is the intention of this page to bring healing to the descendants of this multi-generational curse so it need not be spoken again on those who did not do the crimes that brought it about.
The following is a prayer for the breaking of the curse, for any who have the desire and humble wish to shed these cursed word off their lives and those of the generations to come. If this is not something you believe in or do not feel is necessary then click to another page. For those who, like myself, wanted to break past off yourself and our children then take these words to the only One who can break them off. There is by only One name for which we can be saved, the Lord Jesus Christ!
A Prayer:
Heavenly Father,
I bow before You and recognise You as the one and true Lord and God and Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as my Saviour. I come before You with a broken spirit and a contrite heart, knowing and acknowledging that I am a sinner.
Father, I recognise that my family heritage may extend to and include, people who lived in Scotland and or in Northern England, who may have been subject to the monitions of cursings which took place against the peoples of the border areas.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ my Saviour, I repent of all and any involvement of my ancestors and or their extended families, or hirelings, or employees, in the ungodly practices of the Border Reivers and others of that kind, in Scotland, England and elsewhere; including the shedding of innocent blood and the taking of innocent lives.
I renounce and repent of all and any involvement of my ancestors and their extended families, or hirelings, or employees, in the ungodly practices of the Border Reivers and others of that kind, in Scotland, England and elsewhere; including the shedding of innocent blood and the taking of innocent lives.
Father, I humbly ask for Your forgiveness, for all and any involvement of my ancestors and their extended families, or hirelings, or employees, in the ungodly practices of the Border Reivers and others of that kind, in Scotland, England and elsewhere; including the shedding of innocent blood and the taking of innocent lives.
In my own authority, and in my authority as a descendant of my ancestors, and in the name and authority of my Saviour Lord Jesus Christ, I also forgive all those who killed, maimed, raped, kidnapped, pillaged, burnt, persecuted, stole from and in any way caused suffering to any of my ancestors. I forgive them unreservedly, and I bless them all in the name of Jesus Christ, with the love and the peace of Jesus Christ Himself.
Heavenly Father, Psalm 107:2 asks the redeemed of the Lord to recognise and to say so, that we are redeemed from the hands of our enemies; so Father, I come before you in the name and in the authority of my Redeemer, Your Son, The Lord Jesus Christ to break all the curses of the Archbishop of Glasgow’s “Monition of Cursing” and the like, which he and others caused to be placed over my ancestors I renounce the curses, and all others like them, which The Archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin Dunbar and his like, before and after, did utter against the lives, bodies, families, lands and inheritances of my ancestors and their descendents, their extended families, or hirelings, or employees, and for all generations since. I renounce the curses which have been placed upon them all and the abuse and damage caused to them all.
In my own authority, and in my authority as a descendant of my ancestors, and in the name and authority of my Saviour Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive all those who cursed, and or in any way, caused any form of suffering, to any of my ancestors. I forgive them unreservedly, and I bless them all in the name of Jesus Christ, with the love and the peace of Jesus Christ Himself.
Lord, as You have blessed me so bountifully, I bless them, one and all, with seven times that which you have blessed me!
I humbly ask Lord, that You will now release me and all my ancestors and their descendents, their extended families, or hirelings, or employees, and all generations, from the consequences of the curses.
I thank You Lord, in the name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen and Amen!
- Author Unknown, Submitted by CBS