Do you suffer from Cynical Hostility? It is important to understand that hostility is genetic as well as an environmental factor. Thus making cynical hostility a generational curse that needs to be broken and ended before it gets further down the generations and causes our children and grandchildren more pain and anguish.
A Case Study:
Hostility is a multidimensional personality trait with changing expression over the life course. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of the components of hostility in a population-based sample of Finnish men and women for whom a total of 2.5 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were available through direct or in silico genotyping.
Hostility is a personality trait characterizing how trustworthy individuals perceive other people and how they handle these feelings toward others. The cognitive component of hostility characterizes cynical and distrustful attitudes, which is the primary reference of the term hostility,1 whereas the affective component reflects feelings of irritability and anger. The behavioral component covers expression of these attitudes and feelings as either expressing them out, that is, aggression, or as suppressing or repressing them. Hostility traits have been found to be related to various social and health problems, such as criminality and violence,2, 3 isolation and relationship aggression,4 depression,5 cardiovascular diseases6 and all-cause mortality risk,7 although the findings are not entirely consistent
Knowing that hostility runs in the genes it is safe to say that hostility is a form of a generational curse. There are many ways to combat generational curses and we will be looking at Scripture and what Yahusha and Yah tell us.
What Are Generational Curses?
A generational curse is believed to be passed down from one generation to another due to rebellion against God. If your family line is marked by divorce, incest, poverty, anger or other ungodly patterns, you're likely under a generational curse. The Bible says that these curses are tied to choices. Deuteronomy 30:19 says we can either choose life and blessing or death and cursing.
Genesis 12:3 - And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Jeremiah 17:5 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD
Cynical Hostility is a form of rebellion to Abba Yah:
We have been redeemed from the curse, but if we walk in willful rebellion, we are “breaking covenant” and that leaves holes for the enemy to bring a curse on us. Many Christians mistakenly believe that the devil cannot come near them in any way. The Bible does not support this theory. When Paul wrote to “not give the devil any foothold, or a place” (Ephesians 4:27), he was writing to Christians! Curses can work against Christians if they are in rebellion, out of the will of God, or not walking in faith and love. However, if we are walking where God wants us to walk, a hundred curses against us would just bounce off and would do us no harm.
Cynicism is The emotional disposition of distrust or rejection toward a particular idea, person, or group as a result of negative experiences (either directly or indirectly). Cynicism is so undetectable because it is so justifiable. It wears a mask of insight and godliness, but it conceals festering wounds of harbored bitterness against God and neighbor. We need to understand cynicism, because the masks we wear tell us about the wounds we hide, and point us to the Savior who yearns to mend them. Cynical hostility is a method we use to protect ourselves. It occurs when we are hurt by or angry at something rather than dealing with this emotion, we allow them to fester and skew outlook. We start to turn on everything and we indulge in self-righteous attitudes; forming expectations that people should behave certain ways. Cynical Hostility occurs when we are left open and then let down causing us to toughen up and become defensive. In Cynical State: heightened susceptibility to cynicism is a sign we turned on ourselves. We view others in same filter, and the critical inner voice is directing us and telling us we re not good enough. ➡️Five basic components of Cynicism 1.) Apathy: At the root of cynicism is a lack of joy, combined with a desire for pleasure. Cynicism is the concoction of indifference and discontentment. It is teenage apathy turned sour through the hardships of life 2.) Criticism: At the root of cynicism is a lack of love. The cynic places the highest premium on their own analysis of the world. 3.) Worship: At the root of cynicism is misdirected devotion. Cynicism is an inverted emotional liturgy. It is a dull, stubborn fixation on something or someone. It is not a fit or fury, nor is it brash. It is slight and subtle — rolled eyes, raised eyebrows, curled lips, and, beneath it all, it is a low-lit anxiety burning deep in the chest. Cynicism is an enunciated rarefaction in affection; a doxological dark matter. 4.) Nothingness: At the root of cynicism is isolation. The presumption of cynicism is not that it condescends from “up there,” but that it disapproves from nowhere. It scorns from a safe and comfortable nothingness which is so empty and contentless that it cannot be retaliated against. 5.) History: At the root of cynicism is a host of bad experiences. Cynicism, despite its very active nature, is usually a result of truly bad experiences of suffering, resulting in legitimate concerns. It is never instantaneously spawned — it is always the result of time. Cynicism is longsuffering, because with every mistake, with every stupid thing said, with every hurtful thing done, it seeks to mount enough evidence to launch an everlasting, irrevocable counter-offense of justified negative emotion. Samples of Cynical Hostility Thinking 1. I don't matter much to others 2. People in charge don't know what they are doing. 3. Most people lie to get ahead 4. I trust no one: life is easier this way. Yahusha has Overcome This Curse
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 3:13-14 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Ways Yahusha Can Provide Help 1.) Closure: Cynicism is not merely disapproval — it is the need to continually disapprove of “them.” And this incessant desire to reject “them” can come from a lack of processing pain that was experienced Psalm 5; 69; 109; 2 Timothy 4:14 2.) Alternative: Essential to cynicism is an emptiness — a position that is empty enough to avoid criticism altogether. And yet, Christ provides resources to positively construct alternatives to wrongs that were done. Matthew 11:28-29
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Job 15:31-32
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
3.) Forgiveness
Forgiveness can initiate the backward inertia with which the love of the gospel propels healing (2 Corinthians 5:5–7). Paul rightly says, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32).
4.) Meaning
The cynic is jaded and skeptical about certain people (maybe even all people) based on their participation in foolishness and evil.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
5.) Himself Only the immensity of Christ’s joyful and benevolent personhood can stand against the void of scorn sedimented in the human heart While cynicism often takes mundane and miniscule life-forms, the beauty of Christ’s person and work is that it is equally mundane and miniscule.
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Breaking A Curse
The way to break a curse is to repent for whatever involvement has occurred on the enemy’s territory and rebuke the devil out of your life. You should also pray something along the following lines:
“Father, I ask you first to forgive me for my sins and cleanse me from any area where I have allowed the devil to enter my life. I renounce any involvement with the works of darkness. In the name of Jesus, I now cancel every curse, and Father, I ask you to forgive the people who have spoken them against me. I thank you that those curses will no longer operate against me. In Jesus’ name, they are broken right now, by the power of Almighty God. I cancel every evil that was spoken against me and ask you to cover me and my family with your protection according to your Word in Psalm 91.”
The Bible tells us in James 4:7 to “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” We can over come cynical hostility by allowing Abba Yah to work out our problems, by Trusting in Him and Building our Faith that allows our Trust in Him to grow.
Desiring God https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/putting-off-cynicism Psychology: Cynicism https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/compassion-matters/201212/is-cynicism-ruining-your-life?amp
Generational Curses
https://www.christianity.com/blogs/hank-hanegraaff/are-generational-curses-biblical.html
What the Bible Says About Breaking Curses
https://bibleresources.org/curses/
Hostility in Adults and Adolescents
https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201113
