Scripture makes clear that spiritual battles can extend beyond a single generation. Exodus 20:5 warns of iniquity visiting “the children unto the third and fourth generation,” while Galatians 3:13 declares that Christ redeems believers from the curse of the law. Throughout the Bible covenant language is central. Blessings flow through obedience to God’s covenant and bondage follows agreements outside of it. Generational curses, spiritual strongholds and open doors are realities addressed in Scripture and confronted through repentance and deliverance.
Dr. LaTanya Moore says she confronted that reality in her own life.
A Vision on the Sea of Galilee
Moore was a member of Delta Sigma Theta for nearly 20 years. She described the experience as “fun” and active, involving social events and community service. But everything shifted during a trip to Israel.
While sitting in a boat on the Sea of Galilee, she asked God what storm He was calming in her life.
“I said, ‘God, what storm are you calming in my life?’”
She said the Lord responded through a vision.
“The Lord normally speaks to me through vision. I began to have a vision of my grandfather.”
In the vision she saw her deceased grandfather wearing a hat marked with a symbol. She said the Lord revealed that the symbol “had allowed negative spirits to come into our family bloodline.”
God then showed her her mother and finally herself.
“When I saw myself, I was kneeling down on my knees. I was looking up at a symbol. And the Lord showed me that that was my open door.”
She said her grandfather’s and mother’s doors were closed but hers remained open.
“It was as if God was giving me a choice to close that door.”
Covenants and Deities
Moore concluded that her sorority membership represented a spiritual covenant that conflicted with her covenant with God.
“We’re only supposed to worship one God, the true and living God,” she said.
She stated that every historically Black Greek organization has a deity and said Delta’s is the Roman goddess Minerva, likened to Athena.
“Most people say, ‘Well, I didn’t bow to a Greek god.’ However, the moment that you took that oath, you did so to a Greek god.”
She described initiation ceremonies involving bowing at an altar, kneeling on a white pillow and reciting oaths.
“There are candles lit. There’s an altar that is set up. Most organizations bow. You put a pillow under your knees and you bow so that you can actually say the oath and sign your name.”
She said many pledges are teenagers who are “basically signing your name on a dotted line without knowing the terms and conditions.”
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Breaking the Covenant
Moore said the Lord showed her what her future could look like if she closed the door.
“You can choose to continue to be a part of this organization and keep this door open or you can close that door and receive what I have for you.”
She formally removed her name from membership, comparing it to divorce.
“If I really wanted to be out of that covenant, I had to release it by removing my name from the roll.”
She described the decision as deliverance.
“There were open doors that gave the enemy access to have his way in your bloodline. And because that door was open, now that you’ve closed it, it brings about deliverance.”
Supernatural Healing and Bloodline Cleansing
Moore said the spiritual shift produced immediate results.
“I had a lump in my breast that was supernaturally healed.”
She also described what she called the removal of spiritual limitations.
“When I took the letters off, God took the limits off.”
According to Moore, the Lord told her He was cleansing her bloodline.
“Things run in your family until they run into you,” she said. “And it’s time for us to begin to confront the things that confronted our bloodlines.”
She said patterns such as poverty, anger, lust and other struggles must be confronted through repentance and renunciation.
A Call to Deliverance
Moore initially renounced privately but later felt directed to make her decision public.
“This isn’t about denouncing. This is deliverance,” she said.
Today she leads a prophetic and deliverance ministry focused on helping others break spiritual chains and ungodly covenants.
“When we repent, when we renounce and we remove those things from our lives, we’re going to see a whole new level of increase from what God wants to do.”
Deliverance is not a fringe doctrine but a biblical mandate. Jesus cast out demons, broke spiritual oppression and gave His followers authority to do the same. Scripture makes clear that believers are called to renounce darkness, tear down spiritual strongholds and walk fully in the freedom Christ purchased at the cross.
For Moore, closing the door was not symbolic. It was obedience. And in a spiritual battle that Scripture says is “not against flesh and blood,” obedience is where true freedom begins.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
