On behalf of myself and my generational line I repent for any ungodly beliefs regarding kami. I repent for the confusion that kamis or spirits dwell in all things animate or inanimate. I trust in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son who upholds all things by the word of His power[1] and fills all things.[2] I repent for trusting in ungodly kami to function as gods in my life rather than trusting in the one and true and living God, the great I AM.[3] I repent for any religious practice devised to either make kami less angry or to motivate them through prayers, worship, rituals, sacred persons, shrines, objects of sacred worship, altars, any places of worship, temples, homes, lands, sacred groves, and sacred springs. Lord Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, please break off any covenants or agreements between my family line or me with any ungodly kami. Remove all their ability to supervise, influence, bring ungodly information, or alter us.
Break off all connections and ungodly influence from all ranks of ungodly kami, all connections to the Heavenly Emperor and/or the sibling-kami: Shinerikyu and Amaikyu. Also, break off all connection to any location kami: of the well, pigpen, hearth, and paddy.
On behalf of myself and my generational line, I repent for the belief that ancestral spirits were our loved ones instead of familial spirits posing as family members.[4] Break off any connection with ungodly kami posing as ancestral spirits. I repent for honoring these ungodly spirits by offering them a butsu dan or home shrine, the best rooms of the house, any objects of honor including memorial tablets, censers, incense, plants, flowers, artwork, food, rice, mochi, drink, wine, teacups, genealogies, family heirlooms, and treasured items. Cleanse these objects and our land from familiar spirits and ungodly kami. I repent and renounce any ungodly prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings for better education, prosperity, guidance, information, protection, and health to these familiar spirits.
Father, forgive us for believing that we need kami to sustain life, have the ability to cook take care of us, and for any fear of lack. Father, you do not let the righteous go hungry[5], and we are found righteous in Christ.[6] You bless our food and our water[7], You make our food holy by the word of God and prayer.[8] Break off any connection, worship or prayer to Hinukan, Fii Nu Kang, Ryukyuan kang, or Hi Kami and their attachment to hearths, the three stones piled at the side of hearths, hearth ashes, cooking stoves, and food. Cleanse any area affected by ungodly hearth ashes. Break off any connection to higher kami through prayer to Fii Nu Kang, Hinukan, Ryukuyan kang, or Hi Kami.
Father, forgive us for trusting in kami to provide discernment rather than the Holy Spirit who is freely given to us by God, and who matures us through the Word of God to discern good from evil.[9] Break off any ungodly connection, worship, prayer, or ritual offerings to all Fuuru nu kami, Akaname, pigs, pig pens, toilets, and waste.
Jesus, when we pass through the waters, You will be with us; and through You the rivers and waterways will not overwhelm us.[10] We shall not thirst or be without water, for you are with us.[11] I repent for appeasement for protection, generational fear of water, worship, and prayer to the kamis of water, waterways, rivers, streams, springs, oceans, and wells. Break off any ungodly influence from Kawa-no kami, Kaa nu kami, Kappa, Suijin, Yokai, Miji Gami, Hachiman, and water spirits from ourselves, lands, wells, springs, waterways, and oceans.
Remove any ungodly influence or tainting from supernatural revelation through kami. Cleanse us from anything we received through visions, hearing, dreaming, or experiences through bodily possession through ungodly kami.
Remove any ungodly influence from mabui, a life-sustaining kami; kami who serves and who offer guidance; majimung or ghosts; and kijimunaa, a male spirit who lives in the Indian banyan reet; and akamataa, with its power to seduce women and give birth to snakes.
On behalf of myself and my generational line, I repent for any worship, prayer, or rites to ungodly kami, ancestral spirits, and familiar spirits based upon any calendars and lunar cycles, including the Shixian or Chogzhen calendars.
Please break off and cleanse us from any ungodly worship, prayer, rites, and connections to ungodly kami through:
- Toushinuyuruu (New Year’s Eve):
- Worship and prayers through shimekazari
- Placing of kadomatsu bamboo to welcome toshigami or the year god into the house
- Prayers to any kami for prosperity
- Worship or prayers to the New Year’s zodiac animal
- Drawing out first water as an offering to ancestors.
- Sougwachi (New Year’s Day):
- Consuming or offering a cup of awamori or foods for good luck
- Offering incense for ancestor worship
- Visiting a jinja or Shinto Shrine to make wishes for good luck
- Receiving omikuji to find out about luck for the following year. Any prayers to the kami of mercy and kami of war
- Any visitations to fortunetellers or yuta to seek the future or guidance for family members.
- Hinukan Mukee (January 4): Prayers and worship to the God of the hearth; burning incense and making offerings (awamori, rice) at the kitchen hearth to welcome the kami back.
- Juuruku Nichi – Ancestors at the New Year – (January 16): Any prayers or offerings (flowers, incense, awamori, food, etc) to ancestors.
- Simakusarasi – Purification of the Village (Early February): Any use of parts of cows, cow’s blood, cow’s heart or ropes to ritually cleanse utaki, community, walls, gates, tombs, houses, or lands.
- Hamauri (March 3rd): The use of seawater or white sand to purify from evil kami and bad omens and prayers to ungodly kami for good health.
- Shiimii or Qingming (Early April):
- Prayers or offerings to ancestral spirits
- Any uchikabi or money of heaven burned as an offering to ancestors
- Yukka Nu Hii (May 4): Any tribute or worship to sea kami.
- Umachii/Shichuma/Shikyoma/Awa Shichuma or Harvest Festivals/Millet Festivals (June): Offering prayers to ungodly kami for a good harvest and seeking future prosperity.
- Inekari or Rice Harvesting: Prayers, rituals or offerings to inadama, miroku kami, or rice kami.
- Shinugu Matsuri (July):
- Praying to mountain kami and sea kami for good harvests
- Assuming the god forms of mountain kami, offering one’s self for kami possession by prayers, covering themselves with leaves and crowning themselves with red flowers.
- Unjami or Ungami (July):
- Prayers to sea kami for prosperity and good fishing
- Assuming the forms of the kami and offering oneself for kami possession.
- Tanabata or Star Festival (August):
- rayers, rituals, worship, or offerings including incense, flowers, and alcohol to ancestral spirits
- Prayers to ancestral spirits to invite them to the following week’s Obon festival.
- Obon Festival (July): Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings including incense, candles, pine torches, food, alcohol, flowers, fruit, uji (sugarcane), rice, beans, minnuku (water), dances, music, uchikabi or money to ancestral spirits. Cleanse our homes, family gates (jo), and land of any familiar spirits.
- Shishimai or Lion Dances (August): Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings, including dances or music to ungodly kami for successful corps and prosperity.
- Yabu Dance Festival (August): Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings including dances or music to ungodly kami for this year and next year’s harvest.
- Masutoriya (August): Harvest festival?
- Kami Ugami (September): Pilgrimages and prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings to famous ungodly kami
- Amidushi (November): Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings including alcohol and rice to sea gods in order to ensure good fishing.
- Izaihoo (November 15): Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings to ungodly kami for the ordination of women to the priesthood, every twelve years on the year of the horse.
- Muuchii (December 8): Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings including the offering of muuchii to ungodly kami or ancestor kami for health.
Disconnect us from any ungodly fortune-telling and destiny reception through lunar cycles including the Shixian or Chogzhen calendars. Break off any ungodly connection to: Sheep (Hitsuji), Monkey (Saru), Cock (Tori), Dog (Inu), Wild Boar (Inoshishi), Rat (Ne), Bull (Ushi), Tiger (Tora), Rabbit (Usagi), Dragon (Tatsu), Snake (Mi), and Horse (Uma).
On behalf of myself and generational line I repent for:
- Prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings to ancestor kami, hearth kami, and yard kami to connect them to newborn
- Consulting of ungodly kami or ancestral spirits for information or guidance for marriage through prayers, rituals, worship, or offerings or through a yuta
Disconnect us from any ungodly Okinawan religious leadership, and from any Noro-nuru (Priestesses), Niigami, Niigami Assistants, Kudii, Shaman Yutas, Niitchus, Sanjinsoos, and Boojis.
Break off all connection from:
- Any status kaminchu, who gain spiritual status due to possession
- The ancestral kami or futuki, and remote ancestor kami (chiji)
- Any kaminchu who assumes a semi-divine status when she functions as a priestess
Father, I acknowledge that it is Your desire to bless us and keep us, to make Your face shine upon us, be gracious to us and give us peace.[12] On behalf of myself and my generational line I repent and renounce any requirement of women or girls using their kami to bless males, or men in responsibility; and any curses or ungodly shiji placed upon men for misbehavior or influence through kami. Please, break off any ungodly connection with kamis, ungodly shiratori or white birds from ourselves and our generational line. We turn our hearts to walk under the influence of the Holy Spirit and to bless and not curse.[13]
On behalf of myself and generational line I renounce and repent for any fortune telling and fortune telling through sanjinsoos, especially that which is related to the lunar calendar, I Ching, and any other books on occult lore. I repent for going to ungodly sources and for ungodly manipulation of time in matters of buying, selling, moving, courses of actions, engagement, and marriage. Remove us from any ungodly measurements of time and the feeling that we are not in time. Place us into your Godly time. Forgive us for naming our children and altering their destinies based upon messages from Sanjinsoos. Father, you know the plans for us, for welfare and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope.[14]
I will fear not, for You are with me; I will not be dismayed, for You are our God; You will strengthen us, You will help us, You will uphold us with your righteous right hand.[15] I repent and renounce for invitations to any ungodly Kami for protection from other spirits instead of trusting in You, Lord. Break off any ungodly connection for protection from any Shishi kami, sang or miscanthus sinesis, Hijainna, shio or salt, Kanji (Chinese Characters), Ishigantuu, demonic faces, hearth ashes, or umami.
Forgive us for receiving any ungodly prayers of purification, talismans and protective amulets from Booji Priests. Please break off any ungodly power that was released through them Jesus, we accept your purity and protection. You are faithful and you will guard us against the evil one.[16] All that hope in You purifies himself as You are pure.[17]
Father, I thank you that you have given us a future and a hope,[18] and that you have called us with a holy calling, not according to our own works but because of Your own purpose and grace which you have given to us in Christ Jesus.[19] Please break off of myself and my generational line any class, gender, or occupational system requiring obedience instituted by any kami, Shinerikyu, Amaikyu, or Tenteishi and the Tenson dynasty.[20]
Holy Spirit, please disconnect me from any ungodly scriptures or texts related to Okinawa including the Satsuma, held in the Buddhist temple Enkan-chi, the Omoro-Soshi, Ryukyu Shindo-ki. and the Chuzan Seikan. Remove any associated ungodly sounds, vibrations, frequencies, light, and electrical impulses related to these texts.
I repent and renounce for participating in ungodly prayer and worship at uganju, prayer places, or national places of prayer including Seefa Utaki..
Holy Spirit, please disconnect me from ugwanju in Okinawa, including national sites; Seefa Utaki community sites like the shrine at Awa; kin group sites such as tombs and national sites, and all household ritual sites including ancestral shrines and hearths.
Holy Spirit please disconnect me from Seefa Utaki and its two nearby springs “Ukinju” and “Hainju.” Disconnect me from Kudaka Shima or the “Okinawan Garden of Eden.” Cleanse any water that might be contaminated by ungodly prayer, worship, and declarations over the land.
On behalf of myself and family line break off any ungodly connection, worship, or prayers through any Buddhist or Shinto temples including Gokoku-ji, Rinkai-ji, Shintoku-ji, Jigen-in (Kwannon-do), Ankoku-ji, Kwannon-ji, Tenge-ji, Rinzai, Manju-ji/Henshoji, Torin-ji, Nishi Hongwan-ji, Shoun-ji, and Ameku Seigen-ji. Break off any ungodly connection, worship, or prayers through any Shinto shrines including Nami-no-ue Gu, Oki No Miya, Bonkyu, Shikiha Gu, Hachiman Gu, Shadan, Futema, Kim Gu, Ameku Gu, Okinawa Jinja, Makabi Gu, Hakugin Do, Nanzan Jinja, Yomochi Jinja, Gosaki, Nangushiku, Bezaiten, Gokoku-Jinja, Isghinu-Me, and Harumizu. Break off any ungodly connection, worship, or prayers through any castles or gusuku and surrounding areas including: Shuri jō, Nanzan jō, Nakagusuku jō, Nakijin Gushiiku, and Zakimi jō.
Jesus, you have canceled all records of debt that have stood against us with all its legal demands. You have nailed them to the cross, disarming all rulers and authorities and putting them to open shame, triumphing over them.[21] We declare all ungodly kami debt is canceled, nailed to the cross including:
- Erroneous or improper ritual action
- Defilement of sacred places
- Violation of social values
- Pollution: Anything offensive to kami such as childbirth, sex, blood, death, sickness, disease, tombs, bone washing, visitation of major sites of worship by the male, visitation of birds on the ancestral shrine in the house, or a recently widowed woman
- Misdeeds of Ancestors: Punishment is thought to be passed from father to son until kami are pacified
- Taboo: Things and acts offensive to kami, such as the spilling of blood or taking of life in a newly sown rice paddy; (in the north) working on the 8th, 18th, or 28th days of the lunar calendar (these are taboo days when the kami are thought to descend to the mountains and fields); male presence in the sacred utaki (groves); robes and other clothing of the noro; houses of sickness; death; childbirth (taboo for noro); fishing boats (taboo for women); names of deceased members of a household (sometimes another name is obtained from the Buddhist monk)
- Carelessness or openness to failure or danger on ones “bad luck” year: every 12 years from the first year of birth”[22]
[1] Hebrews 1:3
[2] Ephesians 1:23
[3] Jeremiah 10:10
[4] Isaiah 8:19, Deuteronomy 18:10-12
[5] Proverbs 10:3
[6] 1 Peter 2:24
[7] Exodus 23:25
[8] 1 Timothy 4:4-5
[9] John 14:26, Philippians 1:9-10, Hebrews 5:14, Hebrews 4:12
[10] Isaiah 43:2
[11] Isaiah 49:10
[12] Numbers 6:24-26
[13] Romans 12:14
[14] Jeremiah 29:11
[15] Isaiah 41:10
[16] 2 Thes 3:3
[17] 1Jn 3:3
[18] Jeremiah 29:11
[19] 2 Timothy 1:9
[20] James C. Robinson, Okinawa: A People and Their Gods, Ch. 2
[21] Colossians 2:13-15
[22] James C. Robinson, Okinawa: A People and Their Gods, Ch. 1
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