16 Signs Your Ancient Soul-tie Is Still Hindering Your Life
Sometimes, you are not the one who is cursed—but you have a soul-tie with someone who is.
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Proverbs 18:21

In my all-in-one spiritual warfare guidebook 👇🏻, I mention that deliverance has four levels—and you should move to a higher level if the lower one doesn’t work:

- Fast and pray (many demons will flee during this process)
- Cast out demons (someone else delivers you)
- Break curses (if deliverance fails—especially when done by someone experienced)
Today, I want to discuss another reason that your prayers aren’t working: soul-tie.
In this article:
- What does the Bible say about soul-tie
- Blatant signs that you have a soul-tie
- 16 Signs an ungodly soul-tie has hindered your life
- How to break an ungodly soul-tie
🧶What does the Bible say about soul-tie
For people who don’t read the Bible yet yapping around, where is this soul-tie thing in the Bible—
Sex 100% makes soul-ties.
Vows (even if carelessly) and repeated words make soul-ties.
Soul-ties can happen without sex.
Soul-ties can be godly or ungodly.
This is an ungodly soul-tie through sex:
“And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.” Genesis 34:1-3
This is a godly soul-tie without sex:
“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” 1 Samuel 18:1
🩺Blatant signs that you have a soul-tie
We first form soul ties with our parents—meaning most people never truly “leave” their father or mother and, as a result, are not ready to “cleave” to a wife or husband. (Genesis 2:24)
This is why many people fail to surpass their parents:
The soul-tie keep them trapped in their parents’ ways of thinking and behavioral patterns, and as a result, repeating their parents’ life.
If—
- you think the way that person thinks, or
- wonder what they would think or do in a certain situation,
- you talk like them,
- you pick up their energy and phrases, and
- you make decisions under their influence without any contact with them,
- you behave in a way you subconsciously know they would approve of or appreciate,
- they occupy your thoughts even though you’ve had no contact with them for a long time—
you have a soul-tie with that person.
Now, if this is a godly relationship, rejoice.
If not—listen, you’re not going anywhere in chains.
🪢16 Signs an ungodly soul-tie has hindered your life
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord.” Proverbs 18:22
A husband and wife have a godly soul-tie—and a man enters into the blessing of that godly soul-tie when he finds a wife.
In contrast, the young prince who defiled Jacob’s daughter formed an ungodly soul-tie with her, which ultimately led to his death.
One could argue that the rape alone led to his death—No.
Had he not developed a soul-tie with the girl, he would not have gone to propose marriage. Nor would his people have trusted Jacob’s sons so readily, giving them the opportunity to slaughter them.
If you’re God’s chosen one before birth, this is something you might have noticed—even before you gave your life to Christ:
Everyone who enters a close relationship with you is favored in that season. But as soon as you leave them—or rather, God removes them from your life—the halo effect vanishes, because you are the light, carrying the ark of the Lord, and wherever you dwell, blessings follow.
Things reverse when the soul-tie is ungodly—whether the person is cursed or you are.
Disclaimer: The cursed person in the soul-tie may not even be aware of the curse—especially if it’s generational.
For example:
If you form a soul-tie with someone under a generational curse of poverty or mental illness, you may soon find yourself struggling with money and deeply distressed—suffering from anxiety, mood swings, or even depression.
If your soul-tie carries a curse of divorce or loneliness, you may overstay your season of singleness or begin to experience many troubles in your marriage.
Let’s say the other person is the one cursed in these examples—but remember, it can be vice versa. These are the 16 signs that you're under the curse that person carries:
- Everything goes well in your life until this person enters your life.
- Stagnancy, backwardness, delay, and almost become the key words of your life.
- You develop similar bad traits, mentally, physically, spiritually—which you never had before. Physically—such as addiction of any sort; mentally—such as laziness; spiritually—such as double-mindedness.
- Opportunities always slip away right when you’re about to catch it; doors keep shutting in your face.
- Your prayer life suffers, and you live in mild, chronic anxiety. You begin to compromise on God’s commandments and twist scripture to justify it. (For example, you start to argue that nowhere in the Bible says you can’t live together before marriage.)
- You never lacked money or struggled with finances all your life, but now you do.
- You grow distant from trustworthy friends, supportive family, and church; people you used to hang out with stop inviting you.
- You get into frequent trouble involving this person—and you weren’t someone who got into trouble often.
- Odd, unexplainable, psychic things that make no sense keep happening.
- You keep having bad dreams about this person. Sometimes the dream can be so real and visceral that you wake up screaming, crying, sweating.
- You want to cut this person out, but when you do, they beg you to stay; and when they do, you beg them to stay.
- Nothing you touch prospers—but in the past, you had quite a few achievements to be proud of.
- You become insecure—or much more insecure than before.
- You keep compromising on your principles and boundaries, yet you deceive yourself into thinking you’re being forgiving.
- The person will speak their true colors and intentions plainly to you—you will get the chills (that is God exposing the spirit) at that moment—but again, you will deceive yourself into thinking you’re being judgmental.
You feel your creativity are being strangled slowly to death. (Oscar Wilde and Douglas is a classic example.)
