Blessing or Curse = You Can Choose

CURSES

1. A curse is an invisible spiritual barrier upon our lives. This stops us from living in fullness of God’s blessings in our lives.

2. First of all, we must know this…

Proverbs 26: 2

“Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest”.

So, if anyone curses you, but you have not broken any boundaries of God in your life, then the curses can not rest upon you. You speak a blessing upon the person who has cursed you or offended you and forgive them and release them….so you also will be released from the curse.

3. Curses can come upon a person because of the following:-

1. False Gods – Exodus 20:1-5 

-          The power branch of the occult – invoking supernatural evil powers like acupuncture, astral projection, hypnosis, martial arts, mind dynamics, witchcraft (rebellion), freemason etc.

           

-          The knowledge branch of the occult – astrology, clairvoyance, crystal balls, omens, palm reading, mediums mind reading etc.

-          The branch of the occult operating through physical objects – Amulets, birthstones, charms, heavy metal records and cassettes, lucky symbols pagan fetishes, religious artefacts zodiac charms etc.

Deut.18: 10-13, Acts 19:18-19

2. Various Moral & Ethical sins

Deutr.27:15-26 = 12 moral & ethical sins, all of which provoke a curse.

3. Anti-Semitism

Genesis 12:2-3

4. Legalism, Carnality & Apostasy

Jeremiah 17:5-6….cursed is man who trusts in man, then v7. is the blessing of the man who trusts in the Lord

                                    Galatians 1:6-9…apostasy

                                    Legalism…..is righteousness by works…we are saved by grace and we receive it is a free gift and we receive it by faith, Ephesians 2:8

5. Theft, Perjury & Robbing God

Zechariah 5:1-4…perjury = swearing falsely

Haggai 1:4-6, Malachi 3:8-9….theft and robbing God…blessing in v10.

6. Authority Figures

                  1 Corint.11:3…..headship

                  God alone is absolute authority…all the rest are delegated authority and subject to limitations…..where authority is abused it brings hurts and afflicts hardships…..like polluted air

Authority has the ability and freedom to bless or curse.

Jacob and Rachel….Genesis 31:32….Jacob unknowingly pronounces a curse over Rachel as her head. and Rachel died at child birth, Genesis 35:16-19

Husband, wife and children

Government of a country…Romans 13:1-5…paying taxes and obeying a land’s laws

Spiritual authority or ecclesiastical authorities

7. Self Imposed curse…Matthew 12:36-37, 46….judged by every idle words

Gen.27: 12-13…Rebecca pronounces a self imposed curse on her

Matthew 27:20-26…people of Israel pronounce a curse upon themselves. within one year Jerusalem was destroyed.

Conditions of self-imposed curses…

            Mental/emotional breakdowns

            Repeated or chronic sickness

            Bareness, miscarriage

            Breakdown of marriage and family alienation

            Continuing financial insufficiency

            Being accident prone

            Tendency for suicides and untimely deaths

8. Servants of Satan….Ezekiel 13:17-20

9. soulish talk and soulish prayers….James 3:14-15, I Corint.2: 14-15

-          Casual & idle chat, malicious rumours and gossips about other people…Proverbs 27:5…Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

- Prov.28:9, Rom.8:26-27….soulish prayer & spirit led prayer

             ….prayers of accusation, condemnation, domination and manipulation

BLESSINGS

1. The Divine Exchange on the cross

Punished                      Forgiven                      Isaiah 53:4-5

Wounded                    Healed                         Isaiah 53:5

Our sins                       His Righteousness       2 Corinth: 5:21

Our death                    His Life                       Hebrews 2:9, John 16:25-26

Our poverty                 His Riches                   2 Corint.8:9, Romans 10:12

Our shame                   His Glory                    Isaiah 53:3, Romans 10:11

Our rejection               His Acceptance           Matthew27:56-51, 2 Corint5:17-21

Our curse                     His Blessings               Galatians 3: 13-14

2. STEPS TO RELEASE

Confess you faith in Christ and in His sacrifice on the cross on your behalf

Repent all your rebellion and sins

Claim forgiveness of all your sins

Forgive all other people who have ever harmed you or wronged you

Renounce all contact with anything occult or satanic

YOU ARE NOW READY TO PRAY THE PRAYER FOR RELEASE FROM ANY CURSE

3. PRAYER OF RELEASE

Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you are the Son of God and the only way to God; and that You died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead. I give up all my rebellion and all my sin, and I submit myself to you as my Lord and Saviour. I confess all my sins before you and ask for Your forgiveness…especially for any sins that exposed me to a curse. Release me also from the consequences of my ancestor’s sins. By a decision of my will, I forgive all who have harmed me or wronged me…just as I want God to forgive me. In particular, I forgive…..

I renounce all contact with anything occult or satanic, if I have any contact objects, I commit myself to destroy them. I cancel all Satan’s claims against me.

Lord Jesus, I believe that on the cross you took on yourself every curse that could ever come upon me. So I ask you now to release me from every curse over my life…In Your Name, Lord Jesus Christ.

By faith now I receive my release and I thank You for it.

                                                                        

THE POWER OF THE BLOOD

“Father, I thank you for the precious blood of Jesus Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. I thank you that the blood pleads for me mercy and all the provisions of your grace. I thank you that the blood gives me access into your holy presence and has purchased for me complete salvation.

I declare, affirm and bear witness to what the Word of God says the blood has done for me. I am justified and forgiven by the blood of Jesus. The blood cleanses me from every sin and removes God’s wrath from me. I am sanctified, wholly set apart through the offering of the body of Christ once for all. I have been purchased for God’s eternal possession by the blood of Jesus.

The blood has redeemed me from the guilt and power of sin and I am set free from the empty way of life handed down to me from my forefathers. The blood of Christ purges my conscience and sets me free from the dead works of religion in order that I may serve the living God. The blood redeems me from the curse of the law and releases the blessings of God in my life.

The blood is God’s covenant seal upon me. I am secure and made safe from all evil and every guile of the enemy by the blood of Jesus. I am victorious over Satan who is defeated, destroyed, driven out and disarmed by the power of His blood. By the blood I overcome the evil one and destroy his every work. The blood is my assurance of God’s goodness and the binding guarantee of His faithfulness in all situations. The blood is my legal claim to every promise and the entrance into my inheritance in Christ Jesus.” 

The shaking has started

At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates THE REMOVAL OF THINGS THAT ARE SHAKEN—THAT IS, THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE—IN ORDER THAT THE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SHAKEN MAY REMAIN. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:26-29).

The earth is being shaken; the nations of the earth, the waters, and the heavens are even now being shaken by the Lord God of hosts. We see it all around us, in the international and local news, the earth is being shaken. The waters and the heavens are mourning. Earthquakes, Tsunamis. Tornados, floods, storms, famine, hunger, the waters spewing out fish, the heavens shedding its birds, weather patterns gone haywire. These are all signs of the shaking going on in the earth. Nothing is the same any more

The beginning of birth pangs at the end that Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24 is here. Year by year, moment by moment, the birth pangs are getting stronger. 2013 has started with stronger birth pangs than 2012. The earth is being shaken, preparing for the coming of the great God and savior Jesus Christ

But the Lord is not only shaking the nations of the earth, but his CHURCH, his BODY as well. He has promised he will shake the heavens and the earth-the Goal-to remove the things that can be shaken, that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. The Lord is shaking his church to purge it of the things that can be shaken, “that is, things that have been made” (Vs. 27) by man. He is only coming for a pure, purged bride. This shaking is a good thing. He is shaking out sexual sin, falsehood, false teachings, false prophets, corruption, idols, and teachings of men from his church. He is exposing the things that lie hidden in darkness, in the secret places of me’s hearts. It’s happening all over the earth. The Lord is shaking and exposing and purging and it’s painful.

His shaking must happen that only the things that CANNOT be shaken may remain. The lord God of heavens armies is a holy God. The sins of the earth, of the nations, of his church have filled up to overflow, judgment has now begun and as he has said “the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1Peter 4:17). The stench of sin in the earth like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah has reached up to the Lord and he has roused himself that he may act.

The Lord is shaking you, he is shaking me, he is purging and pruning and showing the things that can be shaken and he wants those out, that only what can’t be shaken may remain. You have felt it, he is shaking you, and he is exposing what is not of his kingdom in you. But you must cooperate with him. Let him shake you, it will hurt but if you will cooperate you will come out refined as pure gold

He’s asking that we yield to his cleansing fire, his holy fire and be purged. That we may come to him in repentance and weeping and let all the things in us that haven’t been made not by him, but by ourselves, by men, by our pride, by carnality be shaken off.

“Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:28-29)

We are being prepared to receive his eternal kingdom that cannot be shaken. Let us be grateful. We show our gratitude by offering up to God the Holy one of Israel, ACCEPTABLE WORSHIP WITH REVERENCE AND AWE. For our God is a CONSUMING FIRE.

He’s not just any God; he is the maker of the heavens and earth, the self existing one, without beginning or end. Let’s stand in awe of him and fear him and reverence him. He is a consuming fire. His fire, his shaking will either consume us or refine us.

Glory to the almighty God!