Curses are Real – Part I

Curses Are Real

If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31

We all have started on our journey into this year 2010 with hope, prayers & God’s promise. It is like embarking on a long journey in your car, with the hope of reaching the destination safe and sound. Will you be able to make it to the destination, just because you are an efficient driver? or just because your vehicle has a v6 engine? Or just because the petrol tank is full? I don’t think so!! A faulty break wire or a worn out tyre that actually looks new can turn your jolly, happy ride into a nightmare. You might have to put up with delay, loss of energy, money and sometimes even life. It is the same with your journey into this New Year. The unseen hitches that could drag you, devastate you and paralyse you are called Curses. Yes Curses are real. These curses will never allow you to move forward and possess the Splendour Blessing that God has for you. They are the forces in the unseen realm & they have power to bring evil to come to pass.

God loves us unconditionally. He sent His Son Jesus to become a curse in our place. Galatians 3:13 says,

“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, by becoming a curse for us”. Then why is it that even after being a believer for many years, we fail to posses God’s promises the way we should posses? The reason is we fail to identify the curses that are in our lives. Only when you identify the root cause of the problem you can uproot it. Only when the evil is uprooted the goodness can fill it. In this regard God has led me to teach you what is in His heart through His Word. With the help of the Holy Spirit please study the message prayerfully, scrutinize your life very meticulously, confront it emphatically and thrive triumphantly.

THE CURSE OF GOD: Will a loving God curse His creation? Well to answer that let’s ask this question “Did God curse?” Yes He did. In Genesis 3:14-19 God cursed the serpent, the woman (Eve) and the man (Adam). He cursed the ground too. (‘Cursed is the ground because of you-Genesis 3:16’). In Genesis 12:3 God tells Abraham,
“I will bless those who bless you and those who curse you I will curse”. So God did curse. The Bible says God is love. How can a God who is all love, curse ? or in other words What could be the colossal reason that arouse the wrath of God so as to be cursed??

1. Curse of God in your ‘Disobedience.
The Lord God had commanded Adam & Eve that they were free to eat from any tree in the garden but not from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when they ate it they would surely die. The first curse that came upon man & woman was due to their disobedience to God’s Word (Genesis 3:14-19). They were well aware of the command yet they exercised their free will to disobey God’s command & ended up cursed. Obedience to God’s word brings righteousness into our life, but disobedience to God’s word brings curse into our life. Prophet Samuel says, “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To OBEY is better than sacrifice & to HEED is better than the fat of rams”. Just think for a while “Have you at any time disobeyed your Creator? Or have you at any time rejected God’s Word?

Please note the word “God’s Word”. Unknowingly you might have placed a man’s word or a denomination’s word above God’s Word and thereby rejected God’s Word. Moses warns the people of Israel with the word of God in Deuteronomy 28:45 “….curses will come upon you. These will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you”. Jeremiah7:23 says, “Obey me and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you that it may go well with you”. There is no compromise my friend when it comes to obeying God’s Word. Today as there is an explosion of knowledge God has become the ‘Big G’ and His instructions have become a bunch of some scrap. Little do people realize that they have invited curse upon themselves and their generations through their disobedience to His Word. Only when you read the Bible you will be aware of God’s commands and you will be able to live it daily. If you don’t read His Word then you will only follow what someone tells you. It will be like a blind leading the blind. So read the Bible without fail, meditate it & obey it faithfully. Don’t waste time start today.

2. Curse of God in your Alternatives
Our God is the Creator of all creations. Ecclesiastes 3: 11 says “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts if men: yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end”. Yes humans who couldn’t fathom God, who couldn’t fathom God’s power, might & glory, sought an alternative to appease themselves. They used some matter (clay, wood, iron, silver, gold..), created something (idol) out of their own hands and called that something (idol) as their god. That something (idol) was not God, but an alternative to God. Look my friends the instruction to all humans on earth is very loud & clear in Deuteronomy 4:15,16 “…watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below and when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars – all the heavenly array – do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshipping the things the Lord your God has appointed all the nations under heaven”. You are forbidden to even make an idol like that of a man or a woman. If that is so how is it that you are praying to an idol? The Bible says, “Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol – a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of the craftsman’s hand and sets it up in secret” (Deuteronomy 27:15). Idolatry is detestable to God. There is no alternative to God. What is the alternative that you have in place of God in your life? Is it an idol or a religious leader or a magician or an astrologer or astrological predictions or your job or your wealth or your child or your spouse or the sun or your religious rules????? What is it???? Stop here and scan your heart & mind. Look deep inside you & answer these questions. What is the first thing you do when a crisis hits you? On whom do you pin your hopes to solve the problem? If your answer is not God then you already have an alternative to God in your life. Anything that has taken God’s place must be routed from you, from your family & must be destroyed. Having an alternative in God’s place depicts your arrogant heart that has turned away from God. Our God is a jealous God. He says in Jeremiah 17:5,6 “ Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord”. It is so saddening to see even some servants of God run after the contributors to run their ministry!! My dear brothers & sisters, right away cast out that alternative from your inner being. Embrace God with all your heart, stand firm on your commitment to God overcoming every temptation through the Word of God. If you give God, His rightful place in your life He will back you up with the power to destroy all the alternatives.

3. Curse of God in ‘ Robbing God’
We read in Zechariah 5:2-4 “He asked me, ‘What do you see?’ I answered, ‘I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.’ And he said to me, ‘this is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished. The Lord Almighty declares, I will send it out and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. It will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swear falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones’.” Friends read it carefully the flying scroll is the curse which enters the house and consumes everything. Whose house does the curse enter? It enters the house of the thief and liar (one who swears falsely in His name). Whom does the Bible call as a thief? Malachi 3:8 says “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.” “But you ask, how do we rob you?” “In tithes and offerings, You are under a curse – the whole nation of you – because you are robbing me…” If you lay your hand on God’s money that is the tithe & offering, then you are a thief according to the scripture and you automatically come under the curse. The scripture clearly states that the curse of God will enter such a person’s house and settle in it. The tithe that you had stolen from God will be stolen by the devil, the roaring lion that is waiting to devour you the minute he gets a foot hold in your life. You either give it to God willingly or the devourer takes it from you causing chaos and destruction in your life and in your family Leviticus 27: 30 says “A tithe of everything from the land …belongs to the Lord and is holy to the Lord”. One tenth of all your income belongs to God. Even Jesus enhanced tithing (Mathew5:19). God commands us to take our tithes and offerings to the storehouse of God’s Blessing. My dear brothers and sisters don’t forget tithes belong to God and we have no authority over it, but offerings are our act of giving from the remaining nine portions that we have in hand. God never looks at the amount that you offer, but He looks at the heart from where that offering comes. He loves a cheerful giver. Don’t you know that we can move the heart of God through our heartfelt offering!!

We are told to take God’s money to the storehouse so that there may be food in His house. What do you mean by storehouse? Deuteronomy 28:7 says “The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty…..”. Storehouse mentioned here is the place from where God releases blessings. Here is the most important area of focus. Check your life and find out which storehouse of God, has brought you the miracle, joy & blessing into your life & into your family!! God releases specific blessings into your life through very specific ministry or very specific servants of God or very specific prophets of God. The fruit of that blessing should be tithed to that specific storehouse from where God released that blessing into your life. Sadly many of the believers receive their blessing through a particular ministry, but take their tithes from that blessing to some other place that has not prayed or fasted or even showed concern towards them. It doesn’t work that way. I challenge you my friends, to take your tithes to the same place through which God’s blessing was released and see the flood gates of heaven open for you. Do you know why? When the apostles preached the gospel, miracles & soul winning took place. People sold their belongings and brought it to the apostles, for they were the vessels through which God had blessed them with a new life in Christ. The Bible says in Acts 5:14 “Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number”. Yes the kingdom of God advanced and the church of God was established. 2Chronicles 31: 11, 12 says that when King Hezekiah gave orders for the store rooms to be set up in the temple of God the people faithfully brought in their contributions, tithes and the dedicated gifts to the temple. These storerooms were set up in the temple of God for (i) God’s ministers (ii) God’s ministry and (iii) God’s people in need. Even today the principle is the same. The three said areas have to be catered to faithfully, loyally & steadfastly. The word of God is the food for all souls. Souls have to be reached, saved and nourished. Evangelism is the bowl with which food can be fed to souls. So prayerfully take your tithes to the right place where souls are nourished.

Stop for a while and check yourself. Did I receive any breakthrough blessing in my life? Have I honoured that ministry? Or have I been faithful in discharging my tithes and offering to the storehouse that has blessed me?? If you see that you have not been faithful, then make a commitment right now, & never go back on it. Friends last year our ministry went through a complete revamp and God gave a new beginning. We did a ground work study of the ministries and with the help of the Holy Spirit we chose the ministries and blessed them from our tithes and offerings. The truth is God saw our whole hearted, faithful contribution with the little or the much that we had & the result is amazing. God’s word will never fail us. In fact God challenges us to test & see if it works. Well I did, why don’t you also try? Remember God will look into every strand of your heart & its intentions behind your giving.

4. Curse of God through your tongue.
In Zechariah 5:2-4 we read that the curses enter the house of those who swear falsely or in other words it enters the house of liars. The tongue is a small organ yet it causes great havoc in ones life. It is through the tongue we are able to communicate or convey what is in our heart & mind. Depending on what is spoken the Bible calls the tongue as a boastful tongue (Psalm 12:3) or a flattery tongue (Proverbs 28:23) or a sly tongue ( Proverbs 25:23) or a lying tongue (Proverbs 26:28) or a deceitful tongue (Proverbs 15:4) or a perverse tongue (Proverbs10:31) or a malicious tongue (Proverbs 17:4)or a smooth tongue (Proverbs6:24) or a strange & incomprehensible tongue (Isaiah 33:19) or a mute tongue (Isaiah 35:6) or an instructed tongue (Isaiah 50:4) or a gentle tongue ( Proverbs 25:15).

A sly or a deceitful or a lying or a boastful or a flattery tongue reflects a heart that is wicked. Proverbs 3:33 says “The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked”. The first creation that was to be cursed was the serpent. Genesis 3:1 says “The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals”. The word crafty means cunning, scheming, sly or devious. The serpent spoke very cordially with Eve, but deep inside he had set a trap for Adam and Eve. That is a wicked heart and such a tongue is a deadly arrow. It earned the curse from the Creator.

Proverbs 18:21 says “The tongue has the power of life and death and those who love it will eat its fruit”. This verse categorically underlines the power that is in the words you speak. What you say is what you become. If you speak words of life & goodness over you, over your children, over your finance or over your job, you will see that happen; but if you speak negative words or spew curses upon yourself or your children or upon your finances or health, mind it!! you stand cursed and you will see the fruit of those curses. The Bible tells us not to sin when we are angry. All that Satan does is just kindle your anger & his job of cursing you is done by your own tongue. How many times have you cursed yourself??? Think about it. Go back to whatever your tongue has pronounced, confess it to the Lord & repent. Only His mercy can revoke it.

Friends the Bible says that the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms are against us to destroy and devour us. How do those dark powers and spiritual forces of evil gain access into your lives?? It is because you have deliberately given them the authority to steal & plunder all your blessings through your disobedience, your alternatives , your robbing in tithes and through your tongue. Don’t feel low or dejected or scared. Jesus bore all our curses in his body and become cursed in our place. He hung on the cross at Calvary cursed paying the penalty for all our sins and curses. Jesus being the Son of God made himself obedient unto death, and therefore God the Father exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, up in heaven on earth, and under the earth. The name of JESUS & the blood of JESUS is available to each and every one of us. That’s God’s solution for your problem, but what is your part in it? Isaiah 52:2 says “Shake of your dust,….. Free yourself from the chains on your neck O captive”. Yes it is your job to shake of the shackles and come free. Holy Spirit will enable you to cling to His word and live as a branch in the vine Jesus Christ through your obedience every day to His word. “If God is for us who can be against us” so in faith pray this prayer

Lord deliver me from the curse of my disobedience, deliver me from the curse of all my alternatives, deliver me from the curse of my robbing, deliver me from all the curse of my tongue. Now I claim my deliverance from these curses in my life in Jesus Mighty name. Lord Jesus cleanse me & cover me with your precious blood. I thank you for this message & your covenant blood covering over me today.
Amen

My dear friend, you are unique, the plans that God has for you are unique. God’s promises for you will come to pass, but remember they are conditional. Don’t forget to walk daily in obedience to His word.

God Bless you
Rev. Brite Sundar

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