I was thinking about blessings and cursings and asking God about them. I was asking the Lord if somehow I had received anything by any kind of curse. I know I am blessed because all the blessings of Abraham are mine . . . Then God spoke to me and he said, “yes all the blessings of Abraham are yours and you have received them. But know that all my other children — the ones you love and the ones you get mad at, the ones you get frustrated with and the ones who irritate you, etc. etc. etc., also have the blessings of Abraham. Many of these have claimed the scripture that you have in Genesis that says, “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.”
I started thinking about this. If they have claimed those scriptures, and since I also have, then when we, as Christians, say bad things or say things not inspired by the Holy Spirit to each other, then we actually bring a curse upon ourselves until we repent and that thing is broken.
For example. If your in a conversation and you tell another person that so and so Sally Christian, all she does is complain, and she is sooo critical, and you start talking about her or him, even if he or she is NOT acting in a godly manner, this causes you to receive a curse. Because if she is ALSO the descendant of Abraham, and she has prayed the prayer, “Lord bless those who bless me and curse those who curse me,” and she’s bought by the blood of Jesus, then just talking about her and saying anything bad or good about her will activates the blessings or the curses If you bless her, you will be blessed, and if you curse her, you will be cursed.
This is why we have to be so careful about talking negatively behind each other’s back at all times. First it’s because, as children of God, we’re not suppose to do this anyway, and second, is because if you speak something ungodly or bad over a person who is saved even if they are acting bad–then you are actually bringing judgement on yourself. This is why God tells us we will give an account to every idle word we speak.
I have noticed in my own life that when I’ve wrongly accused or judged someone, that I usually end up going thru a similar experience and God has shown me that this is the reason why. When we do these things we evoke the curse. But Jesus became the curse for us, and he did but we still can speak curses on others and ourselves. We can say things like “ohhh you will never have enough money to pay your bills,” or “you will never get along with your husband” or “your church will never get right with God”, etc. etc. These are curses, and when you speak them, you evoke the curse back to yourself unless you repent and renounce the negative and judgemental words.
We have all done this—some a lot more then others. But God wants us free. I’ve heard mothers say things like this about their children: “My child is so hyperactive, he never can sit still!” or “My daughter will never find a man who is good enough for her!” Then they wonder why the daughter never gets married, or why the child is so hyper all the time. Or they say, “My husband makes me so sick the way he never gives me money”, and they wonder why they feel sick around their husbands. Or if the husband says, “if my wife cooks for me one more time I’m going to be sick.” Then he develops stomach problems. Why? Perhaps it is because he evoked this curse on himself. He needs to repent of it and renounce it so that he can be set free.
This is the case for me, for you, and for the whole body of Christ. God wants us to be so careful how we speak. We can even bring confusion over pastors by the way we pray and speak to others about them and if we know how to intercede in the correct, Godly way, then we learn to bless others and we bring blessings to others, to the church body, and to ourselves.
God was also speaking to me about this. We have to start blessing our leaders and praying for them, and if we see something wrong in their lives, we need to really pray Gods will for them. Every leader is a target, and if they fall into some sin, we who are suppose to be according to the word of God by praying for them become just a guilty as them if we don’t pray for them. And I mean to pray according to God’s will and not our own will.
In Jesus name——-I love you all—
Deborah Quick
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Appearing Thursdau, March 20, 2003