Are you a blessing or a cursing?

Good morning. Worship God. I am blessed to speak. I love speaking about God. Dream about speaking in front of people about God/

Asking for grace. No credentials, no study on how to write a three point message.

When I found out I was doing the message. I knew what I would speak about. Anger, why wasn’t I taught. God seems to run me through a situation before I speak.

This morning is titled Are you a blessing or a cursing? The Lord let me experience a cursing on our church. No one wants to pastor this church, we are your last hope.

Blessing

We hear ‘God Bless You’ all the time, along with the double meaning of ‘Bless your heart’! You might consider saying ‘God Bless You’ to be blessing someone, but not really. It’s more than that. Saying ‘Bless you’ has become a common salutation, it’s become common place. Similar to when you see someone and you ask how they've been. You are really expecting the common response of ‘Good’, fine thank you’. However, if they enlighten you to more than that your shocked, your eyes widen, and your yelling inside, ‘They’re off script’! Because that what we expect, God Bless You....God Bless You too.

Let’s start out today talking about blessing. Not the blessings (with an s) but blessing as a verb. Blessings are things we receive, a grandchild, a car, house, or a church family. God has blessed me with all of these.

Blessing in the Bible is one of those words that is filled with meaning, like the word ‘peace’ or ‘grace’, depending on how it is used. In the O.T. where the word ‘blessing’ is used there is the Hebrew word barak and it simply means. ‘to speak the intentions of God,’ and ‘to be happy with where you are.’ In the N.T., it is the word eulogia from which we get the word eulogy. Eulogia means ‘to speak larger or well of,’ or to speak the intention, or favor of God on someone.’ Just like eulogies are unique to a person, so are blessing. True blessing spoken over someone or something is describing the way God sees them.

A true blessing over our church would be something like, ‘I bless this house with the influence of the Spirit of God’, ‘Those who walk in these doors will know the Lord inhabits this house with favor’ , ‘May the Lord grant this church all His intentions for it,’ ‘I speak blessing over the Pastor God is bring to this church.’

HEAR THIS, spiritual ears open. True blessing is a prophetic insight to see the way someone or something is suppose to be, not how they appear at the moment. So, when we talk about blessing someone, we are prophetically stating: ‘May the Lord grant you all of His intentions for you,” or “May God’s full expectation for you be fulfilled in your life.” And we know that God’s intention for people are good, why, because His Word says it, Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

If you are praying for your child. a prodigal, the idea of blessing has nothing to do with whether they are walking it out now or not.

God’s intentions are not dependent on whether the recipient has the right attitude, either. It has nothing to do with how we feel but everything to do with how God wants it to be. When we declare God’s intention, we release His ability to change things from what they are, into His desired plan. What a radically different response from what we naturally tend to do.

We are good a reporting how far away from God our child is, how their choices are wrong, their attitudes need adjusting. We are really good at reporting the now nature of our child to God, instead of describing the way God sees them. Precious time is wasted when we continually rehearse the disaster that’s occuring now instead of the destiny God has for them. It’s with the eyes of faith that we look at the situation through God’s perspective.

Mentioning faith, let’s look at Proverbs 28:20a “A faithful man will abound with blessings...” this is usually interpreted as a faithful man will receive blessings, but the sentence structure means that a man of faith will be full of blessing. To be ‘full of blessing’ means the blessing is in us to give away. We receive it from the Father so we can give it out. We cannot give away what we don’t have, so if God says we can bless, then it must be in us to give.

It’s a spiritual principle, whatever we sow it will set a measurement of return. Needing mercy from God? Then give mercy. Want blessing? Release blessing. Asking God for blessing and then withholding it from others hinders us from receiving it ourselves. Becoming a blesser is an issue of faith, because when we bless we are doing it through faith. Human nature is resistant to blessing others. Thankfully, that natural tendency can be overcome by looking to our perfect example—Jesus Christ. He blessed the tax collectors and sinners who were looked down upon by society and He children who were considered less important. Be being a blesser, Jesus repelled every demonic force that came against Him because in Him there was no curse.

Being filled with the faith to bless comes from hearing the Word of God. Romans 10:17 “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”

Faith is knowing —inside our spirit at a particular moment—God’s desire and will for someone or something. We can then align ourselves with God’s perspective. The knowing produces in us a readiness to speak the Lord’s mind for that person or situation. Although the specifics for an individual might not be revealed, we know God’s general will through the written Word of God. The written Word becomes our stockpile for blessing, it eliminates being worried about whether we are doing it right. Knowing God’s revealed will creates confidence in prayer that God hears us.

Grasping the truth that God wants us to bless others does not come naturally, we like to pick and choose. After all, we reason, there are really wicked people who appear to need cursing—-aren’t there? But didn’t God form them in their mother’s womb? Well, yes. Can we still say that they are sorry and no good? Why not say, then ‘God, what You created was no good, and You made a mistake.’ James addressed that, James 3:9 “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.” If that is not literally cursing God, I don’t know what is. Everything created by God has a purpose, and everyone has a part of God in them, even if they are an unbeliever.

The power that is in blessing has authority to change the balance of circumstances in the favor of the blesser. Just send the word of blessing that is the will of God for everything He created. God declared everything He created in Genesis was good. Opposing what God has called good brings us into conflict with Him.

God introduced blessing into the earth through a man. Genesis 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” God pronounced blessing on Abraham so he could become a blessing to all families of the earth. He blesses one so they can in turn bless others. A truth about blessing is this—we can either choose to live blessed or cursed. God is not going to force us, and no one is going to twist our arm about it either. Even the Israelites, God’s people, had to choose. Deuteronomy 30:19–20 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

We’re now going to looking into cursing but I want to remind you that a blessing is a prophetic insight to see the way someone or something is suppose to be, not how they appear at the moment. Blessing is all about speaking truth as Jesus, ‘The Truth’, would have declared it.

What is cursing? Curses are not just confined to speaking evil words over people. Since truth is what Jesus is saying, facts may be about what the enemy wants us to see, and we end up cursing based on facts. For example no one applying for our church is a fact and spoken as it was a curse. Cursing is placing someone or something in a lower place than Jesus. Facts tend to do that...lower people below the potential that God has set for them. This doesn’t mean we are in denial of the gravity of the situation; it does, however, mean we should not focus solely on what is now or has been, but we should set our attention upon what can be done through blessing.

Pronouncing failure is a way of cursing or placing someone in a lower view than how God sees them. The devil always wants to refer to our past, but God is prophetic—He wants to talk to us about our future. Continual reminders of past failures are a type of cursing because they are the opposite spirit from what Jesus wants us to see. Forgiveness was given to us to blot out the past; blessing is prophetic in that it points to a future destiny and calling.

What constitutes as curses?

Accusations are a curse. It is possible for someone under constant accusation to come to a place where they begin to agree with the accusations. You have probably heard someone say something like, “ Everyone says or believes this about me so I might as well do it”, “My mama always said I was no good like my daddy so I guess I am.” By agreeing and operating under the accusations, the curse becomes apart of their life.

Speaking anything contrary to God’s will or intention over someone is a curse. Do you know what that is? It’s our opinion against God’s. So to say that someone will not amount to anything or to recount their failures are acts that fall in the cursing category. Though we pride ourselves for having an opinion about everything, this habit brings us in agreement with the accuser. Being opinionated is a difficult habit to quit.

It is possible to live a common/ordinary life while cursing people. However, the life full of joy and blessing comes from those who bless. Cursing reveals that the heart is full of bitterness and resentment which will flow out of the mouth.

The truth is none of us are going to call for divination on anyone, but we can certainly curse them with these kinds of words and attitudes. When we curse others, we align ourselves with the accuser.

I hope everyone now understands what a blessing is and what a curse is. A blessing is a prophetic insight to see the way someone or something is through God’s eyes and speaking it. A curse is speaking how the person or situation is right now, the facts. Example… Lord, I wanna pray for Bubba. He went to the bar last night, got drunk, shot the jukebox and got arrested. He’s just like his daddy. Lord he ain’t going to change until you light the fires of hell under him, light him up Lord let him feel the heat. Make him so sick today he won’t ever want to drink again. Have those guards rough him up a bit so he won’t want to go back again. Lord I love you, Amen.

Lord, I know you love Bubba more than I do.I bless him with everything you intend for him to have. I will speak of the goodness of the Lord over him. Give him Your mercy today as it is the goodness of the Lord that will bring him to repentance. Father I declare over Bubba Your full intentions for his life from the beginning shall come into fruition. Bring him home safety so he may be the husband and father you have called him to be.

So the question is:

Have you ever spoken a curse, or has someone spoken a curse on you, and if so what do we do? We know God never leaves us hanging, there is always a way out.

Using Jesus as our example let’s look at how Jesus handled Peter, we know the story when Peter denied Jesus three times and the third time Peter begin to curse. The word curse here does not mean to start cussing, instead it comes from a word that means, ‘a curse. To declare one to be accursed, to curse, to bind with an oath.’ From it’s root word, ‘someone excluded from the favor of God and devoted to destruction.’ We see later Jesus asked Peter three time do you love me. Peter answered yes each time, Jesus was leading Peter in this way to revoke his earlier denials. For each time he made a wrong confession, he know made a right confession. The way Jesus dealt with Peter establishes a pattern for all who need to be released from the snare of a curse.

There are three steps: Repent, Revoke, and Replace. First, we must acknowledge that we have spoke a curse and repent of it. Second we must revoke it—-that is to unsay it, or cancel whatever we said that wasn’t in agreement with what God says about you, another person, or a situation. Third we must replace the curse with a blessng.

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So that is what you do if you have spoken a curse of yourself or someone else has spoken a curse over you, but what if you know someone has spoken a curse over you?

It’s similar, it starts with forgiveness. Forgive them, hold no bitterness, revoke it also an then replace it with a promise from God. I am the head not tail. I have joy because He has chosen me as His inheritance. I decree I am more than a conqueror in all things.