How to Break Curses

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(To be used together with pamphlet "Deliverance from Demons")

Primary reason for curses:

(a) Not hearing God's voice

(b) Not doing what He says There are seven blessings and seven curses referred to in the law in Scripture.

Seven blessings: (Deuteronomy 28)

(1) Exaltation

(2) Reproductiveness

(3) Health

(4) Prosperity, success

(5) Victory

(6) That we are the head and not the tail

(7) That we will be above and not beneath

There are seven curses referred to in the same chapter:

(1) Humiliation

(2) Barrenness

(3) Sickness of every kind

(4) Poverty, failure

(5) Defeat

(6) We will be the tail and not the head

(7) We will be below and not above

Indications of Curses:

(1) Mental, emotional breakdown

(2) Repeated sickness, especially hereditary sickness -doctors can't find the cause

(3) Feminine problems -barrenness, miscarriage, menstruation problems

(4) Breakdown of marriage -family alienation

(5) Financial insufficiency, poverty. Sometimes poverty for a short period is just a test but if we are always in poverty it could be a curse.

(6) Accident prone

(7) History of unnatural deaths

A curse can be something like an evil thing moving up from the past. It is like a deep shadow.

Note:

Proverbs 26:

2. A curse is:

"Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight."

Therefore, a curse requires a cause to alight.

REASONS FOR CURSES:

(1) Having false gods (Exodus 20: 3& 4, Deuteronomy 27: 15)

(2) Disrespect for parents (Deuteronomy 27: 16)

(3) Treachery against a neighbour (Deuteronomy 27: 17)

(4) Injustice to the weak (Deuteronomy 27: 18& 19)

(5) Illicit sex (Deuteronomy 27: 20-23)

(Effect of wrong sexual relationships, particularly those outside of marriage or with members of one's family)

(6) Perjury (Deuteronomy 27: 25)

(7) Stealing (Zechariah 5: 1-4)

(8) Stinginess towards God (Malachi 3: 9)

(9) Perverting gospel (Galatians 1: 8& 9)

(10) Depending on the flesh (Jeremiah 17: 5)

(11) Anti-Semitism (Genesis 12: 3, Genesis 28: 3& 14)

SOURCE OF CURSES:

1. God Himself God blesses and curses (Exodus 20: 3&5) Breaking the first two commandments:

(a) To have no other Gods

(b) Idolatry

Our God is a jealous God

2. All occult practices Making occultism your God, eg a fortune teller. It is the power behind the fortune teller that matters. In four generations we can have upwards of 30 ancestors.

3. Men who speak on behalf of God

(a) Joshua 6: 26, ie Joshua said, "Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds the city Jericho, he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates." This was fulfilled in 1 Kings 16: 34 nearly 500 years later when Hiel of Bethel built Jericho, he laid its foundation with Abriam, his first born, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates according to the Word of the Lord which he had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun. Thus curses are self-perpetuating.

(b) 2 Samuel 1: 21 Statement by David: "Oh mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew, nor let there be rain upon you, Nor fields of offerings.

For the shield of the mighty is cast away there!" These were the fields of Gilboa upon which Saul and Jonathan had died and David was cursing them. Nearly 3, 000 years later this same curse was upon this land and the Jewish people had great difficulty a few years ago in trying to get trees to grow on it.

(c) 2 Kings 5 (Naaman) verse 27, cursed his servant with leprosy forever.

4. God's servants can do this today eg Jesus cursed the fig tree and said, "You can do this also."

5. Persons with relational authority eg husband over wife, parents over children. Words spoken have supernatural powers. The blessing of the father is important.

(a) Genesis 31 -Jacob and Rachel: Rachel had stolen her father's gods. Jacob did not know this and he said to her father, Laban: "`With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you. ' For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them." (Genesis 31: 32) ie, he was in effect saying that she should die, although, of course, he did not know she had stolen them and that she would feign sickness to avoid being discovered. She later died in childbirth.

(b) Examples where husband curses his wife or parents curse their children, eg a husband says to his wife, "You cannot cook", or the following statements are made in respect of other people including children:

"You are no good"
"You are useless"
"You are a failure"
"You will never be any good"
"You are hopeless"
"You will never achieve anything"
"You are ugly"
"You are a bad person"
"You are always a liar"
"It's in the family and you are sure to get it" etc etc.

6. Self-imposed curses which become like inner vows. Examples:
"I'll never be any good"
"I'll never forgive myself"
"God doesn't love me"
"I'll never speak to ..... again"
"I hate myself"
"No-one loves me"
"I want to die, I'm better off dead"

Examples from Scripture:
(a) Genesis 27: 13 Rebekah said: "Let your curse be on me" and in verse 46 she said: "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; ... what good will my life be to me?" She brought a curse on herself.
(b) Matthew 27: 24& 25, the Jews said, "Let His blood be on us and our descendants".
(c) Peter denied the Lord three times
7. Curses brought on by unscriptural covenants:

Exodus 23: 32: "You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." We are to make no covenant with those who are not committed as Christians. Freemasonry is an example of that with self-imposed curses, eg the 32nd degree

2 Corinthians 6: 14-17: "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Therefore "Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."

8. Curses put on by the servants of Satan eg witch doctors, medicine men, tohungas etc. Example: Numbers 22: 4& 6. Note this was a request by Moab to Balam to pronounce curses on Israel. It was a matter of their gods versus the true God. When people fought one another in the old days, they regarded it as a fight between their gods and the other gods, eg David and Goliath.

1 Samuel 17: 43: " So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods."

Other reasons for curses:

1. Objects in homes (Deuteronomy 7: 26) We are to have no abominable thing our home. This can cause children to be disturbed.

2. Soul ties These are soul ties which are contrary to God's purposes. Eg, in adultery, fornication (especially past sexual relationships). Ungodly soul ties can bring spiritual sickness. 1 Corinthians 6: 18: "Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."

Examples of wrongful sex are as follows:

Pre-marital sex Perverted sex

Trial marriages Homosexuality

Lesbianism Pornography and fantasy

Bestiality Transvestism

Sexual abuse

Consequences:

(a) Establishment of soul ties and bondings in the flesh other than with God's intended partner.

(b) Guilt and condemnation.

(c) Demonisation

(d) Emotional disturbance

What is sexual abuse?

Uninvited caressing

Uninvited handling of the sexual areas

Anal handling

Masturbation in front of a person

Forced oral sex

Forced mutual masturbation

Forced intercourse and rape

Bestiality

Ritualistic sex

Incest

All of these cause fear, confusion, deception.

Long term problems:

(a) Confusion of one's identity, sexuality, physical position and emotional situation.

(b) Causes regression and repression of memories. Causes fantasy.

(c) Breaking of trust.

(d) Causes rebellion including (i) self rejection (ii) fear of rejection and (iii) anger.

(e) Causes guilt and fear.

(f) Causes inability to respond to love.

(g) Causes desire to die.

(h) Causes physical illness.

(i) Causes damage to the spirit.

Also domination by one person over another, eg where a father dominates or sexually abuses his daughter.

HOW TO BE RELEASED FROM THE CURSE:

1. We must recognise that there is a curse.

2. We must repent from all sin.

3. We must renounce in the name of Jesus Christ.

4. We must resist, eg James 4: 7: "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you."

5. Use the Word of God. The Word of God is powerful and such Scriptures as the following can be used:

Psalm 118: 17: "I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD." We must realise that where there is a negative there should also be a positive. We recall that Peter denied the Lord three times but three times Jesus asked him, "Do you love me?" Peter had to revoke his earlier statement three times. Where curses have arisen from the servants of Satan, we must recognise Luke 10: 19: "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enem

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