(by Pastor Atukwatse Onesmus)
WHAT ARE THEY?
A curse is a force working against a person or a group of people. It is a sentence calling for punishment, injury, or destruction on a person, place, or thing. It is a satanic mandate given to demons to cause havoc on a person, place, or thing. A curse is a vehicle of evil supernatural powers which can be transferred and can continue from generation to generation.
The presence of some one with a curse in any gathering or meeting generates extreme hatred or resentment towards him/her.
It is being robbed of the blessings you are entitled to. It is also a profitless hard work. A curse is experiencing setbacks. It is when people have no desire to help you. With a curse, one attracts no favor from God or fellow men anywhere he goes.
The purpose of a curse is to cause injury and destruction, at times to the point of death.
However, in Gal 3:13, we find that Jesus gave his disciples powers to break curses, but Christians suffer from curses due to ignorance.
Hos 4:6a – “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
You cannot fight and win a battle you ARE ignorant about.
Isaiah 5:13-14 –
” Therefore my people have gone into captivity,
Because they have no knowledge;
Their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude dried up with thirst.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself
And opened its mouth beyond measure;
Their glory and their multitude and their pomp,
And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.”
The above scripture says people will suffer and eventually be taken into captivity, if they continue in ignorance and sin. Most people foolishly argue that God will not hold them responsible for something they are ignorant about. Ignorance of something does not mean it doesn’t exist.
A sister had a problem with settling down in marriage. Through inquiring prayer, God revealed to her what had happened when she was still in the world. She had promised a man a hand in marriage, but was caught by the same man in fornication, upon which this man laid a curse on her life by saying, “Over my dead body will you see another man to marry you.”
Truly, 21 years back! Now she is 42. No man has ever told her, “Oh! I love you,” or even propose marriage to her. Eventually, this man got born again and married, while this sister, though also born again, is still struggling with a pattern of setbacks.
FACTS ABOUT CURSES.
An undeserved curse will not come upon one, unless he tolerates it. But when there is a reason the curse will surely come over him.
Prov 26:2 – ” Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause shall not alight.”
A brother told me that his former girl friend, whom he decided to put aside in order to walk well with God, and to concentrate and serve his God, had threatened to pronounce a curse over his life on a shrine.
I told him that as long as he had not promised to marry her, nothing will ever happen to him. The girl went ahead and visited a shrine and constructed an evil alter upon, which she summoned this brother for punishment. Amazingly, she died on spot as she made her incantations on this wicked alter.
For every curse operating in life or place, there is a demon attached to it, which will make sure terrible things happen to the cursed person unless this curse is broken. It will continue to operate from generation to generation. An undeserved curse, will return back to the sender.
For complete deliverance from curses, there must be a complete repentance.
A curse, cannot affect God’s child in obedience. It is a spiritual program, and seriously, requires a spiritual solution. It can be acquired unconsciously.
Any one cursing whom God has blessed, is himself subject to a curse from God.
A person operating from a curse life, may find it hard to make any progress in life, e.g., if he is looking for a job, demons will ensure that he doesn’t get one. If he does however, they will ensure that he is sacked.
Curses come from three sources – God, Satan, and man.
A man can stand in the place of God and pronounce curses. Likewise he can stand as the devil’s advocate and do the same.
God’s curse can’t be broken from a sinful life unless sins are repented. Any person trying to cancel curses pronounce on a wicked person is wasting his time, and has taken side against God. Curses from God can only be dealt with, on God’s terms and conditions.
Where such curses are removed, blessings should be pronounced in replacement.
TYPES OF CURSES.
1) Poverty.
A man under this curse is capable of wasting millions of money at his disposal, without achieving any thing reasonable. It is a matter of time, before he becomes poor again. Such a one, when charged to manage a multi million company, will wreck such a company, and cause huge financial losses.
Some people do not fail, until they get to the highest peak. They encounter no problems for as long as they live and suffer in poverty. But as soon
soon as they are raised up high, they somersault and fall down. This is an evidence of curse.
A man, had 260 million shillings on his personal account, by the month March of a particular year. But, by December of that same year, he had only 90,000shs left, without him buying himself even a good shirt. Such people, even though they are hard working, diligent, and industrious, do not make any profit.
2) Marital failure.
People under this curse, will always experience strife and fight in their marriages which most times lead terribly to divorce. I have seen people who confirmed that, their mothers were divorced three times. And they, themselves, are now having marital problems.
Where such a curse is placed, there will always be family discord, and things always goes wrong between husbands and their wives.
This curse, is one of the main reasons why so many brothers and sisters in Christ, are not getting married. Even when there is no obvious reason why they shouldn’t get married.
3) Destruction and untimely death.
This type of curse is capable of making members of the family die one after the other.
Last month I prayed with a brother, who told me that he is the only surviving male child in his family. He has lost even all cousins and nephews. Another fellow also narrated how he lost about 11 people in his family between January and February, leaving only two people.
In such families, people die prematurely, either by accidents, or incurable diseases. In some families incurable diseases like diabetes, HIV, cancer, are as a result of curses.
There is a story of a sister, who lost her mom, grand mom, and elder sister to breast cancer. When it dawned on her that they were all victims of breast cancer, she went and cut off her two breads in order to escape the menace. But even that couldn’t save her, because cancer still attached her pancreas and she died.
4) Failure and none achievement.
This particular curse is evident, when people struggle for a long time without corresponding results. They try their best, but some how, all their efforts do not correspond with achievement on the ground. Such people, work like elephants, only to eat like ants.
It looks as if there is a failure mechanism operating against such fellows. Whenever such people are about to be promoted to a very high position, these satanic messengers of failure will come in to scatter everything. Such people encounter failures, where others succeed.
That is why, people placed under such fellows are always frustrated, angry, and bitter, because, even after doing the best, they could, everything still goes haywire. Some may even attempt to commit suicide.
This explains why people under curse are often unfriendly. Such people receive the key of failure at the point of breakthrough. It is therefore the time to say, “I am getting out of this situation, in Jesus’ name.”
5) Hatred.
Are you sorry? Does your presence generate hatred and resentment? You may have been in a particular place where everyone used to love you, and all of a sudden, nobody wants to see your face anymore.
What about the husband that you married, who was always dotting over you calling you all sorts of sweet names, but now vows to behead you if you ever show your face where he is?
A brother told me how he lost every good job for no just cause. He said that his boss who used to love him dearly came to work one morning and issued a sacking letter. Even when he made attempts to see him privately, the man ompletely refused to see him.
Three days a go, I had a meeting with a sister working with UN. She lost her job in mysterious circumstances even though she was very close top her boss. All her attempts to get the man reverse his decision was to no avail, to the surprise of her colleagues who knew how close the two were.
This is where your friend proves unfriendly, and you offend those whom you are not supposed to offend. Such lives are void of favor from man. They have brothers and sisters friends and well-wishers, in all influential positions, who could help in times of trouble, but don’t want to see them. This could also be a curse of stagnancy or backwardness.
A sister shared with me how at her place of work, instead of salary increment, or promotion, she is always issued with queries and salary deductions.
These curses have killed potential great men and women, before their time.
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