Liberty's Answer: Bless you for being concerned
about being right before God, but I'm concerned about your focus on curses.
I've tried to answer your question below. First, consider the fact that your natural eyes can only
look up or look down. They cannot look somewhere in between and see both up
and down. So, if you are looking down at curses, you cannot be looking up at
Christ at the same time. The Bible says in Philippians 4:8, "Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise, THINK ON THESE THINGS" (KJV). This is not denial
of something unpleasant, this is a refocusing of your attention.
In a contemporary translation of the Bible that is
called the The Message, written by Peterson, there is a great passage where the disciples ask Jesus
whose fault it was that a man was born blind, was it the man's fault or was
it his parents? Jesus replied, "You are asking the wrong question. You are
looking for someone (or some thing) to blame. There is no such cause and
effect here. ASK INSTEAD what can God do now!"
I do believe there is power in any negative, harsh, or
cruel words (word curses) spoken about us and by us. I definitely
believe that territorial demonic forces feed on the effects and influences of wrong agreements made
and spoken about us and by us, strengthening their dominion over a family, a
church, a city, a nation. I believe these wrong words and wrong agreements
can be spoken by anyone anywhere regarding us, and we cannot find out about
all of them to correct them.
We, therefore, have to consider the Word that tell
us that God says, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every
tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is
the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is
from Me, Says the LORD" (Isaiah 54:17, NKJV). This Scripture can be
embraced and believed to apply to our lives and the lives of our loved ones we are
praying for--UNLESS we are speaking word curses, slander, and wrong
agreement about others. That sows bad seeds in the spiritual realm that will
always produce a natural harvest in the one who did the sowing. "Do not be
deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who
sows to please his sinful nature (Note: this is the wrong thoughts of an
unregenerated mind), from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows
to please the spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life" (Galatians 6:7-8, NIV).
When you have sown wrong words, you need to
repent, determine to turn away from doing it again, and ask our gracious God for
forgiveness. Once you do this, you must then begin to concentrate on lining
up all future deeds and words with the words you have prayed. Your words
prayed and ensuing deeds you do must correspond with each other to fully
walk in God's truth. The good news is, when we are watching our own words
and speaking of others and ourselves in a way that God would approve, then we
can pray and loose, shatter, reject, and refuse to receive the effects of
any wrong words spoken about us by others--whether we know about them or
not. We do not have to live under their fallout!
As I pray with the principles of the keys of the
Kingdom message in my first book (based on Matthew 16:19), Shattering Your
Strongholds, which you will begin to learn as you start reading it, I bind my will
to the will of God, I bind my mind to the mind of Christ, and I bind my
emotions to the healing and balance of the Holy Spirit. I bind my body to the will of God to fulfill
my destiny purposes. I loose (see definition below) all hindrances and
devices the enemy has tried to set in my path, I loose the effects and
influences of all word curses spoken about me, and I loose the effects and
influences of wrong agreements ever spoken about me or that I have entered
into. The word "loose" in the original Greek language manuscripts means
smash, crush, destroy, tear apart, dissolve, and disintegrate. After I have
prayed the above, then I ask for God's mercy and grace for my life. I ask
for divine direction as I read the Word and take it into my soul. And I
thank God that His weapons are divinely provided to us to tear down
strongholds in our minds (our souls) and every high thing that would exalt
itself between us and knowledge of Him (2 Corinthians 10:3-5).
I have never really been interested in extensive
study about curses, even curses that appear to be passed on by generational
bondage thinking. I don't want to spend valuable research time on something
that I know I can break and tear apart through prayer right prayers.
Something that I can avoid by speaking of myself and others as God would have
me to do. I do not believe that generational bondages are generally passed on
spiritually under the New Testament covenant we have, although I will not rule that out completely. I
believe they are passed on through the bondage thinking patterns, bondage
beliefs, and wrong attitudes passed from one generation to the next through
close contact and exposure to each others' wrong patterns of thinking,
speaking and acting.
Generational bondages are rarely spiritual, rather
they are the product of the activity of the darkened, unsurrendered soul--a state of soulishness
that exists even after we are saved. When we get saved, only our spirit
"gets saved." Our souls (mind, will, and emotions) still need to be renewed,
and this is best begun by loosing the souls' stronghold thinking patterns
and wrong beliefs. These wrong thought patterns entrenched in the soul are
meant to protect its rights to continue to think the way it has been taught
by the words of others, to act the way it has been taught by the actions of
others, and to feel the way it has been taught to feel by experiencing the
uncontrolled emotional reactions of others. These wrong thought patterns and
wrong beliefs and wrong attitudes (in the unregenerated, unrenewed mind) can
be loosed in prayer. As you do this, then you feed the Word into the mind to
"rehabilitate" it to think on things above, to focus on Jesus Christ and His
plans and purposes for your life. In prayer you can loose something out of
the soul, but if you don't replace it with the reading of the
Word and right actions, that ugliness will grow back just like stubborn weeds do.
I hope you will go on to read all three of the books,
and that you will earnestly pray--not just read-- the prayers in the
books. We will pray with you. You can read much more on other questions
and answers like this in the Q&A section and the Difficult Issues articles on our website. God bless,
Rev. Liberty Savard
