- We release others through forgiveness.
- Forgiving others frees us to live victoriously in God’s blessing.
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5. Receive God’s blessing.
- Even when you cannot “feel” God’s blessing, you can receive it by faith.
- After you have received God’s blessing, you are free to bless others. (Jacob’s example—Gen. 48-49)
4. Renew your mind.
- Children may not know the truth, but adults are responsible to learn the truth.
- Saturate your heart and mind with the Truth of God’s Word (Phil. 4:8-9). Replace lies with Truth.
3. Reject any words that are not true.
- Curses only have power over us if we believe them. If they’re not true, they are powerless (Prov. 26:2). When we believe them, we invest power in them.
- Make a choice to reject words that do not line up with God’s Word.
2. Review the curse.
- What is the source of the words?
- As you review the words others have said to you in light of the Word of God, ask: “Is this true? Does it agree with what God says?”
How to Overcome or Break Free from the Curse of Words in Your Life
1. Realize the blessing of God.
- No one can curse you apart from God’s permission (Num. 22:12, 38; 23: 8, 20, 23).
- If you are a child of God, you are blessed, in spite of (or regardless of) what others do to you.
- The blessing of God is more powerful than any human curse.
- Through the cross of Christ, God has made provision to set you free from every curse. No curse of words has to control your life any longer.
- God protects and vindicates the righteous. Those who live godly lives do not have to worry about curses coming to rest upon them.
4. Forgive and bless
Very importantly, we must forgive those who hate us or have intentionally or unintentionally cursed us in Jesus’ name. To neutralise the toxicity of a curse, we should return their curses with spoken blessings. Don’t worry if you don’t get a chance to bless them face to face, you can speak out the blessings anywhere in Jesus’ name. In this way, we can expect God to free us from curses when we obey Him and prove ourselves to be more honourable than others – just like Jabez did (see 1 Chronicles 4:9-10).
Romans 12:14 ESV Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
3. Revoke curses we have wished or spoken
When we curse someone, we place a “spiritual murder contract” on their life. As the ones responsible, we must revoke those contracts before God, our Judge and our Redeemer, and replace them with spoken blessings in Jesus’ name.
Leviticus 26:40,45 ESV “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me… But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
2. Repent and prepare our hearts
When we pray, we stand before God’s throne. We cannot bring the foul stench of our sins into God’s holy throne room if we want to speak with our King. We must first repent of them from our heart, and not just as a formality.
Ezekiel 18:23 NIV For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
1. Check our hearts
Before we nullify a curse, it is helpful to test our hearts and repent if we have more love for ourselves than for God. There is little point in breaking a curse if we don’t love God solely for who He is, rather than what He can do for us. We should not use His name in vain, to benefit ourselves. Otherwise, we will still live as accursed.
1 Corinthians 16:22 ESV If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
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