STUDYin' w/ Lena Today, Deut 28

Blessings – a life or even parts of that life, that are void of cursing.
Cursing – a life or even parts of that life, that are void of blessing.
Of course, we know if we bless the Lord He blesses us, if we do not bless Him, simply by being compliant to His will, we become cursed.
Curses causeless do not come, and for one to see a curse, is the grace of God to lead one towards change which is always possible through the One who has ultimately blessed God, by bringing the possibilities and offers of curse reversal for man. Through believing in and receiving, and walking out obedience to God once again through Jesus Christ, curses and their power over man can be reversed. Blessings can be enacted once again, on man’s behalf.
It is tragic for pride to rise up and block one’s recognition of a curse set out to destroy life, for this is the purpose of a curse. One either humbly receives grace and forgiveness to change or stand in immoveable pride in which destruction will surely come.
So blessings and curses are gages in this life’s walk of faith. They steer us onto or keep us going on the proper pathway or help us know to swiftly and abruptly change pathways.
How does one know one is walking correctly or that they need redirecting?
Blessing or curse.
How does one know they have a cold, need a loan, should get a job, etc.? They look at symptoms as indicators of what is and what could or should be. These are gages set up by God in His word for us to know that we can either continue or repent of where we’ve been or where we need to head.
Blessings and curses do not ever effect only one person and his own generation. Every sin must be made to come face to face with Jesus and decide whether or not to come under His blood or try to redeem it’s self or not.
Sin undealt-with brings curses, even that of your parents or grand or great grandparents. Dealt with sin brings a blessing that is also perpetuated through generations. Everything we do or do not choose to do in life, perpetuates a blessing or a curse to many generations.
One may ask, what if I have no children? Let’s think of “children” as one’s under our sphere of influence. Are you at all a part of a family? Do you go to a church? What about school, a job,or serve in the community? Have you ever led anyone to the Lordship of Christ? These areas all contain “children” in which, if touched by our lives, are our responsibility to bless or without blessing, we curse.
God made each and every human to be a model, to be a copy, to copy and be copied. This is how we learn best, just do what I do, just do what they do, just copy.
One day I was looking at what my child was doing and I heard the Holy Spirit coach me and say,” that is you, the natural you, the flesh natured man, alive in your child, and I did not call you to reproduce that in your kids, I called you to reproduce Me in demonstration in your kids.”
Obviously I’d not been modeling that part of Christ to them. I heard Him clearly say in my spirit man, “Thou shalt not make for thyself any image after thine own kind, though shalt have no graven (carved, formed) images that look like natural flesh natured man!”
UGH, yes Sir!
Boy did that commandment hit me good that day. I realized I am a steward of lives. I stand as a carbon copy, either of Him, because I make sure that happens, or of maybe my father or mother or grandparent or even husband, boss, etc.
We were created and set here by God to look at and learn of Him, be face to face with Him in His word, that we may have enough exposure and relational fellowship with His spirit that we may copy Him and then in turn through influence, reproduce Him. That just happens, we’re reproducers, period. We don’t have to try, reproduction in this form, just happens! Just happens, without trying. Those closest to us reproduce the most of us. What are they seeing in us? Life or death, blessing or cursing?
This is where my e-mail address was changed to express the commandment each day in my reminder eyes – we are his image and light…..
So who’s image are we portraying today? To whom? Why or why not?
Choice.
Freewill choice.
We live how we want to. We do what we want to, we change as much as we want to!
Lord, help us see the curses allowed to take over parts of our lives today and change our want to’s, our priorities and our decisive actions, In Jesus’ name!
So is everything you set your hand to blessed, are all of your children blessed and is your work blessed, is your neighborhood blessed and your money and belongings? If not we must ask why not and be humbly willing to follow the way of change.
Curses causeless do not come!
#1 cause of curses – willful disobedience, where you won’t door put off doing what God has asked each of us to do. It is both active and passive.
#2 cause of a curse – Unforgiveness. We forgive because God said to, period. It is an obedient action and decision with full faith in the sacrifice of Jesus for us, the One who forgave our sins. It is reciprocation to that Holy Act. If we don’t forgive, neither will we be forgiven and the tormentors will come and torment or curse parts of our lives till we do and release others from having to pay us back for whatever it is we feel they owe us. Let them stand before God and pay him, if they wronged us, then be loving and ask for mercy on their souls that they’ll change their minds and hearts and not have to do that!
#3 cause of a curse –emotional traumas. They may have opened a door for evil, mostly through fear which opposes faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God, what is not from faith in God is sin. Fear and faith DO NOT mix within our relationship with God and blessings do not come to the fearful. They are trying to chart their own destiny. Trust restoration is a big issue.
I want to add a side note here- a person may hurt us in body or soul, but there is One who can destroy the eternal spirit man. That is the death no one should ever die. God have mercy. Natural life and the preservation or justification of it, is Not worth the risk of a spiritual death. Those who will not forgive, will die spiritually, for they will have given up their privilege of being forgiven, meaning they’ll have NO eternal relationship with their Father God forever! That is the worst tragedy-trauma ever. One must come to a place of complete trust of God as Eternal Father. To protect the body or soul in lieu of restoration of fellowship with God as Father is not worth it, ever. The eternal relationship must remain in tact, even if the body and soul perish. Self preservation comes in direct opposition to this right relationship.
#4 cause of cursings is : inner vows and judgments.
Judging others. (I did not say reading their fruit and making a decision on how you can partake of it or not) we are talking you put an edict of non- faith filled words over them. They’ll never, they don’t eve, oh, I know how they are...
Then inner judgments are usually spoken within the heart. These are doubt filled self preserving word like, “I’ll never do that, I won’t ever be like that, I hate them, etc. The problem with these is they start a whole slew of commotion to cause your power-filled words to come to pass over you. You must be released from these words or thoughts that have led to a chaotic course of action over you, led by evil presences you fed and invited to take over. The point is you stood as god, sat on His thone and decided you own course and destiny. You don’t need to walk by faith in Him, as far as you are concerned you know which direction to turn your own life.
#5 cause of a curse: Curses and words of doubt and unbelief spoken over and in your world. You were created by God to be like God and have every word you speak come to pass! Remember we stand judged by every idle word we speak. Idle words are words that do not contribute to the creation and perpetuation of His kingdom coming to earth. Curses may have been spoken over you by you or by others. Their power must be broken, for God set words up in earth to have power, and they do!
• these 5 open doors are taken in principle from the book by Henry Malone, called “Shadow Boxing” – a Highly recommended reading!
Some symptoms to pay attention to live for change.
Is your work hard, where you never get ahead? Do you never have enough, to make the basics? Are those who could be your fruit, scattered abroad, and nowhere to be found as disciples of the Lordship of Christ? Do you win some and they never grow up, or on the way to winning them to the Lord, they are aborted or miscarried,, never even being born (-again)?
When you go places, do you have mishaps and accidents? Are you always causing confusion or strife somewhere? How about illness, is it chronic, are you on many medications just to cope or maintain some sense of well being or peace? Do people in your family die young or die of the same things over and over again? Have you or your family been or being a part of one disaster after another disaster? Does what you plant spiritually or naturally speaking (investments or even the preaching and sowing of the word) return to you at all, as a harvest, or is there a void there? What you planted never even grew.
How ‘bout enemies, do they have power over you? I did not say do they attack you, of course they’ll try, but do they usually get the upper hand and prevail, leaving you destitute? Or do you end up the victor? Do you work work work and it seems you make less the more you work, or the prices go up or more bills come in or whatever?
Is there something cyclical in your life, it keeps happening, it is on a roll and you can’t seem to stop it from happening?
Are you at peace or mentally tormented day in and day out? Do you know where you are headed in life, or are you just existing? Do you have and pursue vision, either your own, or wholeheartedly serve another man’s, or do you have none? Can you see beyond today, or are you barely getting by?
How about relationships? Are most of them long term and flourishing with you, or do you see a cycle happening in relationships like that hamster’s wheel, you wish they’d be different, but each, in retrospect, seems the same.
Do you work for others, even though you are older, or are you a leader or in charge or lead others yet? Do you see others get what maybe you should have gotten, or feel you worked or served for? Do you feel alone and helpless?
When your kids grow up, do they want to move far away from you and barely have anything to do with you? Do they have to work hard to make it also? Do they break your heart continuously? Are they in constant trouble? Do you wish you could help them, but feel you cannot do anything, or you don’t feel a compassion to help them? Are you helpless where they are concerned? Does someone else get to benefit from how you raised them, rather than your own community where you still live?
Is everything hard for and on you? Are you continually unhappy? Ill? Is your name known and well thought of, or do people have ill will towards you when your name is mentioned? Does what you work for get consumed into nothing worth anything?
Do foreign peoples seem to be taking your life over, where you or your community seem to be becoming their servants? You barely make it, so you borrow from them now, rather than prospering to the point of lending to them.
Is what you thought you lived all your life for now seemingly empty? Is someone else enjoying your children and your grandchildren’s lives and they hardly ever get to visit with you, when they do it is like a guest stopping in to say hello? Are you ok with that distancing? It is more comfortable for you anyway? Have you made such distance in your own relationship with you own family that you actually speak evil of one another and bite and devour one another? What about your spiritual family? How is it with the one who saved you and is anyone able to raise you in the Lord, or have you severed the potential of perpetual healthy relationships there? What about the current church body you are in now, do you have close intimate friends and healthy thriving relationships with willing accountability for your character and thought patterns to be corrected? Do you give to anyone, or just get ministry and help? Are leaders and authorities able to cover you, because you are willingly submissive and obedient or do you rebel and always challenge everything they say or ask of you? Do you bless them or critique them when you get the chance to speak of them to others? Do you bite and devour them or follow them willingly? Do you listen to and obey sheep or shepards more? Do you as a sheep try to lead other sheep?
Are you dry in spirit, soul or body? Embittered? Is there a famine in you and what you receive just vanishes away quickly?
Have you lost compassion for the lost, hurt, and dying? You turn away easily, unless the tragedy or trauma is about you or yours and you don’t have any movement from real concern for others with compassion towards at least prayers. Do you live for self and your own stuff rather than tending to and being hospitable to people? Is stuff more important with you because you can avoid people relationships to take care of stuff? Do you horde for security, which is false? Would you rather work than be at church, thinking you’ll somehow get ahead? Have you lost interest in being around people? Is your life barren of good relationships, yet? Do you find yourself as being selfish?
Are you in physical or mental pain daily? Are the days too long for you, or the nights also? Are you barely here, wishing for death or an end to come soon? Do you feel unloved?
Whom we are slaves to, is who we serve.
We may be in need of release from a curse through recognition, taking responsibility, repenting, renunciation with continued resistance, and conscious decisive steps towards complete restoration of us to God, us to self, and us to others!
Start towards a new walk of freedom and blessing today.
Amen