Faith without knowledge doesn’t really perform.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
You can have consistent faith, and keep failing one time after another, and another, and another, for many years, until you die (probably die before your time, too). What you pray for will get held up somewhere in the spiritual realm before they manifest in your reality. The demons held them up, and they had the legal right to do so (Daniel 10:12-13).
You do everything the church teaches you to do, and maybe more, but still, results don’t add up. Unless the church really obey and listen to everything Jesus tells her, you don’t stand a chance. Religious organization is both deadly and dead.
Why? because you don’t know what you miss. You faith is genuine, but you didn’t know all the rules in the spiritual realm, so you fail.
There was a famine during the days of king David, and the reason was because of the sin of previous king, Saul, who killed some Gibeonites. The Gibeonites wasn’t part of Israel, but the Israelites had sworn protection to them, yet king Saul ignored this pact and killed them, so it brought about a famine in David’s time (2 Samuel 21:1-6).
David found out what was going on behind the famine, and did what was necessary to undo the curse, and the Israel was delivered from the famine.
If David failed to discern the reason behind the famine, he could be praying for rain for the nation, over and over again, but to no avail.
Now, a lot of Christians inherited curses from their parents and ancestors. These curses shouldn’t have any more legal right in our lives, since we have become God’s children through Christ, but if we don’t actively break them in the name of Jesus and apply His blood over them we will remain under the curses.
What if we weren’t as smart as David? We would be praying over and over again for success, deliverance, healing, blessings, and whatever, but with the curses working against us, we most probably will not get the answers of our prayers and will fail to be light and salt to the world. (I was a good example. I thought I was in love with God, and I heard Him everyday, but that didn’t automatically nullify the curses nor cancel my inherited moral weaknesses )
The world will only see us get entangled by all kind of addictions, diseases, failures, mediocrity, depressions, and etc, but they would just think we were lazy and just waiting to get into heaven.
But we might not even make it to heaven.
Satan can send his demons to attach or influence authorities figures in your life and cause them to curse you verbally (Usually in the form of vent or tease). Words spoken by authorities over you can make you and break you. Sadly, today’s culture doesn’t acknowledge the power of spoken words. People pay too little respect to the words they say. They actually think teasing people is humor.
Many ancient cultures recognize the power of witchcraft, oath, blessings, and verbal curses. Gossip is a form of witchcraft, for example, and it is believed that cursing can cause the target person to suffer exactly the curse is designed to make him suffer.
Let’s say, “Die” and that person will develop strange fatal disease or die by accident. No wonder we have so many kind of strange diseases and health problems today. Car accidents and abortions also took many lives each year.
My dad isn’t a Christian yet, and he often tease me with words such as, “The Lord is going to kick you into Hell, cuz you pray too much you annoyed Him”. I thought it was just harmless teasing, but looking back, these words did cause me to do things or consider things that can disqualify me from heaven and make me go to Hell, if I remained ignorance and unrepentant.
I knew those things were wrong, but I kept doing them. I didn’t know why but I was hopelessly addicted to them. I could never really get freed from activities that could make me go to Hell if I died while committing any of those sins.
I wouldn’t even think about many of those sins nor get addicted to them if the words from my dad didn’t have effects on me. My dad’s words must have a binding effect on me.
Also there were a number of curses and sins of my ancestors I had discovered that related to a number of my moral weaknesses.
The Bible makes it very obvious that parental blessing or curse has real and lasting effect on children (Genesis 9:18-27; Genesis 27:12).
Thank God, although curses of all kind are prevalent and inevitable in today’s world, grace abound even more (Romans 5:12). We have authority in Christ. If we exercise our legal right we can confess the sins of our ancestors and parents, apply the blood of Christ over all curses, break the curses (verbal or inheritable), and replace them with blessings.
Resource that I found helpful
Blessing or Curse, You Can Choose by Derek Prince
10 Curses that Block The Blessing by Larry Huch
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