REMOVING THE EFFECTS OF WORDS SPOKEN AGAINST US
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but
words will never hurt me.” When my brother and sister and I would fight as
kids, we’d retort using that phrase. But in looking back, I think you’d have to
be superhuman not to have spiteful
words affect you. Many of us as adults are still
being affected by
the things spoken against us. We can reverse and eliminate that baggage.
In many Pagan religions, when they got
together to put a curse on someone, they believed that spirits went out with the
curse to make sure they got the results.
Curses were powerful in the old days, but are still very much in effect today
as well.
The story of King Balak and the Israelites in
Numbers 22 gives us a prototype of what curses do and the antidote. The principles
still apply today, over 3000 years later.
The Israelites were on their way to the
blessing, the peace and the good life God promised them. They met up with two
very renowned kings and asked to pass through their domain. The kings said no,
and came against the Israelites. Everyone figured the Israelites would get
wiped out
because these kings were very well equipped and strong, but instead the
two kings were defeated. The defeat of the
mighty kings shook the world around them. When King Balak heard about the fallen kings, he was afraid for his land
and his kingdom because the Israelites were coming there next.
“Balak saw all that Israel had done to the
Amorites, and was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: [He] said
‘Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh
up the grass of the field’” (Num. 22:2-4).
Balak and the people back then believed in the
power of the words spoken by prophets and soothsayers. They believed in the
spiritual powers backing the words these people spoke. There was a very famous
soothsayer named Balaam. He was not an Israelite. He lived over 400 miles north of where the Israelites were now traveling,
and where Balak’s kingdom was. Balaam could be compared
to a current day psychic,
who may have some truth, but bad stuff as well. In Balaam’s case, God wouldn’t
let him say anything against Israel.
King Balak sent his messengers up to get
Balaam and bring him down to where he was. Balak was willing to send his men
over 400 miles one way and then also pay Balaam a large amount of money for the curse
because he knew it worked. This is the
message he sent to Balaam: “Come now therefore,
I pray thee, curse me this
people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that
we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot [know]
that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed”
(Num.22:6).
We can see from this verse
many things about curses. First,
we see that curses are directed not toward weak people, but against “mighty”
ones. Next,
we see that the purpose of the curse is to “smite” them. This word “smite” in
the Hebrew is a powerful word and has many synonyms including: “to strike home,
strike deep, to wound or kill. It means to “beat, to overpower, overcome,
crush, stop, ruin, plunder, suppress, lay waste, attack and destroy.” This word
“smite” also refers to being smitten like a plant is smitten when it begins to wither.
King Balak believed that just
the words of Balaam in a curse (with the attached devil spirits to go with it)
would “drive them [the Israelites] out of the land.” The word “drive” in Hebrew implies violence, power, anger, and hatred. It means to expel or cast out
like mire is cast up by the sea. It carries with it the idea of shame
and disgrace. It is a sentence of banishment.
Even today, when negative
words and phrases have been spoken against us by people who believe in what
they are saying, the same motivation and intent are behind
it.
The Lord says we are His people.
We are mighty in His sight. If you ever feel like you are on the right path
with the Lord and you are being beaten at every turn or stopped or any of the
other definitions of what it means to be smitten, then it just may be that a
curse has been spoken against you.
Yes, there are groups of
Satan worshipers that get together in our villages, cities, and suburbs for the exact purpose of
speaking curses against God’s children. But often it’s much subtler.
Curses can come in answer to the simple question, “How’s so and
so doing?” Answers like, “Oh she always has problems with her finances.” “He
can’t seem to make a marriage work.” “She is sick all the time.”
But what’s sometimes more
insidious than what other people say about us, are the curses we speak over
ourselves. Things like: “My father died of a heart attack, it’ll probably get
me too.” “I probably won’t ever get a better job.” When we say things like
that, they can keep us in a state of being cursed, smitten, withered, or even
violently spewed out of our own promised lands.
BUT THERE IS AN ANTIDOTE. On
Balak’s second try to get Balaam to come and curse God’s people, Balaam did go.
King Balak took Balaam up to the mountain top where he had a good view of the
Israelites, but when it came to time to speak the curses, Balaam opened his
mouth, and blessing words came out! After
three tries from three different viewpoints, Balak was furious because Balaam
could only speak what the Almighty God gave him, and that was words of blessing
over the Israelites. Finally, on the last try, an
amazing thing happened:
Balaam not only did not curse
the Israelites, but he prophesied the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, the
one who would cut down and annihilate every possible curse ever! “I see
Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. A
star shall come forth from [the descendants of] Jacob. A scepter shall rise out
of [the descendants of] Israel and shall smite [remember the definition of
“smite”] the princes of Moab and destroy all the sons of Sheth. And Israel
shall do valiantly. Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and
shall destroy him that remaineth of the city” (Num. 22: 17-19).
Balaam says this is a
parable. It is indeed a prophetic
speaking, talking about how Jesus, the King of Kings, will come
to rise out of Israel and “smite” the princes (devil spirits that instigate the
curses) of Moab and Jesus shall have dominion and destroy any curses
that remain to this very day. And that “day” includes the present day, 2019!
Galatians 3:13 tells us the
truth about curses: “Christ purchased our freedom and redeemed us
from the curse of the Law and its condemnation by becoming a curse
for us.” All the things spoken against
us, including the things we have recently said about ourselves,
are wiped away when we believe what Jesus has done for us, not only in the spirit
but in our hearts, our minds, our emotions, our decisions, and our bodies.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68 lists
curses of the Law of Moses. In the King James Version it says God brings them,
but truthfully, God
only allows them if people aren’t able to accept redemption from them, or maybe
don’t know that they can be free or know how to get there.
That’s why we have to get
more of Jesus, and less of us, less of our intellect and reasoning, and more
simple believing and receiving. I am right there with you on this.
Among the curses and their
effects in Deuteronomy 28, are:
Vs. 20 – despair, confusion, and rebuke in every enterprise you try
to do
Vs. 22 – consumption
(emaciation, anorexia perhaps?), fever, inflammation
Vs. 27 – tumors
Vs. 28 – insanity, blindness
Vs. 29 – oppression, not
prospering, being robbed
Vs. 30 – adultery, failure in
business
Vs. 32 – sons and daughters
turning away
Vs. 35 – problems with knees
and legs
Vs. 61 – every sickness and
every disease
If we take a look at some of
these verses and see those things in ourselves, we’ve probably been cursed by words from our own mouths, words from others in our lives, or
even curses that have come down into our lives through our ancestors, down into
our blood and even physical makeup.
We rebuke those curses in the
name of Jesus Christ. We call on the King of Kings to crush the powerful
spirits who backed King Balak, and we accept new freedom and release as we both
meekly and boldly follow the leading of Jesus Christ, the curse breaker, to our
victory in Him.
Love, Carolyn
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