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-Curry R. Blake, John G. Lake Ministries
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Looks like the writing bug has finally bit Simon! This his first article and I hope to see many more from him!
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Cornel
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Here are five spiritual time and money wasters that will help shift your thinking into a New Covenant way of life faster!
1. Giving Money To Receive Blessings
Stop wasting your money by trying to receive blessings through giving. In this tradition you are not only trying to manipulate God but you are literally using money to receive something you already have. You have been blessed already. No matter which blessing you are trying to receive, it has been obtain through the cross. “Why haven’t I received, the blessings that you say i already have? I don’t feel blessed!” The reason you don’t “feel” blessed or haven’t received in the natural, is because you are always trying to obtain the blessing through your own efforts, when it’s always been yours through Christ’s efforts. You need to believe and receive instead of trying to earn. Start living out of what you already have! Instead of wasting your money to earn something you have already received, give out of the love of giving, Give Because you have received, not in order to receive.
(See Eph 1:3, Eph 2:7, 2 Cor 8:9, Gal 3:14, Acts 8:20)
2. Running After Different Anointings/Powers/Mantles
Why would people run after Elijah’s anointing, John G Lake’s anointing, David’s anointing or anybody else’s for that matter when they already have Christ’s anointing, baffles my mind. Stop seeking and just look in the mirror. Yes, as a believer you are already anointed with Christ’s anointing and that anointing will never leave you! You may not “feel” anointed but you are anointed 24hrs a day 365 days a year. It’s not an existential mystical thing that comes upon you when you do things just right; it’s been in you since you were placed in Christ Jesus. What greater anointing is there then Jesus’ anointing? Stop wasting your time trying to get other peoples’ anointing when you could live out the source of all anointings: Christ in you!
(See 2 Cor 1:20-23, Eph 1:13, Rom 8:11, Gal 3:26-27, Heb 1:9, 1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:27)
3. Digging Up Your Past Looking For Generational Curses
The next time someone tells you that in order to be set free you have to go in to your past and dig up old family sins, you can say, “No thank you, I don’t need to waste my time, I was set free by Jesus on the Cross and my generation goes back to God the Father and you can’t curse what He has blessed.
Num 23:20 Behold, I received a command to bless: He (God) has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
Since we are blessed, and anointed Children of God seated with Christ on the right hand of the throne, how can we be cursed? The only way you can become cursed is if Jesus becomes cursed. And if the devil is trying to curse you, tell him to get lost!
(See Gal 3:12-14, 2 Cor 5:17, 1 Tim 1:4, Ez 18, Deut 24:16, Tit 3:9)
4. Trying To Constantly Defeat The Devil
Are you spending time in prayer trying to defeat the devil? How much time have you spent trying to ‘bombard the heavenlies’ to defeat the devil and the principalities? The devil is already defeated! Jesus has done it all, “Wait what about Eph 6:12” I hear you say. “Don’t we wrestle against principalities and powers?” I tell you, you cannot interpret Ephesians 6 without reading Ephesians 1:17-23 or Colossians 2:13-15! You don’t have to waste time trying to defeat him, Jesus defeated the Devil like David defeated Goliath. Now you can spend a lot more of your time praising God and setting people free from a defeated enemy!
(See Acts 10:38, Phl 2:10, Col 2:10, Rom 8:37-39, Matt 16:18-19, Luke 9:1-2, Mark 16:17-20)
5. Spending Time At The Cross, Repenting For The Forgiveness Of Sins
You don’t have to spend your time seeking forgiveness for every little sin that you have done. Jesus forgave you on the cross. You are not forgiven because you ask for it; you are forgiven because of what Jesus did on the Cross. If forgiveness were based on you asking for it every night, you better hope you didn’t forget one somewhere incase you kick it before you get the chance to confess. All your sins have been completely forgiven, removed as far as the east is from the west. They are gone. Before you were saved your sins were already forgiven, when you were saved you entered into that forgiveness. Repentance, when you were unsaved is entering in from law into His grace. Repentance after you are saved is simply to change your thinking regarding how God relates to you. As you change your think your mind becomes renewed and your life is transformed. You are in a NEW Covenant! Ours sins never even made us sinners in the first place. We were sinners because we were born of Adam. Now we are righteous not by our actions but because we are born of Jesus! Just read Rom 5:12-20!
(See 1 Cor 15:22, Col 2:13-15, Heb 8:12, 1 John 2:12, Rom 3:23-24, Jer 31:34, Isa 43:25, Psa 103:3, Heb 10:17, Psa 103:10)
Blessings
Simon Wilson
Some of you are not going to like what I am about to say.
But I am going to say it anyway.
I have been asked the following question a few times now: “Can a believer have a generational curse?” Personally, I always answer ‘Yes.’ I will explain why in a moment. I have heard many use Ezekiel 18, Deut 24:16, John 9:1-3 and Gal 3:13 to say it is impossible for a believer to be cursed, generationally or otherwise. “My generation goes back one to God Himself and He has no generational curses.” Don’t get me wrong, I believe all those scriptures and I agree with the above statement too. So how can I still say believers can be under a generational curse? For the same reason that believers can still get sick. But shouldn’t, but they can.
Yes, Jesus redeemed us from the curse. He equally carried our sicknesses and diseases. Why then do we still fight sickness and disease so passionately but live in denial about curses? Why are curses apparently ‘automatically’ dealt with in our realm even to the point that some believe they don’t exist but we have to still go heal sick people? Was sickness not part of the curse? In fact, Deut 28 lists sickness and disease more than 21 times in its list of curses. Did Jesus do a better job at freeing us from curses then He did from healing us? No, He equally made provision for both. So why do some fight the one and deny even the existence of the other? Because if the enemy can get you to live in denial about one of his schemes, he can attack you with it and you won’t do anything about it.
One the same note, John 9:1-3 is not the only time Jesus had something to say about curses. Have you read Matt 5:44 and Luke 6:28? Bless those who curse you. Jesus clearly shows that the way to deal with curses is to bless. He doesn’t deny the existence of curses. He also doesn’t say just wait till I die and curses will cease to exist. Even Paul and James wrote about this in Rom 12:14 and James 3:9, after the cross. “Bless and do not curse.” Why would Paul say, ‘Do not curse’ if curses don’t even exist anymore? Why would James say people curse each other if curses don’t exist? Easy answer, those who say curses don’t exist are in denial. As long as they are in denial, they are also ineffective for the kingdom in this area.
Please don’t hear what I am not saying. I am not saying go dig into your past and try to figure out the sins of your forefathers. That’s dumb. Don’t do that. Jesus dealt with all their and your sin already. Your job is not to look for sin but to look for where the enemy is trespassing and kick him out. If he is stealing generationally, kick him out generationally. If your mom had breast cancer and now you have breast cancer, guess what? You’re being attacked generationally, whether you want to call it a curse or not. If your dad had an anger problem and now you have one, you are being attacked generationally. If your whole family suffers from depression, the attack is both generational and familial. If all the men in your family have the same problem, you are being attacked generationally. If all the women in your family have the same problem, you are being attacked generationally. The problems aren’t just physical in the form of hereditary disease, it can also be emotional as well as social and economical.
Why am I so adamant about this? Because I have seen too many curses wreak havoc in people’s lives. When they come for ministry and we address a curse, often times demons manifest kicking and screaming. I will never forget one time when all we did was speak a blessing against any curses in my one friend’s life. She immediately went down and started screaming and speaking in a different voice which said, ‘I am death, here to take her life. You can’t stop me.’ Needless to say death seemed to momentarily have forgotten who Jesus is and who He left in charge. After quickly reminding him, my friend was free again. Only after this did my friend tell us she had a couple of near cancer scares in the last year.
Don’t live in ignorance and denial about the enemy’s schemes. Learn to fight and then go do something. People are dying while we debate this stuff.
For more on this topic, read this and also read this. If you have questions about this, let me know.
In Grace,
Cornel
I have been asked a couple of times how does one go about dealing with curses. This is going to be a very short overview. For the theology on the illegitimacy of ANY and EVERY curse, please read: Generational Curses: Fact or Fiction?
The first problem people have when it comes to dealing with curses is that they get stuck on the illegitimacy. They take the theology on board that says “My generation goes back one to Jesus and He has no generational curse.” That is completely true. Jesus was made a curse for you. (Gal 3:13). But some people then play the very dumb ‘ignore-the-schemes-of-the-devil-game’. They basically reason, “If it’s illegal, he can’t do anything so all this talk about curses is not applicable to me.” You have to think your theology through all the way. Jesus provided freedom from curses just like He provided salvation, healing, and deliverance. Just because He provided freedom from oppression, doesn’t mean all the captives have been released. Jesus provided healing yet the devil still attacks us with sickness. If all sickness is illegal yet you can still get sick, guess what? You can also be under the effect of an illegal curse. Stealing is illegal yet thieves do it everyday. No right doesn’t equate to no ability. Jesus provided a way out. You have to take it to get out.
When Jesus became a curse for you, curses did not cease to exist. Just like when He bore the stripes for your healing, sickness didn’t cease to exist either. Now that you hopefully understand that curses, though illegal in every way, can still effect you, let me tell you how to deal with them. I hope by now you also know that you don’t rebuke a devil by saying “Devil I rebuke you!” In the same way you don’t bless somebody by saying, “I bless you.” Look at how Jesus rebuked the devil:
Mar 1:25 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”
The rebuke is an instruction, a command that needs to be obeyed. Speak to the mountain. What about a blessing?
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
God blessed man by speaking out a command that demanded increase and multiplication. So if you want to speak a blessing over somebody’s finances, don’t say “I bless your finances”, say “Finances increase and multiply in Jesus Name.” To bless is to speak well of, to command increase. The same applies to breaking curses. You never once read about Jesus saying, “I break the curse of such-&-such over you.” So how does one do it then? By blessing.
Speak and command the opposite increase and multiplication to the effect of the curse. Bless those who curse you. The answer for curse is in blessing. If your finances are cursed, start blessing it by commanding increase. If your womb is barren, (barrenness is a curse) start speaking life, increase and fruitfulness over your womb. Command it to come alive and to bear children. Speak the opposite increase. Speak the desired outcome. Reverse the curse by speaking and commanding the opposite blessing.
If certain sicknesses seem to run in the family, don’t wait until it comes to your door. Start blessing and speaking life over your body. If you don’t have the symptoms yet, go fight the same sickness in other people’s lives and get victory so that when the devil does try to bring it on you, you can fight him and beat him because your faith for victory over that sickness has been established. David beat the lion and bear and gained experience way before he took on Goliath.
Go read through Deut 28′s list of curses and make a list of those that seem to be in effect in your life. Then start commanding the opposite blessing because you have the legal right to bless for you have been freed. Don’t fight for victory, fight from victory. Jesus won, you are just reminding the devil of that fact. Bless yourself, your family, your children. Life and death are in the power of your tongue.
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Your words impart grace. Speak grace-filled blessings and see curses reversed. If you want to know more about this subject let me know and I will write a few more articles on it.
Be fruitful and multiply and Jesus Name!
Cornel
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