Self-Imposed Curses

( excerpts from BLESSING OR CURSE, You Can Choose, by Derek Prince, chapter 12)

Word curses carry danger to those who speak them about themselves. Remember the words of Jesus in MATT 12:36-37 …”But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.” For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Jesus is focusing on idle words.

Some examples of idle words, often followed by “But I really didn’t mean it”, etc

1 - Mental and/or emotional breakdown

“It’s driving me crazy”

“I just can’t take any more”

“It makes me mad to think…”

2 – Repeated or chronic sicknesses ( especially if hereditary )

“Whenever there’s a bug, I catch it.”

“I’m sick and tired …”

“It runs in the family, so I guess I’m the next”

3 - Barrenness, tendency to miscarry or related female problems

“I don’t think I’ll ever get pregnant”

“I’ve got the ‘curse’ again”

“I just know I’m going to lose this one – I always do”

4 - Breakdown of marriage and family alienation

“The palm reader said my husband would leave me”

“Somehow I always knew my husband would find another woman”

“In our family we have always fought like cats and dogs”

5 – Continuing financial insufficiency

“I never can make ends meet-my father was the same”

“I can’t afford to tithe”

“I hate those ‘fat cats’ who get all they ever want-it never happens to me”

6 – Being accident prone

“It always happens to me”

“I knew there was trouble ahead”

“I’m just a clumsy kind of person”

7 – A history of suicides and unnatural or untimely deaths

“What’s the use of living?”

“Over my dead body”

“ I’d rather die than go on the way I am”

When people use these negative kinds of language they are not aware ( or should be aware ) that they are inviting EVIL SPIRITS to take them over. A very common spirit is that of “DEATH”. Producing a life that is meaningless and hopeless, and usually following is a life of physical infirmities with what is deemed “idiopathic” ( without known cause ).

There are three ( 3 ) steps to escape from a self-imposed curse:

REPENT … REVOKE … REPLACE

Repent – recognize that you have made a negative confession about yourself

Revoke – Unsay or cancel the statement

Replace – confess a right statement

Study these scriptures:

Proverbs 6:2 …”Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth”

Mark 14:66-72 Peter three times denied that he was a disciple of Jesus. After the third denial he began to curse and swear, invoking a curse on himself. He was no longer a disciple, but later, by the grace of Jesus, he was reinstated as told in John 21:15-17

Genesis 27:12-13 … “My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a CURSE upon me, and not a blessing.(13) And his mother said unto him, Upon me by thy CURSE, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them”

Matthew 27:20-26 This is a very tragic and far-reaching example of a self-imposed curse . Pilate gives Jesus the death sentence, washes his hand in front of the crowd and says “I am innocent of the blood of this just person”. Then the crowd responds with “His blood be on us and on our children”. What happened after that? Within a generation the Roman armies destroyed Jerusalem, killing or selling into slavery the entire population. And for the next 2000 years a dark strand of bloodshed and tragedy has been interwoven in the destiny of the Jewish people. But at the end of time this will be reversed.

Be very careful about making oaths in secret societies and organizations. These oaths carry painful and sometimes fatal consequences.

We are all created in the image and likeness of God. Let’s not defame ourselves in any way at any time with self-imposed word curses.