RESULTS OF:
(1) Failure to honour our parents and/or
(2) Involvement in the occult.
Depression
Suicidal
thoughts.
No desire
for prayer and Bible study.
Inner
resistance to the Word of God.
No word of
prayer coming to one’s lips.
Visions of
white ghostly forms etc.
Fear
Struggles at
the time of death.
Blindness.
Visionary
dreams.
Telepathy.
Extra
sensory powers.
Blasphemous
thoughts against God and Christ.
Manic fits.
Abnormal
sexual degeneration.
Spook
apparitions.
Visions of
people in past generations.
Boredom
Simulated
piety
Conscious
atheism
Religious
delusions
Second
sight.
Emotional
torpor - melancholic states - inability to make decisions.
Lack of
appetite.
Feelings of
anxiety.
Gripping
feeling about the throat.
Inability to
pray.
Moods of
depression. (It has been reported that
60% of all mental disorders originate from fortune-telling or divination.)
Bad dreams
with visions in the dreams.
Feeling of a
physical proximity of an evil power - difficulty in making decision for Christ
- lapsing back into the former way of life.
Immediate
appearance of mental disturbances and troubles upon decision to turn to Christ.
Dread in
making decisions.
Sense of
loss of freedom.
Voices which
you cannot get rid of no matter how much you fight.
Fits of
rage.
Destructive
fury.
Disgust
towards God’s Word.
Blasphemous
thoughts towards God and Christ.
Melancholia
Delusions of
persecutions.
Schizophrenia
Compulsive
acts and thoughts.
Violent
acts.
Mental
illness.
Extreme
emotional life such as violent temper, explosive irritability, extreme
sensibility and increased sexuality.
Remedies:
(1) Be born
again; (2) Baptised with Holy
Spirit;
(3) Read
Bible; (4) Prayer and fasting; (5)
Deliverance;
(6)
Intercession by other Christians; (7)
Laying on of hands.
1. Failure to honour our parents and/or
2. Involvement in the occult and other sin.
Deuteronomy 28, verses 15-68.
Curses are
as follows:
1. You will be cursed in
the city and country.
2. You will be cursed in
your basket and your kneading bowl.
3. The
fruit of your body and produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and
the offspring of your flocks.
4. You
will have cursing, confusion, rebuke in all you set your hand to do until you
are destroyed and perish.
5. The
plague will cling to you until God has consumed you from the land.
6. Cursed
when you come in and cursed when you go out.
7. Consumption,
fever, inflammation, severe burning fever.
The Lord will strike you with the sword, with scorching, with mildew until
you perish.
8. Heaven
over your head will be brass and the earth shall be iron. There will be drought.
9. The
Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust.
10. You
will be defeated by your enemies. You
will go out one way against them and flee seven ways.
11. Your
carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth..
12. You
will be smitten with the boils of Egypt, the tumours, the scab, the itch from
which you cannot be healed.
13. The
Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion of heart (nervous
breakdown).
14. You
shall grope at noonday like a blind man gropes in darkness, you shall not
prosper, you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually and no-one shall
save you..
15. Another
man shall lie with your wife.
16. You
shall build a house and not live in it.
17. You
shall plant a vineyard and not gather the grapes.
18 Your
ox shall be slain before your eyes, your donkey taken away and your sheep given
to your enemies.
19. Your
sons and daughters shall be given to another people.
20. The
fruit of your land and your labours shall be given to another nation. You shall be only oppressed and crushed
continually.
21. You
shall be driven mad because of the sights your eyes see.
22. The
Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which
cannot be healed and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
23. You
and your nation shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
24. You
will become an astonishment, a proverb and a byword among all the nations where
the Lord will drive you.
25. You
shall plant seeds but get very little.
The locusts shall consume it.
26. You
shall plant vineyards and tend them, but neither drink the wine nor gather the
grapes for the worm shall eat them.
27. You
shall have olive trees throughout your territory, but shall not anoint yourself
with the oil for the olives will drop off.
28. You
shall not enjoy your sons and daughters, they shall go into captivity.
29. All
your trees and the produce of your land, the locusts shall consume.
30. The
alien among you shall rise higher and higher above you and you shall come lower
and lower.
31. He
shall lend to you and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head and you shall be the tail.
32. All
these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are
destroyed.
33. They
shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder and on your descendants forever.
34. You
shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send you, in hunger, in thirst, in
nakedness and in need of all things.
And God will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
35. He
shall bring a nation from afar against you, from the end of the earth.
36. This
nation will be of fierce countenance and will not respect the elderly nor show
favour to the young.
37. He
shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land until you
are destroyed. They shall not leave you
grain or new wine or oil or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of
your flocks until they have destroyed you.
38. They
shall besiege you at all your gates until your high walls fall down.
39. You
shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters in
the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.
40. Even
sensitive and refined men will be hostile towards their brothers, their wives
and the rest of their children. They
will not give their brothers, wives or children the flesh of their children
whom they will eat.
41. The
tender and delicate woman will refuse her husband, her son and her daughter.
42. She
will eat her own placenta.
43. The
Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues - great and
prolonged plagues - and serious and prolonged sicknesses.
44. All
the diseases of Egypt shall come upon you.
45. Every
sickness, every plague which is not written in the Book of the Law shall come
upon you.
46. You
shall be few in number.
47. The
Lord shall rejoice over you to bring you to nothing and to destroy you and you
shall be plucked off the land.
48. The
Lord will scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth to the other
and there you shall serve other gods which neither you or your fathers have
known.
49. Among
these nations you shall find no rest, neither shall the soul of your foot
rest. The Lord will give you a
trembling heart, failing eyes and anguish of doubt.
50. Your
life shall hang in doubt before you and you shall fear day and night.
51. In
the morning you shall say, “O that it were evening,” and evening you shall say,
“O that it were morning,” because of the fear that terrifies your heart and
because of the sight which your eyes see.
52 The
Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships.
You will be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves
but no-one will buy you.
CURSES
Deuteronomy
28:15-68
It is clear
from this chapter that if we obey the commandments of God (the Ten Commandments
- Exodus 20:1-17) we will be blessed.
If we disobey them, then we come under the curses of God. In this chapter there are 118 curses
referred to including great and prolonged sicknesses, madness, blindness, and
confusion of heart (mental breakdown).
They are set out below.
Of course we
are not saved by obeying the law but through the Cross of Jesus Christ,
repenting and believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour and obeying His
commandments.
When we do
this we are delivered from the curses of the law.
One of the
commandments of the law is to honour our parents that our days may be long and
we may live long on the earth. (Exodus
20:12)
Another
commandment is that we are not to make for ourselves any carved image, or any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth;
nor are we to bow down to them nor serve them. For the Lord is a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third
and fourth generations of those who hate Him.
(Exodus 20:4-5)
Many of us have
had parents or ancestors who have been involved in the occult. Sometimes we ourselves have been involved
and accordingly these curses can come upon us unless we repent.
In Galatians
3:13 we are told that at the Cross we have been delivered from the curses of
the law and in Galatians 3:14 we are told that we come into the blessing of
Abraham whom God blessed in all things.
“Christ
has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it
is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon
the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.”
We strongly
recommend that you examine your feelings towards your parents (alive or dead)
and if there is any unforgiveness or failure to honour them you should
immediately repent, acknowledge Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and
renounce the sins of your parents and ancestors in the name of Jesus
Christ. You will then be delivered from
the curses of the law and this deliverance will remain as you stay obedient to
God.
Even if your
father has done terrible things to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit you
can forgive him. If you do not forgive
him, then you will still remain under the curses of the law. Jesus Christ has given us the power to
forgive through the help of the Holy Spirit.
(John 20:21)
“So
Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the
Father has sent Me, I also send you."
And w
hen
He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you
retain the sins of any, they are retained."
We find that
many people who have been adopted at birth have major difficulties as they grow
older because they have never honoured their natural mother and father and
renounced their sins.
In all cases
we recommend the following prayer, said with a believing heart.
“Dear
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I honour my mother and father. I absolutely forgive them for any hurts real
or imagined. I now renounce their sins
and the sins of my ancestors in the name of Jesus Christ and I believe I am delivered
from the curse of the law through the Cross of Jesus Christ. Thank You Father, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
If this
prayer is said with utter sincerity and belief in every way, then this will cut
the cords of the past and the curse will be reversed and healing will flow.
Compiled
by Bill Subritzky and produced by:
DOVE MINISTRIES
PO Box 48036, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland, New Zealand