Identifying and Breaking Curses

Identifying and Breaking Curses

can't hold down a job, can't find a job, just missed a job, "day late and a dollar short," "wrong place at the wrong time." The result of all this is frustration and discouragement, followed by sadness, sorrow, depression, despair, despondency, anger, and bitterness. Chronic Sickness and Disease The second sign of a curse is chronic sickness and disease. Webster's Dictionary says that chronic means "marked by long duration or frequent occurrence; constantly vexing, weakening, or troubling." Signs of a curse include sicknesses from childhood that persist throughout life; sicknesses and infirmities that will not respond to medication or treatment; sicknesses that won't respond to prayer; and a history of certain illnesses in the family, including high blood sugar, diabetes, cancer, sickle-cell anemia, bone disease, and blood and respiratory diseases. The book of Deuteronomy mentions a pestilence that cleaves (Deuteronomy 28:21). A pestilence is a contagious or infectious disease, or something that is destructive or pernicious. The New English Bible translates, "The Lord cause pestilence to haunt you." To haunt means "to visit often or frequently; to recur constantly; to stay around or persist, to linger." A sickness that is the result of a curse lingers. You can't seem to get rid of it. It cleaves and persists. To cleave means "to stick to, to adhere firmly and closely to." Female Problems The third sign of a curse is female problems. This curse affects the area of reproductivity. Barrenness and lack of productivity are often symptoms of a curse. When the Lord blessed the man and the woman in the Garden of Eden, He said, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:22). Fruitfulness and multiplication are always the signs of blessing. I have ministered in areas of the world where barrenness was a major problem. Many of the women who came forth for prayer were believing to conceive and bear children. Another symptom of a curse in this area is miscarriages. Women who have had repeated miscarriages need ministry to be delivered from grief, sadness, depression, and other spirits that cause them to blame themselves. Miscarriages can be the result of idolatry in the bloodline. (See Hosea 9:13-14.)

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