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Hello this is Dr. Don Ibbitson with Above and Beyond Counseling Center and Academy welcoming
you to our ongoing teaching series on entry points for demonic torment. Today’s session
is on word curses. Just by way of brief review I’d like to start with the model for explaining
the deliverance ministry and getting people set free from strong holds. We are a trying
being. Man is body, soul and spirit if you like. Soul is where the mind, will, memory
and emotions reside. And our spirit man is born dead to God and when a person gets born
again, gets saved, comes to Christ they get a new spirit within them. And the Holy Spirit
comes and lives inside of us. So we don’t get a new body, we don’t get
a new soul but we do get a born again spirit. And people can be walking with the lord trying
to bear fruit with the lord. Fruit of the spirit meaning evident and trying to wrestle
down the flesh but we see people all the time who have strong holds and bondages in their
lives. Things like depression, anger, addictions, and perversions. And part of what we teach
to help people understand is that behind these strongholds can in fact be demonic spirits.
And it’s important to understand that these demonic spirits can reside within us. Yes
Christians can be tormented and oppressed, not possessed but tormented by demonic spirits.
The spirits reside in us. In the scripture when Jesus and the disciples do deliverance
the spirits come out of people and these are demonic strongholds and spirits behind these.
Things we do or are done to us that provide entry points for the demonic spirits to enter
in. and a person can in fact be trying to walk with the lord, bear good fruit if you
like, the fruit of the spirit but once again things we do or are done to us these spirits
can enter in. and for effect you can see a lot of spirits entering into this person.
And basically there is very little fruit in that person’s life, fruit of the sprit if
you like. Spirits if you feed them by doing behaviors they will grow and get more powerful.
The only real release from that is in fact deliverance and calling the spirits out and
sending them to dry and uninhabited places. As those spirits are gone a person can see
a huge change in their life. They can see much more fruit of the spirit, the Holy Spirit
being manifested. This is the typical Christian that we believe deliverance ministry can benefit
and all believers because they can have some level of demonic oppression. And as you can
see there the spirits in the body many illnesses and diseases in fact there are demonic spirits
behind those that the person needs deliverance from.
So today’s session let’s talk about word curses. As an open door if you like or an
entry point for demonic strongholds and when we speak of curses or the words and things
being spoken we are talking about the tongue. It says in Proverbs 18:21 that the tongue
has the power of life and death and those who live it will eat its fruit. That’s a
spiritual dynamic. It’s much more than just sticks and stones breaking my bones and words
will never hurt me. But in the tongue is the power of life and death. We see in scriptures
where the tongue activates the spirit realm for good or for evil. James 3:8-9 says no
one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil full of deadly poison. Poison and we
praise our lord and father and with it we curse men who have been made in God’s likeness.
Matthew 17:20 Jesus talks about the tongue activating the spirit realm for good. He says
a piece about having faith as small as a mustard seed you can sing to this mountain; move it
from here to there and it will move. So we understand that in the tongue there is creative
power and we can invoke the Holy Spirit through the positive use of the tongue for blessings
but the demonic can pick up on that and it gets activated by curses against us. The typical
entry point in people’s lives is from believing the curse. There can be other entry points
or open doors but that’s the normal one. People believe the curse that is spoken over
them then it opens the door for that spirit to come upon them that is associated with
that curse. Alright what kinds of word curses are there?
There are curses that come from others. One grouping if you like would be witchcraft curses,
Santeria, roots curses, Indian, satanic curses and that’s just a partial list; many others
from what we would call the occult realm. Those curses need to be broken. There are
also a group of curses that come from people close to us. The demonic kingdom will use
family, friends to speak curses over us and to assign demonic spirits to us. They can
be as simple as a mother speaking to a young child as he is growing up saying you're a
stupid kid. Well she’s cursing that little boy because words have power and he believes
those curses that can open the door for him and that spirit of stupidity to come upon
him. And that’s just one example. There are many, many others.
Another type of word curse that comes about believe it or not can come from the medical
profession. We get people and see people all the time who believe what’s spoken over
them in terms like ADD, they will say things like I am ADD or I am HDD. And those are labels
and those are curses that are put upon them and we believe and we’ve seen. Don’t get
me wrong they have afflictions and they need deliverance and healing from those but once
again words have power. People can have a curse of death spoken over them by doctors
and you can have a tumor and you are going to die from that curse. Die from that cancer,
die from that tumor and if the person believes that, that can open the door for a spirit
of death to be upon them. Once again I'm not speaking that doctors are wicked or evil but
they can speak curses over people that go against what the word of God says. So believing
those diagnoses’ can in fact open the door for other spirits to come upon us.
And then there are self-imposed curses. Many times people are very *** themselves and
speak curses over themselves. I'm so stupid. I’ll never amount to anything. I’ll always
be poor. No one will ever like me. And those are curses too. And once again self-imposed
curses are words out of our own mouth can open the door for demonic torment.
How do we deal with that? Different approaches that different ministries have but our approach
is frankly in terms of preparing people we teach them about entry points and open doors.
Word curses being one of them as part of the process when we get ready to pray deliverance
we break the specific word curses up front and cancel the assignments of the spirits.
We have people really research and try to remember and understand the word curses that
were spoken over them. We show them how to break it and before we minister we make sure
that those curses are broken and cancel the assignments of the spirits. And then as part
of the deliverance ministry process that we use we call the spirits out that are associated
with those curses. So in a nutshell that’s a short teaching on word curses. We hope that
you have found that useful and you will listen to some of our other teaching series.