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S tep No. 7 - Curs es
To curse someone in the Biblical sense doesn’t mean the speaking of profanity and foul language,
although that is many times included in a curse. To curse someone means to pronounce evil,
disaster and misfortune over that person in the name of God or some other pagan Deity.
SOME FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW A B OUTCURSES
1. If someone is under the effect of a curse they have DONE SOMETHING TO CAUSE IT.
(Proverbs 26:2 KJV) As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless
shall not come.
There is NO SUCH THING AS A PERSON WHO IS UNDER A CURSE who has done nothing
to bring it about.
2. NO ONE IS BORN CURSED because of who their mother or father was. God does not do
that and although Satan would like to, he is not powerful enough to do it. Many people wrongly
use Exodus 20:3-5 to teach that people are born cursed.
(Exodus 20:3-5 KJV) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. {4} Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: {5} Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor
serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus 20:3-5 does not say that people are born cursed but teaches the iniquity of the parents is
visited upon the children. Iniquity is the inclination or propensity to sin in a certain area. There is a
big difference between a curse and iniquity and if we fail to distinguish between the two when we
are ministering, we will minister fear and condemnation to people instead of victory. Children may
receive iniquity, which could be understood as a weakness in a certain area, but they do not have to
act on it. They do not take part in the generation curse of their parents until they act upon their
parents iniquity.

3. CHRISTIANS ARE NEVER PERMITTED TO CURSE ANYONE FOR ANY

REASON.
(Luke 6:28 KJV) Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
(Romans 12:14 KJV) Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
4. SPOKEN CURSES

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In the Bible we have the example of Balaam as someone who was able to speak curses over
people.
(Numbers 22:1-7 KJV) And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on
this side Jordan by Jericho. {2} And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the
Amorites. {3} And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was
distressed because of the children of Israel. {4} And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall
this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And
Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. {5} He sent messengers therefore
unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his
people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the
face of the earth, and they abide over against me: {6} Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me
this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them,
and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he
whom thou cursest is cursed. {7} And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of
Balak.
The Bible tells us in the passage below why Balaam was not able to curse Israel.
(Numbers 23:21-23 KJV) He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in
Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. {22} God brought
them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. {23} Surely there is no
enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it
shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
There is no sorcery or witchcraft that will work against God’s people as long as they live holy
before the Lord and have the shout of a King in their camp. However, if God’s people open the
door to Satan by loose living, they make it possible for someone to curse them. If we walk in
fellowship with the Lord we don’t have to worry about someone cursing us.

5. CURSES FROM PHYSICAL OBJECTS

(Deuteronomy 7:25-26 KJV) The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not
desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an
abomination to the LORD thy God. {26} Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house,
lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it
is a cursed thing.
If you bring an object into your house that is associated with the occult or pagan worship, it can
become a snare unto you because demons will stay around objects and places where they are
worshipped.
(Revelation 18:2 KJV) And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage
of every unclean and hateful bird.
The Bible teaches that when our heart is right it is possible for physical objects to bestow upon us
a blessing. The Bible also teaches that when a person’s heart is not right it is possible for a
physical object to bestow a curse upon that person. There are clear examples in scripture of both
blessing and cursing.
The Lord’s supper is an example of physical objects that bestow a blessing upon us. We don’t
understand all about how it happens, but we know that it does happen.
(1 Corinthians 10:16 KJV) The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the
blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

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The handkerchiefs and articles of clothing that were brought from Paul’s body to perform
healings and cast out demons are another example.
(Acts 19:11-12 KJV) And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: {12} So that from
his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them,
and the evil spirits went out of them.
The following passage tells us about an interesting example where holy water combined with dust
from the floor of the tabernacle conveyed a curse when the person’s heart was not right with God.
(Numbers 5:11-22 KJV) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {12} Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, {13} And
a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be
defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; {14} And the
spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of
jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: {15} Then shall the
man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah
of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of
jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. {16} And the priest shall bring
her near, and set her before the LORD: {17} And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen
vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the
water: {18} And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head,
and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall
have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: {19} And the priest shall charge her by an
oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to
uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the
curse: {20} But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and
some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: {21} Then the priest shall charge the woman
with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and
an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; {22}
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy
thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
After removing any objects that are associated with the occult or pagan worship from the home,
pray in the name of Jesus to break the curse off the home and also off anyone who lives in that
home.
HOW TO KNOW WHEN SOMEONE IS UNDER THE EFFECT OF A CURSE
The twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy is the most comprehensive chapter in the word of
God about how curses operate, therefore we will do a brief study of this chapter to help us
determine when someone is under a curse.
(Deuteronomy 28:1-2 KJV) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this
day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: {2} And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD
thy God.
The chapter begins by telling us that the way to be blessed is to be obedient to the voice of God.
Jesus gives us the wonderful promise that as long as we hear his voice and follow him that no one
will be able to snatch us out of the Father’s hand. In Deuteronomy chapter 28:3-14 the blessings
that will come from being obedient to the voice of God are listed.
(Deuteronomy 28:3-14 KJV) Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
{4} Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. {5} Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. {6}
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. {7} The

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 LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall
come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. {8} The LORD shall command the
blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless
thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. {9} The LORD shall establish thee an holy
people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
thy God, and walk in his ways. {10} And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. {11} And the LORD shall make thee plenteous
in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. {12} The LORD shall open unto thee his
good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of
thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. {13} And the LORD
shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee
this day, to observe and to do them: {14} And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I
command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Scripture shows us clearly that even in the Old Testament times, obedience to the voice of God as
well as the written word was very important.
(Jeremiah 7:22-23 KJV) For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I
brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: {23} But this thing
commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and
walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
In Deuteronomy 28:15 the Bible warns us that disobedience to the voice of God or Scripture will
result in a curse. This Scripture show us clearly how curses begin to operate in a person’s life.
Curses stem either from disobedience to the written word of God, or disobedience to what the
voice of God has said to the individual.
Beginning with Deuteronomy 28:15, the Scripture passage begins to show the effects that these
curses will have. We will provide a list of these to help you determine when someone is under a
curse. It is also possible that one or more of these things could be present in a person’s life from
causes other than a curse.
When these things are present in a person’s life and can be connected to sin and rebellion, it is
very likely that they are under a curse.
(Deuteronomy 28:15 KJV) But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this
day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
We need to understand that God allows a person to be cursed so that the person will repent of his
sin and rebellion and turn back to God. We need to understand curses as an act of God’s love to
bring the person back into the will of God.
(Hebrews 12:5-8 KJV) And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto
children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of
him: {6} For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. {7}
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father
chasteneth not? {8} But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons.
(Revelation 3:19 KJV) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
In Scripture curses and chastisement are virtually identical.
SYMPTOMS OF CURSES
1. Plague and sickness

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 (Deuteronomy 28:21-22 KJV) The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. {22} The LORD shall smite thee
with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and
with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
(Deuteronomy 28:27 KJV) The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
(Deuteronomy 28:35 KJV) The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
2. Breakdown in the Family and Home
(Deuteronomy 28:29-32 KJV) And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and
no man shall save thee. {30} Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou
shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not
gather the grapes thereof. {31} Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to
thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. {32}
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail
with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
3. Poverty
(Deuteronomy 29:17 KJV) And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone,
silver and gold, which were among them:)
Not all poverty is the result of a curse as some teach, but the Bible does teach some poverty is the
result of a curse.
4. Miscarriages
(Deuteronomy 28:18 KJV) Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5. Inability to stand against opposition
(Deuteronomy 28:25 KJV) The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth.
6. Mental problems
(Deuteronomy 28:28 KJV) The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
7. Difficulty entering into praise and worship and unanswered prayers
(Deuteronomy 28:23 KJV) And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is
under thee shall be iron.
8. Life out of control
(Deuteronomy 28:44 KJV) He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the
head, and thou shalt be the tail.
The head makes the decisions and the tail follows along. Many people have lost control in certain
areas of their life while maintaining control in others. Being pulled along in life by forces that
you can’t control like the tail follows the head could be the result of a curse.

9. Frustration

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 (Deuteronomy 28:20 KJV) The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly;
because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
(Deuteronomy 28:38-43 KJV) Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
little in; for the locust shall consume it. {39} Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt
neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. {40} Thou shalt have
olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive
shall cast his fruit. {41} Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they
shall go into captivity. {42} All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. {43} The
stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
There is one word that sums up the effects of a curse; Frustration. You reach a certain level of
achievement in your life and everything looks set for a bright future. You have all the obvious
qualifications and yet something goes wrong! So you start all over again, and reach the same level
as before, but once again things go wrong...It still would be misleading, however, to suggest that a
curse always causes a person to fail. A person may achieve what appears to be real success and yet
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10. Wanderlust - Vagabond
The inability to rest in your spirit or in your flesh. It could be seen as a drive to keep moving and
not seeming to be able to stop, such as going from one relationship into another, job to job,
church to church, house to house, etc.
(Genesis 4:11-12 KJV) And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to
receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; {12} When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth
yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
11. Veteran’s curse
This curse has occurred in the case of Vietnam veterans. They cannot seem to recover from what
they experienced. The participants of this war had a curse put on them by Buddhist monks. The
trauma alone of having to take another person’s life is bad enough, but adding this spiritual battle
makes it even more difficult for the veterans to recover.
Battle Field Curses
In late 1989 Point Man Ministries headquarters received a verbal report that an ex-Buddhist monk
had shared some vital information with an American pastor regarding demonic curses.....
According to this ex-Buddhist priest an entire sect of Vietnamese Buddhist monks spent years
heaping specific curses upon all Americans that came to fight in their country.
These specific curses were:
1. That the American soldiers would become wandering men and women for the rest of their lives.
2. That they would never find peace.
3. That they would be angry men and women for the rest of their lives.....
The spirits and curses of the land and pagan religions attached themselves to our soldiers to torment
them mentally through flashbacks, nightmares, suicide, drugs, alcohol, alienation, isolation, anger,
rage, depression,...[etc.]15

FURTH ER S CRIPTURAL INS IG H TINTO CURS ES

1. Pride is usually the root cause
Pride is usually the root cause that brings about a curse in a person’s life. Pride causes them to do
things their way instead of God’s way.

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 (Psalms 119:21 KJV) Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy
commandments.
2. To trust in man will put you under a curse
Trust in man will put you under a curse because when you are trusting in man you are obviously
not following God and His voice. The Bible tells us that we can’t do both at the same time.
(Jeremiah 17:5-8 KJV) Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh
flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. {6} For he shall be like the heath in the
desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in
a salt land and not inhabited. {7} Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the
LORD is. {8} For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
(Matthew 6:24 KJV) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
3. Legalism will bring a curse.
(Galatians 3:10 KJV) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is
written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law
to do them.
People that try to live the Christian life by legalism will bring themselves under a curse because
you can’t follow the voice of God and legalism at the same time.

4. Financial problems
One of the main reasons for financial problems among Christians is their neglect of their
responsibility to the house of God and failure in the area of stewardship.
(Haggai 1:4-10 KJV) Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie
waste? {5} Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {6} Ye have sown
much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink;
ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag
with holes. {7} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {8} Go up to the mountain, and
bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the
LORD. {9} Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow
upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man
unto his own house. {10} Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed
from her fruit.
(Malachi 3:8-9 KJV) Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we
robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. {9} Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even
this whole nation.
5. Failure to take a stand for God
When God calls you and you fail to take a stand, disobedience can put you under a curse.
(Judges 5:23 KJV) Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants
thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the
mighty.
6. Doing God’s work deceitfully
To do God’s work deceitfully and to neglect taking a stand against sin and the enemies of God
when He calls you to do so, can put you under a curse.
(Jeremiah 48:10 KJV) Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he
that keepeth back his sword from blood.

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This is not speaking of physical work, but spiritual work. We need to understand that this is
talking about fighting in the spirit, not actually harming someone in the physical realm.

7. Church leadership tolerating sin

If the leadership knows there is sin in his congregation and he tolerates the sin, it can cause a
curse.
(Joshua 7:10-13 KJV) And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon
thy face? {11} Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded
them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and
they have put it even among their own stuff. {12} Therefore the children of Israel could not stand
before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed:
neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. {13} Up,
sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine
enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

APPLYING THE BALM

If the Victor feels that there is a curse on their life, assure them that there is cleansing by the
blood of Jesus Christ. We are his children and he has already taken these curses to the cross.
(Colossians1:19-23 KJV) For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; {20}
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto
himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. {21} And you,
that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he
reconciled {22} In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable
and unreproveable in his sight: {23} If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be
not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached
to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
(Isaiah 53:4-5 KJV) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem
him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. {5} But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed.
We also need to pray for release from those curses as we become aware of their possible
existence.
Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up
his cross daily, and follow me.
PRAYER FOR A RELEASE FROM A CURSE
Lord Jesus, I believe that on the cross you took on yourself every curse that could ever come upon
me. So I ask you now to release me from every curse over my life - In your name, Lord Jesus
Christ! By faith I now receive my release and I thank you for it.16