“Feeling cursed? How to break the cycle and reclaim your life”

People are always concerned about bad luck, jinxes, and curses.  It feels like something invisible is hindering them from progress and success.

Some people would say there is no such thing.  They think any obstacle can be overcome by harder work.

How do you “reverse the curse?

That’s where God comes in.  He offered to Israel a “blessing and a curse.”  He told them to “choose life and not death.”  In other words, the choice is yours.

Here are a few thoughts on breaking a cycle of a constant string of failures:

1. Align your heart with God.

God WANTS to bless you.  He is a Father and His greatest joy is to bring His children happiness and fulfillment.

If I go my own way (apart from His commandments), I put myself under the “curse of the Law.” 

 In Deuteronomy 28, it describes the 14 blessings of obedience and the 7 curses of disobedience to walking with the Lord.

Some of those curses are mental illness, pestilence and disease, drought, family destruction and defeat (to name a few). Pretty bad stuff.

Fortunately, there is an escape!  “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having been made a curse for us…that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles by faith” (Gal. 3: 13).

Deuteronomy also describes the “blessing”:  family blessings, food supply, victory, breaking the cycle of debt and poverty, rising to the top, healing and health.

We all go through battles in life (including me) but that does not mean we are not living under the “blessing.”

2.  Change the flow of your words.

When we are living out from under God’s blessing, we tend to want to “curse” everybody else.  

We rail at them in anger.  We call them names and words that belittle them.  We tell them they are no good.  We gossip about them behind their backs.  

James said, “No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.” (James 3: 8-9)

I have to change the flow of what is coming out of my mouth.  When I change my tongue, I come under God’s blessing.  It breaks the cycle.

3. Fully surrender to His plan.

“Christ has redeemed us from the curse.”  “Redeemed” means purchased, bought and set free.

Your body, your mind, your future now belongs to God. “You are not your own, you are bought with a price” (1 Cor. 6: 20) 

The blessing starts to flow when you die to yourself and surrender yourself to God’s perfect will.

Give Him your life.  Live for His glory.  Praise Him continually.  Give of yourself to others.

The curse ends when His love flows.

It doesn’t mean you won’t see any challenges.  It just means that through it all….the curse has been broken.