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 hard on 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.