all right Jennifer LeClaire here senior editor of The Awakening House of Prayer
senior leader of the Ignite Network prophetic Network for prophetic people
you know one thing I've discerned in this season is people and perhaps it's
partially because of the rise of social media but people are just full of
cursing and judgment cursing I don't know you know you can't barely put
anything this is just in the realm of social media
you can't barely put anything on on social media and not have at least one
person cursing you telling you why you're stupid while you're wrong why
you're this why you're that and judging your heart
it's amazing to me I've had to block people on my part not even on my fan
page but on my personal page because they want to curse me on my plate they
friend me and then they want to curse me and I don't know about you but I think
that people who curse me are probably not my friends you know so you know
that's just in the world of social media that's not even in our workplaces
that's not even driving down the highways come on I don't know where you
live but I'm in South Florida and there is some road rage in this area people
have called me names I haven't heard any years I forgot those words existed
cursing cursing cursing what do we do there's a few different ways we can we
can deal with this sometimes your own family will curse you sometimes your
co-workers curse you sometimes your boss curses you sometimes well-meaning
doctors curse you what do you do there's different kinds of curses and I'm not
going to explain all of them here but I do want to tap into second samuel verse
2nd samuel chapter 16 verse verse 5 starting at verse 5 when shimei curses
david and the Bible says when King David came to bahurim a man of the
family of the house of Saul came out a man of the family of the house of Saul
so you have to remember this man was or you have to consider that this man was
bitter because Saul lost the kingdom God ripped it away from him even though
physically he retained his kingship until he died the anointing was not on
Saul after he disobeyed the Lord and refused to refuse to really repent so he
Lord toward the kid so it was a man of the family of the house of Saul he was
bitter and his name was shimei son of Gaara and he came out continuously
cursing verse 6 he threw stones at David and all of the servants of King David as
well as all the people and all the warriors who were at his right and left
here's here's one lesson many times you're getting cursed because of the
people you're aligned with will hold come on now in this case it was a good
alignment these men that were aligned with David it was a strong alignment it
was a strategic alignment but you can get cursed for somebody else's sake you
can get cursed and judged and people could get mad at you just because of who
you're hanging out with that is one reason why you really want to make sure
you have divine connections because it is not worth the warfare for somebody
who doesn't have your back it is not worth the warfare for someone who's just
using you and abusing you to build their Kingdom it's not worth the warfare you
can be cursed just for who you're hanging out with you did nothing except
accept that your aligned with them he threw stones at David and all of the
servants of King David as well as all of the people and all of the warriors who
were at his right left and Shammi said to said when he first come out come out
you bloodthirsty man you scoundrel the Lord has returned upon you all the blood
of the house of Saul and whose place you have reigned and the Lord has given the
kingdom into the head of your son Absalom you are taken in your own evil
because you are a man of blood so he was he was prophesying falsely to him and so
that's one kind of curse is the false prophecy where they Kurt they curse you
in a prophecy he was basically saying the Lord is doing this you
word is is bringing this trouble on you now in a way in a way there was some
truth to that because the Lord told David after he sinned with Bathsheba
through the Prophet Nathan that there would be true that he was going to stir
up trouble in his house and here we see that that Absalom rose up with trouble
in his house so you know it was somewhat true and so that's why you have to
listen to someone's criticism and see if there is a grain of truth in it
somewhere you have to listen to someone's judgment against you and ask
the Lord is there grain of truth in this because we don't want to get so prideful
that we believe just because someone is coming at us in a wrong spirit that they
might not be just at least 1% right and if they're 1% right we need to repent
for that 1% wrong that we are doing the Lord has returned all the blood okay
then verse neither then ABBA Shai the son of by the way if Shammi was cursing
David to his face you can believe he was curse to the behind his back
people will curse you behind their back behind your back before they'll ever
curse you to your face most of the time then Abba Shai the son of Zorua sent to
the king how can this dead dog curse my lord the king let me go over and remove
his head now this was Araya showing loyalty but also sir raja raja Roya also
taking up david's off it's potentially we had to be careful about that that's a
whole nother lesson the King responded verse 10 what do you have against me
sons of zarua suppose that he curses because the Lord
has said to him curse David who shall then say why do you do so David then
said to abash I and to all of his servants my son who came from my own
body seeks my life and now also this Benjamite leave him alone and let him
curse if the Lord has so instructed him perhaps today the Lord will look upon my
guilt and return kindness instead of his cursing so David and his men continue on
the road and ksham I went along the hillside beside them cursing throwing
stones and flinging dust at them as he went the King and all it I mean think
about this they're going down the road not only is he cursing them but he's
throwing rocks at them and he's throwing dust up in their face
but did David retaliate No did David retaliate no the David could pick up a
stone and throw it back no - David kick dirt in the guy's face No - David curse
him back no David did not tally retaliate the Bible says bless those who
curse you bless those who curse you know we don't see David when as far as
blessing him and if you read the Slayer into the story it doesn't turn out so
well for Shania May or however you say his name
but we have to understand David didn't retaliate he put his trust in the Lord
he was looking for the vindication of the Lord and so that's what we need to
do when people are cursing us now if they're cursing us because of a wrong
alignment we need to get out of that alignment and if we don't agree with
something sometimes we have to look look I don't agree with this person sometimes
you just have to say that but this was not that
this was David being cursed in him deciding to look at the Lord what did
David do he looked at the Lord he looked at the Lord he looked to the Lord and he
didn't pay attention he didn't even pay attention he just they just continued
down their paths he just continued on his journey David and his men did not
stop and war with this guy they just kept looking forward going toward where
they felt they were supposed to go don't let curses distract you don't let
all this stone-throwing and this mudslinging don't let it
distract you that's a key strategy of the enemy to stop your breakthrough
David's men continued on the road when someone's cursing you sometimes you have
to correct it most of the time you just need to bless them there's a time to
respond to defend yourself sometimes Jesus Jesus spoke out when he was and
sometimes he just stayed silent when he was accused you must be led by the Lord
but always bless those who curse you bless and curse not I hope you learned
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Experion dot thank you for your anointing I thank you for your grace I
thank you Lord for the courage to bless those who curse us for the courage to
disconnect from those we need to disconnect from the courage to keep on
walking down the path even when we are being drawn and pulled back by wicked
people help us Lord to see that it's not really people wrestling with its the
enemy himself and we will rise up and overtake all and recover all in Jesus
name we bless and not curse in the name of the Lord