Renouncing Curses

I want to deal with those who know that there's a curse in their background. Now if you don't know, don't probe, don't dig, don't get all psychological. But there are quite a number of you here on the basis of the evidence that I've given you, you know that somewhere from the background there's a curse, a dark shadow that follows you up. I talked to one young lady here, I don't think she's here this afternoon.

And every one of her aunts had had a mental problem. Every one of about six aunts and her mother. And as I sat there, God gave me insight. I said, you know your basic problem? You know your family is under a curse. And you're afraid that that curse is driving you to do things that you don't want to do and into places you don't want to go. And in the last resort, you're afraid it will drive you mad. She said, you've told it exactly the way it is.

Alright, you're under a curse. Now the remedy is in the cross.

“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse, being made a curse for us.”

Hallelujah. He took the evil that we might have the good. What's the good? What's the opposite of the curse? The blessing.

And remember, when you have God's blessing, no occult power can touch you. I like the story of Balaam, called by Balak to curse Israel. And three times he tried to curse them. And in the end he said, it's no good, Balak, I can't curse the one whom God has blessed.

See, actually this is very interesting. The last attempt of Satan to keep the children of Israel out of their inheritance was occult power. That was his last attempt. It wasn't war, it was witchcraft. But praise God, witchcraft didn't work against the children of Israel because they were the blessed of the Lord.

“The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him.” “Underneath are the everlasting arms.” “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.”

Now, I've never done this before this way, but there's got to be a first for everything, I suppose. Those of you, I think I'm going to do it. I don't want to embarrass you, but I think you have to stand. Those of you who realize that there is a dark shadow in your life following you up, you want to get rid of it here this afternoon, I want you to stand. Don't be embarrassed.

I'm not trying to, you know, psychologize you into doing something that you don't do under conviction.

Alright. Now then, I want you to do it in your words. I'll put the words in your mouth and I'll pray with you, but I want you to do it for yourself. I want you to talk like this to the Lord Jesus Christ. Say these words after me. Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you are the Son of God and the only way to God. You died on the cross for my sins. You took my sin. You were cursed with my curse, that I might receive your blessing. And you gave me authority in your holy name to bind and to loose. And as your child, I now take that authority.

Whatever dark shadow, whatever evil power has followed me through life from my family background, I now renounce it. I take authority over it. I loose myself from it. And I forbid it ever again to affect me. I pray this in the name of Jesus. And I thank God now that by the blood of Jesus, I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil.

Alright, now lift your hands and praise God. Father, in the name of Jesus, we just side with these people against the evil powers in their lives. We bind those evil forces in the name of Jesus. And we take dominion over them on the authority of the word of God that

“what we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.”

We bind every evil, occult, dark power that was at work in any of these lives and families in the name of Jesus. And we loose these that have prayed this prayer, in Jesus' name, from every curse, every dark shadow, every occult background, right now, in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God.