Breaking Curses 3
John 8:31-32 (KJV) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Erica knew there was a generational curse in her family. Her grandmother was a single mother, and her mother also became a single mother under similar circumstances as her grandmother. All her aunts were single mothers and her elder sisters were now single mothers. But Erica became born again and was being discipled. Because she was properly taught and discipled, she actually forgot that there was a generational curse in her bloodline. She just continued to enjoy the Lord and was walking in spiritual liberty. Erica’s life never manifested that curse in her bloodline because, through believing and being discipled, she was now a new creature. Many of the early disciples of the Lord Jesus didn’t need to go for deliverance sessions after they believed. They simply continued in the apostle’s doctrine, prayer, and Christian fellowship. Because of proper discipleship, they broke free of curses and real demonic entanglements. Remember, many of the Gentile believers were proper pagans with generations of demonic entanglements before they became disciples. But they broke free through proper discipleship, not deliverance sessions. From years of ministry and conducting deliverances for people, I can tell you that nothing guarantees lasting deliverance like when a believer has decided to be a true disciple of the Lord Jesus. Every curse needs an iniquity of the heart to ride on. Some of these iniquities are native proclivities of the heart to certain kinds of lusts, greed, and/or pride. They can seem latent but they steer the direction of people’s lives without them knowing it. If these iniquities of the heart are not uprooted, curses will have sufficient grounds to operate in the life of the person, even if he is a believer. Proper discipleship is the only way people can be converted from what they were to become like Christ. Discipleship is the kingdom schooling system that converts a sinful heart into the heart of a Saint. It requires discipline, submission, and consistency on the part of the disciple. Go into today remembering that a believer who becomes a disciple of the Lord Jesus cannot remain under the power of any curse. The transformation of the heart brought about by discipleship breaks the power of every curse. Prayer: Lord please make me a disciple indeed. —Abraham Damilola Arigi Bible In One Year: Exodus 33-36 (in today’s audio) Kindly forward this Devotional to your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Contact us here (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Listen to our free 24/7 Online Radio: www.streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%203350.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS
Changing Labels
Romans 12:2 (J.B. Phillips New Testament) Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity. There is this interesting scene from a movie of a grocery store keeper who greatly distrusted politicians believing nothing good comes from them. So, this day, as he was setting up for the day’s business and rambling on about the hypocrisy of politicians, midway through his rant, his assistant called his attention to the expiry date of the dairy products which was due the next day. Without missing a beat the storekeeper asked her to switch the labels with a new one with a more distant expiry date and continued his ranting about the ‘rottenness’ of politicians. The irony of the moment was lost on the sanctimonious storekeeper who was always filled with righteous indignation. He tried to maintain his moral high ground even though he was as guilty of corruption as the politicians he sorely detested. Now to the labels. What happened when the storekeepers change those labels is that he is rechristening the products in a way that does not align with reality. He was inadvertently calling bad, good, and convincing his unsuspecting buyers to accept as true what was false. This is a good analogy for what happens when society keeps shifting the goalpost on various moral issues and pressures the believer to fall in line. You are called a bigot if you believe the claims of the gospel, a misogynist if you uphold the Bible’s teachings on marriage, brainwashed if you believe the Bible is the (written) word of God, intolerant if you believe that Jesus is indeed the (only) way to the Father. These new labels have been systematically put up to coerce the believer to lower his standards, to open wide his arms to any and every doctrine the world comes up with, and to derail the believer from the path of righteousness. It is a craftily devised strategy to force the believer into the mold of the world system. Do not accept these labels that seek to make you ashamed to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be gentle as a dove and also wise as a serpent (See Matthew 10:16). Stand firm, unshakable, holding fast to that which you have received of the Lord and unabashedly walking in the light of his word. Go into today rejoicing that you are a child of God, and that if you are incompatible with the world’s system, so was Jesus. —Ikechukwu Mpama Bible In One Year: Galatians 1-3 (in today’s audio) Kindly forward this Devotional to your contacts and let’s touch lives together. Streamglobe is Interdenominational and nondenominational. Contact us here (WhatsApp): +15155195600, +2348138224547 Get our free sermons here: www.streamglobe.org/34 Listen to our free 24/7 Online Radio: www.streamglobe.radio https://listen.streamglobe.org/Devotional%20Audio%203349.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS