Blessed Not Cursed

by Gregory Dickow on October 1, 2009

 These are some of the many questions I hear on Ask the Pastor from people whose daily struggles in life seem to be a continual problem… without a solution in sight: 

 I never seem to have enough!… It seems like I’m just living from paycheck to paycheck!… I know God loves me, but why do bad things keep happening to me?… Why don’t things seem to be getting any better? I can’t seem to shake off this sickness!

Have you ever known someone who always seems to have something bad happening to them?   If it’s not money problems, then it’s family problems; if it’s not family problems, then it is an accident or tragedy or sickness. Maybe you have felt like that at times – that just when it seems like you’re getting some momentum, just when it seems like something good is about to happen, you’re hit with an unexpected bill or sickness or job loss or family problem that seems to complicate everything.

Why is that? The answer is: It’s a curse! Genesis 3 says that ever since Adam’s sin, the earth and mankind have been under a curse.  The curse in its simplest definition is summed up in Murphy’s Law: Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

Can we ever be truly free from it? YES, you can absolutely be free! In fact, you already are! Listen to what God says in Galatians 3:13: “And Christ has redeemed us from THE CURSE of the law having become a curse for us, for cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree; SO THAT BLESSING CAN COME…”

I want to show you how to reverse this curse so that this pattern of failure, or lack for what you need, never happens again!  You can get to the point where EVERYTHING THAT CAN GO RIGHT, DOES GO RIGHT!

According to Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, the curse brings the following things to mankind:  (Pinch yourself and say, “That seems like me!”)

  1. Poverty – v. 29, 38 (Poverty simply means not having enough)
  2. Emotional problems – v. 28, 65
  3. Family problems, including marriage problems and problems with our children – v. 30-34, 41
  4. Sickness, disease, cancer – v. 22, 27, 35
  5. Terrorism – v. 49-50 (yes, it’s in this scripture!)
  6. Failure and Defeat – v. 20, 25
  7. Fear – v. 65-67

The good news is that if any of these things are operating in your life, they don’t have a right to operate any more!   When Jesus went to the cross, He nailed these curses to it!  He bought you back from the bondage of the curse. He paid in full for every punishment, problem, and curse that should have fallen on you and me. 

Imagine being jailed for a crime or accident you unintentionally committed. Regardless of your innocence, the jury finds you guilty. You would be frustrated, bitter, and confused.  That is what the curse is like – you don’t intend for bad things to happen, but they do.

Here is an answer to your problems. Here’s how you can reverse this and stop these things from happening in your life:

  • Be convinced you are redeemed. Take a look in the mirror and tell yourself what Job proclaimed: “I know that my redeemer lives” (Job 19:35). We are also reminded in Galatians 3:13 that Christ redeemed you. Ephesians 1:7 tells us that we have redemption through the shed blood of our Savior.
  • Declare who you are in Christ. Psalm 107:2: “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!” Say it when you feel like it; and say it when you don’t feel like it. Use your words to direct the outcome of your life. Proverbs 18:21 reminds us that life, blessing, and prosperity are in the power of your tongue.
  • Stop expecting bad things to happen to you. Sometimes we “brace ourselves” for bad news and bad things so they don’t jolt us too much. Stop conditioning yourself to expect negative things to happen. Your spirit has enough energy and chemistry in it to bring those things upon you. That’s what Job meant when he said, “What I have feared has come upon me” (Job 3:25).

So claim your freedom from poverty, emotional problems, family problems, sickness, failure and fear today!

Learn more in my CD teaching series, “Redeemed From The Curse,” by visiting the Changinglives Bookstore at: 

http://www.cylbookstore.com/topics/familyrel/detail/Product_Catalog_07.htm

Gregory Dickow

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Be Healed

by Gregory Dickow on September 14, 2009

We all know it. We’ve all felt it. PAIN. Pain is universal and inevitable. It’s part of the human condition — and always has been. Obviously, no one wants to keep hurting. Yet, people sometimes try to deal with their suffering without God, even though we weren’t designed that way.

God understands this and has a much better solution. In the Bible there are, in fact, over one hundred specific mentions of the word “pain” and multiple other references to “suffering” and “hurt.” He knows we suffer and He has an answer. But we must have faith that others have suffered, too, and overcome, and that our suffering can, in the end, be relieved. I’ll show you how. I’m reminded of Isaiah 53:3–5, referring to the hardship endured by Jesus. The Bible says: “He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering . . . Surely He has borne our griefs, carried our sorrows . . . and with the stripes that wounded Him, we are healed and made whole.” Think about that: we are healed and made whole. That’s why Jesus suffered, as he did — to bear our pain as a surrogate and become our Healer.

No matter what kind of pain we experience — physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual — there is relief and it can begin today.

Be Healed,

Gregory Dickow

Read more about healing in my book.  Visit www.thepowertochangetoday.com

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by Gregory DickowJuly 20, 2009

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