The Curse

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as, the curse is found. From the hymn, Joy To The World. I saw a video recently of a woman who had a ministry among the prostitutes of Los Angeles. She said that she simply walked among them offering to pray, talk, and present Jesus Christ and His love in any way she could. She said there was one woman in particular who was beaten down and very hardened by the life she had been living for so long. This woman wanted to know what the "chaplain," for lack of a better word, was doing here. She shared about wanting to minister His life to them. The weary lady contemplated this for a few moments and then asked, "Can you break curses?" She replied, "I know the God who has broken every curse." While this was happening, others around them were listening, a number of them pressed in, each wanting to know could the curses they were living under, knew they were living under, be broken? Again, she affirmed His truth. She ended up praying with each of them that the vast array of curses that had held each of them in bondage would be broken by the blood of Christ. His blood shed for their sins. For the curse that befell the human race when Adam and Eve rebelled against God in the Garden. Sin is the curse that every member of the human race has been born under. It hasn't just fallen upon prostitutes, drug addicts, and alcoholics. It covers us all and the curse reveals itself in seemingly infinite ways. It shows up in the labels that have been assigned to us. Failure, worthless, unloveable, rejected, ugly, stupid, and a host of other things the devil and the world have said we are. Curses that have convinced us we can never be free, that we will always be held in captivity to them. This is the enemy's biggest lie, for the curse of sin over the human race was broken on Christ's cross on Calvary. What we have been labeled, the life we have fallen into, or even chosen of our own accord, its power is broken. The prison door has swung open. The curse, just as the beautiful hymn says, has been broken for as far and as deeply as it has affected the human race He loves. As far as it has affected and held you in its sway. A number of those prostitutes found freedom from their lives that day, because the God one woman knew showed forth His power to break every curse they had been enslaved by. Has He done so for you? The power of the curse runs deep, and it affects us spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. His blood and His grace go deeper still. Wherever we are and no matter how dark and deadly the curse, He stands and bids us come to Him and receive Him. The curse is broken. All you need do to see it broken in you is to come, believe, receive, and be free. The captivity of sin is replaced by the freedom and Lordship of Jesus Christ. All you need to do is to repent, to turn from the curse you've been living in, to the life He now calls you to. By His grace, you turn from what has been for you and step into His "what will be." The curse of sin has tainted every one of us to some degree. We have no power to free ourselves from it. That's why He came. Whatever that curse looks like in your life, don't gaze at it, but to the One, Jesus Christ, who broke its power on Calvary, and invited us to step out from under the curse and into the blessing and abundance of His life. That blessing goes far as the curse is found, no matter how far from Him you may feel. It comes to you. The blackest curse of sin is powerless against the power of His blood and the freedom it brings. Please. Discover how true that is for you. The door of the cell that holds you is open. He stands before you, calling you to come to Him. Come. Just come. Blessings, Pastor