Are You Blessed OR Cursed?

SF, Stagecoach, NV

Dear Brothers, Sisters, Prodigals and Unsaved,

Today, in these days we’re living in, having things going wrong DOES NOT MEAN, you are CURSED.  More than likely, you are just being attacked, because you are being blessed by Abba [God].  The twerp [enemy/satan] doesn’t want you happy, so you’ll not turn away from Abba, that's why he tries to make you miserable.  Just remember, he’s a “toothless” lion roaring - and that’s the only power he has over you - UNLESS you give it to him, by accepting his lies.  Once you confess; you're poor, broke or busted - you've accepted/allowed the enemy to do what he wants.  Instead, CONFESS Abba's BLESSING OVER YOU, because I AM HIS CHILD - and nothing else.

My point today, is to make sure, you know what blessings and curses are.  Deuteronomy 28 is the promises of Abba to Moses who told the people going forward with Joshua, that IF God’s Children WILL OBEY AND DO THINGS HIS WAY and IF ALL MANKIND, SAVED OR NOT, WILL NOT OBEY what would happen to them.  So as you can see, Abba leaves the choice up to you.

Deuteronomy is pretty clear on the differences between Blessing and Cursing, the only thing you should keep in mind, is the references to time difference.  When it says “your baskets will be full” it’s referring to no shortages of food/needs.  When it says, “blessed when you go in and when you go out” it’s referring to our traveling/job changes.  When it says, “the produce of the ground” it’s referring more to farmers/ranchers.  When it says, “the Lord shall cause your enemies to rise up against you…” it’s referring that you will know, you are protected, no matter what comes - and you'll WIN!  So, when the blessing or cursing is listed, think of it in today’s terms.

IF YOU WILL OBEY:

[Deuteronomy 28:1-14 NASB] 1 "Now it shall be, if you diligently [try your best to] obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 "All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the LORD your God:

THE BLESSINGS: IF HIS CHILDREN WILL OBEY AND DO IT HIS WAY.

Strong’s Concordance #1293 says = the continued blessing given to the people, in recognition of good men - as given to Abraham.  Keep in mind, WE ARE the SEED of ABRAHAM.
3 "Blessed [shall] you [be] in the city, and blessed [shall] you [be] in the country. 4 "Blessed [shall be] the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. 5 "Blessed [shall be] your basket and your kneading bowl. 6 "Blessed [shall] you [be] when you come in, and blessed [shall] you [be] when you go out. 7 "The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. 8 "The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 9 "The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 10 "So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. 11 "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12 "The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 "The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe [them] carefully, 14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

THE CURSING: IF CHRISTIANS, PRODIGALS AN UNSAVED REFUSE TO DO IT HIS WAY.
Several of the first verses cover the removal of what Abba said in the Blessings above.  You can decide for yourself if there are areas you need to work on or not.  If you have the blessings in certain areas, cross off those you think you’re OK in, and the ones still there, work on them.  Just working on them, shows ABBA your desire to be more like Him - He already knows you’re not perfect.  In fact, the Bible says our goodness is as filthy rags:  Abba knows we cannot be perfect, He's only asking for us to try and see what He does.

[Isaiah 64:4-9 NASB] 4 “For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You [in your blessings], Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him. 5 You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned, [We continued] in them a long time; And shall we be saved? 6 For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7 There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. 9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.”

[Micah 7:19 NASB] “He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities [sin] under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea.”  Many of us call that the sea of forgetfulness, because Abba said He’d remember our sins NO MORE!

[Deuteronomy 28:15-64 NASB] 15 "But it shall come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 "Cursed [shall] you [be] in the city, and cursed [shall] you [be] in the country. 17 "Cursed [shall be] your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 "Cursed [shall be] the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. 19 "Cursed [shall] you [be] when you come in, and cursed [shall] you [be] when you go out. 20 "The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me. 21 "The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. 22 "The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. 23 "The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 "The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. 25 "The LORD shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be [an example of] terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 "Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten [them] away. 27 "The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.  28 "The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart; 29 and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you. 30 "You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit. 31 "Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you. 32 "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do. 33 "A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually. 34 "You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see. 35 "The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 36 "The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 "You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the LORD drives you. 38 "You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it. 39 "You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather [the grapes,] for the worm will devour them. 40 "You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. 41 "You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. 42 "The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. 43 "The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. 

    44 "He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail. 45 "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 "They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever. 47 "Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. 

49 "The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 "Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish. 52 "It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53 "Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you. 54 "The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55 so that he will not give [even] one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing [else] left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns. 56 "The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything [else,] during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns. 58 "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God, 59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. 

60 "He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 "Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed. 62 "Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD your God. 63 "It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. 64 "Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.”

Some of this, like the plagues of Egypt have been done, but I don’t think we need a repeat of them - do you?  Some nations already have the famines, plagues and worse.

Start a PRAYER CHAIN in each community humbling yourselves before Abba.  Commit yourselves to Him, to study His Word.  That’s what Ezra did, when he was bring the people back to Israel to rebuild the walls.  He nightly read the Torah [Nehemiah 8], the Laws of Moses on their travels back to Israel.  And each night they would praise Abba for His goodness and not forgetting them as daily, they asked for forgiveness and repented of their ways.  Once they heard the TRUTH.

I’ll let Abba’s Words close in my prayer for you:

[1 John 4:16 NASB]  “We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”   I declare you will understand and believe in God’s love that is for YOU, and by abiding in it, God will abide in you.

Blessings To You and Yours,

Sandy F. - The Lord’s Servant