Refuse curse and discouragement!

Refuse curse and discouragement!

This message is more than important! Yes, it is very important to understand that we have to refuse curse and discouragement in prayers for the things, for which, we have the right to possess.

Never accept that the devil and his acolytes have won in your life. Remember that your life, your freedom and your happiness have been redeemed at a great price by the Lord Jesus Christ. Then, refuse curse and discouragement in prayer. Remember always this passage of Isaiah 53: 4-7 which says 

Isaiah 53: 4 Surely he took up our infirmities

and carried our sorrows,

yet we considered him stricken by God,

smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,

he was crushed for our iniquities;

the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,

and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,

each of us has turned to his own way;

and the LORD has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth;

he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,

and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,

so he did not open his mouth.

If the word of God says it, then it is true. Take in consideration that the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him and because of that, there is no reason for you to be lost, because Jesus was lost for you to be found.

I have to admit that quite often, it happens that a man in problems who has prayed for a long time becomes discouraged and begin to think that the Lord does not want to grant his heart’s desire. It may also happen that he thinks that it is a curse and there is nothing more to do for him. BUT NO! Refuse the curse because it is not yours, but pray until the miracles happens in your life. Without discouragement, pray! Knowing that you are bringing your case before the Almighty God who is not just Sovereign, but most Compassionate and who likes that we ask to him and that we pray to Him without cease.

Let us share together the experience of the prophet Elijah who was loved by God, saw and made a lot of miracles of God in his life. Let us read together 1 King 17: 17 Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. 18 She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?"

19 "Give me your son," Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. 20 Then he cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?" 21 Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!"

22 The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived.

We can remark the fact that Elijah never said “God is Sovereign and it is possible that God wanted this child to die for a reason or another.” Elijah had refused the death of this child and knew that imploring the grace of the Lord for the son of this woman is the only way to see this child live again. He did not just know it but he knew that insisting is important. The man of God who were used to miracles of God without efforts found himself begging the Lord 3 times for the child to receive life again. And God finally answered him!

We can read another experience of Elisha who succeeded to Elijah and received a double portion of Elijah’s anointing.

Elisha gave the promise of a child to barren woman who lodged him. The woman became pregnant, and she gave birth to a child the following year as predicted by Elisha. He did not make a lot of prayers to make this prediction come to pass. The problem is, some years after, the child died.

The woman went to meet Elisha to complain. Let us read the rest of the story in 2 kings 4: 28 "Did I ask you for a son, my lord?" she said. "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't raise my hopes'?"

29 Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy's face."

30 But the child's mother said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.

31 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy's face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, "The boy has not awakened."

32 When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. 33 He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. 34 Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out upon him, the boy's body grew warm. 35 Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out upon him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

Elisha probably said to himself that if the staff touches the child, he will surely resurrect; I mean, God will probably make a miracle as He did with a staff when He split the red sea into two to let his people cross the sea. I imagine my Sweet Daddy seated on His throne saying “No my dear Elisha, this time you have to move and pray tenaciously for the life of this child”. It is interesting to realize that the woman did not discourage herself and behaved with Elisha as someone says in my country “Here, it will be your foot, my foot! I won’t move without you” And she was right! While facing the insisting spirit of this women, Elisha did not give up and did not say to himself: “This woman is worrying me! May be she was not supposed  to have child in her life since she had one when she was not waiting for, and he is dead when he was still in his childhood”

Elisha did not give up and refused the fatality in the life of this woman. It is possible that the devil did not want this woman to have children. It is possible that they were curses in the life of this woman to prevent her to have a child, but Elisha just refused them and insisted on praying to the One who can do everything. And naturally, God answered his prayer.

It happens in everyone’s life to have great trials and fights. And some fights are in prayers with perseverance. God alone knows why He wants that during the moment where we are facing some problems we pray with persistence despite the fact that with just one word He is able to change the most disastrous situation. Most of the time, God allows that we insist in prayers to forge a character in us, or else to let us appreciate what He is going to give us.

I have personally realized that men are ungrateful. You have just given something worthy to a man that he will also soon forget you. And God who loves us and who is jealous in his love for us cannot afford to see us flee from Him after a blessing He gave us. He wants to have a constant fellowship with us. It is with the intention to make this fellowship with Him possible that He let His Only Son die. So please, consider the price. He cannot pay a so huge price and afford to lose us.

Just imagine a man who gets married to a woman who likes luxurious things. The woman desires a fur coat. The husband offers it to her as soon as she opens the mouth to ask for it. And as soon as she receives the gift from a husband, she forgets him and goes to flirt with other men and comes back every time that she needs something from her husband.  How do you think that the man is going to feel?

When the woman flirts with other men, and comes back to her husband, she acknowledges the fact that her husband satisfies her, but she cannot stop flirting with other men. Sometimes you may find that she really wants her marriage to live and don’t want to lose her husband, but she has difficulties to stop flirting with her lovers. Don’t you think that it is normal for the man to feel jealous?

When God let us pray with insistence to have something that we wish to have, He learns us through this moment to approach him, to know Him more,  to love Him more than everything, to love His heart instead of His hands, to love Him for who He is and not for what He is able to give us.

Instead of discouraging ourselves for the things that we have the right to possess, let us pray relentlessly and refuse any forms of curses because Jesus carried all the curses that we were supposed to carry. While praying with perseverance, let us refuse discouragement when the answer seems to delay knowing that through this long moment of waiting, the Lord is forging a character in us.

We should just have confidence in Him!

Eugenie of Jesus