Smackdowns

I went to read the book yesterday by Derek Prince I have been slowly working through.  "Bought with Blood" talks about what Jesus did for us when He died on the cross. I have had it for almost 3 weeks now and I am only finishing the 8th chapter which is what I am going to talk about.  There is a lot of great things that I am taking my time going through as its poignant stuff to read. 

This chapter was about how Jesus took the curses on us upon Himself so we could be blessed.  It went deeper than "wages of sin".  Derek Prince wrote on indications of curses, how they come about, and how to break them and claim God's blessing instead on our lives.  Earlier, I had just thought about my housemates.  One in particular who I have a tendency to feel so inadequate around when I compare myself to her.  She does absolutely nothing to make me feel that way - its my own doing - hence the smackdown I received  from God as I was reading through on curses.

I speak curses over my life.  I let others speak curses over my life.  Words have power.  Saying something like "I'm stupid" like I was thinking in comparison to my housemate is a curse I am speaking over my life.  I listen to the bad things people say to me and let it be over me when that IS NOT what God has planned for me! When Jesus died on the cross, He made it so the blessing of Abraham extended to Gentiles, which extends to EVERY area of our lives!

My prayer from this is that I only speak blessings on myself and over others.  I do not want to be responsible for having myself or another person living underneath a curse because of me.  I now see how this could quite possibly be why I have felt called to believe and claim that I will be accepted into nursing school.  In my speaking it, I am speaking a blessing over my life - which is what I SHOULD be doing!!