Primary reason for curses:
(a) Not hearing God's voice
(b) Not doing what He says
There are seven blessings and seven curses referred to in the law in Scripture.
Seven blessings: (Deuteronomy 28)
(1) Exaltation
(2) Reproductiveness
(3) Health
(4) Prosperity, success
(5) Victory
(6) That we are the head and not the tail
(7) That we will be above and not beneath
There are seven curses referred to in the same chapter:
(1) Humiliation
(2) Barrenness
(3) Sickness of every kind
(4) Poverty, failure
(5) Defeat
(6) We will be the tail and not the head
(7) We will be below and not above
Indications of Curses:
(1) Mental, emotional breakdown
(2) Repeated sickness, especially hereditary sickness - doctors can't find the cause
(3) Feminine problems - barrenness, miscarriage, menstruation problems
(4) Breakdown of marriage - family alienation
(5) Financial insufficiency, poverty. Sometimes poverty for a short period is just a test but if we are always in poverty it could be a curse.
(6) Accident prone
(7) History of unnatural deaths
A curse can be something like an evil thing moving up from the past. It is like a deep shadow.
Note: Proverbs 26:2. A curse is:
"Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow,
So a curse without cause shall not alight."
Therefore, a curse requires a cause to alight.
REASONS FOR CURSES:
(1) Having false gods (Exodus 20:3&4, Deuteronomy 27:15)
(2) Disrespect for parents (Deuteronomy 27:16)
(3) Treachery against a neighbour (Deuteronomy 27:17)
(4) Injustice to the weak (Deuteronomy 27:18&19)
(5) Illicit sex (Deuteronomy 27:20-23)
(Effect of wrong sexual relationships, particularly those outside of marriage or with members of one's family)
(6) Perjury (Deuteronomy 27:25)
(7) Stealing (Zechariah 5:1-4)
(8) Stinginess towards God (Malachi 3:9)
(9) Perverting gospel (Galatians 1:8&9)
(10) Depending on the flesh (Jeremiah 17:5)
(11) Anti-Semitism (Genesis 12:3, Genesis 28:3&14)
SOURCE OF CURSES:
1. God Himself God blesses and curses (Exodus 20:3&5) Breaking the first two commandments:
(a) To have no other Gods
(b) Idolatry
Our God is a jealous God
2. All occult practices Making occultism your God, eg a fortune teller. It is the power behind the fortune teller that matters. In four generations we can have upwards of 30 ancestors.
3. Men who speak on behalf of God
(a) Joshua 6:26, ie Joshua said, "Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds the city Jericho, he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates." This was fulfilled in 1 Kings 16:34 nearly 500 years later when Hiel of Bethel built Jericho, he laid its foundation with Abriam, his first born, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates according to the Word of the Lord which he had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun. Thus curses are self-perpetuating.
(b) 2 Samuel 1:21 Statement by David:
"Oh mountains of Gilboa,
Let there be no dew, nor let there be rain upon you,
Nor fields of offerings.
For the shield of the mighty is cast away there!"
These were the fields of Gilboa upon which Saul and Jonathan had died and David was cursing them. Nearly 3,000 years later this same curse was upon this land and the Jewish people had great difficulty a few years ago in trying to get trees to grow on it.
(c) 2 Kings 5 (Naaman) verse 27, cursed his servant with leprosy forever.
4. God's servants can do this today eg Jesus cursed the fig tree and said, "You can do this also."
5. Persons with relational authority eg husband over wife, parents over children. Words spoken have supernatural powers. The blessing of the father is important.
(a) Genesis 31 - Jacob and Rachel: Rachel had stolen her father's gods. Jacob did not know this and he said to her father, Laban: "`With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you.' For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them." (Genesis 31:32) ie, he was in effect saying that she should die, although, of course, he did not know she had stolen them and that she would feign sickness to avoid being discovered. She later died in childbirth.
(b) Examples where husband curses his wife or parents curse their children, eg a husband says to his wife, "You cannot cook", or the following statements are made in respect of other people including children:
"You are no good"
"You are useless"
"You are a failure"
"You will never be any good"
"You are hopeless"
"You will never achieve anything"
"You are ugly"
"You are a bad person"
"You are always a liar"
"It's in the family and you are sure to get it" etc etc.
6. Self-imposed curses which become like inner vows. Examples:
"I'll never be any good"
"I'll never forgive myself"
"God doesn't love me"
"I'll never speak to ..... again"
"I hate myself"
"No-one loves me"
"I want to die, I'm better off dead"
Examples from Scripture:
(a) Genesis 27:13 Rebekah said:
"Let your curse be on me"
and in verse 46 she said:
"I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth;
...what good will my life be to me?"
She brought a curse on herself.
(b) Matthew 27:24&25, the Jews said, "Let His blood be on us and our descendants".
(c) Peter denied the Lord three times
7. Curses brought on by unscriptural covenants:
Exodus 23:32: "You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." We are to make no covenant with those who are not committed as Christians. Freemasonry is an example of that with self-imposed curses, eg the 32nd degree
2 Corinthians 6:14-17: "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Therefore "Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."
8. Curses put on by the servants of Satan eg witch doctors, medicine men, tohungas etc.
Example: Numbers 22:4&6. Note this was a request by Moab to Balam to pronounce curses on Israel. It was a matter of their gods versus the true God. When people fought one another in the old days, they regarded it as a fight between their gods and the other gods, eg David and Goliath.
1 Samuel 17:43: " So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods."
Other reasons for curses:
1. Objects in homes (Deuteronomy 7:26) We are to have no abominable thing our home. This can cause children to be disturbed.
2. Soul ties These are soul ties which are contrary to God's purposes. Eg, in adultery, fornication (especially past sexual relationships). Ungodly soul ties can bring spiritual sickness. 1 Corinthians 6:18: "Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."
Examples of wrongful sex are as follows:
Pre-marital sex Perverted sex
Trial marriages Homosexuality
Lesbianism Pornography and fantasy
Bestiality Transvestism
Sexual abuse
Consequences:
(a) Establishment of soul ties and bondings in the flesh other than with God's intended partner.
(b) Guilt and condemnation.
(c) Demonisation
(d) Emotional disturbance
What is sexual abuse?
Uninvited caressing
Uninvited handling of the sexual areas
Anal handling
Masturbation in front of a person
Forced oral sex
Forced mutual masturbation
Forced intercourse and rape
Bestiality
Ritualistic sex
Incest
All of these cause fear, confusion, deception.
Long term problems:
(a) Confusion of one's identity, sexuality, physical position and emotional situation.
(b) Causes regression and repression of memories. Causes fantasy.
(c) Breaking of trust.
(d) Causes rebellion including (i) self rejection (ii) fear of rejection and (iii) anger.
(e) Causes guilt and fear.
(f) Causes inability to respond to love.
(g) Causes desire to die.
(h) Causes physical illness.
(i) Causes damage to the spirit.
Also domination by one person over another, eg where a father dominates or sexually abuses his daughter.
HOW TO BE RELEASED FROM THE CURSE:
1. We must recognise that there is a curse.
2. We must repent from all sin.
3. We must renounce in the name of Jesus Christ.
4. We must resist, eg James 4:7: "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you."
5. Use the Word of God. The Word of God is powerful and such Scriptures as the following can be used:
Psalm 118:17:
"I shall not die, but live,
And declare the works of the LORD."
We must realise that where there is a negative there should also be a positive. We recall that Peter denied the Lord three times but three times Jesus asked him, "Do you love me?" Peter had to revoke his earlier statement three times.
Where curses have arisen from the servants of Satan, we must recognise Luke 10:19: "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
SUMMARY
1. Confess our faith in Jesus Christ.
2. Commit ourselves to be obedient to God and to hear and do what He says.
3. Confess any known sins on our own part or of our ancestors.
4. Forgive others.
5. Renounce the occult on our own part or on the part of our ancestors.
6. Renounce all contact with heathen objects.
CONTINUING WITH THE LORD
1. Pray the Holy Spirit will fill every area of the person's life.
2. Give as much love and encouragement as is necessary and the person can receive.
3. Assure the person that where deliverance has taken place, they need not fear the enemy if they walk properly with God.
4. Encourage the person:
(a) To be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit.
(b) Read the Word of God daily.
(c) Wear the armour of God at all times.
(d) Be on their guard against the enemy's counter attacks.
(e) Be in good fellowship with other Christians.
(f) Walk continuously in forgiveness.
(g) Praise God in all circumstances.
(h) Keep the right company.
5. (a) Encourage people to be fully rehabilitated in their emotional responses
(b) To present themselves properly, eg in dress.
(c) To continue to re-learn right relationships with others.
(d) Avoid long-term dependency on others.
6. (a) Acknowledge the truth of Ephesians 1:6, ie we are accepted in the beloved.
(b) Break free from any feeling of being cursed or being an abuse victim.
7. Walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, ie in the fruit of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and temperance.
SUGGESTED PROCEDURE FOLLOWING SEMINAR ON DELIVERANCE AND CURSES
1. THE BLOOD SCRIPTURES
Ask everybody to stand and say the following Scriptures:
Psalm 107:2:
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy."
Ephesians 1:7:
"In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace."
THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS I AM REDEEMED OUT OF THE HAND OF THE DEVIL. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS ALL MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
1 John 1:7:
"But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."
THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, GOD'S SON, IS CLEANSING ME NOW AND CONTINUALLY FROM ALL SIN.
Romans 5:9:
"Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."
THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS I AM JUSTIFIED, MADE RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS THOUGH I HAD NEVER SINNED.
Hebrews 13:12:
"Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate."
THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS I AM SANCTIFIED, MADE HOLY, SET APART TO GOD.
1 Corinthians 6:19&20:
"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?" For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's"
MY BODY IS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
I AM REDEEMED, CLEANSED, SANCTIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. THEREFORE THE DEVIL HAS NO MORE PLACE IN ME AND NO MORE POWER OVER ME.
THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS I OVERCOME SATAN BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF MY TESTIMONY.
(Revelation 12:11)
2. OCCULT
(a). Go through the occult check list and get people to tick anything that they have been in relating to the occult.
(b) Ask those who have been in the occult to stand and ask others to stand with them in order to pray for them.
(c) Then say the following prayer in regard to the occult:
"Lord Jesus Christ, I confess you are the only Son of God, that You died on the Cross for my sins and rose again. In Your name I now renounce all contact with the occult and in particular I renounce the following involvements in the occult .................... I receive Your forgiveness. Thank You Heavenly Father for delivering me in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ."
(d) The counsellors (ie those standing with the candidates for deliverance) should command the demons to go.
3. SOULISH TIES
(a) Ask those to come forward who know that they still have soulish ties, that is sense there is still some tie between them and some other person with whom they have had a previous relationship. This includes cases where women feel under the domination of their mother or men feel under the domination of their mother.
(b) Get people to stand with them to pray for them.
(c) Pray the general prayer for deliverance from soul ties:
"Dear Heavenly Father, as I come to You in the name of Jesus Christ in the authority that is in that name, I break every soul tie affecting my body, soul or spirit, which has existed between myself and ................... (name the individual). In the name of Jesus Christ, I specifically speak to every demonic power that has taken advantage of that link and I tell it that it has no rights here and it must leave now without going into any other member of my family. Thank you Lord Jesus that through Your shed blood and through Your wonderful name, I am able to be absolutely free. Thank you Lord."
(d) Get the people who need deliverance to cut the soulish ties around the people. Show them how to do this with a motion across the front of the body and across the head.
(e) The counsellors should command the demons to go.
4. INNER VOWS
(a) Ask those who know that they have made inner vows for which they need release to come forward and ask others to stand with them to pray for them again.
(b) Say the prayer and get the people to renounce those inner vows and as they do expect deliverance.
"In the name of Jesus Christ, I specifically renounce all vows which I have made, knowing or unknowingly, against myself. I specifically renounce.....(name those vows which you have made and which you know to be wrong). I ask you to totally cleanse me and set me free from the results of those vows and I thank you for doing it."
(c) The counsellors should command the demons to go.
5. PRONOUNCEMENT AND CURSES
(a) Ask those who feel that they have had pronouncements or curses placed upon them to stand and get somebody to stand with them to pray for them.
(b) They should then say the following prayer:
"Heavenly Father, I come to You in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the authority of that name I specifically renounce all curses that have been placed upon my life through the words of those who have abused and damaged me. I forgive them and I ask You Lord to release me from their consequences. Thank You Father, in Jesus' name."
(c) The counsellors should command the demons to go.
6. FINAL PRAYER:
"Dear Heavenly Father, I come to You in the name of Jesus Christ. I thank You Lord for Your love for me. I confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Saviour and that He died and rose again from the dead.
I believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ I have been redeemed from the hand of the devil. I believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ all my sins have been forgiven. I believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ I have been sanctified, made holy to God. I believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ I have been justified just as if I had never sinned.
I now confess all my sins. I confess that in my own strength I have been unable to defeat the attacks of the enemy. I specifically renounce the following sexual sin .......... I confess I have been wrong. I renounce all pleasure connected with these sins. I now turn from my sin. I ask You, Father, to forgive me all that is past and give me discernment when the temptation arises and the strength to resist it. I ask You to heal my memories and to heal the hurts and forgive me in Jesus name.
I also specifically renounce any other sins such as rejection, unforgiveness. I especially forgive the following persons .................
I specifically honour my parents and I forgive them. I renounce my own sins and the sins of my ancestors in the name of Jesus Christ. I especially renounce all idolatry, witchcraft and everything of the occult and all the hidden things of darkness. I especially renounce all idolatry, witchcraft and everything of the occult and all hidden things of darkness. I believe that at the Cross of Jesus Christ I was delivered from every curse of the law. I call upon You, Lord Jesus, to set me free from every demonic power that has affected me.
Lord, I now renounce Satan and all his works. I hate his demons. I count them my enemies in the name of Jesus. I loose myself from every dark spirit, from every evil influence, from every satanic bondage, from any spirit in me that is not the Spirit of God. I command all such spirits to leave me now in the name of Jesus.
I call upon You, Lord Jesus, to set me free from every demonic power that has affected me. In the name of Jesus Christ, Risen Saviour, I command every demonic power that has lived within me or oppressed me to leave me now in the name of Jesus Christ. I declare that I am a child of the Living God and that Satan has no right to inhabit any part of me or to oppress me. I thank You Lord Jesus and I give You the glory. Amen."
REMEMBER.....
To be delivered:
(1) Confess the spirit in the name of Jesus.
(2) Renounce the spirit in the name of Jesus.
(3) Forgive others.
(4) Call on the name of the Lord Jesus.
With special acknowledgment and thanks to: Dr Derek Prince, Derek Prince Ministries, P.O. Box 300, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33302, USA and
Mr Peter Horrobin, Ellel Grange, Ellel, near Lancaster LA2 OHN, England.
www.doveministries.com
5. Books on the subject of healing of the soul and damaged emotions, etc.
John and Paula Sandford
1. Transformation of the Inner Man (part 1, advisible)
2. Healing the wounded Spirit (part 2, advisable)
3. The Renewal of the Mind
4. Waking the Slumbering Spirit
5. Healing Woman’s Emotions.
6. Choosing Forgiveness
7. Restoring the Christian Family
1. Umgestaltung des inneren Menschen (sehr empfehlenswert als erster Teil)
2. Heilung des verwundeten Geistes (sehr empfehlenswert als zweiter Teil)
3. Die Erneuerung der Gedanken
4. Weckt den Schlummernden Geist
5. Heilung für die Gefühle der Frau
6. Die Kraft der Vergebung
7. Wiederherstellung der Christlichen Familie
Agnes Sanford
1. The Healing Light,
1. Heilendes Licht, Edel Verlag
Leanne Payne
1. Healing Presence
2. Listening Prayer
3. The Broken Image
4. Crisis in Masculinity
5. ??
6. Restoring the Christian Soul through Prayer
1. Gods tegenwoordigheid geneest
2. Luisterend bidden
3. Het gebroken beeld
4. Crisis in mannelijkheid
5. Gods stem leren verstaan
6. Herstel van identiteit door genezend gebed
1. Heilende Gegenwart
2. Dich will ich Hören, Herr
3. Du kannst Heil werden
4. Krise der Männlichkeit
Valerie J. McIntyre
1. Sheep in Wolves Clothing, How unseen need destroys friendship and community and what to do about it
1. Schapen in wolfskleren, Hoe “overdracht” van onverwerkte emoties relaties kan beschadigen (Navigatorboeken)
David A. Seamands
Gideon, Hoornaar:
1. Genezing van beschadigde emoties
2. Genezing van pijnlijke herinneringen
3. Groeien naar volwassenheid
Scripture Press, USA:
1. Healing for damaged emotions
2. Healing of memories
3. Putting away childish things
Verlag der Francke-Buchhandlung, Marburg:
1. Heilung der Gefühle
2. Heilung der Erinnerungen
3. Befreit vom kindischen Wesen
Frank D. Hammond
1. Breek de boeien van afwijzing, Elia Stichting, 7710 AC Nieuwleusen
1. Overcoming rejection, The Children’s Bread Ministry, Plainview, USA
1. Von Gebundenheit zur Freiheit
Derek Prince
Derek Prince Ministries, USA:
1. God’s remedy for rejection
2. Fatherhood
3. Der Weg von Ablehnung zu Annahme und Vaterschaft, Internationaler Bibellehrdienst, Trostberg
Betty Tapscott
1. Innere Heilung
2. Wege zu einer geheiligten Sexualität, Projection J
Bruce Thompson
1. Walls of my heart
1. Muren van mijn hart
Christoph Häselbarth
Wie wir geheilt werden können; Gottfried Bernard; 3-934771-02-5
Mary Pytches
Set my people free
Selwyn Huhges
1. Depressiviteit, Gideon
1. Seven steps to overcome depression
Neil T. Anderson
1. Neues Leben – Neue Indentität
1. Victory over the darkness
2. Der die Ketten sprengt
2. The bondage breaker
Maureen Rank
Das Erbe der Väter, Heilung der Vater-Tochter-Beziehung
Rita Bennett
1. Innerlijke genezing voor jezelf en anderen
1. You can be emotionally free
Lisa Bevere
1. Een droom aan diggelen
1. Kissed the girls and made them cry
1. Transformation of the Inner Man (part 1, advisible)
2. Healing the wounded Spirit (part 2, advisable)
3. The Renewal of the Mind
4. Waking the Slumbering Spirit
5. Healing Woman’s Emotions.
6. Choosing Forgiveness
7. Restoring the Christian Family
1. Umgestaltung des inneren Menschen (sehr empfehlenswert als erster Teil)
2. Heilung des verwundeten Geistes (sehr empfehlenswert als zweiter Teil)
3. Die Erneuerung der Gedanken
4. Weckt den Schlummernden Geist
5. Heilung für die Gefühle der Frau
6. Die Kraft der Vergebung
7. Wiederherstellung der Christlichen Familie
Agnes Sanford
1. The Healing Light,
1. Heilendes Licht, Edel Verlag
Leanne Payne
1. Healing Presence
2. Listening Prayer
3. The Broken Image
4. Crisis in Masculinity
5. ??
6. Restoring the Christian Soul through Prayer
1. Gods tegenwoordigheid geneest
2. Luisterend bidden
3. Het gebroken beeld
4. Crisis in mannelijkheid
5. Gods stem leren verstaan
6. Herstel van identiteit door genezend gebed
1. Heilende Gegenwart
2. Dich will ich Hören, Herr
3. Du kannst Heil werden
4. Krise der Männlichkeit
Valerie J. McIntyre
1. Sheep in Wolves Clothing, How unseen need destroys friendship and community and what to do about it
1. Schapen in wolfskleren, Hoe “overdracht” van onverwerkte emoties relaties kan beschadigen (Navigatorboeken)
David A. Seamands
Gideon, Hoornaar:
1. Genezing van beschadigde emoties
2. Genezing van pijnlijke herinneringen
3. Groeien naar volwassenheid
Scripture Press, USA:
1. Healing for damaged emotions
2. Healing of memories
3. Putting away childish things
Verlag der Francke-Buchhandlung, Marburg:
1. Heilung der Gefühle
2. Heilung der Erinnerungen
3. Befreit vom kindischen Wesen
Frank D. Hammond
1. Breek de boeien van afwijzing, Elia Stichting, 7710 AC Nieuwleusen
1. Overcoming rejection, The Children’s Bread Ministry, Plainview, USA
1. Von Gebundenheit zur Freiheit
Derek Prince
Derek Prince Ministries, USA:
1. God’s remedy for rejection
2. Fatherhood
3. Der Weg von Ablehnung zu Annahme und Vaterschaft, Internationaler Bibellehrdienst, Trostberg
Betty Tapscott
1. Innere Heilung
2. Wege zu einer geheiligten Sexualität, Projection J
Bruce Thompson
1. Walls of my heart
1. Muren van mijn hart
Christoph Häselbarth
Wie wir geheilt werden können; Gottfried Bernard; 3-934771-02-5
Mary Pytches
Set my people free
Selwyn Huhges
1. Depressiviteit, Gideon
1. Seven steps to overcome depression
Neil T. Anderson
1. Neues Leben – Neue Indentität
1. Victory over the darkness
2. Der die Ketten sprengt
2. The bondage breaker
Maureen Rank
Das Erbe der Väter, Heilung der Vater-Tochter-Beziehung
Rita Bennett
1. Innerlijke genezing voor jezelf en anderen
1. You can be emotionally free
Lisa Bevere
1. Een droom aan diggelen
1. Kissed the girls and made them cry
4. Spiritual growth, Solutions to Blockades
Introduction
This lesson is about victorious Christian living. It is based on the Bible and addresses some problems that hinder our growth as Christians. Knowledge is vital to Christian growth. I trust that the answers I have provided to the questions raised in this lesson, will be helpful to you and others you will like to help. May the Holy Spirit give you insight as you go prayerfully through the lesson. There are some questions that apply to the situation in Cameroon.
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Question: What are the main blockades to spiritual growth for a Christian?
Answer:The main blockade to spiritual growth for me as a Christian is sin [i] and
Emotional damage
(Emotional damage has for a great deal also to do with sin, especially the sin of unforgiveness. This sin of unforgiveness brings and keeps us in bondage of grief, resentment, bitterness and hatred. On the other hand by grief, resentment, bitterness and hatred we bind the offender in the spiritual realm)
Question: On what aspects of my life does spiritual growth has its effect?
Answer: Spiritual growth has its effect on my Spirit, Soul and Body [ii]
SIN
Question: What is sin?
Answer:Sin is everything that does not agree with the truth and principles of the Word of God! [iii].
Every sin in the end is in fact your contract with Satan that gives Satan the legal rights to attack you.
Question: What do you need to be able to realize the topic of sin?
Answer: To realize the topic of sin we need the Fear of the Lord [iv] (not the fear of the Law, legalism), so that the Holy Spirit may convince me of my sins [v]Question: Whose sins have their impact on my life?
Answer:Sins I did and still do myself [vi]
Sins my (fore) fathers did and still do [vii]
Sins of other people, they did and still do against me, Christians and non-Christians, like family (neglectfulness, negligence, carelessness, misuse, rejection, manipulation, domination, control, rape, etc.)
Sins because of fallen mankind and creation (diseases like malaria?) [viii]
Question: Can sin be inherited?
Answer: We are not guilty because of the sins of our forefathers [ix] and our parents, but we are vulnerable to those sins [x]. However, mind that there are implications or effects for the next generations. You should differentiate between 1) the punishment for the one that sinned and 2) the implications of those sins for next generations.Question: In what way can generational sins (like diseases, habits, customs and traditions) be inherited?
Answer:Genetically predisposition (diseases)
Environmentally predisposition (pornographic literature)
Spiritually predisposition (prostitution, abuse, divorce, drunkenness) [xi]
Question: What are biblical examples of sins of the forefathers that have their implications on the generations thereafter?
Answer:Abraham. To spare his life he lied twice that Sarah was his sister [xii]. Realize how Isaak and Jacob in a lot of affairs were lying or were betrayed.
King David. His sun died [xiii] and adultery by Amnon [xiv] and Absalom [xv] and family murder went on [xvi]. David was forgiven a curse came upon the descendants of David as foretold [xvii]
King Josiah [xviii]. God punished the Israelites because they had forsaken the Lord and worshipped the idols under the kings Manasseh and his son Amon [xix].
Question: What other biblical principle can be seen in the history of David?
Answer: Implications of not obeying the commandment: Honour your father and your mother [xx]. A curse automatically can come upon you [xxi]. Absalom raped a wife from his father David and fought against him to try to take the kingship from him [xxii]. Absalom was murdered himself at the end.
Question: What do you have to do when you have sinned?
Answer: I must:Question: For which type of sins, God holds me responsible and must I repent and ask forgiveness?
Answer: God holds me responsible, I must repent and ask forgiveness for:Question: Who more than I myself can be held responsible by God for a sin done unaware, unconsciously, unintentionally or out of ignorance?
Answer:Question: What can be a sin?
Answer: Witchcraft [xxxvii] and related detestable occult practices [xxxviii]Question: What does God say about detestable occult practices as witchcraft?
Answer: You are not allowed to do detestable practices as witchcraft. The LORD your God has not permitted you to do so [xxxix]Question: Can I, as a Christian, visit a traditional doctor?
Answer: The power of the traditional doctor does not originate from the God of Abraham and his Son Jesus. The traditional doctor is an example of an occult medium [xl]. The traditional doctor takes his power from an occult source, witchcraft. And as I am not allowed to take power from witchcraft, I shall not go to a traditional doctor [xli]. I am no longer protected because I sin. Every sin gives Satan legal rights to attack me. I defile myself and shall surely come under demonic power [xlii]. The Blood of Jesus no longer protects me on this sinful aspect of my life.Question: But I know somebody that was healed by visiting a traditional doctor (“traditional doctor” is in Cameroon the name for a witchcraft doctor).
Answer: Satan can heal. He is the ape of God. It is not the result that matters, but the source of the power that wrought the healing is wrong and has defiled you [xliii]. It is the job of satan to bind you to him and his practices. He also uses the method of healing for that purpose.Question: I have visited a traditional doctor, what shall I do?
Answer: You have defiled yourself, by visiting a traditional doctor (“traditional doctor” is in Cameroon the name for a witchcraft doctor). It is sin according to the word of God to visit somebody who practices divination [xliv]. Your Godly protection is in danger. Repent, ask forgiveness [xlv] and let you be set free from demonic influence by a qualified counselor.Question: Can I visit a funeral and may I speak or pray to the dead person? May I later pray on the graves?
Answer: Many funerals have occult practices and ceremonies. Food can be provided that has been consecrated to the devil and where the power of witchcraft is used. You defile yourself by visiting that funeral. On funerals is often prayed and spoken to the death person [xlvi]. You are not allowed to speak and communicate with dead people [xlvii]. By doing this you try to contact demonic spirits and may come under their influence. God therefore also forbids praying to dead people on graves. You defile yourself.Question: Can I visit my clan every year for a traditional meeting?
Answer: If God sends me for a reason, I must go. On the other hand I must question what a Christian has in common with a non-Christian [xlviii]? If I will be free I must separate from the family clan. If God has not given me an order to visit the clan meeting I should not visit it. What can I share? What do I share? Is it spiritual healthy what I would share? Does a visit bring me nearer to Christ? Does it give me a better understanding of the character of God? If not, I will defile myself. Ask yourself such questions.Question: Is it dangerous to have objects in my home, like souvenirs, certain non-Christian books or images?
Answer: If you have detestable objects in your house you are in danger. You and your house can come under a curse or other demonic influence [xlix]Question: What shall I do when I have detestable objects in my home?
Answer: You shall not have detestable objects in your home. You must confess your sins and destroy the objects [l]Question: Do the sins of my forefathers do have impact on my life?
Answer: God will punish the children for the sins of the fathers [li]Question: How can I be set free from the guilt because of the wickedness, sins and (generational) curses of my (fore) fathers?
Answer: I can be set free from the guilt because of the sins and curses of my (fore) fathers by repenting and confessing in their place. Ask God forgiveness for the wickedness and sins of your forefathers in their place [lii]. For the next step Jesus gives you supernatural power to break the contracts with satan and be set free from diseases, curses, unclean spirits and demonic influence working through the generations. Ask a counselor to help you through this process.Question: How shall I relate to my family and friends if they are unbelievers?
Answer: If my family and friends are unbelievers I must ask God for wisdom how to handle. I some cases I must separate [liii] from them if their influence on me is not healthy for my spiritual growth. The word of God says that I must separate [liv] and purify myself from everything that contaminates my body and my spirit [lv].Question: How can I let people know that I am a follower of Jesus Christ?
Answer: People can see that I am a Christian if we love one another [lvi].
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Question: How does emotional damage and hurts influence me?
Answer: I can find the consequences of emotional damage and hurts in my:Spiritual system
Mind system and intellectual functioning
Social behavior patterns
Emotional behavior patterns and
Physical functions.
(Categories to be extended with examples)
Question: Can emotional damage have consequences for my health?
Answer: Emotional damage will at the end have consequences for my health and physical system. We are spirit, soul and body. These functions are related to each other. We may become ill and have diseases [lvii].
Question: What can be symptoms of emotional damage?
Answer: Symptoms of emotional damage are fear, anger, conflict, confusion, anxiety, guilt, remorse, depression, insecurity, rejection, low self esteem, self condemnation, neurotic behaviour, protective structures, physical problems, etc.
HEALING OF DAMAGED EMOTIONS AND HURTS
Introduction:
God does wants to heal you after 1) spirit, 2) soul and 3) body, not only after spirit.
Key number one: Jesus went on the cross for your emotional damage and not only for your sins [lviii]. He was rejected, despised, spiritually and physically ill treated and died for your burden and pain! He already suffered for you, so that you no longer have to carry your emotional burdens yourself.
Key number two: Forgiving [lix] is the solution [lx] for being healed of your emotional hurts and damage and the painful thoughts that come with those hurts. Healing of emotions and hurts in fact is based on repenting from the sins of unforgiveness and hatred.
Bitterness, grief and resentment can get hold on you and become in a later stadium harshness and hate.
Unforgiveness keeps you in bondage with the people and circumstances that hurt you in the past
Unforgiveness or not to forgive is sin [lxi].
God can not forgive you, if you do not forgive men [lxii].
The result of the sins from people and your family against you, may be that you produce new sins against:
yourself (like inner vows) and
the people that sinned against you.
These sins from people and your family against you have their effects on your:
Spiritual system
Mind system and intellectual functioning
Social behavior patterns
Emotional behavior patterns and
Physical functions as a living creature made after the image of God.
The pains did in an unhealthy way adapt you and bent down to people and circumstances.
It takes time to be healed of the effects of the hurts on your spirit, soul and body.
God wants to change you in the person he has made after his image.
There is much power in confessing your sins [lxiii], repenting, forgiving [lxiv] and blessing [lxv]
Forgiving is a process and starts with an act of your will from out of your soul.
The process of forgiving should go on till it comes from out of your heart on a spiritual level [lxvi].
The power of God will be set free due to the work of Jesus on the Cross for you [lxvii].
Healing of emotions comes when you forgive the persons that have sinned against you and confess your sins out of your (sinful) reactions to others who sinned against you.
If possible and appropriate make your excuses or ask forgiveness to the people to whom you reacted sinful.
Healing of emotions is also healing of relationships [lxviii].
Clean your heart from bitterness, grief, resentment, harshness and hate, called the works of the flesh [lxix], so that you are no longer bound to people and circumstances, that hurt you. If you do not your soul will be poisoned and at the end your body will be ill [lxx]. By this cleansing you also give free in the spiritual world the people that you have bound to you because of your sin of unforgiveness.
Solutions:
Forgive [lxxi] the offender for his sin done to you.
Bless the perpetrator [lxxii].
Repent and ask God forgiveness for your sinful reaction against the offender (perpetrator) [lxxiii].
If it is possible and appropriate make your excuses to the offender and ask forgiveness for your sinful reactions against him or her [lxxiv].
Try to find and name your hurts and pains and ask Jesus to take them from you [lxxv].
Start to seek and find out your bad and non-biblical thinking and speaking patterns due to your hurts.
Name them as soon as they come up.
Use the power that is in the word of God and learn the practice of proclamation.
Come against 1) spiritual attacks, 2) bad thinking and 3) non-biblical speaking patterns and reject them in Jesus name.
Control your mind [lxxvi] and place or proclaim the positive thinking or speaking patterns instead of the negative patterns.
Proclaim against the powers of darkness that try to keep hold of your mind [lxxvii].
God and his Son will do the healing work and the Holy Ghost will help remember you.
INSTRUCTIONS
Take time and ask the Holy Spirit to help you to remember all the issues below.
Make a list of the sins that you know your forefathers, included your father and mother did (occult practices, etc.)
Make a list of the good things that you inherited and received from your forefathers or from your father and mother.
Make list of the sins that you have done, also against people, in
speech
doing and
thoughts
Make a list of the people and circumstances that have hurt you in any way
Add to the list your feelings against the people just mentioned that have hurt you. Can you love and bless them or do you have grief against them or do you even hate them?
PRAYERS
(you may change the prayers according to your situation)
Sin of the (fore)fathers
Father in heaven. I come before your throne. I acknowledge that my forefathers, included my father and mother have sinned against you because of their wickedness and their guilt [lxxviii]. I acknowledge that those sins have consequences on my life. I want to be free of the implications of those sins on me. I therefore, in their place, confess the sins of my forefathers [lxxix], included my father and mother. I confess in their place the sins that I know: ……… (read them from your list and name them loud). I also confess the sins that you know but I do not know. I ask forgiveness in their place for those sins. I thank you that you will forgive them because your word says: If we confess our sins, you are faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness and the blood of Jesus, your Son, cleanses me from all sin.
And now in the authority and in the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth I break the power of Satan over me as a result of the sins of my forefathers included my father and mother that has come upon my me and my family. I cut myself off from the sinful family line and set myself free in the name of Jesus. I also break the power of every curse that has come upon my life and that of my family in Jesus name. I am free in Jesus name. I thank you for the freedom Lord Jesus. Father restore and strengthen me after spirit, soul and body. Fill me with you Holy Spirit and bless me and my family. Amen.
Good things that are inherited and received from forefathers and/or parents
Father, I thank you in Jesus name for the following good things that I inherited and received from my forefathers and from my father and mother: ……….. (look on your list and say them by name). Amen.
My own sins
Father, I come before your throne. I confess that I have sinned in speech, deeds and thoughts. I regret what I have done. I also grieved you and your Holy Spirit with those acts. I repent and ask for forgiveness for the following sins that I did consciously and unconsciously, knowingly and unknowingly: ………. (read them from your list and name them loud).
Father, I thank you for the forgiveness according to your word that says that If we confess our sins, you are faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness and the blood of Jesus, your Son, cleanses me from all sin. Lord Jesus I thank you that you went on the cross and shed your blood for me and took the guilt for my sins upon you, so that I may know that I am free. Father, I thank for that in Jesus name. Father restore and strengthen me after spirit, soul and body. Fill me with you Holy Spirit and bless me and my family. Amen.
BIBLE REFERENCES
Advice: Read all the following verses in their context!
i[ ] Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things. No-one calls for justice; no-one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil. They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched. Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways. The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no-one who walks in them will know peace. So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. (Isaiah 59:1-9 NIV)
ii[ ] May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:23 NIV)
iii[ ] If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8 NIV)
iv[ ] = And he said to man, The fear of the Lord that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.’ (Job 28:28 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring for ever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. (Psalms 19:9 NIV)
= Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. (Psalms 34:11 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. (Palms 111:10 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. (Proverbs 1:7 NIV)
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2:5 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD adds length to life, but the years of the wicked are cut short. (Proverbs 10:27 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. (Proverbs 14:27 NIV)
= Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great wealth with turmoil. (Proverbs 15:16 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honour. (Proverbs 15:33 NIV)
= Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil. (Proverbs 16:6 NIV)
= The fear of the LORD leads to life: Then one rests content, untouched by trouble. (Proverbs 19:23 NIV)
= Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honour and life. (Proverbs 22:4 NIV)
= Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD. (Proverbs 23:17 NIV)
[ ] Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV)
vi[ ] All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. "Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.” (Daniel 9:11 NIV)
vii[ ] = You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, (Exodus 20:4-5 NIV)
= Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers’ sins they will waste away. (Leviticus 26:39 NIV)
= You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the fathers’ sins into the laps of their children after them. O great and powerful God, whose name is the LORD Almighty, (Jeremiah 32:18 NIV)
= Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. (Lamentations 5:7 NIV)
viii[ ] So the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. To the woman he said, I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. To Adam he said, Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. (Genesis 3:14-19 NIV)
ix[ ] =Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.” (Deuteronomy 24:16 NIV)
= Instead, everyone will die for his own sin; whoever eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.” (Jeremiah 31:30 NIV)
= For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son—both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4 NIV)
= The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.” (Ezekiel 18:20 NIV)
x[ ] Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the fathers’ sins into the laps of their children after them. O great and powerful God, whose name is the LORD Almighty, (Jeremiah 32:17-18 NIV)
xi[ ] … They consult a wooden idol and are answered by a stick of wood. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God. They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar and terebinth, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. (Hosea 4:12-13 NIV)
xii[ ] = Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you. (Genesis 12:13 NIV)
= and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, She is my sister. Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her. (Genesis 20:2 NIV)
xiii[ ] But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die. (2 Samuel 12:14 NIV)
xiv[ ] In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. (2 Samuel 13:1 NIV)
xv[ ] =This is what the LORD says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel. (2 Samuel 12:11-12 NIV)
= So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he lay with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. (2 Samuel 16:22 NIV)
xvi[ ] Absalom ordered his men, Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Have not I given you this order? Be strong and brave. (2 Samuel 13:28 NIV)
xvii[ ] Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ (2 Samuel 12:10 NIV)
xviii[ ] Therefore I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place. So they took her answer back to the king. (2 Kings 22:20 NIV)
xix[ ] Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched. (2 Kings 22:17 NIV)
xx[ ] = Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12 NIV)
= Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. (Deuteronomy 5:16 NIV)
= Honour your father and mother —which is the first commandment with a promise— that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. (Ephesians 6:2-3 NIV)
= Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (Colossians 3:20 NIV)
xxi[ ] = Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. (Exodus 21:17 NIV)
= Cursed is the man who dishonours his father or his mother. Then all the people shall say, Amen! (Deuteronomy 27:16 NIV)
= Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:3 NIV)
= Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:32 NIV)
= If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NIV)
= Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. (Proverbs 23:22 NIV)
= For God said, ‘Honour your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ (Matthew 15:4 NIV)
xxii[ ] Absalom behaved in this way towards all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the men of Israel. (2 Samuel 15:6 NIV)
= Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron.’ (2 Samuel 15:10 NIV)
xxiii[ ] = … If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; … (Jeremiah 15:19 NIV)
= Therefore say to the house of Israel, This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices! (Ezekiel 14:6 NIV)
= For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live! (Ezekiel 18:32 NIV)
= From that time on Jesus began to preach, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near. (Matthew 4:17 NIV)
= I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. (Luke 13:3 NIV)\
= Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, (Acts 3:19 NIV)
= Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. (Acts 8:22 NIV)
= Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. (Revelation 2:5 NIV)
xxiv[ ] = When anyone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what way he has sinned (Leviticus 5:5 NIV)
= Say to the Israelites: ‘When a man or woman wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD, that person is guilty and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution for his wrong, add one fifth to it and give it all to the person he has wronged. (Numbers 5:6-7 NIV)
= When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray towards this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance. (1 Kings 8:35-36 NIV)
= Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD —and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah (Psalms 32:5 NIV)
= I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. (Psalms 38:18 NIV)
= Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (James 5:16 NIV)
= If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 NIV)
= If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8 NIV)
= But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:7 NIV)
xxv[ ] 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. (Isaiah 53:5 NIV)
xxvi[ ] = … An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. For in his own eyes he flatters himself too much to detect or hate his sin. (Psalms 36:1-2 NIV)
= Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. (Romans 12:9 NIV)
xxvii[ ] No-one, sir, she said. Then neither do I condemn you, Jesus declared. Go now and leave your life of sin. (John 8:11 NIV)
xxviii[ ] = I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy…. (Leviticus 11:44 NIV)
=Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 20:7 NIV)
= Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no-one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14 NIV)
= But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; (1 Peter 1:15 NIV)
= for it is written: Be holy, because I am holy. (1 Peter 1:16 NIV)
= Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy. (Revelation 22:11 NIV)
xxix[ ] = May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 NIV)
= So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. (Galatians 5:16-26 NIV)
xxx[ ] The man who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NIV)
xxxi[ ] =Or if a person thoughtlessly takes an oath to do anything, whether good or evil—in any matter one might carelessly swear about—even though he is unaware of it, in any case when he learns of it he will be guilty. (Leviticus 5:4 NIV)
= The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional and they have brought to the LORD for their wrong an offering made by fire and a sin offering. (Numbers 15:25 NIV)
= The priest is to make atonement before the LORD for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven. (Numbers 15:28 NIV)
[ ] The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar and on the gateposts of the inner court. You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple. (Ezekiel 45:19-20 NIV)
xxxiii[ ] If a person sins because he does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something he has seen or learned about, he will be held responsible. (Leviticus 5:1 NIV). When anyone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what way he has sinned (Leviticus 5:5 NIV)
xxxiv[ ] Say to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands -. If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed. (Leviticus 4:2-3 NIV)
xxxv[ ] If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, they are guilty. (Leviticus 4:13 NIV)
xxxvi[ ] When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, he is guilty. (Leviticus 4:22 NIV)
xxxvii[ ] …. They consult a wooden idol and are answered by a stick of wood. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God. (Hosea 4:12 NIV)
xxxviii[ ] The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21 NIV)
xxxix[ ] = Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:31 NIV)
= I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him off from his people. (Leviticus 20:6 NIV)
= When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no-one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practises divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practise sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. (Deuteronomy 18:9-14 NIV)
= He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practised sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger. (2 Kings 21:6 NIV)
xl[ ] A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’ (Leviticus 20:27 NIV)
xli[ ] Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:31 NIV)
xlii[ ] Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD, and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not enquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse. (1 Chronicles 10:13-14 NIV)
xliii[ ] This is what the LORD says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense, (Isaiah 44:24-25 NIV)
xliv[ ] He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practised sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger. (2 Kings 21:6 NIV)
xlv[ ] Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD, and even consulted a medium for guidance, (1 Chronicles 10:13 NIV)
xlvi[ ] = Let no-one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practises divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. (Deuteronomy 18:10-11 NIV)
=When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people enquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? (Isaiah 8:19 NIV)
xlvii[ ] The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists. (Isaiah 19:3 NIV)
xlviii[ ] Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 NIV)
xlix[ ] Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction. (Deuteronomy 7:26 NIV)
l[ ] Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. A number who had practised sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. (Acts 19:18-19 NIV)
li[ ] = I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments. (Deuteronomy 5:6-10 NIV)
= The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.’ (Numbers 14:18 NIV)
lii[ ] = Then I said: O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s house, have committed against you. (Nehemiah 1:5-6 NIV)
= Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers. (Nehemiah 9:2 NIV)
= Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers’ sins they will waste away. ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers—their treachery against me and their hostility towards me, which made me hostile towards them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. (Leviticus 26:39-42 NIV)
= let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s house, have committed against you. (Nehemiah 1:6 NIV)
= Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers. (Nehemiah 9:2 NIV)
= We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly. (Psalms 106:6 NIV)
= O LORD, we and our kings, our princes and our fathers are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. (Daniel 9:8 NIV)
liii[ ] Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn "‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:34-38 NIV)
liv[ ] If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26 NIV)
lv[ ] Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 NIV)
lvi[ ] A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (John 13:34-35 NIV)
lvii[ ] When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. (Psalms 32:3 NIV)
lviii[ ] He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 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. 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. 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. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. (Isaiah 53:2-9 NIV)
lix[ ] who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, (Psalms 103:3 NIV)
lx[ ] = For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. (Matthew 6:14-15 NIV)
= Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:23-24 NIV)
lxi[ ] If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8 NIV)
lxii[ ] For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. (Matthew 6:14-15 NIV)
lxiii
[ ] = If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 NIV)
= If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8 NIV)
lxiv[ ] Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation. (Luke 11:4 NIV)
lxv[ ] = If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 NIV)
= Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. (Romans 12:14 NIV)
lxvi[ ] Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. (2 Corinthians 7:10-11 NIV)
lxvii[ ] But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:7 NIV)
lxviii[ ] After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10 NIV)
lxix[ ] The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21 NIV)
lxx[ ] A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones (=emotions). (Proverbs 14:30 NIV)
lxxi[ ] And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. (Mark 11:25-26 NIV)
In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart. (Matthew 18: (start 21) 34-35 NIV)
lxxii[ ] = bless those who curse you, pray for those who ill-treat you. (Luke 6:28 NIV)
= Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. (Romans 12:14 NIV)
= … When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; (1 Corinthians 4:12 NIV)
lxxiii[ ] who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, (Psalms 103:3 NIV)
lxxiv[ ] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 NIV)
lxxv[ ] Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. (Isaiah 53:4 NIV)
lxxvi[ ] For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV)
lxxvii[ ] Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7 NIV)
lxxviii[ ] O LORD, we acknowledge our wickedness and the guilt of our fathers; we have indeed sinned against you. (Jeremiah 14:20 NIV)
lxxix[ ] Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers. (Nehemiah 9:2 NIV)
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