NO CURSE

• DAY 279
• FEAR FILE: BALAK AND BALAAM
• SCRIPTURES: NUMBERS 23

“For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob And of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’

NUMBERS 23:23

Most people in Nigeria and other countries in Africa have a condition I like to call the village people syndrome. It is the belief that there is a witch in the village that is behind the family’s misfortunes. Or that some witch is monitoring their life and hindering their progress. This ideology has been circulated so much in our homes, schools, and even on social media that we are afraid to go home or try anything. It is such a trending topic.

Not to discredit the fact there are witches everywhere and strange things happen that are unarguably the works of darkness. However, for you, a son of the kingdom and a joint heir with Christ, to be afraid of village people, must shock the angels to witness. If you are in Christ, should it be something that scares you? Is the power of God that raised Jesus from the dead not able to stop it?

A Not So Special People

Consider the events in our text today (I suggest you read the whole chapter), see this promise of God to people who didn’t even have the covenant in Jesus that we have today. They were still living under the curse of the law and working with bulls and goats to be atoned. Yet, God said, you cannot curse them because I have blessed them.

Balaam was a well respected prophet. His reputation is found in found in Numbers 22:6. The king said, “for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” His track record was impeccable until he came near God’s elect. He opened his mouth and blessing fell out.

Then the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab. And he took up his oracle and said: “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!’ “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced? For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him; There! A people dwelling alone, Not reckoning itself among the nations. Numbers 23:5-9

The interesting thing is that in Chapter 21 God was so displeased with them for complaining against Him AGAIN, that he sent fiery serpents to them. These people God was protecting have a habit of turning on God at the slightest provocation, these were the people He was adamantly defending and threatening people to protect. As far as I am concerned that curse should get to them, even if for a moment, to teach them a lesson. But God is not man, if his people failed, he will deal with them Himself.

In Christ

Now you are in Christ, you are God’s special own person. Bought with a price, cleansed by the blood, filled with the Holy Ghost. How can your village people get you? How can any socery, curse, or enchantment prosper? Even when the weapons form, it will not prosper. And you have to be confident about it within yourself. When the light of that revelation hits you, you will not be afraid. The truth you know that will set you free.

There is nothing that can come against you and succeed. But the thing is. You have to come into this revelation and know this for yourself and be convinced about this within your spirit and speak it over yourself when you are threatened by village people.

Say It Now

I have been translated from darkness into the kingdom of light. Therefore, whatever comes from darkness does not have any association or access to me. Because the light of God in me overwhelms and destroys it. Nothing and no one can curse me whom God has blessed. No person, no power, no position, no principality, no divination, nothing can curse me and my house. In Jesus name. 

Shalom