HOW TO DETECT AND DESTROY CURSES | Dealing With Hidden Curses by Dr. D.K Olukoya

HOW TO DETECT AND DESTROY CURSES

So much has been said concerning the subject of curses. But so little has been said or written on how to detect and destroy them.

Curses must be detected or recognized before they can be destroyed. Ignorance in this area will lead to serious bondage.

THE TRUTH

The Bible has rightly stated in John 8:32:

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The pathway to freedom is the pathway of truth. Truth liberates while ignorance enslaves.

The devil does not want you to know anything about curses. He uses the comer of darkness and ignorance to afflict his victims. However, God’s weapon for setting the captives free resides in the truth.

You need to obtain necessary knowledge that will sufficiently equip you to understand the workings of curses. When you know the truth, you stand on a good platform to destroy the works of the devil.

Curses are one of the most formidable weapons used by the enemy. Once curses have been programmed against your life, things would fall apart and the centre would no longer hold. Your good intentions, dreams and aspirations will be contaminated by the evil effects of satanic curses.

The devil has a manufacturing plant where he programmes destructive curses into people’s lives. As soon as a curse has been put in place victims would battle all kinds of mysterious problems until they breathe their last.

Curses are indeed terrible. They throw evil spanners into the works and make life unbearable.

The devil would do everything he can in order to programme curses into the lives of men and

women. Since he knows that once this is done, his victims are finished.

The devil hates to see anyone experience freedom from curses. More so he hates ministers of God who devote their time and energy to setting the cursed free. No wonder those who know the secret of experiencing freedom from curses are very few.

Majority live with their curses for life. These victims live with the terrible effects of personal and ancestral curses.

To have a book that exposes the satanic strategy in the area of curses is indeed life’s greatest privilege. Therefore you must make the best use of this golden opportunity. You must apply, practically, all the spiritual tactics God is going to give you in order to rid your life of every known and unknown curses.

WHAT CURSES ARE

Again, as you read in this book, what are curses?

Simply put, a curse is the opposite of blessing. For further clarification it also means the following.

1. Uttering an evil wish against someone or something.

• Calling for injury or mischief to fall upon a person, a thing or a place.

• Binding someone, a thing, or a place with a spell.

• It can be an evil pronouncement against a person, a place or a thing.

• Curses are vehicles of evil supernatural power. This can continue from generation to generation.

• A curse represents anything that is opposed to blessing.

• A curse is a kind of fence built to protect demons and give them legal grounds to operate.

With these definitions, we discover that curses abound in Africa.

Curses are as common as the housefly among the black race. We drink curses like water. The situation is so bad that some parents have formed the habit of waking up their children with curses every morning. The only response among a group of people when they get angry is a curse.

Curses have become a common past time in Africa. Husbands curse their wives while wives issue curses on their husbands without batting an eye. School teachers invoke curses upon pupils and students. Students also curse their teachers.

Therefore, curses are rife in homes, churches, market places, offices, bus-stops, business centres, social gatherings and other places where activities are carried out.

This curse may appear trivial yet we must not lose out the sight of the fact that there are various types of satanic agents behind them. These agents are charged with the responsibility of enforcing the curses. Some of them have been assigned the responsibility of renewing the problem associated with the curses.

CARRIERS OF BLESSINGS AND CURSES

To understand the weight of the problems associated with curses, let us examine some relevant scriptures.

Romans 10:15: And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

To understand what curses mean, we must examine things that are associated with blessing.

The reference to the beautiful feet of the preacher of the gospel speaks volumes. Whenever gospel preachers enter into a place, they introduce blessings and good things there. In other words, their beautiful feet usher in beautiful things. This was practically demonstrated in Act 8: 5-8.

Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. ⁶And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. ⁷For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. ⁸And there was great joy in that city.

This passage teaches us that there are some blessings associated with the entrance of a gospel preacher into an environment. Benefits like salvation, deliverance, freedom from bondage and total transformation go hand in hand with the advent of a true preacher of the gospel. In other words, the feet of the preacher of the gospel are beautiful while on the other hand, the feet of the advertisers of the devil are ugly.

When such cursed people get to a particular place, things would certainly turn sour everything will be coloured by curses. If you happen to employ such people, your business would close down.

If you employ such people as house helps couples would become poor, they might even end up selling their properties.

If you welcome cursed people into your apartment the spiritual fire there would be quenched. Why

is it so? They have brought their bad feet into your premises.

To understand the influence created by children of the devil who are cursed let us examine what the Bible says.

Matthew 10:13-15: And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. ¹⁵Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

The entrance of a preacher into a city brings blessing, however should such a preacher be rejected, his departure may spell doom for that city or community.

Therefore when a preacher of the gospel of peace decides to shake off the dust from his feet, calamity befalls the city or environment.

What do we learn from these?

The human feet are the carriers of power. Is that not why the Bible says?

Luke 10:11: Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you:

notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

The feet can be a source of blessing or a curse. Therefore it is a power point. The devil equips the feet of his followers with negative power.

In Luke 10:19, Jesus loaded the 70 with enough power to tread on serpents and scorpions.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

If human feet could remain harmless after treading on poisonous serpents and scorpions then such feet are capable of introducing blessing.

I want you to close your eyes and pray like this:

O Lord, help me to detect all hidden curses, in the name of Jesus.

What is the impact of the shaking off of the dust from the feet of the preacher of the gospel?

This is deeply symbolic, the moment this is done, all the inheritance of the city or community would be affected. All the indigenes of that city no matter how innocent they are, will go through the problems associated with the act of shaking off the dust of the feet. All the citizens and inhabitants of the city would be cursed. Therefore, a person’s feet may carry blessings or curses.

CURSED FEET

How then can we recognized cursed feet?

According to African mythology or belief, some people are identified as having bad feet. Thus some people have identified what they tag as bad feet.

The moment someone with bad feet enters a particular environment, they introduce trouble and mysterious problems wherever they go.

Carriers of bad feet are aimless wonders, when they discover that their lives are surrounded by curses they decide to change location thinking that geographical relocation is the solution to their problems. They simply cannot remain in the same spot. Their legs itch them and they have peppery feelings on their feet. They try several things and discover that luck is not on their side. They go through this travail because their legs are cursed.

A few years ago, we conducted a special programme for married women. As we conducted deliverance for the participants, a particular woman confessed to the perpetrators of havoc. The woman brought some strange objects. She showed me a padlock which she used to lock people’s health, blessing and goodness. One of the most weird instruments which the woman brought was an old broom.

Out of curiosity, I asked her,

“Madam, what do you do with this short broom?”

“We use this broom to sweep off the legs of married women from their husband’s houses” she said.

I asked her to expatiate further. She adjusted herself and looked straight at me saying:

“If I happen to develop interest in a married man, I would simply sweep off the feet of the wife spiritually and she would pack her load out of her matrimonial home as if something has befallen her.”

Can you imagine how many women had lost their homes because they had no fire? Women who lack the fire of the Holy Ghost would pack out of their husband’s houses without any quarrel.

Indeed a lot of things are happening in this wicked world.

CURSED HANDS

Do you also know that hands can be instruments of curses and blessings?

Your hands or those of your neighbour, or colleagues can either lead you to curses or blessing. If your hands are cursed, there would be a lot of abandoned projects in your life.

If your hands are blessed, you would be able to bring every project to completion stage. The Bible says:

Zech. 4:9: The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

What kind of hand do you have? The Bible gives us evidence of possessing cursed hands in Ecclesiastes 6:1-2.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: ²A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof. but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Cursed hands cannot produce good fruits. People who have cursed hands are hardly ever able to finish projects. The moment they are through with the foundation stage, they quit. They are never able to achieve life’s goals.

Why should anyone fail to carry out a project to the end? Why should you quit at the middle of the road? Why must you stop running the race of life before you hit the finished line?

Have you forgotten that you are created after the image of God? Can you recall the story of creation? What happened when God commenced the work of creation? He started and finished everything. He placed a stamp of excellence on the finished product.

Genesis 1:31: And God saw every thing that he had made, and. behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

You should learn a lot of lessons from the Lord Jesus Christ when He said:

John 4:34: Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Therefore if your hands are blessed, it would always finish all works and projects.

Do you have problems finishing what you started? You need to go through deliverance.

Paul the Apostle had good hands, so he finished what he started.

2 Tim. 4:7: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

If you ever have problems finishing your course it is an evidence of the fact that your hands are bewitched.

HOW CAN WE IDENTIFY CURSED OR BEWITCHED HANDS?

Cursed hands can be easily identified. When a hand is cursed it will leave abandoned project in its trail. When even the owner of such hands starts anything, problems would be triggered off even if there is success at the beginning, problems would set in at the beginning or at the end.

Such people possess destructive hands. If they ever come across what is at the verge of collapse, they will help to complete the total collapse. Whatever they touch will collapse. If they belong to any group, their input will cause problems for the group.

The lives of such people will be characterized by unprofitable trading, failure at the edge of breakthroughs and problems would crop up when anything gets to their turn. Profitless hard work would be their stock in trade. Even if they employ the best business tactics things would just not work.

A sister once shared her experience with us. She happened to be a food-seller in a particular primary school. She was shocked to discover that no matter how delicious her food was, all the children would file pass her store and go and buy from other food vendors. At the end of the day, she would take whatever she cooked home and eat them up with members of her family.

This continued until she knew that something was wrong somewhere. The situation bothered her and

she decided to do something about it. She applied anointing oil on her hands and on her store and the situation changed. All of a sudden the crowd of young children shifted their base to her food store. That was how she got rid of cursed hands.

If your hands are cursed, you must do something about it. Do not live in fool’s paradise thinking things would get better by and by.

If the works of your hands are producing negative results, deliverance must be conducted on those hands.

If your own hands are blessed, you must not employ cursed hands to take charge of your affairs. If you consult or employ unprofitable doctors, midwives, carpenters, bricklayers and other craftsmen, they would cause problems for you.

Fashion designers, trades men, mechanical technicians, electricians, electronic technicians, shoe menders, hair dressers etc. whose hands are cursed would end up spoiling everything given to them to be fixed or repaired. Something is wrong with those hands.

If you have problems keeping money, something might be wrong with your hands.

I once came across an argumentative man. I tried to preach the gospel to him but he was too stubborn. He even tried to confuse another person who was listening to our conversation.

As the man continued to veer off into useless arguments, the Holy Spirit revealed to me a particular problem which the man has been battling with. I simply told him to stop all his arguments as I had a message for him. He stopped reluctantly and managed to listen to me.

“Friend, I am not here to argue with you behind your swerve argument there is a particular problem you have been going through for a long time. This problem has bothered you till you have decided to resign to fate. Tell me, what used to happen each time you keep money in your pocket?” I said.

The man suddenly became blank, drew a long breath concerning his situation. I gave him more information as directed by the Holy Spirit.

“Can’t you recall those instances you tried to bring out money you just placed in your pocket only to start looking at the ground as if the money just fell off from your pocket?”

The man was suffering from the problem of cursed hands yet he did not know.

Blessed hands are hands that complete projects. The Psalmist says the Lord will perfect that which

concerns me. God is a finisher. He does not stop projects half way. His children do not quit at the middle of their project.

If something is wrong with your hands or your legs, you must pray until every evidence of curses is dealt with.

What you have read so far shows that curses can be localized in the hands and in the legs. When that happens, the devil will use it as an

ENTRY POINTS FOR DEMONIC CURSES

Let us examine other important points. Christians who are serious with their spiritual lives are always special targets of curses by the enemy.

Dark powers also have their own spiritual scanning machine before they commence on their activities. They communicate with evil spirits before they release curses into the lives of their victims. Thus they are able to identify areas that can harbour attack in the lives of their victims.

They have mastered the principle behind the operation of curses. They know in most cases that something in the lives of the victims must agree with them before they can succeed in placing curses on them. If they fail once they try again.

Demons are both resilient and hardworking. They have no resting period. In fact, they work round the clock and they hardly give up. They can focus their attention on their victims for twenty years without giving up. They are very intelligent, that is why they always do whatever they can to prevent believers from using their effective weapons.

Let me ask you a crucial question?

If your life is to be placed under the scanning machine of the powers of darkness would they find an area of weakness?

This is where the trouble lies. Evil power succeeds because they always find loopholes in the believer’s life. The devil cannot attack you if there is no internal mechanism within you that is compromising with him.

The moment the scanning machine of the enemy recognizes an open door in your life, you are a candidate of evil curses.

If you are a lady for example, and you decide to paint all the nails on your toes, after all, God did not ask you to paint them red. They would place curses on your legs because they know you have

violated a spiritual law.

For example, if they came with their machine to examine the life of a young man and discover that the fellow is filled with violent anger, they will discharge loads of curses on the territory of such a life.

Whenever something in your life agrees with curses, the enemy intends to introduce into your life, hardworking demons that would swing into action and carry out their wicked operations. I pity women because they are more susceptible to curses than men. I cannot give you all the reasons for that but perhaps it is because they are weaker vessels.

Either you are a man or woman you must address the problem of evil curses.

Curses must be addressed.

A single curse can lead to effects.

Curses entangle and hinder people. Whenever you are instructed to pray against curses you must never hesitate to do so. Even if you think there is no curse whatsoever in your life, you should still pray. It is better to pray against curses that are not present in your life than to take things for granted and allow terrible curses to ruin your life. Don’t spare any curse, pray even when there are not traces of such in your life. In fact, I counsel you to take the following prayer points before you go to bed each night.

O Lord, as I go to bed this night assign a special angel to watch over me. If any curse is sent to me let such be deflected by my guardian angel. in Jesus name.

DETECTING CURSES

You are for blessings you are not for curses. As a child of God, you must never allow any curse to land upon your life. Therefore, you must know how to identify curses so that you can reject them before they ever find a landing place in your life.

To prevent a curse from being attached to your life you must be alert spiritually and detect these curses afar off.

There are three basic methods of detecting curses.

CHECK BIBLICAL CURSES

This is where to start from. The Bible has revealed a number of curses to enable us detect them. There are about 70 specific sins in the Bible that would bring curses upon people. You must search the scriptures and run through these 70 sins and be sure that you are not involved in any of them. Then you have passed the first test.

Let me give you some of these sins:

1. Those who curse or mistreat the Jews (Gen. 12:3).

We have a practical example here. During the second world war a man called Aldof Hitler killed 6,000,000 Jews at the end Hitler lost the second world war.

Historians and researchers came up with several reasons why he lost the war. For example, they discovered that Hitler refused to follow the intelligent plan laid down by officers. Students of history know that Hitler happens to be the most intelligent military officer. Such a person would not have abandoned good military strategy. However Bible scholars know that Hitler began operating under a curse the day he began to kill the Jews. Thus he did what was completely unintelligible.

Hitler killed the Jews concerning whom God has said. He who curses you shall be cursed. That was how Hitler lost the war and Germany got into trouble. I wish Hitler had read Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

2. Willing deceivers are also cursed.

The Bible says cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood (Jeremiah 48:10).

• Adulterous men and women (Numbers 5:27).

• Disobedience to the Lord’s commandment (Deuteronomy 11:28).

• Idolatry (Exodus 20:5).

• Those who keep or own cursed objects (Deuteronomy 7:25-26).

A Nigerian travelled abroad and brought back paintings, carvings and other artifices for decoration. The items appeared beautiful to behold on the surface. Nobody would have thought that those items were either cursed or bewitched.

The man was so enlightened that nobody would have succeeded in convincing him that he had used his money to purchase cursed objects. Among the items was a cat that was extremely beautiful as an ornamental object. The man did not know that birds and animals like cats, vultures, owl etc. would easily attract demons.

Some brethren held a night vigil with the man and shared what the Lord told them with him. At the beginning, he found it difficult to believe that the carving of a eat could harbour a demon. He argued with the brethren and won.

Meanwhile, the man had been having some strange experiences. He generally observed that his prayer life would go down each time he goes into his apartment. On a second thought, he decided to surrender the moulded cat for burning. As soon as the image was thrown into the fire a frightened shout erupted from the burning image. The man was so scared that he ran out and refused to enter into his apartment.

He told the brethren to pack every decoration and carving and make a bonfire out of them. That experience taught him the greatest experience of his life.

• If you refuse to come to the help of the Lord, you are under a curse (Judges 5:23).

• The house of the wicked (Proverbs 3:23).

For example, if your father was a fetish priest you are under a curse. Again if your father was a member of the lodge society or freemason there is a curse in your family line.

• If you fail to give to the poor, you are under a Biblical curse (Proverbs 28:27).

1. The earth is cursed by reason of man’s disobedience (Isaiah 24:3-6).

1. Jerusalem is a curse to all the nations of the earth as long as the Jews continue to rebel against God (Jeremiah 26:6).

1. All thieves and those who swear falsely by the Lord’s name are cursed (Zechariah 5: 4).

1. Ministers and Christians who fail to give glory to God.

1. Those who rob God of tithe and offering (Malachi. 3:9)

1. Those who prefer to listen to their partners than to God (Genesis 3:17).

1. Those who insult their parents (Deuteronomy 27: 16).

1. Those who make graven images (Deut. 27:15).

1. Those who willfully cheat people also fall under a curse (Deuteronomy 27:17).

1. Those who take advantage of the blind (Deut. 27:18).

• Those who commit immorality with their father’s wives (Deuteronomy 27:20).

• Those who lie with beast (Deuteronomy 27:21)

• Those who lie with their sisters (Deuteronomy 27:22).

• Those who smite their neighbour’s secretly (Deut. 27:24).

• Those who obtain money to slay the innocent including doctors who commit abortion (Deuteronomy 27:25).

• All fornicators and adulterers (Job 24:15-18).

• The proud (Psalm 119:21).

• Those who place their trust in man rather than the Lord (Jeremiah 17:5).

• Those who reward evil for good (Proverbs 17:13).

• Illegitimate Children (Deut. 23:2).

• Murderers (Exodus 21:12).

• Those who beat their parents (Exod. 21:17).

• All Kidnappers (Deut. 24:7).

33. Those who curse their parents (Exodus 21:17).

• Those who are involved in witchcraft (Exod. 22:18).

• Those who attempt to turn people away from the Lord (Deut. 13:6-9).

• Those who follow horoscope (what the stars say) Deut. 17:2-5).

• Men and women who do not keep their virginity till they get married (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

• Those who do not discipline their children (l Sam. 2:17,27-36).

Those who refuse to warn others of sin (ezek. 3:18 21).

• All homosexuals and lesbians including those who practise oral sex (Lev. 20:13).

• When a man marries a woman and also the daughter, the Bible says that the man would be under a curse.

• Rape.

• Having children out of wedlock (Deuteronomy 23:2)

• When you take away from the word of God and add to it (Revelation 22:19).

• When you refuse to forgive others. After asking God to forgive you.

• All child sacrifices.

• Those who lightly esteem their parents (Deut. 27:16).

• Those oppressing strangers, widows, fatherless (Deut. 27:19).

• Him who keeps back his sword from blood (I Kings 20:35-42).

• Children born from incestuous unions (Gen. 19:36-38).

• To murder indirectly (Exodus 21:14).

51. Those who cause the unborn to die (Exodus 21:22-23).

• Those who do not prevent death (Exodus 21:29).

• Those who sacrifice to false gods (Exodus 22:20).

• Those who rebel against pastors (Deut. 17:12).

• False prophets (Deut. 18:19-22).

• Those who curse their rulers (I Kings 2:8-9).

• Those who teach rebellion against the Lord (Jer. 28:16-17).

• Those who defile the Sabbath (Ex. 31:14).

• Those who sacrifice human beings (Lev. 20:2).

• Participants in seances and fortune telling (Lev. 20:6).

• Sexual intercourse during menstruation (Lev. 20:18).

• Those who blaspheme the Lord’s name (Lev. 24:15-16).

• Those who are carnally minded (Romans 8:6).

• Rebellious children (Deut. 21:18-21).

• Possibly from murder, nonproductivity, a fugitive, vagabond (Gen. 4:11; Matt. 5:21-22, Jesus’ statement on hatred equals murder, John 3:15).

• Possible curse upon improper family structure destruction of family priesthood (Mal. 4:6) with special attention given to the relationship between father and children.

• The curse causeless shall not come (Prov. 26:2).

• Any sin worthy of death is also cursed by God (Deut. 21:22-23).

You need to thoroughly search the scriptures in order to ensure that you are not under any of these curses. If you are guilty of any of these curses, you have to confess your sins before the Lord.

CHECK IF YOUR LIFE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BLESSINGS OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE

The second way of detecting the presence of these curses in a life is by comparing your life with the blessings that God has promised those who love Him.

Is your life characterized by blessings? Are you a borrower or a lender? Are you always falling from one sickness to another? Do you enjoy God’s favour? Do you enjoy divine prosperity?

Are you increasing or decreasing? Are you free from the enemy’s harassment? Are you standing on the centre of God’s will for your life? What does your relationship with God look like?

If your answers to these questions are profitable, then you are living a blessed life. The truth is that there is no middle ground, you are either blessed or cursed. By the time you run your life through this text you will be able to detect if you are blessed or cursed.

SEARCH FOR THE EFFECT OF LIVING A CURSED LIFE

The third method of detecting the presence of curses in your life is by searching for the effect of living a cursed life. The following are the indexes of an accursed existence:

Poverty

Debts

Failure

Chronic Sickness

Torments

Insanity

Defeat

Regular traumatic experiences

Cycle of tragedies

Spiritual hindrances

Domination by inferior forces

Abandonment by God and man

Suicidal tendencies

Family or marital breakdown

Sometime ago, I learnt of a man who provided accommodation for all his daughters who got married in his own house.

During the engagement ceremony, he would announce publicly, my daughter, the doors of my house are wide open should you ever run into any hitch in your marriage. Feel free to come back here. True to his words, all his daughters found their way back at a particular time. The six vacant rooms were occupied by his divorced daughters.

Idolatry

The most serious curse hanging on the heads of black men and women is the curse of idolatry.

Idolatry is Africa’s greatest problem.

We come across a very serious indictment against all forms of idolatry in Psalm 115: 1-8:

Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for the truth’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Their Idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them: so is everyone that trusteth in them.

Idols may be modernized but they are cursed all the same. In the days of the Psalmist, idols were made of silver and gold.

The ancient as well as the modern day idol worshippers have only succeeded in adding embellishment to what God has cursed. The curse placed on idol worship ends up affecting other parts of the body. If your ancestors were into idol worship, you are cursed, the Bible says: “They that make them are like unto them. So is everyone that trusteth in them” (Psalm 115:8).

What a terrible pronouncement. The curse of idol worship has placed many lives into terrible bondage. The Bible says they have mouths but they speak not. That explains why the original idol worshippers and their offspring encounter some hindrances in their witness for Christ. Because their mouths are cursed, children of idol worshippers have a great deal of difficulty receiving the baptism

of the Holy Spirit. Those of them who claim to be baptized by the Holy Ghost only speak fake and powerless tongues. Such mouths would not be able to utter powerful things. The mouths of such people always attract problems, their mouths are the sources of their problems. This is the curse of idolatry.

What about the eyes of the offspring of idolaters they have eyes but they cannot see.

Such people cannot receive any form of spiritual revelation. No matter how hard they try, the curse of idolatry will continue to block their sight. Even when they decide to receive revelations like other believers, they end up seeing nothing.

If such a person could break the curse on the eyes, he would enter into a new world of spiritual revelation. But without deliverance, such eyes would only see evil. Good would be kept off. Such people would find it difficult to perceive spiritual things even when they are born again.

Modern day preachers have continued to deceive believers. The moment some people get born again, they are given false hope. Such people are told as soon as you give your life to Christ, you are a new creature old things are pass away. Therefore, you no longer have any business with curses. This is not true, there is a spill over effect of what your ancestors did over your life.

The ears of those who worship idols are also cursed. Offspring of idol worshippers cannot hear the voice the Lord. Their ears are deaf. Noses also fall under the curses of idolatry. Such people would lack spiritual sensitivity. Such people would not be able to sense the presence of the Lord. They would also have physical problems. You would have to plead with them before they can have their bath. They are cursed like the idols that are never given a bath.

Again hands could be cursed. They have hands but they cannot handle any good thing. Your hands are a symbol of your ministry. The feet also come under a curse. Foot that cannot take a walk is a symbol of a crippled ministry or profession.

From the foregoing, we discover that the curse of idolatry has become the bane of the black man

How then can we explain the many social problems that have continued to bedevil the African continent? If we examine Nigeria from the economic point of view, we will discover that we have no business being a debtor nation. Our natural resources are enough to make every citizen live in wealth and splendour.

If we draw up a list of nations that are blessed with natural and human resources, Nigeria should be somewhere at the top. We are stupendously blessed with resources like gold, crude oil, uranium, bitumen, bauxite, gypsum, coal, cocoa, groundnuts, etc. I am reliably informed that Nigeria pilots rank as one of the best in the world.

Several years ago, we were celebrating the oil boom. However, we felt that we were so brimful with blessings that we decided to call for a revival of idol worship. In 1977, we hosted the Festival of Arts and Culture for blacks in Africa and in the diaspora. We blew a demonic trumpet calling all blacks to bring the idols to Lagos, Nigeria since then, our country had known no real peace.

Specific departments of a person’s life or body can come under a curse. This is a fact we must all come to grips with. Any hands that have ever carried sacrifices are cursed. If you ever carried sacrifices, you have converted yourself to a satanic caterer’. You have fed those who eat at the devil’s table. If you carried such a sacrifice upon your head, your head is bewitched. If any part of your body has ever haboured incision, such a place is cursed. You must go for deliverance. All those who bear names that give glory to idols are also cursed.

The Bible states that those who refuse to give glory to God are cursed. Eating objects used for sacrifices place your entire life under a curse. Such an act may lead you to incurable diseases.

All those who place occultic or magic rings on the fingers are also under a curse.

A woman came to me for prayers a few years ago. I noticed that there was a giant ring on one of her fingers. I asked to know what the ring was about. Her answer revealed that she was as confused as any human being can be.

“Pastor, don’t worry it is a harmless ring”, she said.

“It is just to enable me sell my wares. Just pray for me, after all, the ring would not disturb your prayers.”

But I stood my ground. I told her I was not going to pray unless she removed the demonic ring. She was adamant, at the end, she got angry and walked out on me. Indeed, she. was under a curse.

Reading occultic books would also place your eyes, hands and brain under terrible curses.

Putting on chains, bangles, necklaces and other Jewelleries broken off from the body of idols would place you under a curse.

Unfortunately, many people are labouring under terrible curses today. Your abdomen would be under a curse if you have committed immorality with strange women and men.

It is also possible to be under the curse of alcoholism.

You must identify all the signs of curses.

Other evidences of curses includes

Arthritis at young age

Asthma

Bedwetting

Serious eye trouble

Diabetics

These and other things are evidences of curses.

SOLUTION

How then can we destroy and break evil curses? We have two working Scriptures.

Galatians 3:13-14: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:

for it is written. Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come

on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ: that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Col. 2:14: Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross:

These passages show that curses can be cancelled through the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

What practical steps must we take in order to cancel or destroy evil curses? The steps are outlined below.

Repent from all known and unknown sins.

Confess the sins that are known to you. Ask God to forgive you the sins you may not remember.

Renounce all ancestral covenants.

Repent of all ancestral sins.

Accept God’s forgiveness and forgive yourself.

Forgive all who have ever offended you.

Renounce all contact with demonic religions or objects.

Destroy any demonic object in your possession, including the devil’s music.

Break the curse by aggressive prayers.

Cast out every demon of curse, because there is always a demon that ensures the curse works.

Claim the blessings.

You cannot move into a new realm of divine blessings unless you are completely free from every known and unknown curse. You must possess your possession in Christ.

PRAYER POINTS

1. I break and I loose myself from every hereditary curse, in the name of Jesus.

• Every demonic bondage through parents or ancestors break, in the name of Jesus.

• (Lay your two hands on your head as you take this prayer point) I choose blessings and I refuse curses, in the name of Jesus.

• I choose life and not death, in the name of Jesus.

• (Lay your two hands on your head) Every demon of curse release me, in the name of Jesus.

• Let fire fall and destroy every work of the enemy ,in the name of Jesus.