'LAST WEEK the papers were reporting the death of John F. Kennedy Junior. Many members of this family, including John Junior's father, President J.F. Kennedy, have died over a comparatively short period of time, giving rise to the idea that maybe the Family have been 'cursed'. BBC-tv stated at the time of junior's death - ...another tragedy, the latest in a long history which has become known as the Curse of the Kennedy's.
BUT is it really possible for family to be put under a 'curse'? Can it actually happen? Yes, I believe it can indeed -IF you believe it for yourself - anything can happen. Certainly many people also believe this throughout the world. The BIBLE believeS in the power of the Devil and evil spirits, and prohibits any godly person from becoming involved with such powers and practices.
The Book of Leviticus 10v31 in the Old Testament of the Bible says 'TURN not to those mediums who have familiar spirits or to wizards, do not seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the LORD.' AND Isaiah 8v9 says - 'When people (instead of putting their trust in God) shall say to you - Consult for direction mediums and wizards who chirrup and mutter, should you not instead seek and consult your God. Should you consult the dead on behalf of the living? - think about this.'
THE KENNEDY FAMILY have, reportedly, all been faithful practicing Catholics. Is it possible for Christians to be actually cursed - or perhaps even be involved in the occult? Do YOU believe that?
Certainly it is a fact that many Christians today, even though they may testify to being 'Saved' still often lean toward the Witch-doctor to provide themselves with comfort, protection, and even deliverance from evil spirits, curses and even other human enemies and so on, trying to fight evil, and even their suspected foes with more evil!
And others will go to the Fortune Teller to gain some insight into their future, in order to give themselves some kind of advantage, willingly agreeing to wear charms and amulets as further aids to 'Good Luck' against some fear or another. YET why should the Devil protect or care for any that is not already his own, and who does not believe in him? Some bystanders in Jesus day seeing Him casting out demons, said that He cast them out by the power of Satan. Jesus replied and said to them 'If Satan is divided against himself how shall his kingdom stand - Luke11v18. Do YOU believe that the devil will actually work against himself? NO, indeed not. It is the Devil's work to curse, and to bind, and to destroy, and he will not save us from such things... Those who consult with mediums, wizards, and other occult persons, believing in them and their ability to keep them safe are CURSED still more when they go to the the devil for deliverance! AND WHEN ANY TRUE CHRISTIAN goes back to such practices in his or her's Christian Life, he /she puts themselves voluntarily back into the hand of the Enemy, and out of the Redeemer's Hand.
JESUS once said - ' When you pray believe that you have what you ask for, and you will receive it ' - Mark 11v24 In other words you get what you BELIEVE for - good or bad. Yes God will let you have what you WANT badly enough - but be as a dying person. And if you believe for sickness, if you believe for trouble of any kind, if believe in being cursed, that is what you will experience in your life. Why not just believe in the Goodness of God instead?
SOME YEARS AGO, a young teenage boy in my home discovered that someone had put some bones inside one of his school exercise books, and hidden them in his belongings. He came to report to me that someone had put a curse upon him. I went immediately to his belongings and found the bones just as he had described. I took the bones from the book into my hands in the Name of Jesus, and went with them out of the house. And there I burned them to ashes. Whilst I was doing this another young man began to get very excited, jumping up and down, and saying that he was the one who had placed the bones in the book in the first place - AND, that now I had touched them I would surely die! These boys were all in their teenage, and all of them now began to crowd around me, as silent as the grave, no doubt waiting for me to actually fall down dead at their feet - that was almost fifty years ago! Brother and Sisters! If Jesus is your Saviour, and if your life is under the protection of the Blood that He shed on the Cross, you have nothing to fear - NOTHING shall by any means hurt you. This incident I have just related concerning 'old bones' was the beginning many of the first children that came to shelter in Testimony Faith Homes learning that Jesus IS more than any ju-ju. More powerful than Satan himself. If JESUS is with you GOD is with you.
BUT there was another incident. In 1971 my wife and I were living in Siaya District as it then was, some eleven kilometers from Luanda Market at a place known as Ramula. Returning from Kisumu, we found ourselves motoring into a heavy wind and rain storm. As we journied I kept looking at the sky and saying 'I'm sure our tin roof will blow of our house if this continues.....REALLY I KNOW it WILL blow off!' As we turned into the compound a few minutes later the tin roof of our house just lifted up and sailed past and over us and across the road into a field. We lost all our personal effects in that storm, which continued unabated for some hours. I had believed for the 'evil' and forgot my Saviour. I believed for the worst and that is what I received. It taught me lesson - though not, regrettably, for the last time. IF we have trusted in Jesus, and the Blood shed for us on the Cross, we have no more need to look elsewhere for our Salvation. WHY? Because in the Name of Jesus even Demons have to flee. When we are under the Blood not even the Devil Himself can Harm us!
In the Old Testament Book of Exodus chapter 12 when Moses under God's direction was helping the Israelites to leave Egypt and slavery. He was told to make sure that every family killed a lamb, and first off, daubed its blood over their doors. And God said, WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD I will pass over you, and the plague shall not come upon you. It was a DEATH plague and thousands of Egyptians died that day, but all those who put the blood of the lamb over their doors LIVED. Because of their faith in the blood of the lamb people lived and were delivered from their slavery.
They called it The PASSOVER. To-day God points to JESUS and tells us that to as many as believe Him, He will be OUR Passover - our Saviour, and Deliverer. Our Protector from all things.
NONE OF US need be under a curse; none of us need to invoke our ancestors or other spirits, or the power of the witch doctor, to keep ourselves safe, or to defend ourselves, or to free ourselves, or to deliver ourselves, or to provide for ourselves. All we need is to TESTIFY loud and clear as to WHOSE we are, and to WHOM we belong. Satan and every evil thing will have to flee from us. NO WEAPON that is formed against us shall prosper.
Revelation 12v11 says - 'They overcame him - the Devil and all his angels and servants - by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.'
DON'T BE AFRAID,,,,,BUT BELIEVE in the Lord Jesus Christ. Are you still tempted to visit the Witch Doctor or to rely on fetishes? Are you wearing some unchristian charm or ju-ju? Are you still trusting in your ancestors to see you through. Put such things FAR from you. Cast ALL you care, instead, upon JESUS. He is more than Conqueror, and will KEEP you safe from enemy and tribulation alike, bringing you unscathed and untouched through into victory and safety.
BEGIN THE WEEK AHEAD with confidence. Put your trust in God, and His Redeemer and Maker, JESUS CHRIST. Come under the Blood of the Lamb with me, and let us together believe to DO great exploits for the Kingdom of God. Remember, NOTHING that is planned against you can prosper, as long as you are hiding under the Blood of the Lamb that was slain for your salvation.
HAVE A FEARLESS WEEK!
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