Blessed Beyond Curses I

Tuesday 14 July
READ: Num 23: 7 - 12
MORE LESSON: Gen 12: 3

As a seed of Abraham through Jesus Christ, there is a covenant of blessing over your life. This covenant also makes provision for judgment against those who get angry with you because of God's blessing over your life, And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed: Gen 12:2-3. You are blessed and no one can curse you.
This is portrayed in the story of Israel and Balak, the king of Moab. Israel came out of slavery in Egypt and was on the way to the Promised Land. Balak heard the news of their conquests and he decided to terminate them. Sometimes people hear of your blessing and promotion and they start working against you out of envy. But whoever goes against a man that God has promoted is taking a great risk because he is actually fighting against the God who promoted the man. Whoever rises against you will fall for your sake, in Jesus’ name.
Balak went to hire Balaam, a prophet, to curse the children of Israel. Balaam had a reputation that whatever he declared happened, so Balak employed him to curse Israel powerfully so that they would not be able to make progress anymore. God warned Balaam that he should not go with them to curse His children whom He had blessed beyond any curse (Num 22:12). Balaam went back and told the king of Moab that Israel was blessed by God and could not be cursed by man but he was pumped with money and enticed to go with them and curse Israel. Eventually greed took the upper hand over Prophet Balaam and he saddled his ass and followed them to go curse Israel. It was because of money that he went against God's instruction and he later paid for it with his life (Josh. 13: 22, Jude 11). It is better to stay a poor man than to allow the spirit of greed and love of money to make you go against God and do evil.
When Balaam got to where he wanted to curse Israel, he opened his mouth but God turned the curses to blessings. He found himself saying, How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied? Num 23:8.
You are blessed by the Lord, nobody can curse you and whoever opens his mouth to curse you, God will hijack that curse and turn it to blessing for you. From today, any curse that has been placed on you is turned to blessing. You are the blessed seed of Abraham, you are blessed beyond all curses.

Prayer/Action
* Reverse every unknown curse over your life.
* Reject every evil prophet and prophecy seat against your destiny in the name of Jesus.
* Prophesy against evil word ever spoken against you even if it was a joke.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, today, grant me the wisdom to know the battles to fight, postpone and the ones to ignore this year, in Jesus’ name.