Other examples of people released from Curses

A Cursed Family

sound Well then a little later I was ministering in a church, a Presbyterian Church somewhere in what they call the Midwest of the United States. I had finished my message and I was standing behind the pulpit. I didn’t quite know what I was going to do next and I saw a family on the front seat on my left: father, mother and teenage daughter. And as I looked at them I felt the Holy Spirit said there is a curse over that family. I hadn’t preached on that, I wasn’t thinking about that and I didn’t quite know what to do about it. So I just waited and it came very clearly again “there is a curse over that family.” So I stepped up to the father and I said, “Sir, I believe God has shown me there’s a curse over your family. Would you like me
to release you from it in the name of Jesus?” I really had no experience, I was just moving out in faith. He immediately said, “Yes.” I learned later from him that there had been so many disastrous things happening in his life and in the life of his family that he accepted the fact there was a curse. Then I prayed a short simple prayer out loud releasing the family from the curse. When I said “In the name of Jesus”, there was a visible, physical reaction in each member of the family, although I was not touching any of them. So I stepped back and then I noticed that the teenage daughter had one leg in a cast from the top of her thigh to the bottom of her foot. So I went back and said, “Would you like me to pray for the healing of your daughter’s leg?” He immediately said yes but he said, “You ought to know she’s broken the same leg three times in eighteen months and the doctor said it will not heal.” Well, if I heard that today that somebody had broken the same leg three times in eighteen months I wouldn’t really doubt that there was a curse in operation, but it was new to me. I said, “All I can do is just pick the leg up in my hands and say a simple prayer”, which is what I did.

A few weeks later I got a letter from the man thanking me and saying specifically that when they went back with the daughter to the clinic to have the leg x-rayed, the x-ray showed that it was healed. And very shortly afterwards the cast was taken off.

But as I meditated on that I realized this: That the curse which God had showed me over the family was a barrier to the healing of the daughter’s leg. Until the barrier was removed, prayer for the healing of her leg would not be effective. And this is a principle that I’ve seen now hundreds of times that a curse over a family or over an individual can be an invisible barrier that keeps away the blessing that God intends those people to have. In my case through the dragons it was the blessing of financial prosperity and release to God’s will. In the case of this girl the blessing was the healing of her broken leg but the curse was the barrier.

Miriam's Story

After that I began to teach on this and I made some tapes, including a series of three messages called “Curses: Cause and Cure.” And these began to circulate and I began to get remarkable testimonies of what was happening not just to individuals but to whole congregations. One of the sets of three tapes found its way to South Africa. And a little later Ruth and I were there ministering in South Africa, we were in Capetown, and we encountered a Jewish lady who had met the Lord Jesus and acknowledged Him as her Messiah and her Savior. She told us firsthand this story, we got it straight from her. She was what they call an executive secretary, very highly qualified. She had a very well paid job with a man who was the president of his own firm. After a little while she discovered that the president and all the executives in the firm were in a strange cult under a lady guru. Then the president asked her if she would type out some blessings that this guru lady had pronounced on the executives. When this lady began to type them she realized that they were anything but blessings as far as Christians were concerned, so she went to her boss and said, “I’m sorry but I don’t feel free to type these blessings.” The boss was gracious, he said, “I’m sorry. If I had known it was against your conscience I wouldn’t have asked you to do it.”
That was the end of that.

Now we have to supply something by inference. But I am sure that the lady guru heard about this secretary that wouldn’t type her blessings. And who knows what she did? She may have prayed or she may have pronounced a curse. But from that source it really wouldn’t make much difference which it was. Within a few weeks this lady secretary, I’ll call her Miriam—it wasn’t her name. Miriam’s fingers began to go stiff and curl up and set and in a short while they were extremely painful and she couldn’t bend them. She said you wouldn’t believe the pain. She had to sleep in a separate bed from her husband because any time her husband turned over and the bed shook the pain was unendurable in her fingers. She went to a specialist who X-rayed them and said it was rheumatoid arthritis. She was, in a sense, a crippled person.

Another lady, a Charismatic lady, had received these three cassettes of mine and felt that this lady Miriam ought to hear them. I don’t think Miriam was really very excited about them, she was a rather sophisticated lady and I think the thought of curses was something remote and medieval in her eyes. Anyhow, this other lady prevailed so they sat and listened to the three cassettes. And at the end of the third cassette I lead people in a prayer by which they release themselves from any curse over their lives. At the point where the prayer began, the cassette jammed. It wouldn’t go forward, it wouldn’t go back and it wouldn’t eject. That is not purely natural. So Miriam said, “Well, then I can’t say the prayer.” This indefatigable lady said, “Oh no, I have the prayer typed out! I’ll bring that.” So she persuaded Miriam, I think rather against her own judgment, to read this prayer. Now, you could read the prayer within three minutes, it wouldn’t take as much as that. So Miriam just dutifully read the prayer and in between the time she began reading the prayer and the time she finished, her fingers and her hands were totally released. There was no trace of arthritis. She went back to the doctor, he confirmed medically the healing. What I want to emphasize is this. She was not praying for healing. It wasn’t in her mind. She was simply releasing herself from a curse. But when the curse was broken there was no more reason for sickness, you see? Another example of the invisible barrier.

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