Forms of Blessings

 Now I want to deal out of scripture with the forms that blessings and curses take. There is one particular chapter in the Old Testament which deals exclusively with blessings and curses. How many of you know which it is? Deuteronomy 28. All right. It’s got fourteen verses of blessings and fifty-four verses of curses. Now, we can’t go into that because of time but I suggest if you’re concerned, that at your own convenience you study that chapter carefully. I’ve studied it many times and I’m going to offer you my summation. But please exercise your own judgment as to whether you think this is accurate or not.

Here is my summation of the main blessings and the main curses. As a fatter of fact, really, they’re exactly opposite to one another.

 

Here are seven blessing:

• Number one, exaltation means being lifted up. You’re no longer living under things.
• Number two, a word I had to coin, reproductiveness. I couldn’t find one normal English word. But a person who is in the blessing of God is fruitful in every area of his or her life.
• Number three, health.
• Number four, prosperity or success.
• Number five, victory.
• Number six, Moses said you’ll be the head and not the tail.
• And number seven, you’ll be above and not beneath.

When I was studying that some years ago I asked the Lord what’s the difference between the head and the tail. I feel He gave me a simple answer. The head makes the decisions, the tail just gets dragged around. So which way are you living? Are you making the decisions? Are you in charge of the situation? Or, are you simply being dragged around like a tail by circumstances and forces that you don’t understand and you can’t control? If you’re a tail it’s very possible you’re under a curse.

I’m not saying every one of those blessings is due to this cause but that’s for you to discern. There’s only one expert in this field and his name is not Derek Prince. It’s the Holy Spirit. He’s the one who has to show you personally. I can preach the general truth but you have to get the specific application from the Holy Spirit.