When You Are Truly Cursed (Part Two)!!! “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear and honor with reverence this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. Moreover, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. Also, the LORD will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, until you are destroyed. “Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number. It shall come about that just as the LORD delighted over you to make you prosper and multiply, so the LORD will delight over you to bring you to ruin and destruction; and you will be uprooted [violently] from the land which you are entering to possess” ...
When You Are Truly Blessed (Part 1) The Greek word for blessed is makarios, meaning more than just fortunate; it signifies a deep, spiritual contentment and divine favor, a state of flourishing and joy found in God, independently of worldly circumstances, often described as being in an enviable position to receive God’s grace, even in the midst of trials. There is no such thing as stagnant, stalled growth, while cunningly pretending that you walk with God. “Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thy comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out” (Deuteronomy 28: 3-6, KJV). I want to touch on the inactive progress that is exhibited in people. The maladaptive coping, as we are being thrust into judgment. With the cont...