Ryan LeStrange - Breaking Curses: Identifying and Destroying Common Curses

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I was sitting in a church in California when I heard the Lord speak to me and say: I have called you. I will never forget that moment. It was so vivid. I began to pray about what was next. I knew that I did not have the skills or knowledge to properly function in my ministry call, so I went into a season of prayer. The Lord directed my steps to move across the country and attend a spirit-filled Bible college. Going off to Bible college was a major step of faith. I was literally giving up everything that was familiar and launching out into the unknown.

As I was in my final stages of preparation to leave, I had an encounter that would greatly affect me. A relative of mine, who I esteemed greatly, began to tell me that I was missing the Lord. He boldly announced that I was not called to ministry and that this was a wrong decision. He told me that it would not work out and that I would fail. As you are reading this, I know it sounds mean-spirited, but I do not believe that was his intention. I believe he was very sad that I was leaving and was not properly processing his emotions. Having said that, it doesnt change the reality that his statements were a word curse.

The words went deep into my soul. They were powerful and drove a wedge into my emotions. As I went off to Bible college, it was one of the most difficult seasons of my life. I was in a completely different culture. I was stretched financially, and I was in a process of deliverance, so the enemy was screaming at me. Some days it seemed as though the heaviness was closing in around me. Certainly, God had moved me there, but the enemy was fighting against me.

On a particularly difficult day, I found myself filled with doubt and wanting to quit. The devil was harassing me greatly. In that moment, the words of my relative were swirling in my head. I could not only hear his words, but I could feel the weight of them. Maybe I had missed it. What if I was not even in the will of God and this whole battle was for nothing? I was questioning all of my decisions.

Suddenly, I had a revelation. This was a curse! The reason I felt so heavy was because I was reeling under the power of a word curse. The moment I recognized this, I broke the curse and commanded those words to die. I told the enemy that he could not bind my mind. I commanded my emotions to line up with the Word of God.

A fools mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 18:7 (NKJV)

Our mouths are agents of power. When we speak the Word of the Lord, we release creative power. When we speak the plans and thoughts of the enemy, we release demonic power. Words access the realms of the spirit. A word curse releases demonic intent and creates heaviness and destruction.

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or
how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

Numbers 23:8 (KJV)

A person who is blessed by God walks in divine power. They enjoy the power of God in their life, creating blessings and open doors. The blessing of God is the difference-maker. It creates avenues of life and abundance that are beyond a natural gift or ability.

A curse creates a demonic vacuum that attempts to suck a person into darkness and defeat. The enemy is an illegal trespasser when he tries to mess with the people of God. He cannot curse a man or woman whom God has blessed. Therefore, he searches for a breach in the wall. He looks for a way in. He can enter through the words of another, a trauma, an oath, or a number of ways. Even when a person curses you as my relative cursed me, that is a gateway. It comes to open up a spiritual door. You have to discern it and break its power.

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:13-14

We have been translated! The blood of Jesus transferred us from one place to another. We have been divinely relocated. The Lord moved us from one realm to another and from one dimension to another. The sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary totally paid our debts and transferred us from the domain (rulership and authority) of darkness, and brought us out into the marvelous power and rule of Jesus! We are now authorized kingdom citizens filled with the power of God to change the world.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:1-7

In verse six of this passage, the word heavenly is the Greek word epouranios meaning, celestial, in the heavenly sphere, the sphere of spiritual activities; divine, spiritual. The word places in this passage is a word that means in, on, or among. It denotes a location. The picture is that we have been removed from the kingdom of darkness and brought into the place or space of the kingdom of God. This speaks of a total relocation. The blood of Jesus brought us out of the grip and place of darkness in order to position us in the place and space of the glorious kingdom of our God.

It is vital to know and understand our position as new covenant believers. This realization empowers us for effective spiritual warfare. Breaking curses is an act of war. It is severing demonic ties and allegiances. It is slamming shut the entry points of the works of hell. We are not praying from a defeated or weakened place. We are waging war from a position of power. This realization is part of our spiritual war arsenal.

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.