Silas
Beloved of All
Your prayer shows a heart that longs for justice, protection, and the healing of deep wounds, and that is a godly thing. Yet I want to lift your eyes from the warfare you see around you to the victory that is already yours in Christ. You are standing on strong Scriptures, and that is good, but the foundation beneath every binding, every breaking of spells, and every plea for angelic help is something far more unshakable: the cross.
When sin entered the world, a curse fell on everything, on man, on woman, on the ground itself. Thorns and thistles sprang up; labor became toil; sorrow and death settled in. That curse was not a small thing. The law later spelled it out clearly: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.” None of us have kept the whole law perfectly. So every one of us, apart from grace, stood under that curse, condemned.
But here is the center of everything you are asking for. Jesus hung on a tree, and on his brow they pressed a crown of thorns. That was no accident. The thorns that first appeared because of sin were now set on the head of the Son of God. He was becoming a curse for us, bearing in his own body every ounce of the curse our rebellion deserved. On that cross, he took the curse of the broken law, and he exhausted it. He redeemed us from it.
So now, if you are in Christ, you are not under a curse. You are under the blessing of Abraham. God said of his people long ago when a king tried to hire a curse against them, “You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.” No witch, no spell, no principality can alter what God has declared over you. The enemy may scheme, but the blessing of the Lord overrides every attempt to curse what he has blessed. The real curse was already borne by Jesus. What remains for you is life, favor, and the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Therefore, do not let your prayers be consumed by anxiety over dark arts or the works of one person. Yes, you can stand on Zechariah, on the armor of God, on the authority you have in Jesus, because all authority truly is his. But do so from a place of rest, not fear. The principalities were disarmed at the cross. The counterfeit spirit trembles before the living Christ, who ever lives to make intercession for you. Your battle is not to persuade God to act; he has already acted decisively in his Son. Your part is to hold your ground in that finished work.
As for the woman whose home was torn apart, may she know that the Son’s freedom is real and complete. Jesus heals the brokenhearted and restores what the locust has eaten. Her worth and her future are not defined by another’s sin. Pray for her to touch the hem of his garment with faith active and alive, to receive the healing that flows from the one who bore her griefs. He can set her free so thoroughly that the shame and pain of the past become the soil from which new strength and joy grow, truly, if the Son makes her free, she will be free indeed.
Keep praying, but let every petition rest on this: Christ has redeemed you from the curse. You are blessed. Walk in that blessing, and speak to your circumstances from that secure place. The blood of the Lamb has already conquered, and that victory is yours now.
When sin entered the world, a curse fell on everything, on man, on woman, on the ground itself. Thorns and thistles sprang up; labor became toil; sorrow and death settled in. That curse was not a small thing. The law later spelled it out clearly: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.” None of us have kept the whole law perfectly. So every one of us, apart from grace, stood under that curse, condemned.
But here is the center of everything you are asking for. Jesus hung on a tree, and on his brow they pressed a crown of thorns. That was no accident. The thorns that first appeared because of sin were now set on the head of the Son of God. He was becoming a curse for us, bearing in his own body every ounce of the curse our rebellion deserved. On that cross, he took the curse of the broken law, and he exhausted it. He redeemed us from it.
So now, if you are in Christ, you are not under a curse. You are under the blessing of Abraham. God said of his people long ago when a king tried to hire a curse against them, “You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.” No witch, no spell, no principality can alter what God has declared over you. The enemy may scheme, but the blessing of the Lord overrides every attempt to curse what he has blessed. The real curse was already borne by Jesus. What remains for you is life, favor, and the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Therefore, do not let your prayers be consumed by anxiety over dark arts or the works of one person. Yes, you can stand on Zechariah, on the armor of God, on the authority you have in Jesus, because all authority truly is his. But do so from a place of rest, not fear. The principalities were disarmed at the cross. The counterfeit spirit trembles before the living Christ, who ever lives to make intercession for you. Your battle is not to persuade God to act; he has already acted decisively in his Son. Your part is to hold your ground in that finished work.
As for the woman whose home was torn apart, may she know that the Son’s freedom is real and complete. Jesus heals the brokenhearted and restores what the locust has eaten. Her worth and her future are not defined by another’s sin. Pray for her to touch the hem of his garment with faith active and alive, to receive the healing that flows from the one who bore her griefs. He can set her free so thoroughly that the shame and pain of the past become the soil from which new strength and joy grow, truly, if the Son makes her free, she will be free indeed.
Keep praying, but let every petition rest on this: Christ has redeemed you from the curse. You are blessed. Walk in that blessing, and speak to your circumstances from that secure place. The blood of the Lamb has already conquered, and that victory is yours now.
