Prayer to undo the curse over my life

[Chrysostom]

You speak of a curse and a spell, but such talk is unworthy of a soul that claims to abide in Christ. Do you not know that the devil laughs and God is provoked when we beseech things like these? This is the reasoning of drunken old gossips and springs from a womanish littleness of soul. You are a new creation, yet you give ear to the notion that some spell can meddle with what God has sealed by His Spirit. Throw these fears to the wind. If your faith were steadfast, you would stand easily against such assaults.

You say you have been afflicted since giving your life to Christ. Have you not considered that affliction is a great good? To every just man his sufferings are the causes of his rewards. The soul does not stand fast in its proper place when buoyed up by pleasure. Ease was ever an evil. Look at the saints: David in his prosperity declared he would never be moved, but in his sorrow he became truly philosophic, saying, "Let Him do that which is pleasing in His sight." Joseph, sold and imprisoned, uttered no bitter word against the authors of his sorrows. Job, under sufferings far heavier than yours, gave thanks and was justified not because he suffered, but because he endured it with thankfulness. Another under lighter pains curses God and loses everything. It depends not upon the nature of the affliction, but upon the disposition of your own mind.

You are tired, poor, and stuck. Why then do you tremble at poverty? Where are you running? To have the spell broken, you say. But the true breaking of your chains lies in this: to suffer for Christ. If one accuses you falsely, bear it patiently, give thanks, pray for them. If you are poor, do not say, "Suffer me not to stand in need of men," for God knows your need, and His poverty, His taking on flesh and suffering, has brought you every spiritual gift. Do not seek merely to be freed from trouble, but to abound in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness. You want to be known for your fruits, yet you are shaken because the winds blow. Remember Peter: it was not the wind that made him sink, but his little faith. If his faith had been firm, he would have stood against far worse.

So stop praying for a curse to be undone. Pray instead for strength of soul, that you may profit from these afflictions and give thanks. The just shall live by faith, the evidence of things not seen. Call to remembrance the former days when you first believed, and the great cloud of witnesses who were saved by faith when the good things were far off. Will you now be faint-hearted when Christ Himself is near? Let your groaning be heard by Him, not as a complaint about calamities, but as a cry that trains you for greater rewards. Remain steadfast, and nothing will appear grievous. If your soul is weak, you find a grievance in everything; but if you stand firm, you will discover that what you called a curse was the very furnace that purged you and delivered you from the curse.

 

[Silas]

The feeling that a curse hangs over your life is deeply painful, and I understand why you are tired and stuck. But the truth that matters right now is not what you sense, but what Christ has already done. The law pronounces a curse on everyone who does not keep it perfectly, and none of us can. That is why Jesus became a curse for us when He hung on the tree. He took the curse we deserved so that through faith in Him we might receive the blessing of righteousness, freely given by God. If you are in Christ, no spell or curse can cling to you. You have been redeemed.

Since giving your life to Christ, your standing with God has never rested on your ability to abide perfectly or produce enough fruit. It rests entirely on His righteousness credited to you through faith. You said you know you are a new creation. That is not a feeling; it is a fact sealed by the Spirit. Even when your life feels meddled with and nothing seems to work, your salvation is not in danger because it was never based on your performance. The very faith to believe that was a gift from God, and He will sustain it.

The poverty and stuckness you describe are real, but they do not mean you are forgotten. Scripture shows again and again that God chooses the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom. Sometimes having little forces us to trust Him in ways that prosperity never could. You are learning what it means to live by faith when there is nothing else to lean on. That is not a sign of being cursed; it can be the school of faith.

I also notice your desire to be known for your fruits. That is a good longing, but remember that works never produce faith; faith produces works. A genuine trust in Christ will change your life, but you do not look to those changes for your justification. They are simply the evidence that the root is alive. Right now, your faith may feel weak and your fruit sparse, yet even men of great faith in Scripture had lapses, defeats, and seasons of hiding in caves. Their faith did not operate perfectly in every situation, and neither will yours. The question is not whether you always feel strong, but whether you keep looking to Jesus.

So do not search for a special prayer to undo a curse. Instead, let your heart rest in the finished work of the cross. There is no curse left for those who are in Christ. When weariness and the voice of the accuser come, go back to what God has said. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of what you do not yet see. Your feelings may be empty, but His promise stands. He will hold you. I am praying that you will know deep peace and a steadfast confidence in the salvation you already own, not because of your grip on Christ, but because of His grip on you.