Blessings For Curses (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living Supernaturally, so good to have you back and we are really excited about looking at God’s word together. We’ve been meditating on the cross and the great exchange, where the Lord Jesus did something on the cross, an instrument of pain, torture and death, it became a symbol of hope and that was because of the great exchange that happened on the cross. Today, we are looking at one other aspect of it which is the Lord Jesus extended blessings because of the cross instead of curses. This great exchange accomplished was a work of the Lord Jesus and accomplished by Him alone. You might have this question, how can I have access to this great exchange, walk in it, receive it and enjoy it consistently? The fact is that we can have access to it only by faith in what He has done. In humility, accepting and acknowledging what He has done on the cross and by faith receiving it into our own lives. So, blessings in place of curses. What is a blessing? A blessing is a good thing, a great and positive thing affecting all realms of our life, emotionally, physically and spiritually. It affects us in terms of career, finances, relationship with God, with people etc. At the same time, a curse is a negative blessing. We look at some negative things leading to destruction, pain and strife and so on, that is a curse. This is what scripture says in Galatians chapter 3, verses 13 and 14, ‘Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),   that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.’ A wonderful verse which gives us so much comfort, hope and instills so much faith in us in the Lord because it says that Christ has redeemed us which means it is already done. Where was this done? It was done on the cross. It says, having become a curse for us on the cross that we might receive and enjoy the blessings of Abraham. If we want to expand our understanding about what is the scope of blessings and curses, it is good if we look at the book of Deuteronomy and chapter 28. Verses 1 to 14 talks about the blessings, materially and relationally and so on. Verses 15 onwards till the end of the chapter talks about curses, all the negative things that could happen. Well, on the cross, all these curses were taken away so that we could receive and walk in the blessing. Today, if you are struggling and saying there is something happening in my life that I’m not in control of, I seem to have opened the door for the enemy to walk in, well, today is the day to shut that door and say, I receive this blessing and what Christ is offering to me and I receive it through faith. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for your heart which is to bless us. We thank you that you don’t withhold any good thing from us as your word says. We thank you that you dealt with every curse on the cross where you bore every curse and became a curse for us that we might receive and enjoy the blessing of Abraham. Today, we come under your blood covering and that place of grace and we say, yes, we receive it. Let everything that is of the enemy be broken and let it be neutralized and taken away in Jesus’ name and may we enjoy each and every blessing that you have poured out into our lives, in Jesus’ matchless name we pray, Amen.

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