Curse Breaking 101

Well, an important need came up on the boards on our first day. I felt like I should address with a teaching on how to break curses.

One of our members wrote that it was hard to feel like "trying" when her family were saying so many negative things to her...things that the enemy could easily empower as a curse. I want to use a portion of her post as an example of some curses, and then show you a simple way to break them (or any other curse spoken over you.) Of course, I want to preserve the privacy of the person who gave us our example, so I am not going to use her name in this article.

Before I start, I want to say something about curses. They are actually pretty easy to break. The enemy can empower them against you. It doesn't take much to break the spiritual empowerment, but sometimes there is also a psychological empowerment that comes. So if a curse has been not been psychologically empowered against you, you can just break it once, and it is fully dealt with. But if there is a psychological empowerment (e.g., if you have started to believe it and feel bad about yourself because of it) then you may have to break it multiple times in order to break the psychological empowerment, even though the spiritual empowerment was broken the first time.

Breaking a curse is simple because you do it in the power and authority of the risen Lord Jesus Christ. He already did the work to make it powerful on Calvary and all you have to do is to tap into it. There are three basic components to breaking a curse.

1. Identify what has been spoken against you. You need to know what you are breaking. It also helps to identify who said it, assuming it was said to you by only one or two people. But if many different people have spoken this over you, you don't need to identify each one by name. However it is helpful to identify at least one person who said it over you. The more important the curser is to you emotionally, the more important it is to identify them by name. If three really important people all said the same curse over you, you probably need to break it three separate times, each time identifying a different one of those three.

2. Break any spiritual empowerment that the enemy may have placed on it, and cancel any enemy assignment that may have made against you because of it. The exact words are not important, but I will give you a formula you can use for this part.

3. Release forgiveness on whoever cursed you, and send back a blessing to them. That last step may sound counter-intuitive. But Jesus said to "forgive so that you may be forgiven" in Matthew 6:14-15. He also said to "bless those who curse you" in Luke 6:28. So if you want to use His power and authority to break a curse off of yourself, you need to do it His way...and that requires both genuine forgiveness and release of blessing.

Here is a template that you can use for the 2nd and third steps. But you need to sincerely mean it when you release forgiveness and blessing. It is not enough to just say the words and not mean it.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and through His power and authority, I break the curse that said ________________________. I recognize it as a lie, and I sever it's power over me. I cut off any enemy empowerment of it against me, and I cancel any assignment of the enemy against me because of it. In Jesus' authority, I loose myself from this curse. And I release forgiveness to ______ for speaking it against me, and I send back a blessing to him/her of ____________. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

Now let me give you a real life example and show you how it works to break those curses. This example comes from one of the message board posts:

"How do you respond when your family tell you that people will not start to take you seriously unless you lose at least some of the 100lbs of extra weight you are carrying? Your business will suffer if you don't. You won't find anyone who will look at you as a future partner if you don't. In fact everything that you want to happen is probably not happening because you are so heavy."

So what are the curses operating here? I am paraphrasing them here, but I see the following:

• "You will be discounted or taken to be of no value because you are overweight."

• "You will not be successful in business because you are overweight."

• "You will ever find a husband (or wife) because you are overweight". (Or possibly it could be generalized to "your relationships are doomed to failure because you are overweight.")

• "You are doomed to a life of disappointment and failure because you are overweight." (And implied in that curse is: "you will also fail to lose weight so you can break out of the curse.")

Those are some pretty nasty curses, and if you don't deal with them spiritually, then you will probably find the enemy empowering then in your life, and you could end up living them.

So how do you break the ones in this example? You go back to the above template I gave you and plug them in, changing "you" to "I." If the curses are all from the same source, you can throw them together into one pass of the template. But if they come from different sources, then you heed to deal with them as separate passes, so that you can forgive each source individually. [In the case of this example, the source was the person's family...parents, brothers and sisters. The person is probably going to have to break the curse from each source, since these people are important in her life. So if the curse came from her mom and dad and her brother and her sister, then she will do this 4 times--once for each person. But I am only going to give one example here...let's say the curses spoken by "Mom."

So this is now it would go:

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and through His power and authority, I break the curse that said that I would never be taken seriously or amount to anything. I also break the curse that said that I will not succeed in business, and the one that said that I will never find a husband, and I break the curse that said that I would be doomed to a life of disappointment and failure. I recognize them as lies, and I sever their power over me. I cut off any enemy empowerment of these curses against me, and I cancel any assignment of the enemy against me because of them. In Jesus' authority, I loose myself from these curses. And I release forgiveness to Mom for speaking it against me, and I send back a blessing to her of the love, peace and joy of my Lord Jesus Christ. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

That is all there is to it. It is so easy to break curses, because Jesus "became a curse for us when He hung on that tree" (Galatians 3:13). And what He has done for us has set us free, so there is absolutely no reason to remain under the captivity of curses spoken against you.