By Eric Jinkwen ;

Matthew 12:37: "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Yesterday, I overheard someone saying to his friend, “we who are the poor…” It struck my heart. For how long has he been saying things like this to himself?
Brethren, one of the Causes of curses in people’s life is wrong declarations. It is again called, self-imposed curses.

Our passage says, For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” What you say about yourself and your circumstances is very important. Your words will either bless, free you or will curse and condemn you in poverty and lack.
Long ago, Solomon gave this strong declaration, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.”
(Proverbs 18:21).

How are you using your tongue? What do you say about you? John the Baptist was asked, “What do you say about yourself?” He had found a passage in Isaiah and He said: “I am ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Make straight the way of the Lord”
(John 1:23).

What do you say about yourself?
Are you cursing yourself?
Are you speaking evil about yourself because things are hard? You better stop it.
In Genesis 27:13, Rebekah responded to Jacob’s fear of being curse by the father because of deceit, she said this, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.'”

In verse 46, she again said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?” Words like those truly will bring curses on the one who say them. After this situation, we don’t hear any words again about Rebekah, she died early.

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It is terribly dangerous to say negative things against yourself.
In Matthew 27: 24-25, the people advocating for the crucifixion of Jesus said to aloud, “Let His blood be upon us and upon our children.” This was a self-imposed curse.

Thank God that Jesus prayed for them to be forgiven. The bottom line is this, use your mouth to bless your life. Whatever the pressure and the situation, don’t speak negative words. You can only speak rightly when your heart also is right, because the mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart (Ref Matthew 12:33-37).
Store the word of God in your heart.
Let the poor say, I am rich; let the blind say, I can see; let the sick say, I can heal. Hallelujah!
Amen.