Blessings or Curses is a website dedicated to understanding the family from God’s perspective, with a focus on why families succeed or fail. Born out of the author’s own struggle with destructive generational patterns, the blog explores biblical truths about blessings and curses, especially as revealed in Deuteronomy 28–30. Scripture teaches that obedience to God’s voice brings life and blessing, while disobedience leads to curses. The site explains how generational curses operate, how they can be broken through Christ, and how families can walk in lasting freedom for a thousand generations. At its core, the message is a call for men to lead their households in God’s ways, as Abraham was commanded, so that families may inherit God’s promises and live in His blessings.
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- What is sin
- Why we sin
- The central sins – Idolatry
- Understanding how the blood of Jesus Redeems us
- Understanding what repentance is
- Repentance into Christ
- Repentance into Promise
- Repentance into Kingdom Culture
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The Fall – Consequences
The story of the Garden of Eden is not merely a historical account—it is the origin of the human condition. The seven curses pronounced in Genesis 3 form the foundation of how the world now operates, shaping the struggles of humanity, the hostility between good and evil, and the deep longing for restoration. By examining…
Keep readingOther Voices
Our lives are shaped and steered by the voices we choose to listen to.. Some of these voices are internal—the voice of God calling us to truth, the voice of the devil tempting us to sin, or even the echoes of past pain, fears, and insecurities. Others are external—the influence of those we love, the…
Keep readingThe Flesh – Saving in your own hand
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh (why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort)? – Galatians 3:3 At the root of all our problems is our desire to be independent from God, to do things our way. This is…
Keep readingEndurance and the integrity test
The Christian life is full of many tests. Among these is one designed to expose our ability to endure situations that are contrary to God’s promises, where we are tempted to take an easy way out. Such situations are often crafted by Satan—the accuser, slanderer, and opposer. In the book of Job, we see Satan…
Keep readingLed by the Spirit
The strategy employed by God to bring about salvation is a brilliant and ‘root-cause’ resolving strategy. Unlike the Old Testament, the New Testament does not directly confront sin but identifies the root cause of sin and provides a solution: death. Romans begins by explaining how the old nature, inherently sinful at its core, was inherited…
Keep readingWisdom i – Righteousness and Justice
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Governance in family, society and country is a major theme in the bible, God since the days of Abraham had started to train and expect his people to understand and execute righteousness and justice For I have chosen him, that…
Keep readingCulture Wars iv – Alliances and Intermarriage
Jehoshaphat was a good king he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord but a series of what seemed like innocent mistakes would see him usher in the worst decline of Judah’s history. This story starts in Israel where a girl called Athaliah was born to Jezebel and Ahab, she grew up…
Keep readingGenerational Strongholds ii – Reformation
Generational sins are passed down from one generation to another, sin when accommodated and accepted as norm becomes a stronghold. They become acceptable and at times honorable, children who grow up in this home will not know better but follow in the footsteps of their parents, it takes great courage to break from this destructive…
Keep readingWholehearted Obedience vs Partial Obedience
At the center of man’s rebellion is the desire to be autonomous, the desire to decide what is good and evil and to follow through and leave within those self-imposed boundaries. From Adam and Eve, this theme is continued in the bible where generation after generation the Children of Israel chose to do what is…
Keep readingAuthority & Oneness in the Family
The kingdom of darkness is waging war on the biblical foundations of family in this generation more than ever before, at the heart of this assault is a simple deception rooted in an old lie that was used to destroy the first family. Adam and Eve lived harmoniously with God as one, until the serpent…
Keep readingDenying the Flesh by focusing on the Promise
See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. Hebrews 12:16 Esau is the best biblical picture of how a person who has set their minds on the things of the flesh can lose their promise. The bible contrasts…
Keep readingUnbelief – Murmuring and Complaining
Unbelief manifests its self in three ways murmuring, complaining and lack of contentment. For those who have been called to live by promise this is a great sin and unless addressed eventually will cost them the Promise. This is the story of the first generation of the children of Israel who left Egypt, the bible…
Keep readingCulture Wars Infiltration – Unequally yoked
“I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the Lord and walk in it as their ancestors did.” The Lord had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive…
Keep readingRepentance into Christ – Forgiveness
My definition of what Christianity is “Living my life as if Christ died for Me” therefore sin according to that description would be “Living my life as if Christ did not die for Me”. It is to deny the finished works of the Lord Jesus, it is expected that anyone who truly believes that Jesus…
Keep readingRepentance into Christ
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 We all have heard the sinner’s prayer many times it is a…
Keep readingHoly Spirit Our Guide
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him…I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command…
Keep readingGod’s Promise – Learning Dependence
By faith these people overthrew kingdoms, ruled with justice, and received what God had promised them. They shut the mouths of lions Hebrews 11:33 The bible has great stories trying to convey important themes repeatedly. At the top of the list is how God always fulfills his promise, that he is good and faithful, and…
Keep readingBelieving God – Signs and Wonders
The sign and wonder is always meant to strengthen our believe during difficult seasons, it is important we draw certain conclusions from past miracles that God has performed.Signs and Wonder are not the end goal, rather they are to build our faith and help us endure to see the Promises come true.
Keep readingCulture Wars Part II – Infiltration
Joshua was a great military general, through the training and encouragement of Moses he was able to orchestrate many victories for the children of Israel. There is however a reason why a book in the bible has been named after Him, Joshua was no ordinary general. He had studied and mastered the ART of WAR…
Keep readingCulture Wars
The dictionary defines Culture as ‘the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society’. The cultural center of Israel was and still is Jerusalem, this is where the biblical scholars and Levites defined and interpreted the law that defined the culture for the rest of Israel. The Lord in great wisdom also…
Keep readingThe Bread of Life
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Deuteronomy 8:3 There is a theme in the bible…
Keep readingBeware of the praise of men
but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue. For they loved praise from men more than praise from God. John 12:42 -43 A story is told of a wise King, many years ago who wanted to marry off his beautiful daughter. The…
Keep readingPride – Self Idolatry
The cycle of pride Insecurity >> Need for external validation>> Believe in the false external validation>>Pride>>Self-Idolatry>>Narcissism >>Demonic Operation>>Cult Leader This is a sin that sets us up, for a confrontation with God, it is at the top of the list of the sins God hates i.e. haughty eyes There are six things that the Lord…
Keep readingIdolatry
“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. 1 Samuel 12:20 My definition…
Keep readingWhen I see the blood
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. Genesis 9:3-4 In Genesis 9:3-4 God instituted the first law, this was just after the great flood, and instructed…
Keep readingGodly Repentance
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 2 Corinthians 7:10 The repentance called for throughout the Bible is a summon to a personal, absolute and ultimate unconditional surrender to God as Sovereign. Though it includes sorrow and regret for particular sins, it is more than…
Keep readingThe Father of Lies
Lyrics to “In the words of Satan” by the Arrow I’ve been here since the beginningKnow exactly how you workI know all of your cravings Know what makes you go berserkBeen lying from the start just to make you play a part in my infinite rebellion against the Father God HateEverything he isAnd I make…
Keep readingGenerational Strongholds
Every generational curse, is supported by a generational sin. Sin in families are passed on from generation to generation, if the sin and the believe systems behind it are not identified and uprooted it becomes a strong hold. The dictionary defines a stronghold as “a place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended…
Keep readingThe Knowledge of good and evil
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:4 The story of creation tells us two things, that in the beginning there was darkness but as God starts the process of creation he did not destroy the darkness, He first created light. Then He took some time…
Keep readingThe wrong environment part 1
When children are raised in an environment that does not reflect the kingdom of God (toxic environment) they will easily pick up the sins of their care givers/parents and will draw conclusions about life that will make them vulnerable to sin. As I have researched on this issue, three things have become very clear to…
Keep readingHypocrisy
. wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God. 1 Corinthians 4:5 Note that the verse above talks about the motive of the heart, all those good actions that were…
Keep readingThe Sins Of Our Fathers
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. Lamentations 5:7 And the Israelite’s separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Nehemiah 9:2 The family is God’s government on earth with one mandate ‘to restore God’s lost dominion’, it has has a…
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