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Breaking the Curse of Poverty  David K. Owusu

intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or
punishment on someone or something.

Since a curse is one that is spoken; it derives its power from both
spoken as well as the authority of the one who speaks it. Authority
here is two-fold in the sense of the “standing” of the person whether
he/she has the cognitive reason to curse; and the second is the
spiritual authority the speaker of the curse carries. The bible states
that a curse without a cause cannot stand.
Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her
flying, So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the
undeserving]. Proverbs 26:2 [AMP]

The same script plays out in the
 book of numbers. Balak, the king

[in] that though He of Moab terrified at the sight of the
was [so very] rich, children of Israel called Baalam to
yet for your sakes He
became poor, in order curse them for him that he may be
that by His poverty able to defeat and drive them out of
you might become- the land. In utter disappointment
enriched Balak sent out Balaam as he refused

 to curse the children of Israel for
him, instead he blessed them.

“Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands
together and said to him, ‘I summoned you to curse my enemies,
but you have blessed them these three times. Now leave at once

and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but the Lord
has kept you from being rewarded.” Numbers 24:10 [AMPC]

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