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Breaking the Curse of Poverty David K. Owusu
you shall be a fugitive and vagabond on the earth [in perpetual,
exile, a degrade outcast]” Genesis 4:11-12 [AMPC]
A curse once pronounced takes a supernatural force and becomes
operational. Words have power. Just like it’s easy to speak a blessing
and watch it manifest, the reverse is also true. The spoken word
wields that power to bring this into manifestation. After all,
everything that exists was created by the spoken word from the
mouth of God.
“By faith [that is, with an inherent trust and enduring confidence
in the power, wisdom and goodness of God] we understand that
the worlds (universe, ages) were framed and created [formed, put
in order, and equipped for their intended purpose] by the word
of God, so that what is seen was not made of things which are
visible” Hebrews 11:3 [AMP]
Curses are spoken (as they were spoken against Adam and Eve in
the garden)
“Then to Adam, the Lord said “Because you have listened to the
[attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from
the tree about which I commanded you saying ‘You shall not eat of
it”…the ground is now under a curse because of you, in sorrow
and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it all the days of your life…but
thorns and thistles you shall eat the plants of the field…” Genesis
3: 17-18 (AMP).
This is also seen in the new Testament where Jesus cursed the
fig tree and the following day the disciples found the tree having
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