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  1. Does God have both cursing and blessing coming forth from his mouth? There are many verses in the bible that God is blessing, making covenants and creating miracles. However there are many verses were God pronounces a course upon people such as the Cananites and the Israelites. I do not liken myself to God but the question is, is it possible for both blessing and curses to come out of your mouth. Context

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    • Hi Ramona,
      There are two different ways to understand the word “curse”.

      An example of the first way is when God through Moses said to Israel:
      Deu 11:26 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse.
      What did God mean by a curse? It was a judgement, he was telling them what would happen to them if they rejected His love. It is explained in –
      Deu 30:15 Behold! I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil,

      The other way to understand the word “curse” is that they are swear words, expletives, blasphemies, profanities, obscenities.

      When God pronounces a curse it is only in the first meaning, he is pronouncing judgement on evil.

      For us it is wrong to judge others and to swear at them, we should not spew evil deadly poison out of our mouths and then think we can turn around and bless God.

      Jas 3:8-10 But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. (9) By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God. (10) Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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    • I believe that it is not God cursing us as individuals, but he has cursed the path that turned away from Him. He bless us when we walk a path with Him, but the moment we turn our backs on him we will not have His blessings anymore and we choose to walk on the path that has been cursed. 🙂 Hope this helps a bit to understand that God would never curse is, He is speaking about the path that has already been cursed, due to Satan.

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  2. Those entrusted with the latter rain with pronounce both, blessings and cursings. That's why its critical now that we develop the correct spirit so that when we are entrusted with the Latter Rain, we don't just go around cursing everyone who irritates us and instead become fountains of blessings. Jesus, and his disciples also all pronounced cursings from time to time; there are some examples. The ratio was always many more blessings than cursings it seems.

    Jesus cursed the fig tree but that wasn't a person. Some of the disciples cursed people to death on occasion. Curses are serious business, but they were always for the benefit of the gospel, and that is the contrast to the natural inclination to curse others.

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  3. Here you have to be careful with words. The phenomenon is clear... new testament disciples commanded some evil people to die and they did. This was a serious judgement directly inspired by God.

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  4. Hope Sabbath School is famous for giving classes to adults for the very important aspects of life. Like this seventh lesson 'Taming the Tongue' is quite interesting, about the value of words which we speak,sometimes without thinking at once.

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  5. God bless you .this is a very powerful message,taming the tongue. I imagine that I have supposed to count my words I speak by a day and how to I speak them ,it's for encouraging or opposite ,I pray God to help me .

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  6. A promise that was not mentioned in the HSS (there are many) is: Matt 19:26 (MSG, re: camel through eye of needle.) "Jesus looked hard at them and said, "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it."

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