Topic: The Bait
Text: Numbers 22:17-32

Our world is filled with cursed people. Since curses are spiritual in nature, it is not easy to detect it in the lives of men and women. However, whenever a curse is in place it leaves a sour taste on the lips of its victim. Living a cursed life makes life’s burden heavy and unbearable. You owe yourself the duty of identifying all hidden curses in your life and erasing them through the blood of Jesus. A whole life may be under a spell or a curse. A business or the premises where it is carried out may be jinxed.

Whenever anyone or anything is under a curse nothing will work. Efforts made will yield no fruit; good prospects will not profit those who get involved with it while the opposite of what you desire and pray for may begin to happen to you. Wicked people place curses on the lives of men and women. How can we recognize a curse? A curse is in place when someone invokes supernatural forces to fight against his opponent. When someone curses an opponent, he is asking supernatural forces to destroy such an opponent. When people have an opponent that is too big for them to handle, they can pronounce a curse on the fellow.

There is an example in Numbers 22:2-3 and 5-6. Why did Balak invite Balaam? He asked him to curse the people so that he might be able to overpower them. When will a curse be effective? A curse will become effective whenever there is a reason for it. If you have not done anything that warrants a curse, if someone curses you, it will not work. When the evil ones want to put a curse on you, they would do something to make you angry so that there will be a cause to curse you. This is one of the reasons why you must never be angry. If someone is trying o make you angry, such a person may be setting a bait for you. Do not allow any curse to come upon your life.

Memory Verse: Numbers 22:17 - “For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.