Topic:Cursed Blessing
Text: Genesis 12:1-4

Of all problems in the world, the issue of cursed blessings is the worst. When joy turns to sorrow, sweetness becomes sour and good turns to evil, men become perplexed and confused. Do you know that one’s blessing can be cursed? That is what we shall examine today.

We all know that the sun is a blessing. When the sun is shinning, there are light and warmth. Scientists tell us that if there is no sun there will be no growth in vegetation. The moon is also a very good blessing. Those of us who live in the cities may not appreciate this fact but those who live in villages where there is no electricity regard the moon as their own divine source of light. When the sun suddenly begins to smite by day and destroy the skin, then that which is supposed to be a blessing has become a curse. This will happen during the tribulation days. And this is why we have to be out of this world when Jesus comes for His own because those who are left behind will suffer and there will be nowhere to hide. When God created the sun and the moon, He saw that it was a good job done. They are supposed to be blessings. However, when we go through the Scriptures, we will see those who have been blessed and how their blessings became curses and we will see in some cases what they did to revert the curses to blessings.

There is an instructive story concerning Abraham in Genesis 12:1-4 where God told Abraham that He would bless him mightily so much that he would be a blessing to the whole world, provided he did three things: get out of his country, his family and his father’s house, to a land that He would show him. Abraham got out of his country and his father’s house but he did not get out of his family because he took Lot with him. Because his obedience was incomplete, he met trouble waiting for him when he arrived where God promised to have blessing waiting for him (Genesis 12:10-16). There was famine in the land, cursed by Abraham’s disobedience. His blessings became a curse, which extended to other people. Are you living under a curse when you are supposed to be blessed? Has you blessing turned to a curse? Examine yourself, discover the reasons and make amends.

Memory Verse: II Corinthians 10:6 - “And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”