CANCELING A BLESSING

 I have learned to stop myself from saying: “I don’t care”. It seems whenever these three words preface anything I say afterwards they are wrong. The implication being: Whatever I am about to say or do is not the correct behavior or response but I am going to say or do it anyway. I should care, we should all care about what comes out of our mouth and what we do because of the consequences.

PROVERBS 6:2 THE VOICE

Then your words may well be the trap that snares you, and your promise may seal your fate. You can’t be sure to whom you hitched your future.

Normally I quote the King James Bible, The Voice presents a more succinct interpretation of the KJV: “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Jesus told the Pharisees: 

MATTHEW  12:37 KING JAMES VERSION

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

We cancel blessings by not caring what we say, or do. 

MARK 7:13 KING JAMES VERSION

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

LUKE 11:2 KING JAMES VERSION

And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

We are to speak and do God’s will not what we want to do or what man says we should say or do. We cancel blessings because the Word of God reveals His will yet we are determined to do things according to our own will. 

“I don’t care” we declare as we prepare to give someone what we believe he or she should get. Why do we say “I don’t care”? Because we know we should care. Our desire to inflict our will on someone else is greater than our desire to let it go and let God.

PSALM 19:14 KING JAMES VERSION

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

When we say: “I don’t care.” We are declaring: I don’t care what the Word of God says, I am going to say, or do, what I want anyway. We purposefully step out of God’s will to do our own will, thus stepping away from the blessings.

We are blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:2, 22:17). 

MATTHEW 5:44 KING JAMES VERSION

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

PROVERBS 25:21-22 KING JAMES VERSION

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

Grab a piece of God’s word and release it.  When you walk away from an adversarial event instead of lashing out you win. When you pray for those who hurt you God’s mercy falls on you. It may not look like it in the natural but when you do not give a person “a piece of your mind” you are actually setting him or her up for the consequences of their actions. Your deeds become coals of fire that convict them and the door in which your blessings flow through. Releasing a piece of your mind releases death and curses into your own life.

DEUTERONOMY  30:19 KING JAMES VERSION

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 

                                                     Written by Marsha L Floyd