And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shall eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return.
Genesis 3:17-19
God said to Adam, “because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife against my own voice to have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat; the ground is cursed for your sake.” The ground wasn’t cursed rather it was cursed for the sake of the Adam who ate of the tree he was asked not to eat.
It’s important to know the Adam whom the ground was cursed for his sake. The ground was cursed for the sake of a dead Adam, not a living Adam (living soul).
God has spoken to Adam in Genesis 2:16-17, saying, “…Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eats thereof thou shall surely die.”
God said Adam will die the very day he eats of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The bible said when he did ate it, his eyes were open and he became afraid of God his Father (Genesis 3:6-8). The man Adam died that day.
From that day, the Earth and its inhabitant began to rebel against Adam: their king. They couldn’t hear him again. He became a stranger to his subjects.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - John 10:27
The earth and its occupants were no longer hearing the voice of their king – Adam and were no longer following his instructions. No matter how much he tried, they didn’t hear and couldn’t respond positively. He became a stranger in his own kingdom and to his own subject.
God said to this dead Adam, “In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return.” The dead Adam was taken from the ground and must return to the ground. But the living Adam came from the breath of God.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7.
The earth was willed to the living Adam (a living soul) and not to the dead Adam. (And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created He them. – Gen 1:26-27)
Everything on earth answered to him. When he called they answered and whatever he called them, they answered (Genesis 2:19). Whatever he touched lived but for the dead Adam, whatever he touched died because they don’t know him.
When God said to the dead Adam, “…cursed is the ground for thy sake.” He didn’t curse the earth but was telling the dead Adam the truth about the situation on the ground. He was telling him that the ground wouldn’t respond to him anymore as he was responding to him as a living soul. He was telling him that the earth was no longer his subject but a stranger. He no longer had the power to command the earth to his will.
The curse of the ground is in the dead Adam as the blessing of the ground is in the living Adam.
The blessing or the curse is in the man not in the earth or the things in the earth. The earth or the things in it manifest what a man carries. The man who carries a blessing has the earth responding in like fashion and the man who carries a curse the same.
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee and will bless thee; for unto thee… And Isaac dwelt in Gerar… Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis 26:1-12
Isaac, a blessed man lived in a land ravaged by famine and the same ground that couldn’t yield enough for those who sowed in it gave him an abundant harvest of that which he sowed. The ground responded to the man who sowed.
And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and overall that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Genesis 39:4-5
The Lord blessed Potiphar’s house for Joseph’s sake. God didn’t bless Potiphar’s house rather the house of Potiphar responded to the blessing Joseph carried. The house of Potiphar responded to the blessing which was in Joseph as a carrier of the presence of God.
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man, and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39:2
As curse answered to Adam without the presence of God, blessing answered to Abraham and his seeds who carried the presence of God.
If you want to become as a seed of Abraham and carry the blessings of God that wherever you enter, things answers to you favorably, say the following prayers with me from the depth of your heart with all sincerity.
PRAYER OF SALVATION
Oh Lord God, I believe with my entire heart in your son Jesus Christ. I believe He died for me and You raised Him from the dead. I believe He is alive today. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from today. Through Him and in His name I have eternal life.
I am born again. Thank you, Lord. I am now a child of God. Praise God!
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PASTOR’S PRAYER FOR YOU
Father in the name of Jesus Christ, I decree that the blessing that follows your
children rest upon this child of yours. From now, he or she is a cure for curses.
Anywhere he or she enters, curses disappear in the name of Jesus.
PERSONAL CONFESSION
I am a living blessing to my world. The earth and its inhabitants' answer
favorably to me from now on in Jesus name. I am the cure for the curses. Amen.
Remain ever blessed
Jesus is Lord.
