Are you Blessed in the City, or Cursed in the Field?
My newest designs, entitled "Blessed" & "Cursed" is based off of the following scriptures:
Numbers 23:8: How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?
AND
Numbers 22:12: But God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed."
Commonly in Christian circles, sermons & devotionals, you'll hear that you cannot curse what God has blessed. It's true. You can't. Balaam couldn't do it and he acknowledged it. However, the reverse is true as well; You cannot bless what God has cursed.
I don't think many people realize that God is not only in the blessing business.
I've been reading Jeremiah lately, and I recently stumbled upon an interesting verse that made me quiver.
Jeremiah 14:11-12: Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”
God was over it. He was so over it, he told Jeremiah not to even pray for their well-being. God put a full stop on Jeremiah trying to bless the people that God cursed.
So just remember Jeremiah 13:16, which says:
"Give glory to the Lord your God
before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
but he will turn it to utter darkness
and change it to deep gloom."