Christian Stress Management: Strengthen Your Faith Devotional Day 11

Bible Reading

The Israelites camped on the plains of Moab across from Jericho … The people of Moab were exceedingly afraid of the Israelites … King Balak then sent messengers to Balaam to come and curse the Israelites …

When Balaam tried the following words came out of his mouth, “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?” (Numbers 23:8)

When Balaam tried to curse the Israelites the second time the following words came out of his mouth, “He has blessed and I cannot reverse it. (Numbers 23:20)

When Balaam tried to curse them the third time the following words came out of his mouth, “Blessed is he who blesses you and cursed is he who curses you.” (Numbers 24:9)

King Balak’s anger was aroused and …he said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies but you have blessed them abundantly three times.” And Balak replied saying … “What the Lord says, that I must speak.” (Numbers 22:1-Numbers 24:13)

Thus we can see that when the Israelites were about to enter Promised Land, King Balak consulted Balaam to curse them. However the opposite happened so that they were blessed three times.

Therefore believe that God can protect you from curses because With God all things are possible. (Matthew 19:26)

In addition, know that God is not a respector of persons (Acts 10:34) which means that what He did for the Israelites, He can also do for you if you believe. Therefore believe that He can protect you from curses and if your faith is wavering read How to Increase your Faith.

Prayer

Heavenly Father I ask You in the name of Jesus to help me remember that With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26) including protecting me from curses so that I can believe without wavering that you will protect me since All things are possible for the person who believes. (Mark 9:23)