Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose [Paperback]

Derek Prince (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1990

Derek Prince suggests that two forces are at work in every life: blessings and curses. To enjoy the benefits of God's blessings and be protected from curses, we need to understand how these forces work.

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From the Back Cover

Do you know what forces are influencing your life from day to day?

Are you or your family experiencing repeated sickness or accidents? Do you feel under mental, emotional or financial pressure much of the time? Are your closest relationships in turmoil? Do you wonder why success comes easily to others but seems to elude you?

Bible teacher Derek Prince shows how the forces behind blessings and curses might be at work in your life. Drawing from God's Word and real-life experiences, Prince will help you understand the causes of curses--occult activity, hidden sin, abuses, abandonment, even sin from a previous generation--and teach you how to be set free from curses, so you can start enjoying the benefits of God's blessings.

More than 1.6 million readers have received life-transforming spiritual insight from this groundbreaking book. In this expanded edition, each chapter is followed by a study lesson--for yourself or for a small group--with review questions, a life application section and a memory verse.

With Derek Prince's help, you can experience freedom from problems that have frustrated you for years and enjoy the destiny God has planned for you. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Derek Prince (1915-2003), founder of Derek Prince Ministries International, wrote more than fifty books. He was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University, England, and studied Hebrew and Aramaic at Cambridge and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His daily radio broadcast, Keys to Successful Living, still touches lives around the world. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 263 pages
• Publisher: Chosen Books Pub Co (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800791665
• ISBN-13: 978-0800791667
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars be set free from the power of a curse, April 28, 2000

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"shofar" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose (Paperback)

I was first turned on to this book by a pastor friend who ministers in deliverance. Right from the outset, when we first met, he got the impression that I was suffering from some kind of curse, without even having spoken to me at any length. I was ministering in worship and praise at the time (which I still do) and I didn't pay too much attention to what he said until I read through this book.

I had felt for the longest time though (for the last 15 years or so), on numerous occasions that my family and I had experienced a great deal more of "unlucky" calamity, sickness, and financial failure than most of the people around us. The book lists, among other things, numerous objects that can be doorways for the occult or idolatry to enter into our lives. Boy was I surprised when the pastor showed me that the papyrus I used for educational purposes had the image of a musician (symbolically me) making an offering on an altar to the highest god of Egypt! From then on, my wife and I went through the house and we were amazed at the number of objects that we found. We decided to burn them in the back yard.

The book speaks in depth on self-imposed curses that we bring upon ourselves through our speech, and also covers family, or hereditary curses that were handed down to us through our ancestors. If you don't believe in hereditary curses you might want to ask yourself why the doctor's office always has you fill out a form telling them what diseases your parents and grandparents had.

The question of course is, if Christ redeemed me from "the curse of the law" why would I still need to break any curses in my life? Good question. Another question to ask yourself could be, if God forgave my sins, why am I still in jail, or why am I still suffering the consequences of my sin, or even my father's sin? I will leave you to read the book to get the author's point of view on this.

This is a highly practical as well as informative book. It has definitely left an impression upon my thinking. For those of you who have even the slightest doubt that you may be suffering from a curse, please read this book, and learn how you can be set free from its power.

47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Worth the read!", August 20, 2000

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J L. Simmons (KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose (Paperback)

As a traditional, evangelical Baptist pastor I was not sure about reading this book. It was recommended by a friend, however, whose judgement I trusted. I couldn't put it down. It is a wealth of Biblical wisdom and common sense. I find myself going back to it time and again, and each time I rediscover wisdom and comfort in his suggested prayers, and his analysis of scriptures which I had read often, but not understood. This book will bring you (and I use this word cautiously) 'healing,' from much that is in your past.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The truth shall set you free, April 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose (Paperback)

This book is awesome. A MUST have for bible believing christians. It is very similar to Rebecca Brown MD's 'Unbroken Curses' except that it goes into much more depth. Derek Prince clearly explains the causes of curses and how to be released from them. He explains them plainly both from a biblical point of view and thirty plus years of experience . Again, an awesome and revealing book on a subject which most churches today do not want to talk about or ignore. I also recommend Prince's other book 'They Shall Expel Demons' .