A person in a position of deserving it,

Deserving it implies a person did something wrong intentionally or ignorantly and the curser (source assigning the curse) is justly proclaiming punishment and holding the person accountable for the wrong.

2) A person having grounds or a legal doorway to receiving it,
Having a legal doorway to receiving a curse implies a person is not directly responsible or accountable for a wrong but has a liability for it. He/she has an avenue of access for a curse to bear fruit. This liability poses as a risk factor. Liabilities include having not received the gift of salvation and walking in sin.

Thus a person that's not born again is an open vessel for certain curses bearing fruit. These include curses from people and self-imposed curses. If you're not yet born again and would like to receive God's free gift of salvation there is plenty of hope. You can contact any local bible centered church, a committed Christian you know, or access a “ <a href="http://www.jesusworkministry.com/html/about-jesus-work-ministry.html">Prayer of Salvation </a>” at our website, JesusWorkMinistry.com. To easily locate the “Prayer of Salvation” at JesusWorkMinistry.com you can type in the words “ <a href="http://www.jesusworkministry.com/html/about-jesus-work-ministry.html">prayer of salvation </a>” in the search bar. It can also be accessed through the link: “About Jesus Work Ministry.” All glory be to God for drawing you to himself through this book.

Walking in sin also opens grounds or legal doorways to receiving curses in some areas. The major source of curses from walking in sin is God (curses from God). Self-imposed curses can also have an effect on a person since walking in sin creates grounds or legal doorways for various negative matters.

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps whatever he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit will reap eternal life,” Galatians 6:7-8.

5. Curse words need to go through God, the ultimate Gatekeeper of words

God is the ultimate Gatekeeper or Judge over all words, including curses words. “To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue,” Proverbs 16:1.

“Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails,” Proverbs 19:21.

Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology says, “The curse is totally under Yahweh's control. It is his power, not magical forces, which brings about the curse. His sovereign decision alone decides who merits being cursed (1 Kings 8:31-32). He cannot be forced into action by proper wording or ritual. Thus a curse could not be used capriciously as a weapon against one's personal enemies.”

All five of the above conditions must apply for a curse to harvest or bear fruit. Thus if a curse qualifies in any four of the five above factors it still fails to harvest or bear fruit over an individual.

You can see that curses words or statements of ill have a tough journey to travel. Before they can receive their license or permit to affect a person they have tough conditions to meet. God created a tough journey for them in order to protect people from being unfairly affected by malicious words of others. It is also to protect us from most careless words we utter against ourselves.

Thus curses have a basis, rather than being random afflictions. If a person is addressed a cursing expression and does not deserve it the curse words do not bear fruit –they don't result into a curse. The curse dies since the individual is innocent. The curse words merely constitutes empty statements of misfortune. The curse words may even return to harm the person that uttered them. “I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse,” Genesis 12:3.

In such a case it is God who returns the curse. We have no role to play on the cursing side. The only role we can play is on the forgiving side. We can ask that God does not treat the people as they deserve for being mean or malicious in their intentions and words.

Like Jesus, we pray to God saying, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing,” Luke 23:34.

In the New Testament we're even admonished to bless those who curse us or pronounce words of misfortune on us. Their cursing words won't materialize anyway so we ought to have an easy time to bless them even when they're hostile.

“Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you,” Luke 6:28.

“Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse…Do not repay anyone evil for evil,” Romans 12:14,17.

“When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly,” 1 Corinthians 4:12-13.