Seven Indications of a (Curse)
1. Mental and / or emotional breakdown.
2. Repeated or chronic sickness (especially if hereditary)
3. Barrenness, a tendency to miscarry, or related female problems.
4. Breakdown of marriage and family alienation.
5. Continuing financial insufficiency.
6. Being "accident-prone".
7. A history of suicides and unnatural or untimely deaths.
The presence of only one or two of these problems would not necessarily be sufficient, by itself, to establish conclusively the working of a curse. But when several of the problems are present, or when any one of them tends to recur repeatedly, the probability of a curse increases proportionately. In the last resort, however, it is only the Holy Spirit who can provide an absolutely accurate "diagnosis".
1. Mental and/or Emotional Breakdown
The corresponding phrases from Deuteronomy 28 are: madness, driven mad (28,34); confusion of heart or confusion of mind (20,28); a trembling heart or an anxious mind (65); anguish of soul or despairing heart (65).
The areas affected are described as the heart, the soul or the mind. In other words, the inner citadel of human personality has been breached by invading, hostile forces.
Such people no longer have full control over their own thoughts and emotions and reactions.
They may be "haunted" by an inner spectre continually taunting them:
"You're losing control...
There's no hope for you. . .
Your mother ended up in a mental institution, and you'll be the next!
"Two key words are "CONFUSION" and "DEPRESSION".
These almost invariably have their roots in some form of occult involvement.
Often there is demonic activity. In most cases, however, it is necessary to deal with the occult involvement and to revoke the resulting curse, before the demons can be driven out.
2. Repeated or Chronic Sicknesses (especially if hereditary)
The corresponding phrases from Deuteronomy 28 are numerouse: plague or plagued with diseases (21); consumption or wasting disease (22); sever burning fever (22); inflammaing (22); incurable boils (27,35); tumours (27); scabs or festering sores (27); incurable itch (27); blindness (28); extraordinary, fearful, prolonged plagues (59); serious and prolonged sicknesses or severe and lingering diseases (59); every other kind of sickness and plague (61).
This list dose not necessarily indicate that every form of sickness or disease is the direct result of a curse.
There are however, certain key words that occur: plague, incurable, extraordinary, fearful, prolonged, lingering.
These serve as warning signals.
They create what might be called "the atmosphere of a curse." They suggest evil, malevolent forces at work.
There is another common medical term which is not explicitly used in Deuteronomy 28, but has a similar connotation.
It is "malignat" or "malignancy".
The primary definition of "malignant" in Collins English Dictionary is "having or showing desire to harm others".
Obviously this describes a person, rather than a mere physical condition. Even more than the words in the previous paragraph, it suggests an evil, malevolent intelligence at work.
Our use of such a term indicates an unconscious recognition that we are dealing with factors that are not purely physical.
Another very significant term used in reference to certain types of sickness is "hereditary".
It describes a condition that passes down from generation to generation.
This is one of the commonest and most typical marks of a curse at work.