Reverse The Curse | Jabin Chavez | City Light Church

Summary

Podcast Summary: “Reverse The Curse”

City Light Church Las Vegas | Jabin Chavez
Date: January 12, 2026
Speaker: Pastor Jabin Chavez
Series: The God First Life

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Main Theme

In this dynamic episode, Pastor Jabin Chavez explores the power of prayer to “reverse the curse”—to break cycles, labels, limitations, and negative predictions that have been spoken or imposed over individuals and families. Using the story of Jabez from 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 as his foundation, Pastor Jabin passionately emphasizes how prayer can transform identity, break generational curses, and usher in God’s blessing and freedom for the coming year.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Context of Jabez’s Prayer

• (00:00 - 03:30)
  • The passage from 1 Chronicles involves genealogies, but the writer pauses to highlight Jabez, named for the pain his births caused his mother.
  • Jabez’s mother pronounced pain and limitation over him, but Jabez sought God for blessing.
  • “But Jabez called upon the God of Israel…and everything changed when Jabez prayed.” (03:00, Pastor Jabin)

2. Pray Until You Are Different

• (04:18 - 08:58)
  • Point 1: Prayer is the key to transformation and distinction in a person’s life.
  • The Hebrew word for “honorable” (kabod) implies having weight or glory from God.
  • The difference in Jabez was not his family or history, but his prayer life—his private faith produced public impact.
  • Parallel to Elijah: Not superhuman, but a person whose ordinary nature was transformed by prayer (07:11).
  • Notable Quote:
    “Pray when you’re full of faith and pray when you’re full of doubt…Pray until 2026 looks different than 25 and different than 24.” (08:13, Pastor Jabin & Team)
  • Action: Press into prayer, push until something changes.

3. Pray Until You’re Blessed

• (09:05 - 16:24)
  • Point 2: Request God’s blessing to overturn curses, limitations, and painful labels.
  • In biblical culture, names and spoken words shaped destiny—Jabez was labelled “pain.”
  • The blessing is not material wealth but God’s active favor that contradicts any “curse word” declared over your life.
  • Curses are described as being bound or stuck to moments of pain or labels of limitation (12:03).
  • Notable Quote:
    “You’re not your weakness…You’re not your trauma.” (12:45 & 13:03, Pastor Jabin)
  • Personal anecdote with a therapist who reminds him he is not defined by trauma (13:03).
  • Encouragement: Refuse to let any label, opinion, or negative prophecy limit your life.
  • Illustration: Elephants tied to posts—though they outgrow the restraint, they still believe they’re bound (17:08).
  • Challenge against adopting generational, cultural, or societal labels—“I am who God says I am.” (16:08)

4. Pray Until You’re Free

• (20:11 - 25:16)
  • Point 3: It’s possible to be blessed but not truly free; true breakthrough requires both.
  • Reflects on pastors and leaders who were blessed outwardly but not free inwardly, leading to collapsed lives (21:00).
  • Jabez not only asks for blessing, but for freedom from repeating pain and perpetuating curses.
  • “I declare you will never fulfill the curse of your enemies. Whatever they said, it's cancelled in the name of Jesus.” (22:27)
  • Aim: To be so healed that your story becomes almost unbelievable for future generations (“You won't look like what you’ve been through” – 23:31).

5. Generational Blessing vs. Generational Cursing

• (25:24 - 27:59)
  • Reference to 2 Timothy—faith passed from grandmother Lois to mother Eunice to Timothy.
  • Blessing can flow through generations, not only curses; we are called to “pass down generational blessing.”
  • Remarks on women preachers and breaking cultural barriers.
  • “Timothy became the product of generational blessing. And I declare that over you. That's going to be your story.” (27:59, Pastor Jabin)

6. Uprooting Cursed Words & Prophetic Prayer

• (28:25 - 34:22)
  • Explanation of Jesus calling words “seeds”—if negative words (cursed words, not cuss words) are allowed to take root, they shape experience.
  • Vivid analogy: The “barbed hook” in the soul—long-embedded, trapping pain, but the Holy Spirit can remove it (29:25 - 31:08).
  • Corporate Prayer & Declaration
    • Congregation joins in standing and praying to “reverse the curse.”
    • Notable Prayer (33:07):
      “Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that you love me…In Jesus’ name I renounce every curse spoken against my life, my future, my family…I will never be the same… I’m blessed…I’m a child of God…and I will do everything you’ve called me to do…”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Everything can change when you pray:
  “Everything changed when Jabez prayed. And I just want to tell you, everything can. Your life can jump off the history books.” (03:14 – Pastor Jabin)

• Press into prayer, persist despite feelings:
  “Pray when you’re calling down Fire and pray when you’re suicidal. Pray. Pray on your highest mountain and pray in your lowest valley... Pray till you’re different.” (08:17 – Worship/Teaching Team)

• Blessing reverses limitations:
  “When God blesses me, it reverses everything that's ever been done to me or said about me. Because I'm blessed.” (14:23 – Worship Leader/Choir Member)

• Refusing to be limited:
  “I must refuse to let any label limit me…” (16:20 – Pastor Jabin)

• Overcoming generational patterns:
  “Now, we’re not called to pass on generational curses, generational mindsets, generational labels and lids. You pass down generational blessing.” (25:40 – Pastor Jabin)

• Removing the “hook” of trauma:
  “I saw the surgeon, the Holy Spirit, hover over you and so gently and beautifully take that hook out of your heart…He loosed you.” (30:44 – Pastor Jabin)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00: Series intro, reading 1 Chronicles 4:9-10
• 03:30: Jabez’s story stands out in genealogies—prayer changes the narrative.
• 04:18: Pray until you’re different; “kabod”—the glory of God.
• 07:13: Elijah and the power of prayer for transformation.
• 09:05: Pray until you are blessed; reversing negative labels.
• 12:03: Definition of “curse” and encouragement to break free.
• 13:03: “You’re not your trauma.”
• 17:08: Elephant and post illustration—breaking learned limitations.
• 20:11: Pray until you’re free; blessing isn’t the same as freedom.
• 22:27: Prophetic declaration cancelling curses.
• 23:31: “You won’t look like what you’ve been through.”
• 25:24: Generational blessing (2 Timothy reference).
• 28:25: Uprooting negative words; the hook illustration.
• 32:39: Prophetic prayer—“I curse the curse… I loose the blessing…”
• 33:07: Corporate declaration of freedom and blessing.

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Flow, Tone, and Takeaways

Pastor Jabin combines humor, personal vulnerability, prophetic declarations, and energetic preaching to create an atmosphere of hope and expectation. The core message—that prayer is the catalyst for breaking cycles and reversing curses—resonates throughout, encouraging listeners to take action in prayer, reject limiting labels, and stand in generational blessing.

For Listeners:

• If you’ve struggled under negative words, trauma, or generational patterns, this episode encourages you to:
  • “Pray until you’re different, blessed, and free.”
  • Reject false labels and limitations, declaring your identity as blessed.
  • Uproot cursed words and replace them with God’s promises.
  • Believe for generational turnaround—passing on blessing, not pain.

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End Note:
“Today, we reverse the curse. I will do everything you’ve called me to do…I’m blessed.” (33:47 – Pastor Jabin & Team)

Transcript

[Pastor J. Ben]

We're in a series entitled the God First Life. And I'm just going to read two verses to you. We'll get into a few different things throughout this series, but really we're focusing on prayer. This is 1st Chronicles, chapter 4 in verse 9. Now, Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. By the way, my name is J. Ben. This is Jabez. But if you call me Jabez, I won't be offended. But anyway, you can always just call me Pastor. If you forget my name. Hi, Pastor. That's good. Good enough. And I'll just call you brother or sister. Amen. His mother called him Jabez. Here's why. Because I bore him in pain. She. She had a painful pregnancy, a painful birth. And she. She declares over him that. That he is painful. But I watch this. But Jabez, he called upon the God of Israel saying. And let's pray this prayer together. Everyone, out loud. We're going to pray it together. Let's go. Oh, that you would bless me indeed.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I said, everybody.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Let's start over again. Everybody. Oh, that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory. That your hand would be with me and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain. Amen. So God granted him what he requested. Oh, that you would bless me.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Me.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I want to talk just for a few minutes this morning about Reverse the curse. Reverse the curse.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Can we have a little church here today?

[Pastor J. Ben]

We have a little church tonight. Reverse the curse. Lord, I thank you that you're reversing every curse, every label, every limitation put on us. In Jesus name we declare 2026 as.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

A year of miracles.

[Pastor J. Ben]

We're going to see it with our eyes. Amen. Amen. And Amen. Thank you. See, that was great, beautiful music today. Music shouldn't be that good at 9:45 in the morning. That should be like 8 o' clock at night kind of music. Amazing. Just tame it down for the next service. So we're in First. We're in First Chronicles, chapter four. And if you know anything about the Bible, if you've ever read through the Bible, you know, First Chronicles is, you know, kind of a crazy book because it's so and so begat, so and so begat, so and so begat. So this guy had a baby with this person. This person had a baby with this person, had a baby, and this person had a baby. This person. It's a little bit, you know, boring. If you're. If you're ever reading through the Bible in a Year or you're in a Bible reading plan. You know, when you get to First Chronicles, you put it. You grab the audio version. Amen. You get the you version and you hit triple speed. Amen. You just get through it. Start fresh in First Samuel. Praise the Lord. Too real, Jabin. Too real. So. But right here in the midst of this book, so and so, beget so and so, beget so and so, beget so and so. All of a sudden, the name Jabez jumps off of the pages and jumps out of the history books and gives us this beautiful little thought that Jabez cried out to God that everything changed when Jabez prayed. And I just want to tell you everything can. Your life can jump off the history.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Books, your life can jump off of.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Norm and the normal.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Your life can jump out of cycle after cycle after cycle.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Because when you become a man of prayer, when you become a woman of prayer, it distinguishes you in your generation.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

And people can look back and go, everything changed because they prayed. And I just want to declare over you, in the name of Jesus, everything is changing this year because as you pray, God will hear your prayer. Say Amen, everybody. And I want to talk about. I talked about prayer last week. If you didn't hear last week, please.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Get it, because it will build. We've got all these sermons online. They're all free for you.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

But I want to talk about prayer.

[Pastor J. Ben]

A little bit more.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I want to talk about pressing into prayer. Point number one, Pray till you're different.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. Honorable. This word, honorable, the Hebrew word kabod. It's where we get glory. Jabez's life had glory on, had heavy on, wasn't light and flaky and movable. It was heavy.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

It was saturated with the presence of God. Jabez's life had glory on.

[Pastor J. Ben]

It, had God on it, had a.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

God factor about it that you could not see. Simple. It didn't make sense in the natural. It only made sense if you're spiritual, like Samson. When they looked at Samson and they said, we don't know the secret of your strength. It doesn't make sense by looking at you, but there's something powerful about you. In the same way, when you looked at Jabez, it was in his family, and it wasn't his mama, and it wasn't his history, it was his prayer life that gave his life glory, gave his life weight, gave his life something that when people look at you, all they could do is say, this had to be God. Oh, that our life would be heavy with the presence of God. Not light, not weak, not fragile and not frazzled like the book of James. That said people are blown around by every wind of doctrine. That we wouldn't be moved by the winds of culture, by the trials and the temptations of this world, but that our life would have weight, that we would be planted and secure. First Corinthians 15. Paul prays that we would be immovable, always ready and zealous to do the work of the Lord. That's the kind of life I want. I don't want to be here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to be hot today, cold tomorrow. Come on. I'm declaring the glory of God over your life that you are immovable. Say amen, everybody. He was different in his generation. It was his private life that created his public life. Pray till you're different. Pray till you're different in your family.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Pray till you're different in your workplace.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Pray till you're different in your city.

[Pastor J. Ben]

In your region, in your generation.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Go so low before God that he.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Has to elevate you and lift you up. Before a generation, Elijah was a man with a nature like ours.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I want you to catch this. He was just like us. See, we read the Bible and we.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Think these people were angels or something. We think they had halos and wings. They're just like us. Now watch it.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Same physical.

[Pastor J. Ben]

That means he had anger, means he had lust, means he had hunger. He had just like us. Physical, mental, spiritual limitations and shortcomings. He was just like us. And yet, watch this.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

He prayed.

[Pastor J. Ben]

What made Elijah different in his generation.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Was not his appearance.

[Pastor J. Ben]

It was his prayer life. Elijah was a man of prayer.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

And what changed a nation was his prayer life. And let me just encourage you.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Some of his prayers were powerful. He'd pray and it stopped raining. He'd pray and fire would fall down. He'd pray and it would start raining. Some of his prayers were awesome. Some of his prayers were not powerful. They were pitiful.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Hello, you read First Kings?

[Pastor J. Ben]

Some of his prayers were terrible.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

He said, God, kill me, God, I'm.

[Pastor J. Ben]

The only one left.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

God, nobody loves you but me.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

He had a weird main character energy sometimes.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Come on, somebody. Some of his prayers were powerful. Some of them were pitiful. But every prayer touched the heart of God. I just want you to know.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Pray when you're full of faith and.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Pray when you're full of doubt.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Pray when you're happy and pray when you're sad. Pray when you're calling down Fire and pray when you're suicidal. Pray. Pray on your highest mountain and pray in your lowest valley. Pray, pray and pray again and pray again and pray again and watch God do something in your life. Pray till 2026 looks different than 25 and different than 24 and different than 23. Come on. If we want to see some different things this year, we gonna have to.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Pray some different prayers. This prayer, I'm asking you to pray a little longer. Pray a little harder. Push. Pray until something happens and watch God.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Move in your life. Give me a good amen right there and I'll keep preaching. But pray till you're different. Number two. Pray till you're blessed.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Man, is it hot in here? Am I pre menopausal? What is happening right now?

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm having a hot flash up here.

[Pastor J. Ben]

All right, all right, relax. I had a woman go. I agree. Pray till you're blessed. Oh, that you would bless me. Bless me. Bless me. My mother cursed me, but God, you can bless me. See, names meant a lot in the Bible. They spoke of your future and of your destiny. And they declared something about you. And again, this is not born of the spirit of God. This was their tradition. This was really their superstition. Because even God's people can become very superstitious. Christians become very superstitious. And. And so she had a painful birth, she had a painful pregnancy, and then she named him Pain. You were a pain. You are a pain. You will always be a pain. You.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You.

[Pastor J. Ben]

You were painful to me, and you will be painful to a generation. This is what she said. She. She said, well, if my birth was. If the birth was painful, and if. If the pregnancy was painful, I guess this is who he will be in a generation. But see, when God blessed him, what the blessing does is it reverses. Reverses the curse. It reverses the normal. It reverses the prediction.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Let me just explain the cur.

[Pastor J. Ben]

The blessing real quick. The blessing is the opposite of the curse. The blessing is not stuff. The blessing is not a brand of vehicle. The blessing is not a zip code. The blessing is not the brand of shoes you're wearing right now. The blessing is not what's in your bank account. All of those things can be great. I want all that for you. I want you to have a good life. I believe God's a generous father.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm not.

[Pastor J. Ben]

That's not what I'm saying. My point is that's not the blessing.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Now, it can manifest that way, but you can also have stuff and not be blessed. The blessing is the opposite of the curse that was spoken over you. The blessing is the contradictory word to what authority or what the devil or what the demons said about your life. And when the blessing comes on you, it fights for you and it pushes back against the darkness of the demonic.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Prophecy spoken over your life.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Somebody shout, reverse the curse. Reverse the curse. This is the blessing of God that I'm no longer limited by my limitations. Okay? That's what the bless. What's the curse? Well, the curse at its most basic definition in the Hebrew language, the curse is to be bound, to be stuck to limitation. It's to be bound. It's to be bound to a moment.

[Pastor J. Ben]

And to believe that's what I will always be.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

It's to take your weakest moment.

[Pastor J. Ben]

It's to take your lowest moment.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

It's to take the experience that. That when you were at your worst.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Or life was at its worst, and then. And you're stuck there, and you. And you can't get past it.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

The curse is, I saw you at.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Your worst, and you can never get better. Once an addict, always an addict. Once angry, always angry. Once bound, I'm stuck to my lowest point.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Let me just tell you something. You're not your weakness.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Don't make me preach.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I can't go nowhere right now.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Don't make. I was talking to a therapist the other day. She goes to our church, and we were talking about some of my junk in my trunk. And I said, I'm a mess. And she goes, no, you're not. She goes, that's not the real you. And then she looked at me with eyes full of love, and she said, you're not your trauma. And I said, girl, you don't have to tithe another time this year. Amen. The devil wants to label you, Wants to trap somebody. Get me out of these before. Are you getting me out of these, Rob, before I get claustrophobic. He wants to get you right here to where you feel bound forever to one moment. I was victimized, but I'm not a victim. I was hurt, but I won't live there forever because when the. I'm not in denial of what happened. I'm not in denial of what you said about me. I'm not in denial of what they wrote about me. I'm not in denial of what my father told me. I'm not in denial of what that teacher declared over me. I'm not in denial of what that.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Person did to me.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I'm not in denial of it, but.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I am denying it of its final authority in my life, because though they cursed me, God will bless me. And when God blesses me, it reverses.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Everything that's ever been done to me or said about me. Because I'm blessed.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Come on, somebody shout, reverse the curse. Reverse the curse. I'm not my trauma. I'm not my drama.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I'm not my daddy or my mama. I am blessed. You are who God says you are. I'm not bound to a label. I'm not bound to a boundary. I'm not bound to a prediction. I'm not bound to a mindset. I'm not attached to my weakest moment. Josh, think about what God shows up to. Gideon goes, gideon, you're a mighty man of valor. Gideon didn't go, amen.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I am Lord, whatever you say, be it unto me according to your word.

[Pastor J. Ben]

And I saw what he said. God says, you're a mighty man of valor. Gideon goes, I'm the weakest person in the weakest family in my nation. That's not the way to agree with God. Amen. Some of y' all come to church. All you do is fight with God and argue with God. Say, like, come into agreement with this thing, man. God's trying to help you. Now, what Gideon said, it was true until God said he was a mighty man of valor.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

So everything about your life, I'm not.

[Pastor J. Ben]

In denial of it. I'm just saying, you've met the curse breaker.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

His name is Jesus. And what he says about you is more real than what has been said about you. So, see, I'm a Chavez, but I'm.

[Pastor J. Ben]

More than a Chavez.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm a male, but I'm more than a male. I'm a Mexican, but I'm more than a Mexican.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I'm an American, but I'm more than an American. I'm a husband, but I'm more than a husband. I'm a father, but I'm more than a father.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Why? Because all of those things, though they.

[Pastor J. Ben]

May be true, I must refuse to.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Let any label limit me. By the way, let me just go here real quick, since it's jammed. That's why I don't think you should.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Put your gender in your Instagram account in your profile.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You shouldn't do that, because don't let culture tell you who you are. Don't follow the way of culture. You are who God says you are. See, don't. Don't let those outward pressures try to tell you something. I am who God says I am. I'm a child of God, and I will not be Bound by what anybody has told me. This is. This is what happens. They would tell us with the circuses back in the day, they would take a baby elephant and they would tie.

[Pastor J. Ben]

It to a post.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

And that baby elephant couldn't get past the post. And because elephants don't forget, it would always go back to that point of limitation. So every time it would feel resistance, it would stop moving. Even though now that elephant is tons.

[Pastor J. Ben]

It'S thousands and thousands of pounds, it's way stronger than the post that's keeping it bound.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

But every time it feels any resistance, it gives into. Well, man, I'm tempted to drink. I guess I need a drink.

[Pastor J. Ben]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You are who God says you are. Well, I'm angry. I guess I need to lose my cool.

[Pastor J. Ben]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You can be angry and not say, come on, somebody.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Well, I didn't.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I didn't like what that preacher said. I guess they got. Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Get it. Wait, hold on. Chill out. Well, well, my wife frustrated me. I'm gonna let it rip.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

No, no, no.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Don't let it.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Wait, wait a second. Just because you feel you're not your.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Feelings.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You'Re stronger than the lid, you're stronger than the label, you're stronger than the curse.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Because what you don't realize is you've been growing. You don't realize you've been getting better. And just because I feel something doesn't mean I have to give in to that thing forever.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Say Amen, somebody. And now you can uproot the label that was put on you.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Well, everyone in our family know. Hold on.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm blessed.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Hold on.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You know all the Chavez.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Whoa, whoa.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Chill out. I like my last name. I got my family crest tattooed on me.

[Pastor J. Ben]

But wait a minute now. Hold on. I'm blessed. You know, all men. No, wait, hold on. All women are. No, wait. You know everyone in Vegas. Hold on. Don't put that on us. You know everyone in our age group. Wait a minute. Hold on. Don't, don't. Don't say that.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

We curse young people and old people.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Turn 50. Amen. Everything just starts going down.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Wait, don't put that on you.

[Pastor J. Ben]

You know, 40, man, I'll tell you, everything started slowing down.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Don't believe that.

[Pastor J. Ben]

You know all 20 year old.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

We got blessed 20 year olds in here. Gen Z loves God. Gen Z's on fire for God. Don't put that on them. Don't put that on your teenager. Well, I'm 70, I guess. Well, wait a minute. Hold on now. You're blessed. You're blessed before your age. You're blessed before your race. You're blessed before your gender. You're blessed before your citizenship.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

You are who God says you are.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Reverse the curse. So his voice came in direct disagreement.

[Pastor J. Ben]

With his mother's voice. No voice decides your future except your own. He chose to believe that his word had more power than her words. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. My tongue.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

My tongue.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Not my mom's tongue. My tongue. Not what the culture says. My tongue. Not what a politician said. My tongue. Nothing in your past has more power. I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna run today. I'm gonna take a lap today. I just feel it. I know we got overflow, but I think I'm gonna run through the fold in my bones. So I declare. Your past is not your prophecy. Say amen everybody. Your past is not your prison, and your past is not a prediction. God writes your story, and you get to write it with God. Number number three. Pray till you're free. Pray till you're free. Let me say something. Maybe that could be startling to you, but it's important. You can be blessed and not free. And if you've ever seen someone blow up their life, it's because they got blessed. They trusted God to bless them, but not to free them. Now, I know this firsthand because I'm a preacher. So I've got. All my friends are preachers. So when preachers fall. And if you ever hear about a preacher falling and losing their ministry, blowing up their life, ruining their fam. I know those men. I know them. And here's the problem. They let God bless them, but they never let God free them. So they'll preach to thousands of people, but they got money issues. They'll preach to thousands of people, but they're abusing their staff. They'll preach to thousands of people, but be having an affair. They'll be preaching to thousands of they got blessed, but they never got free. So Jabez doesn't just pray God bless me. He says, God, please make sure my life never causes pain. Did you see it in verse 10? Lord, please don't let me repeat the words of my mother. Amen.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm kind of.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I'm kind of teaching preaching, and I'm kind of prophesying today. So it's a little bit of a mess. But let me just. I just got to declare some of these things. I declare you will never fulfill the curse of your enemies. Whatever they said, it's canceled.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

In the name of Jesus. Lord, heal me so deep that I never repeat the pain of the false prophecy of people that did not know who God is. May I be so free that when I tell people my story, they wouldn't believe me if I tried to tell them. Can I get just. Somebody just stand for a second?

[Pastor J. Ben]

Just, like, look at me like, yeah.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Yeah, just give me a.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Just give me a good amen. Pentecostal. Yeah, thank you. I just need one of those because.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Here'S what I declare over you.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Not a hair on their head was singed, nor their clothing scorched.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

They didn't even smell like smoke. Here's my. This is for somebody. You won't look like what you've been through. Oh, I'm talking to somebody right now.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

You won't look like the addiction. You won't look like the death. You won't look like the sickness. You won't look like the recession. You won't look like the pain. God will so heal you that you won't look like what you've been through. You'll tell your kids what God's done in your life, and they'll go, no way.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

Yeah, bro.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I'm about to run, okay? I gotta stop.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

See, I don't want to just be. If I'm just blessed and God don't set me free, I'll squander the very thing he put in my hands to be a blessing to the world. So, God, don't let me cause pain. Don't let me bring shame to the name of Jesus. Don't let me hurt my wife. Don't let me hurt my kids.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

Kids.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

God, don't let me. Don't let me bring shame. So free me to such a great extent that my. That when people think about me, they think about blessing, not about pain.

[Pastor J. Ben]

And see, this is hard.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

And this is why in February, I'm going to start a series on strongholds.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Because I'm going to teach you how to think. Because. Because you get blessed.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

But you still got all this negative curse language that you've learned.

[Pastor J. Ben]

And you have to.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You have to cut all that out of you.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Okay, so, second, I got one more verse.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You can.

[Pastor J. Ben]

You can be seated, you can stand, you can do whatever you want. Second Timothy.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Can we put it up?

[Pastor J. Ben]

So I call to your remembrance, your genuine faith that is in you. Now watch this. God says, timothy, there's faith in you. But now watch this. But it didn't start with you. It started in your grandmother Lois went down to your mother Eunice. Now it lives in you. See, we're not. This is the blessing of God that you don't pass down generational curses, generational mindsets, generational labels and lids. You pass down generational blessing. Now. And then Paul says, so it's in you, Timothy. Now, here's what you have to do with that. You have to stir that up.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

The.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Gift which is in you by the laying on of hands. So now there's two things that have happened. There's a blessing that came down from his family. There's a blessing that came down from his pastor. Now, we separate all these verses if you've been in church, but they're all connected. Verse 7. And God has not given you a spirit of fear. Don't fear the curse. Don't fear what was God's lifting that off of you. Now, here's what's crazy, Timothy. You never hear about Timothy's dad or grandfather, but his grandmother's faith and his mother's faith was so strong in a male dominated culture, in a patriarchal culture, the Bible takes a moment to honor the women's faith.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

By the way, this is why we.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Have women who preach at our church.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I can't receive from a woman, Timothy.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

Did.

[Pastor J. Ben]

I listen to. I don't know. You really want me to freak you out? I listen to Joyce Meyer every day. I told you, I'm thinning out the crowd, right? I'm like, oh, my God, I'm hitting your gender.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

And now I'm hitting Joyce Meyer and.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Everybody'S mad at me. I listen to her every day because I just love. Because she's just such a straight talker. I just listen to her podcast. You just need to confess the word of God.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

It's like, hey, man, Joyce, I gotta level up.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Timothy became the product of generational blessing. And I declare that over you. That's gonna be your chest, going to be your story. Now, we're going to uproot something today because God told me to do this yesterday. There's many people in the room like Jabez, who have had something spoken over them. Now watch what I'm about to say. You are not cursed, okay?

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

Watch me.

[Pastor J. Ben]

You're not cursed. But people have said things that have. See, because Jesus called words seeds in Mark 4, every word is a seed, and he called word seeds. And when a seed hits your soul, you have to do something very quickly. You either have to uproot it or it will produce 30, 60, a hundredfold. Some of you have let a seed germinate in your heart. A curse word. I didn't say a cuss word. A curse word. It'll always be this way. It'll always be this way. Everyone gets cancer. Everyone gets a divorce. No one makes money. No one gets an education. You're just like your daddy, whatever it might be. Everyone from where we're. Where we live, everyone on our side of town, every. All of this. And all this trauma is carried through your name, through your last name. This is powerful. This is why, at 42 years old, if I talk to my mom, she still says, when are you coming home? Because there's that. Because there's that. There's that thing that's trying to pull you back. Y' all tracking with me. And I. Here's what I. I saw in the spirit. I saw a hook, but it was a barbed hook. And there's barbless hooks, and there's barbed hooks. And I saw that hook get deep down in your soul, and you. And you don't know how to remove it. And it's like you've learned how to play hurts. So you've learned how to live with that soul wound for so long. Like an injured athlete that has learned how to play hurt. You've lived with it so long. But I saw the surgeon, the Holy Spirit, hover over you and so gently and beautifully take that hook out of your heart. And some of you. It's a phrase, it's a word.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Word.

[Pastor J. Ben]

It's an idea that has been declared over you. For some of you, it's some. It's like you saw a TV commercial and something hit your heart, and it got in your heart. For some of you, you're the one who said it. But I saw the Lord so masterfully get in there, and he unhooked, looked.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

You.

[Pastor J. Ben]

And he loosed you. And here's what Jesus said. What you bind is bound, and what you loose is loose. Let's get back to binding what you curse. Bound, bound to limit what you curse is cursed. And here's what I felt today. We're going to curse the curse. Come on. And so I want to pray for you right now. If you have something in your soul, maybe you've never had language for what I'm talking about right now, but right now, it's hitting you. We're gonna. We're gonna take that thing out, and you're gonna. You're gonna leave here going. I didn't even know I could feel this way, because you're going to be so Free. And you're going to be so blessed. So if there's. If there's. Anything that I'm talking about right now, I want you to stand. Hundreds will stand. Don't worry, you won't stand alone. Just stand. And we're going to come into agreement with the word of God and the promises of God. And we're going to uproot that thing. And we're going to uproot limitations and lids and labels and curses. And that thing is going to lift off of you. So in the name of Jesus, I curse the curse.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

And I loose the blessing of the Lord upon you. And I declare that haunting word, that haunting phrase, that haunting Percy addiction. It breaks right now in Jesus name and it's silenced forever.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Now you who are standing, I want.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

You to lift up your hands and we're gonna. I want you to close your eyes.

[Pastor J. Ben]

We're gonna pray.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm gonna teach you how to pray right now.

[Pastor J. Ben]

We're gonna pray together. And I want you to receive right now.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I want you to attach your faith to these words. Everybody say, Father, in the name of.

[Pastor J. Ben]

Jesus, I thank you that you love.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Me, that you care about me and that you have blessed me. In Jesus name I renounce every curse spoken against my life, spoken against my future, spoken against my family. And I declare I'm free from the hook and the seed that has been in my soul.

[Pastor J. Ben]

And I will never be the same.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

I'm blessed. I'm a child of God. And I will do everything you've called me to do. I will be everything you've called me to be. I will have everything you've called me to have because I'm blessed. In Jesus name say Amen to that word right now. And clap those hands. Today we reverse the curse. Everybody stand up. We reverse the curse.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

I'm lifting both of my hands.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Cause you gave me chance after chance after chance.

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

I'll give you all that I am. I'm giving all that I am because you gave me chance after chance after death.

[Worship Leader or Choir Member]

Who else?

[Congregation Member or Worship Team Member]

That you keep me on your mind God, I'm just grateful for you God, I'm just grateful for you. All my life you've been right here by my side. God, I'm just grateful for you God, I'm just grateful say who am I? Who am I that you keep me on? Oh my God, I just grateful for you God, I'm just grateful for you. All my life you be right here by my side. God, I'm just grateful for you God, I'm just grateful for you I survived and I survived and I'm here to testify that I'm so, so grateful for you God, I'm so grateful for you I'm all right and I'm all right if they say I'm out of my mind God, I'm just grateful for you I'm just grateful for you Every grateful.

[Assistant Pastor or Co-Teacher]

Person Come on, lift up A praise to the Lord what a song Bow your head and close your eyes.