Servias Ministries Blog

Walking In Abundance- Part 21

November 5, 2026 – 3:17 am

When we don’t listen and obey, there are consequences to our disobedience!

Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me.” And again the implication is clear, if they don’t hear His Voice they can’t follow Him. So these are the two great basic conditions for inheriting the covenant blessings of God; listening carefully to His Voice and then doing what He says.

Let’s move on to the area of the physical and again the list is long and totally comprehensive.

Verse 21: “The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you…” (NASB). That’s pestilence and notice it clings, we can’t shake it off.

Verse 22: “The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation…” (NASB). Three curses; consumption, fever, inflammation.

Verse 27: “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured…” (NIV). The curses there are boils, tumors, festering sores and the itch.

Verse 28: “The Lord will afflict you with blindness…” (NIV). Blindness is a curse.

Verse 35: “The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head…” (NIV). Again boils are singled out as a curse.

Verse 59: “The Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses…” (NASB). What a verse! What a terrible picture! And all that’s curses—extraordinary plagues, chronic sicknesses.

Verse 60: “The Lord will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you…” (NASB).

And then as if that weren’t enough, the next verse, verse 61 says this: “Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of the law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed…” (NASB). So it’s not merely all the sicknesses and plagues that are written in the book of the law, but all the rest that are not. In other words, every kind of sickness and every kind of plague is part of the curse.

Wrong family relationships are part of the curse.

In closing this list of the curses I want to deal with the area of finance because this is directly related to our theme which is abundance. Here are the curses that affect the area of finance and possession.

Verse 29: “and you shall grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways…” (NASB). Not prospering is a curse.

Verse 47 and 48 which really sums all this up in the area of the material and the financial. “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things”; [notice, that’s God’s will that we serve Him with joy and glad heart for the abundance of all things. Notice that beautiful word “abundance.” What’s the alternative if we don’t meet the conditions? The next verse says, “therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things…” (NASB). That’s a curse. Actually it’s four aspects of one curse. Let me just point them out to you:

HUNGER

THIRST

NAKEDNESS

LACK OF ALL THINGS.

All those are aspects of the curse. I summed them up in one phrase and I think you’d agree with me—the phrase is absolute poverty. When you’re hungry, you don’t have anything to eat; you’re thirsty, you don’t have anything to drink; you’re naked, you don’t have any clothes to put on; and you’re in lack of all things—that is absolute poverty. You cannot have greater poverty than that. And absolute poverty is a curse. Can you receive that? Poverty is a curse. It’s not a blessing. It’s not in the list of blessings. It’s in the list of curses. Receive that. Study that passage for yourself.

To sum up the curses now, just as I tried to sum up the blessings. This is the list I’ve come up with—but again I want to recommend you go to that passage in Deuteronomy 28, the last 53 verses and read them for yourself.

This is the summation of the curses:

HUMILIATION

MENTAL & PHYSICAL SICKNESS

FAMILY BREAKDOWN

POVERTY

DEFEAT

OPPRESSION

FAILURE

GOD’S DISFAVOR.

What’s the reason for the curses?  Very simple—not listening to God’s Voice and not doing what He says. That’s the dividing line of human life.

If you listen to God’s Voice and do what He says, you’re on the side of blessing. If you don’t listen and don’t do, you’re on the side of the curse!