I'm frequently surprised by some doctrine. Everything is a choice (this day). That never stops. As in Deut., the blessing comes from obedience to the voice of God. Although we have a different covenant, and the medium of the voice is no longer the letter, it is still a daily choice.
As far a curses go, have you ever been the recipient of some crazy maneuver behind the wheel? If you weren't renewed that day (another daily process), you might have reacted in the flesh and spoke out something that wasn't a blessing. That's a curse. That's the stuff that empowers the enemy to work in this world. He uses those in the world and if he can get through to you, believers. I've done it many times. I wish I could take it all back.
Lots of people dissing Jews too, and that definitely picks up a curse. You can actually find that right here on the forum! It's a choice.
Just because one becomes born again does not mean that he's incapable of uttering a curse (refer to the passage in James). Paul says "we" when he talks about cursing from same lips that he blesses from.
MUCH warfare is done for the enemy by supposedly well-intended judgmental believers, who speak capriously against what God is doing. That's why it's critical to bridle the tongue. What's the point if you're only blessing?
Check out some marriages. They speak after a spirit of strife and loose all sorts of fire straight from Hell. It all depends on if it's a spirit walk or a flesh walk, because your flesh doesn't deal too well with attacks that originate with someone who follows you around much of the time, who knows a lifetime of your weaknesses.
I've seen the filth it generates when someone speaks after the enemy. It's an oppressive curse. The Lord has spoken many times regarding curses and the work of the enemy.
I remember picking up a book at Christ for the Nations on curses; a great quickening as I held it in my hand. I had a lot of stuff set out against me. The whole Is 54 - no weapon prospering thing is a weapon against the curses of the enemy. If you don't wield the weaponry, it plays havoc on you.
I want to add here that proclaiming truth is a weapon that displaces what the enemy is doing. But as I said earlier, it's not always the enemy and sometimes we either don't take proper care of ourselfves, get out of the rest of God, etc. and it brings infirmity.
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