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The Curse Was Never the Plan: How to Break the Curse of Lack
The Curse Was Never the Plan: How to Break the Curse of Lack episodes
- CHAPTER 2 - He Became a Curse So You Could Carry a Blessing
This episode teaches that Jesus became a curse so believers could receive the blessing promised to Abraham. It explains that while hardship does not automatically mean someone is cursed, Christ’s work on the cross means the curse no longer has the final authority over those who belong to Him.
The episode encourages listeners to recognize and reject limiting beliefs, negative words spoken over their families, fear, and inherited expectations. True freedom requires not only knowing what Christ accomplished but also allowing that truth to influence our beliefs, choices, and actions. Ultimately, the blessing is not merely for personal prosperity—it is meant to produce Spirit-filled, generous people who can bless others.
24 min - CHAPTER 1 - The Blessing was always the plan
The episode explores the idea that God’s plan is not poverty or lack, but blessing with purpose.
It uses biblical examples such as Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph to explain that God’s blessing can operate even in difficult circumstances.
The key message is that blessing is not simply about becoming wealthy, it is about receiving, growing, and becoming a blessing to others through faithful stewardship, faith, discipline, and action.
27 min - Introduction
A powerful conversation about breaking cycles of lack through biblical wisdom, stewardship, faith, and vision: and learning to build a different future for yourself and the next generation.
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About The Curse Was Never the Plan: How to Break the Curse of Lack
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This book is for the man who works hard and still cannot get ahead. It is for the mother who knows how to stretch a grocery bill, for the young couple looking at a stack of bills after the children…
are asleep, for the business owner who has tried and failed and wonders whether he has one more beginning left in him. It is for the believer who has prayed, given, served, and still asked in the quiet of the night, Is this all God wants for me?
I want you to hear my answer before you read another page: no.
God is not the author of your lack. He did not create you to survive from one crisis to the next, and He did not redeem you through Jesus Christ so that the curse could remain settled over your home, your work, your children, or your future. The curse was never the plan.
But this is not a book of easy promises or formulas. I will not tell you that a single offering, a confession, or a line of prayer will solve every problem in your life by Friday. The Bible is stronger and kinder than that. It shows us a God who blesses His people with purpose, teaches them to walk in wisdom, and raises them up so that the world can see His goodness through their lives.
This is also not a book written to shame you. If you have struggled with lack, you are not a failure. You may have been taught things that were not true. You may have inherited ways of thinking that were never examined. You may simply be in a hard season in a broken world. Wherever you are beginning, God can meet you there.
For more than two decades, I have pastored people in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, one of the poorest regions in the United States. I have seen hardworking people carry poverty not only in their pockets, but in their expectations. I have also watched God raise up families, business owners, and givers when they learned who they were in Christ and began to live by faith.
Some of the people and situations described in this book are composites, created from experiences and patterns I have encountered throughout those years of pastoral ministry. They are included to illustrate spiritual truths, not to portray specific individuals.
The goal of this book is not to make you rich for your own sake. It is to help you become free enough, wise enough, faithful enough, and whole enough for the blessing of God to rest on you and flow through you. The gospel must be preached. Families must be helped. Churches must be strengthened. Children must be fed. Nations must hear the name of Jesus.
The time is short. We do not have time to remain trapped in an agreement Jesus died to break.
Let the Holy Spirit show you where lack has found an entrance, then follow Him into freedom one obedient step at a time. The blessing of Abraham was never meant to stop with you.
Kevin Ortiz
Faith Pleases God Church
Harlingen, Texas