blessings and cursings

I learned something that I didn't know in a recent word study. Of course...that is the entire purpose of a study in the first place, right?

Anyway, I looked up every verse about curse, cursing, curses, and cursed that is in the Word and wrote them all out by hand. The reason is a totally different story. But as I wrote them out, I noticed that the words for curse didn't all have the same meaning, so I looked them up.
 To curse is not so much saying a word in anger, like so many of our four-letter words as I've always understood it to be. In that regard we can take ANY word and use it as a cursing; even words like 'whiskers' or 'stuffing' when spoken in anger become curse words.
 But cursing somebody is to:
"Bring into contempt, to despise, to curse, with holes, to strike, to whip, to wound, to tear, to spear, to stab with words, to cut, ect." Cursing was and is not limited to words either. According to the Word, you can curse somebody in your heart or in your mind and not utter a word. Yikes!

That took me aback. Just talking or even thinking badly about somebody was cursing them? wow! I've done that all of my 19 years of living! How do I stop? that's an easy answer..... You just do. Even if tempted to just tell somebody else to get a load off my chest, or to council, or to pray about, if it brings that other person into contempt, or makes others dislike them or despise them, then it's a cursing. And the Word of the LORD says we can't have both blessings and curses coming from the same mouth because it's a contradiction to our testimony which is Jesus, the son of the Living God YHWH.

 We are ambassadors for the Living God of the Everlasting Kingdom to the darkened world. Would we misrepresent our King, Master and Lord by cursing and blessing with the same mouth? Yes. So how dare we? it is hard, to resist cutting others down with our negative thoughts and words, but circumcision of the heart is always hard and usually painful. But the blessing that follows is greater than this present suffering, as Paul writes, and justifiably so. For at the Judgment Seat, when we are judged according to EVERY IDLE THOUGHT AND WORD and according to EVERY DEED, if we have done well, resisting evil and following the Word and Will of the LORD, then we will hear the words "Well done" from the King of all Kings. If that's not worth this present suffering, I don't know what would be!

I hope you are encouraged, and if you would, I would recommend that you search out these words as well, and perhaps even search into the meaning of blessing, blessings, blessed, and bless. If you do, feel free to share here! comments are welcome as well as your own spiritual insight.
The LORD bless you, and thank you for reading.
Shalom