BLESSINGS MEANS GOOD THINGS

“The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich... and he adds no sorrow with it.” – Pro 10:22

I don’t know how you can scheme your way out of this one. It is kind of unequivocal and clear, innit? If you want to be a child of God, and still be destitute, then you’re going to need a good lawyer to stop the blessings from coming...

All through this week we’ve been talking about blessings, (and a little about curses, too). And we established from the outset that blessings are an intrinsic part of the life of the child of God.

Our opening verse unambiguously states that God’s blessings make rich. And it isn’t talking about some vague, indistinct ‘spiritual’ kind of blessing that doesn’t change your situations. No, it’s talking about REAL blessings. The “Beloved” Apostle, writing at the culmination of the New Testament said, “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” (3Jn1:2).

If John distinguished soul prosperity from physical wealth and health, we mustn’t presume we know better.

Beloved, while it is true that the Christian life is not one of pleasure and self-comfort, it is wrong to assume that means it is one of pain, suffering and misery, (this mindset can even be spiritually dangerous). As a child of God, you qualify for God’s continuous blessing every day, in every area of your life. And the blessings are real, the blessings are tangible, the blessings are for your benefit.

Therefore, live with a blessing mentality. You are too blessed to be stressed; too defended to be offended, too lifted to be defeated.

I pray the blessings we talked about this week be part of you now and always in Jesus’ Name.

 “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich;”– 2Co 8:9.

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work;”– 2Co 9:8.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN