THEME : ENJOYING DIVINE BLESSINGS
Memorise:
And all
these blessings shall on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 28:2
Read: Malachi 3:10-12,
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat
in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I
will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,
that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will
rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits
of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time
in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : ISAIAH 45-47 and ACTS 9:23-43
Message
God can decide to bless an individual beyond the wildest imagination of
men (Deuteronomy 28:1). However, He can later change His mind
concerning this decision. Why?
“…Be if far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.”
1st Samuel 2:30
Enjoying divined blessings is conditional. You must be ready to honour
God with your life and all it contains if you want to enjoy divine
blessings (Deuteronomy 28:2). If you claim to belong to God and yet you
are flouting his commandments you must be deceiving yourself because God
is not a magician. God’s blessings can only be enjoyed on the condition
that you obey Him.
In Malachi 3:10-12, God commanded His
children to bring all the tithes into His storehouse, with a promises of
opening the windows of heaven and pouring out a blessing which there
shall be no room to contain. This was an instruction that took me a
while to live comfortably with. My background as a mathematician did not
help me in this regard. In those horrible days of ignorance, before the
middle of the month, I used to borrow money to fuel my car from my
driver. I thought to myself, “Who are those people deceiving?” I thought
that if 100% was not enough, as indeed it was not enough for me back
then, how could 90% be enough? I thank God for winning this argument in
my heart and for making me surrender to His will concerning tithes and
offering.
Are you really enjoying divine blessings? The promise
of these blessings is for you and your children, as Peter said in Acts
2:39. Therefore, if you are not enjoying the blessings from above,
something must be fundamentally wrong with your relationship with God. I
encourage you to reconsider you attitude towards God’s conditions for
His blessings. Remember that He does not need you or your substance; He
created you and whatever you think you have. The truth is: the Almighty
acts on His divine principles. One of such principles is found in
Proverbs 11:24:
“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.”
Your life will change for good if you start to live by the principles that govern divine blessings.
Action Point :
Locate areas where you have fallen short of the principles of divine blessings and repent.
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