August 8, 2015 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Blessings of Getting & Giving

Blessings are not about you but God’s will for your life. Blessings are meant for you to become what God had always planned for you. Some people find blessings while others never fulfill what God from the beginning of time wanted for their lives.

It is not hard to recognize, Christians without blessing. Their cup is half empty and they struggle to provide the Body of Christ with support and direction. God never meant for us to be part of something and not supply our required input into what He created for us in Christ.

First, blessings do not come without struggle. You have got to want to have what God wants for you!Jacob wrestled for his blessing. David sang his way into God’s blessing. People of Israel exercised judgment on their enemies in order to receive their blessing. Every kind of blessing requires a commitment and action on our part. Blessings do not come just because God likes you. He likes you and wants you to want His blessing to the point of sacrifice and desire on your part. Blessings will always cost you like Jesus said: ‘Go and sell to receive, buy the field to get to the treasure, pick up your cross and follow me’.

Second, blessings are meant to share. Blessings are yours for you to pass along. However, you cannot pass along a blessing out of your strength. If it comes from your strengths, abilities or talents—these are your ‘natural blessings’ that anyone can share, learn or receive, but God’s blessings come and operate from your weaknesses.

I am always surprised what I think are my weaknesses others perceive them as my strengths. Jacob was leaning on his staff when he blessed Joseph’s boys. He cannot pass along what God gave to him without it coming from God’s strength and his (Jacob’s) weakness. I align myself with Jesus when He said, “No one is good but God,” or Paul who said ‘I forget everything that made me great or what I did in order to have Christ—I glory only in my weaknesses not in my strengths’.

Third, it takes faith. Men, what blessings are you giving to others—do not think that you can, on your own, pass along God’s blessing in your life to others without it being an act of faith (it’s not an act of works). By faith Jacob blessed Joseph’s sons—faith is your response to God’s perfect will in every situation for His glory alone. That is why faith is like a mustard seed—you either have it or you don’t. There is no middle ground to faith. If God shows or tells you something, an act of faith is to respond to the truth. If we do respond to God, God calls us people of faith.

This is why the Body of Christ is so unique—we come to each other in weakness not in personal strengths. I want the blessings that God has placed in my life to be the blessings for others to receive. I received blessings because of my response to the will of God and I give blessings because of the will of God & faithfulness to His Body.

It is time for men to say, “It’s time for blessing!” “God give me my blessing!” “God, let me give my blessing to others!” If only we would operate in the moving of God’s Spirit, His truth, and His will, we would be blessed indeed and called ‘faithful ones’.

Men, it’s time for blessing!

(Part #2 in a series on blessing)

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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