Ain’t Nobody can Bless you like Jesus Can!
When you are willing to make Jesus a big part of your life, you can’t help but be Blessed.
The longer you serve Him, the more you realize, how true the Word is and how faithful Jesus is to keep the Word and His Fathers Promises!
Perspective is a funny thing, because when we look at things from our viewpoint we see everything from our limited understanding, but from God’s perspective you see the bigger picture of His extravagant frame of mind of giving towards His children!
There is a song called it’s my desire and the lyrics read; if you could’ve seen where Jesus brought me from to where I am today, then you would know the reason why I love him so. And it’s a beautiful song!
But in reality, the lyrics should read; if we were aware of only half the blessings we missed and left behind on the road of relationship with Jesus, we would have realized Jesus Loves us about a trillion times more than we thought He did!
If I were to try to tell you how much Love God has for you and wants to bless you, I could paint what I would call a most elaborate description and still my effort, would be the most understated description!
I heard Steven Furtick use an illustration the other day about his father. And he said his father told him on his way to college, son I may not have a lot but if I’ve got money then you’ve got money.
He never wanted him to ever go without or to be in want and that’s exactly how God feels!
1 John 4:8,9,14,15,16,17 The Authorized King James
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
What do you suppose the word live means right there, mediocrity? Did Jesus come, live and die so we could have an ordinary life? No.....Jesus TBS came so we could live an ABUNDANT LIFE and have and experience His Fathers Extravagance Of Giving towards us!
That’s why we need to establish God’s desire and intent towards us first before we read vs 17, to realize the impact and significance it has for our lives and the life we should be expecting from God and living!
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
God wants us to have boldness in this life that we are living and expecting from Him! He wants to know, realize and understand, have the expectancy that;
*if Jesus has access to all of heaven, we have access to all of heaven
*if Jesus has prosperity, we have prosperity!
*if Jesus has money, we got money!
*if Jesus ain’t got no worries, we ain’t got know worries!
*if Jesus has health, we have health!
*if Jesus got resurrection and healing powers, we have resurrection and healing powers
*if Jesus gots it, God had the author of that verse pen that verse, so we should would and could realize we gots it too!
Illus. By David McAllan
BLESSINGS UNKNOWN
A man who had been a drunkard in the slums of Chicago for many years came to a mission one night. He heard the message, ate the meal, and went to bed. That was his last night on earth. He died poverty-stricken and friendless, never to see another day.
What he did not know was that he had an inheritance of over four million dollars waiting for him in England. The authorities had searched for him but were unable to find him because he had no address. Here was a man who had all the material wealth he could ever want, but he lived and died in poverty because he never realized what he actually had!
It’s time Christians all over the world quit living in spiritual poverty, had an spiritual epiphany and realized the importance of what we’re talking about here!
It almost sounds to good to be true, how much God wants to bless us.
But unlike that saying in the world goes, if its to good to be true, it probably is.
Its not with God, He truly loves to bless His children. Sometimes we forget how good serving God really is!!
Psalms 68:19 NKJ
Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation! Selah
When a person finally believes what’s been available to them all along and decides to put God to the test, put Him 1st in their life and start living by kingdom principles and not just reading about them. Great things start to happen, and happen all the time.
Someone might say, well that’s never happened to me. I’ve been going to church for 40 yrs. when someone says that kind of thing, are they blaming God, or what exactly are they inferring?
I want you to think about your favorite place you like to shop! You’ve probably been there hundreds of times haven’t you? Don’t you think you would have enjoyed all the things in and from your favorite store, if you would’ve known you could’ve had whatever you wanted for free every time you ever went there, or thought about going to that store?
That’s how God is with His Generosity and Blessings He has towards those who Love and establish a relationship with His Son Jesus!
My Bible reads and I think yours probably reads the same, “ with man nothing is possible, but with God all things are possible!” Here’s a silly question, but I’m going to ask anyways, “Do you believe with God all things are possible?” You should!
TBS God’s not a respecter of persons, which means if you are willing to believe, God is willing to deliver!
Did you know Elijah was a normal person, just like you and me?
Did you know that David, Sampson, Moses, Jacob, Jabez, Joseph, Mary, Ruth, Esther, John, Peter and the rest of the disciples were average ordinary people. They were average ordinary people with one exception, they believed and were obedient in the instructions of the Lord and because of that, they went on to do extraordinary things for the Kingdom!
The word clearly states, if you believe and are willing to take care of Gods business, He will take care of yours. I don’t know about you, but I know God has done a better job watching my portfolio and blessing me then I was ever capable of, how about you?
My portfolio has been in a bull market run, with record highs each day, from the moment I put God in control of my future!
It is God’s nature to bless His children, God does not keep books on the blessings that He gives to us. If He did we would owe Him more than we might even think we did.
With Gods blessings its impossible to overdraft your account, in fact as I’ve already stated I believe that there are blessings we walk right by, each and everyday.
Unclaimed millions the state of Indiana has, I wonder a many millions of unclaimed blessings God has, that have never been claimed.
Some folks worry about asking God for to many things, all the while not even realizing they are missing God’s goodness and blessings multiple times more than they think is humanly possible, every day!
Others see God’s blessings upon our lives, as being limited and rationed through out our lives. Don’t want to ask for to much now, might need one later. That’s not an abundant life attitude, that’s a defeatist attitude and straight from the accuser and the father of all lies!
Somebody wrote one time what they thought was a humble little song with the lyrics, Just give me a little cabin over in the corner of glory land.
You stay humble all you want,
my bible says that I’m an heir to the world,
I have a spiritual inheritance to claim
Jesus went to prepare a mansion for my expected arrival
I have the blessing of Abraham, I’m a child of the King!!
God says He wants to bless me, I WANT WHAT GOD WANTS, don’t you.
Who am I, to keep God from having what He wants!
Did you know, you are the only thing standing in the way and keeping from everything God wants to do for you?
Don’t stand in the way of God’s desire, abundance and plans He has had since the beginning of time for you and your families lives!
Matthew 7:11 NKJ
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Parents, you give your kids the best of things don‘t you? Why would anyone think our heavenly father would do any less for His children??? Remember, Whatever Jesus has you have....there are no restrictions, there are no limitations expect those that are self imposed!
Ephesians 1:3 NKJ
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4. just as He chose us in Him (Realize God chose us) before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5. having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6. to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
We have been chosen in Jesus before the foundation of the world, to receive every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
Contrary to the lies of the accuser and the world’s viewpoint, TBS. the moment you became a Christian and accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior,
your sins were washed away and you received the righteousness of God thru Christ Jesus.
Vs. 6 says: He made us accepted in the Beloved, which means He was well pleased with Jesus His beloved son,
and since we are in Christ Jesus, He is well pleased with us as well!
The devil and the world, would tell you that you are not qualified to receive the blessings that God has for you, But the word of God says that you are, you are qualified.
If we proclaim Jesus as Lord and Saviour, we are adopted Sons and Daughters, with full inheritance rights Of The Abrahamic Covenant God is still bound too!
Deuteronomy 28:1 NKJ Tells us in detail, just how much God wants to bless His children!
1. And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7. The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8. The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9. The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
10. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11. And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12. The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the ... rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13. And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
All of these blessings are part of your spiritual inheritance,
but unlike the children of Israel who had to keep every letter of the law to receive them which was not humanly possible,
Jesus made it possible, when the old covenant of the law was done away with,
and God’s Amazing Gift Of Grace replaced it.
Jesus Grace and Unmerited favor made it possible to receive all the blessings that God wanted to give to His people all along, but couldn’t!
Jesus selfless act qualified each and every one of us, to walk in each and everyone of the blessings of God.
Praise God!!!!!
In case you haven’t realized it yet, we truly do, serve a God that wants to bless us.
He knows no limits, only the ones we put on Him!
He wants you to dream big, bigger than you ever have!!
He wants you to fly higher than youv’e ever flown.
We are more than qualified to ask for God’s Blessings, so why aren’t we asking everything we are entitled to?
* We are Children of the king
* Royal blood flows threw our veins
* We are those that He came to seek and save
* We are the ones that He gave His life for
* We are the ones His Grace set free from the law
Romans 8:16–17 NKJ
16.The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17.and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ..
As long as you are born again, you are a son or daughter of the Most High God.
And God does not just call you His son or daughter. He also calls you family, “an heir” to the kingdom, through Christ Jesus the Saviour to all who are willing to accept !
Which means you are entitled to all of Jesus Blessings!! You have been given equal share statis with Jesus!
If Jesus is getting it, your getting it too!
Whatever He’s gettin, your gettin the same!
What a Generous Father God is to all of His Children!
Galatians 4:7 MSG
“But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage.
Illus. By Max Lucado
A little boy named Adam wanted to be like his friend Bobby. Adam loved the way Bobby walked and talked. Bobby, however, wanted to be like Charlie. Something about Charlie’s stride and accent intrigued him. Charlie, on the other hand, was impressed with Danny. Charlie wanted to look and sound like Danny. Danny, of all things, had a hero as well: Adam. He wanted to be just like Adam.
So Adam was imitating Bobby, who was imitating Charlie, who was imitating Danny, who was imitating Adam.
Turns out, all Adam had to do was be himself
God wants you to be yourself this morning, God wants you to know you have great significance are wonderfully made, you are unique and one of a kind, there is no one else like you, that’s the decree of Love and care God put into you and your creation, you share the same DNA as God, you are one of His own and God Loves you!
How accepted are you by God today?
Look at Jesus. That is how accepted you are!
Jesus is the measure of your acceptance.
The way God sees Jesus, is the way God sees you!
How favored are you by God?
Look at Jesus, who is seated at the Father’s right hand. You enjoy that same favor today because whatever Christ enjoys, you enjoy!
Expect God’s very best in your life, after all He gave His very best, so you can enjoy the abundant life that He promised to all of us.
Let’s pray!
