Walk In The Blessing

Evaluate your blessing

Secondly, Acknowledge Your Source

All blessing in your life is from God, packaged for you, his ability to bless you is unlimited from His perspective.

The Word of God is replete with blessings and promises for you and your generations.

James 1:17

(17) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

The Father of lights? Why does James refer to the Lord this way? In twenty years of pastoral work, preaching, seminary, continuous Bible study I have quoted this verse, and never really stopped to ask why James and only James calls the Lord “The Father of lights.” It always sounded a bit strange to me. I guess I had always thought it was just a neat spiritual title, where He is like a shining light to us.

Wrong! As I studied this week I realized that the language there says he is quite literally-the father of LIGHT. That energy, that physical force that drives the universe. Put an S on it and you see him as the father of the stars, the planets, the UNIVERSE and whatever is beyond it.

The same one who said “Let there be LIGHT” and there was light, and that light is still expanding today; the same one who spans the universe with his thumb and forefinger; the One who can speak a world into existence…

Is your Father, and the author of every blessing in your life. The same voice that created Light provides for you, cares about you and knows you intimately. He also invites you to talk to Him as often as you want. He calls us to walk in the blessing, knowing that His power is greater than any storm or circumstance.

It’s a choice. What path are you on?

Choose blessing

Third: Give and give Abundantly

No, we’re not going to take up another offering! To limit this giving to money would be a travesty. Sow blessing, give and give, not give and take. It applies to every aspect of life.Money is only one avenue of giving-important but not all-encompassing.

Bless by giving

Watch Your Mouth

Careful on Comparison with other people-you don’t have all the information.

Your words reflect what is in your heart and have great influence over your destiny and the success of others. You have the capability to cast or break curses. Many of us curse ourselves and those around us unwittingly.

Your words can change what is in your heart, and can literally change another person’s life.

Who is setting your standard for success? You are attempting to break into someone else’s destiny and apply it to your own when you compare yourself to them. Be careful of your motivation and the basis for your comparison. It can easily turn into envy.

The Scriptures are replete with instruction in the power that our words have, the power of the tongue:

Proverbs 18:21

(21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

James 3:6-10

(6) And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.