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.
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.”
1 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.
BIBLE
IN A YEAR: Isaiah 45-47, Acts
9:23-43
AUTHOR:
Pastor E.A. Adeboye
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