God Keeps Promises

There is a difference between miracles, and blessing. It is far greater to walk in our blessing than to go from crisis to miracle, crisis to miracle. 

I am grateful for both, because it takes a lot of undoing of faulty thought patterns and belief systems to walk in blessing. And when I'm not walking in blessing, I can depend on God to work miracles. 

I'd like to share something with you. I know that many of you can relate, and I have found this very encouraging today.

I know that God has given me a specific promise, for a specific blessing. It has been quite a fight, to hold onto my faith in His Word to me both as a recipient of the promises in His written Word, and as a recipient of personal promises that God has made to me.  We all have every spiritual blessings and all the blessing of Abraham- which is everything else. We only need learn how to receive this blessing. God is no preferrer of persons. He has blessed us all. 

Some of us know that He has lead us in paths specific to a specific blessing. It is a walk of faith. And the enemy will use even those nearest and dearest to us to try and knock us off of our path. He wants to rob us of what a God has given us, and he uses people to do his work just as God uses people to do His work. 

I have been shown something specific that God has given as a blessing to me, to His people, and to the world. Well-meaning loved ones, and even spiteful loved ones, have done probably everything they can think of to make me "see the light" and throw away my blessing before it manifests. I love the people I love- because they are lovable. And I hope that if they knew what they were doing by trying to dissuade me, they would not do it. It is hurtful when people who should be thanking God with me, instead try and crush my hope. There are people near and dear to me who have clearly heard God's voice and personal guidance, yet apparently, they do not believe that God  has spoken personally to me. That is painful, and discouraging. It is a bloody battle, the battle of Faith. "The violent take it by force" indeed. 

This is what I want to tell you today, and it isn't me being Little Mary Sunshine, or being in denial and not willing to "see the light" It was The Light who opened my eyes to this blessing. I am not the one walking in darkness about it.

I did not write this- it was written by my favorite teacher, Andrew Wommack. And one of the results of this blessing is that I will have the ability and opportunity to move to where he teaches and be properly trained as a Disciple of Christ. A greater gift, I cannot imagine.

To those of you who are also in a violent, bloody battle of Faith, and know that God has guided you toward a specific promise or blessing- take heart. This is going to encourage you:

"...unlike miracles, once a blessing is received, no outside force can stop it:

“Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it” (Num. 23:20).

The only thing that can stop the blessing of God in our lives is our unbelief. What a powerful truth. Balaam’s curse couldn’t stop the blessing that was on the nation of Israel. The blessing received in faith will always trump the curse.

So, what is the blessing of God, and how do we receive it? To begin with, the blessing of God isn’t things. The blessing of God will produce things, but the blessing isn’t things.

Galatians 3:14 says, “That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

Abraham’s blessing has come upon us through faith in Christ, and the blessing isn’t the things that Abraham possessed. Would you want Abraham’s animals that have been dead for four thousand years? Do you want his tents and clothes? I don’t think so. What you want is the favor of God that was spoken over him, which produced his physical and spiritual abundance.

That’s what the blessing of God is; it’s His divine spoken favor. And that blessing, if mixed with faith, will produce abundance in spirit, soul, and body.

There is much more to the contrast of blessings and miracles than what I have been able to present here. I consider this to be one of the most foundational and beneficial truths the Lord has ever taught me. If you can make the adjustment from a miracle mentality to a blessed mentality, you will begin to prosper as never before.

The good news is, you are already blessed. The bad news is, most don’t know the power of that blessing. They would rather have a miracle.

If you receive this teaching in your heart, you will come to a place where you will pray, “Lord, help me to never need a miracle from You again. I want to live in the blessing.” When it comes to personal needs, miracles should be for people who don’t have the revelation of God’s blessing. Don’t let that be you.

- So. What God has spoken, He will bring to pass. If He has spoken a promise to you, He will fulfill it. Do not give up, do not give in, and do not surrender.  God will order your steps, if you will follow Him. Where there will be a great blessing, there will be a great battle. The gifts, and callings of God are without repentance. Meaning, He does not change His mind, or take back a gift, or calling. If God has made a promise to you- fight for it. Fight doubt, fear, discouragement and unbelief. Make war and resist the devil by engaging in acts of Warfare. The weapons of our Warfare are:  love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

God has placed people in your life as fellow Warriors, and they will help you up when the enemy has knocked you down. So get up, put on your Armor, and know that what God has promised WILL COME TO PASS.