The blessing is a system of heaven, established by God. Anytime you scoff or mock or make light of the system of heaven, two things happen: number one, you will never receive a full counsel of God. Anything that God has implemented for His people and you scoff that, you will never receive the full counsel of God. Blessing is a kingdom institution.
Second aspect is this, the Lord is not behind anything that brings shame, dishonor to the systems that He implement. God is not behind things opposing His words.
There is a strategy behind the blessing. The blessing of God is not just to satisfy you. But it's an essential operation of heaven that has many purposes other than satisfying you.
The blessing is such a dynamic force that God has put on people, place on an individual/s or a nation or a city, to perform a task.
Oftentimes what people don't realize is the blessing complements the anointing.
There are some people who have been born to be blessed- Joseph son of Israel, Joseph of Arimathea, Noah. You never know how God uses you.
Joseph of Arimathea, born to be blessed, who will eventually provide tomb that Christ will lay in and rise from.
Oftentimes we think about just what we consume upon our lust and all of those things but the blessing is a system of heaven that goes far beyond just satisfying you although in the interim it will satisfy you. But it goes so far beyond that.
Born to be blessed, the interesting thing about that is, you won't always feel like it in your journey. You may be accustomed to finding favor in abnormal places, just as Joseph did. But going in these dark times that we were going in, one of the most instrumental things that people are not talking about- going into the times that we're going in, the things that are about to shift and change, is how necessary the blessing is. This is not the time to reject the blessing of God. This is the time to embrace it. Because what the Lord will be doing to some of you, will be saving your family, will be saving a city, will be saving a community - what the Lord will be doing through some of you. That's why He purposed the blessing, so you can be an ark, that you can be a place of refuge.
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Luke 23:50-56
And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
The blessing is interesting because it may not just be monetary. It may be a place of influence. Look at Joseph of Arimathea, not only he have the monetary thing. But Matthew 27:57 describes him simply as a rich man and a disciple of Jesus Christ. But according to Mark 15:43 Joseph of Arimathea was a respected member of a council, so he have the finances and he have the position, who was also himself looking for the Kingdom of God. And Luke 23:50-56, as that he had not consented to their decisions and their actions, so he was the one dissenting from what the consensus was of who Christ was and what needed to happen to Him, so Joseph was like, "No, I don't agree to that." He was the dissenting voice. It wasn't about changing the outcome, but it's about establishing a witness in the midst of the council of "No I don't agree. This ain't right. This ain't God."
But people have been stirred to reject the blessing, to think about it as a bad thing or as something that is not godly. But the blessing was established from the beginning.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
So God thought about it, and had counsel about it and then He performed the action that He considered the thoughts that He had. So the blessing is an empowering force to go and do what God has purposed you to do.
What some people don't know is that the very thing that they're doing right now, not only because of the anointing but they're doing it because of the blessing. And if the Lord was to strip of them away the blessing, then they will say, "Lord, I need the blessing to be able to do what it is You called me to do."
Some of you don't understand why your life has been the way it is. You don't understand your journey, you've been trying to figure it out. You had the sense that you've been kinda isolated, many from your family, your vision has caused your family to turn against you, the vision has caused your family to reject you, what God has spoken over you has caused some rejection. The interesting thing about the blessing is, oftentimes it follows rejection or isolation. Oftentimes it requires isolation, it will send you to isolation, it will cause people to turn their backs on you resulting in isolation. But it's all working for your good. Because you're born to be blessed. Instead of feeling awkward about it, the Lord doesn't want you to feel awkward about your purpose of being blessed or you being born to be blessed, ever again. Because there are other facets to the call to be blessed other than just to satisfy you.
Anytime you reject the systems of God, you will never receive the full counsel of God. It is the Lord who ordained the blessing. So you can't nullify or call it to question, something that God has established. All because you don't want people to see God for what's in His hands. I totally understand. But you see, the way to get people from seeking God for what's in His hand, is to reveal His heart. It's not by you nullifying the system that God put in place, but it's by you revealing the heart of God. If you want people to look past God's hands, you got to reveal the heart. Because what's in His heart will draw people to His heart. But it won't come by you calling into question the system because when you do that you are not working in alignment with God. And there are many well-intentioned people is that they really want for you to find God's heart and to know that there's much more than a substance of a thing, they want you to know that there's much more to God than just what He can do for you. But our whole basis for finding God is about what He's done for us, "For God so loved the world that He gave..." See, it's the goodness and generosity of God that lead you past what's in His hands in terms of your bread or shelter, but in terms of the far reaching. If you are settling for what's in God's hand in terms of your bread, then you are still in poverty. Because what God has in His heart for you is far surpassing. See, that's where you will get the righteous never begging bread if you can see what's in God's heart for you, then you will never worry about your provisions of bread again. So you can't say it's not based upon what God gives, because it's in it what He gave, that I even know Him. See, if He didn't give me Jesus then how will I know Him, the way He desires to be known.
You are born to be blessed. This is a secret strategy of God, that God uses to save a nation, uses to save a city, uses to save a family, uses it to save a person. It's a secret strategy, one that the enemy knows. While the enemy is stirring up you to condemn or to hate the blessing of God, the enemy knows that the blessing is a secret weapon, he knows that the blessing is a secret weapon to thwart the enemy's plans, so when the enemy thinks that he has gained advantage over you, the Lord will send somebody who He has blessed to be a blessing to you. So when the enemy thought that he just had you on the cusp of giving up, the Lord will send somebody who He blessed to be a blessing to you. And then you'll look back and you see the hand of God moved and say, "Lord, I remember when I was down here, that you sent this person here to do this to me, and I saw You."
See, if we will stop condemning the blessing, then people will see the hand of God. It's not necessarily the man you remember, but it's the hand of God you remember who sent that person, and they showed up just like an angel. That's why never reject the counsel of God. Never reject the systems of God if you want to have the full counsel of God, no matter how tempting, or how religious or how 'Christian' it seems. It is not God to reject the systems of God. It is His will. It came from His heart and His mind. "Lord bless me according to Your will." Now I'm in alignment. Bless me according to Genesis 22:18 that declare, in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Christ was a seed. The blessing goes far beyond just what You put in my hands. The blessing has to do with what You put in my heart. The blessing has to do with how I see You. Do I see You clearly? The blessing has to do with what I'm able to do for somebody else.
You are born to be blessed. There's a reason why you are born to be blessed. It's not just what God has put in your pocket, what He has put in your hand, but it is what He is going to do through you.
Many of you are coming into your blessings now is because of the dark times ahead. The Lord had gave Joseph his dream when he was about a youth, because of the dark times that were coming. That He was gonna put him in position, put him in prestige, to be able to do what he did for his family.
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
Talking about the spirit of forgiveness, talking about letting go of burdens, letting go of the bitterness after such a betrayal. But some people find it difficult to do. If you only knew that part of the process of being born to be blessed is to find the living sacrifice that we often had to become before we are revealed as the blessing. Before they see God in you, they oftentimes have to see the fire on you, they often have to see you go through the fire, they often have to believe that they are right. Oftentimes the very same people who God has assigned for you to save a life, will be your biggest adversary, "You ain't who God said, you ain't who God said you are, you ain't that.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
All of that pain coming up, part of the process at that moment when Joseph wept aloud, part of the pain of the rejection coming up the healing that was taking place even in the very moment while simultaneously he was receiving the revelation that God did all this now my dream is finally making sense.
Even some of you right now, your dreams have been making sense. The things that God has spoken to you have not lined up with the life that you had been living and your dreams have not been making sense, because they show you on one aspect, but yet you've been living another. You didn't understand why you had to go through the pit, to Potiphar's house, to be lied on, to be talked, you didn't understand. But at this time, a couple of things were happening that's why he wept so loud because he was being acquainted with the brokenness, bitterness; he was remembering the brokenness and the hurt that he felt when his brothers cast him into the pit and sold him, the sense of betrayal. But at the same time being healed by God, by realizing that this was no coincidence.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
The blessing could be so transformative that even those who once knew you won't recognize you anymore.
They didn't recognize their brother and it wasn't cause of the makeup. It was because the last time they've seen him, he was in such a low place that they could not even fathom that God will elevate him and put him into the place that he was. They couldn't even fathom that it could be him. This is what I'm talking about the power and the goodness and the mercy and the love of God, the authority of God all in operation in one dynamic. The power of God to elevate him, the strategy of God to use a dream to elevate him, the mercy and love of God to redeem the same people who threw him away. And they were troubled at his presence because he was so blessed by God that they couldn't recognize him. Their last image of their brother did not reconcile with the image that stood before them- this authority, this position, this status.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Part of real forgiveness is not to pretend like nothing happened. I know what you did.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life
This is one of the greatest secret strategies of God that He uses the blessings for.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Part of the aspects of the blessing is for what God will do through you for other people. The blessing is a multi-purpose system of heaven that God uses in our lives that is not solely based upon us.
What we see here in the Word of God that the blessing with Abraham, He said, I'm blessing you so that you could bless others. That I'm gonna do this for you because of what I wanna do through you. So you see here with Abraham, he was a blessing to be a blessing; we see with Joseph, he was blessed to presereve and save; we see with Adam he was blessed to go forward to be fruitful and to multiply. It was an empowering force.
There are some ministries in operation who God has clearly blessed, but yet they take exception to the blessing, not because they are trying to be against God, but because they want you to look deeper in God. And what happens is what the Lord is speaking to them, "Don't hide My hand, just reveal My heart. If you will reveal My heart, because it is My heart that empowered My hand. So don't hide My hand, just reveal My heart." And if those who are seeking Me are just seeking the hand, and have no interest in the heart, God will deal with it but first with this people He'll create a thirst.
How do you reveal God's heart? For God so loved the earth, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. The Lord has not sent His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. And how did He save it? Through His love and kindness.
The blessing is an institute of heaven. We got to be careful not to scoff that, not to open our mouths against it. Because by the grace of God, even you right now are benefiting from the blessing. If God is empowering you to do, if God has used you to affect somebody else's life. It's the blessing. If God has used you as somebody else's angel in the moment of their dire need, it's the blessing. So don't reject it.
The only way to know God is by what He's given, and what He gave was Jesus Christ. The only way to know God, to know His love, to know His level of kindness, to know His power is through Jesus Christ. So He sent His Son who not only died for us, but He raised the dead, healed the sick, He multiplied the bread, He went about doing good. And in Him, I can see the Father. Because He only came doing what He saw the Father do, and what He heard the Father say. And it was all good. It is what He gets is what He gave. He gave His love, He gave His Son, He gave His life. And in that I see Him, and in that I know Him. Who can go up to heaven and search Him out? So He reveals Himself by what He does, by what He's done. I'm known in My gift. And in that gift we see the immense love of God. Christ was the ultimate blessing. And in Him, we are blessed.
If God implements a system, He knows what He is doing, He doesn't need you to ratify, He doesn't nee you to alter it, to cut it. He needs you to submit to it. He needs you to humble yourself.
I saw this meme and it was hilarious, there was a flood in some specific areas, and you see these people carrying out these deities, statues. And the meme said, the awkward moment when you gotta save your god from calamity. How many of you know that our God is a real God? You never need to save Him, to help Him out, to pick Him up and save Him. You never need. I don't need to save Jesus. Jesus came to save me. And so my obligation is not to defend God. Do you know how big and real our God is? What you are supposed to do is to defend your faith, the reason why you stand, the reason why you believe.
Our God is real. He knows how to get that somebody's heart. He know how to convict that heart, to move on a life. Because He is real. We never need to run to a burning building to carry Him out, but He'll run to a burning building to carry us out. So what you need to defend is why you believe.
I serve a God who is real, who is the God of all creations. And when He determines judgement... I ain't gonna blow up your building, because if the Lord determines to judge a situation, He'll touch it, and your building will come tumbling down. We lose perspective sometimes, and we find ourselves in strife with one another, not knowing how to walk in peace with one another, we find ourselves in these foolish things thinking that we are helping God. Our God is real, so act like He's real, act like we know.
You are born to be blessed. It's a strategy of God that uses, that is multi-faceted, that there are so much purpose to being blessed so embrace it and thank God for it. Because He already blessed you, Lord reveal how You blessed me. Bless me Lord according to Your word. Let me see. Reveal the blessing that You poured out according to Your word. I receive it. Because that is the institution of heaven.
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