Blessed to Be a Blessing
The daily grind of life can easily blind us to the reality that God loads us with His benefits—
His blessings—
Every day.
At a time when Food prices and everything is skyrocketing
Jobs are competitive to obtain,
Fuel Prices are higher than anytime in History~
But We can easily forget the truth—
~that we are a blessed people.
1 God’s Blessings from the Beginning:
Genesis 1:28: God blessed them and said to them,
‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
From the book of beginnings,
Genesis,
God has blessed His people.
When He created the heavens and the earth and Adam and Eve, the last thing He did before He rested on the seventh day was to bless Adam and Eve…
God Is A Blessing God~!
And He has been blessing us ever since!
God Created You In His Image~
You didn’t evolve from an ameba slime~ over billions and billions of years there you were~
In Einsteins Theory of Relativity
You Cannot Create something from Nothing!
Every thing that is created has 3 Elements
Time Space And Matter
It’s called a continuum
It’s answered in Gen. 1:1
In the Beginning (Time) God Created The Heavens (Space) and Earth (Matter)
Everything we are Points to an intelligent design
Then there is the Miracle Of The Bible-
Jesus- Eye witnesses to the life death &’resurrection of Jesus Christ-
God Put You Here On This Planet For Such A Time As This~
There is No One Like you and No One Can Be A Better You Thank You!
When You Said Yes To God’s Gift Of Salvation You Became a Child Of God~
There Is Nothing You are Lacking~
Jesus Said~
Luke 12:32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Is. 6:3 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory
• Psalm 68:19: “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits…”
Benefits are blessings,
He loads us with them every single day.
Psalm 103
Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
He Redeemed from the Curse of Fallen Humanity~
He Redeems, Restores and Renews us~
Every Day Is A New Day~
The opposite of being blessed is being cursed—
and as born-again believers, we have been redeemed from the curse.
The curse of
lying spirits
fear
hate
bitterness
pain are active and rapid in our world like never before-
The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8 billion in 2024.
We Rapidly approached 8Billion people on the earth-
many subjecting themselves to demonic influences…
But with all of that…
The GOOD NEWS IS~ WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
• Galatians 3:13: “Galatians 3:13 says, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree'".
Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection bought and paid for our redemption.
He redeemed us with His blood.
Therefore, we are no longer under the curse; we are blessed…
God Is Love!
Jer. 31:3 He has loved you with an everlasting Love
Jer. 29:11 His Plans For you are Good Not Evil!
Romans 5:8 God demonstrated His Love While we were yet sinners Christ Died For Us!
Jer. 1:5 God Knows All About you Before you were formed in your mothers womb He Knew You And Called you And Anointed You!
There is nothing standing between us and God’s blessings other than our not laying hold of them by faith and receiving all that He has to give us…
• Deuteronomy 28:8
“The LORD will guarantee a blessing on everything you do.”
Because I Am Blessed We are called to bless-
Matt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
2 Blessed Abundantly
John 10:10 “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
God hasn’t blessed us just so we can have our needs met—
just so we can work,
tithe,
give offerings,
care for our families,
have a safe place to live,
save for the future,
have safe and reliable transportation,
and perhaps take time off for leisure—
all the things we might consider being blessed.
He has actually blessed us so that we can do all that and more—
Namely, be a Blessing to others.
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Jesus came to give us a rich and satisfying life.
In other words, it’s the will of God that we live blessed and able to think beyond ourselves,
beyond our household,
beyond what’s right in front of us.
If you don’t plant seeds you are going to get weeds-
Because there’s more purpose for being blessed than just meeting our own needs.
We Are Blessed to Be a Blessing.
~How Far Do You See?
Life has a way of limiting our vision,
but all through Scripture,
The Word tells us to look further, to look up and to look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.
• Hebrews 12:2 “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…”
• Matthew 6:33: “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
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We are meant to look around and see who we can bless with what’s in our hands right now.
We come to Receive
Yes
Be We Also come to Give-
WE ARE CALLED BY GOD TO RECIPROCATE
Love!
BUT YOU CAN NOT OUT GIVE GOD~
3 God’s Way of Blessing
James 1: 17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who never lies or changes His mind
• John 6:
Jesus feeds the 5,000 with five barley loaves and two fish.
BUT~
After everyone was full, Jesus told his disciples to gather the leftovers, so that nothing is wasted.
They picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.
In all, approximately 20,000 people ate that day.
And they ate until they were full, from two small fish and five barley loaves.
In heaven’s accounting system, it’s the little boy—
not Jesus—
who received credit for feeding all those hungry people.
What’s more,
The little boy ended up with more, not less, for giving his basket of two fish and five loaves, because when the disciples gathered up the leftovers, there were 12 baskets left over!
That’s How God’s Economy Works~
~It’s Called Twice-Sown Seed~
We get to receive exceedingly abundantly above what we can ask or think…
• Ephesians 3:20-21
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
4 What’s In Your Hands?
Ex 4:3 So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
That little boy with the basket of loaves and fish had no idea how big his giving could be in the hands of Jesus, but Jesus knew.
The disciples didn’t know how big his giving could be, but Jesus knew.
Imagine what Jesus could do with what’s in your hands right now if you gave it as seed sowed into The Kingdom of God~
and asked Jesus to bless your seed?
If your budget limits your ability to give above your tithe and the offerings that you’re giving now, start giving your stuff—start sowing it as seed.
Or start selling your stuff to give offerings or to generate income to give to others.
God used a stick of Moses
~God Gave Joseph A Dream
Jesus Used A couple of pennies Of a poor widow It illustrate the Power of Giving!
=A Slingshot Of David
=A Jawbone In The Hands Of Samson
=Some loaves of bread and two
Fish In the Hands Of A Little Boy to Feed thousands~
Your Smile~ Your Being There~
You showing Up to Church not just to receive but to BLESS THE LORD IN YOUR WORSHIP GIVING LOVING HELPING~
Why not do it to give offerings pouring into the next Generation your gift never stops giving-
Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Proverbs 11:24-25
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Acts 20:35
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way
we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he Himself said,
‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
2 Corinthians 9:7
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
As born-again, Spirit-filled believers who believe, We Are Blessed To Be a Blessing.
Regardless of our resources, there is purpose to our being a blessed and holy people, and one of those purposes is to bless others.
• 1 Peter 2:9: “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
We are givers by nature because we have been made in the image of God, who is a giver, who blesses, and who has called us to walk and live in THE BLESSING.
Duet 28:6 6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
And out of the abundance He has given us—at whatever level of abundance we currently have—
We Are Blessed To Be a Blessing.
If we’ll renew our minds to this truth, and begin practicing it, just like the little boy with the five loaves and two fish, God will multiply our seed.
He will multiply our ability to keep giving and giving and giving. That’s who He is. That’s what He does. He blesses…
HE IS COMING THROUGH FOR YOU IN WAYS YOU HAD NO IDEA~