LIVING THE BLESSED LIFE 

LIVING THE BLESSED LIFE: “THE BLESSING OF GOD” IS IN TOTALITY [WHOLESOMENESS] – AND IT’S LIFE GIVING IN BLESSEDNESS! 

“THE BLESSING of the LORD MAKES a person RICH, He ADDS NO SORROW to it” Proverbs 10:22. 

“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED us with all SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3. 

The BLESSING of God is the ENABLING and ENDOWED grace bestowed upon the BELIEVERS in Christ, and it’s firstly SPIRITUAL before it takes a PHYSICAL hold effect as a result of its operations, administrations and manifestations. It thus means that THE BLESSING of God is Not MATERIAL Stuff like – Car, Property, Money, precious stones of – silver, gold, diamond and such like, as some people may do think or suggest. The Physical stuff rots, decays and expires but God’s BLESSEDNESS does not rot, decay and expire – and it’s not limited and subjected to and by any human, demonic or natural factors. It’s a TREASURED enabler of the heavenly for the earthly affairs in humanity. 

“Do not LAY UP for yourselves TREASURES on earth, where MOTH and RUST destroy and where THIEVES break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves TREASURES in heaven, where neither MOTH nor RUST destroys and where THIEVES do not break in and steal. 21 For where your TREASURE is, there your HEART will be also” Matthew 6:19-21. 

Hence, having the material gains as CAR, PROPERTY, MONEY and MORE is/are the results of THE BLESSING of God but not THE BLESSING of God itself. However, there are lots of people that have obtained all these mentioned material stuff through illicit, wicked, oppressive and devilish ways too. Could that be considered as THE BLESSING of God? The answer is NO, NEVER, NOT AT ALL. They are not the BLESSING of God because you can’t measure God’s BLESSEDNESS from the physical possessions – for a man’s life in BLESSEDNESS does not consist or is measured simply by the abundance of physical things you think you possess. 

“And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of COVETOUSNESS: for a MAN’S LIFE CONSISTETH NOT in the ABUNDANCE of the things which he POSSESSETH” Luke 12:15. 

There’s the need to know fully that – to ‘BEING BLESSED OF GOD’ simply means to being EMPOWERED to – SUCCEED, ACHIEVE, BECOME, INNOVATE, CREATE, INITIATE, EXPLORE, GET and such like. For it’s THE BLESSING of God that makes one enriched in the kingdom and thus also sustains that enrichment of BLESSEDNESS; and it must be noted that in the Kingdom, enrichment is not just about having material acquisition as money, property, car and more as known that makes one rich. 

You need to know fully well that RICHES , otherwise depicted as the material gains of this world such as money and other precious material of worth has WINGS –  and as they COME to one, they can also GO out of one’s reach, hence you can see many that were once called rich in human perception are now totally bankrupt and needy.  

“Will you SET YOU EYES on that which is not? For RICHES certainly makes themselves WINGS; they fly away like an eagle towards heaven” Proverbs 23:5. 

You need to know that in life and grace, it is only THE BLESSING of God that enriches and possess the assured enabling to make one ABIDE and ABOUND forever in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. It thus means, you can be EMPOWERED to succeed again and again no matter what levels of challenges are about you even as Isaac of Abraham experience with God at famine after been at plenty at a time. Genesis 26:1-5, 12-25.  

So if you must crave and pursue anything in Life and Godliness, then crave and pursue for God’s given BLESSEDNESS, that is acronym – THE BLESSING of God – and build your life on God’s given BLESSEDNESS which will eventually enrich you wholly and not just a pursuits of wealth or material acquisitions as many do or think or suggest to then depict it as God’s blessings. 

Be it known that “THE BLESSING OF GOD” under the OLD TESTAMENT Creation is based on condition [conditionality] with an “IF”. Thus, indicating you have to fulfil God’s set work order to earn His BLESSEDNESS – which none could and was found difficult to be attained in the human depraved state of being then. 

“And it shall come to pass, IF thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, IF thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God . . . 9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, IF thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways . . . 13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; IF that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them . . .” Deuteronomy 28:1-3, 9, 13-14. 

Unlike the OLD TESTAMENT Creation, THE BLESSING OF GOD under the NEW TESTAMENT Creation, is based on “FAITH” on the “REDEMPTION WORK OF GRACE” in Christ Jesus stead – which is of a done deed, for all eternity. It does not have an “IF” element neither is it based on condition [conditionality]. For it’s a BLESSEDNESS based on God’s imputation in RIGHTEOUSNESS and not of man’s work to attain or to merit of God. 

“BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED us with all SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3. 

THEREFORE, KNOW FULLY WELL THAT: 

• THE BLESSING OF GOD is in totality [wholesomeness, completeness], fulfilling, peaceful, all embracing and not limited to just things physical only but the total being of man – spirit, soul and body [1 Thessalonians 5:23; Luke 2:52]. 

• THE BLESSING OF GOD empowers, gives enabling, rights, privileges and creates enrichment and fulfilment [Deuteronomy 8:18]. 

• And You are BLESSED with THE BLESSING OF GOD as a possession already [Ephesians 1:3/2 Peter 1:2-4], and it can be made tangible today by FAITH – acting on THE WORD accordingly as you BELIEVE. 

Henceforth, I say to you, live on God’s gracious BLESSEDNESS and all other things will come together timely. I pray that THE BLESSINGS of God be your vehicle of enrichment in Christ Jesus’ precious name, Amen. 

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“THE BLESSING of the LORD MAKES a person RICH; He ADDS NO SORROW to it” Proverbs 10:22. 

“Who shall ASCEND into the hill of the Lord? or who shall STAND in his holy place? 4 He that hath CLEAN hands, and a PURE heart; who hath NOT LIFTED UP his soul unto vanity, nor SWORN deceitfully. 5 He shall receive THE BLESSING from the Lord, and RIGHTEOUSNESS from the God of his salvation” Psalms 24:3-5. 

“But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee POWER (Enabling, Right) to GET (CREATE, INNOVATE, INITIATE) WEALTH, that he may ESTABLISH his COVENANT which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day” Deuteronomy 8:18. 

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from YOUR MOUTH, but YOU shall MEDITATE in it DAY and NIGHT, that YOU may OBSERVE to do according to all that is WRITTEN in it. For then YOU will MAKE your way PROSPEROUS, and then YOU will have GOOD SUCCESS” Joshua 1:8. 

“Beloved, I pray that you may PROSPER in all things and be in HEALTH, just as your SOUL PROSPERS” 3 John 1:2. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI