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God’s Economy - You are Blessed

You are blessed. That is a fact. Whether you believe that or not.

While doing the 100 days of Believing Bigger pillars of Stillness and Blessing + Obedience, my whole outlook on blessing was changed.

We are taught that we need to ask God to bless us. As if our life is not blessed unless we ask and even then God still has to do the blessing. In this context, even as a believer, you question whether you even deserve to be blessed. And if you feel like you aren’t blessed you can develop a woe is me or even hardened heart.

However, when you take God view that you are already blessed, that blessing is internal and not external; that it is not something God gives to you but it is already in you; it creates a whole new paradigm. Instead of thinking you are not worthy of being blessed because you know you are you begin to look for the blessings in your life. You walk with a different posture because blessing is happening, your not waiting for it. And because you are blessed, you can pour out that blessing to others.

 As we were going through the pillars and we were talking about blessing and the Holy Spirit, God said to me the blessing resides in you because the holy Spirit is in you. He is the blesser and when you activate the Holy Spirit that is when you see the blessing.

What if the reason you don’t see blessing in you life because you haven’t activated the Holy Spirit? If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ then you know that God sent the Holy Spirit to reside in us as we go through this journey called life. He never goes anywhere (He promises to never leave nor forsake) but there are times that the Holy Spirit seems less present. That’s not because of the Holy Spirit, that’s because of us.

So how do you activate the Holy Spirit? Obedience.

And what proceeds Obedience? Belief.

Belief precedes, invites and unleashes the blessing. (I wish I had thought that up but I didn’t. Lol.) I have to believe that I am blessed and that God is, has and will continue to bless me. I am, as I am, a blessing. My very existence is a blessing. I won’t be a blessing once I get money, or a big house, or fancy clothes. With or without that I am still blessed and a blessing.

When I believe that God is working everything together for my good and that He has given me everything that I need to accomplish his purpose in me, and that I am already blessed I will walk in obedience.

Obedience in this context is just me doing what God has asked of me. What I don’t believe or doubt I will delay doing thus blocking my blessing. However, in my belief and obedience, the Holy Spirit in me is activated and blessing is released in me and through me. In this state of belief and obedience you eyes are opened to the blessings you didn’t realize were happening and you will be the blessing that God created you to be.

Blessed is she who believes that what the Lord has promised will be fulfilled. Luke 1:45


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