God Wants You Blessed – Part 2
UNDERSTANDING THE CURSE OF POVERTY
Galatians 3:13-14,29 KJV
13 CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME ON THE GENTILES THROUGH JESUS CHRIST; THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH.
29 AND IF YE BE CHRIST’S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM’S SEED, and heirs according to the promise.
REDEEMED: to rescue from loss, by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom…
THE CURSE OF THE LAW:
1. POVERTY: The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
2. SICKNESS
3. SIN
Deuteronomy 28:15-34, 38-44 NLT
15 “But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you:
16 Your towns and your fields will be cursed.
17 Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.
18 Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.
19 WHEREVER YOU GO AND WHATEVER YOU DO, YOU WILL BE CURSED.
20 “The LORD himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me.
21 The LORD will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
22 The LORD will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die.
23 The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
24 The LORD will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.
25 “The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
27 “The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
28 The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
29 You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. YOU WILL BE OPPRESSED AND ROBBED CONTINUALLY, AND NO ONE WILL COME TO SAVE YOU.
30 “You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. YOU WILL BUILD A HOUSE, BUT SOMEONE ELSE WILL LIVE IN IT. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.
31 Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you will not eat a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be taken from you, never to be returned. Your sheep and goats will be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you.
32 You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won’t be able to help them.
33 A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
34 You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you.
38 “YOU WILL PLANT MUCH BUT HARVEST LITTLE, FOR LOCUSTS WILL EAT YOUR CROPS.
39 You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.
40 You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens.
41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.
42 Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.
43 “The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.
44 They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!
DELIVERED FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS
Colossians 1:13-14 KJV
13 WHO HATH DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, AND HATH TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON:
14 In whom WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins:
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM
Genesis 12:1-4 KJV
1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 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:
3 AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE, AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE: AND IN THEE SHALL ALL FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED.
4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 13:2 KJV
2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
RICH: having an abundant supply, prosperous, comfortable, very productive…
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM EXPLAINED BY ABRAHAM’S SERVANT
Genesis 24:34-36 NLT
34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he explained.
35 “And the LORD has greatly blessed my master; he has become a wealthy man. The LORD has given him flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, a fortune in silver and gold, and many male and female servants and camels and donkeys.
36 “When Sarah, my master’s wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master’s son, and my master has given him everything he owns.
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM ON ISAAC MORE POWERFUL THAN FAMINE
Genesis 26:6,12-14 NLT
6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar. (Isaac fully obeyed and trusted God)
12 When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the LORD blessed him. (As a result of Isaac’s obedience God blessed him beyond measure and he went from famine to feasting).
13 He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow.
14 He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM ON JACOB AMIDST BEING CHEATED (WEALTH TRANSFER)
Genesis 30:27 NLT
27 “Please listen to me,” Laban replied. “I HAVE BECOME WEALTHY, FOR THE LORD HAS BLESSED ME BECAUSE OF YOU.
Genesis 31:6-9,16 NLT
6 You know how hard I have worked for your father,
7 but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.
8 For if he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the whole flock began to produce speckled young. And when he changed his mind and said, ‘The striped animals will be your wages,’ then the whole flock produced striped young.
9 In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.
16 All the wealth God has given you from our father legally belongs to us and our children. So go ahead and do whatever God has told you.”
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM ON JOSEPH IN HARDSHIP
Genesis 39:2-5 KJV
2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that THE LORD BLESSED the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and THE BLESSING OF THE LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
THE BLESSING WILL HELP YOU OVERCOME YOUR GRIEF
Genesis 41:47-52 NLT
47 As predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.
48 During those years, Joseph gathered all the crops grown in Egypt and stored the grain from the surrounding fields in the cities.
49 He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too much to measure.
50 During this time, before the first of the famine years, two sons were born to Joseph and his wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.
51 Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “GOD HAS MADE ME FORGET ALL MY TROUBLES AND EVERYONE IN MY FATHER’S FAMILY.”
52 Joseph named his second son Ephraim, for he said, “GOD HAS MADE ME FRUITFUL IN THIS LAND OF MY GRIEF.”
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MORE POWERFUL THAN WITCHCRAFT
Numbers 23:19-24 KJV
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and HE HATH BLESSED; AND I CANNOT REVERSE IT.
21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.