God Wants You Blessed – Part 3
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 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.