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The Holy Spirit Lets Us Know Spiritual Blessings
(1Co2:11-16; Eph1:3)
God is the fount of blessing.
Blessings come from Him and
He blesses those who fear Him (Ps115:13; Jer17:17).
While those who believe that possessing longevity, wealth, health, many children etc is blessing and
Try to possess them by prayers, ancestral worship, physiognomy, divination, charms etc,
Faith is longing for the blessing of God and
The life of this faith is in order to be blessed emptying oneself (Mt5:3).
The Bible speaks of the blessing of God.
God blessed the fish and the birds to increase (Ge1:22) and
Men to be fruitful and increase in number, and rule over all things (Ge1:28), which is
Material, cultural blessing,
While the blessing that came on the seventh day and made it holy and then God rested (Ge2:3) is
Spiritual blessing.
After the ancestor of mankind sinned and was driven out of the Garden (Ge3:4-6),
All mankind became destined to toil all their life and their flesh to return to dust (Ge3:17-19)
While the spirit to go to hell with the devil (Mt25:41).
Abram who believed in the promise of becoming a blessing and left his country (Ge12:1-3),
Received the promise of many descendants, the right to possess the land of Canaan (Ge17:6-8).
Accordingly, he received a son at the age of 100 and
His son Isaac became very wealthy (Ge26:12-13).
Jacob who took his brother’s right to blessing and ran away (Ge27:4-46)
Returned home after 20 years with a large family and great wealth (Ge32:10).
Israel is the name of the blessing that Jacob received (Ge32:26-28) and
As such, the homes, the nations or wherever they went were increased (Ge30:30, 39:5, 41:53-57).
At the end of their slavery of 400 years they left Egypt with its treasures (Ex12:35-36).
Even though they went through the wilderness they lacked nothing (Dt2:7).
If they kept the decrees and commands (Dt4:40), and
Served well in the sanctuary where the name of Jehovah was (Ex23:25)
They were blessed in all their harvest and in all the work of their hands (Dt16:15).
Yeshua said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21),
He would give not the ability to produce wealth in the name of Jehovah (Dt8:18),
But the spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in the name of Yeshua (Eph1:3),
That is for the absolutely poor in the spirit (Mt5:3).
As such, He said to those who followed Him seeing the empty boat filled with fish and
The bread in the wilderness (Mt14:16-21; Lk5:5-8),
To not follow Him for the food that spoils (Jn6:26-27).
As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Followed the Father’s command and emptied Himself becoming nothing, laying down His most precious life for resurrection (Jn10:17-18; Php2:6-8);
2) Judged the devil the thief (Jn10:10; 1Jn3:8); and
3) With His blood purchased souls and made them His possession (Rev5:9).
He resurrected and sat on the heavenly throne and
Became the Owner of all things in heaven and on earth (Mt28:18), and
The Holy Spirit lets those who received the name of Yeshua
Know the deep things of God, the spiritual blessings in heavenly places (1Co2:12; Eph1:3).
The man of the Spirit is the blessed who
Found all blessings in Yeshua Christ and
In his joy sold all his possessions and bought the kingdom of heaven (Mt13:44-46).
Thus, he trusts only the name of Yeshua (Mt5:3) and
Has the right to possess all things, such as angels, men, life, breath etc.
O Lord,
Yeshua is not an accessory that I add to what I already have…
Rather, Yeshua is my all, my everything!
How much did Yeshua cost me?
What have I lost for Yeshua?
Let me rather lose the world and gain the kingdom of heaven! Amen.