Why do you want God to bless you?
Genesis 12:1-2 – The Lord and said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
During the last month, the Lord has blessed me with some extra money. His timing was great, since I had some extra expenses. As on so many occasions in the past, the amount that He supplied was quite a bit more than I needed to make my budget work, so I had surplus funds in my account.
Last week, while at a church meeting, I got a message from a friend who was on his way to the same meeting. The message said that he needed some help at a filling station nearby. I walked out of the meeting and drove to where he was. When I arrived, he told me that he was out of fuel, and that he didn’t have any money on him. As he was talking, the Spirit told me that this is why he blessed me with more than I needed, and I could fill up his car for him without even thinking about the cost. I think that I was blessed more by the situation than he was, because the Lord helped me realize a truth that will help me so much in future.
I want to challenge you to start thinking differently about blessings from God. Our primary goal on earth is not to have a nice, comfortable life and see how many belongings we can gather. We are here to glorify God, and sometimes (more often than we think), we have the opportunity to glorify Him by being obedient to his calling to be a blessing to those around us.
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