HALLEUYAH! HALLELUYAH!! HALLELUYAH!!!
RELEASE DATE: June 20, 2022
WEEK 23: (June 20 – June 26, 2022)
WEEKLY BIBLE READINGS:
Genesis 24:35; Psalms 37:23; Proverbs 10:22 (NIV)
35The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
23The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him;
22The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, without painful toil for it.
INTERPRETATION
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to enjoy God’s blessing? Perhaps, have you enjoyed God’s blessings? I bet this is one of the greatest feelings. Whatever may be your ideas of your own powers and resources—whatever may be the confidence that you put in man or the trust that you repose in princes—you may be quite sure of this, that it is only the blessing of the Lord that makes rich, and add no sorrow. The blessings of God are not marred or mixed with evil.
God’s blessing makes rich His blessing is riches, although the wealth of the world shall all flee away. There are two ways of acquiring wealth. Some people grow rich without God’s blessing, and some grow rich by it. The god of this world gives riches to his subjects sometimes, when neither giver nor getter owns the supremacy of the Almighty; and God Himself gives riches to some who are His children. Now here’s the difference – God adds no sorrow with it, but that other lord does. Sorrow is sure to come with ill-gotten wealth. Sometimes the wealth is scattered by public judgments. Sometimes it becomes the source of family strife. Judgment will definitely come upon those that got wealth illegally. If you take God into your counsels, and so grow rich, there will be no bitterness infused into your gains.
If you are a true believer, if you have put on Christ, great riches may come and go; you will not be clogged while you have them; you will not be naked when they leave.
On the other hand, sometimes the blessing of the Lord is material and temporal wealth, as in the case of Abraham and Job. Much wealth is, alas! gotten by vanity and dishonesty—by treachery and falsehood and over-reaching, and by that indefinable sin, but that exceedingly common sin, covetousness. Sorrow was added in the case of Lot’s wealth, but then Lot added the sorrow. There was no sorrow with the portion of Abraham.
More frequently the blessing is not wealth, but food convenient for us. The blessing of the Lord turns every possession into wealth. Children, when blessed by God, are a heritage from the Lord. Money, when blessed by God, instead of being the root of all evil, is the source and means of much good. Honour and reputation, when blessed by God, instead of being traps and snares and stumbling blocks, are an exalted position upon which light may shine for the good of others, and the glory of our Father in heaven. Some things wrapped up in the blessing of the Lord are of priceless value. He who has the blessing of salvation is rich indeed. To acquire good things is to prevent all misgiving as to the right of possession.
Beloved, God’s blessing gives material wealth. The silver and the gold are His, and He gives them to whomsoever He will. He who rules in the highest reaches down to the minutest concerns of this world and controls them all. Why not allow him to come into your heart today? Surrender all to him and let him be lord over your life.
PRAYER
Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Holy Michael, thank you for your word. We pray for your blessings in all ways, release your blessings on us. Teach our hands to make true wealth, that which will not come with sorrow. Guide our hearts and help us stay away from evil and any appearance of evil. This and many more we ask for through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thank you and God bless. Shalom.
Footnote: “A life without Christ is full of crisis but life in Christ is a great life full of peace. Let that be your Guide & Guard”
Isaiah 59:1 – Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear”