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Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee; and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee; and thou shalt be a blessing" Genesis 12:1,2.
In these first words that God spoke to Abraham, we have the short summary of all that God has to say to him and to us as His children. We see the goal to which God calls us, the power that carries us to that goal, and the place where that power is found.
Be a blessing , that is the goal for which God separates Abraham and every believing child of His.
God would have him and us understand that, when He blesses us, it is not to simply make us happy, but so that we would communicate His blessing. God Himself is love, and therefore He blesses. Love does not seek itself. When the love of God comes to us, it will seek others through us.
From the beginning, the young Christian must understand that he has received grace with the definite aim of becoming a blessing to others.
Please, do not keep for yourself what the Lord gives to you for others. Offer yourself expressly and completely to the Lord to be used by Him for others. That is the way to be blessed.
Christian, God will fulfil to you His promise, "I will bless thee." Leave your homeland, your father's house, and your life and involvement with the world and the ways of the flesh. Enter into the new life, the life of the Spirit, the life in fellowship with God, to which He will lead you.
There you become receptive to His blessing. There your heart becomes open to full faith in His word, "I will bless thee. "There He can fulfill that word to you, and make you full of His blessing and power to be a blessing to others. Live with God, separated from the world. Then you will hear the voice of God speak with power: "I will bless thee"; "Be thou a blessing."
Father, show me the way to that promised land where You bring Your people to have them wholly for Yourself. I will abandon everything to follow You, to hold converse with You alone, in order that You may fill me with Your blessing. Lord, let Your word, "I will bless thee," live in my heart as a Word of God. Then will I give myself wholly to live for others and to be a blessing.
In these first words that God spoke to Abraham, we have the short summary of all that God has to say to him and to us as His children. We see the goal to which God calls us, the power that carries us to that goal, and the place where that power is found.
Be a blessing , that is the goal for which God separates Abraham and every believing child of His.
God would have him and us understand that, when He blesses us, it is not to simply make us happy, but so that we would communicate His blessing. God Himself is love, and therefore He blesses. Love does not seek itself. When the love of God comes to us, it will seek others through us.
From the beginning, the young Christian must understand that he has received grace with the definite aim of becoming a blessing to others.
Please, do not keep for yourself what the Lord gives to you for others. Offer yourself expressly and completely to the Lord to be used by Him for others. That is the way to be blessed.
Christian, God will fulfil to you His promise, "I will bless thee." Leave your homeland, your father's house, and your life and involvement with the world and the ways of the flesh. Enter into the new life, the life of the Spirit, the life in fellowship with God, to which He will lead you.
There you become receptive to His blessing. There your heart becomes open to full faith in His word, "I will bless thee. "There He can fulfill that word to you, and make you full of His blessing and power to be a blessing to others. Live with God, separated from the world. Then you will hear the voice of God speak with power: "I will bless thee"; "Be thou a blessing."
Father, show me the way to that promised land where You bring Your people to have them wholly for Yourself. I will abandon everything to follow You, to hold converse with You alone, in order that You may fill me with Your blessing. Lord, let Your word, "I will bless thee," live in my heart as a Word of God. Then will I give myself wholly to live for others and to be a blessing.
