COME SIT WITH ME , THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

COME SIT WITH ME , THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! No true believer would purposely serve the world's god of mammon. Yet, when we worry about finances and struggle to meet our own needs, that's exactly what we're doing. The world will tell you; you know you have to do what you got to do to make it in this world ! That's a lie from the underbelly of hell ! We are binding ourselves to the world's sorrow -ridden system with all its shortcomings. In that system, we work harder.... And harder... And still fall behind. If we do find a way to get ahead, we paid a high price for it by sacrificing time in God's WORD, our family and relationships or our health. While the figures in our bank books tell us we're getting richer, in reality we're becoming poorer. That's the way the world's economy system works. They base your worth on credit scores. One way or another, there's always sorrow with it because it's under the curse. As believers, however, we are no longer under the curse ! Jesus has redeemed us from it. We don't have to earn a living with our sweat and toil. THE BLESSING makes us rich. Unlike the world, we aren't BLESSED because we are rich, we are rich because we're BLESSED ! We have the glorious privilege of simply trusting God and doing what Jesus tells us to do in verses 26- 33: "Behold the fowls [birds] of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not much better than they ? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take you thought for raiment (clothes) ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven (heat) shall he not much more clothe you ,O you of little faith ? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat ? Or, what shall we drink ? Or, whetherwithal shall we be clothed ? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek): Gentiles are people that are outside of the covenant of God: for your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33) "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6). "Brother Lewis, surely you aren't saying because I am a Christian, I don't have to work anymore !" No, I'm not saying you don't have to work. I'm saying you don't have to work for a living but for the giving. You don't have any more business sweating and toiling to earn your money than Adam did after the Fall. Making money is not your job. That's the job of THE BLESSING. Your job is to seek the kingdom of God. Your job is to report to your heavenly Father every day and say, "Father, I'm here to receive Your assignment. What would You like me to do for You today ? I am at Your service." I can tell you from THE WORD of God and from experience, if your, God will keep you busy. He's kept me running as fast as I can go for more than 10 years now. I can also tell you that He will pay you for more than you could ever earn. He'll not only meet your needs, He'll satisfy your wants. He'll make "all grace abound toward you: that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." The fact that God says He'll fulfill our wants and desires scares some religious people. Because they have been told that God "only gives you what you need not what you want". They're afraid to believe it because they think it will make them materialistic. But materialism isn't defined by having material goods. If it were, God wouldn't have said He gives us richly all things to enjoy. Materialism is trying to satisfy spiritual needs with material goods. It says, "I just have to have that new car or I wont be happy." That's not only materialistic, it's covetous and wrong. There is nothing at all wrong, however, with believing God for a new car or a new house. He delights in giving us such things. He just wants us to go about getting it His way and not the world's way. He wants us to roll the care of it over on Him and say, "Lord, I've sown my seed and I know exactly what the car or house I'd like to have looks like. I'm trusting You to get it to me in due season. In the meantime, I'm going to wash this BLESS car I'm driving now and keep thinking You for it. It's been a BLESSING, and I appreciate it." That's a sweet way to increase ! You get up every morning thinking, What is God going to do for me today ! Every time the phone rings, you think, this is it ! God is about to BLESS me again ! I've been living this way for 10 years now. It still excites me when the phone rings because I'm always expecting. By the way, where is the kingdom of God? If you are born again, that kingdom is within you (Luke 17: 21) the kingdom of God that is within you, is the government of God: and you cannot operate effectively in this kingdom without The Word of God abiding in you.