THE BLESSING OF THE LORD

THE BLESSING OF THE LORD : (Proverbs 10:22). "The BLESSING of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." The amplified Bible puts it this way. "The BLESSING of the Lord--- it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling [or working] increase it]". Why should we have trouble understanding that if the curse is in the world and THE BLESSING is in God, we'll be BLESSED and curse-free as long as we stick with God ? Some people have thought the verses say God will send the curse. If you study that out, you'll find that what God actually said is that He would permit that curse to come into their lives if they opened the door to it through unbelief and disobedience. Why would He permit it ? Because He didn't have a choice. God has given mankind a free will. When He created us in His image and likeness, He left it up to us to choose THE BLESSING or the curse. (See Deuteronomy 30:19). God has never chosen the curse for anyone. Never in the history of the world has He ever put someone in Satan's hands. People, even the children of God put themselves in Satan hands ! DON'T BUY THE LIE ABOUT JOB: I know you're thinking, what about Job ? Did God give the devil permission to go after him ? No, He didn't. That lie has been taught for years and has absolutely wreaked havoc with people's understanding of God. Good Christian people have quaked in their boots, wondering if God is going to open the door to the devil and let him come into their lives and test their faithfulness. So let's clear up that misunderstanding right now. Let's take a look at what really happened to Job. The first thing the Bible teaches about him is that THE BLESSING of God was operating in his life. If you want to talk about someone who was fruitful, multiplied and has dominion-- it was Job. He not only reverenced God and steered clear of evil, he prospered in every conceivable way. He had a wife and a beautiful family--- seven sons and three daughters. His finances had multiplied to the point where he was the wealthiest man in the East. He had the respect of the community. And even had a healing ministry. No question about it, Job had lived by faith in THE BLESSING of God for years. His life bore the fruit of it. After his children grew up, however, he stepped out of faith and into fear. He begins worrying that when they got together at one another's houses to celebrate, they were sinning against God. He developed such a terror of it that every time one of them had a party, "Job sent and sanctified them , and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." Job had the same, mistaken religious idea many people have today. He thought if he worried about his children, he was being a responsible parent. But, in reality, he was just opening the door to the Satan by failing to trust God. He wasn't making his sacrifices in faith. The Scripture says, "without faith, it is impossible to please God !" He was making them in fear and unbelief. I've done it myself. There have been times when I've found myself confessing THE WORD of God as hard and fast as I could, but instead of confessing in faith, I was doing it in fear. Many dear children of God, do not understand that their words can be stout against God, because they were releasing fear as they said God's Word . When I got quiet and just determined to trust God, my faith opened the door for Him to move on my behalf and he kept that was able to provide the money right on time. Job was in that same kind of situation. He was doing some things that looked right, but he was doing it in fear. Instead of having God's faithfulness on his mind while he was making his sacrifices, he had the curse on his mind, and it eventually guaranteed such terror in his life that he said, "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came." Many Christian, for the most part operate in fear instead of faith. Fear is faith in reverse gear it brings the devil in the situations of your life. The Scripture says, "Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. People have great faith in what they can see, but have no faith in God in whom they cannot see. "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:18).