THE BLESSING OF THE LORD AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD !

THE BLESSING OF THE LORD AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD ! God BLESSED them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth up on the earth (Genesis 1:28). Those words of BLESSING marked the coronation of mankind. They were the first words Adam ever heard. They were the most important words God has ever spoken to any man at any time because they carried within them God's unchanging plan and purpose for His family. They settle, once and for all, the eternal truth that God's will for man is THE BLESSING. PROJECT EDEN: FILLING THE EARTH WITH THE GLORY OF GOD ! THE BLESSING of The Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. (Proverbs 10:22). The word Blessing has been so stripped of its meaning that most people pay no attention to it anymore, or many people use the meaning of the word to say that I blessed. Even though it represents the most important concept in the Bible, and reveals God's will for all mankind, the world has trivialized it into little more than a crurtesy comment made when someone sneezes. "Ah-choo !" "God bless you !" People say it all the time without any idea of what it means. Even believers, who give the phrase more thought because of it scriptural nature, and often confused by it because it is thrown around in such casual and contradictory ways. On one hand, they hear things like sickness, poverty and calamity referred to as "blessings in disguise," while on the other hand, health, prosperity and protection are called blessings, too. It's no wonder that for or practical purposes, the real definition of the word BLESSING has been lost. Religious double speaking has turned it into a term that changes color according to the circumstances surrounding it, with no clear meaning of its own. In reality, however, the word BLESSING has a definite and distinct identity. It's primary biblical meaning is to say something good about. In Hebrew, a Blessing is the exact opposite of a curse, which means to say something bad about. The Jews, who were the original readers of the Bible, completely understood that fact. They didn't have the problem many Christians do. They never got BLESSINGS and CURSES mixed up. They knew: if it's good, it's a BLESSING. If it's bad, it's a CURSE. You could never convince a Jewish person who knew the Old Testament that things like poverty and sickness were BLESSING. If you said to him or her, "You're going to be sick and broke for the rest of your life and God is going to use that illness and poverty to teach you something." He are her wouldn't think you had BLESSED him or her. He'd or She'd know you had cursed them. Most Christians today have been robbed of such clarity. And I know that it is due to their traditional doctrinal teaching that they have received from their forefathers. Their minds have been muddled by man made doctrines so ridiculous they'd never believed them outside of church. Instead of having their minds washed with the water of The Word, they've been brainwashed by tradition into believing that God actually sends bad things into their lives to bless them. "I lost my job and went broke," they'll say. "That was when the Holy Spirit was finally able to teach me to put God first in my life. That proves poverty can sometimes be a BLESSING of the Lord." Such statements may sound spiritual, but they're just playing wrong. Going broke is never a BLESSING. It's a curse. Certainly, it's great to learn lessons from God. It's exciting to find out that if you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). What things ? All the things that the Gentile world seek after ! But poverty isn't what teaches us that truth. Neither does sickness teaches us the truth. If it did, every poor person every sick person in the world be a spiritual giant. No, the good things God said in His Word (specifically, verses like (Matthew 6:33) are what teaches us to put God first. When we read and obey these verses, we can learn that lesson without having to lose a dime--- or lose our health and that's what the Bible calls BLESSING !