THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! The Hebrew definition of the word good gives us further proof that a blessing is a pearly positive thing. It includes: "beautiful, best, better, bountiful, joyful, kindly, loving, merry, pleasant, prosperity, sweet, wealth and to be well." Since that list does not include even one negative word, we can put behind us for ever, the ideal that sorrowful, unpleasant, better things can be BLESSINGS. It is totally unscriptural. That truth, by itself, will make us free. But there is another meaning for the word BLESSING that's even more exciting. It's a definition that comes into play when God gets involved. When He is the One speaking, a BLESSING is defined as not only saying something good about someone, but as a declaration which empowers them to prosper. Because God's word carried creative power (as seen throughout Genesis 1) His BLESSING does more than express a positive sentiment. It releases the power to bring that BLESSING to pass. That's the reason THE BLESSING God spoke over mankind in (Genesis 1:28) is so significant. God's declaration actually empowered men to prosper. It released the divine resources that would make THE BLESSING not just a spiritual reality, but a material reality as well. It endued God's family on earth with all the power they would ever need to: 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 upon the earth. "GO AND FINISH WHAT I STARTED !" Contrary to popular belief, when God spoke those words of BLESSING, He wasn't just commanding Adam and his wife to have babies to populate the earth. He was saying much more than that. In Hebrew, the phrase be fruitful, and multiply meanings to increase and have abundance in every way. Replenish means to fill up, to perpetually renew, supply and keep full. When God spoke those words, he endowed mankind with the divine power to increase and excel in everything good. He empowered them to feel the earth with that goodness. Through THE BLESSING, He said: prosper and feel this planet with My glory ! Finish what I've started here. Fill this place up with Me. Fill it up with compassion. Fill it up with love and life, faith and holiness, and everything good ! All "Wait a Minute !" You might say, "I thought there was already finished when Adam and Eve were created. I thought God has done everything that needed to be done." That's what I thought, too until I studied what the Bible actually says about it. Like most believers, are seen for years that God has so thoroughly completed the planet that all Adam and Eve had to do was pluck ripe fruit from the trees and enjoy themselves. That's the way religion has painted that picture ! I figured that because the garden of Eden was a perfect place, there must not have been much work for them to do. That Would Have Been True If the Garden has covered the whole earth. But it did. Although it was a good size piece of property, according to the description given in Genesis, it was only about the size and in the general location of modern day Iraq. The Bible tells us that God Himself planted it: . . . Eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed, and all of the ground made The Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Prison: that is it which comepasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is Bedellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that, compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man and put him into the God of Eden to dress it and to keep it (Genesis 2:8 through 15).