THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! When God first spoke to Abram, he was a resident of the heathen city of Ur, a city of moon worshipers, located not far from modern-day Baghdad. Why would God choose to reveal Himself to such a man ? Because he camp that was searching for a man who would teach his children. He was looking for someone who, by passing along his faith to his family, were perpetuate the lineage of THE BLESSING. Apparently, apparently Abram was the only man He found. In him, God saw the spark of faith that, fueled by the fire of THE WORD, could turn into a light for the nations. He ignited that five by saying the same thing to Abraham He'd said to Adam. It was the same thing He'd said to Noah and his family. God declared to Abraham THE BLESSING. He empowered him to prosper and excel in everything good and set him in the place of dominion by saying, "Whoever does good to you, I'll do good to them. Whoever comes against you, I'll come against them. I'll back you 100%." Then, He commissioned Abraham, just as He'd commissioned Adam, to take THE BLESSING worldwide. He said, "In thee shall all families of the earth be BLESSED." I know I'm repeating myself here, but this is a vital point. Four years, most Christians have seen no connection between Adam's BLESSING and Abraham's BLESSING. Looking at the Bible as a collection of disjointed incidents, we've viewed scriptural history as if God were making it up as He went along--- coming up with one BLESSING for Adam, another for Noah, another for Abraham and so on. We've had the idea that God has dozens of different blessings. But it's time we straightened out our thinking. If we, as New Testament believers, are going to understand God's will for us, we must settle the fact that the BLESSING he That gave mankind is THE BLESSING for all time. It will never change because He never changes. Once Abraham received THE BLESSING, things in his life started changing. In obedience to God's instructions, he left the place where he was raised and moved away from his moon-worshiping relatives. God wanted to get him away from their ungodly way of thinking so Abraham could start thinking in line with THE BLESSING. We, as believers, should do the same thing. If we want to learn how to walk in THE BLESSING of God, we have two separate ourselves from our unbelieving friends and relatives and even family members. We love them and pray for them from a distance until we've renewed our own minds with God's WORD to the point where we can influence them, instead of letting them influence us. That's what Abraham did. He packed up and followed God into an absolute wilderness. He moved to a foreign land where he had no family, no established business connections, nothing to depend on but THE BLESSING. From a natural perspective, Abraham was a prime candidate to go broke. He was headed to a country that was in famine. No salary was waiting for him there. No one was looking to give him a helping hand. Where he was going, no one cared whether he lived or died. But, none of that mattered because Abraham had THE BLESSING, and the Bible lets us know in no uncertain terms, it worked ! Everywhere Abraham went, THE BLESSING did its job. It created the conditions of the Garden of Eden. And I would also like to say, it is working in my life as well ! It brought for such abundance that within a very short time, "Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold." The effects of THE BLESSING even spilled over onto Abraham's nephew, Lot, who traveled with him. Between them, their households and livestock multiplied until the land where they were living couldn't support both of them. They had two separate. And Abram Said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen And thy herdmen; For we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself, I pray thee, From me: if thou wilt take the left-hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou part two the right hand, then I will go to the left. And lot lifted up his eyes, and behold all the plain of Jordan, That it was well watered everywhere. . . Even as the garden of THE LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. Then lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; And lot journeyed east: and they separated themselvesThe one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, And Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom ( Genesis 13:8-12).