TRACKING THE BLOODLINE OF THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

TRACKING THE BLOODLINE OF THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! It was THE BLESSING that had Kept Abraham's steps sure and steady as he'd climbed the mountain to sacrifice Isaac that day. It empowered him to obeyed with confidence what would have been to a man of lesser faith, a heartbreaking command. This is a vital point: Abraham didn't obey God so he could get THE BLESSING. He obeyed God because he had the God kind of faith in the covenant of BLESSING God has already given him. When he prepared to offer up his precious son, his thoughts were fixed on the promise of God: " In Isaac shall thy seed be called." Abraham was so convinced God would keep His promise that he fully expected God to resurrect his son from the dead. He believed the power of THE BLESSING would raise Isaac right up out of the sacrificial ashes. THE BLESSING would make a way for God's promise to be fulfilled. Last's look at it from (Hebrews 11:17-19). "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. That's what it means to be fully persuaded--- that his God could and would do all that He had promised. That was Isaac's heritage of faith. He grew up seeing, hearing and believing that THE BLESSING always had and always would turn every situation in Abraham's favor. And it will do the same in your life as well as it is working in my life ! Dead religion cannot offer you anything from God although they try ! WALK AROUND LIKE YOU OWN IT ! It's one thing to see THE BLESSING work for someone else. It's another thing altogether, to believe it will operate the same way for you. Isaac found that out when his father died. After enjoying a life of abundance in the household of Abraham, he ran head on into a situation that was totally foreign to him. He found himself in a condition of lack because the land where he lived (the land God promised to Abraham's descendents) has fallen into famine. Unaccustomed to walking in THE BLESSING on his own, Isaac packed up his household and did the only thing he knew to do in the natural, He headed for Egypt to get food. God, however, stopped him in his tracks and change his mindset for ever. He appeared to him and said: Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell the of: sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will BLESS thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swear unto Abraham thy father; and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be BLESSED; because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws (Genesis 26:2-5). You have to understand, that Egypt is a type of the world system that the devil has set up: when Isaac heard those words, the Almighty God appearing and speaking directly to him, his hair must have stood straight up. His knees went weak. His heart jumped right up into his throat. This was THE LORD speaking to him. This was the MOST HIGHT--- the fiery God who had appeared to his father and said, "surely BLESSING I will BLESS thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. I believe, at that moment, the revelation hit Isaac like an 18 wheeler .THE BLESSING of Abraham now belonged to him. By virtue of the bloodline through which he'd been born, he had the full heir of that BLESSING. God was saying to him, as He had said to his father, " I WILL, performed for you the oath I swore. . . So, go and sojourn in the land I've given you." Sojourn doesn't referred just to traveling around. To sojourn in the land means to walk around in it like you own it. A sojourner doesn't act as if he's or she's a stranger or tiptoe around as if he or she might not belong there. He or she takes the attitude of ownership. It doesn't matter what other people there except him or her or not----it's his or hers ! God was telling Isaac, "if you'll walk around with that attitude of faith, I WILL do for you exactly what I did for your father. I WILL give you everything I gave him." Oh, how believers today need to catch that revelation the way Isaac did ! We need to realize that every promise in the Bible is God's blood sworn oath to us. Because in Jesus, all His promises are yes and amen, God has said to us, just as surely as He said to Isaac, " I WILL PERFORM in your life THE BLESSING of Abraham. I heal you ! I prosper you ! I create the conditions of Eden around you, and you will carry THE BLESSING to people every where you go !" It's time we believe that and start sojourning in the land. We ought to walk around in faith acting like healing belongs to us (regardless of symptoms to the contrary). We should walk around like prosperity is ours (regardless of the figures in our checkbooks). If we'll do that, God WILL get those things to us. It is His WILL for us.