TRACKING THE BLOODLINE OF THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

TRACKING THE BLOODLINE OF THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! Brother Lewis, what if those things are not God's will for me ? They are His will for you and all humanity ! That will come under the covenant of the bloodline of Jesus. The Bible says so, it is not God's will that any should perish but that all will come into the saving knowledge of Jesus. And He put an end to any argument about it when He stood in the blood of the covenant sacrifice and said, "It is My will to BLESS you with THE BLESSING of Abraham ! When God said that to Isaac, he believed it. He took God at His WORD and stayed in the Promised Land, in spite of the famine. Putting his faith in THE BLESSING, he showed in that land and reaped a hundredfold harvest in the same year, and "the man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him (Genesis 26:13-14). The last thing Isaac wanted was a fight with those Philistines. He was a peace-loving man. But, because they were jealous of THE BLESSING that was on him, they persecuted him unmercifully. They fought with his servants. They stole his water wells. When he found a place to settle down, they pushed him out of it. That kind of thing always happened to the heirs of THE BLESSING. Everywhere they went, people dealt them unmitigated misery. But I Isaac just kept believing and obeying God. He did everything possible to live at peace with the people around him. He refused to get into strife with them, and in the end he came out on top. Eventually, the Philistines made a covenant with him and said, "we That have seen that you are now THE BLESSED of THE LORD." THE BLESSING in and on Isaac overpowered the famine in the land and at the same time, made Isaac very great. THE DECEIVER WHO BECAME A PRINCE OF GOD !Through Isaac, THE BLESSING was passed down through the bloodline to his sons, Jacob and Esau. Had they both lived by faith in it, it would have produced the same results in their lives that it had their father and grandfather. And this it turned out, however, the two brothers treated THE BLESSING in starting and different ways. The elder one, Esau, thought so little of it that one day when he was hungry, he traded it away for a bowl of stew. Talk about the nature of Satan, just like Adam, he gave up THE BLESSING for something to eat. His brother, Jacob, on the other hand valued THE BLESSING and wanted it so badly that he lied and cheated to get it. Again don't you see THE DEVILS nature starting to show up again in humanity. Of course, he shouldn't have done that. He didn't need to. As the seed of Abraham, THE BLESSING already belonged to him. He could have just walked in it by Faith. Instead, he Tricked his father and enraged brother with a BLESSING-stealing scheme he and his mother thought up. As a result, he had to run for his life, leaving home with nothing but the clothes on his back and a stick in his hand. You'd think God wouldn't want anything to do with him after that. You'd think He'd go looking for someone else to BLESS. But He didn't. He honored the blood covenant He'd made with Abraham and his seed. God saw in Jacob a man who had faith in THE BLESSING ( but no idea how to live in it). That sounds like many Christians today, who are against THE PROSPERITY message ! SO, while Jacob was on the run, God appeared to him in a dream. He gave him a vision of a ladder connecting heaven and earth, WITH ANGELS ASCENDING and descending on it. And behold, THE LORD stood above it and said: "I am THE LORD GOD of Abraham YOUR FATHER and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendents. Also your descendents shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be BLESSED. Behold, I am with you and will keep Wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you." . . . Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "if God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then THE LORD shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God's house, and of all that You Give me I will surely give a Tenth to You" ( Genesis 28:13 through 22)