Sunday Words of Encouragement October 6, 2019

Our Sunday School teacher shared another lesson from Jonathan Cahn’s book The Oracle. The lesson was about the Jubilees and compared the Cyrus Declaration (538BC) to the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The very first evidence of Jubilee restoration was reflected with Abraham’s loss of wells and restoration of wells at Beersheba in Genesis 21.

Pastor started a new sermon series: The Blessed Life. He referred to Robert Morrison’s book The Blessed Life.

Most people want to be blessed. Most -- but some actually reject God’s blessings because they want to go it alone. They want to be in charge. There are times we are outside of God's blessing. Sometimes it is a choice to be independent and other times it is because Satan lies to us trying to convince us we don’t deserve God’s blessings.

Being blessed is not luck or fortune. It is the favor of the God of the universe.

When we have God’s blessing, we have God’s supernatural power working for you. Without the blessing coverage, you may have supernatural power working against you.

Leviticus 26:3-12 sets forth conditions for blessings: “IF you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands”... he promises an overlap in provision. Blessing is conditional.
“I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.”

The Point: If you want to live a blessed life, start at the source of all blessing.

We need and should want the umbrella of God's blessing even when it is shining and clear. God’s blessing gives us protection against the deluge that can come, even unexpectedly.
Jesus tells his people that he has “come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10.

Your life can only be abundant if it is blessed by God. To attain the blessings we need to:
Listen -- to the word of the Lord.
Understand
Accept
Do (obey)

The blessing may be conditional, but God’s love is unconditional.

God is the source of life; everything good in life. Place yourself under the umbrella. Proclaim your need for God. Seek Him.

I thought I had a ‘blessing’ song but I came upon this one and 

I think it goes with God’s promise of provision.

Verses for Today:
Leviticus 26:3, 9-12 (NIV)
3 “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, 4 I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
9 “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. 11 I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Lord - Help me to listen, understand, accept and obey so that I may remain under the umbrella of Your blessing!