NETTIEOLOGY: BLESSED

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION: Either you are going to give yourself what you think you deserve or you are going to allow YHWH to bless you.

GENESIS 12:2 (KJV)
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 

Elohim does not give us what we deserve, He gives us what we need so that we can give to others what they need. You are given gifts in the form of skills, money or possibly material items not just for you to have but, in many instances, for you to share.

Some people think they should get whatever it is they want right away because they deserve it now. Christians justify getting stuff because of what they have done: “I worked hard”, “I gave tithes and offerings”, I went on a missions trip”, “I did a good deed”, and so forth.  This is a self-centered value.

HEBREWS 11:6 (KJV)
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 

It does not take faith to bless yourself. It takes faith to wait for YHWH to answer your prayer especially when people around you are: going on vacations, getting new cars, and doing all those things you would like to do someday.

Elohim blesses without the stress of debt. Elohim gives you what you don’t deserve because of Yeshua Hamashiach. Yeshua has taken away our grief and sorrows; He has endured the punishment for our transgressions and iniquities; He received the disrespect, ridicule and punishment for our belief, and he even took on our diseases so that we are now healed. Yeshua gave us peace that surpasses the confusion and stressors of this world.  But for many this does not seem to be enough. Yeshua also  said:

MATTHEW 7:7-8 (KJV)
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 

I suspect that many people just don’t want to wait so they do things on their own. Many Christians give themselves what they think they deserve turning their backs on the blessings of Elohim. There is a difference between getting what you think you deserve and being blessed by Yehovah Elohim.

There are those who boldly declare: “I am blessed and highly favored,” but the fruit in their lives reveals they are getting what they deserve not what He wills.  Wait for the blessings!
                                     written by Marsha L F Randolph

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Isaiah 53:4-6 (KJV)
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

John 14:27 (KJV)
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.