When we receive love and gifts from our parents, our delight is great. The same way God’s gifts are for our joy and fulfilment. So we desire blessings from God. Yet many do not have a clue about what to do about this.
When reading, we should not consider for a moment that we can manipulate God into receiving blessings. He sees our heart! Yet as a sincere person who loves God, we can earnestly work on ourselves to receive blessings from God.
We need to follow the written instructions of God given in the Bible. Only this can lead us to receive blessings. Here we have a few related topics on blessings. This will improve your understanding of blessings. Thus, you would be able to reach your destination more efficiently.
a.What are blessings?
b.What are the features of a blessed land?
c.How can we receive blessings from God?
d.The most important one law of God!
a.What are blessings?
Blessings are from God. Blessings can often be seen and felt, but sometimes they cannot be seen or felt. But they always bring joy and peace to the person who receives them. Blessings are not associated with sorrow. Fruitfulness of the land with a good yield is a blessing understood by many. Children are also a blessing. The work of one’s hands is said to be blessed when the results at the place of work are good, when there are more sales and greater profits in business.
A land flowing with milk and honey is a blessing. (Refer to Exodus 3:8) The promised land that the Lord swore to give Abraham was described so. The descendants of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob were led by Moses from Egypt into the promised land. God leads His children in their lives to a blessed land.
b.What are the features of a blessed land?
Various verses of the Bible describe a blessed land. The blessed land is beautiful and resplendent in many ways, as shown below. Many portions of the Bible explain the features of a blessed land. Herein we have listed a few of them so you get a feel for them. Later, you may wish to discover more of these features by reading the Bible yourself.
If you are a farmer or a gardener, you will understand and agree to the points given below more readily than if you are a coder, choreographer, or chef. But if you take the effort to think, you would find that some of these features of a blessed land do exist in the work or profession you practice.
A land is blessed if it is
- well watered (Psalm 1, Deuteronomy 11)
- The land yielding grain, wine, and oil (Deuteronomy 11
- peace abounds (Psalm 23:2, Leviticus 26:6, Isaiah 32:18)
- lion and lamb live in harmony (Isaiah 11:6, Isaiah 65:25)
- free from pests, yield a good harvest (Malachi 3:11)
- The Lord cares for the land (Deuteronomy 11)
- fruitfulness abounds (Deuteronomy 28:8, 28:12)
- God abides (Genesis 28:19, 35:1)
- absence of fear (Leviticus 26:6)
- absence of war (Joshua 11:23)
- favour and blessing of God (Psalm 23:6, 23:3)
- The eyes of the Lord are always on it (Deuteronomy 11)
c. How can we receive blessings from God?
God created man in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:27). He created us for fellowship, for relationship through Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:6, 1 Corinthians 1:9) .
We do not consider disobeying Him since we love Him and have a loving fear of God. Remember, God gave us His only Son, who died on the cross for our sake. We love Him so much that we desire to fellowship with Him day and night, abiding with Him and never displeasing Him.
A few ways to please God and be blessed by Him are given below. As you read these, you get a better understanding.
1) Have Jesus Christ as Lord, God, and Saviour. (Romans 10:9, Philippians 2:11)
2) Accept Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6)
3) Love God with all our heart, soul, and strength. (Matthew 22:37)
4) Love God, and keep His commandments always. (Deuteronomy 11:1)
5) Read the Bible daily and observe it. (Deuteronomy 17:19)
6) Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
7) Keep every commandment of God, so we are strong to possess the promises God has for us. (Deuteronomy 11:8)
8) Pleasing God with faith. Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
9) Remember, God is not blessing us to possess because of our righteousness. (Deuteronomy 9:6)
10) Not to be stubborn, disobedient, and rebellious (Deuteronomy 9:6)
11) Work to possess the promises God has set aside for us. (Deuteronomy 8:1)
12) Believe God goes before us as a consuming fire, destroying all hindrances to our progress. (Deuteronomy 9:3)
13) Thankful to God for leading us all these years to humble us and test us if we would keep His commandments. (Deuteronomy 8:2)
14) Give no place for pride in our hearts. (Deuteronomy 17:20)
15) By trusting God with all our heart, without leaning on our own understanding, acknowledge Him in all our ways and believe God to direct our paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)
16) Not setting our hearts on riches when they increase. (Psalm 62:10)
17) As we hope in the LORD, we renew our strength. We soar on wings like eagles; we will run and not grow weary, we will walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)
18) Believe God of hope to fill us with all joy and peace as we trust in him, so we may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
19) Believe and trust God’s plans for us, plans for our welfare, to give us a future and a hope.(Jeremiah 29:11)
20) As we rejoice in hope and are patient in tribulation, and are constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12)
21) Believe God has given us a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.(2 Timothy 1:7)
22) When we, through Christ who dwells in us,
choose to have love that suffers long and we choose to be kind;
when our love does not envy;
when our love does not parade itself,
is not puffed up;
We do not behave rudely.
do not seek its own,
is not provoked,
When we think no evil;
When we do not rejoice in iniquity,
But rejoice in the truth;
When we bear all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Perhaps the above has encouraged you. You may be determined to pursue the blessings of the Lord seriously. Maybe you feel some of the above are more easily doable than the others.
Perhaps you feel the list is too long and you wish to give up your pursuit of blessings from God. Oh no—do not get overwhelmed—here is one law that sums it up. You need to only follow that one law to get blessed by God. Yes, it’s simple, it’s only one. Remember, Jesus has carried all the burden. So you don’t have to. Go on to the next point.
d.The most important one law of God!
Many like you wanted it simple and straight forward. So they asked Jesus. Yeah, some one did ask Jesus what are the most important commandments are.
Jesus replied, mentioning the law of LOVE. You can read about this one law which sums up all the laws and the prophets. It’s given in Matthew 22:37-40. The first part of the law is about loving God, while the 2nd part is about loving our neighbour.
- “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.
- And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Jesus kept it simple for you and me, saying that all the Law and the Prophets depend on this law of love.
