What Keeps us
From Our Blessings
By Sandra Turner
What keeps us from obtaining and enjoying
our inheritance? God has already blessed us with every blessing,
according to Ephesians 1:3. "Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ."
If we belong to Jesus and have made
Him Lord of our lives, those blessings are ours. He has bought
them for us through His death, burial, and resurrection.
Now many of us are not seeing those blessings,
but we are seeing instead our troubles and our afflictions. We
are looking at our natural circumstances and putting all our
faith and confidence in what we are seeing in the natural realm
- sickness, poverty and lack, perhaps addictions and bondages.
It is a matter of changing our mindset.
Let's believe what God has said in His Word, rather than focusing
on what is going on around us. Paul said, "Be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2).
The Book of Ephesians says Christ is seated
at the right hand of God in the heavenly realm and He has raised
us up to sit down with Him (Eph. 2:6) "far above all principality
and power and might and dominion" (Eph. 1:21). We are seated
with Him in heavenly places, out of the dominion of Satan and
darkness.
Luke (10:19) says He has given us "power
to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of
the enemy."
We have authority over the devil and can
speak to our mountains in the name of Jesus and see them removed.
We can speak to our circumstances and see them changed. (Mark
11:23)
Yet many of us are like someone who
has been given one million dollars in his bank account and yet
refuses to write a check because he does not really believe it
is there. We may look around us and wonder what sin has caused
us to be besieged and beaten down by the troubles of life. Yet
there is more than likely only one thing -one sin- that is keeping
us out of the plan and blessings of God. And that is unbelief.
Let's make the effort to believe God's
Word and walk in His blessings. Let's meditate in the Word, think
about the scriptures, read them over and over to ourselves, begin
to speak them to our circumstances until the light comes on,
until we believe them and receive them.
We can internalize these scriptures.
The truth revealed in them can become more real to us than our
circumstances. We can command poverty, lack, sickness, oppression
to get out of our lives.
The truth is Jesus Christ has redeemed
us from poverty, sickness, and spiritual death, according to
Galatians 3:13 by being made a curse for us, in our place.
When we know that we know that we know, when light and revelation
come, then the blessings of God will begin to manifest in our
lives. We will draw to ourselves the blessings Jesus Christ has
purchased for us rather than the trouble and affliction caused
by the devil.
You may wonder, then will we stop having
any trouble with the devil? No, we will have to continue to assert
our authority on a daily basis and keep refreshed in the Word.
But we can rejoice in our victory and the fact that we are more
than conquerors through Jesus Christ. We have been well equipped
with weapons to use against our enemy.
"The weapons of our warfare are not
carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ." (II Cor. 10: 4-5)
Jesus told his disciples before He ascended
into Heaven, "All power in heaven and earth has been given
to me... Go ye therefore..." (Matt. 28:18-19)
He has conferred His authority to us as
His body in the earth. Let's learn how to use it for ourselves,
our family, our friends, and all human kind.
Copyright © 2009 by Sandra S. Turner
From Singles Scene/Spirit & Life, P.O.
Box 310, Allardt, TN 38504 http://nicesingles.com
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