The Blessed life Two systems at work

“The blessed life, Life as God intended”

Greetings once again I trust you have found great blessing in these blog that I have posted as much as I have found joy in doing them. I have been a Pastor for many years now and it has always been my desire to be able to help believers walk in the quality of life that God intended for them. In my early years of ministry I was taught that to understand the Bible you need to look at these three simple phrases. “What was Gods original intent, What went wrong and what did God do to rectify that” This was so powerful for me coming from a background that believed the ways of God are mysterious and past finding out. This introduced me to a God who was personal and up close. A God who is interested in what I eat, what I wear, where I live who is my friend and so on.

As I began to walk in this revelation I began to realize that God not only wants me to answer these questions but wants me to ask another key question for every believer, “How can I make the Word of God a reality in my life” God can want to bless me, heal me, prosper me and use me, but if I am ignorant of that I limit myself in what I can enjoy. The Bible says in Psalms 78 vs. 41 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. The Kings James says the Limited the Holy one of Israel. God is a great and awesome God but we can limit what He does in our lives, by fear, doubt and unbelief. We also limit God by slackness, laziness, compromise, ignorance and wrong associations.

I am always amazed at the context that God mentions the Promised Land when he speaks to the children of Israel through Moses it is always the Land that I have given to you. The land was theirs and they were slack in possessing it look at this scripture.
Joshua 18 vs. 1-3. Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them. 2 There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned. 3 So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Part b of verse 3 talks about how the children of Israel were putting of the possession of the and that God had already given to them. Wow that sounds like us so many times, God has given us the land, the favor the grace, the provision but we a slack (King James version) to take it. Can I say this as loud as I can to you child of God? There are many people waiting for God to fulfill His Word in their lives when God is waiting for us to take possession of what He has given you.

Not walking in the reality of the Blessed life, Life as God intended it is not God’s fault it’s your fault. You need to make some adjustments and begin to move towards that which God has given you. God went on to tell the Children of Israel choose men to go and look at the Land and map it out according to Moses’ words and that was the break point for the rest of the seven tribes that had not taken their land. Note they were living on someone else’s land. We have many believers that are lodging on some one else’s blessing.

Lets quickly look at an amazing case study of Terah (Abrams father) and Abram and how God planned it out to take them to their blessed place and how God fulfilled his plan generationally. Read this passage of scripture that will be our text for our lesson today.

Genesis 11 vs. 31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran. 

You will note that the chapter begins with the story of the tower of Babel where man tried to bless himself. In verse 4-5 they said come and let us build a tower… and let us make a name for ourselves… God was not happy with this plan as He came changed their languages and different people groups were birthed and went in different directions. The Bible then gives us a linear genealogy Shem’s descendants. I will not bore you too much with the details as I know some of us do not like these genealogies but there are amazing lesson to learn.

It appears something could have happened in the that prompted Terah the son of Nahor to move out of Ur of the Chaldeans (Babylon) This name is taken from a word which means confuse, mix to mingle. This name is used in reference to man attempt to dethrone God and make himself the lord of the earth. But God seems to move n Terah’ heart to move out of there and go to Canaan the place of promise. Canaan was named after Canaan the son of Ham Noah’s son. But on his way there Terah decided to settle in Harran (remember Harran was the late son of Terah) We often settle in a place where we are comfortable and we do not pursue what is in our heart. When Terah left with his son and his sons wife and his orphaned grandson lot it was with the intention of going to Canaan not Haran but he settled there for whatever reason.

Then look what happens God speaks to Abram and says get out of here, your blessing is not here it is in Canaan. Leave your father and family that has shaped your paradigms and go to a land I will show you. I will bless you and I will make your name great. Not the greatness that was attempted at Babel (place of confusion and secular humanism) but this is a blessing that comes from me. After I am done with you I will make you a blessing to the nations (families of the earth). Please note what God is doing here He is separating the worlds way of doing things and His way of doing things. If you will build a business, family, life, ministry or career that will impact the world you need to be in Babylon and its system or way of doing things or you need to be in Abraham and Gods way of doing things.

I know this is a bit much to handle but look carefully at chapter 11 and 12 you will see awesome things. Both Babylon and Abraham became great in size and influence in fact when God wanted to teach the children of Israel a lesson of worshiping only the true living God He took into captivity in Babylon. So Abram got up and left and went to Canaan and God told him to your descendants will I give this land that you walk on. Later he told Isaac and Jacob I am giving your descendant this land when they came out of Egypt four hundred years later God said posses the land that I have given to your fathers.

What lesson do I want you to learn here?

1.    God has called you out of Babylon to a wealthy place do not stop half way
2.    God does not want you to settle in Haran He wants you in Canaan (Coming out of sin is not good enough come into blessing)
3.    There are two conflicting system that are operating use God system to walk into you blessing not the worlds system
4.    When you step into your place of blessing you will cause wealth to be transferred to you. Notice they were given Canaan where there were Canaanites living there. God told them the reason for the transfer, He said the Canaanites were evil and did detestable things that made God unhappy. SO God said to the Israelites don’t do what they do or else I will also move you out and they did what was wrong and God moved them out but He also restored them with another wealth transfer from the Babylonian system to help rebuild the temple and the nation.
5.    The blessing of Abraham was on condition that he moves out of a system of thinking that was contrary to God
6.    He had to walk on the land before God could sign the title deeds and say this is what I am giving you.
7.    When you obey God He calls it faith and He approves of you and releases more favor on your behalf and for your descendants.

Wow that was a mouthful, but look carefully at the working of God the Bible says these things were written for our example that we through them might learn and have hope. God wants to teach how to walk into you blessing and begin to live the blessed life, life as He intended it.

What do you need to walk out of? Your family does not have to define what God can do in your life. You business can operate in the principles of the Word of God and see great results. God bless you I hope I have provoked you to study further we will be building on this as we move forward.