What Do You Have In Your Hands?
Anytime we come to God's presence to request for the shower of his blessings in our lives, one of the criteria he uses to determine if we are truly ready for the blessing we're requesting for is "what we have in our hands". God's material blessings always require a material source to flow from. The material source you need to present to show that you're actually ready for the blessing is "what you have in your hand through which God's material blessings can be manifested in your life.
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Most of us come to God empty handed to request for his material blessings and we sometimes wonder why the blessing we requested for is taking too long to manifest in our lives. The blessing is not actually taking long. it's tarrying because you're yet to give God a channel through which the blessing will be expressed in your life. God is not a magician. Whatever physical blessings he wants to manifest on earth, he does through a source that man can easily relate with and verify.
Look at all the people that God blessed greatly in the bible, there's something to relate such blessings to. God's blessings doesn't come from a vacuum, it comes from something you have in your hands. The book of Genesis 28:22; explains it better. It reads....
KJV:The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
This scripture is very self explanatory. God's blessings comes to us through verifiable channels and two of those channels were listed here. Our lands (which can be our investments, ideas, businesses, etc) and our handiwork. Whatever it is that you're applying your hands to do legitimately can be blessed by God regardless of how small or little it may seem if we can invite God into it. We make the mistake most times of asking God to bless us outside what we have in our hands. This is one of the reasons why God's blessings are taking too long to manifest in our lives.
God truly wants to bless you but it is only what you have in your hands that God's blessings can manifest on. What do you have in your hands? Commit it into the hands of God and ask him to release his blessings on it and he will never disappoint you. God wants to bless you but you have to present a channel through which he can manifest such blessings. Put your hand to work and watch God blow away your mind with the abundance of his blessings.
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AAbrahamar as your eyes can see - Abraham anblogd
What we see most times influence what we confess and how we approach life.
We shouldn't be requesting a shower of blessings so we can satisfy our greed. It's good to give. God loves a cheerful giver. But if someone is giving out of greed instead of love they should expect no reward from God.
In Genesis God was talking to Jacob. God changed his name to Israel. God was talking to Israel as a nation. Let's look:
(Genesis 28:14-22 NIV) Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. {15} I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." {16} When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it." {17} He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." {18} Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. {19} He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. {20} Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear {21} so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God {22} and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."
God made his promises to Jacob BEFORE Jacob promised to give a tenth to God.
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