You have to love God in the very specific way that He speaks. Which of us does not cherish God’s promise that blessings will overtake us? We have to note, however, that when the Bible says that blessings will overtake you, it assumes movement. You see, blessings cannot overtake a man who stands or sits still. It may knock him down, but there is no overtaking unless there is movement.
That means that if you have prayed that God’s blessing will overtake you without doing anything for the kingdom, you have wasted your time. Remember that our journey is to find out why so many of God’s wonderful promises are lacking in our lives. The hope is that once we know why, we shall be able to correct the situation, and then the promises will start to manifest.
We shall then be able to decree a thing, and it shall be established unto us. Only this morning, I tried it, and although it cost me two decrees, what I declared was established. I hope that as you follow along in this series, you are also starting to see positive results. Amen. Back to how and when God’s blessings will overtake you. You must be active and moving the kingdom of God forward.
You see, while Jesus calls us to follow Him, God wants us to walk before Him and be blameless. By the way, that position is a firm place of security; Jesus before you and God behind you. Satan flees when he looks at you because he also sees Jesus and God the Father. So, when God, who is watching from behind, sees you moving forward with Kingdom work, what does He do? Of course, He ensures that His blessings will overtake you.
Why God’s Blessings Will Overtake You
Now that you see the connection, what will you do for the kingdom? I ask that question with a bit of sorrow as I watch believers seeming to suffer the most in this world. We are generally too honest to cheat and embezzle. But we are not sufficiently informed about the ways of God to find the triggers for abundant blessings. Let us state it again, and be like Paul, who declares that repetition is safe. The trigger that ensures blessings will overtake you is movement; you need to be moving the kingdom of God forward.
So, what will you do? We find the answer in the twelfth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Naturally, he starts the advice with our need to read the word of God. That is the only way to avoid conforming to the evil in the world. By renewing your mind with the word of God, you can purge the filth of social and other media. Sadly, many of us fall short in that. Only last week, someone shared a very well-made video with me. Obviously, the sender, though a Christian, had not been reading the truth from the word of God.
The video claimed that ten US governors signed an agreement with the Prime Minister of Canada, openly going against their President. It was false, but unless you constantly renew your mind by reading the truth, you will fall for it and may start to conform to the conspiracies of the world. It should not surprise us that Paul started his instructions with the avoidance of falsehood through reading the word of God. But he did not stop there, delving into specifics.
What You Can, And Should, Do
“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them.”
You have faith, I have faith. No one is superior to the other. We only have different roles. I write, you sing, while another gives. God’s blessings will overtake you as surely as they will overtake me as we each do our small part. Paul, therefore, charges us to be humble. Humility is the primary quality in Heaven. Next, he says we all have different roles.
“If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith. Or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching. He who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality. He who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.” You should have found at least one area in the above list with which to move God’s kingdom forward. And He wants us to serve in it with joy and cheerfulness.
Do It All Without Hypocrisy
Now, I know it is not always easy to serve, but neither was the death that Jesus Christ died on the cross. Yet, He went through it so that you and I can now belong to the family of God, where blessings will overtake you and me. Paul asked us to do whatever we do without hypocrisy. That is very important because a lot of us minister with eye service.
We do it to please men, usually our pastor or other ministers. And then, we turn around and expect God to bless us. I can almost hear God answer our prayers the same way He responded to the Israelites when they looked to Him for blessings. In Judges 10.14 God told them, “Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time of distress.”
Ouch! I wonder how many of us get such an answer when we come to God for blessings. You served your pastor diligently, and he promoted you several times within the church hierarchy, but your suit is shiny with age. You now come to God and pray that His blessings will overtake you. God says you should ask your pastor for blessings. Is God unjust? Not at all, you reap from the land on which you sow. Serve God without eye service.
Maranatha!