God’s Commanded Blessing

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Deuteronomy 7:12–23 (CSB)

¹²“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the Lord your God will keep his covenant loyalty with you, as he swore to your ancestors. ¹³He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your offspring,^, and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and fresh oil—the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land he swore to your ancestors that he would give you. ¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock. ¹⁵The Lord will remove all sickness from you; he will not put on you all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. ¹⁶You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

¹⁷“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’ ¹⁸do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt: ¹⁹the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you fear. ²⁰The Lord your God will also send hornets against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish. ²¹Don’t be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, a great and awesome God, is among you. ²²The Lord your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you. ²³The Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

From the time Israel became a nation, God expressed His desire to bless His people. He declared:

Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. (Deuteronomy 7:12-13)

Does this sound like a God who wants His people to live in poverty? No! It is God’s plan for you to have sufficiency in every area of your life — and that includes finances:

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:8)

God said that His people will…“not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied” (Psalm 37:19).

As a born-again, Spirit-filled believer, you are no longer under Satan’s control. He is not in control of your life or your finances.

You are an heir of God’s promises. In the natural world, when someone is named as an heir, certain conditions are usually set forth which must be met in order for the inheritance to be claimed. The same is true in the Spirit world. Your finances won’t just automatically be blessed. God has certain conditions that must be met in order to receive the blessing:

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee. (Deuteronomy 28:1,8,11)

You cannot walk in disobedience and expect God to bless you. God’s blessings are commanded upon you when you are obedient to His Word — all of His Word — including biblical commands concerning finances.

Make this declaration:

I will walk in obedience to God and He will bless me financially and in every area of my life.

*Adapted from MCWE email – Journey Into The Promised Land by Morris Cerullo

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