29 April 2018 - How to be Blessed: God’s Way - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
When people need healing, they tend to look for verses on healing and expect to be healed right away. However many times God is more interested in first bringing you out of occupation with self and bringing you into occupation with Christ. After hearing and hearing messages about Jesus and His loveliness, all of a sudden you realize that the faith you need to be healed is there. Genesis 12:2-3 - God wants to bless us to be a blessing. You are a blessing going somewhere to happen. This is the first place in the Bible where “blessing” is mentioned. Blessing (a noun) is first mentioned in the story of Abraham. The word for blessing in Hebrew is “Barak”. It is made up of three Hebrew letters. The first two Hebrew letters in the word is “Bar” which means “Son”. The last Hebrew letter in the word is a picture of an open hand. Together it means “the Son of the open hand”. Blessing in Hebrew is “Barakah”. It has an additional Hebrew letter “Hei”. Together, the Hebrew letters have the meaning of “The Son of the Open Hand of Grace”. Since Israel rejected God’s plan for them to be an example of blessing, God made them an example of cursing. Through the Law, no one can be blessed because man cannot keep the Law. If you come under the Law, you’ll be cursed. “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”” (Genesis 12:2-3 NKJV) The definition of “blessing” by John N. Oswalt : To bless means to endue with power for success, prosperity, fecundity (fertility), longevity, etc. When God blesses you, He endues you with power. God is the only Source of blessing. A curse is an enduement of power for failure. Everything is heaven cannot be lesser than earth. Everything there is enhanced. For a believer, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Jesus is still a Man today in heaven. He is a Man in glory. Blessing will reverse the curse in your life. It doesn’t just remove what is negative, but it adds on what is of heaven. In heaven there is no shortage and there is nothing hurtful or destructive. At the end of the Book of Judges, it says that everyone did what was right in their own eyes. That’s what is happening today as well, especially on social media. No matter man’s opinions, we can’t change God’s ways of doing things.
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