I have seen people who are always frustrated because they desire to be hugely blessed but God doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it.
A lot of factors might be the reason but the problem is never with God. God desires to bless us more than we want to be blessed. The bible says that He delights in the prosperity of His servants (Psalm 35:27). In fact God is looking for people to bless, because that’s the only way He can express Himself. He desires for people to know Him and His goodness through His children. That’s why the bible says He spreads the aroma His knowledge through us everywhere we go.(2 Corinthians 2:14)
Certainly, He doesn’t want us to go about poor, because all what people will see is poverty, constant lack and never enough, that is definitely not the knowledge God wants to pass around about Himself and His majestic nature. So what’s wrong? What is the missing link? Why are God’s children lacking God’s riches though God desires otherwise and tons of promises from the bible are about them?
The answer has been encoded in everything said so far, some would have gotten but if you haven’t read on.
The reason is God is all about love and goodness and He desires to show His creation these things. God wants to express Himself through people (His children) to people.
The anchor word being “express” or “expression”. The bible says God gives seed to the sower. This has a profound truth wrapped in it. For you to have seeds, you must be a sower. God will give you seeds when He knows you are going to sow it. When He trusts you to sow, He’ll keep giving you seeds.
The thing with seed is when you sow/plant a seed, it grows and yields harvest. When you plant a seed, the seed has in itself the ability to produce plenty more seeds. You won’t be reaping thing you sowed but an abundance of the seeds. From one seed, you will reap enough to feed yourself, plant more seed, feed others around you and keep what’s left for next sowing season.
All that came from sowing a seed, obviously it is multiplied when you sow more.
God wants to bless His children but He ultimately desires for them to be a blessing when they are blessed.
Only the heart He trusts to fulfill His desires will enjoy these great blessings. A heart that is willing to express God’s goodness and love to His people.
When God knows that He can trust you to give His people money when they desperately need no matter who they are. When He knows He can lead you to bless someone without hesitation, then He’ll always give you seed to sow.
It doesn’t have anything to do with what’s in your bank account. Are you willing to give that which is in your hand at the moment when you see someone who’s in need of it desperately? Will you listen to God when He leads to give whatever He asks you even though it’s your last? Will you give yourself in service even when there isn’t money or money is not involved?
Sometimes God just wants you to chat that person up, it might just be a hug the person needs, maybe a shoulder to cry on, or just a friend to talk to.
God will enrich you when He knows you will express Him. It doesn’t only work with money but I’ll focus on money.
God doesn’t not focus on the outward appearance or the words we constantly blab out. He is not moved by emotions either.
Your heart is what is examined, the position its in. Is it a heart of a giver/sower or of a receiver?
Mind you both will receive blessings, because there’s an expectation involved and the bible says the expectation of the righteous will not be cut off and also if there’s no expectation or the expectation is only from men, then such will receive nothing from God because nothing is what they expect from God.
The heart of a receiver will receive enough to satisfy Himself but that is way below God’s best because if you only believe for you then you’ll still be in lack, you will never have enough to satisfy you because selfish desires will set in and human nature have insatiable needs, nothing you have will ever be enough.
The heart God desires and wants is the heart of a sower, the heart of a giver. A mind that giving is its first nature, because that’s how God is.
A heart that puts others always before his, not because he doesn’t have needs but because He knows the heart and desires of God and knows that above all he is blessed to express God to His people (those around him). That’s why God will provide so much that it will satisfy you and you will excess to express God to others. 2 Corinthians 9:8
When God knows He can trust you, you will have.
When there’s a project in church, sow into it, even if you don’t have, a giver’s heart will desire to sow into it, and when the blessings comes fulfill the vow. When a person is in need of money, give, you know he needs it more than you even if it is your last cash. God will never leave you to lack (Psalm 23:1, 84:11). Every promise of material wealth comes after a command of giving or an act of giving.
No matter how little you have, you can always give. You will see how the little will grow into plenty and excess.
Give to church, men of God, fellow brethren in Christian faith and to unbelievers as you are led.
God is always on the lookout for a heart that gives because it is an excuse for to shower His blessing.
He can’t just shower it on anyone because He is a God of principle and He has said give and it shall be given, good measures, press down, shaken together and running over shall men given unto you.
He cannot violate that.
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