Blessed to be a BLESSING

Gal 3:13-14

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
NKJV (emphasis added)

I have been teaching through the Biblical concept of COVENANT for several weeks in our Wednesday night ELEVATE service.

It has been so RICH and FRESH to re-visit some truth that I had not touched for many years.

We are the seed of Abraham therefore we enter into the same covenant that he had with Jehovah (Genesis 12-15).

In re-visiting Biblical principles; which by the way they are way to big to really lay out here in this venue, I realized that my MOUTH is the apparatus through which the COVENANT of God is triggered into reality today.

For example just PRAYING (my mouth) the Lord's Prayer out loud. KINGDOM OF GOD COME, WILL OF GOD BE DONE.

Then realizing that the WORD OF GOD & the WILL OF GOD are the same thing puts a whole new perspective on the power of our words. When we speak or even pray that which is not in the WORD then we are actually making a covenant with the other side.

My MINDSET is changing to the place that I am doing my very best to THINK and SAY those things that are in agreement with God. Check out these verses: John 5:19; 5:30; 8:28; 12:49; 14:10.

To get our mind right we have to shut out those VOICES that lead to CHOICES that lead to being out of the will of God; which is precisely why God called Abraham out from among his people.

Gen 12:1

12 Now the Lord had said to Abram:

"Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father's house,
To a land that I will show you.
NKJV

To keep our MIND SET we have to be around people with the same MIND SET. Wrong voices equal wrong choices!!

The PERFECT ONE hung on tree (the cross) and thereby took our curse for us so that we could receive ALL THAT THE COVENANT provided for us (i.e. Galations 3:14 that the blessing).

Before you think "Oh no, here comes another prosperity preacher" hear this . "That the blessing" is so much bigger than a new car. The blessing that should define us is:

HIS DIVINE ENABLMENT
HIS WISDOM
HIS ANOINTING
HIS HEALTH
HIS FAVOR
WE COULD GO ON FOREVER HERE . . . .

This kind of blessing serves as a Kingdom advertisement for those around us
to see who we are connected to.

Ps 107:2
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
NKJV

Notice the COVENANT language (an exchange is going on) in the above verse. COME ON FRIENDS LETS ALL SAY IT TOGETHER, "I AM BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING."

Ed