THE WAY OF BLESSING PART 2

The Way of Blessing

PART 2

God Provides our Needs

Philippians 4:19 says, "My God shall provide all your needs, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

Can you see a few more things there? He shall provide my needs according to His ‘riches in glory’ (the heavenly realm). How? ‘Through Christ Jesus’ (in Christ). Can you see the same pattern? It is there. They are always together. You will see it again and again.

Well, what are some of your needs? How about basic living expenses? How about food, clothing, transport, electricity, and a house with a roof over your head? Basic needs - something that each one of us needs to survive in this world. Does God want us to have these? Of course He does!

How about health? How can I survive with ill health? If my body is sick how can I go out and work? How can I live a normal life? How about wisdom for living; the ability to know how to go about my life; the ability to go out and be employed gainfully and to bring in an income; the ability to deal with problems that come my way; the ability to handle every situation that I face in life. Are these not basic needs? Are these not blessings?

Well if they are blessings, then according to the Word of God, God has provided those blessings for us. God wants us to have our needs met. He wants us to live comfortably. He wants us to have good clothes to wear. He wants us to have a good house to live in. He wants us to have good transport to travel in. He wants us to eat good healthy food. They are our needs, and I do not think many people have a problem believing that God wants to provide our needs.

If I am walking around as a believer groveling around, wallowing, poor and beat up and beat down and sick, how many people are going to come up to me in the street and say, "Man I want what you’ve got. How did you get it?" Would you?

It is time that the people of God rise up into positions in the world that are recognized; into positions of authority; into positions of success; EVEN into positions of wealth, that they can declare to the world, "I am what I am because of what God did in me!"

Salvation Brings Blessing In

What happened when you were born again? What happened when you received Jesus Christ into your life as your personal Lord and Savior? I'll tell you what happened. What happened is the Spirit of God came upon you and came into you, and moved in and took up residence within you, and became united as one with your spirit. And your spirit and God’s Spirit are one in fellowship and in unity. God poured into you His permanent, indwelling, abiding presence by His Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit came in there He brought all of Heaven with Him! He brought all the blessings with Him. He brought all the spiritual essence with Him that would ever be needed to create anything that you might ever need in this life.

In Philippians 2:9 it says:

"Therefore God has highly exalted Him and given Him a Name that is above every Name. That at the Name of Jesus, every knee should bow; of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth."

Things in heaven – that is one realm, God’s realm. Things in earth – that’s the physical realm that we live in. Things under the earth - that refers to the underworld or the realm of darkness, Satan’s realm. Three different realms. God’s realm is normally referred in the Scriptures as the realm of glory.

So Paul tells us in Philippians 4:19, "My God shall supply all your needs, according to His riches in glory."

"Where are God’s riches?"

"In glory."

"Where’s glory?"

"The heavenly realm."

"What’s the heavenly realm?"

"It’s the place where God is."

We are going around in circles aren’t we? Well how far do you need to go to get to the heavenly realm since God is so far away and we have to pray these blessings down? We have to get in the Spirit, and we have to have long times of prayer and fasting. And we have to beam our prayers up there like rockets, and hope that our rockets are strong enough to get there, to reach the heavenly realm. Then God sends it here at the speed of light. And you know that the nearest star is probably several hundred light years away. No, No, No. It gets ridiculous doesn’t it? No wonder so few people expect God to answer their prayers.

GOD IS IN US!!! WE ARE BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING!!