Blessings!!!!

The Power Of Blessing Others

God said to the priests of the Old Testament time to put His name on the children of Israel, and if they do that, God had promised to bless the people (Num 6:27).

Thus the protocol for the priestly blessing was instructed by God through Moses to say like the following words,

"24 “The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.” (Num 6:24-26). In the Old Testament God Himself has claimed His name to be THE LORD (Isa 42:8; Exod 6:2, 6). The Lord is the covenant name that was introduced by God only at the time of Moses, when he was sent initially by God to go to Egypt to resucue the Israelites from the house of Slavery.

Today we must remember that Jesus as our one and only LORD has made a new covenant with God the Father in heaven and have thus given us the priviledge to pronounce the same priestly blessing over people in His name. Jesus said that whatever we ask in His name, He himself will move on our behalf and do it for us (John 14:14).

As Jesus instructed us to bless people who curse us, how are we to bless them (Matt 5:44-45). Is it we should bless people only in the name of Jesus? and say literally, "Jesus Bless You!". The other question we might ask is, is it OK to bless people saying "God bless you!" in a general sense. Again this is OK as Jesus Himself said that when we ask the Father in His name, He will give you (John 16:23). In other words, when we as God's children by faith in our heart towards the name of Jesus pronounce a blessing upon people and say, "God Bless You," generally, we are actually pronouncing a mighty blessing. So with the heart we are believing in Jesus name and are confessing with our mouth the name of one God who is our Father in Heaven (Php 2:14-15; John 1:12; Matt 6:6; John 20:17), and so it will happen (Rom 10:10). Here is an invocation of God’s blessing: “May God almighty bless you and make you fruitful” (Gen 28:3; Num 6:24-26; Ruth 2:4). In other words, it is in short saying, "God Bless You."

See, to us there is only one God who is the true one whom we have inside us, even though there are so-called gods and a lot of different faiths in the world, we are not bothered about all of that (1 Cor 8:5-6). So when a true Christian says the name "God", he is invoking the power of the Father God in heaven. So the next time you say "God bless you" to some one, you as a child of God is invoking a priestly royal blessing and the power of the our one true God upon them (1 Peter 2:5, 9-10; Rev 1:5-6; 5:10, 12).

There is a mighty power in saying, "God Bless You", so bless each person you meet, whether it is a man in the grocery shop, or your fellow student in your college, or your friends, or your enemies and even those who hate you openly to highhandedly use you wrongly and persecute you. Actually blessing them with faith in your heart in the name of Jesus will set a powerful chain reaction of divine intervention in to their lives. So believe in the power of God's blessing and speak it freely in to the lives of all people whom you meet day to day.

Here is what the Psalmist David who was called by God Himself as the man after His own heart said about ungodly people, "As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him." (Psa 109:17). In other words, only as we start to delight in blessing others, we will come to understand more and more of the power of God's blessing in our lives and in the lives of others through us. I pray that the Lord who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of God in the heavenly places already, might get delighted to see us blessing people all over the sphere of our influence wherever God takes us in our appointed days on earth as His child (Eph 1:3; Psa 91:10, 12). May our lives glorify our Father in Heaven truly!

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A Week In Weakness

Live Abundantly With God

As I have made it a habit to seek God daily in my life, there are times when I feel a impasse that would come upon me spiritually. Manytimes during these times of distress, Satan and his demonic cohorts would come with all the temptations that I would be susceptible and weak toward, and will try to make me love his evil seeds of the flesh. During these times I would feel as though God is very far away from me. As the beloved song writer Don Moen beautifully describes this dilemma in his song, "I Will Sing" where he says,

"Lord You seem so far away.

A million miles or more it feels today.

And though I haven't lost my faith, I must confess right now that it's hard for me to pray.

But I don't know what to say and I don't know where to start.

But as you give the grace with all that's in my heart.

I will sing.

I will praise even in my darkest time through the sorrow and the pain.

I will sing. I will praise.

Lift my hands to honor You because Your word is true. I will sing."

As such darkness comes upon our soul suddenly for no reason, we feel that no one can understand our depressive and gloomy situation that has come upon our soul which has come like a dark cloud that covers the sun light completely to make a day gloomy. At that point of time we will feel that we have lost our purpose and become blinded to the plans and purposes of God that is ahead of us. In those times of distress we should never forget that even though we feel as though God has forgotten our distresses, we should depend on His word to encourage ourselves in the Lord saying that the Lord is with us as He has already promised in His word (Heb 13:5). We should lift our hands in an act of surrender to God and shoul start to praise Him for who he is and what he has done already to us through saving our souls for eternity ahead.

So the same song continues saying,

"Lord it's hard for me to see all the thought and plan You have for me, yes it is. 
But I will put my trust in You. Lord we made Your die to set me free. Oh thank God You did.

But I don't know what to say and I don't know where to start.

But as you give the grace with all that's in my heart.

I will sing.

I will praise even in my darkest time through the sorrow and the pain.

I will sing. I will praise.

Lift my hands to honor You because Your word is true. I will sing."

When we walk by faith to declare God's faithfulness and praise Him in the midst of the dark night of our soul, God will be pleased to deliver us from such attacks of the enemy with great favour and joy given to us thereafter. God tests us to refine and trust us for greater responsibilities to be given to us. The man of God David confessed his faith to God in the midst of such sorrows, adversities and affliction of his soul saying, "You have known my soul in adversities" (Psa 31:7). In other words David knew deep within him that such adversities is known perfectly by the Lord and that God will see in to such enemies attack and will surely show his mercies to lift him up again in joy and resurrect him spiritually to keep him on the high places of His Presence.

So learn to sing your song of praise towards God in the midst of sorrow and pain believing His word to be true inspite of such severe troubles of the enemy in your soul. God will be pleased greatly to see you like that. God will declare your life as a testimony of His reflection on earth to all the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (Eph 3:10; Job 1:6-8; 2:3, 10). God will lift you higher and higher in to the high places of spiritual blessings to make you a blessing to the whole world (James 5:10-11). I have learned in my life to come again and again by faith toward God, thus bounce back in to intimate and deep fellowship with God strongly after each impasse of the enemy and hence was blessed by God with a great blessedness of soul more and more. NEVER LET A WEEK PASS BY WITHOUT GOD, AS IT WILL MAKE YOU WEAK. The Lord will become your shield and strength as you continue to seek the Lord seeking His grace to lift you up from all the distresses and dark nights of your soul. God is with you to make you successful in all your ways. Be blessed and be a blessing as you continue to be a face seeker of God! Amen!

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Love Before It Is Too Late!

"30 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:30-31, NKJV).

 Robby's Night

At the prodding of my friends, I am writing this story. My name is Mildred Hondorf. I am a former elementary school music teacher from DeMoines, Iowa.

I've always supplemented my income by teaching piano lessons-something I've done for over 30 years. Over the years I found that children have many levels of musical ability. I've never had the pleasure of having a prodigy though I have taught some talented students.

However I've also had my share of what I call "musically challenged" pupils. One such student was Robby. Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I refer that students (especially boys!) begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby. But Robby said that it had always been his mother's dream to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.

Well, Robby began with his piano lessons and from the beginning I thought it was a hopeless endeavor. As much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm needed to excel. But he dutifully reviewed his scales and some elementary pieces that I require all my students to learn. Over the months he tried and tried while I listened and cringed and tried to encourage him. At the end of each weekly lesson he'd always say, "My mom's going to hear me play some day." But it seemed hopeless. He just did not have any inborn ability. I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in her aged car to pick him up. She always waved and smiled but never stopped in. Then one day Robby stopped coming to our lessons.

I thought about calling him but assumed, because of his lack of ability,that he had decided to pursue something else. I also was glad that he stopped coming. He was a bad advertisement for my teaching! Several weeks later I mailed to the student's homes a flyer on the upcoming recital. To my surprise Robby (who received a flyer) asked me if he could be in the recital. I told him that the recital was for current pupils and because he had dropped out he really did not qualify. He said that his mom had been sick and unable to take him to piano lessons but he was still practicing.

"Miss Hondorf... I've just got to play!" he insisted. I don't know what led me to allow him to play in the recital. Maybe it was his persistence or maybe it was something inside of me saying that it would be all right. The night for the recital came. The high school gymnasium was packed with parents, friends and relatives. I put Robby up last in the program before I was to come up and thank all the students and play a finishing piece. I thought that any damage he would do would come at the end of the program and I could always salvage his poor performance through my "curtain closer."

Well the recital went off without a hitch. The students had been practicing and it showed. Then Robby came up on stage. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair looked like he'run an egg-beater through it. "Why didn't he dress up like the other students?" I thought. "Why didn't his mother at least make him comb his hair for this special night?" Robby pulled out the piano bench and he began. I was surprised when he announced that he had chosen Mozart's Concerto #21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I heard next. His fingers were light on the keys, they even danced nimbly on the ivories.

He went from pianissimo to fortissimo... from allegro to virtuoso. His suspended chords that Mozart demands were magnificent! Never had I heard Mozart played so well by people his age. After six and a half minutes he ended in a grand crescendo and everyone was on their feet in wild applause.

Overcome and in tears I ran up on stage and put my arms around Robby in joy. "I've never heard you play like that Robby! How'd you do it?" Through the microphone Robby explained: "Well Miss Hondorf... remember I told you my mom was sick? Well actually she had cancer and passed away this morning. And well.... she was born deaf so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play. I wanted to make it special."

There wasn't a dry eye in the house that evening. As the people from Social Services led Robby from the stage to be placed into foster care, I noticed that even their eyes were red and puffy and I thought to myself how much richer my life had been for taking Robby as my pupil. No, I've never had a prodigy but that night I became a prodigy... of Robby's.

He was the teacher and I was the pupil. For it was he that taught me the meaning of perseverance and love and believing in yourself and maybe even taking a chance on someone and you don't know why.

This is especially meaningful to me since after serving in Desert Storm Robby was killed in the senseless bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April of 1995, where he was reportedly.... playing the piano.

What can we learn from this real life story? Never underestimate the talent of anyone based on your standard. You may never know who they are until you are in their boot. See as God sees you perfectly through Jesus Christ and hopes for the best out of you even when He knows already that you don't measure up and are full of weaknesses. We may never learn to love someone until we really love them in their weaknesses. See each person as God's child and not as a someone based on what talent they have or display.

Each person we meet in our life are some one whom God has appointed to us to minister the love of God as God's children. We may never be able to empathise with people until we learn to love people by receiving the unconditional love of God through the Holy Spirit of God. The person whom we meet today by God's appointment may not be there tomorrow if we miss to show God's love to them today. Oppurtunities we miss today may be the biggest orchestration of God to dispense the work of God to deposit our treasure in heaven, if we do not realise it now we may miss it for eternity ahead. Why not you make a choice today to love all the people whom we meet today, whether they are good or bad who cares. May we learn to love like our God unconditionally!

Say it out loud,

"I am my neighbor's Bible

He reads me when we meet....

He may not even know my name,

Yet he's reading me when we greet.

Lord help me receive your love,

Unconditional and pure in motive.

To give out love when I feel otherwise,

Thus be a true child of my Heavenly Father.

To see people not as I see them on the outside,

But as you see them in their state of need and compassion.

May I not rob the robbie's of their love that you have for them,

To show the face of My Heavenly Father through me so that they will come to know that you love them truly!

In JESUS name AMEN!"

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FOUR KEYS TO DESTINY!

Four Keys To Destiny

ไ Stillness : "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" (Psa 46:10).

When we quieten our soulish mind and begin to be still from our self, world and the voice of the devil, then we slowly tap in to our spiritual mind where God's voice always speaks to us as we are ready to listen to Him. God always wants to speak to us, the question we should ask ourselves is, are we hearing it all the time? God simply speaks to us when He sees that we are willing to obey His voice !

ไ Vision : "And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams." (Acts 2:17).

The main vehicles God uses to speak to us personally right now in our times in the New Testament mostly, as well as to the Old Testament saints are by giving them visions and dreams (Num 12:6-8; Job 4:12-17; 33:14-18). Many people who are not serious enough to believe the dreams and visions God gives them inorder to walk by faith, will sadly miss the greatest adventure of a lifetime and the reward for eterntiy thereafter. Old men are promised dreams because they will be praying for those dreams to come to pass in their succeeding generation. Young men are given visions because God wants them to be part of the fulfillment of the end time vision of the greatest harvest of souls of all time in which God will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh benevolently before rapture happens. So be filled with the Holy Spirit and as a result of it get dreams and visions for your life, ministry, buisness, family, city, nation and people groups around the world to affect it for the glory of God!

ไ Spontaneity : "For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Cor 2:16). Praise the Lord!

When we walk out the will of God that God has given to us through His dreams and visions, our very mind get filled with the thoughts and guidance of God daily as we walk by faith. Unless we start to walk by faith, God will not speak to us further. When God sees that we are serious enough to believe the impossible that God has told us to do, God will start to speak more and more through His word and His Spirit deep inside our spirit-man. The more we hear God speak to us in our journey of faith, the more strength and grace of God we will receive to fulfill our destiny. So we must allow the thoughts of God to flow in to our hearts and minds like a river and get soaked in it spontaneously to penetrate our mind deep within our spirit-man, in order to build the vision inside us first before others can see the vision manifest tangibly outside in the physical arena for the glory of God!

ไ Journaling : "2 Then the LORD answered me and said: “ Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." (Hab 2:2-3).

Finally we need to journal and declare the vision that God has put in to our heart to all people whom God brings to us, so that together those who believe the vision can work together collectively to fulfill the purpose of God for our life, ministry, buisness, family, city, nation and the people groups around the world. When we fail to declare by faith what God has given to us in a dream or vision, people whom God wants to touch through our lives will perish because of our unbelief and reluctance to declare the truth (Prov 29:18, KJV). When we fail to declare the visions and dreams God has given as a key to unlock the destiny for us and through us to many others, it is like digging the ground, planting a seed, putting some fertilizer and mud over it but finally fail to pour water regularly to make it grow in God's time.

In my life I have used these four keys consistently in all the seasons that God has led me this past decade and am really reaping the blessing of it daily in all areas of my life. Sometimes when we repeatedly use these keys, to others around us it may look like we are foolishly doing it. Some may laugh, others may mock, still others may wonder why we are doing it so passionately these simple things, but take heart these same people will later see and realize that they have missed their chance to make a impact in our generation for Jesus. It may be too late when these people realize the truth that they have missed it. The mockers will hate you for it and they will be destroyed by their own coveteousness, jealousy...cursing. But for you, the Son of God will arise with healing in His wings to lift you higher and higher in to His blessed life as you keep walking in the will of God (Mal 4:2). Surely you will be a destiny maker with God in our generation. Praise the Lord!

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