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Blessed to Be a Blessing

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Anointing]; that we might receive the promise of the

Spirit through faith.... Now to Abraham and his seed

were the promises made.... [What promises? The promises

of prosperity and all the other promises God made

to the children of Israel throughout the Old Testament!]

And if ye be Christ’s [the Anointed One’s], [and praise

God, you are if you’ve made Jesus Lord!] then are ye

Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise

(Galatians 3:13-14, 16, 29).

Did you get that? Through Christ (the Anointed One and

through His Anointing), you’ve been freed from the curse. Every

one of the blessings God promised to Abraham and his children

belong to you! So, let’s look back at Deuteronomy and see

what some of those blessings are:

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently

unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe

and to do all his commandments which I command thee

this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high

above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings

shall come on thee, and overtake thee.... Blessed shall be

the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the

fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks

of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed

shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause

thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before

thy face: they shall come out against thee one way,

and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall command

the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in

all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless

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