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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