The New Life

Be a Blessing.
gives to you for others. Offer yourself expressly
and completely to the Lord, to be used by Him for
others : that is the way to be blessed overflowingly
yourself. ^
The power for this work will be given. " Be a
blessing :" "I will bless thee," says Ibe Lord. You
are to be personally blessed yourself, personally sanctified
and filled with the Spirit, and peace, and power
of the Lord : then you have power to bless. ^ In
Christ God has * ' blessed us with all spiritual things :''
let Jesus fill you with these blessings, and you snail
certainly be a blessing : you need not doubt or fear.
The blessing of God includes in it the power of life
for multiplication, for expansion, for communication.
See in the Scriptures how blessing and multiplication
go together.' Blessing always includes the
power to bless others. Only give the word of the
the Almighty God, *' I will bless Thee," time to sink
into your spirit. Wait upon God, that He Himself
may say to you, "I will bless thee." Let your faith
cleave fast to this. God will make it truth to you,
above all asking and thinking.*
But for this end you must also betake yourself to
the place of blessing : the land of promise, the simple
life of faith in the promises. Get thee out thy
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land and thy father's house," says the Lord. Departure,
separation from the life of nature and the
1 Ps. cxii. 5, 9 ; Prov. xi. 24, 25 ; Matt. xxv. 40 ; i Cor. xv. 58 ; 2
Cor. ix. 6 ; Heb. vi. 10.
*i,uke xxiv. 49; John vii. 38, xiv. 12.
•Gen. i. 22, 28, ix. i, xxii. 17, xxvL 24.
*a Cor. ix. 8, II ; Uph. i. 3 ; Heb. vi. 14.