John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
These Spiritual Blessings that came through Jesus, are for us today and not just for when we die and go to Heaven. Heaven has come to us. All of the Blessings God gave to the First Adam, have now come into play for the believer, in our new creation spirit. This Spiritual Blessing is once gain brought from God's Kingdom, into this natural earth and life. God has now restored His original Plan for His children, through His Grace in Jesus. We can walk in and live in God's original Plan. He can be our God and we can once again, be His children.
Mankind was separated from God in the spirit, because of Adam's transgression, until Jesus and the new covenant. God could only move from the outside, by the people's obedience to His Law. If they kept the Law, then God could Bless them, but if they didn't adhere to it, then the Law of Sin and Death would rule over them. If we walk in the Truth of Christ Jesus, in this day of salvation, then Grace replaces Law for us. In Him, we did as He did and have fulfilled the Law, so it no longer pertains to us. Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging of guilty of wrong), for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictate of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
The above scripture isn't some pretty text, but is Truth to those who've received and accepted Jesus and His Righteousness. We are no longer in our righteousness, but we're now in His Righteousness. Paul showed us this, when he writes about the difference between the dictates of the flesh and the dictates of the Spirit. Our flesh will dictate how sinful we once were, but the Spirit will dictate to us, how righteous we've become in Jesus.
We must understand what Jesus tells His followers in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), where He said, "But seek, aim at, and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides." God's way is the only way to have His Righteousness and His Kingdom, through Jesus Christ. Righteousness come only one way and that's through Jesus Christ and His Righteousness. The only way we can be counted righteous, is by faith in what Jesus did on our behalf, to obtain our righteousness.
The things written in these blogs, aren't things we need to do, but things we need to know. It's hard to believe in what God has done through Jesus, if we don't know what He has done. The Blessing Promised to Jesus through Abraham, is now ours already. We are Blessed, in Jesus. Genesis 27:33 (Amplified) says, "Then Isaac trembled and shook violently, and he said, Who? Where is he who has hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of it all before you came and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
The blessing cannot be revoked, once is has been put into operation. It cannot leave those who are Blessed. Isaac mistakenly placed the Blessing on his son Jacob, through Jacob's deception and the Blessing remained on Jacob. God Blessed the First Adam in the Garden and that Blessing remained in the earth, until the Last Adam. Through the Last Adam Jesus, this Blessing is still in full reign, for those who are in Him. Like the First Adam, we've been deceived into thinking that we can gain the Blessing, by works. We've already been Blessed in all Spiritual Blessing and everything Heaven Blessed us with, in Jesus. Satan told Eve, "If you eat this, then you'll become like God." Adam and Eve were already like God, because He made them in His Image and Likeness. We're already like our Father, because we are of His Seed, the Word of God. Genesis 1:11 (Amplified) says, "And God said, Let the earth put forth tender vegetation (plants), yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit who's seed is in itself, each according to its kind upon the earth, and it was so."
Jesus told us in "The Parable of the Sower" that words are seed and the Seed of God's Word always produces after kind." 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed), but from One that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God ." This Seed will always produce after kind. As the Seed, Jesus will always produce sons and daughters in the household and family of God, His children in His Likeness and in His Image. Everything produces after kind.
This is why it's so important that we speak God's Word, in our lives. We can't speak the Curse over our lives, and reap the Blessing, because every seed (word) will produce after kind. Whether you're saved or unsaved, you'll reap corn if you sow or plant corn. This is the Law of Genesis and it still works today. John 3:34 (Amplified) says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message), God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit."
These aren't things we must do, in order to receive, but there are things we must know, which will allow the Promises to flow in our lives. We're the only ones who can stop the Promises in our lives and we mostly do so, because we lack of understanding. The only thing required to do, is to believe and accept what Grace and Truth has already done. We crowd out the good Seeds we sow, by sowing or speaking wrong seed. Jesus said in Matthew 12:35 (Amplified), "The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things; and the evil man out of the inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things."
The word "evil," doesn't always refer, "Bad sinners and ungodly people," but it means the opposite of Truth and faith. It means, "Diseased, derelict, calamitous, wickedness or twisted from Truth." All these words (seeds) that are sown out of lack of understanding, will still produce after kind. Jesus cautioned us to "Rightly divide the Word of Truth" and "Be careful what we hear," in His Parable. We don't want all the seeds or words we speak, to produce in our lives. When we understand the importance of words in our lives, it becomes easier for the Blessing to produce the Truth, in our lives. We're the only ones who can stop or hinder the Blessing, in our lives. Satan can't and God won't.
We have to make the choice whether we will agree with God's Word or disagree with it. The words that we speak and plant in our heart, will determine what we reap. We can't put trust in the Curse to perfect us and then trust in Jesus, Who has already perfected us. Jesus said, "Be careful what we hear." Don't allow certain words or seeds to produce in your heart. Galatians 6 tells us that, "A man reaps what he sows, from the flesh (wrong seed) or from the Spirit (God's Truth and Seed)." We're in charge of our hearts and what grows in our garden there.
Proverbs 4:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life. Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you." Be careful what you hear and what you say, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, and out of the abundance of speech, grows a harvest of good or bad. Know this. Understand this. Speak only God's Word and receive more of the measure of the Power of the Spirit, in your life.
How can this principal be so simple in the natural realm, while seeming so difficult in the Spirit realm? Most people understands the basics of sowing and growing a garden, in the natural realm. They know that corn produces corn and beans produce after their kind, which are beans. The lack of understand makes this seem confusing, in our Christian walk. Don't choke out the harvest of Blessing in your life, by sowing wrong seeds in your heart.
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