“And I will make
of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and
thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him
that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families in the earth be blessed.”
Gen.12:2-3
And if ye be Christ’ then are ye Abraham’s seed and
heirs according to the promise. Gal.3:29
Beloved family, I welcome you to this glorious Month
of October which the Lord has graciously called our Month of The Blessing. This
is indeed a glorious month because in the midst of the negative reports all
around the world, the Lord is bringing to our remembrance this great truth that
we are indeed a blessed people in Christ Jesus.
Last month, the Lord caused us to remember that we are
not the same people we were before we came into His family through the Lord
Jesus Christ. We were made to see that we have been adopted into the family of
God through the seed for Abraham – Jesus Christ. We were able to see also how
it all began for man and why we needed to be born again.
This month, we are blessed again to be reminded of the
blessing by the Lord. What exactly is The Blessing and why are we in it? The
word blessing means empowered to prosper; or succeed. It is the opposite of the
curse which means empowered to fail. The blessing is the only cure for the
curse. As we leant last month, the curse came upon humanity through sin and the
Lord had to come and paid the penalty for our sin and obtained eternal
redemption for us. Anyone who receives this great unspeakable gift called Jesus
Christ automatically gains access into the blessing of Abraham. From our
studies last month, we came to learn that Abraham became the custodian of the
blessing allocated to mankind through his covenant relationship with God.
Through him, God sent the Messiah in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ into
this world. He is the seed of Abraham through whom all the families of the
earth shall be blessed.
The question we want to ask and answer this month is
what made Abraham thick? Why is it that of every man on earth in his lifetime,
he was the one who walked with God and God chose to bless and make him a
blessing? First I must say I observe a grace of divine election is the reason
for his call from what is written in the bible because we were not given the
information of the state of his heart as at when God called him. Although we
later got to know from Gen.18:17-19 that he was a legacy minded person and God
wanted someone who would order his offspring after them to walk in his ways so
that he can bring his word to pass in their lives because He is a
transgenerational God.
To this end, in our teaching series this month, we
shall be looking at a theme I tag: “Walking in the footsteps of Abraham”; from
here we seek to understand why Abraham grew to enjoy so much favour with God to
the point he was later called a friend of God and why his legacies are still
all around the world today. Recently, I was listening to the debate of the
prime Minister of Israel in the recent United Nations General Assembly and was
left in no doubt of the word of God concerning the blessing of Abraham as Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to show the world how much of a blessing the
nation of Israel has been to the world and that the world seems to be coming to
terms with this truth as it stands today. It is worthy of note that the
blessing of Abraham was inherited by Isaac and that of the two offspring of
Isaac, Jacob who later became known as Israel inherited the blessing.
Today, Israel has grown into a nation and despite all
odds are calling the shot in every area of life on earth. I consider myself to
be greatly privileged to be adopted into the family of God through the Lord
Jesus Christ and am therefore now a seed of Abraham by faith and an heir of the
covenant and a joint heir with the Lord Jesus Christ. Truth be told, this is
God’s pattern for man’s prosperity. Our personal preferences as far as the God
we choose to serve notwithstanding, access to God is impossible without going
through Jesus Christ the seed of Abraham. Someone reading this blog today may
have been desirous of being blessed in this way without success. I have good
news for you. You can take advantage of this glorious offer from God by getting
born again into God’s family and you can do so right away by saying the
following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again and become a
joint heir with the Lord Jesus Christ. If you want to do so now please say the
following prayer out loud in faith and you will actualize the promise:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a
sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the
dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour
and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus
Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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