LIFE’S BLESSINGS & GOD’S PERSPECTIVE
What are some of the blessings of life and what is God’s perspective on these? How are we entreated by God to treat these blessings of life and all things that God blesses our lives with? 1Timothy 6:17C says that God richly blesses us with all things to enjoy.
The first life’s blessings that we would look at is Our health and wholeness. What does God’s word say concerning our life’s blessing of health and wholeness? 3 John 1: 2 says that Beloved I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health just as your soul prospers.
This means that God values our health & wholeness so much. It is said that our health is actually our first wealth. And in all things God wants the health of our outer man to prosper just as our soul or inner man prospers. God wants our health to prosper inside and God wants our health to prosper outside as well.
Good health is a significant concern in spiritual maturity. The wish for good health indicates our total needs and the importance of our wellness in effective ministry. This means God’s perspective for our health & wholeness is that we fully enjoy total wellbeing, for we are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might Ephesians 6:10
The second life’s blessing for us to look at is Joy and happiness. Bible says in Nehemiah 8:10C that the Joy of the Lord is your strength. Which means that there is strength and fortitude in fully enjoying the Joy of the Lord no matter what situation we might find ourselves. In this powerful verse, Nehemiah exhorts the people of Israel to celebrate themselves and rejoice in the Lord for it is through God’s joy that we find our strength. The phrase The Joy of the Lord is Your strength encapsulates a profound spiritual truth: true strength and resilience come from the joy found in the Lord. This joy is not circumstantial but rooted in our relationship with our God within us. This is God’s perspective of our joy & happiness. We are further entreated by Christ Jesus to be of Cheer for I have overcome the world John 16:33C
Love and Relationships is our third life’s blessing that God blesses us with. This begins with a divine love and positive relationship with one’s own divine self first and then this divine love and positive relationship with one’s own divine Self is extended to others including family, friends, community, nation and world as a whole. The three wonderful words concerning the life’s blessing of love and relationships is this: GOD IS LOVE! This can be found in 1John 4:8 which says for God is love. God is Love expresses the essential feature and nature of God. In addition to God loving us, God is love itself. This declaration is unique to understanding who or what God is in us as well as who or what we are in God. God is Love is rooted in God’s steadfast love as a recurring theme throughout our relationship with God. God is love is also clearly demonstrated in Christ Jesus. God is love is the ultimate expression of divine love of which we are exhorted to love ourselves first and then extend it to others.
The next life’s blessings that we will look at are Success and prosperity. And God’s perspective of our success and prosperity is of good success and the prospering of whatever we do. Joshua 1:8 tells us of good success and how our meditation day and night shall make our ways prosperous and obtain for us good success. Good Success is the Success with a capital S which means Successful unfolding of the Soul to the upliftment of one’s own divine Self and to the upliftment of others. Additionally Psalms 1:2-3 confirms that as one meditates day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in his season, and his leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he does shall prosper. So this means that Good success and prosperity are in alignment with God’s perspective for us as our life’s blessings
Finally the last of life’s blessings that we will look at is the blessings of Abundance, Wealth & Infinite financial and monetary resources. God is a God of abundance. God owns the whole world in His hands. Ephesians 3:20 tells us Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ever think , ask or imagine through the power that works in us. It is God’s perspective on abundance that influenced Christ Jesus miracle of the loaves and fishes. Bible says there was soo much abundance that over 5,000 people were provided to their satisfaction with twelve extra baskets full remaining in a place which was described as a desert by the disciples.
Matthew 14:19-21 says And Jesus commanded the multitude to sit down. And Jesus took the five loaves and two fishes, looking up to heaven, Jesus blessed them and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples. The disciples gave these to the multitude and all ate and were fully satisfied. There remained twelve extra baskets full remaining. They that eat were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
This particular miracle shows that God’s perspective concerning our life’s blessing of wealth, monetary & financial resources is one of exceeding abundance far more than we could ever think ask or imagine
Our task now is how do we fully enjoy these life’s blessings which are in alignment with God’s perspective of us. We make firm decisions on these life’s blessings. We make our choices to thrive in good health, joy, love, success, prosperity, wealth, financial, monetary & spiritual resources in abundance for us and for others as well. We give ourselves permission to thrive and fully enjoy all these our lives’ blessings according to God’s perspective.
Prayer
1. We thank God for this message titled life’s blessings & God’s perspective. We have been reminded of some of our life’s blessings and how we can fully enjoy them according to God’s perspective.
2. The first of life’s blessing that we looked at according to God’s perspective is Good health & wholeness. We pray our prayer of good health in 3 John 1:2 which says that beloved I pray above all things and in every way you enjoy good health and prosper just as your Soul prospers. We pray for total well being. We pray for wholistic health. We pray that our health prospers in the Soul, the mind, the body, in the spirit. May our health, wellness & wholeness prosper both internally & externally.
3. Our next prayer point is to affirm our Joy, happiness & divine love of our divine Selves first, then we can extend Joy, happiness & divine love of our divine Selves to others. Whiles Nehemiah 8:10 reminds us the Joy of the Lord is our strength, 1John4:8 reminds us that God is Love So we pray that our very lives will express so profoundly this features of Joy, happiness & divine love in God.
4. Our last but one prayer point is to affirm our God of good success, prosperity and abundance on all our missions, visions, businesses, projects & activities. God’s word says that whatsoever we do shall prosper
5. Finally, we bless this day with all of life’s blessings health, joy, love, success, prosperity & abundance. We bless our goings and our comings. We call our lives so blessed always. We call our lives so healthy always. We call today a joyful day. We call today a successful day. We call today a prosperous day. We call today an abundant day, all according to God’s perspective.