Blessed Success, Part 3

God has a Blessed Success that He has reserved for His people. This Blessed Success can be accessed through Covenant Relationship with His Son, Jesus the Christ, and His shed blood for the remission and forgiveness of our sins. Galatians chapter 3 points out that Jesus died, not only that our sins may be forgiven, but also that we might take advantage of The Blessing of Abraham, which is the root of the Blessed Success that God has made available for His children through His Son Jesus. If we can understand the terms of the covenant that God originally made with Abraham, we can access that same blessing in and through our Lord Jesus Christ.

In reading Genesis 12 the Lord says to Abraham, "And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee, and make thy name great". The Lord goes on to tell Abraham in the 17th chapter of Genesis, "I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect and I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly...and I will make thee exceeding fruitful and I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee".  Hopefully this language sounds familiar, because it is basically the same covenant and blessing that God originally made with Adam in the Garden of Eden. God never intended for His people's success to be contingent upon work, it was always supposed to come from His Blessing. 

However, there are two keys to accessing this Blessed Success. The first one is obedience. In Genesis chapter 12, the Lord tells Abraham to leave his kindred and his father's house. If Abraham isn't obedient to the word of the Father, he forfeits the blessing. Blessed Success is contingent upon geographical obedience. If you're out of divine position, if you're not in divine alignment, you can miss the Blessed Success that God has prepared for you. 

The next key is obedience in the tithe. I've heard people say that the tithe is an Old Testament principle and is not applicable to the New Testament church. Yes, the tithe principle originated in the Old Testament, but it's not a part of The Law. And if you read the Book of Hebrews, you'll find that the tithe still has New Testament relevance. But the key to the Blessing of Abraham is found in Genesis 14. After Abraham defeated the kings that had kidnapped his nephew Lot, the scripture says that Melchizedek, king of Salem (referenced in Hebrews chapter 7) came to Abraham, and Abraham "gave him tithes of all" the spoils he received from the battle he had won. This, I believe, was the catalyst for the Blessing that Abraham received from God in Genesis chapter 17. You can't be blessed robbing God! If you're not paying your tithes and offerings according to Malachi chapter 3, as a child of God, you can expect to suffer financially. You're operating outside of covenant agreement. It's like a spouse who won't come home at night. The spouse doesn't care, if you will, about the neighbor down the street because they're not married to them. Remember, we are The Bride of Christ, so when you're in Covenant Relationship, there are consequences for not properly honoring that relationship. There are dire consequences, particularly financially, for not honoring God with the tithe.

I pray that at some level we've been able to glean from what has been shared, in order to take advantage of the Blessing of Abraham that Jesus died for us to receive. As a Christian and a child of God, you don't have to suffer lack. You don't have to be broke. You don't have to struggle financially. You can experience the Blessed Success that God has ordained for you from the foundation of the world.