The Blessings God Has In Store For Us

PRAYER OF BLESSING OVER YOUFather in the name of Your Son, we come before You today. We renounce any authority that we have given to the enemy. We ask forgiveness. And we give that authority back to you, Lord. You are the Lord of our lives.

We ask Lord that You will remove blockages and hindrances in the spiritual realm. Remove things that stop us from possessing our promised land.

We address the following things: unsolved matters; nagging matters; situations of uncertainty; lack of clarity; lack of breakthrough; hindrances; disputes; controversy; disagreement; lack of spiritual alignment; and things of this nature. In Your name we declare them to be settled, settled, and settled!

We declare over Your people today: The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you, the Lord lift up the light of His smile upon you. And give you peace.

We pronounce and decree BLESSING upon you, the people of God!! Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing!! In Your mighty name we pray.

 • God wants to bless us.
• That is God’s heart towards us.
• Belonging to God should bring blessing on our lives.
• The blessing that God wants us to experience is really God’s favour towards us.
• You and I were meant to share in the blessings that God planned for His people.
• But is there something that we can do to put ourselves in line to receive and enjoy these blessings?
• I believe there is and we are going to look at this.

A. OBEDIENCE
• Obedience is the key to receiving and enjoying the blessings that God has in-store for us.
• Obedience is a readiness to respond to and do what we may sense God is telling us to do.
• Obedience is important to God.
• 1 Samuel 15:22 Obedience is far better than sacrifice.• Here is the promise of blessing:
• Deuteronomy 28:1-2 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God.• There are a few key words we need to take note of: 1. IF! 2. ‘Fully obey’, 3. ‘Carefully follow’.
• This calls for a heart attitude, where we determine that we will obey God.
 B. THE BLESSINGS

1. BLESSING ON WHERE WE LIVE• Deuteronomy 28:3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.• Just think of your city, town and your country.
• God wants to bless our towns our cities and our country.
• We can know a blessing on the place we call home.
• This can include your home or the place you call home.
2. BLESSING ON OUR CHILDREN• God wants to bless your children.
• This is a wonderful blessing that God wants us to enjoy.
• Deuteronomy 28:4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed. • This blessing is an inter-generational blessing.
• Because of our obedience our children can know blessing on their lives.
• This blessing speaks of two things; 1. Being blessed with the blessing of children (offspring) and 2. Children who are blessed.
3. BLESSED WITH PRODUCTIVITY• Deuteronomy 28:4 and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.• God wants to bless what He has given us.
• God wants to bless us with productivity in all areas of our lives.
• God wants us to be productive in our work places.
• Productivity is a blessing that God wants to give us. 4. THE BLESSING OF PROVISION• Here is another blessing that God wants us to enjoy.
• God wants to bless us with provision.
• Deuteronomy 28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.• The basket speaks of our provision and our resources.
• God is obviously interested in supplying our needs and going beyond this so that there is enough to share with others.
• This is another blessing that God has for us.   5. BLESSING ON OUR MOVEMENTS• As we come and go, God wants to bless us.
• Part of human life is movement. In a sense we are forever on the move and God wants this aspect of our lives to be blessed.
• Deuteronomy 28:6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. • Trust God to bless you as you travel around and fulfill your various responsibilities and obligations.
6. THE BLESSING OF VICTORY• God wants us to enjoy victory in our lives.
• Victory over things that would like to get us down or destroy us.
• Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. • What enemy is rising up against you?
• Think of the enemy of discouragement, frustration and despair. This can also include fear, stress, alcohol, drugs, pornography, greed/selfishness and many more.
7. A BLESSING ON WHAT WE DO• God wants to bless what you do.
• As you go out and work, know that God wants to bless the work that you will do.
• Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. • Imagine that everything you put your hand to would end up blessed. Just read that scripture again.
8. THE BLESSING OF RAIN• Here is another blessing God has in-store for us.
• Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of His bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands.• Without rain every aspect of our lives would be affected, but with rain every aspect of our lives can know blessing.
 9. THE ABILITY TO LEND AND NOT BORROW• Here is another great blessing. Instead of always having to borrow money we will be able to lend others money.
• There is a different dimension when we lend money as opposed to when we borrow money.
• To be able to do this is a blessing. It means that we have enough.
• Deuteronomy 28:12 You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.  10. THE BLESSING OF COMING OUT ON TOP• Deuteronomy 28:13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. … You will always be at the top, never at the bottom. • The promise of success and the ability to come out on top is also a blessing that God has in-store for us.
• You may feel that you are always coming off second best.
• God’s plan and blessing for us is that we would know what it is like to come out on top.
C. THE BLESSING IS CONDITIONAL
• There is a conditional aspect to experiencing this blessing.
• It is the aspect of obedience.
• It will be worth it if we will choose a life of obedience.
• The rewards for obedience will be the blessings that God has in His word for us.
• Deuteronomy 28:13-14 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.• We must not allow anything to distract us from obeying God.
• This aspect of obedience encompasses two aspects:
• 1. Obedience to God’s word.
• 2. Obedience to the direction of the Holy Spirit.
• Let’s decide on a life of obedience and trust that the blessing that God has for us will be the reward.

Receive God's Blessings Today.