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What is hindering your blessing?

 

Paula White Today

 

   

What is hindering your blessing?

Did you ever think why God promised for our blessing and it doesn’t happen? I bring 10% to God, I go to church, I pray and worship God, but why do I have a financial burden still? Jesus said, “ I came to give you life abundantly.” Why do I have a struggle? Why don’t I have a victory?

Why? Because we are in the spiritual battle. Our enemy doesn’t want us to have an abundant blessing. Our enemy wants us to be poor. Our enemy wants us to have family conflicts. Our enemy is the power of the darkness. Our enemy is a liar.  Our enemy is Satan and his co-workers. When they see we are getting close to have a breakthrough, they have to stop it.  They work so hard so that we can not reach the goal. They want us to feel that God's promise is nothing, we are worthless, we can not move the mountain. But the devil is a liar. God never lies. His word never returns to be void. I realized we have doors open for the devil. God wants to give us blessings but if we don’t close the entire door for devil, God can not give us a victory. Today God wants to bring us to a new spiritual level.

Before that, God wants us to be consecrated from the stuff that God hates.  

After Moses died, God chose Joshua as leader of Israelites, and promised him and Israelites, Joshua 1:2

They followed God’s instructions and God handed over the city of Jericho to the Israelites.  They had a victory. They burned a whole city, but they put silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. But Achan took some of them and hid. So Lord’s anger burned against Israel. Now Joshua was going to take over Ai. He sent a spy. They said,” Not all people will have to go up against Ai. Send just two or three thousand men, because only few men are there.“ They thought this was a piece of cake, so easy to win. But they failed.

Joshua cried out to God, “Why did you bring us here……..    Joshua 7:6

God told him why this happened. Joshua7:10-13

One person’s sin brought God’s anger to all of Israel. And they could not win the battle.

What is Achan sin?

    1, Disobey God’s commandments  One man’s disobedient brought God’s anger to the entire nation. Disobedient opens the door for devil. The devil likes to use the door what God hates. Did you ever hear somebody say, “ I’m not going to do it. I don’t care.” And the person who heard that says, “ If he is not going to do it, I’m not going to do it either.”   

1.   He lied and was dishonest. I lied one time before and that one lie destroy my life. That happened even when I was a Christian.

We need to be honest to other people and God. People from my work talk about me that I am too honest. That’s ok. It’s better to be too honest than a liar. God honners Honest people.  God hates lies and dishonesty.Proverb11:1, 12:10

 

2.   He stole and wanted keep.

A beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold. Achan was still attached to the stuff that this world likes. He couldn’t get rid of the desire to possess beautiful stuff and money that this world will pursue. That’s why he opened the door for the door devil to steal. You were saved, you are no longer belong to this world. Money and beautiful clothes and stuff is nothing to do with God’s eternity.  ( It's ok for you to be rich in God's way.)   

God hates stuff that is related to idles. Babylonian worship idles. We live in the mixed culture. People like things that come from another country. Chinese character, Book, clothing, accessories, Those are the doors for the devil. The devil uses the obstacles and images to access into your life and destroy. Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.Deuteronomey7:26

    We need to know devil’s tactic. We don’t want to give any chance for devil to win. He doesn’t have any mercy, he is busy working and looking for the door to get in to our life and destroy it.

Achan confess his sin, but God had to kill him and his family, destroy all he had. Joshua 8:24-26

After that Israel win the victory over Ai. Joshua8:24

Do you have any doors for devil to ruin your life?

Ask God which door is open. Look in your house! Is there anything what God hates in your house? Is there any old habits you're still doing it? You can serve God and this world at the same time. You need to renounce the stuff God hates.

Ask God to show you,and God will show you.

Because God wants to give you a victorious life. God doesn’t want you to be the same.

 

  dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey His commands and do what please him. 1John3:21