Reaching for your blessing and pulling them down. And I will give into thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Are you speaking the word out of your mouth, but from your heart? You don’t believe what you are saying. Look at this in the natural. I have a peach tree in August. The peach is ripped on the tree. Now (get this), where are peaches? They are not on the ground. They are hanging on the peach tree ready to be pulled off or down. You need a ladder to pull the peach down and if you want them bad enough, you will reach up and get your peach. Now take that same determination and reach for your blessing. Reach God’s heart. A son knows how to reach his dad. To all the young men and women who have a college education but you’re still having problems, and you think that because your father or mother with a second grade education, you feel they are not educated enough to talk to, that they don’t understand. You have not read the book of Proverbs 6:20-21 - My son (and daughter), keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck. The wisdom that comes from your mother and father, the biggest book cannot retain it. Life experiences are priceless. So don’t look down your nose on mom and dad because you have a college degree. When have you said thank you? You call everyone except mom and dad.

God Promises Me Abundant Life

HOW DID I MISS MY BLESSING?By Claudia Jackson

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Copyright © 2012 Claudia Jackson
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ISBN: 978-1-4634-0703-2

Contents

Introduction......................xxiiiChapter One.......................1Chapter Two.......................3Chapter Three.....................9Chapter Four......................13Chapter Five:.....................15

Chapter One

God Promises Me—Genesis 1:10

v. 10: "And God called the dry land earth: and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas: and God saw that it was good." (The first water blessing is life—it was good).

v. 11: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."

v. 12: "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. God gave mankind all that he needed on the face of the earth, sea, lake, ocean—all kinds of sea food" (John 21:5-6). These are blessings.

v. 5: "Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No."

v. 6: "And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes."

The key word is to obey God at all times. His promise is to supply all of your needs. To have God's full blessing, we must do some spiritual housecleaning.

Chapter Two

Forgiveness breaks the chains of the past and opens the door to new relational realities. Forgiveness heals people—not just relationships. Don't only forgive and receive forgiveness and get rid of the guilt. You can tell yourself that you have been forgiven by God, but believing it in the depths of your heart is something else. God promises you blessings, but have you cleaned out your temple to receive the blessing? And when you do get the blessing, is it enough for you, or do you expect more for less? (What do you mean?) Some people never pay tithes or offerings and still get a blessing or are blessed. Some people will not do one thing for another person unless a dollar is invoiced and wonder why God has not blessed them. You keep using up your blessings. How? What do you mean I keep using up my blessing? Look at it this way. Every week that you get paid, you spend all of your paycheck. At the end of the month, your bank account is empty. Well, if every time you do something for someone, you never do anything from your heart, money may no tithes, how do you expect for God to look into your spiritual bank account and write out a check for you when it says close John Doe?

Communication—Genesis 11:1-8

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And they said one to another, Go to let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar. And they said go to let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name (nature communication).

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

And they said, Behold, the people are on one (communication) and they have all one language and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Let us go down there and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech (act of communication).

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth and they left off. Build the city.

What have I done to miss my blessing? Dishonesty—is this your lifestyle?

"Put not thine hand with the wicket to be on unrighteous witness" (Exodus 23:1).

"He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house. He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight" (Psalm 101:7).

As an old man sits on his back porch and begins to cry, saying, "I am no use to nobody." As the sun was brought down on his head as he cried, the tears fell on the flower and he kept on crying, the tear fell on the grass. The flower looked up and smiled and said, "Thank you for the rain of tears. I would have died." The grass rose up and said, "Thank you for the tears of rain. I would have turned brown and died." And the little worm said, "Thank you for rain of tears on the grass. It cools me off." And the old man looked up to heaven and said, "Thank you God. I am still useful." Where it counts the most, we overlook the little things. To the children and grandchildren, let your old loved ones do the little things. To God, it is a blessing.

The problem is we look for blessings in the wrong place or in the wrong people. Blessings come from God, not men or women. What you do from your heart relieves the blessing. We do favors for people and expect them to bless you or repay you a favor; when they don't, you get mad at them. Oh, you miss your blessings. Matt. 5:1-12. The Beatitudes—the first is: Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. What else could you ask for? What else do you need? You have the Kingdom of God.

Luke 6:30-33. "Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back."

v. 31: "And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise."

v. 32: "But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them."

v. 33: "And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same."

v. 36: "Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful." Don't miss your blessing.

Matt. 25:31-34.

v. 31: "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory."

v. 32: "All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats."

v. 33: "And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left."

v. 34: "Then the King will say to those on His right hand, `Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."

Don't miss your blessing. Read Matthew 26:31-46 for more blessings.

I remember a few years back when the children were young. I would save up some money and take them to the Playland at Coney Island. I didn't like the wonder wheel. I would like to see the young men and women shoot the rifle since my dad taught every one of us children how to shoot a gun in the South. I was pretty good at it; they put the cards up and you had to shoot the stars out. When the young men and old men were finished, they would say, "Let me see you shoot the star out."

When I stepped up to the gun rack, the man loaded the rifle. I would take my time, come down, study my eye, breathe, and let go. My hand was steady; my mind was fixed on the card; my eye didn't move to the left or right. I didn't listen to the voices around me; my mind was on the target. I shot the star out of the card and won a big prize. This is what we aim for—the big prize, which is the kingdom of heaven. You cannot win a better prize than eternal life. If you are going to shoot, make every bullet count. Whatever you do for God, do your best.

Chapter Three

Let God create some blessings in our lives and the lives of our husbands, wives, children, and grandchildren.

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