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Letting THE BLESSING Do
the Work
5 Ways to Let THE BLESSING Do
the Work
Kenneth Copeland
“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with
it.” – Proverbs 10:22
(NKJV)
Do you feel like you’re working and
struggling to achieve your dreams?
You’re not meant to do all the work! Find out
how THE BLESSING will get you there.
Toiling and working, and
working and toiling. Does that sound like your life?
Sometimes it can feel like
you’re spinning your wheels and getting nowhere — struggling to advance but
facing setback after setback, or simply staying in the same place year after
year.
Certainly, there is an
adversary who is always ready and willing to throw hindrances your way, but
what if increase and advancement could be achieved with a simple tweak in your
thinking?
THE BLESSING of the Lord was
established by God to enforce all your covenant rights and advance you along in
life, but sometimes it can be tempting to flip over to the natural and try to
take the reins yourself.
The unintended consequence ends
up including delay and frustration.
God has put in each one of us
the natural instinct to work hard, but we must balance our own work with a
submission to the supernatural.
If you’re ready to stop
running, struggling and toiling to reach your dreams, goals and vision — begin
to change your thinking with these five ways to put THE BLESSING to work in
your life.
1. Let THE
BLESSING Make You Rich
“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich,
and He adds no sorrow with it.” – Proverbs 10:22 (NKJV)
In this verse, that word
translated sorrow literally
means “to toil.”
Now,
there’s nothing wrong with work. The Bible says, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat” (2 Thessalonians
3:10, MSG).
Work is a requirement for
advancement, and the Bible is clear that diligence is required for promotion,
increase and wealth. However, there is a difference between work and toil.
Work is putting your hands to
something, so God can prosper and increase you (Deuteronomy 28:8).
Toil is taking the
responsibility and pressure of provision onto yourself. Some Christians have
argued, “Well, I have to earn a living.”
Of this reasoning, Kenneth
Copeland says this:
“Did you earn your salvation? No. You got
it by grace and through faith. Did you earn the baptism in the Holy Ghost? How
did you get it? Did you earn healing? How did you get that? Well, what makes
you think you have to earn your money?”
You need to work, but you don’t
need to make your own living. If you gather it for yourself, it works like a
bag with holes in it. THE BLESSING of the Lord is what makes you rich — He makes you rich.
The more you study, the more
you’ll realize that THE BLESSING of the Lord, is the glory of the Lord, is the
Spirit of the Lord, is the Lord Himself. He is THE BLESSING.
You don’t have to toil to be
rich. A janitor can be rich and have a jet.
Maybe you’re thinking, What does a janitor need with a jet? Well,
it depends on what he does on the weekends!
Maybe he’s preaching to the
world on the weekends. If a man or woman is on assignment for Jesus, then that
person does not live on his or her salary alone.
Each
year when his board of directors determines his salary, Jerry
Savelle — after
thanking them — makes a personal declaration saying, “My salary is not my income. God is the source of my income, and my
income will far exceed my salary.”
The same is true for you.
You’re called to work, but not to struggle or toil. How do you do this?
You do your work as working for
the Lord, and you shift your mindset over to believing your income will far
exceed your salary because God, not your salary, is your Source.
You begin to rest and not worry
about your finances, and you give your financial cares over to the Lord.
Jesus went to great lengths to
secure THE BLESSING for you, so you could be made rich and become a BLESSING to
the world around you.
His intention is for you to be
made wealthy, not just for your own enjoyment, but for the advancement of the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
When you prosper, you can bring
THE BLESSING to the dark places of the world around you.
Wealthy believers are Satan’s
worst nightmare. They fund ministries, they support missionaries, and they pay
off houses and cars.
When you come across someone in
need — a single mom who is struggling and needs a car, for example — and you’re
living on THE BLESSING, you don’t just sit there — you buy the car!
That’s why now is the
time to become BLESSING-minded and know that it isn’t your job, but THE
BLESSING, that will make you rich!
2. Let THE BLESSING Promote You
“The houses will be richly stocked with
goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig,
and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant.” – Deuteronomy 6:11 (NLT)
So many times, Christians feel
the need to fight their way to the top. There are even some who are willing to
vote with those who promote immorality to protect their Social Security,
Medicare or anything else they feel will help them advance in life.
But God put THE BLESSING in
place so we don’t have to toil, struggle or rely on man to be promoted in any
area of our lives.
THE BLESSING will
promote you even when you aren’t qualified in the natural.
It will promote you when the
world says you aren’t enough; it will promote you when you’ve had one setback
after another; it will promote you when you’re surrounded by enemies who want
to keep you from ever reaching your destination.
But you have to let THE
BLESSING do the work.
When you’re operating in the
natural, you edge out the supernatural because you’re putting the energy of
your faith toward yourself, rather than toward God.
When you learn to step back and
stop fighting in your own strength and allow God to promote you, you’ll see
advancements you never dreamed possible.
As
Kenneth Copeland says, “THE BLESSING will
make a somebody out of nobody.”
That’s what happened to Joseph
when he was given a dream and vision for his life. That dream all but died
right there in the pit where his brothers threw him.
There was nothing he could do
to promote himself out of that situation. But THE BLESSING was there — that’s
what kept his brothers from killing him.
THE BLESSING is what sent that
caravan from Egypt to the right place and the right time, to fish him out of
his pit and off to his destiny.
Are you in a pit today? Have
you been stuck in a place where it seems there is no way out or no possibility
of advancement? Take a step back and invite God into your situation. Let THE
BLESSING do the work and promote you to positions you’re not qualified for, to
houses that have always seemed out of your price range, to ministries that
seemed so far off, and to relationships you could never establish on your own.
Joseph was in a situation where
he could do nothing on his own. He was a slave and then a prisoner, but the
Bible says, “The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered” (Genesis
39:2, NIV).Notice, it doesn’t say Joseph prospered because of his race, his
influential family, his education, his social status or his intelligence. No,
THE BLESSING is what made Joseph prosper and receive a promotion to the second
most powerful position in the world.
THE BLESSING of the Lord
doesn’t care where you are or where you came from. Stop fighting the world and
trying to prove yourself. Let THE BLESSING promote you, and you’ll find
yourself in a palace!
3. Let THE BLESSING Defend You
“The Lord is your mighty defender.” –Deuteronomy 32:4 (GNT)
When you’ve been wronged,
slighted or downright betrayed, do you spring into action to defend yourself?
When you’ve been wronged, it can be tempting to rise up and take action, and
sometimes the Lord will tell you to do just that. However, you shouldn’t defend
yourself without His backing.
Joseph never defended himself
against Potiphar. He didn’t spend time fighting to get out of prison. He
waited, and he let THE BLESSING take care of it. It didn’t happen overnight,
but God avenged him in every way possible. There is no defender greater than
our God.
You don’t have to fight your
own fight. You don’t have to defend yourself and look out for your own rights.
If you humble yourself and step out of the way, THE BLESSING will go ahead of
you and prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies.
This is an important lesson to
learn because when you walk in THE BLESSING, you will be persecuted. You will
have a hundredfold return, with houses and lands that come from THE
BLESSING, along with persecutions (Mark 10:30). THE BLESSING on you will make people envious of you,
and they will persecute you. But don’t pay any attention to it.
Clothe yourself with humility.
Cast your cares over on Jesus. When you put the situation that has concerned
you into His hands and say to Him, “Lord, will You take care of this for me?”
He says, “Of course I will!”
4. Let THE BLESSING Anoint You
“His anointing
teaches you about all things.”—1 John 2:27 (NIV)
You don’t have to have it all
figured out. Depending on your personality type, that will either be easy or
tough to handle! Have you ever run up against a situation and thought, This is
hopeless or I’ll never be able to do that? Well,
think again. No situation is hopeless when you factor in the anointing. The
anointing factor is the very power of God at work in your situation.
It is God doing those things in
your life that only God can do. When your mind and flesh try to take over in
these situations, you soon realize, I just don’t have the
strength. I don’t have what it takes to combat this thing and win against
it. That’s when you can step back and allow the power of God in your
spirit—the anointing—to take over.
THE BLESSING will anoint you to
fight your battles and prosper even in a famine. Think about it—how did Joseph
know how to run a ranch and a wealthy man’s property? THE BLESSING of the Lord
gave him the mind of Christ—the mind of the Anointed One. THE BLESSING anointed
Joseph, who made Potiphar rich, and then made Pharaoh the richest man in the
world.
The same anointing that was on
the mind of Jesus when He was ministering on this earth is the same anointing
available to you right now. But it has to be obtained and released by faith.
That’s why Abraham was so
strong in faith—He was BLESSED! He learned how to receive and how to depend on
THE BLESSING. As long as he depended on it, it didn’t matter where he dug a
hole—he hit water.
People will always tell you why
you can’t do something. But once you find out the will of God for you, confer
no longer with flesh and blood. Let THE BLESSING take you where no one thinks
you can go. THE BLESSING will bring you revelation knowledge. It is the gateway
to the supernatural.
When you’re facing a situation,
a goal or a job that requires anointing, don’t wear yourself out, wracking your
brain hour after hour, searching every nook and cranny for the answer. If you
knew what to do, it wouldn’t be a trial. So, count it all joy, and sit down in
God’s rest, believing His wisdom is on the way.
You have a covenant right to
expect the power of God in your life to work on your behalf. Factor in the
power of God’s Word. Factor in the power of His Spirit. Factor in the
Anointing. Let THE BLESSING do the work, and watch those circumstances change!
5. Let THE BLESSING Preach the
Gospel
“I came that
they may have life and have it abundantly.” –John 10:10 (ESV)
It’s fun to talk about the ways
THE BLESSING can make us rich, promote us, defend us and anoint us, but above
all, THE BLESSING preaches the gospel to a lost world.
When you’re living in THE
BLESSING, you aren’t spending your time worrying or toiling — you have the
time, energy, money and anointing to minister to others, and you’re an example
of what it looks like to be a child of the Most High God.
When you’re walking and living
in THE BLESSING, you shine a light in a dark world. People will naturally be
drawn to you—they’ll want what you have! Everyone wants to live BLESSED, and
you’ll know how to help them get there. THE BLESSING is the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Take it and be a witness as He’s called you to do.
It’s time to put THE BLESSING
to work in every area of your life! Any area of your life where you’ve been
held back, there’s only one thing missing — THE BLESSING.
No more toiling, no more
struggling, no more standing in a defensive posture, and no more guesswork — let
THE BLESSING do the work for you!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries is dedicated to
building up believers’ faith and deepening their walk with Christ, so they can
live the victorious life God promised.
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