Blessing of The Lord (Eng)

COURSE SYLLABUS
THE BLESSING OF THE LORD
THEME BIBLE VERSE:
“THE BLESSING of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” Prov. 10:22
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. To understand that God’s original intent for His people was to live in THE BLESSING.
2. To study God’s plan to restore THE BLESSING after man sinned and empower us to
succeed through Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross.
3. To give us a greater understanding that THE BLESSING is not just a spiritual reality
but a material reality. We are to be a living proof of the THE BLESSING to others.
4. To help us understand that it is love that governs the operation of THE BLESSING.
COURSE TEXT:
Title Author
THE BLESSING of the Lord Kenneth Copeland1
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: All Students
1. Read all of the required text.

2. Attend all classes or listen to recordings of any missed classes if absence is
excused.
3. The required exam is a take-home, open-book exam.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Level 5 and 6 Students
In addition to the above requirements:

1. Read Change Your Words, Change Your Life by Joyce Meyer2
2. Write a 6-page paper on how an understanding of THE BLESSING that God has pro-
nounced over you has changed your life.
1 ISBN: 978-1604631494
2 ISBN: 978-0446538572
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THE BLESSING OF THE LORD
I. CHAPTER ONE - THE BLESSING: LOVE’S ULTIMATE GIFT
A. Get Ready to Fly - Personal Testimony of Kenneth Copeland
1. He continued to stumble from one failure to another, even after he was born
again - knew nothing of what the Bible says about living in victory.
a. A failed business venture left him broke and unemployed.
b. He had no way to repay his mountain of debt.
2. He knew he was called to preach - led to go to Oral Roberts University.
a. He and his family moved to Tulsa (with no finances to support themselves

and attend ORU).
b. He stood on the Word to find a way.
c. God gave him a revelation of the Blessing of Abraham - Galatians

3:9,13-14, 29.
d. He grabbed hold of the prosperity that God had given to Abraham and his
seed. “Glory to God, I don’t have to be poor anymore!”
3. Eleven months later he was debt-free, and vowed he would never borrow
money again.
4. He was also told by God not to ever ask for money again, but to put pressure
on the Word instead. Put pressure on the Blessing of Abraham!
5. Revelation of the Blessing of Abraham promised to all Christians came

slowly - step by step.
B. Just the Beginning
1. Being BLESSED includes far more than having money - it is only one small
portion of THE BLESSING.
a. The new birth and salvation is part of THE BLESSING.
b. Healing is also part of THE BLESSING.
c. The peace that passes understanding, and the gifts of the Spirit are other
parts of THE BLESSING.
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2. THE BLESSING can affect not only our lives, our families and the Church,
but also our government and nation.
3. We develop and grow in our understanding of THE BLESSING a little at a

time. We don’t ever learn anything advanced or complex all at once.
a. Over the years God restored the revelation of THE BLESSING to the
Church bit by bit.
b. He takes us, as the Bible says, “from faith to faith” and “from glory to
glory.” (See Romans 1:17 and 2 Cor. 3:18.)
c. God isn’t finished with us yet. We must never think we know all there is
to know in The WORD. We must never stop growing into “the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ.” (See Eph. 4:13.)
C. Get a Drink From the Fire Hose
1. We never have the whole picture of God’s revelation to us of the Word.
2. Sometimes it feels like we get bombarded with mountains of new revelation

from the Word.
a. It feels like we are trying to drink from a fire hose. God is asking us to
learn new ways of doing things.
b. We can feel like our brains are cramping up, but it is all worth the effort.
D. Watch Out for the Needle
1. All the blessings found in the Word that we’ve studied, believed for and seen
manifested in our lives for so many years are all part of a whole.
a. They are the result of THE BLESSING!
b. It is THE BLESSING that God spoke over Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden. “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion. . .” (Gen. 1:28).
2. God bestowed on the family of man everything they would ever need to
become all He had created them to be, and do all He had destined them to do.
3. This blessing became the Blessing of Abraham, which through the Seed of
Abraham (Jesus) has been given to us.
4. Sometimes new revelation about The Blessing can bother people or make them
angry (acts like a needle to prick people). Revelation of Truth, though, can set
people free.

II. CHAPTER TWO - THE ONE THING SIN COULDN’T CHANGE
A. “I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6). “Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
and today, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8).
1. In Genesis 1 God set out His declarations about man’s identity, assignment
and His will for man on earth. It was good in every way.
2. This was God’s original plan for mankind, and it did not change even when
sin entered the picture.
B. More Than Just a Religious, Three-Letter Word

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without
form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”;
and there was light (Gen. 1:1-3).
1. These verses set the stage for everything we, as believers, will ever need to
know. It’s the first glimpse of God’s purpose and plan for our lives.
2. God is the Creator of the universe which He initiated by releasing light with
His Word.
3. God is more than a generic, three-letter word used by all religions to refer to
any deity a person may choose.
4. The New Testament states “God is love” (1 John 4:8).
5. The Old Testament says God is:
a. “full of compassion” (Ps. 78:38; 111:4).
b. “long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth” (Ps. 86:15).
c. “gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works”
(Ps. 145:8-9).
6. God’s compassion is infinite, so it is not a feeling or a thing - it is Him!
a. The Lord is [always and forever] good” (Ps. 145:9). “Lord” refers to the
personal Name of God. He is The Good God.
b. God’s love is not on-again-off-again, and neither is His goodness toward

us.

c. Absolute zero means as cold as cold can be. God is “absolute good,
absolute love, absolute compassion, absolute mercy, kindness, and
long-suffering.” Bad cannot exist in His presence!
C. There’s Good News in the First Verse of the Bible
1. Genesis 1:1 could be read, “In the beginning the God who is Absolute Love,
Compassion and Goodness created heaven and earth.”
a. Compassion is the reason for creation.
b. God needed someone to love - someone to fellowship with, give to and

BLESS (someone to pour out His goodness on - a family!)
2. He wanted to build a place for His children that was as wonderful and glorious
as Heaven.
a. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). His
Word set things in motion. (Better translation - “Light be!”)
b. God built His family a home out of His own love. His desire was to bless
that family and surround them with goodness.
c. Again and again Genesis 1 says “And God said. . .” (verses 6-7, 9, 11,
14-15, 20-21, 24) Speaking is clearly God’s creative method. His words
are full of faith and spiritual substance.
D. What Happened When God Turned On the Light?
1. On Day 1 God released the Light of His own glory, the essence of God
Himself (His presence and His substance).
a. “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Light is

who God is - His very nature.
b. Jesus is the perfect expression of the fullness of God, the true Light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:9).
c. Descriptions of God as light:
1) “a pillar of fire, to give them light” (Ex. 13:21)

2) “a burning lamp” (Gen. 15:17)
3) who covers Himself “with light as with a garment” (Ps. 104:2)
4) God had “the appearance of a man. . .[with] fire round about”
(Ez. 1:26, 27).

5) “there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire” (Acts 2:3).
6) “the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it:
for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof”
(Rev. 21:23).
2. God’s Glory-Light became the basis of all matter.
a. Scientists are now acknowledging that the universe began as a result of a

massive explosion of electromagnetic radiation (light) and has been
expanding ever since.
b. That radiant energy includes light waves visible to the human eye and also
those that are invisible. They became the substance of all material things.
c. Light was the original force of the universe and continues to be the
ultimate power of all creation.
3. God loved us so much that He built a dwelling place for us out of the very
substance of His own Love-filled, Light-filled nature. We are eternally
surrounded with 100 percent, absolute Good. “In Him we live, and move,
and have our being” (Acts 17:28).
E. From Dirt to Divinity
1. On the sixth day of creation, God was ready to create man. He formed a body
“of the dust of the ground” (Gen. 2:7).
2. After the body was formed from dust, God created the man. He used Himself
as the pattern.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He creat-
ed him; male and female He created them (Gen. 1:26-27).
3. Long before God actually created man, He had already created in His heart
and mind every human being who would ever be born.
4. He foresaw the devil tempting Adam, and sin entering into creation.
5. He planned out how to restore all that would be shattered through their rebellion.
Jesus would go to the cross and pay the price for the redemption of Their family.
a. He also knew who would one day receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.
b. God saw every born-again believer as made perfectly in His image...and

He still sees us that way today.

6. When God created man, He filled them with the totality of His life, His Spirit,
and His faith.
a. He injected His divine DNA.
b. God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a
living soul” (Gen. 2:7).
7. Angels must have gathered to see the event.
a. They were created to serve the family of God that He was about to bring
forth.
b. This divine race had already triggered a devastating heavenly war - the fall
of Lucifer.
1) He decided that, as the archangel over all music and worship, he did
not want to minister as a servant to mankind.
2) Instead he wanted to be served, turned against his Creator, convinced a

third of the heavenly host to join him, and tried to imitate God.
3) His words were not creative (see Is. 14:13-14), though, and his
declaration was illegal. Instead of raising him up, it brought him
down.
4) They were thrown out of heaven and stripped of all rights. Today we
know them as the “principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness
of this world” (Eph. 6:12).
F. Angels Seeing Double
1. When man was created, God spoke to Adam right into his face (face to face).
All God’s love, light, life, goodness and mercy were infused into him. (God
was merging into Adam His very Being!)
2. When God spoke, “Man became a living soul” (Gen. 2:7). He became a
living, speaking spirit, like God.
3. Man had the same power to speak that God Himself had. Man was Love,
Light, full of Compassion, and Life just as God is Life. Only difference - man
was dependent on God.
4. When the angels saw God and Adam together, it was like they were seeing
double.
a. Adam contained everything God is (he was filled with God).

b. God crowned His family with glory and honor. They were given dominion
over the works of His hands and He put all things under their feet. (See Ps.
8:5-6.)
c. God blessed them. This is God’s unchanging plan and purpose for His
family. It settles once and for all, the eternal truth that God’s will for
man is THE BLESSING.
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill
the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Gen. 1:28).
III. CHAPTER THREE - PROJECT EDEN: FILLING THE EARTH WITH

THE GLORY OF GOD
A. “The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it”
(Proverbs 10:22).
1. Today the word “blessing” has been trivialized, and the real definition has
been lost.
a. The biblical meaning of blessing is to say something good about. If it’s

good, it’s a blessing.
b. A blessing is the exact opposite of a curse. If it’s bad, it’s a curse.
c. God does not send bad things (poverty, sickness) into our lives to bless
us.
2. Hebrew definition of good includes: “beautiful, best, better, bountiful, joyful,

kindly, loving, merry, pleasant, prosperity, sweet, wealth and to be well. (No
negative words!)
3. When God is the one speaking, a BLESSING is defined as not only saying
something good about someone, but as a declaration which empowers them
to prosper. It’s creative and releases the power to bring that BLESSING to
pass.
B. “Go and Finish What I Started!”

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill
the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Gen. 1:28).
1. “Be fruitful and multiply” - in Hebrew means “to increase and have abun-
dance in every way.”

2. Replenish means “to fill up, to perpetually renew, supply and keep full.”
3. God’s plan for Adam and Eve was to take the Garden of Eden (about the size
and general location of modern-day Iraq) and expand it until the earth became
the garden spot of the universe. Their future sons and daughters were to help
them in this “family project.”
C. Not Just Weed Pullers
1. The desire for dominion (to rule and reign) was in Adam from the very
beginning - not just be a weed-puller for God (no weeds in the Garden of
Eden).
a. God didn’t create Adam to be a servant of the earth, but a lord over it.
b. When God spoke His WORD of dominion into mankind, He made us

“gods” (little “g”) over all that He had created. (See words of Jesus in
John 10:34-36.)
c. Dominion is woven into our very nature, and even little children have an
innate desire to reign.
2. It’s one thing to have a desire to reign; it’s another to be equipped to do it.
a. If we don’t have the power and resources to exercise dominion, our efforts
will fail.
b. Jesus transferred His authority to His disciples after His death and
resurrection in two parts:
1) He gave them the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20), which

authorized the disciples to preach the gospel worldwide and
instilled in them the desire to do so.
2) He commanded them to wait in Jerusalem for the “promise of the

Father.” He told them that “you shall receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth”
(Acts 1:8).
c. On the Day of Pentecost the disciples received the same kind of power that
Adam received. It released THE BLESSING to the disciples.
D. Our Divine Mandate
1. Mandate is a term often used to refer to that which a government official has
been commissioned to accomplish.

a. THE BLESSING was Adam’s divine mandate.
b. Adam was given the responsibility and the resources to fill the earth with
God’s goodness.
1) Adam was also given the divine power to fulfill it.
2) God “crowned him with glory and honour” (Ps. 8:5).
3) That glory filled them with God’s very essence - the same light-energy
God used to make the earth.
c. They were to reign over the whole planet and every living creature in it by
the power of love. (They were to spread the dominion of Compassion.)
2. People equate dominion with control (rule with an iron fist.)
a. God didn’t mean for mankind to subdue the planet with brute force.
b. We are to love this planet and its people into submission.
1) Shine the light of divine compassion.
2) Speak words of kindness, gentleness and goodness until it blossoms into

perfection.
E. Talking to Trees - With Love
1. In Deuteronomy 28 it says that our land and everything on it is BLESSED;

therefore it is supposed to prosper. (We can even talk to trees and expect them
to live and not die!)
a. To operate in THE BLESSING, you just speak The WORD - say what God
says about things and expect those things to come to pass.
b. God meant for Adam and Eve to exercise dominion over the earth by
speaking God’s WORD in love.
2. THE BLESSING includes the Person and wisdom of the Holy Spirit, and would
have guided Adam and Eve into all truth. (See John 14:26.) They didn’t have to
sin to know what evil was.
a. On the first day Adam used the power of THE BLESSING to name every
animal in the animal kingdom.
1) To God, a name is everything. Whatever a name is called is what it

becomes.

2) Animals had no names, no direction for life, so no unique and definite
function.
b. Adam determined the character and charted the behavior of every bird,
bug, and everything that creeps, crawls, and swims. He drew on THE
BLESSING (the divine energy, wisdom, and love that crowned him) to
do this.
1) He was loving the animals as they came, and BLESSING them all,
just as God had BLESSED him.
2) At the moment, Adam was standing in the center of God’s perfect will
for mankind.
F. The Day God Retired
1. When THE BLESSING had been released on Adam, God retired (rested). He
was finished. (See Gen. 1:31; 2:1-3.)
a. God intended to relax, fellowship with His sons and daughters, and enjoy
the thrill of watching them develop planet Earth into the most marvelous
garden anyone has ever seen.
b. He planned to dwell there with His family forever.
2. Whenever THE BLESSING is released, it goes to work bringing things into

line with the love of God. It goes to work making everything good.
a. God programmed the blessing to work that way.
b. It was a pattern God put into place throughout creation. (Apples produce
apple seeds. Animals reproduce after the DNA they receive from their
parents, etc.)
c. THE BLESSING carries within it the blueprint of the Garden of Eden.

(Release it by faith and it works!)
3. God’s BLESSING still works today.
a. He has given His WORD that His family is BLESSED and He is resting.
b. The power of that BLESSING will bring His WORD to pass in spite of
everything hell tries to do.

IV. CHAPTER FOUR - THE DAY THE LIGHT WENT OUT
A. “For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one. . .” (Romans
5:17).
1. If it hadn’t been for sin, God never would have had a serious thought.
a. If Adam and Eve had obeyed God, they could have spent eternity just
having a great time.
b. When they sinned, the results were catastrophic.
c. They tried to act independently even though they were not sovereign in
their own right.
1) They were designed to operate under the authority of God.
2) They were to be connected to Him and draw their life from Him.
2. God maintained ownership of one tree in the Garden. They were not supposed
to eat the fruit of the tree. Everything else was under their lordship.
a. They were to tend and keep the tree just like they did the other trees in the
Garden.
b. It was in the center of the Garden, just like God was supposed to be at the
center of their lives.
c. They were to harvest the fruit of the tree and bring it to Him as an act of
obedience and confirmation of their love for Him.
d. It represented tithing, which is the practice of bringing to God the firstfruits

that belong to Him.
3. Tithing began in the Garden of Eden.
a. Abel brought the firstborn of his flock to God in Genesis 4. (Adam must
have taught him about tithing.)
b. Cain should have brought the firstfruits of his field, but he didn’t. God
rejected his offering, and Cain killed his brother in a rage.
c. Cain’s offering was a sin. He had an opportunity to repent (Gen. 4:7), but
he didn’t.
d. The tithe represents THE BLESSING where God is the spiritual head of His
family and His people are the rulers who have been given authority over the
earth.

4. Adam and Eve sinned the first day and never gave God an opportunity to teach
them how to operate in THE BLESSING.
B. The Great Deception
1. The devil heard God declare THE BLESSING over Adam, and it infuriated
him.
2. He convinced Adam and Eve that God couldn’t be trusted.
a. He used a harmless snake (a beautiful creature at that time) to work

through.
b. Adam should have cursed the devil just like God did later and put him
under their feet. He had the authority to do it.
3. When the devil showed up, Adam and Eve were together. Eve was deceived,
but Adam wasn’t. (See 1 Tim. 2:14.) He should have straightened her thinking
out.
4. At the moment they ate of the fruit, the Glory left.
a. They felt fear and shame.
b. They had unplugged from God and plugged in to Satan.
c. God had warned them: “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die”
(Gen. 2:17).
C. The Real Source of the Curse
1. Adam did not repent and take responsibility for his sin.
a. Adam blamed his wife (Gen. 3:12).
b. Eve also shifted the blame and said the serpent beguiled her (Gen. 3:13).
2. By sinning Adam had put THE BLESSING into the hands of the devil, and it
became the curse (the exact opposite of what God intended). Satan became the
lord of the curse.
3. In Genesis 3:14-15, 17-19 God shared with them the results of what they had
done (the curse that had been released through their rebellion).
a. Every bit of matter in existence on the planet was affected.

b. The whole creation groaned under the bondage of man’s sin. (See Romans
8:19-22.)
4. We believers now have all power and authority - because Jesus does, and we are
in Him, and He in us. There’s nothing bigger in this universe than redeemed
man!
D. A Bitter Pill to Swallow
1. At the fall of Adam and Eve all of the ministering angels who were to facilitate
THE BLESSING had to withdraw.
a. Satan and his principalities and powers set up their kingdom instead.
b. Until the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) ministering angels could visit the earth
only on specific assignments in specific places.
2. Where Adam once lived in abundance and beauty, now the ground was cursed
and made it difficult to earn a living.
a. They were infested with death and darkness.
b. Their minds were filled with hatred and fear, instead of love and faith.
c. Their bodies, designed for health, were now subject to sickness and disease.
3. God foresaw the fall of Adam and Eve and shared His merciful plan with them.
Someday the Seed of the woman would one day crush the serpent’s head and
undo what Satan had done. THE BLESSING would be restored.
4. God established the first blood covenant by sacrificing an animal to cover their
nakedness and shame by making them tunics of skin.
a. He atoned for their sin and made a way to retain some form of relationship
with them.
b. God ensured that mankind would not live eternally in this fallen state.
E. Living Below the Light Line
1. God did not punish Adam for what he had done. The plan was already in place
to bear his punishment. (See Isaiah 53:4-6.)
2. God sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden because the pure and holy fire of His
glory would have destroyed them in their fallen state. Everything had been
contaminated by the curse.

3. Generations later, God had to cover Himself with a cloud when He descended
on Mount Sinai to give Moses the commandments. Moses and the Israelites
would have been consumed by His glory.
4. After the Fall, Adam and Eve were separated from the spiritual realm of God’s
glory below the light line - the line that separates the spiritual realm from the
material realm.
a. The invisible realm of the spirit is where angels and other spirit beings live
(where heaven is).
b. Above the light line, angels can see and touch each other. Spirit to spirit is
firm and tangible, just as in the natural realm.
c. When we die and slip out of our bodies, we will look just like we do now -
only better and more glorious.
d. Before the Fall, Adam and Eve could look at God and touch Him.
e. Someday we will have bodies as alive as our reborn spirits - bodies no

longer trapped by the natural effects of the Fall, but clothed inside and out
with the glory of God as Adam once was, living forever in the full spectrum
of divine light.
V. CHAPTER FIVE - ACTIVATING PLAN B: THE RESTORATION

BEGINS
A. “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which
God ordained before the world unto our glory” (1 Cor. 2:7).
1. In spite of the Fall, God never changed THE BLESSING that He had spoken
over man.
a. He found men and women who would believe and honor Him to forge
covenant relationships with.
b. A bloodline was established that would eventually produce the devil-

crushing Seed spoken about in the Garden. Through Him THE BLESSING
would be fully restored.
2. The devil fought hard to destroy God’s covenant people.
a. He had authority, for he was the god of this world. (See 2 Cor. 4:3-4.)
b. Even Jesus acknowledged the devil’s authority over the resources of this
planet during the temptation in the wilderness, when he took Jesus onto a
high mountain. (See Matt. 4:8-10.)

c. God was committed to His covenant people, though, and He defended His
people whenever they were attacked at any cost, anywhere, anytime.
3. “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Gen. 6:8).
a. Evil had so increased in the earth by the time of Noah in Genesis 6 that it
was about to eradicate God’s covenant bloodline.
b. God sent the flood to cleanse the earth of all the wickedness, and only a
family of eight people were saved to continue the Covenant bloodline.
c. God took no pleasure in destroying the people, but they would not turn
from their wicked ways and be saved.
d. After the flood, mankind got a fresh start. Immediately Noah honored God
with the tithe by offering burnt offerings of every clean beast and fowl.
e. God again pronounced THE BLESSING over Noah. (See Genesis 9:1-2.)
f. Noah’s first son, Shem, stuck with God, and through his bloodline a man
named Abram (later named Abraham) was born.
B. I Will BLESS Those That BLESS You

Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family
And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a
great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a
blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram departed as
the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-
five years old when he departed from Haran (Gen. 12:1-4).
1. God chose Abram because He knew that Abram would pass his faith to his
family and perpetuate the lineage of THE BLESSING.
2. God declared to Abram THE BLESSING and empowered him to prosper and
excel in everything good and set him in the place of dominion.
3. He also commissioned Abram to take THE BLESSING worldwide. Through

him all the families of the earth were to be blessed.
4. Abram obeyed God’s instructions and moved away from his ungodly relatives
and their influence into an absolute wilderness.
a. The country he headed to was in famine, but THE BLESSING worked

wherever he went.

b. The blessing brought forth such abundance that soon “Abram was very
rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold” (Gen. 13:2).
c. Abram’s nephew, Lot, who traveled with him, also received abundance and
blessings. The land couldn’t support all of their livestock, and they had to
separate.
1) Lot took the best land for himself and moved to Sodom.
2) Soon, though, Lot and his household were in big trouble.
C. Who Taught These Guys How to Fight?
1. A group of four kings banded their forces together and attacked the region
where Lot and his family lived.
2. Even though the five kings in the region who governed that area fought
against them, the four kings overpowered the region and took Lot and his
goods captive.
3. Abraham found out and went after the bad kings.
a. He armed 318 of his trained servants, attacked the bad kings by night, and
defeated them so completely that it was called a “slaughter.”
b. Then they stripped them of all their spoils.
c. Who had taught these servants how to fight? The Spirit of God did
through the anointing of THE BLESSING!
4. David also learned how to fight through the Lord Himself teaching his hands
to war, and his fingers to fight. (See Psalm 144:1.)
a. In the simplicity of youth, David couldn’t see any difference between

Goliath and the animals he’d slain. The animals had no covenant with
God and neither did the uncircumcised Philistine giant named Goliath.
b. David had THE BLESSING on him and Goliath didn’t stand a chance.
1) His faith was not in himself but in THE BLESSING.
2) He believed in the power of THE BLESSING of Abraham, which was

THE BLESSING of Adam, which is THE BLESSING of God.
D. The Tithing Connection
1. Abraham did not know the full magnitude of THE BLESSING until he
brought Lot and his family home after the slaughter of the evil king
Chedorlaomer.

2. On that day Melchizedek King of Salem sent out to meet Abram.
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest
of God Most High. And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Abram of God
Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who
has delivered your enemies into your hand” (Gen. 14:18-20).
3. Through Melchizedek, God revealed that THE BLESSING had made Abram
possessor of heaven and earth (heir of Adam’s BLESSING).
a. This was actually the revelation of The Gospel. (See Gal. 3:8.) In Romans
4:13, Abram is called “the heir of the world.”
b. Melchizedek was the representative (not Jesus as some think) of God on the
earth at the time. (Jewish history teaches he was Noah’s son Shem.)
c. He was anointed to declare THE BLESSING and to receive the tithe. (See
Hebrews 7:5-8.) The two go together.
d. Before Abram took any of the spoils of his victory over Chedorlaomer, he
brought a tenth of it to God through the priest who was anointed to receive
it.
1) If you are not tithing, you are living under the curse.
2) Through tithing you connect, by faith, with the anointings provided by

THE BLESSING. You bring to Jesus what is His, and He brings to you
what is yours.
E. The Fire and the Blood
1. Right after Abram received his revelation of THE BLESSING, the King of
Sodom wanted him to return his people that had been captured. He could keep
the goods, though.
2. Abram wanted no part of any scheme that would bring dishonor to God’s name.
He knew that God was the one who had made him rich, and he was not going
to be robbed of his BLESSING.
3. God also spoke to Abram in a vision that he and his wife Sarah would have a
child of their own, an heir to whom they could pass on THE BLESSING.
a. As God had instructed him, Abram took animals, prepared them as

covenant sacrifices, and through a type of vision watched God come down
and make a covenant with him.
b. As the fire of God came into the midst of the blood from the animals, God
swore a blood covenant oath to Abram. (See Gen. 15:12-21.)

c. From that point on, Abraham never doubted God again. (See Romans 4:18-
21.)
VI. CHAPTER SIX - TRACKING THE BLOODLINE OF THE BLESSING
A. “BLESSED is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his com-
mandments. His seed shall be mighty upon the earth: the generation of the
upright shall be BLESSED” (Ps. 112:1-2).
1. Abraham and Sarah brought forth a son called Isaac, and Abraham taught him
God’s ways and trained him in the life and power of THE BLESSING.
2. One day God asked Abraham to take his son Isaac and offer him as a sacrifice.
At the moment Abraham was to plunge the knife into him, the angel of the Lord
stopped him. Instead a ram caught in a thicket was offered as the sacrifice.
a. After the sacrifice was made, God reaffirmed THE BLESSING over
Abraham’s life. (See Gen. 22:17.)
b. Abraham didn’t obey God that day to get THE BLESSING; he obeyed God
because he had faith in the covenant of BLESSING God had already given
him.
c. Abraham fully expected God to resurrect his son Isaac from the dead so the
promise that God had given would be fulfilled.
3. Isaac’s heritage of faith - he grew up seeing, hearing and believing that THE
BLESSING always had and always would turn every situation in Abraham’s
favor.
B. Walk Around Like You Own It
1. After Abraham’s death, Isaac had to learn to walk in THE BLESSING for
himself.
2. The land where he was living (the land God had promised to Abraham and his
descendants) was in a famine, so Isaac headed for Egypt to get food.
a. God stopped him and told him not to go to Egypt, but to dwell in the land
where he was.
b. God was going to be with him and BLESS him just as He had done to his
father Abraham. (See Gen. 26:2-5.)
c. Suddenly the revelation hit him. THE BLESSING of Abraham now

belonged to him.

d. He was told to sojourn in the land - walk around in it like you own it!
3. God has said to us, just as He did to Abraham and Isaac, “I will perform in
your life THE BLESSING of Abraham. I heal you! I prosper you! I create the
conditions of Eden around you, and you will carry THE BLESSING to people
everywhere you go!”
a. We walk around in faith acting like healing belongs to us (regardless of

symptoms).
b. We walk around like prosperity is ours (regardless of our checkbooks).
c. It is God’s will for us.
4. As Isaac stayed and sowed in the land, he reaped a hundredfold harvest in the
same year.
a. The Philistines, though, were jealous of him and THE BLESSING on him,
and persecuted him unmercifully.
b. Isaac just kept believing and obeying God, and refused to get into strife
and lose his peace.
c. Eventually the Philistines made a covenant with Isaac when they saw he
was THE BLESSED of the Lord.
d. THE BLESSING eventually overpowered the famine in the land.
C. The Deceiver Who Became a Prince of God
1. THE BLESSING was passed down through the bloodline to Isaac’s sons,
Jacob and Esau.
2. Esau thought so little of THE BLESSING that he traded it away for a bowl of
stew - just as Adam gave it up for something to eat!
3. Jacob wanted it so badly that he lied and cheated to get it. He didn’t need to
because, as the seed of Abraham, THE BLESSING already belonged to him.
a. God honored the blood covenant that He had made with Abraham, and saw
in Jacob a man with faith in THE BLESSING but no idea how to live in it.
b. One night in a dream (Gen. 28:13-15, 20-22), God gave Jacob a vision of
angels going up and down a ladder connecting heaven and earth.
c. That night God freely gave to Jacob THE BLESSING that he had tried and
failed to get by deception.

4. THE BLESSING began to work in Jacob’s life even though his father-in-law,
Laban, was a very dishonest man who cheated him and kept breaking promises
he had made to Jacob.
a. Jacob kept getting more and more prosperous as THE BLESSING kept
working in his life.
b. Jacob decided to go back home, but Laban (who saw THE BLESSING that
was on Jacob) tried to talk him out of it.
c. Laban’s sons were envious of Jacob and THE BLESSING that he walked
in, even though they also, as part of the family of Abraham, could have
had THE BLESSING operating in their lives too.
d. Instead they got mad and accused Jacob of stealing their family’s money.
e. Jacob returned home no longer known as Jacob, “The Deceiver,” but as

Israel, “Prince of God.”
D. Behold, the Dreamer Cometh
1. All of Israel’s children could have walked in the blessing, but only Joseph did.
a. He walked around knowing he was blessed and that he was his father’s
favorite.
b. Faith in THE BLESSING delighted the heart of God, but aggravated his
brothers. “They hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him”
(Gen. 27:4).
c. There was no excuse for the brothers’ behavior - they should have loved
him.
2. Joseph shared a dream with his brothers that indicated God was planning to
promote him (probably should have kept it to himself).
a. The dream infuriated his brothers. They didn’t believe he had some kind
of spiritual insight.
b. They did not realize that God was trying to speak to the whole family and
help them through what He spoke to Joseph.
3. Joseph walked in love toward his brothers and never lost THE BLESSING on
his life.
a. They were going to kill him, but instead sold him as a slave to a caravan
on their way to Egypt.

b. The caravan was leaving at the proper day and hour to be right there when
Joseph needed it. That’s the way THE BLESSING works.
E. Running Away From Sin
1. THE BLESSING brought Joseph into the house of a wealthy, influential

Egyptian officer named Potiphar.
2. Joseph came into the household as a slave, but was quickly promoted when they
saw THE BLESSING on him. He was put in charge of Potiphar's entire estate.
a. Whatever Joseph put his hand to, multiplied.
b. THE BLESSING taught him what he needed to know. He was still just a
teenager.
3. Potiphar’s wife lied about him. Potiphar believed her and had him thrown into
prison, but still THE BLESSING was upon him.
F. Prospering in Prison
1. Joseph never became bitter even though he was falsely accused and behind bars.
2. He never cut himself off from THE BLESSING, but kept walking in his calling.
a. He meditated on THE BLESSING day and night - that was his profession.
b. He expected it to remove the curse off of his life, and that is exactly what it
did.
c. The keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners. The Lord
was with Joseph, and everything he did prospered.
G. From Prisoner to Prime Minister. . . Overnight
1. In the course of time, two of Pharaoh’s servants ended up in the prison with
Joseph - a butler and a baker.
a. Each of them had a dream in the same night, and with the Lord’s help,
Joseph interpreted the dreams for them.
b. When the cup bearer got out of prison, though, he forgot all about Joseph
and his kindness toward him.
2. One morning, two years later, Pharaoh had a dream.

a. The dream was actually a manifestation of THE BLESSING at work on
Joseph’s behalf.
b. The butler remembered how Joseph had interpreted his dream in prison, so
Pharaoh called for Joseph.
c. When Joseph was brought to Pharaoh, he told him that God would give
him the interpretation that Pharaoh needed. Joseph still believed he walked
in THE BLESSING.
d. By the end of the day, Pharaoh made Joseph his second-in-command and
in charge of Egypt’s finances.
e. Joseph brought THE BLESSING to Egypt, and through him it was a

blessed nation. The worldwide famine made it rich - all because Joseph
was there.
VII. CHAPTER SEVEN - TEN COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE: TEACHING

THE ISRAELITES TO LIVE IN THE BLESSING
A. “The Lord thy God shall BLESS thee in the land whither thou goest to possess
it” (Deut. 30:16.)
1. During the 400 years that the Israelites lived in Egypt, they forgot THE
BLESSING.
a. They weren’t diligent to teach their children about THE BLESSING.
b. Eventually they stopped putting their trust in the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, and started thinking like the heathen Egyptians around them,
who were into sorcery and witchcraft.
2. During the last 35-50 years in Egypt, the Israelites lived under deadly
oppression, suffering unthinkable horrors.
a. They were enslaved.
b. Their babies were murdered.
3. God heard their cries in their bondage. Because of the covenant He had made
with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He called Moses to deliver them out of the
bondage of the curse and back into THE BLESSING.
B. Learning Covenant Conduct

1. Moses had been raised as a prince of Egypt in the palace, not as a son of
Abraham.

a. He was aware of his Israelite heritage and tried to help his fellow Hebrews.
b. When he saw an Egyptian beating an Israelite, he murdered the Egyptian

and buried him in the sand.
c. When the news of the murder got out, Moses fled to the backside of the
desert in a place called Midian for 40 years.
2. It was here that God told Moses that He wanted to bring His people to a land
flowing with milk and honey. He wanted to restore THE BLESSING upon
them.
a. To do that, God would not only have to take the Israelites out of Egypt, He
would have to get Egypt out of them.
b. He took them through the wilderness to teach them that He was the source
of their BLESSING. He supernaturally met all of their needs.
c. Through the commandments that He gave the Israelites through Moses, He

wanted to teach them how to live by faith in THE BLESSING.
1) He wanted to show them how people who have a covenant with God
conduct themselves.
2) The commandments were given to the Israelites inside the framework of

the Covenant of BLESSING.
3) Every commandment was given in love because God is love.
d. In just a few weeks, though, after God gave them their freedom, they built
the golden calf and went back to worshipping idols as they had back in
Egypt. (They still carried Egypt inside of them.)
C. Clearing Up the Confusion
1. God had to renew the minds of the Israelites to receive THE BLESSING so
they would create the Garden of Eden wherever they went.
2. We as New Testament believers have a major advantage, a regenerated spirit

that’s been made righteous.
a. We have available to us the mind of Christ. (See 1 Cor. 2:16.)
b. God has BLESSED us with all spiritual BLESSINGS in heavenly places in

Christ. (See Eph. 1:3.)

c. If we believe what the Bible says about us and walk in the covenant of love,
THE BLESSING will produce the conditions of the Garden of Eden around
us just as it did for the Israelites in the Promised Land.
3. The Israelites faced challenges as they headed for the Promised Land. It was a
good and prosperous place, but inhabited by violent and corrupt people.
a. They had to learn about THE BLESSING so they could successfully occupy
that land.
b. In Deut. 28:1-13, God specifically spelled out THE BLESSING so that they
could imprint it on their minds and hearts. It was the same BLESSING that
they had inherited as the seed of Abraham.
c. God also talked to them about the curse in Deut. 28:15-19, which had been
operating on the earth since Adam’s sin, and was overtaking anyone not
protected by THE BLESSING.
D. Don’t Buy the Lie About Job
1. The Bible teaches that THE BLESSING of God was operating in Job’s life. He
reverenced God, steered clear of evil, and prospered in every conceivable way.
2. After his children grew up, he stepped out of faith and into fear that his children
were sinning against God.
a. He thought if he worried about his children, he was being a responsible

parent.
b. Instead he was opening the door to the devil by failing to trust God.
c. He was making sacrifices in fear and unbelief rather than in faith. We have
all done this - confessing the Word as hard and fast as we can in fear rather
than in faith!
d. “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I
was afraid of is come unto me” (Job 3:25).
3. The devil knew that Job had the blessing on him (hedge around him).
(See Job 1:9-12.)
a. The devil wanted Job to commit the sin of cursing God. If he did, the
hedge would fall.
b. Job had actually broken down his hedge by his fear about his children.
c. The devil took advantage of it by killing his children and his cattle. He
took away his wealth and gave him sickness. His wife then tried to pressure
Job into cursing God.

4. At the end a young preacher came with the Word of God and preached faith
into Job.
a. Job got back into faith and believed God, loved his friends and prayed for
their healing.
b. The hedge went back up and THE BLESSING roared back into operation.
Everything was restored that he had lost - then it was doubled.
E. Not Just Protection - Dominion
1. God spelled out THE BLESSING and the curse and how they worked in a
very meticulous and dramatic way.
a. If the people listened in faith and did what He said, they would keep THE
BLESSING hedge high.
b. The curse was a list of things they were protected from (such as sicknesses
and plagues).
2. The promises included in THE BLESSING work now just like they did back
in Moses’ day.
a. Take hold of them by faith, and they will have the same effect on us as
they did on the Israelites who believed them.
b. They’ll cause us to excel and prosper wherever we live. We will also have
dominion over our livestock (our pets). We are to have dominion and
BLESS the animal kingdom, and every other area of creation under our
influence.
3. We don’t have to lie down and submit to the curse, because Jesus delivered us
from it once and for all. (See Gal. 3:13-14.) Sometimes it takes fighting the
good fight of faith when symptoms of sickness or poverty come on us.
F. Some People Throw Rocks
1. If the Israelites had trusted THE BLESSING to work for them, they wouldn’t
have spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness.
a. Joshua and Caleb proved that God had fully equipped the Israelites to meet
the challenges.
b. They believed THE BLESSING when everyone around them said it

wouldn’t work. (See Numbers 14:7-9.)

c. As Joshua and Caleb spoke words of faith and encouraged the Israelites
to enter into the Promised Land, they chose not to believe and walk in THE
BLESSING. They grabbed rocks and wanted to stone them.
d. The whole generation of unbelievers (except Joshua and Caleb) had to

wander for 40 years and die in the wilderness.
2. God tried His best to get the Israelites to believe in THE BLESSING.
a. When they wouldn’t, He closed the door.
b. They would have destroyed the Promised Land with their unbelief.
c. God urges us not to follow in their footsteps. (See Hebrews 3:8-12.)
3. When we don’t receive by faith THE BLESSING that belongs to us as His

children, it grieves the heart of God.
a. He has been working for thousands of years to get the blessing back on
His family.
b. He has given His WORD, shed His blood, and poured out His Spirit.
VIII. CHAPTER EIGHT - THE DAY ALL HEAVEN BROKE LOOSE
A. And it shall come to pass in that day, that [the enemy’s] burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be
destroyed because of the anointing (Isaiah 10:27).
1. The devil kept waiting for the arrival of the long-promised Messiah Who would
crush his head.
2. On one historical night in Bethlehem, Jesus stepped through the door that had
been opened by Abraham’s faith in THE BLESSING.
B. The Way to the Garden Is Open Again
1. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ
The Lord (Luke 2:11).
a. This announcement was made to shepherds abiding with their sheep at night
near Bethlehem by the angel of The LORD himself (Jesus’ own personal
angel).
b. This announcement thrilled heaven, stunned earth, and threw hell into a
panic.

2. Jesus’ personal angel had an eternal assignment to help Jesus in everything He
did.
a. He orchestrated everything surrounding Jesus’ birth.
b. He came blazing on the scene to tell the shepherds of His birth. He was in
essence saying, “I’m bringing you the gospel [good news] of great joy.”
c. The shepherds had never experienced anything like this before.
d. The angel of the Lord also announced the restoration of THE BLESSING to
the whole human race (to all people). The way to the Garden was open
once again.
C. Reeling From the Revelation
1. All of the angels began to praise God and shout about peace on earth and good
will toward men.
a. The war between heaven and earth was over. The Garden of Eden incident
was finished.
b. There was now peace between God and mankind. The sacrifice for sin had
come to earth and through Him, God’s good will had been extended to all
mankind.
c. Jesus was THE BLESSING manifest in the flesh.
2. Thirty-three years after Jesus came, the devil was whipped and the curse
conquered - all by the power of THE BLESSING.
D. No Divine Privileges
1. When Jesus came to earth, He stripped Himself of all divine privileges and laid
aside the power that belonged to Him as a member of the Godhead (Phil. 2:6-
7).
2. Every miracle and work of ministry was a manifestation of THE BLESSING in

operation.
3. Jesus did everything that the Father had called Him to do as the Son of man. He
always emphasized His humanity, not His divinity.
4. The Word speaks of Jesus as the “last Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45), so He walked both
in THE BLESSING of Adam and THE BLESSING of Abraham. (They are the
same.)

5. Abraham received THE BLESSING not only for himself but also for his seed
(Jesus). Jesus came back to get THE BLESSING for all nations to demon-
strate its true power and make it available for everyone who would put their
faith in Him!
E. Yoke-Destroying, Burden-Removing Power
1. Jesus came to release and restore the power of THE BLESSING.
a. He didn’t work a single miracle until after the Holy Spirit came on Him
during His baptism.
b. At that moment He stepped into the full power of THE BLESSING!
2. When THE BLESSING was released, the fight with Satan was on.
a. Satan tried to tempt Him in the wilderness, but Jesus kept using the
WORD against him.
b. Then He went into the synagogue under the power of the Holy Spirit and
announced that He was anointed to preach the gospel. (See Luke 4:18-19.)
c. He had come to undo what the devil had done in the Garden of Eden. He
had the same power the first Adam had been given - to create the condi-
tions of the Garden wherever He went.
d. The only thing that could stop THE BLESSING from flowing through
Jesus to the people was their unbelief (such as the people of Nazareth -
Mark 6:3-6).
e. In places where people believed (the area of Capernaum), THE BLESS-

ING flowed like a river.
F. Dominion in Action
1. Jesus walked in THE BLESSING even when the people of Nazareth refused to
believe He was anointed and tried to push Him off a cliff. (See Luke 4:29-30.)
2. Jesus rebuked the wind, calmed the sea, took dominion over sickness and
disease, over fish, and even death itself when He raised Lazareth from the
grave. (See Mark 4:39; Matt. 12:15; Luke 5:9; John 11:43.)
3. Jesus not only walked in THE BLESSING, but He taught the people who
came to hear Him how to do it.
a. He said, “BLESSED are the merciful. . .” “BLESSED are the pure in

heart. . .” “BLESSED are the peacemakers. . .” (See Matt. 5:7-9.)

b. The Sermon on the Mount is all about how to connect with and release the
power of THE BLESSING.
4. Many parents brought their children to Jesus so that He would lay hands on
them so that they too would be BLESSED.
a. THE BLESSING works for every born-again, Holy-Ghost baptized

member of God’s family no matter what their age.
b. By simple faith, THE BLESSING is ours - through Him.
IX. CHAPTER NINE - FROM THE CROSS TO THE THRONE
A. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is,
the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage (Heb. 2:14-15).
1. Jesus was sent to be the firstborn of a whole new breed.
a. He had a body of flesh that pulsed with the sinless blood generated by the
WORD of His heavenly Father.
b. He was the Pure Seed who would give rise to a whole new species of
humanity - a God-born race of men, women, and children with spirits as
holy and full of divine glory as His own and completely untainted by the
bitterness of the curse.
2. Had the demons understood what was going to happen when Jesus went to the
cross, they would have left Him alone.
a. They should have paid attention when Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth
alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. . . for this cause came I
unto this hour” (John 12:24, 27).
b. It wasn’t Jesus’ life but His death that would fill the Earth with sons of
God like Himself and strip Satan of his authority and set Earth’s captives
free.
3. Satan and his demons had tried to kill Him many times before, but failed.
This time they succeeded.
a. Jesus suddenly submitted to torture and pain, and never called for the
legions of angels to protect Him.
b. He did it all to pay the price for the sin of all mankind, and to establish a
new covenant between God and man - a covenant that would restore THE
BLESSING forever.

B. A Miraculous Transfer
1. On the Cross, Jesus’ greatest agonies were not physical but spiritual.
a. He took into Himself every sin mankind ever committed - past, present,
and future.
b. He absorbed into His spotless spirit every foul, demonically-inspired

thought, action and deed of humanity and suffered the full consequences of
them. (See 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13; Is. 53:6.)
2. Jesus received spiritual death by believing in His heart and confessing with
His mouth that what God said would come to pass: the Lord would lay on Him
the iniquity of us all. He stepped out in obedience to it by going to the Cross,
and the WORD did its work.
a. Because of it, “his visage was so marred more than any man, and his
form more than the sons of men” (Is. 52:14).
b. Because of what His body looked like, most people thought that He must
have committed some kind of blasphemy, and God was punishing Him.
3. When Jesus said, “It is finished” on the Cross, He was declaring that it was
the end of the age of justification by animal sacrifice. The Old Covenant was
finished.
4. Jesus died spiritually on the Cross. It was the true penalty for sin as stated in
Genesis 2:17.
a. Adam experienced it the moment he sinned.
b. Jesus experienced it and descended into hell (the deepest, darkest part of it)
to suffer the whole penalty of sin. (See Romans 10:7; Acts 2:31; Psalm
18:5.)
C. A Massive, God-Ordained Trap
1. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus agonized over the spiritual suffering He

was facing - being separated from His Father and going to hell on behalf of
mankind.
a. No one had ever gone to hell and gotten out, but Jesus took a step of faith
and believed God’s WORD that He would be the first.
b. The demons were ready to annihilate His spirit and lock Him up in the pit
so that He would never get out. It was a trap, though, and they took the
bait.

2. Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. . . And again, I will be to
him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. . . Let all the angels of God
worship him (Heb. 1:5-6).
a. According to Hebrews, these are the words God spoke when He raised
Jesus from the dead.
b. It was after He had been separated from God by spiritual death and the sin
of mankind that God said, “Again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall
be to me a Son.”
c. Jesus became “the first begotten of the dead.” (See Rev. 1:5.)
3. At that moment every angel, including Satan himself, had to fall at Jesus’
feet as His spirit was regenerated by the power of God’s WORD. (See
Phil. 2:10-11.)
4. Jesus paraded the devil down the avenues of hell in full view of the heroes of
faith who watched in awe from the upper regions of the dead, in the place
called Paradise. (See Col. 2:15.)
5. Jesus, the second Person of the Godhead, is back in in Heaven today. He is

still a man with the same flesh-and-bone body that He had on earth. He is
now our representative.
D. A Fresh Interest in Uncle Fred
1. When Jesus defeated the devil in the pit of hell, He turned to all of the Old
Covenant believers who had been held captive and preached to them.
a. They believed and were born again.
b. They got out of captivity and were escorted through heaven’s gate.
2. Jesus then went back to the earth and spent 40 days ministering to people.
a. The Bible also says that “many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and
came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city,
and appeared unto many” (Matt. 27:52-53).
b. Suddenly “Uncle Fred” who had been dead for 25 years appeared.
Relatives who had mocked his faith in the past would suddenly have an
interest in what he had to say.
c. Many people believe that the same kind of thing will happen at the
Rapture of the Church.

1) In the 40 days after our bodies are resurrected and glorified, we will
make some appearances on earth.
2) We will preach the gospel to some people, and there will be an amazing
move of God.
E. One Final Request
1. Jesus had one more promise to fulfill: I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever (John 14:16).
2. When that request was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, nothing was ever the
same again. Heaven was poured out on earth.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and
it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit
gave them utterance (Acts 2:2-4).
a. It was like a violent windstorm - the roar of God’s power filling the
atmosphere of the planet.
b. Thousands upon thousands of angels arrived with the Holy Spirit that day.
It was the sound of THE BLESSING coming upon the scene, and angels
were a part of THE BLESSING.
c. Since the Garden of Eden, Satan and his demons had dominated the earth’s
atmosphere, and angels only came to earth on special assignments. (See
Josh. 5:13-14; Judges 13:3; 2 Kings 2:12; Daniel 3:25; Luke 1:19,26-27;
Luke 22:43.)
d. Now the multitude of angel were released to do their job at last. They
flooded the earth’s atmosphere. They stand ready to serve us as ministering
spirits.
e. Angels respond to the voice of the WORD, and confessing THE BLESS-
ING over yourself. That keeps them busy doing good things for you.
(God has assigned at least one angel - and probably more - to every
believer.)
F. Engulfed by the Fire of God
1. That day, the fire of the glorious presence of God Himself came down and
enveloped His people.

2. No more did God have to cover Himself with a cloud (as in the Old
Testament). Now the disciples were born again with renewed spirits as pure
and sinless as God Himself. They had become Love and Light, and one Spirit
with Christ.
3. They walked out of the Upper Room filled to overflowing with His power and
glory in the fullness of THE BLESSING of God.
4. From that day forward, the disciples ministered in that BLESSING just as
Jesus did, using His name and bringing the conditions of Eden to everyone
who would believe and receive.
5. Any Spirit-filled believer anywhere, anytime, who will put the same kind of
faith in Jesus’ name as Peter did, can minister just like those first disciples did.
Reaching out in the power of THE BLESSING can touch a sin-crippled, fallen
race and make it whole.
X. CHAPTER TEN - A REBORN RACE
A. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new (2 Cor. 5:17).
1. Jesus declared in the WORD that any person with simple faith in Him could
do all the miracles that He did. (See John 14:12-14; Matt. 17:20; Mark
16:17-18.)
2. This is not happening today because most Christians do not know who they
are. The devil has convinced them that they are “just old sinners saved by
grace.”
a. You are either a sinner or you’ve been saved by grace - not both at the
same time.
b. If you call yourself a sinner, you will have what you say - you’ll act like a
sinner all of your life.
3. According 2 Cor. 5:17, we are new creatures in Christ. A new creature is a

freshly-created species that never existed before.
a. The old sinner has passed away - you died the death of the Cross with
Jesus when you got born again.
b. At that instant, you were re-created and became a brand new person.
c. 2 Cor. 5:21 - We were made the righteousness of God in Christ, as spotless

and without sin as Jesus Himself.

B. Transformed From the Inside Out
1. The spirit part of you was re-created, and then as your mind is renewed to what
has taken place within you, your soul is changed.
a. As you grasp your true identity in Christ, your thoughts, words, actions and
outward circumstances reflect that identity.
b. People who don’t grasp who they are in Christ can drag around their past
and live in defeat for years.
2. If we want to walk in THE BLESSING we must really understand what

happened to us when we were saved.
a. The WORD of God implanted in our spirit brings forth Jesus in us.
b. We are born again in His likeness. He lit up our inner man with Himself
the same way He lit up Adam in the beginning. “Man, be in Our image,
and have dominion!”
c. In our reborn spirit are all the attributes of God - love, joy, peace, patience,
resurrection power and glory - everything we need to grow up and become
(on the inside and outside) just like Jesus.
d. We are light as He is light. (See Eph. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:5; 2 Cor. 4:6; 1 John
1:7; Phil. 2:15; Romans 13:12; 1 John 4:17.)
C. Have Some Fun With Your Father
1. God wants our fellowship with Him to be full of joy.
a. Come into His presence boldly, not with an undeserving attitude and feeling
of unworthiness.
b. We are perfectly righteous and should have no sin consciousness whatso

ever.
2. We have been redeemed! We don’t set out to make mistakes, but if we do, we
receive our forgiveness and keep going. “There is no condemnation to them
who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit”
(Romans 8:1).
D. Stop Begging and Start Believing
1. We are redeemed back into THE BLESSING. We are already as BLESSED as

we can be.

a. We need to develop our faith in what He has already done for us.
b. Meditate on what the Bible says about who we are and THE BLESSING
that is on us.
c. “They which be of faith are BLESSED with faithful Abraham” (Gal.

3:9).
d. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. . . that THE
BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ” (Gal. 3:13-14).
e. THE BLESSING includes the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, the new birth,
healing, financial prosperity, the ministry of angels, and everything else we
need to be fruitful and have dominion on the earth.
2. When THE BLESSING is at work in your life by faith, it starts creating

a Garden of Eden in your home, your church, your business, and your
neighborhood.
E. The Head and the Body Are One
1. As the seed of Abraham, we are scripturally qualified to be a BLESSING to

the whole world.
2. We are a joint heir with Jesus, and everything He is and possesses belongs to
us, including His Name and His authority.
a. We are lord over Satan, sickness, and poverty.
b. We are “far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion,
and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that
which is to come” (Eph. 1:21).
c. We are part of Jesus’ body, and the Head and the Body are one.
d. As Jesus’ disciples and representatives of Him on this earth, we should see

ourselves doing His works and meeting needs just as He did.
e. By faith, put on Jesus’ coat of BLESSING because, as His joint heir, that
coat of anointing belongs to you.
F. It’s Time to Enter God’s Rest
1. Through Jesus, mankind has gotten back the Garden. (See Romans 4:13.)

2. Satan is called the “god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4), but he only dominates the
heathen world system of this present age.
3. We are in the seventh day of creation (according to the Garden of Eden time-
line), where God “rested from all his work.”
4. We, as believers, don’t have to toil, sweat and strain to make a living like peo-
ple who are dependent on the ungodly system of this world. We enter into rest,
like God did, and put the BLESSING to work for us.
5. We preach the gospel to others, and then teach them to walk, talk, and live in
THE BLESSING, just as Jesus did.
a. We have THE BLESSING in seed form in us and the capacity to BLESS the
whole world.
b. Nurture the seed with the WORD of God and faith, and it will grow and
manifest. Through you, it will then begin to work in the lives of others.
c. Neglecting the WORD and feeding on the world’s junk will cause the seed
to just lie dormant in your spirit, starving for spiritual food, water, and light.
G. It’s Not Just for Preachers
1. Inside us is the image of Jesus, THE BLESSING, the anointing and the glory of
God. We carry within us the Garden of Eden.
2. We are expected to go into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.
We are to cast out demons. We are to lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
We go and the Lord goes with us.
a. We are to exercise authority over the earth, take dominion, and subdue it.
b. The commission isn’t just for preachers, but it’s for every member of the
Body of Christ - for all “them that believe.” (See Mark 16:17.)
c. THE BLESSING will eventually connect us with other people who are
operating in it, and we become part of a team. Teams can make a
world-changing impact.
XI. CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE LORD AND HIGH PRIEST OF THE

BLESSING
A. But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by
him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them (Heb. 7:24-25).

1. Jesus, the Anointed One, is our intercessor - the conquering Lord of all, the
King of Kings to whom all authority has been given both in heaven and on
earth.
a. An intercessor isn’t someone who just prays for you, but who stands with
you and takes your side.
b. It is someone who backs you up in challenging situations.
2. We need to take full advantage of that part of Jesus’ ministry and connect with
it by faith.
a. To live in THE BLESSING the way God intends, every believer has to
make that connection.
b. We need to trust Jesus as “the Apostle and High Priest of our profession.”
B. What’s a High Priest?
1. A true priest is a minister, someone who has been given charge over something
and is responsible to execute or carry it into effect.
a. Jesus, as our High Priest, is the Minister of THE BLESSING, the Chief
Administrator in charge of supplying, managing, dispensing, directing, and
furnishing THE BLESSING by the grace of God to the Body of Christ.
b. He administers forgiveness and cleansing. He defeated the whole sin

system.
c. He released the law of the Spirit of life in us and made us free from the
law of sin and death. The power of sin and the devil have no authority
over us any more. We should never have guilt over any past sin in our
lives.
2. We need to confess words of faith over the devil’s attacks - these words are
what activate Jesus’ ministry as High Priest in our lives.
a. Jesus is the “High Priest of our profession.” (See Hebrews 3:1.)
b. When we speak in line with THE BLESSING, our High Priest backs up
our words.
c. If we say something contrary to God’s WORD, we give Jesus nothing to

administer.

C. Making the Distinction Between High Priest and Lord
1. “God hath made that same Jesus. . . both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36).
a. In Greek, “Christ” means “the Anointed One and His Anointing.” It refers
to Jesus’ ministry as High Priest and administrator of THE BLESSING.
b. The term “Lord” refers to His position as Victor, Champion and

Conquering King who put death under His feet. Every knee will bow and
every tongue confess that He is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2. Jesus is High Priest of THE BLESSING - over the law of the Spirit of life and
over the gifts of the Holy Spirit, healing, and prosperity.
3. Jesus is Lord over the law of sin and death - over the curse, over sickness,
poverty, and everything in this world system that attempts to steal any portion
of THE BLESSING from us.
a. We are seated with Him in heavenly places, so we have both the right and
responsibility to stand on that lordship by faith and resist the devil until he
flees from us. (See Eph. 6:10-13.)
b. It is our job as “kings and priests” to remind the devil that he is a defeated
foe. Jesus provided us His own armor, His Word, and prayer to strengthen
and build us up, so we can put the devil under our feet where he belongs.
4. When it seems that the WORD is not working against the devil, we need to
ask God where we are missing it. The WORD is true, so we need God to give
us wisdom, so we can make corrections in our conduct, attitude, or thinking.
D. Swing Your Sword and Stand
1. Resist the devil on the basis of the WORD. Then enforce the devil’s defeat by
maintaining your stand of faith. (See Ephesians 6:14-18.)
a. “Keep praying always. . .in the spirit.” You’ll get stronger because you’re
building yourself up on your most holy faith. (See Jude 20.)
b. Swing the sword of the WORD with power and authority at the devil. He
must flee, and then refuse to allow him to come back.
2. Keep declaring THE BLESSING over the situation.
a. Loose ministering angels to go forth as a garrison around the situation.
b. Continue to praise and thank God for the fulfillment of His WORD.

E. Even Death Will Bow Its Knee
1. Even the spirit of death will flee from a believer who is operating in the
revelation that Jesus is Lord over it.
2. Remember that Satan and his demons do not have the power of death anymore.
Jesus does, and we are in Him.
3. All believers need to leave this earth when they are ready to leave the earth in
triumph, and not because of sickness and disease.
F. It’s So Simple, a Child Can Do It
1. God doesn’t take away the lives of His children! He’s not in the business of
killing people.
a. The devil is the one who steals, kills, and destroys. (See John 10:10.) But we
have authority over him in the Name of Jesus. We exercise the power of life
and death with our tongues. (See Proverbs 18:21.)
b. That power can be used in the wrong way. No one can stop the devil if a
child of God has authorized his own early death with his tongue.
2. When believers use the authority of their words to agree with THE BLESSING,
even a little child can stop death itself in its tracks.
G. Making the Covenant Connection
1. Psalm 91 begins with the faith declaration of the psalmist:

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress:
my God; in him will I trust (verses 1-2).
2. Jesus, the High Priest, then answers the psalmist’s confession and says to him:
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome
pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou
trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the
terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day (verses 3-5).
a. As the psalmist spoke the WORD of the Lord, Jesus declared THE BLESS-
ING.
b. He did for the psalmist exactly what He does for us. He will show us His
salvation in every situation because we are BLESSED.

3. The Bible tells us exactly how to connect with Jesus’ high priestly ministry. In
Hebrews 6:20, it explains that as “High Priest forever according to the order
of Melchisedek,” Jesus does for us what Melchizedek did for Abraham.
For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met
Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and BLESSED him, to
whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all. . . (Hebrews 7:1-2 NKJV)
a. Melchizedek, speaking on behalf of God, declared THE BLESSING over

Abraham and made him joint possessor of heaven and earth with the same
dominion that Adam had been given.
b. Abraham connected to THE BLESSING of the high priest through the

tithe, and we do it the same way.
1) Tithing should be a central part of our fellowship with God.
2) We need to prayerfully and reverently bring our tithes to Jesus our

High Priest and release our faith every time, as a fresh expression of
THE BLESSING.
3) Melchizedek stood in the place of the High Priest and ministered the
elements of communion that symbolize the body and the blood of our
Savior.
4) The communion elements and THE BLESSING Abraham connected

with by faith when he tithed, completely anchored Abraham’s soul in
the reality that his covenant with God was his source.
c. We should connect with THE BLESSING through the tithe, and then turn
to Satan and remind him that we have a covenant with Almighty God, and
He has made us rich - spirit, soul, and body.
H. The Thrill of Tithing in the Light of THE BLESSING
1. Tithing should be a very serious business for believers.
2. Thank God for THE BLESSING of Abraham that is ours in Christ Jesus.
Thank Him that we are joint heirs with Him, and through Him, heirs of the
whole world.
3. Pause to see if there is something God has to say to us.
4. In an attitude of faith in THE BLESSING, we become cheerful givers, and

tithing becomes a privilege and a thrill.
5. It is not pleasing to God when we stay poor - it’s selfish.

a. The work of the kingdom takes money, and we should want to sow
bountifully into the kingdom of God.
b. We should not choose to leave our abundant financial harvest in the field
to rot when there is a world full of people in need of it.
6. There are people all around us who need every aspect of THE BLESSING -
healing, deliverance, peace - and as His priests, we need to minister those
things to them.
I. Living Through Him, You’re Unlimited
1. Because we’ve been born into the family of God and made joint heirs of THE
BLESSING, we’re not on our own anymore. We live through Jesus.
(See 1 John 4:9.)
a. We have the wealth of THE BLESSING at our disposal - 24 hours a day,

seven days a week.
b. We’ve also been commissioned by God to pour out the benefits of THE
BLESSING on others.
2. Today the ritual of BLESSING others has become, for the most part, a form of
godliness that denies the power thereof. (See 2 Tim. 3:5.)
3. Peter believed in the power of THE BLESSING when he healed the lame man
at the temple gate. (See Acts 3:4-6.)
a. We should still walk in that kind of authority today. It is part of THE

BLESSING, and as joint heirs of that BLESSING, we’ve been sent to
deliver it.
b. THE BLESSING should be the foundation of our faith. Just as we pray

for people to get born again, we should pray with the same faith in THE
BLESSING for people to be healed and delivered.
J. More Fun Than Anything Else on Earth
1. Administering THE BLESSING isn’t supposed to be hard. It’s what we’re

born to do!
2. Administering THE BLESSING and seeing people BLESSED is more fun

than anything else on earth!

XII. CHAPTER TWELVE - FOLLOWING THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM
A. “. . . that THE BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through

Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith”
(Galatians 3:13-14).
1. How do I get THE BLESSING to operate in my life?
a. In THE BLESSING is everything we will ever need: health and healing,

victory and dominion in every area of life, abundance (spirit, soul, and
body) and the power to be a BLESSING to all the families of the earth.
b. Every promise God ever made to Abraham and his Seed has been fulfilled
in Christ Jesus and deposited into our heavenly account. (See 2 Cor. 1:20.)
c. Those promises get from heaven to earth when we receive them through
faith. (See Gal. 3:14.)
1) Through faith we are born again and become the seed of Abraham.
2) Through faith we become legal heirs of THE BLESSING.
3) Through faith we release its operation in our lives.
2. We can’t work our way into THE BLESSING.
a. You receive it by faith.
b. It’s God’s gift to His children, and it can’t be earned.
c. We are in a blood covenant relationship with God. He will never leave us

nor forsake us.
d. We don’t do what’s right to earn God’s BLESSING. We do what’s right

knowing we already have THE BLESSING.
3. If we just keep God’s commandments without faith, it doesn’t do us any good.
4. True Christianity is God and His family - a family who are saved, made right-
eous and BLESSED through faith that lives, not by a set of religious rules, but
by the love of God and the same kind of faith Abraham had.
B. Transferring Things From Heaven to Earth
1. The whole Bible is filled with revelation about faith.

2. Through faith . . . the worlds were framed by the WORD of God. (See Heb.
11:3.)
a. Everything God created is faith turned into a material reality.
b. God’s faith-filled WORD is the carrier mechanism that transfers spiritual

things from heaven’s storehouse and brings them into the earth where we
can use them.
c. That’s what God’s WORD always does when it is spoken in faith - it

becomes.
3. We got saved by confessing God’s WORD about salvation by faith. Heaven’s

power came to earth and we became a whole new creature.
4. By faith the WORD becomes healing, deliverance, prosperity, and THE

BLESSING in our lives.
C. Your Manufacturer’s Handbook: The Final Authority
1. God has chosen in His sovereignty to magnify His WORD above His Name.
(See Ps. 138:2.) He is under the authority of His own WORD.
2. He has given us His WORD that He will BLESS us. Every promise in the
Bible belongs to us because Jesus is our blood Brother.
a. We need to make the WORD of God final authority in our lives.
b. We must settle in our hearts once and for all that we will believe and act on
whatever it says. We will adjust our lifestyle to fit the WORD.
c. The level of activity of the WORD in our lives is in equal proportion to the
amount of reverence we have for it. We need to give it first place in our
lives.
D. Plant the Seed and It Will Grow!
1. In the process of faith, we need to follow the instructions God gives us in

Proverbs 4:20-22.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not
depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life
unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
a. We need to immerse ourselves in the WORD - spend time studying it and

meditating on it.
b. It will build us up to a place of faith and make us ready to step out on that
WORD and release its creative power.

c. We need to keep hearing and hearing the WORD over and over again.
2. The WORD is the seed of faith.
a. We need to keep planting it in our heart, and it will grow. (Don’t uproot it
with words of doubt and unbelief.)
b. If we want more faith, we need to take the faith that we already have, plant
it, and it will grow up and become greater than any challenge in our lives.
3. We need to plant the seed of THE BLESSING by confessing it over our lives.
“I believe I am BLESSED!” Confessing it over and over will renew our minds
and activate our spirits. This will set in motion God’s WORD to do what it is
designed to do.
a. Our unrenewed minds argue about THE BLESSING working in our lives.
We need to reject thoughts of the natural mind and listen to our renewed
minds.
b. True faith is when you believe the WORD of God in spite of natural evi-
dence to the contrary or what your natural mind says is true.
E. Keep Talking Faith Until You Hit the Gusher
1. Our words produce our future. What we’re saying today is what we’ll have
tomorrow. We live in a word-based, word-created, word-directed environment.
(See Prov. 18:17-21; Mark 11:23.)
2. We can choose the words under which we live. We can choose words of faith
and words of BLESSING. If we do, then BLESSING is what we’ll have.
a. Watch your mouth! Don’t speak contrary to the WORD.
b. It takes effort to establish the habit of talking THE BLESSING instead of

the curse.
c. We have to discipline our flesh and take authority over every contrary
thought and speak God’s WORD.
F. Call Things That Are Not as Though They Were
1. Abraham (the father of our faith) kept building his faith until he was fully
persuaded that he and his barren, old wife were going to have a baby.

a. He made a quality decision to believe God’s WORD. (See Rom. 4:3.)
b. He meditated on THE BLESSING and spoke it and spoke it until it took

control of his mind. (See Rom. 4:16-21.)
c. He had to call things that be not as though they were.
2. God instructed Abraham about faith as he went along.
a. He taught him to think and talk according to THE BLESSING.
b. He had to get away from his relatives and the other moon worshippers.
c. God had to introduce him to a whole new way of living, but it produced
results.
3. We are to be imitators of God as dear children. (See Eph. 5:1 NKJV.)
a. “Imitator” means in the Greek “to mimic.”
b. We are to mimic God by calling things that be not as though they were.
c. It is part of the faith process, and if we want to walk in THE BLESSING,

we must make it a way of life.
d. Abraham eventually got to the point of being fully persuaded, and that
should be an encouragement to us also. We will end up BLESSED.
G. There’s a Miracle in Your Mouth
1. The Bible is filled with accounts of ordinary people who walked in the same
kind of faith that Abraham did.
a. As a result of their faith THE BLESSING came on every area of their

lives.
b. An example is “the Shunammite woman” whose story is recorded in

2 Kings 4.
1) Even when her son died, she simply confessed, “All is well.”
2) She refused to say anything contrary to THE BLESSING (even though

her circumstances didn’t look BLESSED.)
3) She believed in THE BLESSING and confessed it until the power of

THE BLESSING flowed through Elisha the prophet and raised her son
from the dead.

2. Faith in THE BLESSING responds in a time of crisis.
a. Faith opens its mouth and confesses the truth of God’s WORD about the sit-
uation - “All is well!”
b. When fear-filled thoughts come, fight them with faith-filled WORDS.
c. Words are so powerful that we are either justified or condemned by them.
d. Our miracles are right in our own mouths. They’re in the WORD, and if we
put that WORD in our hearts and speak it with our mouths, it will pro-
duce for us just as surely as it produced for God when He said, “Light be!”
H. The Decision, The Buildup, and The Delivery
1. When you come to the place where you are fully persuaded, it’s time for the
Delivery.
a. Something happens in your spirit, and all of a sudden the declaration of faith
comes roaring out of your mouth with power. You know you have the vic-
tory.
b. The good fight of faith is won. You are more than a conqueror. The devil
bows his knee and gets out of your way. The promise you’ve been standing
on begins to manifest.
2. When you are ready for the release of power, no one will have to tell you what
to do. You’ll rise up and begin reaping your faith crop because you’ll know
harvest time is finally here.
I. Don’t Eat Your Harvest Before It’s Ripe
1. Don’t start reaping the harvest when the first little blade of faith appears. Your
faith crop has to ripen.
a. There will be confirmations and revelations from the Lord.
b. It is a time to stay full of faith that THE BLESSING is working in your life.
c. Be patient and keep believing that your faith is working.
d. The devil will do everything he can to push you into getting out ahead of
God and trying to make something happen too early.
2. When the time for your faith harvest has come, things just start working.
Circumstances fall miraculously into line. THE BLESSING has done its work,
and harvest time is here.

J. Big Things Start as Small Seeds
1. Harvests start out as a seed of faith no bigger than a mustard seed.
2. We have to plant the WORD in our hearts, speak it with our mouths, refuse to
uproot it with unbelief and, over time, the WORD does what it always does -
grows up and becomes greater.
3. Be patient - sometimes it takes years and years for the Delivery to come. Let
THE BLESSING manifest itself in God’s timing.
K. Open Your Bible and Get a Dream
1. Get your Bible out and start dreaming. As the seed of Abraham in Christ Jesus,
you are BLESSED!
2. Create an inner image of God’s WORD coming to pass and His BLESSING
manifesting in your life.
a. Let hope rise up within you and take faith upon itself. As you build your
hope and faith, you are building your future.
b. The WORD works for everyone who will put faith in it.
c. Grab your Bible, get into the presence of God, and get yourself a dream.
XIII. CHAPTER THIRTEEN - BREAKING THE FEAR CONNECTION
A. “Be not afraid, only believe” (Mark 5:36).
1. People will say, “I tried the WORD and it didn’t work!”
a. God never fails, though, to keep His Word!
b. God is not holding out on us. Somehow we are short-circuiting the

power of faith - something all of us do at one time or another without even
realizing it.
2. Fear can contaminate faith (even a little fear).
a. Take the sword of the Spirit (the WORD) against Satan and cut him up!
b. Pray in tongues!
c. We need to exercise our God-given authority over Satan instead of listening

to his lies.

d. The Bible commands us 110 times to “fear not” - our connection to THE
BLESSING depends upon it.
B. Fear Tolerated Is Faith Contaminated
1. As born-again believers, we never have to be afraid.
2. It is impossible to be in faith and fear at the same time.
a. Jesus absolutely conquered the power of fear through His work of

redemption.
b. When someone refuses to fear, stories have happy endings. (See the story
of Jairus and Jesus in Mark 5:22-43.)
C. Don’t Make the Fear Connection
1. Faith is the spirit connector to God and THE BLESSING, while fear is the spirit
connector to the devil and the curse.
2. People who don’t believe, don’t make the connection, and don’t get THE
BLESSING operating in their lives.
3. Jesus went around “doing good and healing all those that were oppressed of
the devil” (Acts 10:38).
a. “Oppressed” describes all the manifestations of the curse Satan puts on

human beings.
b. “In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from

oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not
come near thee” (Is. 54:14). Notice that fear is the spirit connector to
oppression.
1) Fear connects to the spirit of fear (the devil himself) just as faith
connects to the Spirit of faith.
2) The spirit of fear is the “spirit of antichrist.”
c. The yoke (or oppression) of the devil is destroyed (not broken) by the
anointing. (See Is. 10:27.) If it is destroyed, it can’t be repaired.
D. Fear Keeps Bad Company
1. Fear itself is a sin, since sin is anything that disconnects us from THE
BLESSING and connects us with death.

2. According to Rev. 21:7-8, fear is listed right alongside unbelief, murder and
whoremonging.
a. Fear is actually faith in death. (Ex. - Fear of disease is faith in the power of
that disease to destroy our body.)
b. Fear’s objective is to create unbelief. Its goal is to get us to believe

something other than what God has said about our situation, not just to
make us feel scared.
c. Fear has torment. (See 1 John 4:18.) It makes us think that God is not
going to help us this time.
d. We need to get rid of fear, not just cope with it or manage it!
E. Redeemed From the Curse of Fear
1. We need to come to the absolute scriptural conviction that Jesus once and for
all delivered us from the bondage of fear.
2. “And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage” (Hebrews 2:15).
a. According to the WORD every fear that exists is based on the fear of
death, but we have been delivered from it.
b. By triumphing over death, Jesus freed us once and for all from every kind
of fear.
c. Isaiah 53:5 - “He was wounded (tormented) for our transgressions.”

Jesus was tormented so we wouldn’t have to be.
d. When Jesus went to the Cross, He received fear so that we, by faith, could
receive complete, eternal deliverance from it. (See Rom. 8:15; 2 Tim. 1:17;
Heb. 13:6.)
F. Flush It Out With Love
1. What really gets rid of the sin of fear in our lives is the power of love.
2. We need to get a revelation that God loves us as much as He loves Jesus. (See
John 17:23.)
3. The same love that God loves Jesus with, the love that created the universe, is
in each of us. (See John 17:26.)

4. We are now supposed to take that love and to love others with that same love.
a. As we extend that love to others, fear can’t get a foothold in us - “Perfect

love casteth out fear.” (See 1 John 4:18.)
b. Love literally flushes fear out of our systems.
G. Preach to Yourself Every Day
1. Find scriptures about love in the Bible and speak them over yourself con-
tinually. Making confessions is actually preaching to yourself.
2. WORD-based confessions over yourself will build your faith to the point where
it casts out fear.
H. Sleep Like a Baby, by Faith
1. Keep fear out by rebuking and resisting it whenever it raises its ugly head.
Don’t give it any place in your mind. (See 2 Cor. 10:5.)
2. The Bible says that we do not have to have fearful, anxious thoughts. (See
Phil. 4:6-8.)
3. We need to use our mouths to turn our thoughts in the right direction - speak the
WORD!
4. 1 Pet. 5:7 tells us to “cast our care on Him.” We are not to worry but sleep
soundly, believing THE BLESSING is at work for us. We are to rest on the
WORD.
a. Worry is an extremely serious manifestation of fear, and fear is sin.
b. Ps. 127:2 - “It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread
of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.”
I. Divine Protection Is for Everyone
1. God speaks to everyone about danger, but not all hear His voice.
2. Three classes of people:
a. Those who wouldn’t know Him if He wore a sign around His neck, walked
in the front door and said, “I’m God. Leave now.”
b. Those who hear His voice and don’t act on it.

c. Those who hear Him and do what He says.
3. If you tolerate fear in your life and talk it like the world talks it, you’re walking
away from your divine protection.
a. God has made protection available to everyone who will receive it by faith
and live accordingly.
b. Jesus bought and paid for it so everyone could take advantage of it.
J. Don’t Wait Until the Devil’s at the Door
1. Don’t wait until something bad happens and then start trying to train for it.
2. Sometimes it is necessary to find some strong believers and get them to pray for
you and believe with you to get the devil off your back.
3. Spend time in the WORD and in prayer. Find a WORD-preaching, faith- build-
ing church.
4. Make the decision to get fear out of your life so you can stay connected to THE
BLESSING.
XIV. CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE ROYAL LAW OF THE KINGDOM
A. “Love never fails” (1 Cor. 13:8).
1. To walk in THE BLESSING, everything must hang on love.
2. The faith that connects us to it “worketh by love.” (See Gal. 5:6.)
a. The fear that disconnects us from it is cast out by love.
b. Walking in love keeps us in the brightness of THE BLESSING and out of

the darkness of the curse. (See 1 John 2:10.)
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like
unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets (Matt. 22:37-40).
B. Activate the Law of the Spirit of Life
1. Love is the commandment of God because love is the law that governs the oper-
ation of THE BLESSING.

2. The realm of the spirit is governed by irrefutable laws (they can’t be altered),
and these laws are even more exact than natural, physical laws.
3. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the WORD of God.” In Romans

3:27, this is called “the law of faith.”
a. It operates when a hearer and the WORD of God come together.
b. This produces the same thing: faith no matter who you are.
4. A law that works with the law of faith is “faith . . . worketh by love” (Gal. 5:6).
a. Without love, there is no faith.
b. No faith, no receiving!
5. Governmental laws are found both in the natural and spiritual realms.
a. God’s governmental laws are called commandments.
b. When the laws are broken, it is called sin. (Sin is violating the estab-
lished laws of God.)
c. Sin sets in motion “the law of sin and death.” (See Romans 8:2.) Death is
what sin produces in the spirit.
6. The law of love is the one law of the New Covenant.
a. It is “the royal law” of God’s kingdom. (See James 2:8.)
b. Love is the law of the Spirit of life, and “the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Rom.
8:2).
C. Don’t Stumble Around - Turn On the Light!
1. God, the author and generator of all life, is Love.
2. Everything in the universe was made by Love’s WORD.
a. Love created and breathed life into us.
b. Everything contrary to love goes against our very substance.
c. If we strive and fuss with others, we actually begin to self-destruct.
3. If we step outside of love, we step into darkness (where the curse is).

a. Every act of darkness dims the power of light in our lives and affects every
cell of our being in a negative way.
b. Even natural light keeps us aware of what is really going on around us and
stops us from getting into fear.
c. Stay in the light and keep walking in love. Walk in love and THE
BLESSING will work!
D. Obey Your General Orders, No Matter What
1. Jesus’ command of love is nonnegotiable.
a. We are in the army of the Lord. We are to “endure hardness, as a good

soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Tim. 2:3).
b. We have one set of general orders: “Love the Lord your God with all your
heart, soul, mind and strength; and love your neighbor as yourself.”
(See Luke 10:27.)
2. Loving the Lord means keeping the commandment of love. (See John 14:21.)
3. When we are tempted to step out of love, we must tell our flesh what to do.
(We can’t operate in strife and in THE BLESSING at the same time.)
E. When the Thief Steals Your Coat, Give Him a Pair of Shoes to Go With It
1 It is a medically proven fact that strife, anger, anxiety, and other such emotions
cause chemical reactions that, over time, are deadly.
a. The body’s chemistry gets out of balance, and our perspective becomes
skewed, resulting in wrong thinking.
b. The devil then can spew negative garbage at you that actually makes sense
to you.
c. If you don’t get back into the WORD and get straightened out, you start
believing the devilish junk and slip into depression and other disorders of
the mind.
2. As you practice the love of God, you can get to the point where you don’t even
notice the bad stuff going on around you - you just plow it underfoot and keep
going.
3. God’s Word says, “Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
BLESS them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.”
(See Luke 6:27-36.)

a. We make a choice to either love or hate our enemies - either do good to
them or try to retaliate against them.
b. We must make a firm commitment to walk in love no matter what, because

that is God’s command. He is our BLESSER, and His BLESSING will turn
every situation to our good.
c. We are God’s connection to the ones who are trying to hurt us. When we
BLESS them, we are revealing God’s love to them. We are also keeping
God’s BLESSING still intact in our lives.
F. Why Love Goes to War
1. God’s command to love doesn’t mean that He never calls on Christians to go to

war.
a. Some believers are called to military service, and anointed to be a “minister

of God . . . for good . . . a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth
evil.” (See Romans 13:4.)
b. Sometimes hateful, ungodly, murderous people oppress others, and the

Prince of Peace becomes a man of war in order to put a stop to it. (See
Exodus 15:3.)
2. He teaches His people how to fight (Ps. 144:1); and those that conduct war the
way He says to do it will win.
a. THE BLESSING is all about love, and love fights to protect its covenant
partners. God loves everyone, but He is not in covenant with everyone.
b. Any believer who walks in God’s military anointing (including police

officers, firemen, investigative officers, or soldiers) must conduct himself in
combat and stay in love at the same time. Hating the enemy makes a man a
killer, not a protector.
G. Clean Out the Pipe and Get the Glory Flowing
1. We must learn to deal with our Christian brothers and sisters when they do us
wrong.
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault
between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the
mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall
neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church,
let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican (Matt. 18:15-17).

2. Strife in the Church hinders the corporate BLESSING.
a. Satan can drag sickness in, siphon off finances, shut down faith, and con-
taminate the gifts of the Spirit, so the gifts are functioning at such a low
level that they are totally ineffective.
b. The New Testament makes a clear connection between the gifts of the Spirit
and love. (See 1 Cor. 12:31-13:8.) The gifts are part of THE BLESSING.
c. Unrepented violations of the law of love can hinder your anointing, your
life, your ministry, and your finances.
H. Don’t Drink the Poison
1. To repent of sin, just follow the instructions God gave us in 1 John 1:9:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
a. Don’t get into self-condemnation.
b. Don’t be moved by your emotions - just believe the WORD.
2. Repent right away. If the sin affected another person, fix it right away. Get rid
of the spiritual toxin before it can go to work on you.
3. Forgive others even if they don’t ask you to forgive them. Refusing to forgive is
a breach of the command of love.
a. Holding onto an offense against someone is like drinking poison and hoping
it kills them.
b. Exercising forgiveness releases health and life, and allows the love and
power of God to flow freely.
4. Get off by yourself once in a while and ask the Lord to remind you of anyone
you need to forgive.
a. As long as you keep on forgiving and loving, you’re strengthening the

operation of THE BLESSING in your life, and the stronger the power of
love and faith becomes in you.
b. Love never fails. If you put it to work by faith, it will produce marvelous
things.
5. Don’t ever try to use love on someone in an effort to change them.

a. It’s the Lord’s job to change people, not ours.
b. Stay busy doing what God has commanded you to do. Occupy yourself
with loving people, not changing them.
c. The power of love catches you up out of the muck of the world that drives
everyone else.
d. Love should flow through you in such measure that you are always looking
for someone to BLESS.
I. Stir Up Your Mind to Remember
1. We have been born of the Spirit of Compassion, and re-created in the likeness
of Love Himself.
a. We have the same capacity to love that God has, because His own love has
been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. (See Rom. 5:5.)
b. We need to activate the capacity to love by making it the priority of our

lives.
2. We need to keep love in the forefront of our thinking and not forget about it.
(See 2 Peter 3:1-2.)
3. We should surround ourselves with reminders of the love commandment.
a. Think about it first thing in the morning and all day long.
b. Confess scriptures like those found in 1 Corinthians 13. It will help us

respond to others in love instead of taking offense.
c. We’ll be able to take authority over our flesh and our mind, and operate by
our spirit in the love of God.
4. We have to spend time with The LORD and in His WORD, and keep ourselves
filled with it.
a. We need to minister to the Lord and tell Him how much we love Him.
b. We should tell Him how much we appreciate His love for us and all He has
done in our lives. (See Ephesians 5:19-20.)
c. That will help get the love flowing, so that we can do what the Bible says to
do in Ephesians 4:31-5:2.

J. Live Where the Wicked One Can’t Touch You
1. Keep the command of love and stand on the covenant. Love, believe, obey. . .
and you’ll be BLESSED.
a. When we learn to live that way, we can expect to be BLESSED wherever

we go.
b. It doesn’t matter whether people treat us right or wrong, we are still

BLESSED.
2. The more established we become in love, the better we will comprehend our
heavenly Father and the more we will understand His heart, purposes, and
plans. (See Ephesians 3:14-19.)
a. Comprehension is to have a working knowledge of something. (It’s greater

than just understanding something.)
b. Walking in love takes us to a higher level of comprehension in God - who

He is and how He operates.
c. We can soar with God and become so free from fear that the wicked one
touches us not. (See 1 John 5:18.)
3. THE BLESSING is taking us where the wicked one touches us not.
a. It begins to change things in our lives into a replica of the Garden of Eden
- sickness into health and poverty into wealth.
b. We begin to have “days of heaven upon the earth.” (See Deut. 11:21.)
c. We just need to keep walking in love and trusting THE BLESSING. It’s on
us, and we need to take it wherever we go so it can come out of us and
spread throughout the whole world.
XV. CHAPTER FIFTEEN - COME SIT WITH ME
A. God “hath made us sit together in heavenly places” (Eph. 2:6).
1. We need to take the time and sit down and rest with the Lord. He wants to tell
us everything is in good shape.
a. “Sit down” - That is what God has instructed us as born-again believers to

do. That invitation enables us to triumph over every test and trial the devil
sends our way.
b. No one sits in the presence of Almighty God except His family. Angels
are not allowed to sit, but we are.

c. We are told to sit down with Him in His presence and enter His rest. In
fact He is grieved when we don’t do it. (See Heb. 3:7-11.)
d. We are BLESSED. We need to rest in that fact and step into the land of
victory that He has promised us. (See Heb. 3:12-19.)
2. We need to put faith in God’s WORD rather than in experiences and lay hold
of His promises.
a. Unbelief in His WORD can stop us from entering our promised land.
b. In the eyes of God, that’s sin.
B. Sit Down. The WORD Has Us Covered.
1. Believe God and enter His rest. (See Heb. 4:1-12.)
a. God wants us to cease from our own works, stop running in circles, and
trust Him.
b. He wants us to get up there, right next to Jesus, sit down, and trust THE
BLESSING to take care of things for us.
2. We can rest because God’s WORD covers any situation we face, sees through
it and will reveal the answer to its defeat.
C. Sit Down - God’s Wisdom Is on the Way
1. When we don’t know what to do, we should follow the instructions in James
1:2-6.
a. Count it all joy and sit down in God’s rest, believing His wisdom is on the
way.
b. We need to stop our human reasoning and start asking God. He will
always tell us if we ask in faith and show us what to do in every test and
trial (even if we acted foolishly).
2. Rest in faith and stick with it. Stay steady and He will guide us into all truth.
(See John 16:13.)
3. Always remember that God is responsible for our daily welfare. We need to
open our ears and listen to Him.
4. We need to listen to God in faith, believing what Jesus said is true: His sheep
hear His voice. (See John 10:2-4.)

5. Pray in the spirit because we don’t know what to pray about in every situation
with our understanding.
D. Sit Down and Shed the Cares of This World
1. When situations take awhile to be resolved, it is not OK to wring your hands,

become anxious and abandon the rest of God.
a. Jesus gave us His own peace, and He expects us to use it.
b. We are not to be troubled or afraid in any situation we face.
c. Force yourself to meditate on the truth of God’s WORD.
2. We don’t base our lives on our feelings, but on the eternal WORD of God.
a. Notify the devil that he cannot come in and disturb you.
b. The peace of Jesus will go to work on you, and all the inner turmoil will
just drain out.
3. When we worry about things, we actually put ourselves in opposition to God.
a. We are in pride when we are trying to be our own source and acting like
everything depends on us.
b. We have to make a decision to change our attitudes and clothe ourselves

with humility.
c. Casting our cares upon the Lord is a decision we make. Then we have to
act upon that decision.
d. We must remember when we cast our cares on Jesus. He receives them.

(He is our Caretaker.)
4. The cares of this world can choke your faith, and without faith it’s impossible
for you to receive anything from the Lord. (See Mark 4:18-19.)
a. Not rolling the cares of this world on Jesus is a sin, and we need to repent
of it.
b. Every time the cares of this world come to our mind, we need to remember
that Jesus is taking care of them for us.

E. Two Systems of Finance
1. God does not expect us to depend on this fallen world’s system for our support.
In the kingdom of God it’s THE BLESSING of the Lord that makes rich, and
He adds no sorrow with it. (See Prov. 10:22.)
a. The world’s system is rooted in the curse. It came into being after Adam
turned his back on THE BLESSING. (See Gen. 3:17-19.)
b. After the curse, Adam had to forget his worldwide mission for God and
focus on his own provision. He had to toil and sweat for a living because
he was under the curse.
2. Today’s system of commerce is the fend-for-yourself, dog-eat-dog, lie-cheat-

steal economy that we see in the world today.
a. People try to meet their own needs without God. They believe that to be
BLESSED they must be rich, so they continually struggle to make money.
b. This is the Babylonian system because it made its scriptural debut at the
tower of Babel. It’s divinely destined to fail. (See Gen. 11:4-8.)
1) Ungodly, disobedient people try to use their own human power to create
and sustain their earthly kingdoms.
2) They build their towers, cities, nations, and economies to a certain point
before confusion sets in and things start to crumble.
3. God has delivered believers out of that ungodly system, but believers haven’t
totally trusted THE BLESSING.
a. They try to combine God’s way with Babel’s way and then become
financially disoriented and confused. (See Prov. 14:12.)
b. They do things that seem right and logical in the eyes of the world and cut
themselves off from THE BLESSING. They open the door to the curse.
1) They stop tithing and lose sight that tithing is the best thing anyone can
do when money gets tight.
2) Tithing keeps the door open to God’s promises of provision. (See Mal.
3:10-11.)
3) They focus on negative imaginations until all those imaginations come

to pass.
4) They run after money, trying somehow to get BLESSED. That system
is called mammon. (See Matt. 6:24.)

4. Unlike the world, we aren’t BLESSED because we’re rich, we are rich
because we’re BLESSED. (See Matt. 6:26-33.)
a. Making money is not our job. That’s the job of THE BLESSING. Our job
is to seek the kingdom of God. Then God will keep us busy.
b. God will not only meet our needs, He will satisfy our wants. (See Ps.
23:1.)
c. All grace will abound toward us. (See 2 Cor. 9:8.)
d. This does not make us materialistic, which is trying to satisfy spiritual

needs with material goods. God gives us richly all things to enjoy. (See
1 Tim. 6:17.)
F. Back to the Eden Way
1. Any part of THE BLESSING we try to earn is not by grace. We can’t earn our
prosperity.
a. If we as believers will put faith in the fullness of what the Lord has done
for us, we will never have to toil for a living again.
b. Jesus has restored the Eden way.
1) We can stop trying to meet our own needs.
2) We can get busy with our Garden of Eden assignment and enjoy THE
BLESSING that goes with it.
3) We can spend our lives doing the will of our Father and being a
BLESSING everywhere He sends us.
4) Even if someone is called to be a janitor, God can BLESS him so that
he has plenty to minister financial blessings to others. (See Eph. 4:28.)
2. We shouldn’t live under the work-for-a-living, curse mentality, because our

BLESSING could be staring us in the face and we’ll miss it.
a. THE BLESSING doesn’t care what the economic conditions are - it keeps
on working, making us rich, and adding no sorrow with it.
b. We need to put faith in THE BLESSING, enter God’s rest, and stop
worrying about finances once and for all.
G. Sit Down . . . Saying!
1. If you want to live in God’s rest, you must continually declare the WORD.

a. Sit down, saying the WORD of God about your situation and nothing else.
b. Sit down with praise on your lips, even when it is not easy to say anything
positive.
2. Keep speaking over and over again the WORD and THE BLESSING whenever
situations arise in your life that are contrary to what the WORD and THE
BLESSING declares.
H. Sit Down, Trusting Your Faithful High Priest
1. Sit down, trusting that Jesus has done His job as your high priest, and that there
is nothing between you and Him but perfect love and perfect peace. (See Heb.
2:17.)
2. Jesus has completely washed us from every sin we have ever committed.
a. He has even forgotten them.
b. We are as innocent in God’s eyes as a newborn baby. (See Is. 43:25.)
c. Instead of our sins, we are to fill up God’s memory with what we want God
to remember about us.
d. We are to take God at His WORD and shed our old religious, unworthy sin
mentality. We need to put on our robe of righteousness. We are a king and
priest with a seat next to Royalty Himself.
3. Sit down next to Him and enter into the rest of God. Let THE BLESSING go to
work in you, on you, around you, and through you. Then take THE BLESSING
wherever you go.
4. Start sharing the BLESSING wherever you are. BLESS people with your lov-
ing attitude and your smile. Just keep putting your faith in THE BLESSING.

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I. CHAPTER ONE - THE BLESSING: LOVE’S ULTIMATE GIFT

A. Get Ready to Fly - Personal Testimony of Kenneth Copeland

a. A failed business venture left him broke and unemployed.

b. He had no way to repay his mountain of debt.

2. He knew he was called to preach - led to go to Oral Roberts University.

a. He and his family moved to Tulsa (with no finances to support themselves

b. He stood on the Word to find a way.

c. God gave him a revelation of the Blessing of Abraham - Galatians

5. Revelation of the Blessing of Abraham promised to all Christians came

B. Just the Beginning

a. The new birth and salvation is part of THE BLESSING.

b. Healing is also part of THE BLESSING.

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3. We develop and grow in our understanding of THE BLESSING a little at a

C. Get a Drink From the Fire Hose

1. We never have the whole picture of God’s revelation to us of the Word.

2. Sometimes it feels like we get bombarded with mountains of new revelation

D. Watch Out for the Needle

a. They are the result of THE BLESSING!

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B. More Than Just a Religious, Three-Letter Word

4. The New Testament states “God is love” (1 John 4:8).

5. The Old Testament says God is:

a. “full of compassion” (Ps. 78:38; 111:4).

b. “long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth” (Ps. 86:15).

c. “gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

6. God’s compassion is infinite, so it is not a feeling or a thing - it is Him!

b. God’s love is not on-again-off-again, and neither is His goodness toward

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C. There’s Good News in the First Verse of the Bible

a. Compassion is the reason for creation.

b. God needed someone to love - someone to fellowship with, give to and

D. What Happened When God Turned On the Light?

a. “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Light is

c. Descriptions of God as light:

1) “a pillar of fire, to give them light” (Ex. 13:21)

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2. God’s Glory-Light became the basis of all matter.

a. Scientists are now acknowledging that the universe began as a result of a

E. From Dirt to Divinity

b. God saw every born-again believer as made perfectly in His image...and

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