Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Exercising Your Authority to Bless

We believe that God is a God of blessing, and that He has authorized us as agents of His blessing. We are learning and stretching out in this area. For instance, when we go out to eat now, we not only bless our own food, but all the food in the joint, that there might be a revelation of the goodness of God and an experience of His peace in those places.

Now, when I say, “bless the food,” I do not just mean that we ask God to bless it for us. Jesus gave us authority to bless when He taught us to pray, “Your [the Father’s] will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” So we take that authority and exercise it even when we pray at meal time — “I bless this food in Jesus’ name” — believing that the will of God will be done in that food, exactly as His will is being done in heaven. Can you imagine eating food that is charged with the power of heaven? Now go a step further and imagine charging it with the power of heaven! Every believer is an authorized agent.

Take the authority you have in the Lord Jesus Christ — the authority of His name, the authority of His blood, the authority of how He taught us to pray — and begin bringing forth the blessing of God’s kingdom upon the earth. The world does not need our condemnation, it needs the blessing of heaven to transform it into what He has called it to be.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:34 AM

    Wow!

    Bless "all the food in the joint"!

    Charge the place with is power, His will...wow!

    Thanks so much for teaching me to
    look at praying over food as a
    opertunity for His kindom to invade
    the place where I am!

    Bless of God on you!
    Shalom
    Lindielee

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  2. Isn't it neat that God has let us into His plan, not only to be blessed, but to be a blessing to others.

    That's grace!

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  3. Anonymous9:15 PM

    Yes! and everything else with which we have to do!!!! Bless it all and everyone who has anything to do with it...It makes the darnkess flee and the Light shine even soooooooooooooooo much brighter!!!!! PRAISE HIM!!!!! been doing that for a long time now!! AMEN!!!

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