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The Blessed Life

Today we are going to be starting a New Series Called the Blessed Life.

Now anybody in here like opposed to living a Blessed.

ANTBODY LIKE TO LIOVE A LIFE FULL OF STRESS AND TUMOIL.

LISTEN BEING STRESSED ALL THE TIME IS NOT A SIGN OF BE SUPER SPIRITUAL.

Now in this series we are going to be talking about living a blessed life, and we will talk about your money, but its not the Only thing that we will be talking about and today we will not be talking about your money today.

Because I believe there are some prerequititives for you to live a blessed life that go beyond your money and they go straight to your heart.

You see when God has your heart, He will have your money, He will have your everything, and when you come into that sort of relationship with the Almighty, nothing will be impossible for you

Here in the Book of God gives a blueprint

Now show of hands, who in here want to be blessed.

i have great news for you today, God wants you to be blessed more than you want to be blessed.

On Verse 3

This should be a picture of your life.

You should be like a tree planted by the streams of Water.

Who leaf does not wither, bearing fruit in its season, In all that He does it prospers.

Are you tired of just being a stick in the mud?

Would you like to resemble a person that has tru life pulsating through your being?

Do you want to be happy?

Then listen up....

Now notice that He says that this healthy, fruit bearing tree, is planed beside some streams of Water.

Let me give you 4 streams that you must practice in order to be the person that God has created you to be.......

Stream #1 You must be a Born- Again Disciple.

You must be a Born- Again Disciple.

I prefaced born again, because you can be religious and not born againm.

You can be nice, pay all your bills, have a perfect credit score and a fat bank account and still be on your way to hell.

You can work in a church, attend church meeting, and even enter into the ministry and not be saved.

In John chapter 3 A man named Nicodemus came to Jesus in the middle of the night to speak to Jesus.

He was about as religious as they come, a teacher of Israel, He was a Pharisee, which today is used as a negative term, but they were about as devoted and as pious to the True God that one can get, But yet Jesus told him something that someone never told him before, Nicodemus, unless you are born again you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God

You say how does one become born again?

John 3:5

John 3:

John 3

If you are not familiar with the story of Moses lifting up the serpent, Its found in the Book of Numbers

The people of Israel sinned against the Lord,

In that they spoke against the Lord and attacked Moses God’s anioted servent Moses, and the Lord sent

Numbers 21:4

The And because f their grumbling and complaining the Lord sent poisons snake into their camp.

And many of them died.

we will egt to spiritual warfare in a few moments, but the snakes and their poison, are symbolic of the devil and our sin.

If you find your life in a mess right now, Crap cosnatly going wrong it could mean that God is in pursuit of you.

And the only remedy for this particular problem was a bronze snake, and as Moses lifted up this serpent, Jesus said it was a picture, a prophecy when he would be lifted up on a cross.

yOU SEE EVERYTHING YOU ARE NEEDING THIS MORNING IS AT THE CROSS, AND THERE IS NO WAY AROUND IT. iT IS NOT YOU STRIVING, ITS YOU TRUSTING, TRUSTING THE oNE tHE lORD jESUS cHRIST, THAT BORE IT ALL AT THE CROSS

And if every one was who was bitten by the serpents when they looed to the Serpent lifted up, they would be healed.

Jesus was lifted up, But when He was lifted up the Great Servent, the devil, was stripped of all of His power!

EMPHASIS THEIS AGAIN WHEN YOU GET TO THE HEALING

Listen if you don’t love people, youre not born again, if are a person that can never quite bring themselves to say that you are sorry and you will hold a grudge and hate people, and act bitterly, and cause problems… I am telling you, do not die and go to hell thinking that you are saved!

You are not, you need to be born again!

Why do I say that?

Because people who are born again are born again of Gods love, and His love changes you from the inside out.

You say who are you to say something like that, well I am just repeating what I heard,a nd I heard it from God!

1 John 2

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1 John 3:

1 John 3:16

Disciple---- Now what is a Diciple.

A disciple is one who follows a teacher, and

Remember we are talking about the blessed life

First of all if youa re going to be a disciple.

You must learn to walk with God.

Yes learn wisdom, yes learn how to be discerning, but more than anything learn how to waklj with Giod

God gives his people insight into the unknown…

How are you going to navigate all the landmines of life?

HOw aae you going to know if this new relationship comes along, if it is going to be blessed or are they going to turn out to be destructive.

God gives His people uncommon wisdom… There will be times in your life when you will not know rather to tun left or turn right… How are you going to know?

Especially if the turn to the right looks good

Story of Lot and Abraham- Lot looked

Genesis

This decision seemed good but in the end it was disastrous.

He moved towards Sodom, BTW thats where you egt the word Sodomy… And whne God destroyed the city it destroyed his life.

This special knowledge comes from meditating on the Word, nboth day and night.

Learning a new way.

Not just reacting, but learning how to be led

Learnign reson yes, but walking by faith

It was there

EMPHASIS THIS AGAIN WHEN YOU GET TO tHE healing

God blesses disciples, He answers the prayers of disciples

When God Blesses He blesses long term.

He moves mountains for disciples.

Are you a disciple of jesus Christ?

We are not trying to build a big church, we are trying to build disciples.

Jesus had twelve

God gives Special revelation, GHod gives uncommon wisdom.

God may call you to step out on the waters, and if you have obeyed him in that.

He will cause you to walk on them

Stream 2: Counsel-

The Holy Spirit

Stream 3 Heaoling

Healing---

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Stream 4: Spiritual warfare-

People hearing voices

The aura that the enemy sets around people

The torment of the soul

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God Blesses his Disciples

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