Two blocks I see to being blessed with healing or even being blessed financially are:
1) Religious thinking, and 2) ignorance. On the first reason,
religion is having inordinate affection for a form of God and His
Kingdom rather than relational living with and knowing the real God.
The religious make a bondage out of everything, like prayer, Word study,
going to church, kind of the way the
Pharisees exalted washing pots and cups and law-keeping and visual
appearances of tithing and giving instead of discerning the fact that
they had Christ in their presence, physically. If you get sick, a
religious person is quick to point out, as Job's friends did, that God
is teaching you a lesson. If you speak of God blessing financially, a
religious person might say that prosperity teachings are evil, even
though God wove threads of abundance promises all through scripture for
His own children. But that same religious person will try anything to
get rid of their own sickness, an operation, medicine, 2nd opinions by
doctors, and thereby abort the very lessons they believe God is
teaching. How foolish of a belief system. That same person who says
God does not prosper his children will send their kids to the best
colleges for the highest paying jobs, or enter the lottery, or attempt
"get rich schemes" because, in their minds, prosperity is OK as long as
it does not involve God.
That leads me to discuss the root of religious
thinking and my 2nd reason for blocking blessings. Ignorance. If
people think God must come down to heal us, when healing was paid for at
the Cross and is a past tense reality and is already ours, that will
block their healing. What they need is that "now" revelation and then
raw Bible faith in it. God's people perish for a lack of knowledge. If
we know that God will financially bless His kids, daily, when we get up
in the AM, we would act, speak, believe and pray quite differently, and
ignorance would become a thing of the past, and grace (blessings) and
peace (fulfillment) would be multiple to us through the knowledge of
Him, Christ Jesus, and all the promises (abundance) in Him are yes and
Amen!
Bless His name forever!
Greg Nichols
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