Some people think that the term “spiritual blessing” refers to
only non-visible and intangible blessings like peace and joy. To them, God’s
promise of “every spiritual blessing” excludes the tangible blessings of
health, provision, a healthy marriage and so on. They say things like, “Don’t
expect God to remove this tumor because our blessings are only spiritual.”
Beloved, do you know what the word “spiritual” here means? In
the original Greek text, it is pneumatikos, which in this context
means having properties and characteristics belonging to the Spirit of God. So
if you have the pneumatikos blessing of health, for example,
it means that it is of the Spirit of God, and therefore does not depend on your
exercising or dieting.
A church member had high blood pressure which did not normalize
even after he started exercising and eating well. So he stopped being
preoccupied with his exercise and diet regimes, and simply rested in the truth
that a normal blood pressure was a pneumatikos blessing from
God already given to him. In a short time, his blood pressure came down to a
healthy level!
The same goes for the pneumatikos blessing of
provision. It is of the Spirit of God and does not depend on our toiling seven
days a week or monitoring the stock market closely.
A church member, who owns a small company, received her pneumatikos blessing
of provision when she believed that God would cause her small company to be
publicly listed. He did. In fact, the company was over-subscribed seven times
within the first week! Later on, it even made inroads into Middle East. For a
woman to find favor in a male-dominated industry like hers, it can only be
the pneumatikos blessing of favor, which is not subject to the
laws of man.
My friend, believe that you have received every pneumatikos blessing, and you will find yourself enjoying blessings that are eternal, just as God is eternal, and of a quality that only the Spirit of God can give! (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
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