Ephesians 1:3 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Some people think that the term “spiritual blessing” refers to only nonvisible
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 Dubai in the 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!
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