Daily Bread - NOV/28/07

Genesis 39:1-2 - And Yahweh was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man and he was in the house of his master in Egypt. And his master saw that Yahweh was with him and that Yahweh caused all that he did to prosper in his hand.

There should be no doubt that God wants His people to be successful in everything they do. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His children and as Jesus said, "if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father give good things to those who ask Him" (Psalms 35:27; Matthew 7:11). God is not the source of poverty or the God of oppression; He is the God of blessings who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings!

When we look at the men of the Bible who walked with God we see those who were blessed and prospered in everything they did. These men and their lives are an example to us of how we should live as well as a testimony of how God will bless and prosper our lives in every way. Our heavenly Father blessed Abraham and made him very wealthy because He walked with God (Genesis 13:2; Genesis 23:6). God blessed Isaac and Jacob, the seed of Abraham, in the same way because they were the people of God who had given themselves to walk with Him (Genesis 30:27; Genesis 33:11).

The means of the prosperity of God's people was plainly revealed in the life of Joseph; it was God who caused the things that Joseph did to prosper (Genesis 39:23). If we will walk with the Lord and do those things that are pleasing in His sight then whatever we do will prosper (Psalms 1:3; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Joshua 1:7-8; Deuteronomy 29:9; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Chronicles 26:5; Psalms 84:11; 3 John 2). God wants to bless His people with such success beyond any others in this world that all mankind will have to take notice that God is with us (1 Kings 10:7; Jeremiah 33:9). Those who would think that God wants His people to be poor or have just enough to get by have no idea of the plans and purpose that God has for His people. We are called by God to be a blessing in every way to all mankind. We are called to take care of the poor and the oppressed, to clothe, house, and feed those who are destitute and to preach the gospel of the kingdom to the entire world.

If we will walk with God and do those things that He has commissioned us to do then He will prosper us so that we can rise up and build (Nehemiah 2:20; Haggai 1:7-8, 2:18-19; Matthew 6:33). Let us cry out with the Psalmist and say, "Save now, I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity" (Psalms 118:25). As God prospers us and we bring those things into His house that He has prospered us with then God causes another realm of miracle blessing to fall upon our lives so that there is an additional multiplication of that prosperity (1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Corinthians 9:6-7). God's Kingdom should move stronger and faster than any kingdom on the earth. We should advance the message of God's love and grace more swiftly and effectively than can be done by anyone else. Let us cooperate with God so that the Kingdom of God may be seen by everyone to be above all of the Kingdoms of the earth and the blessings of God greater than the blessings of man.

Be blessed,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org