3rd John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.
Many people are of the opinion that Christian are to live dejected lives, and the dejection that Christians are subject to, are signs of how close they are to Yahweh; your troubles are proof of your meekness, your frustration are evidence of your faith in God and your suffering are tangible benefit of Yahweh's loves for you. If you are one who believe such things, let me tell you here and now; you have got it all wrong. All those examples are signs that you have been curse by The Creator. Jehovah will never curse his faithful children; however, this does not means that you will not experience difficult time.
So if you are experiencing the above negatives in your life, then you are to stop, reexamine your life and the relationship you have with the Most High God. It may very well be that you are experiencing such because you have strayed from your maker and your king, you may think you are OK but you may very well have back slid; you may have been neglecting your relationship with the savior and is declining into apostasy.
For it is always God’s will that we prosper and be in good health. We must not forget that Yah don’t cause his prosperity to fall on just anyone. You see whether we are serving Jehovah or not we are awarded certain of his blessing, he blesses us with life, gives us fresh air, good health and hope of better things to ensure that the quality of our life is one that is worth living. The prosperity of Yah is a reward from God and a sign of his extended blessing. Although everyone is entitled to his extended blessing, everyone is not exposed to the extended blessings of God. In order for us to qualify for the outpouring of our father’s extended blessing, we must meet certain conditions.
Let us turn to Deut. 28: 1-2 in an effort to find out what conditions must be met in order to experience and participate in the lord’s blessing and experienced his prosperity, protection, good health etc.
Deut. 28: 1-2 This is what will happen, if thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
“If you shall listen diligently to the voice of the lord your God;” you are not just required to listen but you are required to listen diligently. The word diligent means: carefully carrying out a task or duty paying attention especially to detail or exactness.
So diligently listening, is to pay attention to what is being said especially paying particular attention to the details and the exactness of what is being said.
Why is it important that we listen diligently? We must listen diligently because the stakes are high; we cannot take anything for granted because the end results will determine three things which are:
1. It determines whether or not we reflected to the world or show the world that we are indeed children of God, representing him in all that we do.
2. It will determine whether or not we experience hardship and a curse life here on earth or whether we experience God's wonderful blessings on earth.
3. It is also a measuring stick that determine the degree of our love for Jehovah.
We are called upon to listen diligently to the words of Jehovah God.
The second part of the text says: to observe and to do all his commandments. Now that we have listened diligently or we have pay attention to the details and the exactness of God’s words, we are to observe and to do all his commandments not some, or those that are convenient to us but all of his commandment; when we feel foolish doing them, when people calls us name, we must do them and even when we don’t feel like; we must observe and do all of the lord’s commandment.
When you listen carefully to God’s word, paying attention to detail and the exactness of what he has said and you are careful to observe his commandment with the same diligence: paying attention to details and the exactness of his words; then the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth
This is the reward for your diligence in listening and living. You shall be set on high above all nation of the earth. God is going to elevate you where ever you are, you will have better health that the other; God’s servants always experience good health and long life, more earthly riches, see Job, Abraham, Isaac's, David, the three Hebrew boys Daniel etc. greater capacity to understand simple as well as complex things, Salomon, David, Daniel etc. you will be respected even by those who hate and despises you and you will always experience the protection of the lord.
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. In other words, If you shall listen and do what the lord say all of God’s blessing, what are blessings? Blessings, are God’s love and favor; So, in simple language if we listen to and obey Jehovah’s word, his love and favor will chase us and over take us where ever we go. Isn’t that wonderful?
So when other sees you, they will automatically say Psalms 1:1-3 Bless is the man that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, who refuse to stand in the way of sinners, who cannot be convinced to sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and on God’s law he set aside time to meditate on them every day and every night. God will then bless him and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, he bring forth his fruit in and out of season; his leaf shall never wither; and whatsoever he do shall prosper.
Lets us therefore visit Deut. 28:3-14 and examined some of the areas we will experience God’s blessings.
Verse3 blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field.
It matter not where you are, whether you are in the city, the field or in a heathen country Yahweh’s blessing will follow you, over take you, set you apart and make you distinguish.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kin, and the flocks of thy sheep.
God love and favor will be upon the fruits of your body: that mean your children will be blessed, the fruit of the ground and the fruit of the cattle which means your increase or income, and your kin: your family. Our family will experience blessings because of our love and obedience to and for Jehovah. You see Jehovah knows, if those who are close to us; those who fail to demonstrate their love for him, got the punishment for their disobedience to him that they deserves and become ill, got into accidents, fail at what they do, die etc. such will have a devastating negative impact on the life his faithful child, so in order to minimize the suffering to the faithful, he take care of our wicked friends and family even when they do not deserve it. Yah does this as a part of our blessing; thus saving us his faithful children the agony of the demise of those close to us.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. When you sit down to eat you food will properly nourish your body.
6 Blessed shall thou be when thou come in, and blessed shall thou be when thou go out.
7 The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
The devil will cause the wicked to hate you for no reason at all and they shall form allegiance against you to do you harm and even to take your life, they will plot and execute their wicked plans against you; however, without your effort, they: your enemies and their plans will fall by the way side, even without your knowledge that there were the devil devise plot to destroy you. Your enemies shall flee like scared pigeon from you; your good and well intended action will frighten them and they will flee from you.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to do; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God give thee. 9The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
Because of your action and Jehovah God reaction the entire world will know that you are called by Yahweh’s name and you are his child and he is your God, this relationship that you have establish with Jehovah, will send fear into the hearts of man and even devils.
11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee. 12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and thou shall lend unto many nations, and thou shall not borrow.
The lord will bless you with lots of healthy children, and he will give you more then enough means to take care of those children, you will have so much that you will be able to lend to others; even those who hate you will have to come to borrow from you and you will always have to lend.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shall be above only, and thou shall not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14And thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Yahweh will make you the most important and they shall always be at the top and never beneath
But all this will only come to a reality when and if we diligently listen to Jehovah’s words and do them with correctness. So don’t forfeit your opportunity to experience being the recipient of earthly riches, the protection of the conquering lion himself, the wisdom that will set you apart from all other, and a family life that will only bring joy to your heart. In order to achieve all of these things and more you must first get to know who Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ are, and after you know who they are; you must decide whether or not they are who you want to have rule over your life or not. If you choose Yahweh then you will be bless as is outlined above.
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