The Art of Receiving

Sunday, November 22, 2020

In the Book of Acts, the Apostles told a crippled man to rise up and walk. The man, crippled for life, rose up and walked. It sounds simple, but it's teaching us a profound and crucial truth. We tend to think of blessing as something that happens to us. We pray and wait for God to bless us. Think back to Jacob who wanted his father to bless him. But it wasn't enough that his father was willing to give a blessing. Jacob had to go through a lot of work to receive that blessing. Now he went about it all wrong, but a truth remains... Blessing is not a one way street. You can be blessed and yet not blessed at all. If you're not blessed, is it that God is not blessing? The problem isn't at God's end. It's on our end. So it wasn't enough for the crippled man to have been blessed. He had to truly receive the blessing, and rise up in faith and walk. God is blessing; but we have to learn how to receive it. His will is to bless us. Master the secret of receiving your blessing. Rise and walk.

From Message #707 - A Disciple Named Gazelle