DESTINY - PART 2 - THE BLESSING OF INCREASE

God has a plan for each man or woman’s life. Therefore

you have a destiny in God, but each person must seek

the LORD to find out what that plan is and how to

follow Christ to the end of that unique destiny.

The LORD desires that each one come into His abundance

and walk in His blessings. Then it is up to

each Christian to become a good steward of the

blessings of increase that He provides.

“There was another man of plenty who was young and very rich (Luke 18:18-23). This young ruler asked the Lord, “Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” How do I live for eternity? Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? None is good, save one, that is God.” He said to the young man, “You know the commandments.” Do not steal, kill, bear false witness, or commit adultery. Honor your father and your mother. Then, give your wealth unto the poor, pick up your cross and follow Me. The young man was very sorrowful, and turned away from Jesus, for he was very rich. The first thing a person must do is to recognize that Jesus is God. Jesus was telling the rich young ruler that if you recognize that I am good, you must recognize that I am God and that I desire your obedience. The young man told the Lord He had kept those particular five commandments from his youth. And this is good. These commandments deal with our relationship with others. The Lord wasn’t telling the young man to take a vow of poverty, He was telling him to put God first place. You must love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and then you must love your neighbor as yourself. If he had honored “God by putting Him first in his life, God would have honored the young man with salvation, something that money can’t buy. If the man had sown his wealth into the poor and followed Jesus, he would have had treasure in heaven plus an abundant supply of wealth to meet all of his needs here (Luke 18:28-30). He would have peace in his heart as he became reconciled with God. He would have eternal life as a child of God. Jesus is not against a person having money; He’s just against money possessing the person. You cannot serve God and mammon (money). What was the young man’s destiny? The seeds he sowed were of unbelief in what God had said. It was hard for the young man to turn his wealth over to the Lord and trust Him for his every need. He had rather trust in his riches than trust in God. He refused to obey the Word of the Lord, and he went away very sorrowful. He did not choose to let the Word abide in him. God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise (1st Corinthians 1:27) and to keep His Word often seems to contradict the natural world. It seemed foolish to the rich young ruler to give his wealth to the poor, but had he obeyed the Word of the Lord, the enemy of his soul would have been defeated. What can a man exchange for his soul? The destiny of this rich, young ruler was not very bright, unless He repented later and obeyed the Lord.”

“God created individuals enough alike to be classified as a group—the human race; but He created each individual as unique and special. No one person has the same fingerprints, voice pattern, or DNA. God has given each individual a unique and special purpose and destiny for his life. There is a quest inside each person to search out that unique will of God in one’s life. A person doesn’t want to feel that he is just another grain of sand lying on the beach of humanity, unnumbered, defaced, and forgotten in the mass of billions of people. Just as a shepherd knows each of His sheep by name, for He has engraved their names in the hollow of His hand. The Creator has carefully and wonderfully made each individual for a special purpose in life. To know his purpose in life, each individual must seek to know the One who created him and put him on the earth. God has put in each person that is born a gnawing emptiness to know Him. Each person has a motivation deep in his heart to seek after the living God, but the circumstances and affairs of life sometime interfere with knowing Him. Motivated to find their purpose in life, some people fill their spirit emptiness with drugs, desire for wealth, alcohol, adultery, and other fleshly crimes against the Spirit, but none of these things quench the thirst for spiritual truth, reality, and satisfaction. Only the Spirit of God can fill that vast emptiness in the spirit of man and satisfy ever longing of the heart…”

Second of Three…Excerpts from Chapter 21

The blessing of increase from Almighty Jehovah God is for those who love Him and obey His laws and commandments.

PROVERB 8: 17-21
(17) “I” (the LORD) “love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me.
(18) Riches and honor are with Me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
(19) My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and My revenue than choice silver.
(20) I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
(21) That I may cause those that LOVE ME to INHERIT substance; and I WILL fill their treasures.”

When you separate yourself unto Almighty God, you are separating yourself unto blessing, and “the blessing of the Lord makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.” (Proverb 10:22). Separating yourself unto the Lord to walk in His commandments and in His Ways is the seed of righteousness that sets you apart for the harvest from God – the blessing of increase. But to walk away from obeying His Word, as the rich young ruler did, is to sow seeds of unrighteousness and unbelief that brings in a harvest of sorrow.