THE BLESSER OR THE BLESSING

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 (1) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt 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: (2) And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

To my fellow reader and fellow follower of the faith in Christ Jesus, this word is to encourage us and cause us to be the verdict, by God’s Holy Word concerning the issue of God as The Blesser and His given blessings.

As we have all come to know of the sin David has done in II Samuel 11, by his willingness to commit adultery with Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba, we know that the sin never remained there, but continued into a selfish warrant against Uriah’s life. Remember how Saul was after David, being jealous of the blessing spoken and given to David? Well David in this moment was the same way toward Uriah. It’s all because David was on the wrong side of the battle. When David was suppose to be out in battle when it was time for the kings to do battle against each other, David decided to stay home and allow the seducing demonic spirits of the evening to do battle against him, allowing the same selfish spirit of Saul to come upon him. Saul, the one David fled from for years for his own life sake and preservation of God’s word of a kingdom establishment within and through David.

II Samuel 11:5-6 (5) And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. (6) And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Once consequence surfaced and the result of David and Bathsheba’s adulterous sin became relevant and public, the consequence of murder was in the making, just waiting for the action that would ignite it and would lie upon David’s life.

After David would receive the selfish praise of prosperity in II Samuel 11:8 from the word of Uriah, a man who was in the appointed battle, David orders Uriah after feasting with him, to go home and be with his wife, hoping to cover up David’s sin and make it look like Uriah was with child by his wife. However, Uriah did not go to his house, but he slept outside of king David’s door along with the servant of his lord.

After David asked Uriah why he didn’t go home like he was told, Uriah replied…II Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

Here is Uriah, a man blessed with a beautiful wife. A wife that’s very beautiful, she got the king’s attention!

When we allow, in all purity, for the transforming and BEAUTIFUL work of the Holy Spirit to take root within us and creating in us a desperate heart for the Lord, you then know you indeed are blessed and have the King’s attention, because covenant is shared between you and Him through repentance, baptism, and the transforming filling of the Holy Ghost in Christ Jesus!

You see, Uriah knew he was blessed, but his heart was after The Blesser! He doesn’t mention in his reasoning first that his heart was out to please King David, but he says…The Ark! In other words…the presence of God! Uriah, as a blessed man who is among the army of the promising, blessed, and elect of the Lord, Israel, he knew the mandate and call to be a people seeking to be before the presence of God!

Uriah also mentions of Israel and Judah, both the promised and victorious warriors of the kingdom of David by God, of how they abide in tents because the ark, the presence of God abided in a tent!

Brothers and sisters, we as children of God, soldiers of righteousness should do whatever the presence of God does and be wherever the presence of God is! Uriah wasn’t a special individual called to prophesy to nations or receive a kingdom, but he was among and part of the elect, just as we ought to be among and PART OF the church!

Uriah continues to mention of Joab and his servants abiding in open fields! The captain of the army and all who serve under him encamped in the open fields!

I just want to encourage us all that we as a church are called to encamp in open fields, in open prophetic visions! We are not to leave the captain, the Pastor, the man of God over the house of God’s army, servants, and children alone in the field, but abide with the Pastor before the presence of God! Because if we do that, then we are seeking out the Blesser rather than the blessing! The Bible says, But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33!

We at times can wonder; why is it that we don’t hear, feel or see any sense of heavenly divine direction for our lives? Well the issue is not what he have by virtue of blessing, but the issue is what we are seeking after by virtue of purpose!

You see, in Uriah’s heart and mind, as a fellow soldier of Israel’s army, there was a standard of purpose! The issue wasn’t his blessing, his wife or anything else God gave him, but he knew the issue was the purpose of why he was a soldier in the army! We may have been away from the open field geographically, but by heart he was there, which resulted in an action of him sleeping outside. Like Paul said, (7) For we walk by faith, not by sight (8) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. II Corinthians 5:7-8. Uriah was absent from the body or in other words, he was absent from the Army, but He was present with the Lord, because if the ark which held presence of the Lord was outside, then so was Uriah outside!

I encourage us all; seek first the Blesser, which is Christ Jesus! The blessing is great, but the Lord is our inheritance! Never let the blessing take place of the Lord in your heart! Don’t be like the rich young ruler who was not able to give up his riches to the poor and follow Jesus! (Luke18:17-24) The Lord isn’t against us being wealthy, but He is against the wealth taking place of Him and His purpose within our hearts! For do you know that it is very hard for one to enter the Kingdom of God when wealth in any form or matter takes dominance in one’s heart than God?

You see, the Lord is our inheritance as we are of a priestly hood, like the Levites in the Old Testament, but now “salvationized” in a new covenant through the blood Jesus by repentance and belief! Also the Lord is our inheritance as we are also of a kingly seed, like David in the Old Testament, but now “kingdomized” in a new covenant through the infilling transforming processed work of the Holy Spirit! So it is the Lord that blesses, not the blessing! The blessing is just a means by which the Lord can bless us through, in a manifested way!

Since the Lord is our inheritance and He is the God of life, we come to realize that the blessing is the life He has given us, because He is preserving His word and purpose in and through us! We can’t live without life or breath! God is the life we are called to live and the breath we are called to breath! (Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 12:7, John 10:10).

Apparently we know the story of Uriah, that David had him to be killed and he died in the front lines of the battle he returned to. However through the word of God, which gives us life, Uriah’s name remains after his physical death. His named remained as Bathsheba’s husband. Just about every time Uriah’s wife was mentioned in scripture, Bathsheba was still noted as Uriah’s wife, the Hittite! Even though David married Bathsheba after the death of her husband, it wasn’t the Lord who struck the child of David’s wife who bore a son unto him, David, but the Lord struck the child of Uriah’s wife which she bare unto David!

Even though God had mercy on David and Bathsheba after their first child was struck dead, there was still a consequence and the Lord announced Bathsheba as Uriah’s wife, just because if God was to address anyone and anything, He addresses it by its original covenant ordained by Him and Him alone! So that, now when we read and think of Bathsheba, not only do we think of her sin, but we think of her husband Uriah, a man that was blessed and had an innocent heart after the presence of God!

Again, be encouraged to seek first The Lord, both our Blesser and our greatest Blessing! We must be obedient unto Him and follow the Holy Spirit’s present move where ever He goes! If we submit it all to Him daily, God will see to it that His name will be preserved, magnified and exalted through your life!

Thank God for His blessings, but we must keep this question in our minds and hearts, that is, is it worth going after the blessing or the Blesser?

John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing

God Bless