The Complete Blessing

“I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ”

(Romans 15:29, NIV)

As believers in Jesus, we have what the Scripture calls “the blessing.” It’s God’s empowerment, His divine enablement to accomplish the dreams He’s given us. The blessing is simply God’s favor on your life. It’s when He’s breathing in your direction. When you walk in the blessing, you make good decisions. You see supernatural opportunities. The right people come across your path. You realize it’s not your own strength or ability; it’s the blessing of God on your life.

We’ve all experienced a measure of this blessing. We’ve seen a measure of God’s favor. But I believe there is a level of blessing that God wants to release in your life like nothing you’ve ever seen before. He wants you to experience the fullness of His blessing. That word “fullness” means “to the highest degree and the greatest measure.”

Today, I encourage you to open up your heart and mind up to receive the fullness, the highest and greatest measure, of His favor and blessing. Don’t settle where you are. Instead, look for ways to yield yourself more to Him and allow Him to work in your life to a greater degree. Through faith and patience, you will inherit His promises and enjoy the abundant life He has prepared for you!


Let Us Pray...
Father God, thank You for Your goodness and faithfulness. Thank You for increasing in me as I yield myself to You. Help me to be more like You, full of Your love and goodness as I receive Your favor and blessing upon my life today. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

State Your Declaration: FREEDOM!

“You have been set free from sin...”
(Romans 6:18, NIV)


In America, we celebrate Independence Day. July 4, 1776 was the day America declared her independence, but the battle for freedom went on until 1783 — seven years later. Even though the people declared their freedom in 1776, they had to stand and fight for many years before the British would accept and recognized the United States of America.

In the same way, we have to declare our freedom and be determined to stand against the opposing forces in our lives. We have to declare our freedom from addiction, poverty, sickness and lack. We have to stand and fight until we fully experience His freedom and the peace that He has promised.

I love what the early colonists did once they signed the Declaration of Independence. They read it out loud in public. They published it in the newspaper. They spread the word. They continued to declare and celebrate even though they were in the midst of the battle.

Whatever battle you may be facing today, declare that you are free! Declare that you are an overcomer! Celebrate now because the victory you seek is on the way!


Let Us Pray Then...

Heavenly Father, thank You for setting me free in every area of my life. I declare today that nothing can hold me back. I declare that I am free from sickness, poverty, lack and addiction. I declare that You have set me free and thank You for freedom and discipline in every area of my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Your Body Will Always Be Dead...

because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God.

                                                                                                                                          -Romans 8:10

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That is why it is in important that you let the Spirit dwell within you.

So What Does All This Mean?

Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

                                                                                                                                        -Romans 9:30

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Indeed this puts things into certain perspective with regards to separation. If you were not a Jew it was thought you did not stand a chance to receive the blessings that God had for the you since the Jews were the chosen people. But after the apostles were going around and teaching the Good News and Peter baptized 3000, it was asked if anyone could stop these people from receiving the goodness of God. As long as one obedient to His commands, meditate day and night and wholeheartedly believes in the actions of God, he wil receive his blessings. Maybe not in the fastest time but a thousand days is like 1 hour to God!

The Law Was Without Power...

because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering to pay for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin. He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.

                                                                                                                                        -Romans 8:3-4

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This answers a lot of the elusive mystery regarding why God did what he did regarding His very own Son who offered the BIGGEST sacrifice anyone could have ever imagined!

But People Cannot Do Any Work...

that will make them right with God. So they must TRUST in him, who makes even evil people right in his sight. Then God accepts their faith, and that makes them right with him.

                                                                                                                                              -Romans 4:5

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Trust is the key word here. We must trust in Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.

God Makes People Right...

with himself through their faith in Jesus Christ. This is true for all who believe in Christ, because all people are the same.

                                                                                                                              -Romans 3:22

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And because God has the ability to change us from within makes it even more clear his AWESOME POWER in everyday, regular routine matters.

So what does this say? That we should know that Jesus is our righteousness.

And since we have been right with God....

by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ.

                                                                                                         -Romans 5:1

JESUS IS YOUR LOVE

But God shows his great love for us in this way; Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

Romans 5:8

Romans 14:8 say that...

If we live, we are living for the Lord, and if we die, we are dying for the Lord. So living or dying, we belong to the Lord.

And Romans 12:1-2 mentions...

So brothers and sisters, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship. Do not changes yourselves to be like the people of this world, but be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

Romans 6:13-16 says...

Do not offer the parts of your body to serve as sin, as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good. Sin will not be your master, because you are not under the law but under God's grace. So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No! Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves to that person, which brings spiritual death, or you can obey God, which makes you right with him.