Have you ever wondered how to receive God’s excellence? There are a couple ways of receiving from God, one is by a miracle, the other is by a blessing and most people don’t understand the clear distinction between the two, so let’s examine this and try to make a distinction and show you differences between a blessing and a miracle. In reality, a blessing is actually God’s best and blessings are controlled by natural and spiritual laws. There are things that you have to do to cooperate with the natural laws that God created and the spiritual laws that God created. And a lot of people don’t like this because they just want to live their life completely contrary to the instructions of God, and then when they get in trouble, just pray for a miracle and you know what, you can receive a miracle! Most people believe in them, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to nearly every person, but that’s not God’s best. God wants you to learn how to do things in the natural and in the spiritual, so that you can cooperate with his laws and then you’re just so blessed that you never even have to deal with a crisis. A blessing is actually much greater than a miracle. If you need a miracle well then get one, there’s nothing wrong with that, but, don’t stay there. The only thing that can overrule or cancel out the blessing of God is your unbelief. God doesn’t give the blessings based on your goodness, your holiness. It’s not based on whether or not you’re doing everything right, its just based on whether or not you truly believe God. There are some laws that you have to learn to tap into but its not based on your holiness. You’ll never do everything correctly and you have to activate the blessing of God by speaking it. What are some of the blessings of God? What is it that we are supposed to be receiving. A common passage of Scripture says … my people perish for a lack of knowledge...and I think a lot of Christians are perishing because they just don’t know what God has really done for them. Sad to say that our mainstream religion today, has watered down what Jesus has done. I don’t know all the reasons, but its my opinion that the reason most churches don’t really preach total victory, is because that would put them on the spot and then how do they deal with it when total victory doesn’t come and basically most churches just go to a person when something doesn’t work and say, "Well it must not have been God’s will and they just blame it on God". But there are things that happen all the time that aren’t God’s will. It is not God’s will for people to be sick. It is not God’s will for you to be poor. It is not God’s will for you to get a divorce. God doesn’t will those things. He loves you. If you’ve done those things, or if you’ve had them happen to you God still loves you. God has ordained and commanded total victory for us. A lot of people don’t believe this because their life may represent and show a lack of victory so it’s a lot easier to say..."you know I just don’t think God does those things anymore, and God did this or allowed it to happen to teach you something." That’s not what the Word of God teaches. I believe God does want us to have total victory but not very many people are preaching it, so a lot of people don’t really know what our Rights and Priviledges are ...what the blessings are that God has spoken over us and if you don’t know what God wants you to have ...then you won’t receive it. Perhaps you need to be shown through the Bible, which are God’s promises to us anyway. Pretty safe to say, if you look up the concordance in the back of the Bible, you will find many passages to research under Blessings.

Submitted by Jacki Finney at www.kennelcrates.com