HEAVENLY BLESSINGS

1. Do we have a testimony?

a) A great cloud of witnesses in Revelation 12: 10 - 11 triumphed over Satan, the accuser of our brothers and sisters by the word of their testimony.

i) 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. 11 They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. (Revelation 12:10, 11 NIV)

2. What does the Scripture say about heavenly blessings?

a) 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. (Malachi 3:10 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Many gates in one heaven for flood of blessings. This heaven talks about 'tithing'.

b) 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. (Genesis 7:11, 12 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Many gates in many heavens for flood of blessings. These heavens represent heaven of health, heaven of wealth, heaven of spiritual growth etc.

ii) Rain always represents blessings, divine favors and grace (unmerited favor).

c) 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. (Genesis 8:2 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Heavens can be opened and heavens can be closed. That depends on our choices.

ii) Choice entails making decision. Without making a decision, we would not experience any miracle. When making decision, choose the right ones.

d) 19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Our God is God of generations (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob). He is thinking of our future generations of godly offsprings.

e) 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. 20 You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?" 21 I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. 22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in. (Leviticus 25:19-22 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Miracle of abundance, overflowing i.e. on the 6th year, we will have 3 yearly crops. This means we receive double portion for 7th year. One for 6th year and two for 7th year lasting to the 8th year.

f) 9 "'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. (Leviticus 26:9, 10 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) We will receive such a surplus of crops that we would not know what to do with them when the new harvest is ready!

g) 47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. 48 Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. 49 Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure. (Genesis 41:47-49 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Shout "Abundance, Super Abundance" for overflowing of God's blessings. That's in the mind of God for us.

h) 10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (Deuteronomy 6:10-12 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) Supernatural provisions or divine favors.

ii) The blessing of God is without sorrow (Proverbs 10: 22).

i) 3 I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. (Isaiah 45:3 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) There are things that we have lost and the thief (Satan) has stolen them and hidden them in secret places. God only knows where to find them and we have to listen to what He has to say in order to recover them.

j) Restoration of favors hijacked.

@1. Highlights:

i) Have we faced a situation where we are getting close to a business deal but somehow it does not get materialized?

ii) Have we faced a situation where we are always losers and all monies are somehow lost in stock market?

iii) Have we faced a situation where our company shares are dropping instead of rising up?

iv) Have we faced a situation where there is always not enough to pay our bills and we faced a deficit in our expenditure?

v) Have we faced a situation where we are always in need despite of having such a high income?

k) 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) 'Steal' - spirit of hijacking (stubborn spirit) our blessings, breakthrough, what is rightfully due to us.

ii) 'Kill' - spirit of death e.g. suicide, taking own life.

iii) 'Destroy' - spirit of destruction e.g. unfulfilled dreams, plans, unsuccessful business venture etc.

l) 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. (1 John 3:8 NIV)

m) 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:12 NIV)

n) 26 I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing. 27 The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them. (Ezekiel 34:26, 27 NIV)

@1. Highlights:

i) All our treasures have been stolen by darkness and our riches kept in secret places. God wants to give us back our treasures and riches rightfully belong to us (Isaiah 45: 3).

3. Prayer focus

a) Pray for God's abundance overflowing in our lives with heavenly blessings.

b) Pray for treasures of darkness and riches stored in secret places to rightfully return to us.