OBEDIENCE AND THE BLESSING THEREOF

 “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. ² You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God: ("According to my child's teacher - obedience is doing what you are told to do when you are told to do" - in what areas does the Lord require obedience of us? Are we obedient in such areas ... if yes, read on, if not, ref to Isaiah 1: 18 thus: “Come now, let’s settle this,”says the Lord.“Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow.Though they are red like crimson,I will make them as white as wool  ....Now, come with me and lets believe, declare and confess of the blessing of the Lord!! ³ Your towns and your fields will be blessed ...What has been happening to our towns and fields lately - fires, accidents resulting to horrifying deaths - loss of God's people, who may be did not even know the Lord?  Are we obedient as a nation?  This we need to ask of every blessing that is pronounced?  ⁴ Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed.   ⁵ Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed.   ⁶ Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.   ⁷ “The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!   ⁸ “The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
 ⁹ “If you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways, the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do. ¹⁰ Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the Lord, and they will stand in awe of you.  ¹¹ “The Lord will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops. ¹² The Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them. ¹³ If you listen to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom. ¹⁴ You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow after other gods and worship them.

We are a special people, unique people, called by God to be his children!  We have a rich inheritance and blessing from above.  Do you believe this, do you live it?  Besides being partakers of such an inheritance, the Lord requires us to OBEY him.  In the passage above, the word obey is repeated 4 times!  It is the only condition to all the blessings promised above.  Will you chose to obey the Lord today?  Will you "do what He tells you to do, when He tells you to do it?

Blessings.