When I was walking close to God, I was blessed with tremendous blessings. I became a Christian in January 1982, when I was 15 years old. I was studying Form 3 in La Salle Secondary School, Petaling Jaya then.
I soon became a committed believer. God blessed me tremendously in my studies. Although I spent average of one hour for personal devotion (including bible study, prayer and meditation) daily, I was doing well in my studies. For the public exam at year end of Form 3, SRP, I scored 7As out of 8 subjects. I believed that if I gave my time to God, this would not be in vain. Somehow, my study became more effective. I spent less time than my friends in study and revision, yet scored better results. God is Great!!
To start off this season.... I would like to commence with my all-time favorite, Deuteronomy 28.
28 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
If obey God and do what is right before God, we will be blessed with many blessings, in abundance. God rewards his faithful sons, his faithful and obedient believers.
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
We will be well blessed wherever we go, wherever we are. We will be blessed wherever we work, wherever we conduct our business. God is with us.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
Our children will be blessed. We will be successful in our work. We will get be successful in our career and business. We will get good income. We will be respected among our peers, by our superiors, and by our subordinates. We will be favoured by our Customers due to our fruitful work. God will bless everything that we do. We will be blessed with sufficient food and money. We will be free of financial difficulties.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
Wherever we go, we will be blessed. We will be blessed when we are at our own place, and also blessed when we venture overseas or far away. God's blessings will follow us everywhere we go.
7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
We will have victory over our enemies and our competitors. We will perform better than our competitors. We will be winners.
8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
God will bless our storehouse (our bank accounts and investments). Not only we will sufficient, we will abundance to be able to store up for the future. God will bless our abundance - extra money, extra properties, our investments. God will bless everything that we do. God will bless every venture and business that we do. God will bless us in Malaysia, the land we are living in.
9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. 11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
God will give us abundance of prosperity. God will bless our children. God will bless our work and our business. God will bless us wherever we are.
12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
God will pour down his blessings upon us. Our work and business will be greatly successful. God will make us the Leader, and not lagging behind. We will be the cream. We will be the top 20%, and not the ordinary 80% (Pareto 80/20 principle).
We will have excess money to invest. We don't need loans. We have so much extra money.
If we carefully listen to God and obey God, we will always be Top Performer, we will never be underperforming. We will always be better than the Average people.
Do turn aside from following God. Do not deviate and focus on other distracting, worldly desires. Focus on God, and everything will come to us.
Let us make God our first priority. If we listen to God, if we obey God, we are promised with many bountiful blessings.
In conclusion, the best investment ever is to invest in God. Invest in God, and we are promised with high returns (many blessings).
Thursday, Dec 26, 2013.
Michael Yeap.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2028&version=NIV
P/S: If we disobey God, it will be reversed. Obey God, many rewards and blessings will follow. Vice versa, disobey God, many difficulties will happen.
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