I'M PRAISING MY WAY TO MY HARVEST IN THE MIDST OF MY TRIBULATION.

"Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God even our own God, shall bless us." Psalm 67: 5-6

Are you one of God's children that have been waiting with great expectations for blessings from the Lord? Have you been consistently sowing and not experiencing the blessings that you expected to receive?

There is an ingredient that just might be missing in your life that will bring forth the blessing that you have been waiting and desiring to receive.

Anything that you receive from God must come through faith. Where there is no faith there will be no victory. "Without faith it is impossible to please God." Your Heavenly Father expects you to put all of your trust in Him without any wavering or doubt. Even when you do not see anything, you must know that God will not fail you.

When the manifestation that you desire does not come, what do you do? What is your response when everything appears to be falling apart and going in the opposite direction? What comes out of your mouth when the job did not come, the car is not running and the bills are all past due? The majority of people, even those who are children of God will begin to murmur and complain. Speaking and thinking negative will only yield negative results.

God has set forth in His word the plan for overcoming temporary setbacks. 

First of all, you must realize that anyone who achieves great things for God will go through some challenges and obstacles in life. These light afflictions only come to allow us to exercise the faith that God has given to each of His children. The language of faith that moves mountains is praise.

Praising God in the midst of any challenge will cause God’s power to be release in the earth. Most of the children of God spend little or no time praising God. Often times those who do praise or offer up thanksgiving do not realize the power that is being released out into the universe. 

When you praise God the Bible says that He inhabits the praises of His people. God actually gets involved in your praises. This means that His very essence and power is now available to bring forth what you have been waiting for.

Phil 4:6 tells you to have no anxiety about anything. Instead, with prayer and thanksgiving continue to make your wants known to God. 

This means that you are going to continue to thank and praise God for the desired results that you expect to receive.

Your sincere praise brings glory and honor to God. Praise that comes from a sincere heart will always get the attention of our God. The power of God is already at work in the earth. He is just waiting for you to offer up a sacrifice of praise unto Him with a sincere heart.

Even in the most difficult situation when everything appears to be going in the opposite direction; sincere praise can bring forth a harvest in the midst of tribulation.

If you have been waiting for a release of God’s blessings into your life and nothing has happen. Instead of seeing the manifestation of your harvest, things have gotten worst. Just know that praise that is consistent will create a climate for the release that you desire to see come forth from God. After you praise, “then shall the earth yield her increase and God even our God will bless us.

Your faith mixed with praise can bring forth the miraculous power of God into your life.  Become determined to bless the Lord at all times and keep His praise continually coming forth out of your mouth. As the praises go up before our God, the earth must yield her increase and God even our own God will send forth the blessings. Expect to see the miracle working power of God manifested in your life in 2017.

NOT JUST LIFE BUT THE BLESSED LIFE!

GENESIS 1:27-28 (NKJV):

27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

After God created man the first thing he did was bless man. Not just life but the BLESSED LIFE. THE BLESSED LIFE FOLLOWS LIFE.

A blessed life is a life which attracts God's blessing and favor into our environment. How you live determines what you attract into your environment. You shall know them by their FRUIT. God wants to bless his people! NOT JUST LIFE BUT THE BLESSED LIFE!

Deuteronomy 8:18 (NKJV)

18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

God gives us power to get wealth, Faith without works is dead, we have to apply what GOD has given us in order to establish his covenant he made with our fathers. NOT JUST LIFE BUT THE BLESSED LIFE!

God blessed man and woman at creation because he wanted them to live a blessed life. The blessing was the first gift and asset which man received from God. 

Man and woman were created to be an expression of God's blessing. God created man and woman to live a blessed life and not a cursed life.

THE BLESSINGS WHICH WERE GIVEN TO ADAM AT CREATION WAS A SPOKEN BLESSING!

Blessings are transmitted through the spoken word of God.

Numbers 6:23-26 (NKJV):

23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them:24 “The Lord bless you and keep you;25 The Lord make His face shine upon you,And be gracious to you;
26 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,And give you peace.”’

If it is not spoken it will not manifest.

Blessings flow through spiritual authorities which God has established.

It is Priests who carry the authority to bless the flock.

It is parents who carry the authority to bless children.

It is husbands who carry the authority to bless wives.

IT WAS A BLESSING OF INCREASE AND FRUITFULNESS: Increase and fruitfulness is the manifestation of a blessed life. A blessing gives us power for increase and fruitfulness. Whatever carries the blessing will always increase and not decrease. NOT JUST LIFE BUT THE BLESSED LIFE!

 IT WAS A BLESSING OF SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY: A blessing gives you authority and power over the forces of nature and the forces of satan.

 IT WAS A BLESSING OF LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE: God created man to be above and not below, to be the head and not the tail.

Leadership is a blessing from God. The Tribe of Judah received the blessing of leadership and rulership.

MAN WAS BLESSED WITH SEED AT CREATION:  Every blessing from God comes with a seed. God gave seed to perpetuate life and blessing. God has hidden life into a seed. No seed no life. No seed no blessing.

Genesis 8:22 KJV - 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Seed time and harvest will never cease it is a principal application from creation.

A BLESSEDED LIFE IS A CHOICE:

Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV - 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

WE LIVE A BLESSED LIFE BY PUTTING GOD FIRST:  Matthew 6:33 - Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these shall be added unto you.

WE LIVE A BLESSED LIFE THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND FAITH:  Deuteronomy 28:1 - if you fully obey the commands I give you today

WE LIVE A BLESSED LIFE BY BLESSING WHAT GOD HAS BLESSED:  Genesis 12:3 - Whoever blesses you I will bless.

 WE LIVE A BLESSED LIFE THROUGH ACTS OF GENEROSITY: Prov 19:17 KJV ...He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

NOT JUST LIFE BUT THE BLESSED LIFE!