Some people think that the term “spiritual blessing” refers to only non-visible and intangible blessings like peace and joy. To them, God’s promise of “every spiritual blessing” excludes the tangible blessings of health, provision, a healthy marriage and so on. They say things like, “Don’t expect God to remove this tumor because our blessings are only spiritual.”
Beloved, do you know what the word “spiritual” here means? In the original Greek text, it is pneumatikos, which in this context means having properties and characteristics belonging to the Spirit of God. So if you have the pneumatikos blessing of health, for example, it means that it is of the Spirit of God, and therefore does not depend on your exercising or dieting.
A church member had high blood pressure which did not normalize even after he started exercising and eating well. So he stopped being preoccupied with his exercise and diet regimes, and simply rested in the truth that a normal blood pressure was a pneumatikos blessing from God already given to him. In a short time, his blood pressure came down to a healthy level!
The same goes for the pneumatikos blessing of provision. It is of the Spirit of God and does not depend on our toiling seven days a week or monitoring the stock market closely.
A church member, who owns a small company, received her pneumatikos blessing of provision when she believed that God would cause her small company to be publicly listed. He did. In fact, the company was over-subscribed seven times within the first week! Later on, it even made inroads into Middle East. For a woman to find favor in a male-dominated industry like hers, it can only be the pneumatikos blessing of favor, which is not subject to the laws of man.
My friend, believe that you have received every pneumatikos blessing, and you will find yourself enjoying blessings that are eternal, just as God is eternal, and of a quality that only the Spirit of God can give!
"I'M HERE TO TELL YOU" EDITOR'S NOTE
Only God can give you blessings that are lasting and true. Many times we get what we want on our own, but soon it fades or goes away completely. God's blessings are what we need and are given to show that we must depend on Him and not our own work. Hard work is good, but struggling and striving for the things in life is not in God's plan. God's plan is for us to depend on Him. We should rely upon His provisions and His protection, given to us by His providence. When we accept the free gift of salvation and we put our trust in Jesus, it's not just for our salvation, we should trust Jesus for everything. Jesus should be our everything. He is in everything. He made everything and He holds everything together. If we choose to trust in something - anything else, we will come up short. The world scoffs at believers who say that Jesus can do these things. Some believers say "well, it's possible, God can do all things but that's only in the Bible, it's not for me". Yet there are those who believe that all they'll ever need is found in Christ. Those people are right. Today, pray to God and ask Him to show you how to rely upon His Son for everything and not try do for yourself what you are unable and are not capable of doing. Ask to realize that you are unable and that you should stop trying.
