Kingdom Blessings – Christ Revealed and Exalted

 

The Cross of Christ was/is a blessing that is greatly misunderstood in my humble opinion. A true blessings such as the Cross of Christ is the giving of oneself regardless of monetary, commercialism, self seeking even unto one’s death. True blessings don’t seek reward, recognition, notoriety or advancement. Real blessings are given even when it concerns life and death such as Christ Jesus blessing us with eternal life through His death and resurrection. To receive the blessings of the Kingdom you must accept the sacrifice of the Cross of Christ don’t confuse earthly rewards, prestige or worldliness with Kingdom blessings. The Lord will have no part of it as you glorify the idols of your heart. It is Christ that must be glorified and exalted.

We are to reveal Christ Jesus just as Jesus revealed the Father and being a blessing to others is part of revealing Christ in us the hope of Glory! 

1 Kings 17:8–24 (AMP)
8 And the word of the Lord came to him: 
9 Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you. 
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 
11 As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. 
12 And she said, As the Lord your God lives, I have not a loaf baked but only a handful of meal in the jar and a little oil in the bottle. See, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it—and die. 
13 Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said. But make me a little cake of [it] first and bring it to me, and afterward prepare some for yourself and your son. 
14 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall not waste away or the bottle of oil fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth. 
15 She did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 
16 The jar of meal was not spent nor did the bottle of oil fail, according to the word which the Lord spoke through Elijah. 
17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. 
18 And she said to Elijah, What have you against me, O man of God? Have you come to me to call my sin to remembrance and to slay my son? 
19 He said to her, Give me your son. And he took him from her bosom and carried him up into the chamber where he stayed and laid him upon his own bed. 
20 And Elijah cried to the Lord and said, O Lord my God, have You brought further calamity upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 
21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, O Lord my God, I pray You, let this child’s soul come back into him. 
22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 
23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the [lower part of the] house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, your son is alive! 
24 And the woman said to Elijah, By this I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.

Are you a blessing to the needy, the widows and the orphans? Do you bless people even when it costs you your very most. Did not Jesus multiply the loaves of bread and fish! 

 

Matthew 25:40–46 (AMP)

40 And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me. [Prov. 19:17.]

41 Then He will say to those at His left hand, Begone from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels! 

42 For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, 

43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me and entertain Me, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me with help and ministering care. 

44 Then they also [in their turn] will answer, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You? 

45 And He will reply to them, Solemnly I declare to you, in so far as you failed to do it for the least [in the estimation of men] of these, you failed to do it for Me. [Prov. 14:31; 17:5.]

 

46 Then they will go away into eternal punishment, but those who are just and upright and in right standing with God into eternal life. [Dan. 12:2.]

Psalm 37:25 (AMP)
25 I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread.

James 1:27 (AMP)
27 External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.