To Receive Blessings from God Through Obedience

As to Receiving blessings from God for He is the God of grace. Why is it so important in ones life to receive His blessings and how does His blessings benefit us? Through exploring God’s blessings by following the course of obedience, the children of God can expect to see the gifts of God coming their way, for God rewards those He loves, and His rewards come through blessings in many ways.

We as the children of God, not only have the opportunity to receive the blessings from God, but we also have the opportunity to share God’s blessing with others so they too can become God's children and have a shear in His rewards. One can be a blessing to his fellowman by following the course of obedience to God. The association of such ones whom God blesses brings blessings to others. (Gen 30:27, 30)

Receiving blessings from God is contingent on obedience to Him.(Ex 23:25) God’s blessing rest upon the obedient ones, producing spiritual prosperity and filling their material needs, making itself evident in their homes, their land, their off spring, their animals, their food supply, their traveling, and in their every deed.

God’s blessings is for “the head of the righteous one.” (Prov 10:6-7) When we, as true Christians are faithfully obedient to His word, He is pleased to ‘open the floodgates of the heavens and actually empty out His blessings until there is no more want.’ (Mal 3:10)

Since the keyword is obedience in wining God’s favor, to receive His blessings, let us look at how Paul refers to obedience bringing blessings. In Rom 10:17, 16:26, (compare Acts 6:7) he shows that hearing plus faith produces obedience. Since true faith is the “assure expectation of things hoped for” and “the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld,” and since it requires believing that God is “and that he becomes the rewarder of those earnestly seeking Him,” those having faith are moved to obey, having confidence and assurance as to the blessings that obedience will bring. (Heb 11:1-6)

There are times when the blessings from God comes after one goes through hard times and remains obedient to the Word of God, as Joseph did. Joseph was hated by his half brothers and sold into slavery. They hated him so much that they sold him to the merchant traders that were passing through for twenty silver pieces, even though he pleaded for compassion. (Gen 37:28; 42:21)

Eventually, the merchant traders brought Joseph into Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the chief of Pharaoh’s body guard. (Gen 37:36) Even then he stayed obedient to God and showed himself trustworthy to Potiphar. With the blessings from God, every thing that Joseph did turned out successfully. When Potiphar entrusted Joseph as overseer of his house, all that he had he put under Joseph’s authority. (Gen 39:2-6)

Because of Potiphar’s wife, Joseph got thrown into prison where the king’s prisoners were kept. (Gen 39:11-20) Later, however, the chief officer of the prison house, (because of Joseph’s exemplary conduct under adverse circumstances and therefore God’s blessing being upon him), placed Joseph in a position of trust over the other prisoners. In this capacity, the prisoner Joseph, again through obedience, showed himself to be an able administrator by seeing to it that all the work was done. (Gen 39:21-33)

Again restored to his position, the cupbearer forgot all about Joseph for two full years, until Pharaoh had two dreams and no one could interpret the dreams. It was then that the cupbearer brought Joseph to Pharaoh’s attention and at once Pharaoh sent for him. Joseph through his spiritual blessings, explained both of the dreams to Pharaoh, the one of plenty and the one of famine. Additionally, he recommended measures for alleviating the future conditions for the blessings from God was with him. (Gen 41:1-36)

Through God’s blessing Pharaoh recognized that the spiritual blessings of God was with Joseph and that he was wise enough to administer affairs during the time of plenty and the time of famine. Joseph was therefore blessed and constituted second ruler in Egypt, Pharaoh giving Joseph his own signet ring, fine linen garments and a necklace of gold. (Gen 41:37-44) The scheme of Joseph’s brothers to harm him proved to be God’s Blessing with the means of saving them from starvation.

The blessings from God also was to be experienced by the tribes to descend from Joseph through Ephraim and Manasseh. Said Jacob: He the [the Almighty] will bless you with the blessings of the heavens above, with the blessings of the watery deep lying down below ,with the blessings of the breasts and womb. (Gen 49:25) This assured Josephs descendants of needed water supplies from heaven and from underground, as well as a large population .Compare Deuteronomy 33:13-16; Joshua 17:14-18.

The blessings that Jacob pronounced upon his beloved son Joseph were to be like an ornament to the two tribes to spring from Joseph. These blessings were to be an ornament superior to the blessings of forests and springs that adorn the eternal mountains and the indefinitely lasting hills. They were to be a permanent blessings, continuing upon the head of Joseph and of those descended from him just as long as mountains and hills continued.-Gen.49:26; Deut.33;16.

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