‘Blessing’ - DefinedBARUCH – to bless – “to kneel down

before someone” (Lit).

Spiritual connotation is “to empower to prosper”

HEBRAIC TRANSLATION – Num. 6:22f“YHVH will kneel before you presenting gifts

and He will guard you with a hedge of protection. YHVH will illuminate the wholeness of His Being towards you, bringing order, and He will provide you with love, sustenance, and friendship, YHVH will lift up the wholeness of

His Being and look upon you, and He will set in place all you need to be whole and complete.”

Deuteronomy 30:1-30 (NIV)

19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before

you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may

live 

1. Blessings are still real today

‘… blessings and curses. Now choose life …’ 

 Genesis 27:27 – 30 (NIV)

27 So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,

"Ah, the smell of my son      is like the smell of a field

     that the LORD has blessed. 28 May God give you of heaven's dew

     and of earth's richness -     an abundance of grain and new wine.

29 May nations serve you      and peoples bow down to you.

Be lord over your brothers,      and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.

May those who curse you be cursed      and those who bless you be blessed."

 

This is what a spiritual blessing looks like:

• It’s spoken: words release blessing• It’s deeply intimate: kiss, personal

recollections • It always has a measure of prophecy in

it • It’s certain – Isaac could not revoke it • It’s powerful - it shaped both Jacob’s &

Esau’s future

2. If blessings are real today, so are curses

‘… blessings and curses. Now choose life …’

 

Jude 1:6 (NIV)

And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned

their own home …

 Judges 6:12-15 (NIV)12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to

Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior." 13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out

of Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian." 14 The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?" 15 "But Lord, " Gideon asked, "how can I

save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."

3. You CAN choose!

Have you listened to yourself recently?

 “Believing you are stupid will ultimately cause you to act stupid which reinforces

the lie that you are stupid.” As Forest Gump said, “Stupid is as

stupid does”

 23 "Tell Aaron and his sons, 'This is

how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: ….”

 27 “In so doing, they will place my name on the People of Israel— I will

confirm it by blessing them.If you say it – God will do it!”

3. You CAN choose!

Change your school, college, small group, work place. Change our

nation.

3. You CAN choose!

Inspire someone’s life

 3. You CAN choose!How do you say something tough to

someone without cursing them  

Proverbs 27:6 (NIV)6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend,

but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

 3. You CAN choose!What happens when someone speaks a curse over you – does it

stick even though you don’t want it.

Proverbs 26:2 (NIV)"Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow an undeserved curse does not

come to rest" 

 

 19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I

have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children

may live