I know many people have been taught in their various places of worship to sit and keep waiting for God to come to bless them in their due time that their turn will come.
This wrong teaching has kept many people down for decades like the cripple by the pool of Bethsaida waiting for the seasonal turning of the pool for the first and the fastest to jump into it to be blessed.
The truth is God is not in the business of a turn by turn blessings of his people neither is he in the business of the seasonal blessing of the believers.
I know many people often got this idea that God is in the business of the turn-by-turn blessing of the believers from the Bible verse that says
“I return and I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the men of understanding nor yet favour to the men of skills, but time and chance happen to them all.” Ecl 9:11.
The truth is this statement wasn’t addressed to the believers in Christ Jesus of today.
That statement was addressing the unbelievers of the world then and not the believers.
You will understand that even king Solomon that made such a statement wasn’t himself born again then. He was just expressing his observation of the occurrences of his world at that time. The truth is, that statement does not apply to the life of believers of today. Neither does it define the life of a believer.
As a believer, you are God’s special breed on earth.
What happens to everyone in the world does not apply to you.
It is the reason the Bible will tell us that therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new._2corithian 5:17.
It is also the reason we carry the badge of another kingdom identity even while we are in this world.
So the message of a turn-by-turn blessing of the lord as addressed by King Solomon was for the material acquisition of the people then on earth. But that shouldn’t even be the best message to the unbelievers who are not yet saved.
The supposed message to the unbelievers should be the message of salvation and that message was preached to many of them and they didn’t believe it. The right message to such people then should be about convincing them to believe and receive the finished work of Christ on the cross.
But the message I see in most churches today is like telling the believers, like the cripple at the pool of Bethsaida that God will make them the first person to jump into the pool of blessing like that of the pool of Bethsaida to receive their blessing, their healing and their miracle job in Jesus name. And the people shouting the loudest amen even though knowing such a prayer is an impossible prayer and can never be answered by God and should never be prayed.
The reason is that such a prayer is not the will of God for the believers. Praying such a prayer for the people of God is like going against the will of God for the people. To God, such a prayer is a sin before God and can never be answered by God.
With such a prayer, it is like taking the people back to their unbelieving state.
I know many people will be wondering if such prayers have worked for them over the years, that if it is not God that has been answering those prayers, who else must have been answering such prayers?
The truth is I can’t tell. Maybe it has been an angel that has been answering such prayers, or something else and maybe they weren’t even answered but many thought they were.
Remember it was an angel that was responsible for the seasonal turning of the water by the pool of Bethsaida..so also we can’t tell who also have being answering the prayer of seasonal blessing we have been praying for.
While the right message or prayer for the believers should be to teach them to know their right in the kingdom by making them understand how Christ has made the healing and the blessing they seek to get available for anyone that cares to believe without having to shout the loudest or to jump into any pool or to climb the highest mountain or to fast and cry the most in their place of prayer to receive the blessings. But to just believe like the same cripple at the pool of Bethsaida who didn’t have to jump into any pool to receive his blessing or healing in Christ Jesus.
The truth is the supposed message for the believers is the unveiling of the kingdom’s right to the believers so that they can know their kingdom right and their identity in Christ that set them free.
By this, they will be able to know what God had done for them and also know what they have been called to do for God here in this world.
The truth is the day you gave your life to Christ that day you have come into the blessing of God for your life.
You are expected to live with this consciousness all your life that brings you the reality of your blessings.
All you needed to do to receive your blessing is to just believe that you are blessed and healed already.
This is the will of God for the believer. It is God’s will for his children. It was the reason Jesus went to end the invention of the pool of Bethsaida by healing the cripple without having to ask him to wait for the seasonal turning of the water like every seasonal move of God program designed by most preachers before the people can receive their blessing.
The truth is you do not have to wait for that seasonal programme designed by a man before you can receive your blessing.
