READ:
GENESIS 27:1-29
You can
provoke God. There are certain things you can do to cause God to arise and
bless you. Nothing happens by chance. Every occurrence has an antecedent. A
curse would not come except there is reason for it. The simplest way to prepare
yourself for blessings, according to the Scriptures, is by making someone happy
to the extent that he would pronounce a blessing on you. We have an example in
our text: “Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and
go out to the field and hunt game for me. And make me savory food, such as I
love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I
die.” When someone’s soul blesses you it is the deepest kind of
blessing. Isaac asked his son, Esau, to make him happy by preparing his best
food for him so that when he pronounced the blessings, it would work. When some
who has the authority to bless you does so and there is a reason for it, you
can be sure that it would work. In Genesis 22, after Gold told Abraham to give
Him his son Isaac, he did not disobey. Because of this, God pronounced
blessings on him. “...because you have done this thing...in blessing I will bless you, and
in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and
as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the
gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” Abraham made God happy and
God blessed him and his seed (Genesis 22:16-18). You can provoke God to bless
you by doing things that will gladden His heart. All you have to do is to
locate what you will do to make God lavish His blessings on you. Carry out
those things and you will be blessed.
MEMORIZE:
GENESIS 22:17 –In blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the
seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
