The Blessing

Proverbs 10:22, "The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." (KJV)

One of the greatest breakthroughs in life is gaining the ability of knowledge and one of the greatest achievements in life is being able to metamorphose your knowledge into wisdom. But an even greater thing in life is having a God given ability to apply wisdom with understanding.

As we said yesterday, being rich or poor is determined by the occupant of your head office. You need to treat and take your head as an office, where you fire and hire with understanding. Therefore, understanding is made the human resource manager, it is he that determines who should be hired to head the head and who should be fired from the head.
There are numerous sources of knowledge, because knowledge is what can be learnt.  You can learn from books, from people, from experiences, etc., and all this becomes knowledge.
But the ability to apply the knowledge is God given. This is why the Bible says that, "The fear of the LORD, is the beginning of wisdom". It means that when you start to revere God, the moment you acknowledge that nothing is or shall ever be without Him, that is the moment you start accessing the understanding needed to apply the knowledge gained.
The opposite of a wise person is a fool. And this is why the Bible rightly tells us that, "A fool says in his heart, "there is no God"". Any person that starts to think there is no God, only ends shutting every door that may lead them into converting knowledge in wisdom. This is why most atheists sound very knowledgeable, but if you try to look at everything they are saying you reduce it to nought.

It is possible to have a lot of knowledge, but lack wisdom. Because the opposite of knowledge is not foolishness but ignorance,  it is possible therefore to be a knowledgeable fool. And this is a deadly combination.
It is also possible to have all you need to access wisdom, but still limit yourself because of lacking knowledge. We all need to know that you can only get ice if you freeze water. Therefore, you must have the water in the first place. You can only be wise, depending on the knowledge you have.
God asked Moses, "What do you have in your hands". Elisha asked the widow who was in debt, "What do you have in your house". Paul tells us that, "Out of the darkness light was born in the beginning". Jesus did not bake bread in the desert, He multiplied what was already there. The first commandment that God gave to man after creation was, "be fruitful" and the He added, "and multiply".

Because unless you are fruitful first, then there is no need to sit and expect multiplication. This is why Jesus said, "Give!" Because after you have gained the ability to give that is when, "it shall come back to you, multiplied, shaken together and running over".
People are destroyed because they lack knowledge. They sit and wait for God to drop everything from heaven without them having to invest anything. And when it doesn't happen, they blame God for abandoning them. God has not abandoned you, He is always waiting for you to bring what you would want to invest, so that, He on His side can multiply it.
The blessing of God maketh rich, so, it is not the riches that make you the blessed. And as we have continually repeated, being rich is more about a mental shift than it is about material gain.

Therefore, what the word is telling us is that, "The blessing of God, empowers your mind with positive ideas", of what to invest so that God who is a multiplier of the little you have in your hands, can come and multiply it.
Without a vision, people perish. Therefore, so far I have learnt from the Bible that there are three things that can make you perish: Sin, ignorance and mental blindness.
Because, Jesus said that He came so that those who believe in Him *should not perish.* And we have earlier mentioned that, people perish because they are ignorant, not because they are fools. And without a vision, you will also perish, a vision is an ability to create a mental picture of where you are going, it is an ability to see with your mind, what your eyes cannot see. If you cannot picture heaven and how heaven will be, then it means you are most probably not headed there. People who are going to heaven pause from time to time and think how heaven will be, they see the streets of gold, the joy, and all those things; now, that is a person who is headed there.

You cannot go to a place you don't know, or you don't have an idea of. People who continuously think of hell and picture hell, are most probably headed there. What you think of much, is what you eventually become.
Back to blessedness, We said, "Being blessed is the ability to know what ought to be done, when it ought to be done and where it needs to be done". A curse is the opposite of a blessing, It is the inability to know the right door, a misunderstanding of time that makes people end up in the wrong place.

I must finish this by saying this, being rich does not necessarily mean being wealthy, many people are rich, but very few people are wealthy. Always remember that the blessing of God only makes you rich, but it is not until you become fruitful in your riches (your God given ideas) that you become wealthy. Being wealthy is a multiplication of riches. Many people have settled in just being rich, I sit down with people and hear them pour out ideas after ideas, but that is all they do. If only they could be fruitful in their riches, then God would not fail to multiply it into wealth. Being wealthy does not come from having ideas, it comes from the application of ideas and the multiplication thereof of those ideas by God.
Shalom and keep the faith.



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