generation. God had made a plan from
the time of Abraham. God knew that
through Jesus everybody would become
righteous by faith. God’s plan is commendable. Till Jesus Christ it was 42
generations. And till the present time we
can add another 20 generations. So God
had drawn a plan to preserve the blessing for 62 generations. Hallelujah! So we
who are of faith are blessed with faithful
Abraham.
Let us analyse the devil’s plan and know
how he fights the blessing. We ought to
know how the devil attacks otherwise;
we will fall into his trap. If we are familiar with him and his ways, we can make
plans to attack him by using our faith.
If we do not use our faith, the devil will
harm us.
Let us see what we can do with our faith.
Ephesians 6: 16 says,
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery
darts of the wicked.
If we hold onto Abrahams’s shield of
faith, we can quench all the fiery darts
of wicked. We can protect our blessing
so that when we pass on the faith to the
next generation, we will overcome the
curse. All the fiery darts of the curse will
be quenched and only the blessing will
remain. But the devil has been successful
in intruding into the church and imputing curse into the church along with the
blessing. For 2000 years, the devil has
victoriously placed sickness, lack, sudden
death etc., in the church.
Galatians 3 : 16 says,
Now to Abraham and his seed were the
promises made. He saith not, And to seeds,
as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ.
God chose Abraham to finally bring out
whom? Jesus! Yes! He chose one man,
preserved him, talked to him, protected
him and blessed him so that he could
bring Jesus out of Abraham. That is the
great plan of God. But why? Because
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tions would receive the blessing of Abraham. The whole earth could be blessed
only through the children of Abraham.
God had a vision. He wanted to protect
the blessing of Abraham till Jesus was
born and then from Jesus, to all nations
to be blessed. Does the church have any
vision? No. The scripture says, “My people are destroyed due to lack of vision.”
We should say, “Amen” to God’s vision.
Confessing what God confesses involves
God on behalf of us, to fulfill his promise through us. God cannot do anything
on his own. He needs a man and for this
reason, he preserved the generations. We
ask God to do something. But he says,
“You do”. A fearful and unbelieving person says that only God can do. Unbelievers and timid people say, “God you do
first”. But God says, “You first!”
Satan started his attack from Abraham’s
time. When we are blessed, Satan will attack us by putting us in bondage. What
is the meaning of a blessing? Blessing
means deliverance, freedom, liberty,
abundance, healing, long life, etc. But
Satan has put the church in bondage of
sickness, poverty, debts, sudden or unexpected death, various diseases, fear of
death etc.
Satan tried to put Sarah in bondage. Let
us examine how?
Galatians 4: 28-29 says,
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the
children of promise. But as then he that was
born after the flesh persecuted him that was
born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Ishmael troubled Isaac. Hagar troubled
and tortured Sarah. The devil wants to
somehow enter and torture the blessing.
Satan has started the torture even in the
church but we have not yet realized it.
The church never thought that they were
in bondage and needed to come out of it.
The devil blinds our eyes to the bondages. The light came onto the people but
they could not see it as they were in darkness. The church could not comprehend
that it was in darkness. We need to know
our bondages so that we could come out
of them. If the devil is identified, 90%
of the problem will be solved. Godliness
is a mystery and iniquity is also a mystery. We cannot see and comprehend it.
Galatians 4: 30-31 says,
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