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Authors: Joseph Prince
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You can never be cursed! No generational curse or any other curse can come upon you because God has already blessed you! That includes being redeemed from the curse of the law as recorded in Galatians 3:13: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’).”
When your enemies say negative things about you out of envy, jealousy, and fear, or if there are people spreading nasty lies about you to assassinate your character, know this: the Lord is your defender. It is God who gives influence to words, and He can cause their words to fall to the ground. He can even, as we have just read, turn their curses into blessings. You don’t have to get all flustered, agitated, and angry. Just know that the Lord is on your side and that when He has blessed you, no one can reverse it. Amen!
I want this right belief to sink deep into your heart:
in Christ Jesus, you are irreversibly blessed
. No matter how dire your circumstances may seem right now, put a smile on your face and a spring in your step. Whom the Lord has blessed, no one can curse! God is going to see you through this difficult patch. Things are going to turn around for your good. You don’t have to live in disappointment, discouragement, and despair. As you can see in the biblical account of Balaam, if God is on your side, who can be against you?
Today’s Thought
In Christ Jesus, I am irreversibly blessed.
Today’s Prayer
Father, thank You that in Christ Jesus I am blessed and no one and nothing can reverse this. Your Word says that Jesus has redeemed me from every curse including generational curses, so I don’t have to live life afraid of bad things that may happen to me. I can live life with boldness and freedom from fear. Because You are for me, I also don’t have to be afraid of what others say about me. You will even turn others’ curses into blessings. Thank You for putting strength in my heart through Your Word and for showing me Your grace today. Amen.
What God Doesn’t See
Today’s Scripture
“He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel.”
N UMBERS 23:21
T oday’s scripture is part of the irreversible blessing we read about yesterday that God placed in Balaam’s mouth. It gives us even more reason to rejoice as we learn to see what God sees. Take a closer look at what God says in the verse above and just pause for a moment. Was there iniquity in Israel? (When God used the word “Jacob” here, He was referring to all the children of Israel.) Was there any sin in Israel? Or was everybody in the encampment perfect?
If you were to zoom in from the top of the mountain into the encampment of Israel, it’s not hard to imagine that a wide variety of imperfections, sins, iniquities, and wickedness was present throughout the camp. But the question is, did God see it?
Look at Numbers 23:21 again. Notice that God did not say there was no sin or iniquity in His people. He simply said He did not see it. Similarly, He is not saying that there is no sin in you. What God says is, “I don’t see it.”
Wait a minute, how can an unbendingly holy God not see sin in me?
My friend, it is because those same holy eyes saw all your sins punished in the body of Jesus Christ. Your sins were punished into nonexistence.
In the Israelite encampment, even though there were iniquities, sins, and wickedness, God did not see any of them because the blood of bulls and goats, which they offered up to the Lord daily, covered the children of Israel. How much more true that is for us today, we who are washed clean forever by the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, our beautiful Savior.
Under the old covenant, the Israelites enjoyed a
temporal
covering through the animal sacrifices, but for us, the atonement and payment for all our sins by Jesus Christ is
eternal
. That is why God does not observe sin and iniquity in you nor has He seen
When your enemies say negative things about you out of envy, jealousy, and fear, or if there are people spreading nasty lies about you to assassinate your character, know this: the Lord is your defender. It is God who gives influence to words, and He can cause their words to fall to the ground. He can even, as we have just read, turn their curses into blessings. You don’t have to get all flustered, agitated, and angry. Just know that the Lord is on your side and that when He has blessed you, no one can reverse it. Amen!
I want this right belief to sink deep into your heart:
in Christ Jesus, you are irreversibly blessed
. No matter how dire your circumstances may seem right now, put a smile on your face and a spring in your step. Whom the Lord has blessed, no one can curse! God is going to see you through this difficult patch. Things are going to turn around for your good. You don’t have to live in disappointment, discouragement, and despair. As you can see in the biblical account of Balaam, if God is on your side, who can be against you?
Today’s Thought
In Christ Jesus, I am irreversibly blessed.
Today’s Prayer
Father, thank You that in Christ Jesus I am blessed and no one and nothing can reverse this. Your Word says that Jesus has redeemed me from every curse including generational curses, so I don’t have to live life afraid of bad things that may happen to me. I can live life with boldness and freedom from fear. Because You are for me, I also don’t have to be afraid of what others say about me. You will even turn others’ curses into blessings. Thank You for putting strength in my heart through Your Word and for showing me Your grace today. Amen.
What God Doesn’t See
Today’s Scripture
“He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel.”
N UMBERS 23:21
T oday’s scripture is part of the irreversible blessing we read about yesterday that God placed in Balaam’s mouth. It gives us even more reason to rejoice as we learn to see what God sees. Take a closer look at what God says in the verse above and just pause for a moment. Was there iniquity in Israel? (When God used the word “Jacob” here, He was referring to all the children of Israel.) Was there any sin in Israel? Or was everybody in the encampment perfect?
If you were to zoom in from the top of the mountain into the encampment of Israel, it’s not hard to imagine that a wide variety of imperfections, sins, iniquities, and wickedness was present throughout the camp. But the question is, did God see it?
Look at Numbers 23:21 again. Notice that God did not say there was no sin or iniquity in His people. He simply said He did not see it. Similarly, He is not saying that there is no sin in you. What God says is, “I don’t see it.”
Wait a minute, how can an unbendingly holy God not see sin in me?
My friend, it is because those same holy eyes saw all your sins punished in the body of Jesus Christ. Your sins were punished into nonexistence.
In the Israelite encampment, even though there were iniquities, sins, and wickedness, God did not see any of them because the blood of bulls and goats, which they offered up to the Lord daily, covered the children of Israel. How much more true that is for us today, we who are washed clean forever by the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, our beautiful Savior.
Under the old covenant, the Israelites enjoyed a
temporal
covering through the animal sacrifices, but for us, the atonement and payment for all our sins by Jesus Christ is
eternal
. That is why God does not observe sin and iniquity in you nor has He seen
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