ABRAHAM'S BLESSING: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO BE BLESSED? - EPISODE 1

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: Genesis 12:1-2 

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t creation, God pronounced His blessings on man. In Genesis 1:28 He said, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:” 

After the flood of Noah’s days, God reiterated His blessings on Noah and his household. Genesis 9:1 says, “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”

As much as we read this, the first real encounter or manifestation of the blessings of God was with Abraham, whom the Bible describes as the friend of God. It was in and through Abraham that God made manifest the operations of His blessing on man. 

If we want to see how God’s blessing operates, what it accomplishes, or what it means for a man to be blessed, all we need to do is understudy the life of father Abraham.

Abraham came into the limelight in Scripture when the Bible began to describe families after God had confused the languages of men at Babel. Genesis 11:9 says, “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

Just after this event, Genesis 11:10 says, “These are the generations of Shem:” This begins the descriptions of the root from which Abraham came. Genesis 11:24-27 says, “And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.”

I’m sure you might be wondering why I am so interested in these details about father Abraham’s roots. Well, you will soon discover in a short while, why the Holy Spirit decided to give a full account of the genealogy of Abraham’s life the way He did.

In the next episode, I'll uncover how and why "barrenness" crept into the family of Abraham. You can also read the detailed revelational treatise in the book BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE.