Jacob’s prophesying with blessing in Genesis 49 applies both to the twelve tribes of Israel (his twelve sons) and to our Christian experience today in the church. In his blessing of the first three sons we don’t see many positive things – Reuben lost the birthright and didn’t receive the blessing because he indulged in […]
Jacob’s Prophesying with Blessing: Reuben (Warning Concerning Indulging in Lusts)
At the end of his life, Jacob blessed everyone and he prophesied with blessing for each one of his sons. By faith Jacob, while he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshipped God while leaning on the top of his staff (Heb. 11:21). After he finished prophesying with blessing concerning each […]
Being God-men with Blessing Hands and Prophesying with Blessing Concerning Others
If you read the story of Jacob in Genesis under the light of God’s clear shining and with the glasses of God’s economy on, you will be very much encouraged concerning your Christian life and church life. Jacob started by doing his best to supplant his brother even from their mother’s womb, and he succeeded […]
Blessing Others with the Triune God as their Enjoyment with No Natural Manoeuvring
Blessing, a word very much thrown around in Christianity today and yet so naturally understood, is nothing else than the Triune God dispensed into us to be our everything for our enjoyment. When Melchizedek met Abraham after he fought for his brother Lot and won, he blessed him with God the Most High. When God commanded […]
Jehovah Bless you, Keep you, Shine on You, be Gracious to you, and Give you Peace!
The real blessing is God Himself; blessing is not a thing but a Person – God in Christ as the Spirit to be everything to us for our enjoyment. When Jacob blessed his sons, God blessed them. In Numbers 6:22-27 we see a pattern of blessing – God commanded the priests to bless the people, […]
We are Channels of Life and Priests to God to Overflow God to Others as Blessing
The principle of blessing is that the greater blesses the lesser; the meaning of blessing is that blessing is the overflow of God through someone’s maturity in life. When God obtains a person who is mature in life, a person who is not only transformed but also mature, He has a way to flow through […]
The Strongest Sign of Maturity in Life is Blessing Others with the Christ We Enjoyed
At the end of his life, when he was 130 years old, Jacob went to Egypt together with all his family to be with Joseph; by this time he was a mature person, and he simply blessed everyone. The strongest sign of Jacob’s maturity in life was his blessing of others. When he met Pharaoh […]