When my son Zamar David was born he proved to be a very healthy child with very strong healthy lungs. I remember that he used to cry so persistently and so loud that sometimes it was very difficult for my wife to get any rest at all after she gave birth. One day I came home from work and she was about to loose her mind because of the stressful situation. We had taken him to the doctor and he could not find anything. We tried all means we could think of to comfort him and nothing seemed to help. But that day I saw in my wife's face that something had to be done and "pronto". I will never forget my response, I grabbed our son from her arms, grabbed my Bible, sandwiched him between the Book and my body and began to pace the living room floor confessing Proverbs 10:22, " The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it."I would also declared," Lord I thank you that my son is a blessing and you added no sorrow with him." Every time he would cry I would do the same thing. Then something peculiar happened. My son would find his position of sleep by resting on my face or chest. Amazingly enough he slept and so did I. Even when I awoke I did not have any neck or body pain at all. My wife wondered how I could sleep in such an awkward position and my answered always was that the Lord blessed me with rest. I realized that when God blesses us He does not bless us with "lemons."

In the book of Genesis 14 is the account of how Abram rescued his nephew Lot after he was taken captive by the four kings that attacked and spoiled the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. When Abram returned from the battle with his relative and all the spoil, Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the most high God, met him. He blessed Abram and as the Bible tells us Abram gave him tithes of everything he had. On the way he also met the king of Sodom who proposed to Abram to give him the people and that Abram could keep the goods. In verses 22 and 23 Abram responds, And Abram said to the king of Sodom, " I have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich." The only thing he accepted was the food and the portion of those that went to battle with him. Abram understood that he was prospered by the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, the one that delivered his enemies into his hands: the true source of blessings. He asked God to give him the victory when he lifted his hand toward Him acknowledging who He is. Abram was not about to spoil his blessing to give a man the glory for the great deliverance that the Lord alone had given him. Abram knew who was the real fountain of his blessings and he was wise enough to recognize that perhaps the men that went with him did not have the kind of relationship, revelation and perspective that he had; and they did not. We must not prevent others to be blessed by man because of our personal enlightenment. They must be fathered into Father.

When a man makes another man his confidence, his resource, and the answer to his problems, man gets the glory. Jeremiah 17:5 reads, "Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." It is obvious that whatever trust is in the heart has to be displaced to walk away from trusting the Lord. You can read verses six through eight to understand what a difference in outcome awaits the man that considers the Lord his source of blessings versus the man that does not.

As children of God we are truly blessed. God has determined to be a blessing to His people everywhere, all the time. Nothing can change his mind, absolutely nothing. In the book of Numbers chapters 22-24 there is a clear picture of what I mean. The Moabites were very afraid of the children of Israel because of their numbers and because of what they did to the Amorites when they defeated them. And Balak, king of the Moabites, sent messengers to hire the prophet Balaam to curse the children of Israel and he said in chapter 22 and verse 6, "for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom though cursest is cursed." . What Balak did not know was that Balaam could not pronounce the kind of sentence he was looking for against Israel because it was beyond his ability to do one thing or the other. In chapter 22:38 Balaam admits, "have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that the God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak." But before saying this, in verse 18 Balaam plainly states that, "..I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more."Balak was getting pretty upset with Balaam because every time he went to a different place and tried to curse the people of God he would instead blessed them. Balak tried very hard to buy a cursed against Israel from the lips of Balaam but even against Balaam's lustful heart he could not help but to bless God's children. So, in chapter 23 and verses 19 and 20 Balaam speaks by the Spirit of God saying, " God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Behold I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it." The word reverse means that God does not recall, withdraw, retrieve, pervert or deny his blessings to those that by faith claim them and take action accordingly. We can trust God's word any time, any day, under any circumstance. He is faithful to His word and he does not have to recall any of his blessings as a defective product with hidden deficiencies because there are none in His word. His promises will do what He says they will do.

When we plant the seed of His promises in the good ground of our born again spirits, and we begin to proclaim and claim them as our truths, God's favor will come like rain upon our hearts to give birth to the answer that we are looking for. In Isaiah 55:10-11 the Bible declares, "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where to I sent it." In the book of II Corinthians 1:20 the word of the Lord declares, "For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." He is the Amen, meaning: what He says is and shall be so, because what He says is who He is. When we respond to the Amen, our Amen means: so let it be.

The blessings promised to Abraham, fulfilled and obtained through the cross by Jesus, are ours. Jesus himself is the embodiment of all our blessings. And what a blessing He is! Acts 3:26 declares, "Unto you first God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." God will never recall or withdraw the blessings made available through Him alone. He has blessed us and we do well in staying bless with the assurance that He will never regret or change His mind concerning the cross and us because through it we are bless, and if we are blessed then we are blessed.