“And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly
gave her what was needed for making her clean, and THE THINGS WHICH ARE HERS BY
RIGHT, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and
he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of
the house” Esther 2:9 BBE
Once we come into the Kingdom of God as believers having
accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, there are certain rights and
privileges that we come into automatically as sons and daughters of God. Can
you imagine that Esther, an orphan and a slave girl coming into the King’s
palace and her status changed immediately. She was treated with royalty, given
a plush apartment to live with seven maids at her beck and call. From then on,
she eats of the king’s delicacies and come into a realm of affluence, authority
and prosperity. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily load us with benefits, even the
God of our salvation. Selah” [Psalms 68:19]
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgives
all thine iniquities; who heal all thy diseases; Who redeem thy life from
destruction; who crown thee with loving kindness and tender mercies; Who
satisfies thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the
eagle's. The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are
oppressed” Psalms 103:2-6
The benefits that God daily load us with are numerous and abundant,
we are the apple of God’s eyes, He perfects all that concerns us and make sure
that we do not lack because all things are created in this planet for our
pleasure.
“As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of
the king's sons…So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually
at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet… And David said unto him, Fear not:
for I will surely show thee KINDNESS for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will
RESTORE thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt EAT BREAD at my
table continually.”
King David remembered the covenant that he cut with Jonathan
the son of king Saul and so he showered KINDNESS on Mephibosheth, all that
belong to Saul was RESTORED to him, a villa was given him in the King’s palace,
he ate at the King’s table continually and he walk continually in the corridors
of power and authority. That is what adoption does for all believers in Christ
Jesus who come to reside in the King’s palace [Kingdom of God].
“…ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together”
We have been graciously bestowed the Spirit of God that we
might know those great and mighty things that have been given unto us [1 Cor.
2:12]. These things were given to us because we have been adopted as legitimate
sons and daughters of the heavenly Father such that we are coopted into sonship
and given such rights just like our big brother Jesus Christ the Son of God
[Gal. 4:5-7, Eph. 1:5; Eph. 1:11-14]. Jesus Christ even said the glory that the
Father gave Him, He has given it to us believers … His brothers and Sisters.
Together with Christ we have inherited the grace, glory, power and blessings of
our heavenly Father.
All believers have been given the Holy Spirit as the down
payment for all inherited virtues in God such that with Him all other
inheritance is guaranteed to be given to us. This Spirit of God also reveals
the truth in us such that we are free from the spirit of bondage, remember that
we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free [John 8:32].
“Whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” This is the highest form of
confidence. I get the picture of a cub of a great lioness sitting in the bosom
of his mother who protects, trains, guard, and feed and become an emblem of
dominion for when she roars all other animals in the forest flee. Or can we
look at what happens when one is adopted by the President of a great nation
like United States of America such that there is an immediate change of status
once the adoptee Father sign on the dotted lines of the adoption contract or
covenant.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion…And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that move upon the earth”
In the very beginning, God created man as His sons and
daughters, for only such created being can bear the image and likeness of the
father! God created us such that we can become the territorial commanders,
dominators or His ambassadors on earth. Such powers bestowed upon us made us to
be blessed, multiply, subdue, replenish and have dominion over all other
creations on planet earth while the plants and animals are given to us as food.
Do not allow the devil to barrage your mind as if you are
still under bondage, our status changed the day we accepted Jesus Christ as
Lord and Savior; old things are passed away while all things have been made new
[2 Cor. 5:17]
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse
for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hang on a tree: That
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that
we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” Galatians 3:13-14
It is the same blessings upon men in the very beginning that
was restored when Jesus Christ went to the cross. We are now REDEEMED and
RESTORED! Every precious promise of God can also be appropriated by us THROUGH
faith in the finished work at Calvary. We are delivered, sanctified, justified,
blessed beyond measures, anointed, empowered to prosper and have the promise to
be glorified. The same promise to be HEIR of the world given to Abraham has now
been conferred upon believers through the righteousness of faith [Romans 4:13].
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?” Romans 8:31-32
God told our father Abraham “in blessing, he would bless him;
and in multiplying, he would multiply him; that his seed WILL possess the gate
of his enemies; and that in him all the nations of the earth should be blessed”
[Genesis 22:16-19]; If Levi paid tithe in Abraham, it simply means Levi also
received all these blessings in Abraham therefore as covenant believers born
after the order of Abraham, we also are partakers of these blessings.
Will God not give BELIEVERS all that was SPIRITUALLY,
PHYSICALLY, MATERIALLY, and FINANCIALLY intended by these promises including
good health, deliverance and sound mind? God’s only begotten Son was sacrificed
in order to purchase every blessing that the soul of man will need and we have
the assurance that the hand of God will dispense it all! No good thing will God
withhold from the righteous [Psalms 84:11]. I have been young and now old, I
have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their descendant begging for bread …
Impossible! [Psalms 34:27]
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