Gathering the Blessing

Deception and Disobedience Attracts a Curse on the Ground

Genesis 3:17-19, To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life, NIV.”

Fear of God Attracts Favor

Enoch walked with God for 300 years. A third generation descendant of Enoch; Naoh, becomes the game changer.

Genesis 5:28-29, When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed, ^NIV.”

After the Flood

Genesis 8:20-22, Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease, NIV.”

Your vineyard is already blessed but the seed you plant in it determines your harvest;

If your sow laziness and ignorance you’ll have a surplus harvest of poverty.

If you sow hard work, injustice and dishonesty you’ll reap in plenty but your produce will be contaminated. Contaminated produce is highly poisonous and deadly and an excellent recipe for quick death. It’ll certainly take away your dreams, purpose and eventually life.

But if you sow hard work and integrity, your storehouses will fill to capacity with prosperity, honor, favor and fulfillment for generations.

God has promised to bless the work of your hands, but remember it’s the seed that will attract or repel the blessing. To gather your blessing, sow the right seeds.

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