Being blessed financially is about more than money. It is being in a position of peace and joy with the resources you have and allowing God to expand those resources as you need them and as He desires to bless and reward you. You can only attain this position through righteousness that come through Jesus Christ. When you accept Him as LORD and Savior you are elevated from a lowly unrighteous place to the righteousness of God in Christ!
This process begins with the confession of your mouth and belief in your heart that Jesus is the Messiah through whom righteousness is imputed to those who believe. This imputation sanctifies you in God’s eyes and eliminates the eternal judgment that you previously chose by your action or inaction of failing to acknowledge Him as your LORD and Savior. You now actively choose Him because the only One who knew no sin, who was crucified, and who rose again from the dead will raise you up from the dead and present you blameless at the Judgment. Once you believe in and confess Him as LORD, His shed blood eliminates your sins, so the Father can only see the righteousness of Christ in you.
This position of righteous creates that new man in you that longs to live differently than he has in the past. You are put on a path to progressive maturity where the goal is Christ-likeness in every aspect of your life. Over time, others begin to see positive changes in your life that resulted from your belief in and relationship with Christ.
One notable area of change is usually in how you honor your father and mother. Some don’t believe they’ve had much of an issue with this area of life. However, if you’ve ever sinned, disobeyed your parents, been caught doing something that’s wrong, or simply not living in relationship with Jesus Christ you have dishonored your mother and father.
Most don’t want to look at the situation in this manner, however our failure to act in righteousness at any point along our life is dishonoring to our parents and continuing in that pattern is often the difference between living in peace & joy with great reward versus having lots of money & things but no peace & joy. Since you cannot on your own ever fully honor your parents like you should, the blood of Jesus covers your sin in this arena as well as all other sin and the Holy Spirit guides you to a maturity that helps you live better and do things necessary on earth to better honor your parents.
The following things can help you more greatly honor them:
1. Accept Jesus as Lord & Savior.
2. Be led by the Holy Spirit to live morally in every area of life.
3. Fellowship with believers who also desire to live morally and whose action line up with that.
4. When you’re a child or teen, obey your parents and help around the house doing chores so you learn the necessary humility and work ethic to care for your responsibilities once you become an adult.
5. When you’re an adult, work diligently to care for yourself and your immediate family, so they don’t have additional burdens to shoulder.
6. Manage your income in a manner that helps you take care of all your responsibilities, give to help others, and save for rainy days.
7. Manage inheritances and other windfalls in a manner that is responsible and helps provide for future needs.
8. Help look after parents when they are older to provide them with needed transportation, medical services, food, shelter, etc.
9. Check on them regularly and talk with them to help keep their minds fresh and active.
10. Help provide and find services that can help them when they face emergencies, serious illness, or catastrophe.
God’s promise to you for honoring your parents is He will bless you immensely and give you abundant life upon this earth. Not to mention, eternal reward will follow believers.
Please pray for this ministry and email me with any questions. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Exodus 20:12, Matthew 15:3-9, Ephesians 6:1-3, Colossians 3:20, 2Timothy 3:2
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