If You Are Willing

If You Are Willing

Inspiration MinistriesBy Inspiration Ministries9 Minutes

This excerpt explores the biblical principles of receiving God’s blessings, emphasizing that His promises often hinge on obedience, trust, and generosity. Using Isaiah 1:19 as a foundation, it challenges readers to examine their faith and giving habits, urging them to follow God’s spiritual laws for abundance. If you are willing to align your actions with His Word, you’ll discover the miraculous ways God provides and multiplies.

 

“The surest way to receive a double portion from God is to give Him the single portion you already have!”
– David Cerullo

This book is not just about God’s desire to bless His people … it’s also about understanding His prescribed methods for obtaining those blessings. Just like the law of gravity and other natural laws govern the universe, there are spiritual laws that govern God’s rich promises of abundance. And like gravity, His spiritual laws work whether you believe in them or not.

Throughout Scripture, we’re told God’s blessings flow to those who are obedient to His commands and statutes. “If you are willing and obedient,” the prophet Isaiah says, “you shall eat the good of the land” (1:19).

Much of God’s Word is written like a contract. If we are faithful to do the things He has asked us to do, we can ask God to fulfill His promises. In the courts of law, this is like when a party to a contract petitions for specific performance of its terms. In order to win his case, he must first show evidence that he’s fulfilled his obligations under the contract.

If you aren’t experiencing God’s abundance in your life right now, take some time to meditate on the Scriptural principles we cite in this book. In addition to reviewing His promises to bless you, also take time to consider what He’s asking you to DO in order to access those blessings.

The Lord’s recipe for prosperity has several ingredients, and they are critical to your success. Have you ever tried to bake something, only to realize you left out a key ingredient? Then it shouldn’t surprise you that the ingredients you include or omit will determine the outcome.

Expectancy

One vital ingredient for unlocking God’s covenant blessings is expectancy. That’s why David writes, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him” (Psalm 62:5). Because of our confidence that the Lord wants to bless us, we can await the fulfillment of His promises with “faith and patience” (Hebrews 6:12).

But keep in mind that this attitude of expectancy must be focused on receiving from the Lord, not from some human source:

The eyes of all look expectantly to You.
And You give them their food in due season.
You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing
(Psalm 145:15-16).

Unto You I lift up my eyes,
O You who dwell in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to the Lord our God
(Psalm 123:1-2).

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfected of our faith (Hebrews 12:2 BSB).

In contrast to these clear exhortations to fix our eyes on the Lord, it’s easy to focus instead on our circumstances and needs. When we do this, our faith and expectancy will nosedive, keeping us from receiving the full measure of God’s intended blessings (James 1:6-7).

Consistent Sowing

Another vital ingredient for our blessing is the continual sowing of our seed. God created a cycle of giving that continues uninterrupted. You’ll never see Him put up roadblocks to that cycle, but we can and frequently do. Think about it this way …

God initiates the cycle of giving in our lives by giving us life. He gives us the air we breathe. He gave us His only Son to be our Savior, and He gives us His Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and Guide. All that we are … all that we own … we have by His permission and because of His love for us.

Consistent sowing produces consistent harvests. If you want to continually reap God’s harvests in your life, then consistently sow. God gives to you, you give back to Him. God gives you more, and you give back to Him again.

Some may argue, “Well, I’ve tried that, and it doesn’t work. I’ve sown, and I haven’t reaped. I’ve given and received nothing in return.”

We urge you to beware of this faulty reasoning! Satan is a liar, and he whispers lies of fear and doubt into believers’ ears to cause them to hoard their seed. The enemy doesn’t want God’s Kingdom to grow, and he doesn’t want our lives to be blessed with God’s harvests.

God is NOT a liar. He speaks the truth, and His Word is truth. Proverbs 11:24-25 speaks about God’s true principle of sowing, or scattering, our seed: “There is one who scatters, yet increases all the more; and there is one who withholds what is justly due, yet it results only in want. The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered” (NASB).

Don’t allow the devil to steal from you by tempting you to hoard your seeds. Do you want to receive more of God’s blessings in your life? Give. Do you want to reap His harvests? Sow. Sow consistently, and you will see how God’s continual cycle of sowing and reaping need never be broken in your life again!

Every gardener knows that after planting seeds, a season of waiting follows before a harvest is reaped. Does the gardener do anything during this waiting season? Yes! After planting the seeds, he carefully waters, weeds, and fertilizes them. And then he patiently waits.

So it is with the spiritual and financial seeds you are sowing into the Good Ground of Inspiration Ministries! In the waiting season between sowing your seed and reaping your harvest, you must water your seed with prayer and worship, asking God to prepare your heart and your life to receive His harvests. Fertilize your seed with faith, obedience, and hope-filled expectancy as you worship the Giver of the Harvest. And then patiently wait.

Excerpt taken from Simple Steps to Financial Blessings by Inspiration Ministries

Every gift matters. Every seed sown in faith bears fruit – in you and around the world.