Move: The Blessed Test

Here are my notes for The Blessed Test teaching:

Psalm 1:1-3
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth for his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

These verses are so wonderful! Go read them again! (:

Anyways.....
Blessed: uncanny, innate, intrinsic, ability to succeed over adversity.
True worship comes from people who are blessed. Blessings and curses speak to the end of a process - Jesus broke the five loaves and fish and in the BREAKING was the blessing, Jesus spoke the blessing before he broke the bread, and in the end it blessed 5,000+.
Being blessed is like how a cat always lands on their feet.

Adversity shows the extent of your blessing.

3 Don'ts & 1 Do:
1. DON'T: I will not bless you if you walk in the counsel of the wicked, God will not bless you if you listen to worldly advice.

Romans 12:2
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect, will of God.
Do not shape yourself around what's going on in the world. Conform to Jesus. Spend your life around Godly people.
Transform: changed by God.
Transformation, like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to butterfly. Spend your life around people who will transform with you. People who will help you fly, rather than crawl. Why crawl, when you have it in you to fly? Transformations occur from the inside, by renewing your mind.
You will become what you feed your mind. The reason why you go to school, is to feed your mind information. To become a doctor, you must feed your mind books and other things that are for doctors. The only reason you aren't a doctor or astronaut is because he or she read and studied different books than you. The realities of your past and present remain in your mind. Life would be so much easier as a Christian if you just forgot what happened in your past. It'd be much easier to beat an addiction if you forgot what it felt like. But just because you can relate to a weakness doesn't mean you have to accept the mindset

Ephesian 2:1-7
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

*quickened: given life

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

*there is a persuasive spirit of disobedience over the world!

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath,even as others.

*Conversation: past lifestyles
Lusts: not just sexual things, to lust is to covet (to look upon with longing) and to fulfill the flesh.

4 BUT GOD who is RICH in mercy, for his great love wherewith He loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

The prodigal son physically in the circumstance and mentally left his problem
"I will arise and go to my Father's house!"
2.DON'T: stand in the way of sinners. - Not stand in the way of them getting to their sin or whatever - but don't adopt their ways, behaviors, or attitudes! Change your ways, you have control over yourself!
3.DON'T: Sit in the seat of the scornful. DO NOT associate with bitter people. If you adopt their bitter ways and become a negative person you can not be blessed. Scornful and rejected people are dangerous! Bitterness will spoil your heart and curse you.
You cannot afford to get bitter, if you get bitter you won't get better.
GET IT OUT OF YOU!! so you can go ahead!

1. DO:Meditate in His law day and night. God will sustain you.
Sustain: to support, hold or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure (dictionary.com)
DO NOT compare your blessing! Be thankful for what you have - your season is coming! He's raising things up for you!

Whatsoever he DOETH shall proser. The key word there is DO - implies action.
STOP: asking God to bless what you are not doing!!!!! Quit it!!!!! God cannot bless dysfunction, He can only bless function! Things in your life are not going to be as easy as they are advertised. Do not be surprised by the excruciating pain you will feel, don't run away!
God says if you will do it, I will bless it!
This is the kind of doing that will cause bruising.
Like the little 20 pound dog who followed his master, but his master closed the screen door. That little dog, FLUNG his WHOLE body at that door, stepped back and realize the harder he threw himself at the door, the more it moved. The dog, got that door open, so he could follow his master.
Do you think the dog liked the feeling of being smashed up against a door? Probably not. He wanted to follow his master, he wanted to see him. He threw everything he had at getting that door open.
That's the kind of doing I'm talking about.
If you throw everything you've got, He'll throw everything He's got!
The blessings are in the work. Just like how the blessing was in the breaking of the 5 loaves of bread. - If the blessing was in the beginning when Jesus raised the bread to God, it would have been too heavy to hold.
Streeeetch yourself!!
And for goodness' sake, go out and be obedient to God and start DOING!

The blessing is a reaction to the action!

Maybe, you are not waiting on God, perhaps God is waiting for you?

You've got to be willing to throw everything you've got at what it'll take to succeed. Ten talents - the man was cursed by lack of effort. The other two went out and made more!
Hebrews - you have not resisted unto blood!
There can be no blessing without breaking!

Stop dreaming, start doing.