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In the process, he tapped into an underground river that, according to Jewish historians, released so much water the entire area began to flourish. Fruit trees blossomed. Crops grew. It began to look like the famine was over and everyone in the land got BLESSED. No one, however, did better than Isaac. He increased so much that his estate got even bigger than the king’s. That made the king mad so he ran Isaac out of the region. When Isaac left, THE BLESSING went with him and the famine took hold again. The land dried up and things got even worse than before. Realizing he’d made a mistake, the king went looking for Isaac and asked for help. “Uh…could we make a deal?” he said. “We’ve seen that The LORD is with you and we want to make a covenant with you. If you’ll come back and live among us we’ll promise to protect you and see to it that no one ever harms you, your family or your goods again. We’ll make sure that no one steals your wells anymore.” Obviously, the Philistine king had gotten a revelation: He and his country needed Isaac—and they needed him BLESSED! “What does that have to do with us as believers today, Brother Copeland?” It has everything to do with us, because we have the same BLESSING on us that Isaac had! It’s the original BLESSING of God that came on mankind in the Garden of Eden when God said to Adam and his wife, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…” (Genesis 1:28). It’s THE BLESSING that, although Adam and Eve blew it off through sin, came once again on Abraham when God made covenant with him and said: “…I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2-3). It was this same BLESSING of Abraham that was upon Jesus of Nazareth. He walked in it perfectly all of His earthly life. Then He suffered on the Cross and died so that He could give that BLESSING to us. As Galatians 3:13-14 says: “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 hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.” Because we as believers are in covenant with Jesus, we can walk in THE BLESSING just like He did. We can not only prosper in our own lives but we can also bring prosperity to those around us. We can flourish no matter how rocky the world’s economy gets because we’re not looking to the world as our source. We’re looking to The LORD—and His BLESSING “maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it” (Proverbs 10:22). Poor People Don’t Need a Treasurer “Well, if THE BLESSING makes rich, how come Jesus was poor?” someone might ask. 8 : BVOV

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