There are blessings associated with hearing, responding, and heeding The Word of Our Heavenly Father. These blessings need not be out of our reach but are there for those who diligently seek to be in one accord with FATHER. Many of those who became aware of these blessings simply wanted to be blessed without truly walking according to FATHER’S plan and will. As we align ourselves with HIS Will, plan, and purpose, these blessing will begin to materialize in our life. Some may come forth in a manner not expected or anticipated but yet they will come. FATHER has alerted us to pay close attention when HE has brought forth these blessing by using the Hebrew word shama` twice in a row in order to emphasize the importance of what HE is declaring thus we should pay close attention. The following are five progressive passages which lead us toward the fullness of blessing in our lives.
In Exodus 15:26 we find the first use of shama` shama` and this verse contains the blessing of healing:
26 and said, “If you diligently heed (shama` shama` ) the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Our health comes before our family because if we are sick we are unable to serve our family. Instead they are having to serve us thus sickness is a burden to the family needing to be removed from us and FATHER has expressed HIS willingness to remove sickness and disease from those who are willing to diligently seek HIM and hear HIS Word.
In Deuteronomy chapter 11 THE SPIRIT wrote:
13 ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey (shama` shama` ) My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.
The second blessing is a good family life and is achieved by diligently hearkening to HIS Voice and Word. As we talk about GOD’S Word in our daily life, our children will be blessed as a result of our example and teaching in the household. The result of this priority is the days of our children will be multiplied and our house will be like the days of Heaven on the earth.
In Deuteronomy chapter 15 THE SPIRIT wrote:
For the LORD will greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance—
5 only if you carefully obey, diligently hearken (shama` shama` ) the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.
6 For the LORD your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.
The third blessing is prosperity and is connected to our finances and our ability to help others outside our household. Borrowing can easily become a source of bondage and FATHER is interested in us not being held captive by the world system. Many have abused this blessing and have assume that FATHER wants us all to be multi-millionaires but we are to be “conduits” of blessings where HE will provide us with abundance to meet the needs we encounter. There is a difference between abundance and exceeding excess. We need to remove the debt mentality promoted by the world which seeks to enslave us and this blessing addresses the problem. Proverbs 22 addresses this blessing as well:
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
7 The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.
8 He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow, And the rod of his anger will fail.
9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.
The fourth blessing is found in Deuteronomy chapter 28:
1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey (shama` shama` ) the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.”
All blessings associated with being on earth are listed in verses 2 to 14 and it covers most areas in our life.
The fifth blessing is found in Isaiah chapter 55:
1 “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully (shama` shama` ) to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— The sure mercies of David.
The fifth and final blessing deals with eternity, well beyond our life on this earth.
The progression is:
1. Health and restoration
2. Good family life
3. Prosperity
4. Overall blessing on earth
5. Eternal, everlasting blessing in Heaven and on the earth.
We are told to hearken diligently that requires each of us to change and come up higher in all aspects of our life. We each have a responsibility to hear in order to receive the above blessings. Let the change come forth today in our individual lives.