Heavenly Blessings

Ephesians 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 

When Paul addresses these "Faithful Saints," he reminds them of the special blessings they have due to their testimony of being a saint who is faithful. Our faithfulness to the Lord brings about many blessings in our lives. Notice Proverbs 28:20 which says,  "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent."  God rewards our faithfulness with spiritual blessings that can only come from Him above, in heavenly places. As a saint we have the blessings of being saved, sealed and secure. God looks at us and see's the righteousness of Christ and He has given us the Holy Spirit as our seal and has promised to keep us saved. Psalm 97:10 says, "he preserveth the souls of his saints;" thank God for eternal security. True spiritual blessings come from just being saved. We are seated in the heavens as a result of being in Christ and get to enjoy all the spiritual blessings that accompany salvation. The joy, the peace, the power, the victory and on and on we could go with the benefits of such great a salvation! However, in addition to the blessings that come with salvation, we find in Psalm 68:19 "Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah."  Every day our great God dumps out a truck load of benefits from heaven upon His saints.  These blessings from Heaven and the eternal blessings of the Spirit make for a truly blessed life. We use to have a couple who attended our church that wore t-shirts that said, "To blessed to be stressed!"  I like that. As we deal with the stressful events in life, the blessings of God overshadow them all. As faithful saints who tithe we have a promise that we can count on, for Malachi 3:10 says,  "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." The Christian who is faithful to church gets a blessing! The Christian who is faithful to tithe gets a blessing! The Christian who reads the Word of God gets a blessing!  Revelation 1:3 says, "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."  What a great, generous and magnificent God we serve!  It's time that we count our blessings one by one and we will surely see that our God has sent some Heavenly Blessings our way! Amen. God is good!