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YVThe good sis has a good word!
#Repost @jada_edwards
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Full podcast episode on my YouTube channel and iTunes/Spotify.
We unpacked a common “Christian phrase” at our final Women’s Bible Study.
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Bottom line - All good wealth comes from God but God doesn’t guarantee wealth.
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(I already know some of y’all are ready to dispute this with your exceptions and caveats...but people really walking around here confused because their life doesn’t look like this dream windfall of God saying yes to everything they ask for and it’s because we are misusing words AND/OR not telling the whole story)
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When God provides material gain it is always intended to glorify him and it’s never meant to be our source of satisfaction or goal.
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Use Biblical themes to form your theological views.
Rather than one or two isolated verses look at the whole of scripture.
That means we can’t limit our references to the Old Testament OR New Testament or one part of a scripture or verse... We have to look at everything. What does blessing and favor look like throughout? What could this mean for us?
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That requires work and patience before forming a belief.
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Don’t put “blessing” in a box.
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Look at who the Lord favored in Scripture... not excluding his own son. Favor showed up in ways that our Western theology wants to ignore. Favor is often uncomfortable and inconvenient and misunderstood.
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YES, Yes yes... God comes through with financial blessing... healing... opportunities and amazing good things in this life. But that cannot be the primary or fundamental understanding of God’s blessing.
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Even all of those great things are gifts for his glory. So when the blessing doesn’t feel like a gift we have to remember it’s still for his glory.
“Favor ain’t fair” takes on a whole new meaning.
The cross wasn’t fair but Jesus was favored.
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#blessed #favor #favored #highlyfavored #study #blessings
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