“BENEFIT PACKAGE!”

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 401
November 6, 2018///

Psalm 103:1-5 (KJV)
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

I think it is time we Bless the Lord and recognize all the good things He has provided for His creations, the work of His hands. We stress and become distressed over all that is wrong in this world instead of thanking God for all His benefits.

Something that makes a company a good place to work is it’s benefit package. I have known people who will accept a job with better benefits over one with a little more pay. Work Hours, Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Retirement plans, even Stock options, all make for an attractive benefit package.

May I tell you this morning that no company can ever compare to the benefit package the Creator of the Universe gives to those who choose to take it and get into His work force, or if you will, His Army.

The package starts with our decision to receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. Then we can rest in the following benefit package.

 Forgiveness – a continual forgiveness for our faults and failures.
 Healing – the one who made our bodies knows exactly how to heal us.
 Redemption – we are redeemed from destruction of the enemy of our soul.
 Crowned – we have love and mercies and we are Kings and Priest.
 Satisfaction – we have good things and renewed strength like eagles who fly above the storms.

My thought pattern this morning is who would not want that benefit package? Who would choose the fleeting pleasures of sin and the habits that lead them down a road of destruction?

The answer is those whose eyes have been blinded by the enemy of all that is good. The devil and evil draw people in with lie’s and deception. They see with the world’s eyes instead of spiritual eyes.

2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV)
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

The god (little g) of this world has blinded people’s eyes so they cannot see the real God (big G) who can set them free.

Some do not know the way of Jesus and some have believed the lie that it is not real or that it is for the weak who need something to lean on. Lie’s and deception are the tools of satan because the truth is not in him.

When Jesus saw the deception of the people He said:
John 8:44-45 (KJV)
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

The answer then to the dilemma of blinded eyes is for the born-again children of Almighty God to pray that the blinders are remove from the eyes of those who believe not!

Start with those of your own household and family. Then move on to your neighbors and those you work with. Next would be the leaders of our churches, cities, counties, state, and country. We must pray that the blinders come down from their spiritual eyes and the stoppers from their spiritual ears, that they will hear with the spirit of the Lord Jesus.

Then they will be able to see the truth and the truth will set them free.

If you are reading this, please examine your own spiritual eyes and ears. Are you allowing the enemy of your soul to blind you to the truth of Jesus Christ and His word that will change us from the inside out? Ask God the Father to let you see the truth and I guarantee you on the authority of God’s word that the truth will set you free!

Please join me in destroying the works of the enemy by pulling down the strongholds of deception and lies so that we can see with the eyes of the Father God.

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Father, thank you for your benefit package. Thank you for spiritual eyes and ears so that we will see and walk in the truth. I decree and declare that every person reading this is loosed from deception and lies and is bound to the truth. I decree and declare that each of us are walking in Faith and Victory because you are alive and your spirit lives in us. Guide us each day as we encounter those who are deceived, and may we be examples of the truth. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Love, MeMaw