{"id":2109,"date":"2013-04-09T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2013-03-28T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:40:46","slug":"provoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2013\/04\/09\/provoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Provoked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father\u2019s bed; Then you defiled it\u2014He went up to my couch\u2019 Gen.49:4 [NKJV]<\/a><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

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The nature of curses and blessings is that curses are provoked and blessings are also provoked. \u2018Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest<\/i>\u2019 Prov.26:2 [NIV]<\/a>. If you are a child of God and perhaps someone is just jealous of you in the office and begins to curse you just laugh because the curse is not going to rest on you. Again who can curse the one that God has blessed? God has not beheld iniquity in you. It is so important to be on God\u2019s good side. Israel said to Reuben \u2018because you went up to your father\u2019s bed; Then you defiled it\u2014He went up to my couch<\/i>\u2019. Reuben\u2019s actions must have really hurt Israel and this was what provoked the curse \u2018you shall not excel\u2019. Every Reuben that has been cursed reading this devotional I am saying to you today in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you will excel.<\/p>\n

When a man wants to bless his children, like in Israel\u2019s case, it is what they have done that provokes the blessing or the curse. As Christians we are under the blessings of God but there are certain levels of blessings you have to provoke. Abraham was blessed, the Bible says that \u2018he believed God and God accounted it unto him as righteousness\u2019. So he was a blessed man already but when Abraham gave Isaac, he provoked another level of blessing. And God says \u2018in blessing Abraham I will bless you\u2019. The Bible says God swore by Himself because there is none higher than Him by which He would swear. As a Christian you can still provoke blessings that other Christians have not entered into. How come we are all Christians and some people are entering some levels of anointing and some people are suffering \u2013 is God partial? The truth is that some people are provoking certain things and some people are not. It is as simple as that. If you understand this, your life will change. The only thing that is free is salvation. Once you have it every other thing you provoke.<\/p>\n

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Prayer<\/b>: Father, open my eyes to see what I need to do to provoke the irrevocable blessing. Open my eyes also to see curses that must be reversed, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father\u2019s bed; Then you defiled it\u2014He went up to my couch\u2019 Gen.49:4 [NKJV]   The nature of curses and blessings is that curses are provoked and blessings are also provoked. \u2018Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sacrifice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}