by Catherine Ponder
Carried great power to accomplish good to bless a situation, condition or personality could bring the desired result where there had been none.
A blessing is always an invariable gift. Whatever is blessed increases. Blessing a substance increases it's flow. If our purse is empty, take it in our hands and bless it. See it filled with Divine substance manifesting for us as money, money, money.
Declare "I bless this wallet of mine, all that I have and all that I hope to have and I look with wonder at it's increase now".
When preparing meals, bless the food knowing it is Divine substance. The more we recognize and bless Divine substance, the more it will manifest for us and the richer we will become.
Bless a child and declare, "I bless you child a world of peace, prosperity, wholeness and perfection now".
We can stop suddenly without anything we know that caused it, declare "GOD is the one and only reality in this situation. Divine substance is appropriately manifesting for me now".
To bless means to bring forth good in a situation, condition or personality whether there seemed any good to be brought forth or not. To bless is to judge not according to appearances as Jesus advised but to judge according to right judgment - that of beholding the good and thereby bringing it forth in a condition or person.
How often we have condemned, criticized or cursed a situation and only brought forth more problems and unhappy experiences from it. Whereas if we had dared to take the opposite view and bless the situation, we would have activated the omni present good within it and we would have witnessed a happy result.
The power of blessing is an amazing thing. Begin now to bless and praise everything and everyone that comes into our life. it is just as easy to bless and praise as it is to condemn and complain.
When we condemn and complain, we intensify the very unpleasant conditions we wish to be rid of. By blessing such conditions, we take the power of evil out of them and turn on the power of good that is there.
To hold for blessing and changing troublesome people, declare " I bless you and bless you for the goodness of God that is working in you and through you".
Bless a thing and it will bless you. curse it and it will curse you. if you put your condemnation upon anything in life, it will hit back at you and hurt you. If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Romans 12:14 "Bless and curse not. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them".