Belittling Blessings

One time during service, I was collecting offertory. I reached out to this friend of mine and handed him the offertory bag. He jokingly said, “Bless Me.”

So, I opened up my mouth to begin the great declarations from on high… and this young man stopped me in my tracks!

“I MEANT MONEY!!!” He shut me up.

I walked away, but I had been serious. In my heart, I felt this groaning by the Holy Spirit. I had never felt so grieved before! I heard him say,

“Oh how children belittle blessings to money.”

To ‘belittle’ can also mean to understate, trivialize, make something appear ordinary, to minimize or downplay, deprecate, degrade or to make light of something.

What did the Holy Spirit truly mean? If you look in the lives of great men in the bible, you realize that blessings came upon them by Word! There could be a way of blessing someone by mammon, but this lad hadn’t told me he had wanted money and yet, the service we were in was saturated with prophecy;

This meant, I’d have decreed something on this young man’s life beyond money. I could’ve spoken into his grand children’s lives. I could’ve healed a disease he hadn’t discovered yet or could have befallen him in the future, I’d have given him vast measures of land or favor but no. He wanted money, which I didn’t have!

Imagine the crippled asked for money at Gate Beautiful in Acts 3 from Peter and John? They didn’t have silver or gold, and for a crippled it’d make sense to beg for alms. What Peter & John spoke instead gave this man money indirectly as well!

How? Healing was spoken over him. He was able to walk. He’d now go and make his own money! I’d have spoken something that could have brought money continuously to that young man…but he wanted money strictly. So he could have both missed out on a miraculous power that could have had money flowing towards him effortlessly and money itself at the same time.

Let’s not belittle blessings. If you need money you could ask someone straight away. But even a word spoken over someone’s life can still bring it. If you have the cash, then well and good. If you don’t have it, speak it into being!

Blessings came over the children of Jacob by his speech. Let’s harness this power in our tongues which is able to create blessings far beyond just wealth, and can attract health, joy, favor, grace, beauty, jobs, excellence, and so much more!