The opening words to you all is: Be blessed in this 2025 to
all of you truth seekers who has been following this Truth Speakers column. We
all want to be blessed and have a certain picture in mind of what that means
but what would be the real definition of “Blessed”?
In the Bible, the most common one is “bârak” (Old
Testament) meaning “to praise, salute, be adored, kneel as an act of adoration
to someone”.
In the New Testament, there are two words: “eulogeō”
meaning “to speak well of, to bless, ascribe praise and glorification to,
invoke a blessing upon or to be an object of favour or blessing”.
The second word used is: “Makarios” meaning “blessed,
happy”.
In modern times, we still have the word “eulogy” meaning, “a
speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, especially
a tribute to someone who has just died.”
As you can see, blessing someone has to do with the words
you speak. Either to someone or about them.
In Historical times, especially among those who believed and
followed the One True God, spoken words were a sacred thing, and just as good
or better than an official contract or written will today.
Has our language evolved or deteriorated? I would say,
although our dictionaries contain many more words now, the way we speak them
over other people, has taken a nose dive. We often don’t seem to take words
serious saying: “I was just joking. I didn’t really mean it.” But our own
brain, our own bodies are listening to what we are speaking and think we mean
them and our bodies or the ones you spoke over now tries to make it come to
pass.
Try it on two plants. Have two nice green plants, one on the
right and one on the left side as you enter your house. Every time you enter
your house, you bless one with kind words, and curse the other with bad words.
You will see one plant will thrive and bloom, the other will
wilt quickly (treat them with water and nutrients the same); it makes you think
twice the next time you crack jokes over or to people. Living things and human
beings react to your words. So, let the coming year be a year where you bless
as many people as possible with spoken kind words to and over them.
We all probably have goals and desires for this New Year.
As far as desires: In Lamentations it says: His Mercies are
NEW every morning so when you stepped into a New Year, you can look forward to
at least 360 God given New Mercies.
How else to look at 2025? We will look at a 2025 Kingdom job
description,a Kingdom attitude
descriptionand a Kingdom wisdom
description.
If you will wonder this year, whether you are in the right
place doing the right thing, just go over this list and use it as a guide or
checklist to see if you are on the right track. The reason you might be feeling
off balance or simply feel bad is because you were on the wrong track not
matching up with the 3 descriptions that could be your peace saver!
1-KINGDOM
JOB DESCRIPTION
In Luke 4:18, Jesus proclaimed what He came to do amongst
us: 1) To proclaim good news to the poor; 2) to heal the broken of heart; 3) to
proclaim deliverance to the captives; 4) receiving of sight to the blind; 5)
deliverance to the bruised.
That covers everyone with a need. And that is in a nutshell
the job of all of us no matter where you are and what you do. If there are
people, there are plenty of opportunities to carry out this Kingdom job for all
of us! Bless them with your words, pray over them, encourage them and tell them
His Good News
2-ATTITUDE
JOB DESCRIPTION
When it comes to attitudes, let’s resolve to have good ones
no matter what people do to you or say to you, you can decide to respond with a
good attitude.This you can find in
Matthew 5 and 1 Cor 13- Here the BE-Attitudes (AKA beatitudes) (from the
Passion Translation).
“What wealth is offered to you when you feel your spiritual
poverty! No charge to enter the realm of heaven’s kingdom.
“What delight comes to you when you wait (serve) upon the
Lord! For you will find what you long for.
“What blessing comes to you when gentleness lives in you!
For you will inherit the earth.
“How enriched you are when you crave righteousness! For you
will be surrounded with fruitfulness.
“How satisfied you are when you demonstrate tender mercy!
For tender mercy will be demonstrated to you.
“What bliss you experience when your heart is pure! For then
your eyes will open to see more and more of God.
“How blessed you are when you make peace! For then you will
be recognized as a true child of God.
“How enriched you are when you bear the wounds of being
persecuted for doing what is right! For that is when you experience the realm
of heaven’s kingdom.
“How ecstatic you can be when people insult and persecute
you and speak all kinds of cruel lies about you because of your love for me!”
3-WISDOMJOB DESCRIPTION
Wisdom increasers are found in the book of proverbs and the
Epistles of Paul.
But for now, here is just one quotation from the book of
James: And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it!
He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your
failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.
And lastly: Whatever job or ministry you have, stay in the
sweet spot of servant hood no matter what. Like Jesus did: “Jesus existed in
the form of God, yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his
supreme prize.Instead, he emptied
himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly
servant. He became human! (Php 2:6.7)”
Having a Godly servant attitude will keep us all on the
right track!
Be blessed when you speak those precious Words of true
blessings!
