God does and WILL BLESS those who are His – believe it!
Could any situation have been more opposed to God’s people than the summoning of the prophet/sorcerer Balaam to curse Israel by the Moabite king? Balaam would have died on the way, if his faithful donkey hadn’t saved him. The Angel of the Lord had stood before him with drawn sword, because his path was a reckless one. There are certain things that God will not allow the enemy to hinder though he may try. Israel may not have even known that their enemy was trying to have them cursed, no record they did, but God rescued them. Not only did God protect His people (and He still protects them to this day) but He blessed them four times, four oracles/speeches of Balaam.
We saw that Balaam continually sought God BEFORE he would commit to going with the Moabite princes. How much better for God’s own people to seek Him and ask for His Guidance and Favour on our lives. I once heard a talk by a well known Faith preacher, in which he constantly repeated God’s desire to bless His children;
11 If you, then, ‘THOUGH YOU ARE EVIL’, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN, ‘HOW MUCH MORE’ will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7
God caused Balaam to Bless and not curse His people;
8 How can I curse
those whom God has not cursed?
How can I denounce
those whom the Lord has not denounced?
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob
or number even a fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and may my final end be like theirs!’ Numbers 23
Balaam didn’t get his wish for a Righteous End, he fell by the sword of Israel when they took vengeance on the Midianites. Numbers 31:8
Balaam’s second oracle contains a powerful truth about God Himself (someone said Nuggets from Numbers);
19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
not a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfil? Numbers 23
God cannot lie, His Word stands no matter what, count upon Him to make it good in your life.
20 I have received a command to bless;
HE HAS BLESSED, AND I CANNOT CHANGE IT.
21 ‘NO MISFORTUNE IS SEEN IN JACOB,
NO MISERY OBSERVED IN ISRAEL. (Lovely verses to claim)
THE LORD THEIR GOD IS WITH THEM;
THE SHOUT OF THE KING IS AMONG THEM.
22 God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox.
23 There is no divination against Jacob,
no evil omens against Israel.
It will now be said of Jacob
and of Israel, “See what God has done!” NUMBERS 23
Someday all Heaven will declare this about God’s people!
God bless and keep you today and every day.