Living BlessedGenesis 12:1-4, Malachi 3:7-11, Nehemiah 13:1-9

Cycle of Dominion

• Creating

• Boundaries

• Planting

• Watching

• Cultivate

• Occupy

• Possessing

• Multiplying

• Expanding

Cycle of BlessingGenesis 12:1-5

Commit to Follow

• Giving

• Faith Agreement

• A covenant with promises to grant

• Boundaries

• Timing

• Conditions to invoke or say

• Humble

• Worship /Praise

• Fulfillment

GiveMalachi 3:7-11

• Giving to someone greater than you

• Giving opens up doors to greater blessing than that which you are giving

• Giving begins the cycle of restoration and return in you life

• Giving breaks curses

• Giving gives you the opportunity to try God

• Giving opens up the door for “poured out blessing”

BreakdownNehemiah 13

• Consequences of poor leadership vs4,28, wrong alignment didn’t fill assignment

• Disobedience to God’s word vs 4-9

• Temptations of Materialism vs15-18

• Ignoring family values vs 23-27

Mixed

• Ammonite sin - failure to bless To many times our idea of sin is based on our failure of what we did, here the failure was on what they didn’t do

• Failure to act- Luke 16:19-31, Luke 10:30-37, 12:13-21, Matthew 25:1-30, 31-46

• Moab- intent to curse, plan to hinder (Shemiah) Nehemiah 6:12-13

• Worst opposition frequently comes from the unpredictable and the unexpected 2 Cor 11:13-15

Trouble at the StorehouseNehemiah 13:1-9

• Giving to the storehouse turned curse into blessing

• Giving separated the multitude, it took away the mixture, the separation came because cursing rather than giving

• The trouble began Eliashib the priest allowed Tobiah to clear out a space for himself in the house of the Lord, where the articles of blessing, were kept

• All this to prepare room for himself in the courts of the house of the Lord

Removed• Grain offering• Frankincense • The articles• Tithes of grain• New wine• New oil or fresh oil• All theses were to be given to the storehouse to

keep the Levites (priests, leadership) Singers (worship/praise) Gatekeepers (intercessors, spiritual warfare) Priests (the worship leaders, those who offered sacrifice) to keep worship flowing in the courts and house of God

Tobiah

• What Tobiah has moved into the center of your life?

• What furniture is cluttering the temple that the Holy Spirit should be filling

Dream Challenged

• God doesn't’t work through crowds but through channels, through process

• American Dream, have more give less, God’s dream, have less, give more, have more to give more

• Don’t confuse a spirit of poverty with a spirit of generosity

Cleansing1. Vs 1 Give the Word it’s place

2. Vs 2 See God’s intent for you

3. Vs 3 Act

a. Throw our the household goods of Tobiah

1) Accusation and wrong declaration 4:3

a. You are feeble 2 Cor. 12:6-10 (ability)

b. You will hide John 1:12 (destiny)

c. You worship is hindered Isaiah 26:3 (peace)

d. You will not finish, to slow James 1:12, Galatians 6:7 Hebrews 10:36 (timing)

e. Hopelessness Joel 2:25 (Completions

Cleanse

4. Cleanse the rooms

5. Bring back in the articles of the house of God

6. Set worship in place

7. Bring tithe into the storehouse