📖 For You, Lord, will bless the [uncompromisingly] righteous [him who is upright and in right standing with You]; as with a shield You will surround him with goodwill (pleasure and favor). —Psalm 5:12 AMPC
God doesn’t just want you to receive blessings every now and then, He wants you to be blessed all the time! God wants us to walk in the fullness of the blessings he's given us. He wants us to be surrounded by His goodwill. Job is a good example of this. Satan acknowledged to God that He (God) had put a hedge about Job and his house and all that he had on every side (Job 1:10). Satan also noted that God had “conferred prosperity and happiness upon in the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land”. God desires to surround us with good and put a hedge about us like Job. We must make sure we don’t tear the hedge down with the wrong words or with sin. Both of those things will open the door for the enemy, and we want to keep that door closed. As we walk with God, we can expect the Blessing to come upon us and overtake us. There is nothing the enemy can do to stop it. Don’t give him place!
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