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  Living in the Fullness of the Blessing

  ISBN: 978-0-9854477-4-8

  Unless otherwise stated, all Scripture quotations are taken from The King James Version and The Amplified Version of the Bible.

  Jerry Savelle Ministries

  P.O. Box 748

  Crowley, TX 76036

  Copyright © 2008 by Jerry Savelle

  All Rights Reserved

  Contents

  Introduction

  Chapter 1: The Fullness of the Blessing

  Chapter 2: Stretch Your Thinking

  Chapter 3: Financial Leprosy

  Chapter 4: Value the Blessing

  Chapter 5: Agree That the Blessing Is On You

  Chapter 6: Keep Your Life Pure

  Chapter 7: Look For Every Opportunity To Give

  Chapter 8: Blessing Blockers

  Chapter 9: Catch the Vision

  Chapter 10: It's Your Inheritance

  About The Author

  Other Books by Jerry Savelle

  Prayer of Salvation

  Introduction

  While sitting in the back of my airplane, I was reading my Bible and looking over some notes of what I felt that I might be preaching at the Convention I was flying to. As I was doing that, the Lord instructed me to turn in my notebook to a prophetic word that Kenneth Copeland had given during the West Coast Believer’s Convention.

  The Lord said to me, “I want you to take that prophetic word and look at it and study it very closely because it has everything to do with what I am about to do in your life and the lives of those who would dare believe for it.”

  I took out the prophesy and began reading it over and over. I took out my highlighter and started highlighting certain things that seemed to stand out to me. I sensed in my spirit the Holy Spirit had something exciting that He wanted to reveal to me about the things which I had highlighted.

  This is what the prophetic word said:

  “The manifestation of the blessing, saith the Lord, is at an all time high. You are approaching a blessing manifestation that the human race has never seen before. The blessing will surround you. The blessing will encase you. All debt will have to get up and leave you the same way leprosy left the lepers of old. Debt is financial sickness. It is financial leprosy. It is a burden and it is part of the curse. If you will begin to confess that this blessing manifestation is coming, you will be shocked and thrilled at how quickly you will have the glory arise and drive the debt right out of your life. I will bless you beyond your income. I will bless you beyond your salaries. I will bless you beyond anything you have ever known before. I will bring financial blessing on you that you don’t have any idea where it came from. It has come to an explosive place. It’s ready and I’m ready. Are you ready? Saith the Lord.”

  Did you notice what the Holy Spirit said about the “manifestation of the blessing like never before”?

  I have often said that if the Lord did not do one more thing for me as long as I live, I could die and go to heaven and say without reservation that God has been good to Jerry Savelle. But it sounds as if the best is yet to come!

  But did you know that for God not to do anything else for me (and you) would be contrary to His nature. Why? Because God is good and He is the God who increases us more and more. God really has no problem with how much you increase, just as long as He gets the credit for it (Deuteronomy 8:18).

  Ever since the day I discovered that I had a right to be blessed by God, that I had a right to the blessing of Abraham, it absolutely changed my life. And I believe that once you understand what the blessing is and why you need to live in the fullness of it, then you will never be the same either. That is why I have written this book. The Lord has shared with me some keys to living in the fullness of the blessing. And if there is ever a time that you and I need to be living in the fullness of the blessing, it’s today.

  I hope you will take the principles in this book and apply them to your life. And when you do, I believe that the words of that prophecy will become a reality in your life.

  God is ready for you to live in the fullness of His blessing. Are you daring enough to believe for it? I am. And I am ready to live it. Are you?

  CHAPTER 1

  The Fullness of the Blessing

  Can you imagine what your life would be like right now if you had the ability to flow in God’s blessing without measure? Live a life without any limitations? What would you be doing? How would you be living?

  Did you know that God has provided a way for you to live a life without any limits. That’s right. No limits.

  Now you might be thinking, “But how, Jerry? What are you talking about?”

  God has provided for you to live a life without limitations by pronouncing His blessing on your life. That’s the kind of life He wants you to live. And that is why I have written this book. God wants you to live everyday in the fullness of the blessing that He has pronounced on you!

  BE BLESSED

  Not too long ago, my seven year old grandson and I were out in my garage working on his little Honda 50 dirt bike, getting it ready for him to ride. As we were working, he sneezed. I heard him but really didn’t pay that much attention. I just kept working.

  When I didn’t say anything to him, he noticed. He got up, walked over, and put his hands on his hips and said, “Papa, you didn’t empower me to prosper.” I said, “Well, excuse me. Empower you to prosper.”

  I know you might be reading this and thinking, “What? Empower you to prosper? That doesn’t make any sense. Why didn’t you say what most people say: God bless you?”

  I know that’s what most people say. And unfortunately, that is probably about the only time the word “bless” is used in most Christian homes. Somebody sneezes and somebody else says: bless you. That’s about the depth of their revelation of blessing.

  But not at my house. I discovered over 35 years ago that one of the meanings of the word bless is empowered to prosper. So I just made that a habit at our house. If somebody sneezed, I would say, “empower you to prosper.” And now I have taught that same thing to my grandkids. We believe in the blessing at our house.

  The fact of the matter is that I wouldn’t have anything if it wasn’t for the blessing of God on my life. The blessing is an empowerment that comes on your life when you get born again. That’s right! It comes on you. You wear it just like you wear your clothes. It’s on you. It’s not your car, it’s not your house, and it’s not your spouse. All of those things are by-products of the blessing, the empowerment that is on your life to prosper.

  Genesis 1:26-27 – And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image . . .

  And then in verse 28, it says – And God blessed them . . .

  Notice that God created man and the first thing that He did after creating man was bless him.

  Now how does God bless someone? How did He bless Adam? How did it take place? In the literal Hebrew, it implies that when God blessed Adam, it was something He pronounced on Him. He spoke it.

  The very first words Adam ever heard God speak were, “Be blessed.” That is amazing to me. You know, my Mom and Dad didn’t say that to me right after I was born. My Dad didn’t look at me and say, “Jerry Savelle, be blessed.” But those were the first words that Adam ever heard from God. Be blessed.

  Once God pronounced the blessing on Adam, it came on him and he wore it like a coat. It was on him and it was on him in its fullness. Not a measure. The fullness of the bl
essing. The blessing was on him, and it had the ability to do things in his life and cause his lifestyle to be one without measure and without limits.

  Because God had blessed Adam, he was marked. The blessing had been pronounced upon him and he was empowered to prosper, empowered to succeed. Before he committed high treason against God, Adam didn’t know anything about failure. He was not designed to fail. He was designed to succeed.

  And so are you. You were created in God’s image just like Adam was. You were created to be blessed. You were created to succeed.

  NOT ONLY ADAM

  Just because Adam and Eve sinned, God’s plan for mankind did not change. God started all over with a man by the name of Noah.

  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

  – Genesis 9:1

  Notice that these are the exact same words that God spoke to Adam. In some translations it even says that God pronounced a blessing upon Noah and his sons. Noah was blessed just like Adam was.

  And what about Abram?

  And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee.

  – Genesis 12:2

  Abram was blessed just like Adam and Noah. He was empowered to prosper and succeed. And if you study Abraham’s life, you will see that everywhere he went, and everything that he did, produced increase. All he had to do was walk in obedience.

  And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

  – Genesis 24:1

  In other words, you could say that by the time Abraham became an old man, he had experienced increase in every area of his life. Increase had come to him in every-

  thing that he did. Why? Because he was blessed by God.

  The blessing had been pronounced upon him and it was

  noticeable.

  YOUR TIME HAS COME

  And if ye be Christ’s, then ye are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  – Galatians 3:29

  That’s you and me. We are Abraham’s seed. If you belong to Christ, if you have accepted Him and made Him Lord of your life, then you are Abraham’s seed.

  You are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise. God has pronounced His blessing upon you. It is time for you to walk in the fullness of that blessing.

  The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.

  – Psalm 115:12-13

  The Lord shall increase you more and more. Why? Because you’re blessed of the Lord who made heaven and earth.

  WHY YOU NEED THE BLESSING

  Have you noticed how crazy the world has gotten? It’s crazy out there. I don’t know how people make it on this planet without the blessing of God on their lives. And it just seems to be getting worse as the days go by. But thank God for the blessing.

  You see, when the blessing is on your life, you are not limited like other people. You are not limited to the natural any more. You have something working for you that other people don’t have. It doesn’t matter what is going on in your life. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are telling you. God has pronounced His blessing on you. He has empowered you to prosper and empowered you to succeed. He doesn’t intend for you to fail. He has already placed the blessing on your life. He has already planned for your increase and your success.

  Living in the fullness of the blessing is all about living a life without limitations. I believe that God wants each and every one of His children to live in the fullness of the blessing that He has pronounced on their lives. And God has shared with me some things that I believe will put you in position to live in the fullness of His blessing. No matter how blessed your life has been up until now, God has more for you. There is another level of the blessing that He wants you to walk in. I believe that the blessing manifestation is going to be far beyond anything that we have ever seen before. God is ready for you to live in the fullness of His blessing that He has pronounced on our life. Are you?

  CHAPTER 2

  Stretch Your Thinking

  The manifestation of the blessing is at an all time high. You are approaching a blessing manifestation like the human race has never seen before.

  THE FULLNESS OF THE BLESSING

  Romans 15:29 says, And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

  The word fullness means complete or having reached the greatest level or highest degree. That is the nature of God. He is always calling us up higher. He is always wanting us to go further. He is always progressing, and He is calling us up to a higher level.

  GET OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE

  I have noticed in my life that it seems like God does not allow me to get in comfort zones. I never seem to reach the place where I can go, “Okay, I’ve arrived. Praise God.” And then throw the armor in the corner and take a spiritual vacation. I never seem to get to the place where I don’t have to use my faith.

  The disciples of Jesus had some struggles from time to time. I mean the religious people hated them. Take Lazarus for example. Do you remember when they found out Lazarus was sick? Jesus waited for three days before He went to be with Lazarus and his family.

  When Jesus finally told His disciples that they were going to go see him, they said, “But Master, don’t you understand the last time we were in that city they tried to stone us?” He said, “Yes, I understand that.” They said, “Well, if Lazarus is asleep, he is doing okay.”

  The disciples had rocks on their brain. The religious Jews were the best “rock chunkers” in the world. They didn’t miss. When they stoned you, you were dead. And the disciples were thinking, “Man, the last time we were there, they wanted to throw rocks at us. Let’s just stay here.” But you see, Jesus wouldn’t allow them to stay in their comfort zone. He was always stretching their faith.

  And then there’s the time on the Mount of Transfiguration. Peter, James, and John were with Jesus and the manifestation of the glory of God. What did they want to do? They wanted to build a tabernacle right there. Why? Because they’d have gotten in a comfort zone.

  What about the children of Israel right after Moses died? They hated Moses when he was living, but when he died they just wanted to hang around and mourn his death. But God wouldn’t let them stay in that comfort zone. He finally said, in the form of a rebuke, “Moses is dead. Now get up and go and take the land that I told you belongs to you.”

  Do you see what I am saying? God’s people tend to want to just get comfortable sometimes. We tend to want to find that place where there’s no resistance. But that’s not what God wants. Right after you finish one faith project, God is already talking about stretching you for the next one. Go further. Go deeper. Expand. Build. Rise. God has got a one track mind, and it always involves increase.

  God has told us that it’s time for the manifestation of the blessing to be at an all time high. That means you and I are going to have to stretch our faith if we’re going to become recipients of it. This is not going to happen to small thinking, negative talking Christians.

  I want to encourage you to start confessing right now that you are headed for the fullness of the blessing in your life. You must begin to confess it so that you take the limits off of your thinking. If you say it enough, you will eventually begin to believe it.

  A MORE EXTRAVAGANT BLESSING

  In the Message translation, it describes the fullness of the blessing as a more extravagant blessing. And the definition for the word extravagant is going beyond any previous limits. That simply means going to the next level. God is calling you and me to the next level of His blessing on our lives.

  Now a lot of people don’t like the word, extravagant, par-ticularly religious people. Excessive, extravagant. The religious world has a hard time with this. But, God’s the one who said it, so I’m going for it!
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br />   Ephesians 2:7 says, That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

  Paul wrote this ages ago. But I have reason to believe that when Paul wrote this he was looking into the spirit realm, into the future and he saw our generation.

  I’ve had people tell me, “No, he’s talking about heaven.”

  Well, let me ask you something. Why would I need the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness and His favor when I get to heaven? I’m not going to need them when I get to heaven. There are no problems in heaven. If you haven’t heard, the devil isn’t going.

  I need the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness and His favor while I’m in this place called earth. Heaven has been referred to as the sweet by and by. I’m not going to need this in the sweet by and by. I need it in the lousy here and now.