Bended Worship Ministry

Surely the fundamental need in our life and service for God is the blessing of God upon it. No other need exist!

What do we mean by blessing? Blessing is the working of God where there is nothing to account for his working. What do I mean by this “nothing to account for His working”, you may ask?

Blessing to be received as blessing is to recognize that it is the work of God, wherein, I do not need to ask for more to make it sufficient. When a blessing is received, it is more than complete in its working for it is the working of God. Hence, it is more than sufficient. Anyone who has received does not lack anything or need of anything to be added to it. One cannot proclaim he is blessed yet he needed to ask for more and seems to lack something. For in doing so, he declares that what he has is not sufficient compare to what he feels he must have. This view is in total disagreement of what God called as blessedness.

As I have gone deeper in the knowledge of Him who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light, I have this to learn about blessing: When the fruit of our service is out of proportion to the gifts we possess, that is blessing. When in the midst of our weaknesses and failures, we fully recognize that there should be no fruit at all that should come out of our service, yet still there is fruit, that is blessing. It is not just the working of cause and effect. — I do this and I do that, this will happen, — no, but rather, the work of God that is beyond what man can count.

This is fundamental and foundational in a believer’s view of life and his service, for there can be no true service outside of the working of God, as there is no life outside of God.

It is God who works, it is He who has the plan. It is the Almighty who will complete. We cannot add nor subtract to what God is already doing or plan to do. Therefore no one can boast that he has done something. For what man can do and produce is not and never will be accepted before the holiness of God. Only that which is heavenly can please God. The earthly cannot please Him.

Blessing then comes when God works wholly beyond what man can reckon for His name’s sake.

May we all come into the life of blessedness.

-Ptr. Dick