Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another. It isn’t just words. It’s the actual putting forth of your will for the good of another person. It always involves God, because when you will the good of another person, you realise only God is capable of bringing that. So we naturally say, “God bless you.”
You can bless someone when you will their good under the invocation of God. You invoke God on their behalf to support the good that you will for them. This is the nature of blessing. It is what we are to receive from God and then give to another.
“The Lord bless you.” That means “God bring good consistently into your life.” “The Lord bless you and keep you.” That means “God protect you. God build around you his safekeeping.
More and more Christians, all over the world, believe that material prosperity is the right of all Christians. They believe that God expects them to ask for it and to anticipate it as a sure fulfilment of his promise.
Both the Old and New Testaments teach that God will bless the faithful and conventionally, the blessings come through men of God: be it a pastor, prophet, priest or bishop.
While theological level-headedness principally holds that any clergyman can bless people, Ghanaian pastor has stated that it is inappropriate for a poor pastor to ‘bless’ church members.
Glorious Wave Chapel International founder Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi said that if a pastor is poor and dares pray for believers in the name of blessing them, he or she is rather releasing poverty into their lives to add to the already existent one. According to him, one can only give what he or she has, so if a pastor is poor, it is poverty he has and that is what he gives to whoever he prays for.
Prophet Kobi made the statement while responding to criticisms about affluent pastors during an interview with Bola Ray on Starr FM. Backing his claim with Luck chapter 18, the controversial man of God said it was only ignorant people who engage in baseless criticism of pastors who are affluent.
In a video sighted by YEN.com.gh, Badu Kobi insisted that he is in full support of the annoying and widely condemned exhibition of affluence by some pastors while their congregants remain poor.
Watch the video below and form your opinion.
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