THURSDAY 22ND AUGUST I AM NOT LUCKY, I AM BLESSED. The blessing of the Lord brings wealth without painful toil for it (Proverbs 10:22) It is an insult to redemption to think that a child of God doing well and flourishing is just lucky. We are not victims of natural occurrences and chances like those in the world, but we are a product of the blessing of God. Then,what is the blessing? 1. The blessing is the empowerment to prosper. 2. The blessing is the invisible force of grace at work on my inside which influences everything around me to flourish. We don't get wealth through fraud, gimmicks, lies, toil and the like. It is the blessing that brings wealth. This is what we discovered from our scriptural text today, the blessing can never deliver where laziness and idleness abound, but it answers to hardwork and diligence. Abraham was a blessed man but he was not an idle man. (Genesis 24:35) says, Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. He was a fa