S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

Ephesians 1:3 says that we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. What are these spiritual blessings, and what do they do for us? Contrary to some beliefs, they are not some myst...

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Michael Bartlett Supporter

Has blessed me (past tense) with EVERY spiritual blessing. This is referring to the finished works of Jesus Christ. God knows the beginning and the end so with the end in mind He looked down the eons of time and knew exactly what His children (me) would require at every moment and made it available through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. By grace, a free gift through faith I can access these spiritual blessings He put in place before the foundation of the world. 

Spiritual blessings when received (taken) by faith cause physical blessings in the natural realm to be manifested and seen. I am united with the Annointing=Christ.
The anointing is the burden removing and yoke destroying power of Almighty God. In the Old Testament they anointed with oil. In the New Testament we, the born again believers are anointed by God with the Holy Spirit. 
Spiritual blessings by definition are special spiritual gifts including God's favor (God is spiritual) and His benefits extend from the spiritual realm (parent realm) to the physical realm. 
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!-Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT)
A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
-1 Corinthians 12:7-11 (NLT).
The Heavenly realm is blessed with no sickness but health, no poverty but prosperity, no depression but joy, no anxiety but peace. These are the spiritual blessings available to me in Heavenly places. Faith is required as the conduit to bring or manifest the spiritual blessings into the physical world.
The spiritual blessings are the blessings that the physical blessings are connected to. All things are first spiritual. The spiritual realm is more real than the physical realm. God planted the garden of Eden. The seed came from Heaven. The earth was to be replica or copy of Heaven. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. (Genesis 2:8 NLT). The seed He used to plant the garden came from Heaven. 

Call the spiritual blessings from Heaven to manifest the physical blessings in the name of Jesus. By faith I call the spiritual blessings that God has already provided to impact and change the physical realm I live in. The church has not called all that God has made available in the spiritual realm. I have not yet called all that God has made available for me! 

Blessed=divinely and supremely favored by God. Fortunate, blissfully happy and contented. Sanctified or set apart by God. Satisfied not wanting or needing anything.

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John Appelt Supporter

Spiritual blessings are supernatural favors of goodness that God bestows, mentioned only in Ephesians 1:3. In Ephesians 1:3, Paul bursts forth in praise to God, and then proceeds in Ephesians 1:4-14 to describe how God acted accordingly on behalf of all believers, indicated by “us” and “we.” 

It starts out with the plan God has for His people that they be holy and without blame before Him, Ephesians 1:4. The sense of “chose,” drawing from ancient Greek usage, is not God electing certain people for salvation, as is commonly taught. Instead, God is commissioning believers as to what kind of people they are to be before Him. With such great honor and privilege of being God’s people, comes the great responsibility to be like Him. This objective God had in mind before the foundation of the world.

Then in Ephesians 1:5-6, beginning with the last two words of verse 4 “in love,” the reason is given why God wants them to be holy. It is because He in love “predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself.” The word “predestined” literally in Greek means “pre-horizoned,” as if setting pre-marked boundaries. The intended place or goal for believers is the adoption as sons. This transaction is “according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace...” His grace enables believers to be accepted in Beloved.

With the mention of “Beloved,” the focus in Ephesians 1:7-12, transitions from God to His Son. It shows what Jesus bestows to the believer, specifically two great concepts, redemption and inheritance. 

Ephesians 1:7-10 emphasizes redemption by His sacrifice, providing the forgiveness of sins. It is made possible through the riches of God’s grace, lavished on us in all His wisdom and knowledge, having made known to believers His revealed will and plan. This is according to His good pleasure to fulfill His future plan.

Ephesians 1:8-12 touches on the inheritance also pre-planned, the second mention of “predestined,” or “pre-horizoned” for the believer. This was purposed by God’s will for them who first trusted in Christ. Belief in Jesus is the prerequisite to receiving any inheritance. The objective of God is that believers be “to the praise of His glory.”

Ephesians 1:13-14 indicates that because they heard the word of truth, the gospel of their salvation, they are benefited with further blessings. Here the Spirit’s ministry is brought out. Believers are sealed with the Spirit of promise who guarantees their inheritance when the redemption of the purchased possession takes place in the future. The objective, given the second time, is that believers be “to the praise of His glory.” 

God has only goodness in mind for the one who believes in Jesus. He ensures a special benefit package for those who are in Him. No wonder Paul began with the words, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ...”

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