Bless Me Indeed #1 (Meaning of "Bless" in Hebrew)

Bless Me Indeed #1 (Four Part Teaching)

(Meaning of "Bless" in Hebrew)

The Lord speaks a lot about blessing His children and being a blessing to others.

People no matter who they believe in want to be blessed. Jacob deceitfully came to his father and asked him to bless him. "Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may bless me." (Genesis 27:19 NASB)

Esau wanted to be blessed by his father Isaac, and he was very upset when his father had no more blessings for him.

What is it about blessings?

What does it mean to be blessed?

What does it mean to be a blessing?

I would like to focus on the word "bless" and its meaning in Hebrew. I will share with you through this insight what the Lord meant when He mentioned the word "bless, or blessed" in His word, and through this insight I believe this teaching will deepen your walk with the Lord as He will bring more understanding.

Understanding helps our house to be established (Pro 24:3).

It is a man of understanding that can draw out of the depth of his heart what the Lord planted in him. (Pro 20:5)

Let's dig in.....

"Blessed" in Hebrew Means

The word "blessed" (ברך be-rech) in Hebrew is the same word as "knee" (ברך be-rech).

Both words have the same root (ב,ר,כ).

Be-rech (blessed ברך) means:

ברך

Knee

לברך

to congratulate; bless; greet; praise

בורך

be blessed

להתברך

be blessed with; praised; brag

להבריך

to cause to kneel; to bring down on the knees, to replant; figuratively: to have offspring

להבריך

• לגרום כריעת-ברך, להוריד על הברכיים; לנטוע מחדש, לשתול ענף, להטות ענף; להעמיד צאצאים When the Lord blesses us He not only greets, congratulates and gives us a benefit, but He first bows His own knee and serves us.
• As the Greatest, He is the One who humbled Himself and gave His life for ones who are the least.
• The Hebrew describes those least as "the zeros of the Earth (Psa 2:8, 22:28, 59:13, 67:8, 98:3, Isa 45:22, Jer 16:19). The English translates them as "the ends of the earth".
• These are the ones the Lord bent His knee for and came to their darkness to shine His light.

The One who bowed His knee to His creation and having His mouth shut lay His own life for His children, is also the One to whom every knee will bow down and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.

It is the Lord who blesses first. He always gives first so we can give Him back what He put in our heart. If we want to bear His fruits of love we need to personally experience His love for us. We need to come to a place where we learn to receive His love, and allow the Lord to pour out His love for us. Then, and only then, we can give Him back the love He has personally shown us. We give Him who He is for us.

It is after we experience the love of the Lord for us that we can feed others with the fruits He fed us.

There is no way we can love others with the love of the Lord before we let the Lord reveal His love for us. Why? Because we cannot bear any fruit by ourselves. We love because He loved us first. We give because He gives us first.

This is why when the Lord blesses us He also replants us (as a new creation). He put us in Christ and He causes us to have an offspring. In other words He causes us to bear the fruit of His love in us. He makes sure our spiritual womb is not barren and the fruit that comes out of our womb is ... Christ Jesus in us.

There is nothing we can give to the Father but the works of His own hands – Jesus in us and His finished works. Bearing fruits means giving Him back the image (glory, nature, heart, mind) of Christ in us. We do not bear that image by our own effort. It is by faith. Once we are born again we ARE already in the image and form of Christ (God). It's not of our own making, by our works, by being good, or doing good. It's by grace through faith.

This means we have faith in the One who saved us and built us in Him complete. The Word says "we are complete in Christ" - then........... what's missing in what God has built?

Jeus is the First Fruit and we give the Father back the same fruit that He put in us - Christ who lives in us. Messiah in us is already the glory (image) of God. (see the teaching on "Seek My Face")

In our walk with the Lord we find out WHO God has already made us in Christ. We start in Him as a complet creation and we get our mind renewed to find out who we are in Him.

God blessed us with the most precious of all blessings - His Son Jesus. And He gave Him to us for free not by anything we have done. It's only because we believed (by faith). Now he also helps us find out who Christ IS in us. He reveals Him to us so we can see and understand who we are as a new creation.

The more we find who we are in Him, the more we become a blessing to others.

Do you see?

God blessed us with Christ and as we grow in faith we can become a blessing to others - as we witness the revealed Christ in us.

The only thing the Lord is pleased with is when we give Him back a Lamb - His Son in us. We are as He is and we bear fruit as we see and understand and know who He is in us. It's like a process of giving birth. It's as if God put a baby Christ in us and the more we know Him the more He can be revealed through us. Only the thinkg is......... the Christ in us is not a baby - He is fully God who chose to live in a Temple He built.

Mary who gave birth to Jesus is the picture of the Bride of the Lord (Church). The Father put Him in our hearts (our spiritual womb) and we are all spiritually pregnant with Christ in us. We cannot see Him, but we know He is there. Only... it's US (you and I) who need to grow from glory to glory until we know the One who is in us. The more we grow in faith and our mind is renewed about who Jesus is, the more we bear the fruits of righteousness. Now Christ flows from us.

To be a blessing means to bow the knee, to be humbled, to serve others even "the least of them".

Therefore, when the Lord blesses us He humbles Himself and becomes a servant to the point of death. As a result He helps us bear the same fruit we have eaten from His heart. The Lord blesses us so we will bear fruits and bless others. We bless them as we give them to eat from the fruits the Lord fed us with. As the Lord bows the knee and serves us He also helps us to bow our knee to others. We start bearing fruit as we learn to see who we have become. We serve the same way Jesus, who is the First Fruit of the Father, served and gave His life for many.

It is the Lord who comes down to us in our darkness (Acts 7:34). His coming down to our mess allows us to be brought up. Therefore to be blessed by the Lord means to experience Him as a servant who bends His knee and comes down to us. It means to allow Him to minister, give and pour out who He is for us.

His ascension to heaven could happen because He descended from heaven and was brought low to do the will of the Father. (John 6:38, Eph 4:9-10, Jonah 2:6, John 3:13)

You cannot bow your knee to the Lord and become a servant in your heart, if you do not allow the Lord to bend His knee to you and serve you - if you have not experienced Him come down to your darkness, minister to you, serve you, pour out His heart and reveal His love for you, bend His knee as a servant and a loving Father to care for you as His child.

This is why Jesus told Peter, if you don't allow Me to bow the knee to you and serve you by washing your feet you don't belong to Me (have no part in Me). If I cannot give you who I am and personalize it in your life, so you can find your identity in Me, you have no part in Me. This is when Peter realized, "I better let Him sow into my heart.

Imagine, Peter walked with the Lord for three years but still did not know who the Lord really was for him. It was fun using his name, healing the sick, setting free the possessed, being fed daily, being close to the Lord, but he needed his heart renewed by having a new revelation of who the Lord is for him. Unless the Lord downloads into us, we have nothing to give to others.

John 13:4-8 NLT So He got up from the table, took off His robe, wrapped a towel around His waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then He began to wash the disciples' feet, drying them with the towel He had around Him. 6 When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to Him, "Lord, are You going to wash my feet?" 7 Jesus replied, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but someday you will." 8 "No," Peter protested, "You will never ever wash my feet!" Jesus replied, "Unless I wash you, you won't belong to Me."… 13:12-17 After washing their feet, He put on His robe again and sat down and asked, "Do you understand what I was doing? 13 You call Me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and you are right, because that's what I am. 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other's feet. 15 I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you. 16 I tell you the truth, slaves are not greater than their master. Nor is the messenger more important than the One who sends the message. 17 Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

The blessings, the fruit of our spiritual womb, the change in our heart, the transformation into the Lord's image, come after the Lord bows down the knee (blesses) to you. He comes down to minister and serve you, and then you can bow the knee (bless) to others.

In being a blessing our pride is being removed. The Lord by His Holy Spirit helps us to become a blessing as we bow the knee. We come down to where others are and we serve them. It means we let go of our pride, status, accomplishments and titles, what belongs to us and who we think we are, and we accept others and willingly give to them as unto the Lord. We give Him back in humility the same fruit He gave us to eat.

It is after we taste and see that the Lord's fruit is good, that we can bear that same fruit and give others. This is the meaning of being blessed and blessing others.

Imagine what really happened to Eve when she ate the fruit that the snake gave her. She had so many fruits to eat from in the Garden. All she needed to do is taste the Lord's fruits so she can bear His fruits in her. She needed to taste and experience for herself the Lord's goodness, kindness, peace and joy. It is not enough that the Lord's fruits are there, we need to eat them for ourselves. This is why we pray "Give us today our daily bread". Instead of tasting and experiencing the Lord's fruits she chose to taste and experience the fruit of accusation, and fed her husband with the same fruit. Then they both gave birth to this same bad fruit and accused each other. This brought death upon them.

There are so many fruits in the Lord's heart that He wants us to taste (experience, encounter) DAILY. It should be a daily experience of tasting and eating the food He has for us. This food is always Himself – His heart and mind for us, so we can become as He is. Each fruit we taste will transform who we are and help us bear that fruit we have experienced.

It is not enough to see the Lord's fruits in others. We need to seek Him so He can let us taste of His fruits for ourselves and be changed from glory to glory. The thing is, religion took away the key of knowledge (knowing the Lord personally) from those who want to come in and taste and see that the Lord is good. (Luke 11:52).

Luke 11:52 NLT "What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering."

I love the Message paraphrase:

Luke 11:52 MSG "You're hopeless, you religion scholars! You took the key of knowledge, but instead of unlocking doors, you locked them. You won't go in yourself, and won't let anyone else in either."

The Lord's enemies were not the Romans. It was man-made religion with its restrictions, heavy burdens, judgmental and critical mind, accusations, doubt, passivity, victim mentality, and "I know" mindset. He came to set prisoners free from their own religious hearts.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians saying I am not good for you if I do not come to you through my own revelation or knowledge (of the Lord):

1 Corinthians 14:6 NASB 6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

Paul wanted to bring the Lord in him. As a good spiritual father to his children he wanted to take them to new places that Lord has taken him, so he can lead them to new experiences with the Lord. He was a blessing to them. He fed them with the fruits he himself was fed with.

Paul thanked God for the grace given to them, for being enriched in Him in all speech and knowledge, and confirming the testimony about Messiah. They lacked no gift and waited eagerly for the revelation of Yeshua (1Co 1:5-7). Paul wrote to them, that they should stop sinning, for some of them have no knowledge of God (1Co 15:34).

This means there are those in the Church who need to know God personally in their life and on that revelation they will be able to bear good fruits and be built.

This is why Yeshua asked His disciples if they knew Him (if they knew who He really was). "Who do YOU say that I am?". They all gave Him a distorted image of who He is. They walked with Him but didn't know who He is. It was Peter, by a personal revelation from the Father who said "You are the Christ (Messiah)". Yeshua, excited that one of His disciples received a personal revelation of who He really is, said to Peter "on this foundation, on this revelation, on this truth, I will build My Church".

Why was it Peter who received the revelation? Because he had already had a personal encounter with the Lord. Remember the Lord blessed him with many fish? Peter had experienced for himself who the Lord really is. The Father used Peter's changed heart to reveal to him who His Son is.

The only way to be built on the Rock and stand in any storm is to be built on your personal revelation of who Yeshua really really is for YOU. The more you know Him, the more you will know who you are in Him and you will become as He is as you bear the fruits He gave you.

In other words, the more He blesses you and you eat of the fruits of His heart, the more you will be able to bless others with who Yeshua is in you.

One such fruit the Lord wants us to taste and experience is His humility. In God's Kingdom a servant bows himself before his Master because he has experienced his Master bending His knee (blessing) to him and serving him. Our Lord gave His life and all He had to His children and as He blesses (serves) them He gives them an example and multiplies Himself in them - He makes disciples who become as He is. This is the true meaning of blessing others.

I will post the other parts of this teaching soon.

May the Lord bless you and keep you, shine His face upon you, smile on you, give you peace and reveal who He is to you. May you be built on who He is for you, and become a blessing to many.

Love,

Elana