How to stop the blessing.

When the Israelites were comfortably in the land then they became complacent and the blessings stopped. The blessing stopped for two reasons. First, they wanted peace at any cost. They had been at war for seven years. Sometimes the church loses out because they are more interested in peace than to continue the fight. However, we are called to be counter culture and that will mean being at war with the status quo. The second reason was that they wanted wealth. How often the church has lost its blessing because they wanted wealth more than blessing. Sometimes we even equate material blessing with spiritual blessing. We are called to possess our possessions and that means not desiring peace at any cost or materialism.