Your identity is a definition of who you are to you. It’s how you see yourself. It’s the value you place on your own life. Identity.

The world wants to twist your identity so you never see yourself for the truth of who God says you are. God does not see you as a failure because he never saw you as a performer. (Hmmmm, let that soak in for a second.) God is neither impressed by your performance or distraught over your missteps. He is sovereign. He is mighty. He is great all alone, just by himself, and he simply invites YOU into HIS goodness.

Let me tell you who you are, my sister, so you start seeing yourself a little differently. You are a funnel. You are a vessel through which God pours his blessings. A funnel’s purpose is to allow a flow from a larger thing to a smaller thing. If I’m pouring grease from a big skillet into a little bottle, I need a funnel. You are the funnel.

God pours out his blessings, but he uses a funnel for his flow. His people are his funnel. And the funnel is constantly being filled, even as it gives, because the source never runs out. When you are the funnel receiving from God, you can fill a million different bottles while never running empty yourself. But the moment you stop the flow through you and try to keep it all for yourself, you create a mess. Yip, you know that.

Now think about this. As the funnel, the moment you start trying to give solely from yourself, you run dry. The moment you start trying to create the blessings on your own, you fail. The funnel does nothing but allow the flow through them from the source.

The funnel can’t get puffed up with pride, thinking they’re great and every little bottle receiving from them should be grateful. No, what the receiving bottle does with what has flowed through the funnel is of no concern. The funnel is to allow the flow, not measure the response. You’re the funnel. And funnel, it’s really not about you. Just let God’s blessings flow through you.

Here’s a statement for your identity. It’s one I’ve clung to for the past 16 years. I’m blessed by the blessor to be a blessing.

God is a blessor. All blessings come from him. Ephesians 3:1 reminds us that it is God who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Every good thing you have came through the hands of God. It’s all his and he poured it out on you – and I bet he used a funnel to get it to you! He used someone to bless you. Someone spoke into your life. Someone gave you a chance. Someone opened the door for you. Someone made space for you. Someone showed you love. They were your funnel! They were blessed by God to be a blessing to you.

And once you’ve received a blessing from God, you become the funnel. Now, you let the blessings flow through you onto the next person who needs the goodness of God. The divine giver never stops giving as long as the funnel keeps the flow open.

We’ve been studying Genesis and we saw how the whole earth had been infected by Satan and his demons and become evil – all but 1. That one was Noah, and Noah was different. So God started over with just Noah and his family on the ark. Now, 10 generations after Noah comes Abraham. Abraham is know as the “father of faith”. We first learn how to be faithful through the life of Abraham.

Abraham was an ordinary man who had the identity of a funnel. He knew everything he was given and everything he could do was for the purposes of God to flow through him to others. Let me tell you, it takes FAITH to receive a blessing from God and not hold on to it. It takes faith to allow the best stuff to just go right through you. God tells Abraham in Genesis 12:2, “I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.”

Blessed by the blessor to be a blessing.

God is saying – Abraham, your fame will not be for you. This won’t be about you. This will be about my power working through you. Your blessings will not be yours to hold on to. You’ll be asked to surrender your blessings over and over again. Sacrifice them, release them, trust me with them. And as long as you do, my blessings will never run out.

But God is not only saying this to Abraham, but my sister, he is saying it to YOU. He will bless you beyond measure, but it can’t become about you. It can’t be about your followers or your numbers. It can’t be about the purse you carry or the car you drive. It can’t be about your comforts and your cares. As a funnel of God’s blessings, you have to have a continual openness that never holds back. A faith that says, “God, if you give it to me, it’s not mine to keep – it’s yours to pass through me onto others.”

Abraham was blessed to be a blessing.

Your blessings are for one purpose – for you to become a blessing. But have you gotten that a little twisted?

Abraham’s birth name was Abram. Abram means exalted father. But there was one problem, Abram was married to Sarai and Sarai was barren. She was unable to get pregnant, so they had no children. But remember, God has promised to bless him so that he himself would become a blessing. An exalted father with no children – it was a painful reminder of a problem they couldn’t fix.

But, God would bless them, and that blessing would become something so powerful that our lives would be forever changed, even now over 100 generations later. What blessing would Abraham and his wife be given, and what would that blessing become?

In the way only God can, the barren woman unable to have children would miraculously become pregnant in her old age, and Abraham would have his son. And that son would have sons, who would have sons. And eventually, at just the right time, would come Jesus. Jesus, the savior of the world, came through a blessing to a barren couple who couldn’t have children. Abraham’s blessing became the blessing that saved you and I.

Abraham was a funnel. God declared he would bless him to be a blessing. And because God could trust him to keep his hands open and allow the blessings to flow through him instead of holding onto them for himself, God chose his family to become the linage of Jesus.

Blessed by the blessor to be a blessing. And how many times do we see the blessor use a problem and a struggle to become his biggest blessing? That’s the way he works. You know why? Because if it were easy, you might think you did it. If it were never a struggle, then you might think it just happened. No, it didn’t just happen, God ordained it. And no, you didn’t do it – God did it.

Where is your biggest problem and struggle? Will you stay open to God with this? Will you trust him to get this right? If God could get it right for an old couple who had tried to have a baby for 60 years, then I think he can get your problem right in his timing. And that blessing will be a blessing to others. It’s not yours to squeeze tight and never let go. It’s not yours to hide away and protect forever. It’s poured out to you to flow through you.

Have you ever heard of the Dead Sea? Nothing grows in the Dead Sea, but it’s not becauase there’s no goodness in it. Actually, it’s because there’s so much goodness in the Dead Sea that it’s become toxic. It has an inlet but no outlet. Everything just collects and settles in the Dead Sea making it so full of minerals that nothing can survive in it. If it had an outlet to allow flow, life would grow.

We become like the Dead Sea when we cling to our blessings and try to collect more. Life can’t grow like that, my friend. It’s why we see the mega wealthy become mega miserable. More isn’t the answer – FLOW is the answer.

You are blessed by the blessor to be a blessing – now let it flow!

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