How to receive greater blessings

A Sermon Delivered on Wednesday Evening, May 28th 2025, by Evangelist PAUL ACQUAH,Live on MZ Radio London, London UK.

Receiving greater blessings is a longing shared by many, yet Jesus reveals a surprising pathway to these blessings in His words to Thomas after the resurrection: “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” This statement shifts our focus from relying on visible proof to embracing a deeper trust in God’s promises. Rather than seeking tangible signs or demanding personal evidence, Jesus teaches that true blessing comes to those who exercise faith – believing in Him through the testimony of Scripture and the witness of others. So, how do we unlock this kind of faith? How do we position ourselves for the greater blessings Jesus spoke of? Get ready to be encouraged, challenged, and inspired to believe God in a new way in today’s message by Evangelist Paul Acquah titled “How to receive greater blessings.” Be blessed as you listen!

Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).

Let me give you the context of this scripture. Jesus had resurrected from the dead; he appeared to his disciples. The doors were shut and Jesus just appeared inside the room and said look at my hands and side and his disciples believed. ¹⁹ On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” ²⁰ After he said this, he showed them his hands and side (John 20:29).

The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. But from verse 24 it says  ²⁴ Now Thomas (also known as Didymus^[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. ²⁵ So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” The Bible says ²⁶ A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesuscame and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” ²⁸ Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” ²⁹ Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

He told Thomas: ‘Blessed are those that have not seen and yet have believed’.  Jesus put a greater blessing on those that have not seen and yet have believed. Jesus said there’s a greater blessing upon the person who has not seen and yet has believed.  Did you know when I first read this I said Lord, I want the greater blessings, I want to walk in the fullness, I want to have the total power. He told Thomas that there’s a greater blessing than the kind of blessing that he had because his faith was based on sense knowledge.  A sense knowledge type of faith, a very carnal type of faith will not reap the blessings of God. His faith was based on what he could see, taste, hear, smell and feel. The word of God is more sure than anything and if you are basing your faith on what you see, taste, hear, and smell or feel, then you are many miles behind the person who is basing their faith on what God’s word says. 

The Lord said there is a greater blessing on the people who will believe the word without having to have a physical proof or evidence, but you believe the word.  He says you believe because you saw but yea rather blessed are those who believe without seeing. “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  Thomas declared that he must see and touch the Saviour before he could believe in the Resurrection. Yet Jesus said that those who do not need visual evidence of His work and power would be especially blessed.  My friend, trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what He sees. This is the very essence of faith—we don’t see Godat work, but we have confidence in Him anyway. We must actively obey Him and have confidence in His love for us before He will bless us. There are people who receive more blessings than others.

The greatest faith is the faith that says speak the word only. Let’s look at Matthew chapter 8 and contrast this with the faith that Jesus said was the greatest faith he had ever seen. In Matthew chapter 8 and  from verse 5 it says 5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. ⁶ “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.” ⁷ Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?” ⁸ The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. ⁹ For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ¹⁰ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 

Here’s an instance where Jesus said that he had never seen such great faith. When he talked to Thomas in John chapter 20, he said ‘Thomas, there’re people that are more blessed than you are because they believed without seeing’.   What was wrong with Thomas’s faith that Jesus said was not a good faith or a great faith and here in the eighth chapter of Mathew is the greatest faith that Jesus recorded in the word of God?   The difference was that Thomas based his faith on what he could see, taste, hear, smell, and feel and this centurion said Lord I recognise the authority that’s in your word. I have people under me; I’ve got authority and all I have to do is say the word and it’ll happen.  He says, just speak the word only and my servant shall be healed.  This man put so much faith in Jesus that he put faith in his word.  Jesus and his word cannot be separated. It’s not possible for a person to say I believe in Jesus, I love Jesus, I serve Jesus and yet they don’t love the word of God, 

Jesus is the word.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning (John 1: 1-2). Jesus and the word of God cannot be separated and this man realised this, that Jesus’s word was just as good as Jesus was and he put faith in Jesus and in his word.  His faith was based on the word of God and that was the greatest faith.  This man didn’t have to have Jesus come to his house and touch his servant; he believed the word of God. The centurion had a faith that was in God’s Word alone. He didn’t have to have Jesus come to his house and wave His hand over the sick servant. If Jesus would just speak the word, that was all he needed. Contrast this centurion’s faith with the human faith of Thomas, who was one of Jesus’ twelve disciples. There’s difference between human faith and spiritual faith. Human faith will never get you into the supernatural power of God. The Word of God is what causes spiritual faith. You choose which one you will believe and what kind of results you’ll have.

You can receive greater blessings by believing in the word of God. I can’t overemphasise this that it’ s really one of the keys to faith.  You have to get to where you put such a high priority on God’s word that God’s word to you is more sure than what you can see, taste, hear, smell and feel. You must believe God’s word more than you believe the word of a doctor or a lawyer or anybody else.  There’re some people who say brother I believe God but when it comes to a point where the doctor was to tell you that you were going to die, you are more moved by what a man says than you are by what God’s word says.  Do you believe the scriptures that say I will not die, but live, and praise the Lord by his stripes we were healed, he himself bore our infirmities and carried our sicknesses and many other scriptures that talk about the healing power of God?  

When it comes right down to it we believe in the natural and in the things that we’ve been taught to put value on more than we do the word of God.  Most of us believe the news media more than we believe God.  Most of you if the news media was to come on and say inflation is going to destroy us, the economy is falling apart, many of you immediately would be moved to take  action.  And yet God said he would bless the work of your hands, that my God shall supply all of your needs according to his riches in Christ Jesus.  You know what the word says.  What you are acting on is what you really believe. That’s what the bible means in James chapter two when it says faith without works is dead.  The people who say they believe something and didn’t act on it are just deceiving themselves. Believe in the word of God, act on it, and receive greater blessings.