Deuteronomy 11: 26-27
~Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse— The blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day.
Psalm 5: 12
~For surely, O Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with your shield.
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.
1 John 3:21-23
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
Luke 11:28
But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and observe it."
Matthew 5:2-12
And opening His mouth He began to teach them, saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. "Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when men cast insults at you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me. "Rejoice, and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Psalm 24:5
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
James 1:12
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him
In all of these scriptures are promises of blessings from our Father. He is so loving to us. He has laid out the instructions for our life, and clearly tells us that if we follow his commandments we will be blessed. It sounds so simple... and it should be simple. We just need to obey the words our Father has told us, and once we have surrendered to him, and truly live according to his laws then we can truly begin to experience the blessings he has in store for us.
How Great is our God! Just as our own children get rewarded for obeying and doing what they are suppose to do. Our Father wants to reward us. That does mean that we must stop living by our own rules, we must basically die ourself, and then start living our new life through him. Not only will he bless us for doing this, but those around us will be blessed as well. We can be a true witness of what surrendering can do.
When we surrender we can begin to shed the weight of our own feelings and emotions that bring us down. We can no longer get our feeling hurt, because we will forgive the other person before we even allow it to hurt us. We will not judge anyone, because we know that there is only one judge. We will not share our own opinion, but pray about what God would want you to say. It is a new life. It becomes about what he wants for you, and not what bing on ourself. Which often causes grief and strife in our life.
I know myself, I am really working on not allowing people to hurt my feelings. I really need to let that go. I spend so much time re-playing things in my head that people say to me. Or how someone has treated me. Which is really just robbing me of the true Joy that my Father wants me to have. I know that I am his beloved, that he has chose me to be his, that I am strong through him, I have everything I need from God, and I do not need acceptance from anyone else but him. It is the enemy who kills and destroys! When someone says something that kills and destroys your spirit, that is only evil. That is something that person needs to deal with themselves, not me! I need to just pass it along to God, and pray for them before I let it settle in my mind, and re-play it over and over again. Besides me getting upset about it is not a very productive way to handle it anyways, if I pray about it that will at least get results.
So since he has given us so many blessing, what can we do for him,the answer would be to ACCEPT them. Graciously accept his love and blessings, share them with people you love, tell people how good he is to you. He loves when we tell people about his Love. Most importantly do not allow anyone to rob you of his Joy and Blessings.
Romans 8: 38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Today I want us all to examine what is holding us back from all of the blessings he wants to give. That we will have clarity about how we are not honoring his commandments. That we can examine what and who is hindering our Love from God, and begin to pray about this. Pray for strength to change these things about our self. Pray for those people who we Love, that need to surrender to his love as well.
Lets give praise to our Father for all of the blessings he has given us, lets be excited about all of the blessings he cannot wait to give us, and pray about the people or things in our life that are holding us back from receiving all he wants to give.
In HIS name.
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