THE POWER OF BLESSING 1-11-26 VIDEO GRAHAM COOKE BLESSINGS
The blessing of God can change your life. Most Christians talk about and pray for blessings, but dont really understand what the blessing is. Some examples in the Word for blessed or blessing are used 474 times in the Bible. There are the blessings of Abraham, the blessings of Job, the blessings of David,. Blessings that reach into the future.
GEN 22:17-18 I'll bless you - oh, how I'll bless you! And I'll make sure that your children flourish - like stars in the sky! like sand on the beaches! And your descendants will defeat their enemies.
18 All nations on Earth will find themselves blessed through your descendants because you obeyed me." MSG
GAL 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse as consequence of our failure to keep the law. In his cross he concentrated the total curse of the human race upon himself. In his abandoning himself to death, he absorbed and dissolved the horror of the curse in his own person. Scripture declares that anyone hanging on a tree embodies the curse.
14 This act of Christ released the blessing of Abraham upon the Gentiles! Now we are free to receive the blessing of the Spirit. MIRROR
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GAL 3:13 Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the Cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse.
14 And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham's blessing is present and available for non-Jews, too. We are all able to receive God's life, his Spirit, in and with us by believing - just the way Abraham received it. MSG
GAL 3:8-Scripture records prophetically that the mass of non-Jewish nations would be justified by faith and not by their own ability to be righteous. This announcement by God over Abraham is the gospel in advance. God saw every nation included in the same principle of the faith that Abraham pioneered. In you all the nations of the earth are equally represented in the blessing of faith.
3:9 As did Abraham so do we now find our source in the blessing of faith. MIRROR
ACTS 13:34 "When he raised him from the dead, he did it for good - no going back to that rot and decay for him. That's why Isaiah said, 'I'll give to all of you David's guaranteed blessings.' MSG
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ACTS 13:34 God had promised to not let him decay in the tomb or face destruction again, so God raised him from the dead. He gave this promise in the Psalms:
I will give to you what I gave to David: Faithful mercies that you can trust. TPT
JOB 42:10 After Job had interceded for his friends, God restored his fortune - and then doubled it!
11 All his brothers and sisters and friends came to his house and celebrated. They told him how sorry they were, and consoled him for all the trouble God had brought him. Each of them brought generous housewarming gifts.
12 God blessed Job's later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. MSG
DEUT 7:13-15 He will love you, he will bless you, he will increase you.
14 You'll be blessed beyond all other peoples: no sterility or barrenness in you or your animals.
15 God will get rid of all sickness. And all the evil afflictions you experienced in Egypt he'll put not on you but on those who hate you. MSG
JER 33:9 'And it will become to me a source of joy, honor, and splendor for all the earth to see. When they hear of all the prosperity that I bestow upon the people, they will be shaken to the core at all the good and prosperity that I lavish upon it. ' TPT
DEUT 28:2 All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God, your God:
3 God's blessing inside the city, God's blessing in the country;
4 God's blessing on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks.
5 God's blessing on your basket and bread bowl;
6 God's blessing in your coming in, God's blessing in your going out.
7 God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They'll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads.
8 God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he'll bless you in the land that God, your God, is giving you.
9 God will form you as a people holy to him, just as he promised you, if you keep the commandments of God, your God, and live the way he has shown you.
10 All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and hold you in respectful awe.
11 God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, offspring from your animals, and crops from your land, the land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you.
12 God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land on schedule and bless the work you take in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won't have to take out a loan. MSG
PROV 10:22 True enrichment comes from the blessing of the Lord, with rest and contentment in knowing that it all comes from him. TPT
PS 67:1 God, keep us near your mercy-fountain and bless us! And when you look down on us, may your face beam with joy! Pause in his presence
2 Send us out all over the world so that everyone everywhere will discover your ways and know who you are and see your power to save. TPT
PS 116:7-8 I said to myself, "Relax and rest. God has showered you with blessings.
8 Soul, you've been rescued from death; Eye, you've been rescued from tears; And you, Foot, were kept from stumbling." MSG
JER 33:6 "But now take another look. I'm going to give this city a thorough renovation, working a true healing inside and out. I'm going to show them life whole, life brimming with blessings. MSG
AMOS 9:13 13 "Yes indeed, it won't be long now." God's Decree. MSG
MAL 3:10 Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don't open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams. MSG
JN 20:29 Jesus responded, Thomas, now that youve seen me, you believe. But there are those who have never seen me with their eyes but have believed in me with their hearts, and they will be blessed even more! TPT
2 COR 9:8 God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you're ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. MSG
MATT 5:3 "You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
4 "You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
5 "You're blessed when you're content with just who you are - no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.
6 "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
7 "You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'carefull,' you find yourselves cared for.
8 "You're blessed when you get your inside world - your mind and heart - put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
9 "You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.
10 "You're blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom. MSG
LUKE 11:28 Jesus commented, "Even more blessed are those who hear God's Word and guard it with their lives!" MSG
EPH 1:3 Lets celebrate God! He lavished every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ!
4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world! Jesus is Gods mind made up about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face-to-face before him in blameless innocence. MIRROR
HEB 11:20 By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
21 By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph's sons in turn, blessing them with God's blessing, not his own - as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff. MSG
PHILEM 1:3 God's best to you! Christ's blessings on you! MSG