BLESSINGS 3-11-22 VIDEO BLESSED SPOKEN WORD 2
What does it mean to be blessed. Blessings come from a Greek word that describes the believer as being in a inevitable position for receiving God‘s favor. Blessings are an extension of Gods grace. It is to be made holy, endowed with divine favor and protection. Blessings bring relief and pleasure as a welcome contrast to what one has previously experience. Blessings equal Gods original plan He does not want us to be sick, broke, lonely or sad. He wants us to be rich in every area of our lives. We are supposed to be blessed. We are supposed to make the world jealous.
Prov 10:22 God’s blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God. MSG ▼▼▼
Prov 10:22 The blessing of the Lord — it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it]. AMP
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PROV 10:22 True enrichment comes from the blessing of the Lord, with rest and contentmentin knowing that it all comes from him. TPT
Ps 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil — for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep. AMP
Heb 6:1 THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God,
2 With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment. [These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago.]
3 If indeed God permits, we will [now] proceed [to advanced teaching]. AMP
Heb 6:13 When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line.
14 He said, “I promise that I’ll bless you with everything I have — bless and bless and bless!”
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GAL 3:13-14 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
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.”
9 As did Abraham so do we now find our source in the blessing of faith. MIRROR
Gen 26:12 Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.
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Gen 26:12 Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. God blessed him. MSG
2 Cor 9:6 [Remember] this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings. AMP
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.
13 God will make you the head, not the tail; you’ll always be the top dog, never the bottom dog, as you obediently listen to and diligently keep the commands of God, your God, that I am commanding you today. MSG
Deut 15:6 When the Lord your God blesses you as He promised you, then you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. AMP
Deut 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
20 by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” NASB
Ps 21:1 Adonai, the king finds joy in your strength; what great joy he displays in your victory!
2 You give him his heart’s desire; you don’t refuse the prayer from his lips. (Selah)
3 For you come to meet him with the best blessings, you place a crown of fine gold on his head.
4 He asks you for life; you give it to him, years and years forever and ever.
5 Your victory brings him great glory; you confer on him splendor and honor. CJB
Ezek 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will give blessings to them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. AMP
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Ezek 37:26 I’ll make a covenant of peace with them that will hold everything together, an everlasting covenant. I’ll make them secure and place my holy place of worship at the center of their lives forever. MSG
Gen 28:11 He came to a certain place and camped for the night since the sun had set. He took one of the stones there, set it under his head and lay down to sleep.
12 And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground and it reached all the way to the sky; angels of God were going up and going down on it.
13 Then God was right before him, saying, “I am God, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I’m giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants.
14 Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they’ll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. MSG
Num 6:24 God bless you and keep you,
25 God smile on you and gift you,
26 God look you full in the face and make you prosper. MSG
Psalms 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
2Send 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.
3Let all the nations burst forth with praise; let everyone everywhere love and enjoy you!
4Then how glad the nations will be when you are their King. They will sing, they will shout, for you give true justice to the people. Yes! You, Lord, are the shepherd of the nations! Pause in his presence
5No wonder the peoples praise you! Let all the people praise you more!
6The harvest of the earth is here! God, the very God we worship, keeps us satisfied at his banquet of blessings.
7And the blessings keep coming! All the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves and be in awe of him! TPT
Jer 17:7 “But blessed is the man who trusts me, God, the woman who sticks with God.
8 They’re like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the rivers — Never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, Serene and calm through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season. MSG
Ps 34:8 Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see — how good God is.
Blessed are you who run to him. MSG
Ps 40:4 Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God, turn your backs on the world’s “sure thing,” ignore what the world worships; MSG
Ps 41:2 The Lord will protect him and keep him alive; he shall be called blessed in the land; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord will sustain, refresh, and strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You [O Lord] will turn, change, and transform in his illness. AMP
Prov 29:18 If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves;
But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed. MSG
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Proverbs 29:18 When there is no clear prophetic vision, people quickly wander astray.
But when you follow the revelation of the Word, heaven’s bliss fills your soul. TPT
Rom 4:7 Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried.
8 Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. AMP
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Rom 4:7 Here’s what David says: What happy fulfillment is ahead for those whose rebellion has been forgiven and whose sins are covered by blood.
8What happy progress comes to them when they hear the Lord speak over them, “I will never hold your sins against you!” TPT
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ROM 4:7 Oh what happy progress one makes with the weight of sin and guilt removed and one’s slate wiped clean!
4:8 “How blessed is the one who receives a receipt instead of an invoice for their sins.” MIRROR
Ps 126:2 We laughed and laughed and overflowed with gladness. We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise. All the nations saw it and joined in, saying,“The Lord has done great miracles for them!”3 Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed!4 Now, Lord, do it again! Restore us to our former glory! May streams of your refreshing flow over us until our dry hearts are drenched again.
5 Those who sow their tears as seeds will reap a harvest with joyful shouts of glee.6 They may weep as they go out carrying their seed to sow, but they will return with joyful laughter and shouting with gladness as they bring back armloads of blessing and a harvest overflowing! TPT
James 5:11 You know how we call those blessed (happy) who were steadfast [who endured]. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the Lord’s [purpose and how He richly blessed him in the] end, inasmuch as the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy. AMP
Eph 1:3 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. MSG
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EPH 1:3 Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us as a love gift from our wonderful heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus—all because he sees us wrapped into Christ. This is why we celebrate himwith all our hearts! TPT
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EPH 1:3 Let’s celebrate God! He lavished every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ! MIRROR