1/27/2008 ~ Count your Blessings |
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Focus more on the positive than the negative.
... I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder ... ~ 2nd Peter 3:1 It's good to hear it again. <─┘ ┌─> They forgot their cry’s for mercy. "... you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." ~ Exodus 16:3 └─> Only looked at the immediate. Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; ... ~ Psalm 32:11 ... the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ... ~ Galatians 5:22 BE:
1. LIFE & THE PHYSICAL WORLD "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? ..." ~ Job 38:4-5 "Have you entered the treasury of snow, Or have you seen the treasury of hail, ..." ~ Job 38:22 Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion? ... ~ Job 38:31-33 will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, ... ~ Psalm 139:14 All enjoy His blessings. <─┐ "... for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." ~ Matthew 5:45 2. FAMILY ... children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. ... ~ Psalm 127:3-5 Nothing gives like the pure innocent laughter of a giggling child. Children's children are the crown of old men, ... ~ Proverbs 17:6 3. WIFE He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the LORD. ~ Proverbs 18:22 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life ... ~ Ecclesiastes 9:9 4. CHURCH – SPIRITUAL FAMILY ... love one another fervently with a pure heart. ~ 1st Peter 1:22 └─> To stay happy in life. Indeed we count them blessed who endure. ... ~ James 5:11 5. GOD’S WORD Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. ~ Psalm 119:105 ... born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, ... ~ 1st Peter 1:23 └─> Without the Bible we would not have the church. 6. MERCIFUL & LOVING GOD Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. ~ Psalm 116:5 ... a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, ... ~ Hebrews 2:17 Where would we be without mercy? No hope, no brethren, trapped in sin. ⭩ ↓ ⭨ ... strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ~ Ephesians 2:11-12 Beauty was and is a gift from God. To show thanks is to show and to do service to God. He has made everything beautiful in its time. ... ~ Ecclesiastes 3:11
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