Day 11: Steps Of Blessings

JESUS sat on the MOUNT and began to SPEAK~

BLESSED are you....

 BLESSED are you...

     BLESSED are you...

         BLESSED are you...

             BLESSED are you...

                   BLESSED are you....

                      BLESSED are you....

                         BLESSED are you...

                                       (Matthew 5)

Oh I am sure that everyone listening wanted

TO BE BLESSED.

If I was there, I wouldn't want to leave

when JESUS was finished speaking,

because it would be at that moment

 it would be my CHOICE

to have a

BE~ATITUDE.

A CHOICE to choose

TO BE OR NOT TO BE BLESSED.

But doesn't everyone want

TO BE BLESSED?

Don't you want

TO BE BLESSED? 

Don't you want

PEACE

when ANXIETY keeps you awake at night.

Is this a question or a CHOICE?

You decide~

"Do not be anxious or worried about anything, ______________,

but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to GOD.

  And the peace of GOD [that peace which reassures the heart, that peace] which transcends all understanding, [that peace which] stands guard over your hearts and your minds in CHRIST JESUS [is yours, ______________]"

(Philippians 4:6-7 AMP, fill in your name). 

TO BE or NOT TO BE HOPEFUL

when everything is falling apart?

Is this a question or a CHOICE?

You decide~

"But, ______________,

who waits for the LORD

 [who expects, looks for, and HOPES in HIM]Will gain new strength and renew ______________'s power;______________, will lift up _______________'s wings

 [and rise up close to GOD] like eagles [rising toward the sun];______________, will run and not become weary,______________, will walk and not grow tired"

(Isaiah 40:31 AMP, fill in your name)

TO BE OR NOT BE FORGIVING when

you are wrongly treated~

"______________, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and

 clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, ______________, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].  Be kind and helpful to one another, ______________,

 tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving one another [readily and freely], just as GOD in CHRIST also forgave you, ______________"

(Ephesians 4:31-32, AMP, fill in your name).

TO BE OR NOT TO BE BLESSED?

The ANSWER to this question is obvious,

 yet hard to do at times to take that first step.

But why would JESUS ask us to do something if HE wasn't going to do it with us?

"I, ______________, can do all things [which HE has called me to do] through HIM who strengthens and empowers me, ______________, [to fulfill HIS purpose~

I, ______________, am self-sufficient in CHRIST'S sufficiency;

 I, ______________, am ready for anything and equal to anything through HIM who infuses me, ______________, with inner strength and confident peace]"

(Philippians 4:13 AMP, fill in your name).

Permission TO BE BLESSED

is only one step away~

"WALK WITH JESUS"

(listen to the song below)