Tag: blessed
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Blessed are those who may enter by the gates
Doxology – Blessed are YOU, LORD God! Beatitude, we think; ‘Blessed are you when..’ and Jesus personally embraces the crowds in His sermon on the mount. Doxology, however, is when we bless God. Praise God from whom all blessing flow. In Christ Jesus doxology becomes the sweet water of God’s love flowing towards us from…
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By faith, Abraham – 2- Sheik
Abram, Sheik of Ur – Blessed by God My original posts from this series reveal why we can call Abram a Sheik. Our focus, however, is why the Messiah Jesus responds to claims of religious or cultural traditions of Abraham and Moses. “We are offspring of Abraham.” In effect Jesus tells us, ‘Yes, the Jews…
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Blessings and Woes – 2
“Blessed are you who are poor… “Blessed are you who are hungry now… “Blessed are you who weep now… 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! “But woe to you who are rich… “Woe…
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The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 2
Matthew 5 King James Version (KJV) Blessed are the poor in spirit. NOT the poor in money – not the poor in anything other than a downcast spirit and soul of hopelessness. God has not looked on you with blessing. You live the life of curse and lack of blessing. God’s wrath must have looked…
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A prayer for men
LORD? I know many men who need your help. Men without respect… or honor… or praise… Men without love… without fulfillment… incomplete… Men without purpose… without direction… without work… Men alone. It was never your intention to abandon a man to be: without a wife without work without a friend without You. So LORD, please…
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Blessed fear
What is blessing? What causes curse? Deuteronomy 11:26 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am…
