THE
SOURCE OF ALL BLESSINGS
BREAD
17 Every
good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the
heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 (NIV)
1 After
this, the word of the Lord came to
Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great
reward.” Genesis 15:1 (NIV)
12 The Lord will indeed give what is good, and
our land will yield its harvest. 13 Righteousness goes before him and prepares the way for
his steps. Psalms 85:12-13 (NIV)
17 But
the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving,
considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace
raise a harvest of righteousness. James
3:17-18 (NIV)
11 For
the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. 12 O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you. Psalms 84:11-12 (NIV)
10 The
lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Psalms 34:10 (NIV)
15 The
eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. 16 You open your hand and satisfy
the desires of every living thing. 17 The Lord
is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made. 18 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him
in truth. 19 He
fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. Psalms 145:15-19 (NIV)
14 Satisfy
us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be
glad all our days. Psalms 90:14 (NIV)
3 Praise
be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the
heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 (NIV)
25 I was
young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their
children begging bread. 26 They
are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed. Psalms 37:25-26 (NIV)
19 God is
not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his
mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? Numbers 23:19 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Praise
God, from Whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise
Him above, ye heav’nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Thomas
Ken
“In
shunning a trial, we are seeking to avoid a blessing.” Charles
H. Spurgeon
“He’s making good out of even the bad days. And God’s good plans are bigger than any of your messes, your regrets, your bad mistakes. Lord, Thank You: I am not the mistakes I have made. I am not the plans I have failed. I am not the wrongs I have done. I am not forgotten. I am not abandoned. I am not alone. Because You say to the lost: Come. You say to the Unlikely: Beloved. You say to the Battle Weary: Rest. In a hard and beautiful world, Your grace is the only pillowed relief for my tired soul to rest in You this week — making all things new. And all the brave heaved relief & smiled their Amen.” Anonymous
“We pray for blessings, we pray for peace Comfort for family,
protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near?
What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?” Laura Story
We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near?
What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?” Laura Story
“God is more
anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them.” Augustine
“See God in everything, and God will calm and color all that thou
doest see! It may be that the
circumstances of our sorrows will not be removed, their condition will remain
unchanged; but if Christ, as Lord and Master of our life, is brought into our
grief and gloom, ‘He will compass us about with songs of deliverance.’ To see HIM, and to be sure that His wisdom
cannot err, His power cannot fail, His love can never change; to know that even
His direst dealings with us are for our deepest spiritual gain, is to be able
to say, in the midst of bereavement, sorrow, pain, and loss, ‘The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ Nothing else but seeing God in everything
will make us loving and patient with those who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then only instruments for
accomplishing His tender and wise purposes toward us, and we shall even find
ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the blessing they bring us. Nothing else will completely put an end to
all murmuring or rebelling thoughts.” Hannah
W. Smith
“God’s blessings are not limited to the human resources available.” Tom Elliff
“O the deep, deep love of Jesus.
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me! Underneath me, all around me, is the current
of Thy love, leading onward, leading homeward, to my glorious rest above! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His
praise from shore to shore! How He
loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, never more! How He watches o’er His loved ones, died to
call them all His own; how for them He intercedeth, watcheth o’er them from the
throne! O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
love of every love the best! ‘Tis an
ocean full of blessing, ‘tis a haven giving rest! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ‘tis a heav’n
of heav’ns to me; and it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!” Samuel Trevor Francis
“If
we will look back upon the past, many of us will find that the very time our
heavenly Father has chosen to do the kindest things for us, and given us the
richest blessing, has been the time we were strained and shut in on every side. God’s jewels are often sent us in rough
packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures
of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s love.” A. B. Simpson
“The condition for
gaining God’s full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.” Andrew Murray
HEART
SAVOR
- · Every good and perfect gift is from the Father Who is the source of all blessings.
- · Blessings can (and often) come in the disguise of circumstances that are anything but of my choosing. I am always to look up. What He allows is perfectly fashioned to be for my best. I can trust Him with my life.
- · God desires for me to embrace what He allows with joy knowing that He has my best interest at heart.
