How does God bless our lives?

No one wants misery, trouble, or affliction, and difficulties ( though they come ) but, we all desire blessing from God, and the fact is, He wants to bless your life also.

Numbers 6:24 tells us so “The LORD bless you and keep you;

And so does James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Blessed, means, to be fortunate, happy, well off. It means to experience blessing in direct relationship to being a doer of God's Word, and not a hearer only. When a believer in Jesus Christ, hears God's Word, and then responds to it by obeying it, doing what God says in His Word, the net result is blessing.

God uses His Word being received into our lives, understood, and responded to as the means of bringing blessing into our lives. Remember, Jesus Christ is Himself the Word of God. He is the supreme blesser of any and all who place their faith in Him.

Oh Yes, sometimes, many times in fact, we are in the fire of a trial, and dark nights of the soul, but even then, we can find blessing from God.

But in James 1, the point is made a number of times, that when we receive God's Word, we hear God's Word, and we respond to God's word in obedience, it brings blessing into our lives.

What is the blessing? How does it look when it comes? One of the main ways, in how the Lord works in our hearts personally, building us up, freeing us from guilt, sin, temptation, sadness, depression, hatred, bitterness, etc, etc. He leads us in the paths of righteousness, and satisfies our souls, giving us spiritual wisdom and understanding about life. He also energizes our lives with His Holy Spirit, and we become more interested in the things of God, then the things of this passing world. Probably the biggest blessing, is the expansion of His love in our hearts and souls and minds.

Father in Heaven, we love You, and lift Your name on high today. Come and bless us Lord, fill us Lord, baptize us Lord in the Holy Spirit again today. Show us Your ways, and lead us in Your paths, all the days of our lives. Cause Your face to shine upon us, and give us peace. In Jesus name, amen.

Pastor Bob Grenier

Calvary Chapel Visalia

Application/Promise

1. No matter what your condition, God can bless you.

2. A simple step of obedience to the Word lays before all of us.

3. It's step by step, day by day.

4. When He speaks through the Word, let's receive it in humility.

5. Hearing and doing are meant to do together.

6. Blessing comes through hearing, and doing.

7. Abiding in His Word, is Abiding in the truth of God.

8. May blessings abound in your life.