22 keys to blessings – Grow into the image and likeness of God
Get to know about blessings from God. Find how you can grow in your blessings. These are based on the Bible – the Word of God.
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a. What are blessings?
b. What is a blessed land?
c. 22 keys on how to be blessed?
d. Quick 2 main points to be blessed!
a. What are blessings?
Blessings are from God. Blessings can often be seen and felt but sometimes they cannot be seen or felt. But always they bring joy and peace to the person who receives it. Blessings are not associated with sorrow. Fruitfulness of the land with good yield is a blessing understood by many. Children are also a blessing. The work of one’s hands is said to be blessed when the results at the place of work are good, when there is more sales and greater profits in business.
A land flowing with milk and honey is a blessing. (refer Exodus 3:8) The promised land the Lord swore to give Abraham was described so. The descendants of Abraham, Issac & Jacob were led by Moses from Egypt into the promised land. God leads His children in their life to a blessed land.
b. What is a blessed land?
Various verses of the Bible describe a blessed land. The blessed land is beautiful and resplendent in many ways as shown below. The Deuteronomy 11th chapter describes a blessed land.
A land is blessed if it is:
- well watered (Psalm 1, Deuteronomy 11)
- the land yielding grain, wine and oil (Deuteronomy 11)
- peace abounds (Psalm 23:2, Leviticus 26:6,Isaiah 32:18)
- lion and lamb live in harmony (Isaiah 11:6, Isaiah 65:25)
- free from pests, yield good harvest (Malachi 3:11)
- the Lord cares for the land (Deuteronomy 11)
- fruitfulness abounds (Deuteronomy 28:8, 28:12)
- God abides (Genesis 28:19, 35:1)
- absence of fear (Leviticus 26:6)
- absence of war (Joshua 11:23)
- favour and blessing of God (Psalm 23:6, 23:3)
- the eyes of the Lord are always on it (Deuteronomy 11)
c. 22 keys on how to be blessed?
God created man in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:27). He created us for fellowship, for relationship through Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:6, 1 Corinthians 1:9) .
We do not consider disobeying Him since we love Him and have a loving fear of God. Remember God gave us His only son who died on the cross for our sake. We love Him so much that we desire to fellowship with Him day and night, abiding with Him and never displeasing Him.
22 ways to please God and be blessed by Him are given below. Do not be burdened by these numbers, as you read these you get a better understanding. Relax, cast your burdens to Him, as He cares for us and then read these. (1 Peter 5:7)
1) Accept Jesus Christ as Lord God and saviour. (Romans 10:9, Philippians 2:11)
2) Accept Jesus as the way, the truth and life. (John 14:6)
3) Loving God with all our heart, soul and strength.(Matthew 22:37)
4) Love God, and keep His commandments always. (Deuteronomy 11:1)
5) Read the Bible daily and observe it. (Deuteronomy 17:19)
6) Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
7) Keep every commandment of God, so we are strong to possess the promises God has for us. (Deuteronomy 11:8)
8) Pleasing God with faith. Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
9) Remembering God is not blessing us to possess because of our righteousness.(Deuteronomy 9:6)
10) Not to be stubborn, disobedient and rebellious (Deuteronomy 9:6)
11) Possess the promises God has set aside for us. (Deuteronomy 8:1)
12) Believing God goes before us as a consuming fire destroying all hindrances to our progress. (Deuteronomy 9:3)
13) Being thankful to God for leading us all these years to humble us and test us if we would keep His commandments. (Deuteronomy 8:2)
14) Giving no place for pride in our hearts. (Deuteronomy 17:20)
15) Trusting God with all our heart, without leaning on our own understanding; Acknowledge Him, in all our ways and believing God to direct our paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
16) Not setting our hearts on riches when it increases. (Psalm 62:10)
17) As we hope in the LORD we renew our strength. We soar on wings like eagles; we will run and not grow weary, we will walk and not faint.(Isaiah 40:31)
18) Believe God of hope to fill us with all joy and peace as we trust in him, so we may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
19) Believing and trusting God’s plans for us, plans for our welfare, to give us a future and a hope.(Jeremiah 29:11)
20) As we rejoice in hope and are patient in tribulation, and are constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12)
21) Believing God has given us a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.(2 Timothy 1:7)
22) When we by Christ who dwells in us, choose to have Love that suffers long and is kind; when our love does not envy; when our love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; We do not behave rudely, do not seek its own, is not provoked, when we think no evil; when we do not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoice in the truth; when we bear all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
d. Quick 2 main points to be blessed!
You may wish to have a brief version of the above. Well some one did ask Jesus and these two commands sum up all the commands. These are from Matthew 22:37-40
- “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.
- And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Jesus said: “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
