Blessings! Part 2

I enjoyed sharing the last set of blessings that I came across in the first "Blessing" blog.  Previously, I mentioned the importance of blessing your husband, wife, and/or children each morning as a positive affirmation for them to strengthen them in their walk with the Lord and also to set the Lord's blessings upon them by speaking it into their existence.

This morning, as I was doing my devotions in dealing with unity, I came across additional excellent blessings that I just had to write down to prepare to bless over my husband this week.  I wanted to share this with you as well.  In blessing those we love, we are praying over them, utilizing Christ's name and the promises in the Bible to speak good things in their life.  Sometimes, to just hear someone blessing you helps you to know that you have someone who is a part of your support system, in that they are wanting what is good in your life.  When you have someone bless you, it helps you to know that they care about you, your life, and what you are going through and that they desire better for you.  It causes a closer unity and a tighter knit.  When you are blessing them in Christ's name, you are praying over them.

As my husband and I was at a couple's retreat for the day, we were sharing things in our lives and the effects that they have on us.  My husband shared the fact that I bless him every single morning, after we have already prayed together, as he is heading out the door.  He says that he looks forward to those blessings now, that it makes a difference in his life for the better.  I love my husband dearly and praise God every morning for the gift of my husband and who he is in the Lord.  So, I do pray over him, but I also speak blessings over him that I expect will be fulfilled by God since they are in His word and are promises in the Bible.  God cannot lie.

The devil is a deceiver, a liar, and loves causing divisions in families.  This is a way that the family can bless one another instead of being used by the devil in cursing one another.  It is a way that can help bring more unity to the family because as you speak the blessings over your loves ones, it is causing a closer knit in your heart for that person as well.  It not only changes the atmosphere around you, but it changes the atmosphere inside of you, in your mind and in your heart and in your spirit.  Below are the new set of blessings for you to pray over your loved ones.  I've changed it only to make it as if you are saying it to the person directly.

List of Blessings:

*  Ps. 112:2A - May your descendants be powerful in the land.

*  Ps. 112:2B - May your generation of the upright be blessed.

*  Ps. 112:3A - May wealth and riches be in your house.

*  Ps. 112:3B - May your righteousness endure forever.  (We are made righteous in Christ)

*  Ps. 112:5    - May good will come to you who lends generously & conducts business fairly.

*  Ps. 112:6A - May you never be shaken.

*  Ps. 112:6B - May you be a righteous man (woman) who will be remembered forever.

*  Ps. 112:7A - May you not fear bad news.

*  Ps. 112:7B - May your heart be confident, trusting in the Lord.

*  Ps. 112:8    - May your heart be assured; that you will not fear.  

                         So, in the end you will look in triumph on your enemies.

*  Ps. 112:9A  - May you distribute freely to the poor; May your righteousness endure forever.  

*  Ps. 112:9B  - May your horn (a symbol of strength, power, & dignity) be exalted in honor.

*  Isa. 11:2A   - May the Spirit of the Lord rest on you.

*  Isa. 11:2B   - May a Spirit of wisdom & understanding, a Spirit of counsel & strength, 

                          a Spirit of knowledge & of the fear of the Lord rest on you.

I pray that the Lord may bless you abundantly above all that you can ask or even imagine in this upcoming new year as you walk with Him and seek His face continually.

Be Blessed my friends, Be Blessed!

Coincidence... or Providence.... 

Anything new under the sun?

I came across this excellent information from AmazingFacts.org.  I thought it was rather exceptional to say the least!

AN AMAZING FACT:  Have you ever noticed some uncanny similarities between Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy?

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.	John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Lincoln was elected President in 1860.	Kennedy was elected President in 1960
Lincoln’s wife lost a child while living in the White House.	Kennedy’s wife lost a child while living in the White House.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who urged him not to go to the theater.	Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who urged him not to go to Dallas.
Lincoln was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife.	Kennedy was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife.
Lincoln was shot in the Ford’s Theatre.	Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln made by Ford.
The name Lincoln contains seven letters.	The name Kennedy contains seven letters.
Lincoln was killed on a Friday and assassinated by a Southerner.	Kennedy was killed on a Friday and assassinated by a Southerner.
Lincoln’s assassin was known by three names, John Wilkes Booth, comprised of fifteen letters.	Kennedy’s assassin was known by three names, Lee Harvey Oswald, comprised of fifteen letters.
Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse.	Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater.
Booth was killed before being brought to trial.	Oswald was killed before being brought to trial.
Lincoln’s successor was Andrew Johnson, born in 1808.	Kennedy’s successor was Lyndon Johnson, born in 1908.

Are these coincidences? Probably, but did you know that the Bible teaches that history does have a tendency to repeat itself? Solomon once wrote, “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, ‘See, this is new’? It has already been in ancient times before us” (Ecclesiastes 1:9, 10).

KEY BIBLE TEXTS

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9