Overflowing Blessings Beyond Our Expectations

weighed.

"The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength.

Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry hunger no more. She who was barren has borne

seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.

"The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a

throne of honor. "For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s; upon them he has set the world.

He will guard the feet of his saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. "It is not by strength that one prevails;

those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder against them from heaven; the LORD will judge the ends of the

earth. "He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed."

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the LORD under Eli the priest.

1SAMUEL 3:19-21

The LORD was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words fall to the ground.

And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the LORD.

The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.

2. PROVISION

The Lord wants to meet our needs abundantly. He wants us to overflow with His blessings so that not only our needs are met

but we can also help others who are in need. When we honour the Lord by giving generously to His Kingdom , He has promised to

bless us to an overflowing level. When Jesus fed the five thousand and the four thousand by multiplying bread , they had

plenty left over even after everyone ate and were full. When the widow shared her last meal with Elijah , she and her son

were fed miraculously throughout the famine. When Peter let the Lord Jesus use his boat, The Lord blessed him with an

overflowing catch of fishes. The Lord blesses us beyond our expectation. When Samaria was under the seige of the enemy and

was starving without food , four lepers decided to go to the enemy’s camp to search for food. But the Lord granted them more

than what they expected by giving them enough food for the whole city. When Jesus was invited to the wedding at Cana , the

people were blessed beyond their expectation because Jesus performed his first miracle there by turning water into wine.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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DEUTERONOMY 28:11-13

The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your

ground—in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work

of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this