The Biblical Path of Blessing
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are
among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million
who will not survive this week
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of
torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend church meetings without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are
more blessed than three billion in the world.
And if your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare, even in the United States.
Ps 1:1-6
THE BIBLE TEACHES US MANY THINGS ABOUT GOD’S BLESSINGS FOR US
I - Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly
A - there are ways that are acceptable to God - we would call godly ways
1 - honest in dealings
Prov 6:13-15
2 - honest in speech
Col 3:8-9
3 - not surrounded by the ungodly
Prov 13:20
II - his delight is in the law of the LORD
A - Looking to God’s Word and Obeying it brings blessing
1 - He/She is blessed in their deeds or actions
James 1:25
2 - because he thinks on God’s Word
Ps 119:15-16 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. I will delight
myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. (KJV)
Ps 112:1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly
in his commandments.
III - Rom 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
A - Is there is a way to walk in that is sin free!?! No charge for wrong deeds/thoughts
1 - imagine living without fear of God’s wrath upon you!!
I Jn 1:14
2 - Walk with Him!! In the light
CONCLUSION
You may feel this path of blessing can be a hard one - You would be right it is staight and narrow
Matt 7:13-14
It is strait and narrow and it leads to eternal life
Temptations and all!!
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the
crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
