Who Does God Bless?

(3) God blesses those people who depend only on Him. They belong to the kingdom of heaven!
(4) God blesses those people who grieve. They will find comfort!
(5) God blesses those people who are humble. The earth will belong to them!
(6) God blesses those people who want to obey Him more than to eat or drink. They will be given what they want!
(7) God blesses those people who are merciful. They will be treated with mercy!
(8) God blesses those people whose hearts are pure. They will see Him!
(9) God blesses those people who make peace. They will be called His children!
(10) God blesses those people who are treated badly for doing right. They belong to the kingdom of heaven.
(11) God will bless you when people insult you, mistreat you, and tell all kinds of evil lies about you because of Me.
(12) Be happy and excited! You will have a great reward in heaven. People did these same things to the prophets who lived long ago.
-- Matthew 5:3-12 (CEV)

Let's live underneath the holy spout where God's blessings come out.
Grateful

Hands of Kindness

On the Mount of Beatitudes Jesus delivered His Sermon on the Mount. It's recorded in Matthew 5, 6, and 7. He spent the night before praying on the top of the mountain then preached the next day on the flat plain overlooking the Sea of Galilee. In His sermon Jesus said: Blessed are the merciful... Yes, blessed are the kind...

On our Holy Land Pilgrimage we read aloud from Matthew 5, yes from The Beatitudes of our Lord's Kingdom. Indeed the Beatitudes are the attitudes of those who belong to Him. After our reading time, Dara fashioned a cross from some of the straw on the mountainside. How the Lord must've been moved to receive such a personal expression of love from one of his daughters! With hands of kindness, Dara then offered the straw cross to her pastor on Christ's behalf. What an attitude of gratitude. Humbling. Touching. Blessed.

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
Grateful