Quotes About Blessings

When I was little, I asked my mom to help me memorize Matthew 7:7: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee after many days'.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin

Here's a nice Irish saying for you: May neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and Heaven accept you.

I don't know why I'm always surprised when God does these things. He is so lavish in His love; it takes my breath away. It really does. Just when we think something has ended, He always shows us a new beginning.

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Sometimes our LORD comes with a miracle.... Sometimes He gives us the Grace to face the difficulties of life." p. 29

there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

But if you do not get your mind renewed with these Bible facts—even though you are born again, filled with the Holy Spirit, and speak with tongues—you will remain a negative person and miss the blessings of God.

If you'll simply step out and do what He's called you to do—whether it's to proclaim His Word, or to assist others through the ministry of helps—you'll find yourself walking into the blessings of God and a greater fulfillment in your life than you ever dreamed possible.

Step number six to receiving answered prayer is in your every waking moment, think on the greatness of God and His goodness, and count your blessings. This will increase your faith.

Many times we're cheated out of the blessings God wants us to have in this life because we're not cooperating with Him. Instead of praying again for Sister Gray's healing, the congregation should have raised their hands and thanked God that she had been healed.

That's why I'm paying tithes and giving offerings. And I expect You to honor Your Word, and I thank You for doing it. You said, "Them that honor Me, I'll honor.

Proverbs 3:9 says, "Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase." He said, "Them that honor Me, I'll honor" (1 Sam. 2:30).

Isaiah 1:19 says, "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." But we sure weren't eating the good of the land!

Christians do not take advantage of what belongs to them. Either they do not know how to take advantage of what belongs to them, or the do not know what belongs to them.

God wants you to prosper financially! But your prosperity depends on your putting first things first. There are qualifications involved.

physical and material prosperity depended upon their spiritual prosperity.

Determine in your heart to put spiritual things first and to esteem earthly things lightly. Put God first, even before your own self. You'll be blessed spiritually, physically, and in every way — you and your family as well.

Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful.

Suppose you have shown a lot of mercy to someone. But they haven't ever thanked you or acknowledged what you have done. When that happens to me, my instinct is to want to choke that person. But when you know God's mercy to you in Christ, when you know the forgiveness of sins, your hands are so full of God's good gifts of mercy and grace that you don't have a hand free to choke anyone.

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.