Quotes About Blessing

saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my masterís relatives.”

“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

My masterís wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.

So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!

and she replies, ëDrink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,í may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my masterís son.

And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ëPlease give me a drink.í

Then I asked her, ëWhose daughter are you?í She replied, ëThe daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.í So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my masterís brother for his son.

But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abrahamís servant and his men.

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

After Abrahamís death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”