Displaying Christian Sermons by tag: blessed

Kenneth Copeland - Watch Sermon: BLESSED Are You Who Believe. When you believe, you are BLESSED! Watch /Believer’s Voice of Victory/ as Kenneth and Gloria Copeland discuss the power of believing at Christmas and always. You’ll discover many examples throughout the Bible how believing opens the door to great BLESSINGS. Learn why it was said of Mary about the conception of Jesus, “BLESSED is she that believed” (Luke 1:45).

Joyce Meyer (December-16-2022) Daily Devotional: Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Pursuing peace means making an effort. We cannot maintain peace simply by our own fleshly efforts; we need God's help, and we need grace, which is His power assisting us and enabling us to do what needs to be done. 

The efforts we make must be in Christ. Too often we just try to do what is right without asking for God's help, and that type of fleshly effort never produces good fruit. The Bible calls this a "work of the flesh." It is man's effort trying to do God's job. 

What I am saying is, be sure you lean on God and ask for His help. 

When you succeed, give Him the credit, the honor, and the glory because success is impossible without Him.

Jesus said, Apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing (John 15:5). It takes most of us a long time to believe this Scripture enough to stop trying to do things on our own, without leaning on God. We try and fail, try and fail; it happens over and over until we finally wear ourselves out and realize that God Himself is our strength, our success, and our victory. He doesn't just give us strength—He is our strength. He does not just give us the victory—He is our victory. Yes, we make efforts to keep peace, but we dare not make efforts without depending on God's power to flow through us; failure is certain if we do. 

The Lord blesses peacemakers, those who work for and make peace. Peacemakers are committed to peace—they crave peace, pursue peace, and go after it. They don't just hope or wish for it, they don't just pray for it. They aggressively pursue it in the power of God. Make a commitment to pursue peace from this day forward. 

Prayer Starter: Lord Jesus, I trust you to make me a peacemaker—one who works for and pursues peace with You, myself, and others. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Joel Osteen (August-07-2021) Daily Devotion: Blessed Indeed. 

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Jabez prayed to the God of Israel: “Bless me, O bless me! Give me land, large tracts of land. And provide your personal protection—don’t let evil hurt me.” God gave him what he asked. 1 Chronicles 4:10, MSG

TODAY'S WORD: The name Jabez means “pain, sorrow, suffering.” Every time someone said, “Hello, Jabez,” they were saying, “Hello, sorrow. Hello, pain.” They were prophesying defeat and failure. You can imagine how he could have let that make him feel inferior and insecure. But despite what people labeled him, he had the boldness to ask big, that God would bless him with abundance and protection. And God blessed him indeed.

Like Jabez, you may have reasons to settle where you are—what you didn’t get, what people said, the odds may be against you—but the good news is that God is for you. He can thrust you further than you ever imagined, but you have to pray bold prayers. Ask in spite of the circumstances. Ask in spite of what people are saying. Ask in spite of what the enemy keeps whispering in your ears. If you’re going to reach your highest potential, you have to learn this principle of asking big.

PRAYER FOR TODAY: “Father, thank You that when the odds are against me, You are for me. Thank You that nothing and no one is more powerful than You, and I can dare to pray bold prayers. I believe that You are going to bless me with abundance as You did Jabez. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Andrew Wommack - (June 2, 2020) Live Bible Study: Blessed are the Peacemakers

Benny Hinn (May-30-2020) Sermon: A blessed time in the Lord! You're going to love it and sense His Sweet Presence!

Amir Tsarfati (May-27-2020) Message: A Blessed Generation. We live in a blessed generation! Be encouraged and share!

Benny Hinn - Sermon: Sue and I want to wish you a most Blessed Resurrection Day

Robert Morris - Sermon: It's All About The Heart – The Blessed Life 

Joseph Prince (January-01-2020) Sermon: Why God Blesses And Then Blesses Again!  If the Bible says that we are already blessed with every blessing, is it wrong to ask God to bless us again...and again? Will God answer such "selfish" prayers? Join Joseph Prince in this myth-busting message as he shows you the truth that God's heart is to bless you—over and over again! See from the prayer of Jabez and the lives of other Bible characters why it is even honorable to ask God to bless you and how He is willing to keep blessing you. Dare to ask again and watch your blessings come to pass as you see your Father's big heart!

Joseph Prince (November-30-2020) Daily Devotion: BLESSED WITH THE EXCELLENT AND THE PLENTY.

Deuteronomy 28:4 - “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

Would you want to buy a chair that Jesus made? I would, even if it cost US$1,000 because it would be of superb quality. Whatever Jesus did, He did it with perfect excellence.

And because Christ is in you, the things which you produce will be of exceptional quality too. That includes your children, who will be champions. Deuteronomy 28:4 says, “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.”

God was using terms that the Israelites understood since they were farmers and shepherds. Today, “your ground” is the place of your work. This means that “the produce” of your work shall be of excellent quality.

That is not all. God promises that quantity will always follow quality because Deuteronomy 28:11 says that the Lord will “grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body,” which means that you will have plenty of children, “in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground,” which means that your business will flourish and you will be a leading producer in the area of your specialty.

My friend, your excellence and plenty do not come by your efforts. They come by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who paid for you to have divine provision—“though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9).

Jesus was made destitute of all material things at the cross. He had nothing! As He hung on the cross, He watched the Roman soldiers gamble for His robe. His last possession on earth was gambled away. He became poor, so that you could be blessed with the excellent and the plenty!