BLESSINGS FROM GOD

Good morning!

I pray all is well with you. Praise God for His awesome love and blessings He gives us. His love and blessings runneth over. 

We watched a movie last night that really made me think about what God has given us and how we kind of take those things for granted. How would we feel if all we had was taken away from us. 
The movie was about a very wealthy family where the husband/father stole other people's money. Possibly to help pay for the youngest daughters medicine and whatever else. Needless to say the mother and three daughters were left almost destitute. 
The law or whomever sold their house, all their cars, and belongings to give back some of the money to investors. Two of the daughters had never worked before but were out of school and one daughter was still in school but had cancer and was taking a very expensive drug. The two daughters had trouble finding jobs because of their last name showing they were their father's daughters. One of the daughters lied about her last name in order to get a job and the other took a janitor job at a health spa to make ends meet and to pay for their sisters medicine. But eventually they were able to come out of the hole because the one daughter, who created her own lotion, sold it to a big company and made lots of money, to pay for sister's medicine but also to help pay their father's investors back. The father was in prison the rest of his life. 

Anyway, what would we do if we lost all we had? Would we praise God for the life we still have? Or would we whine and complain for all we had lost? Do we take everything God has given us for granted or do we praise and thank God for all we have every day? Everything we have is really on loan from God, including our husbands and children. It all belongs to God. Every big and little tiny thing we have is God's. What a blessing and comfort that is! What that also means is we need to be good stewards of and take care of all God has given us. 
“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon 
you, And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance 
upon you, And give you peace.”’
Numbers 6:24-26 

For I will pour water on him who is 
thirsty, And floods on the dry ground;
I will pour My Spirit on your descen- 
dants, And My blessing on your offspring;
Isaiah 44:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us 
in the heavenly realms with every 
spiritual blessing in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 
As each has received a gift, use it 
to serve one another, as good 
stewards of God's varied grace:
1 Peter 4:10
Or do you not know that your body is 
the temple of the Holy Spirit who is 
in you, whom you have from God, and 
you are not your own? For you were bought 
at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20  
We belong to God and everything we have belongs to Him. Let us not take for granted the blessings He has bestowed upon us. For God is an awesome God Who loves us and wants to bless us and we need to thank and praise Him constantly. For He deserves it!
Have a wonderful day!
Les (lesbear)  







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