BLESSING TIME!!!

Bible Study by Pastor Janice L Williams  

BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY,   JULY 4th-11th, 2012

1 Chronicles 4:9-1o NKJV 

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10/ And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”  So God granted him what he requested.

3rd John 2 NKJV * Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.Proverbs 10:22 NKJV * The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.  Isaiah 54:2-3 NKJV *   2/ "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.  3/ For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.

Blessings on Obedience    Deuteronomy 28:1-14 NKJV  1/“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2/And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:  3/ “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.  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.  5/ “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.  6/ “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.  7/ “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.  8/ “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.  9/ “The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.  10/ Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.  11/ And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.  12/ The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13/ And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.  14/ So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.  Deuteronomy 5:9-10 NKJV   9/ you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.  For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10/ but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.     

THE COMMANDMENTS MATTHEW 22:37 thru 40 NKJV * 37/ Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38/ This is the first and great commandment. 39/ And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  40/ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Galatians 6:7-10 NLT

7/ Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8/ Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.   9/ So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.  10/ Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith. 

 Numbers 23:19-20 NKJV

19/ “God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?  20/ Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.