Count
Your Blessings
We are approaching the end of another year and should be
grateful to God. Sometimes people who
have always have everything provided for them forget to be gratefull
for the blessings. They take them for
granted.
2Tim. 3:1-7 ¶ This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come. 2 For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such
turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into
houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers
lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able
to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now we turn from a warning to an example of some one who was
grateful, a grateful leper is cleansed.
Luke
17:12-19
Counting your blessings builds faith.
Once you realize how God has blessed you in the past, you
have faith that he will take care of your future. You will have more confidence in your prayer. Counting you blessing will cause to be more
willing to give to others.
Counting your blessings will cause you to be a happy Christian.
If only the children of Isreael had
counted their blessing on their journey
to Caanan. Then
once they reached there, they would have had faith to enter. God could have given it to them. (even doubtless)
But they did not consider all the things God had done for
them. And lack the faith to enter. Even
in the face of all these miracles. 10
plaques in
Let's Count:
We search for many things and don't know what we want.
Instead of counting our blessings we worry about the one thing we want and
don't have. We want more and more and
want rather than to give. It seems that we always want more and are never
content or satisfied. 1Ti 6:6 ¶ But godliness with contentment is
great gain.
.every day things –
Family friends – medical treatments - Air
Condition or heating, we should thank God every time we get out of the heat or
cold. Stop and notice all the every day
things, cars ect.; And Thank God. No generation ever had it so good as we do. How unthankful are we?
Consider these facts: If
you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed
than the six million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of
battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of
starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world. If you can attend a church meeting without
fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death...you are more blessed than three
billion people in the world. If you have
food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to
sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
.Unconditional Love- Is this in the bible?? Yes!
Ro 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He sends the rain on just and unjust. (Mat. 5:45) He loves us all.
His goodness should cause us to repent.
.Grace- It is only by the grace of God that we are
what we are. (1 Cor.
10:15) What would you be were it not for Grace. How thankful we should be
for that grace.
. Peace - The
marvelous peace that comes from being a christian. There is a peace that comes when you
understand that this world is not our home and what Christ has in store for us.
This life is not what is important. (1st
John 2:15-17) These worldly things are vanity. Through Christ we can have
the peace of Stephen. Brother Nettles Joh
1Ti
1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God
our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
For
the brethren - Acts 28:15 And from
thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he
thanked God, and took courage.
Salvation- Romans
Don't forget to thank God for your salvation. He paid the
price. This is a price that we could not ever pay.
Luke chapter 7
forgiven much, loved much.
Luke
7:37-50
We have all been given much. For our salvation is something
that we cannot afford, priceless.
God expects us to be grateful for our salvation.
He expects us to treat our salvation with respect and value
it. Heb
10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite
unto the Spirit of grace?
not being grateful
not realizing the value.
You probably never heard
of Hetty Green. She died in 1916 and left an estate
with an estimated value of $100 Million Dollars(not pesos and not 1960 but
1916).
Hetty regularly ate cold oatmeal because it cost too
much to heat it.
Her son had his leg amputated because she took so long to get him adequate care
because she was looking for a free clinic.
Hetty died in the midst of an argument over milk, she
argued that skim was best because it was the cheapest.
She was wealthy but she lived like a PAUPER. She never enjoyed nor benefited
from the riches that were hers.
Your soul is the most valuable thing you own.
If God has saved you from a life of sin that would destroy
you soul,
THANK HIM.
If you have not allow Christ to wash away your sins, quit
treating your soul and you salvation as not valuable. We give you the opporturnity
to be baptism.
Romans 1:20-22 For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.
Romans
We are truly without excuse.
God sent his son to this earth to die for us. He gave and preserved his word that we may
know his will. The whole world bears out
that there is a God, and that Jesus is truly his son. Why not respond today to the goodness of God… Are you so unthankful that Christ has died in
vain as far as you are concerned?
Isaiah 55:3
John 8:24
Luke 113:3
Mat.
Mark
Mal
3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD
of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a
blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
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John
Acts 28:15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us,
they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The
three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
