Blessings and thankfulness Part 2

Hahahaha somebody is mad at me. I got on here this morning to talk more about Blessings and thankfulness and I spent about an hour pouring out what I had on my heart and listing all the scriptures that went with it. I worked on it for about an hour. I went to copy and paste one of the final scriptures and pushed Control V to paste. But for some reason it didn't copy it over it erased everything and on the page was nothing but the letter "n". All at the same time blogger decided to auto save. All that work gone. hahaha! Normally I'd be mad but what can you do? I'll just have to start over.
I'm guessing this topic is pretty imortant as the enemy is trying to "delete" my work. Well guess what? That's not stopping me. I'll sit here and type it all over again. Take that!


God has blessed us from the beginning of creation.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Just because we were created we got God's blessing.

Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

I find this interesting. God did all that work. He made all these wonderful things then on the 7th day He sat back looked at what he accomplished, rested and blessed it.
Have you ever done a sink full of dishes, 3 loads of laundry, mopped and vaccumed the floors, made dinner, took care of the kids, paid bills, went food shopping and changed mountain of dirty diapers and sat back at the end of the day and blessed it? I know I haven't. Sure, we haven't created anything as spectacular as God has, but we are to follow His example. At the end of all His creating and work He blessed it.

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.

Have you ever felt unworthy of God's blessing? I know I have. Surely, I'm not good enough to receive any good from God. But in Genesis 5 we see God state again that He created us and we are blessed. This is after the fall of man. This is after the expulsion from the Garden, and yet He still says He created man and man is blessed. Nothing can separate us from God once we have accepted Him as our Savior. You see God died for my sin. He paid the price. God knew all my mistakes before I even committed one of them and He still thinks I'm pretty special. Repeat that to yourself. I am special. Sure it sounds silly but there is power in the tongue.
Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Speak life into your own body. Many of us think we're not good enough. Many of us have been told lies (curses) from our parents. We don't think we add up, we'll never be any good, we don't deserve x, y, z. Break the curse. Speak life into your own bones.

Genesis 9:1
[ God’s Covenant With Noah ] Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

God blessed Noah for his obedience to him. Sometimes we can't see the big picture. Sometimes we have to go through the storm and nothing makes sense. But if we keep focus, follow God's commands, and praise Him in ALL things He will bless us.
My favorite analogy of this is that of a pilot who is flying through a storm. He can't see. His feelings are telling him he should do one thing to fly the plane. He needs to go against all his feelings and everything that feels natural to him and keep his eyes locked on the instruments and fly according to what they are telling him. Sometimes when we are in the middle of the storm we don't feel like praising God. We don't feel like be thankful. The enemy is good at pointing out all we are lacking and taking the focus off what God promises.
I will NEVER leave you or forsake you. Hebrew 13:5

Even when you don't feel like it start of your day by thanking God. If you feel like you have nothing to be thankful for then start off saying "Thank you Lord, that you are good." Over and over scripture states:
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. Psalm 107:1
Thankfulness was so important that David even woke up at the new day and began thanking God.
Psalm 119:62
At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.

I know, I know...who in their right mind (especially with little kids) would wake up at midnight and thank God. I know I don't. But the point is, that thanking God is so important in our walk with Him that it was the very first thing David did everyday. As soon as you wake up start thanking Him. Pray blessing over the day, your family, your life, your land, your food, your dirty toilet. See how different you feel. I tell you that the day I began this I didn't feel like thanking God and praying for blessing. I wanted to sulk in my misery. But I did what I knew I should not what I felt. Can I tell you that by the time I was done giving thanks for everyone and everything I could think of and praying blessings over their life that I felt this sense of peace that I haven't felt before. I felt joy and laughter well up inside me like I've never experienced before.

Psalm 100:4&5 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.

We are to continually give thanks to God. Once you start thanking God you'll be thankful for everything. As I typed this I had corn bread cooking. I forgot about and took it out and hope it wasn't burnt. When I took it out of the pan I saw it wasn't and said "thank you God." So simple so petty, but what power being thankful has.

Psalm 35:28
My tongue will proclaim your righteousness, your praises all day long.


My whole point it that we have the power through Jesus to unlock all these blessings for our lives. We have the power over every situation in our lives.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

GIVE THANKS IN ALL THINGS! Even if your situation is bleak. Thank God that He is working. If that's all you can muster up then do it. Just because we can't see him moving and working doesn't mean He isn't. It takes time. He uses others sometimes to help us change our situations. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean He isn't working. Give thanks!

To sum it up what I've learned is to start each day with thanks and blessings. It certainly will set the tone for the day. It will change your life. Start right now. Thank God and speak blessing in your life. You will see and feel a change I promise.

Jotting all this down is mostly for me. I don't think I'm this great teacher of all things. I'm just keeping a journal for myself and also sharing when I feel led to share. If I needed to hear this then certainly there are others who need to hear it too.

I hope some of this could be of help to you and I pray that you will be blessed.

Numbers 6:22-27

The LORD said to Moses, 23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:
24 “‘“The LORD bless you
and keep you;
25 the LORD make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 the LORD turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’

27 “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”