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Passionate About Delighting

Passionate About Delighting

 

1A) Every day I make the choice to pursue God's blessing...or not.
Numbers 6:24–26 (ESV)
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
2A) Not everyone ends up in the same place or with the same blessing: My choices matter. (v.6)
3A) The Evil and Pretenders will only experience regret... (vv.4-5)
1b) from a wasted life
2b) and eternal desertion.
4A) God's blessing flows when I avoid and despise evil influences. (v.1)
Romans 12:2 (ESV)
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
5A) God's blessing flows when I delight in God's Word. (v.2)
Ezra 7:10 (ESV)
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Hebrews 4:12 (ESV) For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 3:16–17 (ESV) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
John 17:17 (ESV) Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Psalm 119:11 (ESV) I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Joshua 1:8 (ESV) This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Deuteronomy 6:7 (ESV) You shall teach them [commands of God] diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
6A) God's blessing will rest on me... (v.3)
1b) if I am a growing disciple;
2b) if I am a fruitful disciple;
3b) if I am a faithful disciple.