Sermons About Blessed
Salt and Light
Salt burns, salt flavors, salt preserves, salt purifies, salt melts ice and salt makes you thirsty. In short, salt influences everything it touches. Happy are those who are salty followers of Jesus. How do I get salty? How do I stay salty? Every time the power goes out in our house, I remember I need to buy batteries. So out come the matches and the candles…and they work. Light, no matter the size of the source, spreads out into every direction, reaching as far as its strength will take it. It remains totally invisible until it reflects off of the surface of an object and miraculously we see what couldn’t be seen. Jesus said that the happy Christian is the luminous Christian. Learn how to be the light by which others can see. Be light, be happy!
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Get Out Of The World And Get Into The Word
This sermon looks at Psalms Chapter 1 and the promises God makes to us to bless us. It looks at the things that God tells us NOT to do and then the things He tells us to do if we want to be blessed. It also tells us how we will be blessed and in what ways and contrary to the Name and Claim it crowd financially is not mentioned.
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Persecution
There is a door to happiness that no one, I know of, wants to open. Simon and Garfunkel were aware of it when they sang “Blessed are the sat upon, the spat upon, the ratted on,” 40 years ago. But they were only repeating Jesus when He told His followers, “Happy are the taunted, the harassed, those who flee bullies and those whose lives are ruined by lies. Happy are those who take one, or two, or even three for Me.” Discover how happiness disguises itself as persecution.
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Happy are the Peacemakers
The ancient Hebrew word for peace is shalom. It means much more than our word peace that suggests calm and a freedom from anxiety. Shalom means healing and wholeness. It means getting all the pieces back together in their right places so life and relationships make perfect sense. This is what Jesus came to accomplish in each of us. When we join Jesus in becoming shalom makers, our happiness is multiplied.
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Pure In Heart
You can’t help but hear a dinner bell. Bells ring with such a pure tone they pierce through other sounds like a knife. When our hearts ring with a purity that is without complication and compromise our lives cut through guilt and shame as if they don’t exist. When that is the case, we don’t have to go looking for happiness, it finds us.
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Being God-Hearted
Looking in Matthew 5, we find the beatitudes which help us see what we need to do to be living in the zone of God's blessing. We need to be humble; Grieve over our faults; Control our reactions; Passionately pursue doing the right thing; Give others another chance; Order our private worlds; Strive to make things right in relationships; and Stand strong in the midst of spiritual harassment.
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Crave and Mourn
This has got to be a typo! Happy are the sad? Happy are those who want for the basics? What’s God thinking? When we mourn for the same things that break God’s heart and crave for the things for which God hungers and thirsts, happiness is around the corner. God’s plan to satisfy His holy yearnings is the very plan that brings satisfaction, comfort and happiness to you and me.
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