When God Promises God Delivers! Message 5

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When God Promises God Delivers!
Message 5

God is our Provider

Me:

Blessings

a. Kind of like a prayer
i. To ask God to bestow divine favor on you
ii. I want God to bless me
iii. I want God to bless you.
We:
2. All kinds of blessings

Too blessed to be stressed

i. It’s nothing new that life is hard
ii. You are probably going through something now.
iii. Jesus told the disciples life would be tough
b. If we focus on the blessings and not the stress
i. There is a lot to stress about
ii. Money, work, the economy, family responsibility, relationships, health, etc
iii. Just read the headlines and you can see
c. The bible says a lot about blessings
i. Ephesians 1:3 (NLT) — 3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 NLT
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

We can be too blessed to be stressed.

i. Let’s find out how.
ii. Notice our passage
iii. If God is for us…
Romans 8:32 NLT
Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?
v. Underline that
God:

God is our Provider

a. The greatest gift of all
i. If God did nothing else

Your salvation is your greatest gift

iii. He has done more that.

God’s provision

Spiritual blessings

Eternal blessings

Material blessings

Spiritual blessings

i. Galatians 5:22-23
1. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control
ii. Ephesians 1:3 (NLT) — 3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 NLT
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.
1. Underline – “every spiritual blessing”

Eternal blessings

i. It’s the deliverance from the struggling and suffering of this sinful world.
ii. It is the gift of eternal.
iii. The gift of living gloriously conformed to the image of His dear Son, Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:7 NKJV
that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Material blessings

Matthew 6:31–34 NIV
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
ii. We seek after the wrong thing first.
You:

Too blessed to be stressed

(couple things to consider) (the war is in your mind)

Everything Happens for a Reason

i. Life will throw you a curve ball
ii. However, when one door closes that gives opportunities for another to open

Everything Has Value

i. God never waste anything
ii. Growth happens in our stress if focused correctly

Keep Things in Perspective

i. When compared to eternity everything changes
ii. God is preparing you for eternity
iii. Your struggle here is only temporary
iv. If you are serving the Lord

Look at your blessings

i. Name them one by one
ii. Count your many blessings see what God has done
iii. If will take care of the sparrow…

Did you know that prayer is a great stress reducer?

Mediate on God’s Word

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