Christians, what is your understanding of what it means to be blessed? What blessings have you experienced?

Question

When God created us, and when Jesus died for our sins, those were by far, two of the greatest blessings. I love the saying, "to blessed to be stressed", because when the drama comes my way, that's exactly how I feel right before I pray to the Lord. I give it all to him, and trust that he will be there. Even when I can't "feel" him, I know he is there, watching, testing, and loving me. What are your favorite scriptures which speak of being blessed? Hugs to everyone, Believers and Non-Believers.

I wanted to add, one of my greatest blessings, is that despite the constant trials I've experienced with people, the Lord is blessing me with the ability to forgive them and myself, much faster, and with genuine sincerity. In the past, forgiveness was very, very, difficult for me.

Answer 1

Exactly - Well said PC. Heres three of my favourites:

"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"

"In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God"

Answer 2

The best passages on blessings are in the beatitudes. But to be blessed means I am given grave that I can be forgiven for my sins and walk along my path with God. It can mean I have been given much more than a sinner like me deserves.

Answer 3

to be blessed is to have the favor of God on your life. My greatest blessing is peace, in the midst of chaos. I have a stressful job and I often feel the blessing of God while I am in the middle of a million details.

Answer 4

To be blessed covers many things. Basically our biggest blessing is coming to the saving knowledge of the truth. To be content. We are privledge to know God and to be able to walk with him. Then there are many other blessings also that are unique to each individual.

Answer 5

To be blessed is to be given a gift even when you don't deserve it...This means that pretty much everything in our lives, good and bad (since even bad things occur for our greater good), are blessings from God.

Answer 6

I had a problem with alcohol and drugs, I have a higher power whom I call "Jesus Christ". Have been clean for 5 years. I believe that he has Blessed me, by giving the strength and courage to keep on keeping on. I let anyone who wants to know how I did it. Thanks be to Him that is, forever and ever.

Answer 7

I am blessed and highly favored of God my father, he has blessed me with many things and this one in particular.....

THE DREAM

I DREAMED ONE NIGHT TWO ANGELS CAME TO MY BED. THEY TOOK ME TO HEAVEN I FELT I HAD NOTHING
TO DREAD. WE STOOD IN FRONT OF A BIG WHITE GATE. IT OPENED SLOWLY AS WE STOOD IN WAIT.
MANY CLOUDS BILLOWED AND SWIRLED ABOUT US AS I STOOD IN AWE OF THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS THAT
SURROUNDED US. WHAT I SAW WORDS COULD NOT EXPRESS, I WANTED TO STAY AT THIS BEAUTIFUL ADDRESS.
THE ANGELS ALLOWED ME TO LOOK INSIDE, THE BEAUTY THE MAJESTY, MADE ME CRY.
"IT'S TRUE, IT'S ALL TRUE, I KNOW THAT IT'S TRUE" I HEARD MYSELF CRY, AS TEARS RAN STREAMING
FROM MY EYES.
I KNEW WHAT I SAW WAS NOT OF THIS EARTH,THIS CREATION WAS FOR THOSE OF THE NEW BIRTH. THE
POWER, THE BEAUTY, THE SIGHT OF IT ALL WAS SO STRONG,THAT THE ANGELS SHUT THE GATES QUICKLY
TO MY NEW HOME. "IT'S NOT YOUR TIME," I HEARD THEM SAY, " WE JUST WANTED YOU TO SEE WHAT WAS
ON THE WAY," THEY SAID "YOU WILL NOT REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN INSIDE THE GATE, BUT YOU WILL REMEMBER WHERE
YOU HAVE BEEN.YOU MUST TELL OTHERS ABOUT THIS DREAM. THAT GOD'S WORD IS TRUE. IT'S THE REAL THING.
GOD HAS LET YOU SEE WHAT IS YOUR REWARD IF YOU WORSHIP, LOVE HIM, AND KEEP HIS WORD."
WE ALL NEED TO REALIZE THAT IT'S REALLY TRUE. WE NEED TO GET THE LOST ONES IN IF IT'S ALL THAT WE
DO. WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME, THE END IS NEAR, AND YES, IF YOU ARE LOST YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO FEAR.
CALL ON JESUS NOW, SO YOU CAN GO TO AND YOU'LL SEE WHAT I SAW AND YOU'LL BE EXCITED TOO.
I'LL SOON BE IN MY NEW HOME,PASS THE BIG WHITE GATES. DON'T YOU WANT TO GO THERE TOO? I JUST CAN'T
WAIT!!!!


I REALLY DREAMED THIS DREAM JUST AS IT IS WRITTEN. I FEEL IT WAS INSPIRED BY GOD AND HE GUIDED MY
THOUGHTS AND MY HAND IN PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.

I AM GIVING THIS TO YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU AND GOD HAS DIRECTED ME TO DO SO.
I HOPE THIS MESSAGE WILL HELP YOU TO MAKE THE BIGGEST DECISION OF YOUR LIFE
TO ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR AND TO SERVE HIM. SO YOU, ONE DAY
WILL STAND AT THE BIG WHITE GATES AND BE INVITED IN TO STAY, FOR ETERNITY.
GOD BLESS YOU

Answer 8

Wow a blessibg is anything that is given to you from a spiritual source, another person God a pastor etc... I have had many many blessings I gues the first would be my life...................
Where do I start, I guess at the beging. First let me say I was raised Cathloic but never really went to church and knew nothing of a personal relationship with Jesus. I was 15 and troubled so my mom sent me to live with my dad for a summer. He and his then wife were big time church goers, I smoked cigarettes and cursed like a salior and wanted no part of church God or the people who went to church. I had a rude awakening and got my pants scared off me the first service I was in 2 people got slain in the spirit and I was totally thrown for a loop. Scared and confused the pastors wife took me into a back room (my anxiey was growing faster and faster) and explained everything to me. As the summer progressed I found this religion thing more fasanating and went to PYPA church camp for a week. I extended my stay and started school the next year in Springfield MO. My then step-mother was to say the least unfair when it came to me and her children, so I came home to my mom. I tried to go to church but I got no support from my mom and eventually I went back to my old ways. I got involved in th occult and considered myself a satanic person. As I got older I got into drugs had unprotected sex and really didn't care about life. I got pregnant for the first time at 17 I thought by marring the babys dad I was doing the right thing he beat me until I lost that baby, he'd be 17 now. That marrige lasted a total of 6 monthes. I continued to run around and do bad things with bad people then I got married again that relationship lasted a wopping 8 monthes. I eventually moved to Columbia Mo is 1993. I continued the same behavior.I was confused and trying to find myself. When Trae was born in 1996 I slowed down I was mom and bound and determined to do the right thing. well his dad walked out on me before he was born so I was a single mom. I met Trevors dad when trae was 9 mon old and shortley after we started seeing each other I got pregnant, so his dad was gone too sent to prison on mutiple parole violations. I decided it was time to clean it up I went to nursing school with 2 babies in diapers not easy but I did it. I got very sick in 2000 I had a 40 pound tumor the size of a football invading my abdomen and killin my uterus. I was scheduled for a routine hysterectomy and my nightmare began, I died 2 times on the operating table each time being revived. It took 250 people giving blood and plasma to save me that night. I ended up in a coma on a vent and the doctors told my family I may never wake up if I lived throught the night, they also told them the tumor was cancer and if I survived the night i would be in the hospital for a very long time and they need to go home and decide what to do with my children and make arrangements for me.Little did I know God had other plans for me. I met yet another man and we moved to Lebanon MO that relationship lasted 3 long years with him being a chronic alocholic and BiPolar it ended with me having to pay him to leave. I moved to Eldon MO in hopes to start a new life as a single mom again with my two boys. Now this is where it gets good. I was working in a small nursing home at the time studying wica and literally living in my office, as the staff development coordinator it was my job to hire all the new employees. One day this man applied for a job (I was sleeping days and working double shift evenings and night because we were so short handed.) This left the screening of new employees to my boss. She wanted nothing to do with him because he was fresh out of prison sporting alot of tatoos and on house arrest she didn't have the guts to tell him he wasn't eligable for employment because of his, well everything. I got to be the lucky one. After mutiple phone conversations with him I encouraged my bosses to give him a chance plus we were despriate for help. He turned out to be a blessing for that facility. One night while working he told everyone who would listen that God told him I was going to be his wife and I was his girlfriend and I didn't know it yet. We started dating and after a couple of weeks I was upset with him I couldn't understand why he would invite everyone and their brother to church and not invite me. He simply said because when you are ready to go you will ask me. That Sunday I went to church for the first time in a long time. A week later I rededicated or was truly saved in an evening service. I have walked with Christ the past 3 years. My husband,Shane was right about all that God stuff I didn't want to hear. I needed that in my life. I have a beautiful step daughter although I don't consider her a step child she is mine all the way, she even looks like me. My husband and I started dating June 9, 2003 and got married July 9, 2003. Once I got a grip on the God thing again it didn't take long to relize he was right about everything. I love my family. It hasn't been easy we have had alot of trials but God carries us through everyone, moving to my hometown was the best thing to happen to our marrige and our walk with Christ, we are very involved with our church and my husband has accepted his true calling in life for ministry. I'm happier today that I have ever been in my life. My marrige is stronger today that I ever imagined possible. We continue to face trials both personal and as a married couple but we fight our demons on our knees. I have a great love for Christ, something I never thought would be possible before.