Enjoy The Blessing

Well, the song "The Blessing" really has been a blessing hasn’t it?  Remember all the Covid Zoom Box versions from one country and another? 

We’ve prayed this blessing over ourselves many times and some of us hear it at church many Sundays.  We’ll pray with this blessing once more today.

Heavenly Father, right from the beginning of creation you have blessed people, blessed their work, blessed a day of rest. You are a God who loves to pour out good things into our lives.   You have favor and protection in abundance for us today.  Help us to open our hearts to You to receive all You have for us as we put our trust in You and walk in Your ways.

With the writer of Psalm 67 we pray:

God, have mercy on us and bless us. May you be pleased with us. Then your ways will be known on earth. All nations will see that you have the power to save. May God continue to bless us. Then people from one end of the earth to the other will have respect for him.

 Psalm 67:1-2, 7

And then Paul gave us these wonderful words of blessing prayer when he wrote: 

So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call.

May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way

you live, and you will be honored along with him.

This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 NLT

The writer of the book of Hebrews is unknown but He knew the God who wants to bless us and He gave us this blessing:

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 

Hebrews 13:20-21

And we end where we began with the words of Moses:

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them. 

Numbers 6:24-26 NIV