Hill Country Thoughts - A Coffee Cup Ministry

I was really wondering today, “Lord what do you want me to share? What thoughts are on your heart?”

I kept looking at the word blessing, I looked again, and again. I looked at blessing, bles sing. I know I might be stretching it a little but that is what I saw in my mind.

I saw it as two words made to be one. In blessing, bless and sing, in worshiping the Lord, in singing, in praising the Lord, in lifting Him up this day with our whole heart, with our whole being, with all that is within us to bless the Lord this day, to speak praises to the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

There is such a blessing when we come into the presence of the Lord, even when we don’t “feel anything”, it then becomes a sacrifice of praise and as you begin to make that sacrifice, then the blessings of the Lord, the presence of His Spirit begins to fall a fresh on you. Bringing restoration, healing, of lifting you up out of the place of bondage or captivity, freeing you from the bonds of the enemy.

When we begin to bless the Lord, it not only sets us free, it sets others free, like the water of the word, the praises and the worship brings a cleansing, a refreshing to our whole being and it pours out to others around us, wether in church, in a prayer group or even as bloggers, we worship and we praise the Lord with the keyboard, with the thoughts that the Lord allows us or gives us to share with others, that we might build them up and lift them up in the faith.

Is it not amazing how our God can take the simple things, the simple thoughts, that He brings to our heart, to our mind and then reveal Himself to us in it?

It is a blessing to sing, it is a blessing to be able to share, to write, to lift up, to exhort, to encourage and to stand with others in the Lord.

We are a people of hope, of expectation. We are a people who are learning to live in the reality of who the Lord is now. That the life changing power of the Lord applies to us now, not down the road, in the future.

Today we can walk in the blessings of the Lord. We can walk in the new life, in the strength of the Spirit and we can be an encourager to others with the things we speak, the things we write and the things we do.

Let us be a blessing to those around us and let them see in the blessings of the Lord, the fruit of the spirit working in our lives.

Be blessed my friends!

Till later,

Paul

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