Do You Expect Great and Wonderful Blessings in Your Life?
What are you expecting in your future? As you ponder the possibilities, are you afflicted with anxious thoughts and forebodings, or do you imagine great and wonderful blessings?
All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]. – Proverbs 15:15 AMPC
Do You Desire an Anxious Manner of Life or a Lifestyle of Great and Wonderful Blessings?
Merriam-Webster.com defines despondent as feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression and afflicted as grievously affected or troubled. Hopefully, these descriptions do not define you; because, if they do, the scripture above indicates that your days will be filled with anxious thoughts and forebodings. Whew, that’s one gloomy prediction! Don’t despair! There IS an alternative way of life. Have a glad heart, and live a lifestyle of enjoyment regardless of your circumstances.
It makes sense that if you have a glad heart, you will have enjoyment, right? In addition, it’s quite logical that if you have enjoyment, you will have a glad heart. Most often, the downhearted will readily admit they would much prefer a glad heart to their current state. The problem is figuring out how to actually develop a glad heart.
How to Develop a Glad Heart: Praise God’s Name
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. -Psalm 16:11 ESV
This scripture teaches that when you are in God’s presence, there is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore (great and wonderful blessings), and Psalm 100:4 teaches that you enter into God’s presence with thanksgiving and praise.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! -Psalm 100:4 ESV
Speak out loud, and thank God for the good things He has already done for you, or create a playlist of some of your favorite Christian bands and sing along. How you find a way to praise God’s name is irrelevant. Just do it!
Focus Your Thoughts On God’s Promises
The thoughts you are thinking WILL influence your future, so be selective about what you allow to dwell in your mind. The Bible is full of hope for your future, and this confession card for Hope will help you to remember His Will for your life.
Expect Great and Wonderful Blessings for Your Life
When calamity hits your life, don’t waiver in your faith that great and wonderful blessings are in your future. If you are wondering if it is God’s Will for your life to endure heartache and turmoil, be encouraged with this article: If God is Good, Why Do Evil Things Happen?
Here are some Bible verses about God’s blessings for your life:
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. -Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
…God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. -2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in you. -Isaiah 26:3 ESV
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. -Psalm 32:8 ESV
The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way; though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the Lord upholds his hand. – Psalm 37:23-24 ESV
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. -Matthew 11:28-29 ESV
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. – Isaiah 54:10 ESV
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. -Hebrews 10:23 ESV