“REASONS WHY YOU ARE BLESSED”

• If you own a Bible, you are abundantly blessed-about 1/3 of the world does not have access to one.

• If you wake up each morning with more health than illness, you are blessed to rise and shine, to live and to serve in a new day.

• If you have anyone on the planet, just one person that loves you and listens to you; count this a blessing.

• If you can freely attend a church meeting without fear, then you are more blessed than over 1/3 of the world.

• If you have a yearning in your heart to parent a child, you are blessed because you still desire what you cannot see.

• If you pray today or any day, you are blessed because you believe in God’s willingness to hear your prayer.

• If you pray for someone else, you are blessed because you want to help others also.

• If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep; all at the same time; you are rich in this world;

• If you have a brother or sister in Christ that will pray with you and for you, then you benefit from a spiritual unity, bond, and agreement, which the gates of hell cannot stand against.

• If you have any earthly family that even halfway loves you and support you, are blessed beyond measure.

• If you attend a church with a church family that offers you one word of encouragement, you are blessed with some form of fellowship.

• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, or some spare change in a dish someplace you are among the world’s wealthy.

• If you can go to bed each night, knowing that God loves you, you are blessed beyond measure.

• If you try each day to imitate our Lord Jesus Christ for even a minute, you are blessed because you show a willingness to grow up in Him.

• If you can read this message, you are more blessed than about 2/3 of the world.

• If you have never had to endure the hardship and agony of battle, imprisonment, or torture, you are blessed in indescribable measure.

• If you have a voice to sing His praises, a voice to witness God’s love, and a voice to share the gospel, you are blessed. About 1/3 of the world does not even know who the one true God is.

• If you can hold someone’s hand, hug another person, touch someone on the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer God’s healing touch.

• If you can share a word of encouragement with someone else, and do it with His love in your heart, you are blessed because you have learned how to give.

• If you have the conviction to stand fast upon His Word and His promises, no matter what, you are blessed because you are learning patience, endurance, and tenacity.

• If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because most people can, but won’t