Tag: Blessings

DID YOU SAY, “I’M WAITING ON MY BLESSING?”

ByDr. Mark July 21, 2026 2 Comments
“Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.” – Woodrow Kroll Two individuals, walking down the grey pavement that provided a path from the Employee Parking Lot to the workplace. are engaged in a conversation. At some point, one of the individuals says, “I’m waiting on my blessing.”  Puzzled, the other person pauses for a moment....

HOW BIG IS YOUR BLESSINGS BASKET?

ByDr. Mark February 22, 2025 0 Comments
 “And when it was already late, His disciples came up to Him and said, “This place is secluded, and it is already late; send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” But He answered them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said to Him, “Shall we go and spend two hundred denarii on bread, and...

GREAT BLESSINGS

ByDr. Mark January 29, 2025 0 Comments
Have you ever heard of “writer’s block?” Usually, I would define it as a time when a writer could not decide on what to write, but the Merriam-Webster Dictionary had a more technical definition that caused me to have some personal concern. This online dictionary defined “writer’s block,” a noun, as follows, “A psychological inhibition preventing a writer from proceeding with a...

TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN YOUR HAND!

ByDr. Mark November 16, 2024 0 Comments
“What is that in your hand?” (Exodus 4:2a New International Version) One adult, whether in gest or just remembering an object, participative lesson that his father used with his siblings and him, told me that if his children ever start to complain about “not having nuthin,” he would apply the same lesson that was used on him so his children would focus on being thankful for every...

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR BLESSING?

ByDr. Mark August 27, 2024 0 Comments
I’ll try to make this Tuesday meditation short, by just emphasizing a couple of things I said in my sermon this past Sunday. First, when you get your desired blessing, a blessing you that falls under the scope of the will of God, don’t keep your desired blessing to yourself. Share your blessing, be it a thing, free time, your testimony, or a truth from the word that saved you from the power...

REDIRECTING YOUR BLESSINGS

ByDr. Mark November 3, 2023 0 Comments
“When Jesus finished telling these stories, he left there, returned to his hometown, and gave a lecture in the meetinghouse.  He stole the show, impressing everyone.  “We had no idea he was this good!” they said.  “How did he get so wise, get such ability?”  But in the next breath they were cutting him down: “We’ve known him since he was a kid; he’s the carpenter’s son. ...

SULKING, SEEING, AND SAYING

ByDr. Mark August 19, 2023 0 Comments
“After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.  In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.  For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever...

I ALREADY SENT IT TO YOU!

ByDr. Mark April 6, 2023 0 Comments
“La verdad te hara libre!” “…and the truth shall set you free.” (Ephesians 4:27 NASB) Have you ever been looking for a quick response to an urgent question from a person or even an organization or an institution?  After being patient as you could, did you call that person or a representative of the organization or institution and inquire when you could expect a response?  If you are...

HOLD ON TO YOUR BLESSINGS

ByDr. Mark February 24, 2023 0 Comments
“Embrace your blessings.” (Steve Maraboli) It was a windy Tuesday morning.  I exited my car with a check in my hand.  I was going to deposit it in the bank.  The amount of the check did not matter.  Big or small, any check is a blessing!  Smile!  Keep reading, for things are about to get interesting.  Obviously, I was not embracing the envelope in which my check was enclosed tightly...

“SANDBOX THEOLOGY”

ByDr. Mark May 18, 2022 0 Comments
“…indeed, I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.” (Genesis 22:18 NASB) Abraham was surely blessed because he did not withhold his son, his only son, whom he loved on Mount Moriah.  You know the story.  Abraham was ready to...