Are You Living Blessed? part 7

There is a chapter on blessing the family that had some awesome ideas. "..God's blessing changes things. It changed a 24-hour period into a Sabbath. It changed a little boy's lunch into a huge meal. And it still changes people and things today."

In this chapter I also learned the importance of affirming God's work in the life's of those around us.
"We are energized when people who know us remind us that they see evidence that God is at work within us. The devil loves to remind us of the negatives. Research shows that the human mind remembers negative things that happen to us or wrong decisions we make 14 times longer than the good things. That's no doubt why the Apostle Paul urges us to speak only those things that build up others.(Eph 4:29) Affirming how we see God at work in someone's life is one way we can do that."

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians 4:29

 

I was also reminded that "criticism is the devil's counterfeit for intercessory prayer and a critical spirit can stifle the blessing gift God wishes to provide."  Jesus looked for the best in people and so should we.