Psalm 133:3
It is like the dew of Hermon,
Descending upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded the blessing,
Life forevermore.
Deuteronomy 28:8
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
• Obedience is giving God’s Word the final say and then acting like it.
Galatians 3:13–14
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
• Grace gives us a new relationship with God and empowers a life of obedience.
• Jesus redeemed us from the curse, brought us into the blessing, and empowered us to walk
in obedience.
• Lack and loss
• Sickness and affliction
• Defeat and oppression
• Fear and distress
• Abandoned
