Are you blessed?

I ran across this last night while going through some old bills, that were finally paid off and it reall gave me pause. . .hope it causes us all to think about the Greatness of our God and brings us to His throne with a greatfull hreartt!"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep.. . you are richer than 75% of this worldIf you have money in the bank, in your wallet or spare change in a dish somewhere . .you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthyIf you woke up this morning with more health than sickness. . .you are more blessed than the 2 million who will not survive this week.If you have never been imprsioned, felt the agony of torture the pangs of starvation and the danger of battle for your faith. . .you're ahead of over 500 million.If your parents are both alive and still married. . .you are very rare even in these United StatesIf you hold your head up with a smile on your face and are truly thankful. . .you're blessed beacuse many can, but most do not. If you can read this post, you are blessed doubly, in that someone was thinking of you and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.Have a good day, count your blessing, give honor to the King and feel free to pass this along to everyone or anyone else to remind folks how blessed we really are. God bless you all! David ~(inotof)

Amen!It is understandings like these that have me shaking my head in amazement whenever I hear most people around me complaining about how bad their life is for this or that...For 99% of Americans, there are many many blessings to be counted and things could be so much more worse than they currently have it.

amen Krispy! (i'm not quite as experincned, i have only 1 lil girl [Israel]but i feel ya!

Reading this Thread has helped me understand Blessing.inotof said"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep.. . you are richer than 75% of this worldIf you have money in the bank, in your wallet or spare change in a dish somewhere . .you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthyIf you woke up this morning with more health than sickness. . .you are more blessed than the 2 million who will not survive this week.If you have never been imprsioned, felt the agony of torture the pangs of starvation and the danger of battle for your faith. . .you're ahead of over 500 million.If your parents are both alive and still married. . .you are very rare even in these United StatesIf you hold your head up with a smile on your face and are truly thankful. . .you're blessed beacuse many can, but most do not. If you can read this post, you are blessed doubly, in that someone was thinking of you and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.Have a good day, count your blessing, give honor to the King and feel free to pass this along to everyone or anyone else to remind folks how blessed we really are. Amen Bro Amen

Perhaps one of the greatest blessings is the gift of being able to change ones mind and secondly to give up.To give up on our self life.To re-examine our own hearts.To realize that our own opinions are just that, opinions, and they are not always right.And we are not bound to them by anything other than a stubborn unwillingness to yield...To the Lord.To His thought.To let go.To thinkTo ponderTo let others speak into our livesTo listenBut more so to hearTo expose what's 'back of it'Back of our words.Back of our expressions.Back of our motives.And then to lay it all down.And let it die.All of it.And let the Lord dictate.What is true.What is necessary.What His will is.A blessing, if we would just let it penetrate us;Isa 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Isa 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. Isa 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Isa 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Isa 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: Isa 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Isa 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isa 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Isa 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Psa 94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Psa 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? Psa 94:10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? Psa 94:11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Psa 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Psa 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.