Tuesday, June 11 – And You Shall Be a Blessing!

WORD FOR TODAY by PASTOR JESUS FIGUEROA

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Tuesday, June 11

And You Shall Be a Blessing!

Theme: Tuesday, June 11 – And You Shall Be a Blessing!

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

Genesis 12:2 (NKJV)

Daily Reading Plan

Job 41-42

Bible Versions:

Genesis 12:2 (The Word: God’s Message for Me) — 2 I will make you a great nation, I will bless you and make your name famous, and you will serve as a blessing to others.

Genesis 12:2 (GNT-LA) — 2 With your descendants, I will form a great nation; I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 12:2 (NLT) — 2 I will make you into a great nation; I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Devotional Thought:

When God says He will bless you, get ready because His blessings are always more abundant than you can imagine! He always surprises us beyond what we can understand. For Abraham, the promise was, “Indeed I will bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gates of their enemies” (Genesis 22:17). God blessed Abraham in such a way that He multiplied his descendants like the stars and sand; God did not think small, on the contrary, He blessed him greatly!

The primary purpose for which God blesses us is so that we can be a blessing to others! His plan is not for us to keep the blessing but to be generous and liberal with what He has placed in our hands. We should give to God from the much that He has blessed us with and make treasures in heaven. Luke 12:33–34 tells us, “Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

It is a privilege to be able to bless the work of God and His house. When one thinks about how good God has been to us, considering how much He has blessed us! In Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” The rule of giving is that God never keeps anything; the blessing always comes back to us! It is like the law of sowing, what we sow we also reap! Today God wants us to be instruments, vessels of His blessing, understanding that He blesses us to then be a blessing.

Key Scriptures:

Zechariah 8:13 (NKJV) — 13 And it shall come to pass that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, let your hands be strong.

Genesis 17:6 (NKJV) — 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

Genesis 22:17 (NKJV) — 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 13:16 (NKJV) — 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

Genesis 15:5 (NKJV) — 5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 22:17 (NKJV) — 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 22:18 (NKJV) — 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

Genesis 24:35 (NKJV) — 35 The Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, camels and donkeys.

Genesis 28:3 (NKJV) — 3 May God Almighty bless you, And make you fruitful and multiply you, That you may be an assembly of peoples;

Genesis 35:11 (NKJV) — 11 Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.

2 Chronicles 31:10 (NKJV) — 10 And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.”

Isaiah 51:2 (NKJV) — 2 Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.

Genesis 18:18 (NKJV) — 18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Proverbs 11:24 (NKJV) — 24 There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty.

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