Is God's Blessing Only for Good People? | John Ortberg
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Jesus came to the outcast and the overlooked and said, “YOU are blessed.”
QUESTION FOR THE UA-cam COMMENTS:
Let’s get personal: What’s a problem in your life that seems insurmountable?
Here’s how:
Take a moment to think about all the people in your life you may consider ‘unworthy of God’s Kingdom.’ (Maybe you find yourself on that list).
Now, as you imagine their faces (or look in a mirror) say these words:
“Blessed are you, for the Kingdom of God is now available to you. Right where you are. Just as you are. God’s Kingdom, through Jesus, is now available to you.”
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DAILY QUESTION:
Let’s get personal: What’s a problem in your life that seems insurmountable?
My problems are so petty I'd be embarrassed to name them. Too blessed to regress...but thanks for asking. God blesses us more than any of us can imagine. Praises to our beloved Jesus Christ.
Getting off very strong prescription opioids for a neck injury surgery from 21 years ago… it’s all I want is to be free. But I just can’t get there.
John, we have a particular friend who is as you describe today. We have problems that are hidden and privately hard-his are much more outward and obvious.
And yet-he is joyous about Jesus and his kingdom. He sees blessing in the fact that his very large and painful foot has not been amputated and it still works.
He allows his church community to help him move into a new subsidized apartment.
He is generous like the widow Jesus saw give her all.
He loves to laugh, even though his favorite subjects are repeated frequently and sense of humor sometimes escapes us.
He’s never had a romantic relationship that we know of, yet he celebrates his family members as if they are his most beloved in the purest sense.
He’s had the same job for decades, soon he will retire. Someone might wonder if his life has made an impact.
For my wife and I, the answer is yes. He is the picture Jesus is painting in the Sermon on the Mount.
For the past 20+ years, I have been blessed by some men that society has deemed unworthy. I have been teaching once a week in the prisons about the love of Jesus. I am not a good teacher by any stretch of the means but I attempt to plant the seeds of "blessedness" in these men. Most of them have committed horrible crimes and have been there for 15 to 30 years. Each time I go I think of other things I'd rather do that day. But, each time I leave I am so filled with joy and peace that it is hard to explain. I pray weekly for them and they pray for me. All of us are blessed by the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen!
May the LORD richly bless you for your gift of time and love❣️ May He bless, keep, protect and anoint you and your family!!! Look forward to meeting you at the wedding! Maranatha 🙏❤️✝️🕊🙌🎺⬆️
Amen
@@andihardwick5647 Thank you for your warm and lovely words. God's blessings to you, and yes hope to see you at the wedding.
@@joserios6182 Thank you my friend. God's blessings to you
John, thank you. Today your emotion as you shared was palpable and real- it touched my heart. So so good that anyone can ask God for His help and be blessed. He loves us to ask Him too. Isaiah 35:10 - Earth has no sorrow that heaven can’t heal! ❤❤
Awesome message!! My challenge is that a few years ago, I was diagnosed with younger onset Alzheimer's. My challenge every day is to see how God can use it!! I'm more active in serving at church and the community now! I can worship freely and don't see or care if people are looking at me strangely! God can use all of our circumstances to His good, and I'm so grateful for that!!
Barb, may God use you in these particular days in a way that never was possible before. May you and those around you share a love unique to this time and place.
Thank you for sharing. 🙏
I wasn't feeling too blessed as I faced three different cancer surgeries, but Christ's power is insurmountable. I didn't realize how blessed I am until I joined a small group of cancer survivors. The others had conditions more serious than mine; it was humbling. I feel blessed God brought them into my life... their positive attitudes are inspiring. I only hope the friendship and caring I can offer them will be a blessing to them.
I can identify with Crazytown. So I’m going to pray for others going thru it. But it is so tough watching those you love make decisions that harm. I can only think about the decisions I have made that did the same and here I am listening to you, listening to God. Thank you for your messages!
Blessed are you, John Ortberg. Thank you for sharing your gift of putting together words that express complex ideas in practical terms that I carry with me. Thank you for the time and effort you take to put together these daily devotions.
What a great word today John. The hound of heaven chased me down when I was a 24 year old distraught broken and steeped in self destructive thoughts and behaviors young man. I heard the gospel through Billy Graham’s film “Time to Run” in the movie theatre that I was managing. I trusted in Christ and He forever changed my life. I’m so glad to be in the fellowship of the withered hand.
God’s power at work in us doesn’t change our circumstances, it changes us in our circumstances. I needed this reminder today. Thank you.
This stood out to me as well.
“No human condition excludes blessedness.” So good to hear (again and again)! Thank you!
Thank you John. What a blessing today's video is. I shall listen many times and try to withhold the tears.
It will take listening to this many times to even begin to take this in. Thank you.
So glad to know I am not the only one awake in the watches of the night. 3:00am. O how we need the Presence and comfort of Christ in those hours. Thanks for your constant, honest, vulnerable sharing. You are like indeed like the rest of us. Thank you.
Love going deeper and not glossing over this very familiar passage.
Thank you John. I get a flood of emotion when I sit with these words and have learned to surrender to the fact I will never understand His love for me, but I strive daily to receive it and live forgiven. Heartfelt thanks for today's message.
Blessed are you, John! Your wisdom shines through HIM, the Almighty. ✝️
Broken and toxic relationships. Blessed are the poor in spirit. I’m right there with the broken. It seems it goes hand in hand with the 2nd greatest command. Love people. I’m in process but moving towards grace and forgiveness.
I am thankful that a friend shared BECOME NEW with me. Every series I have listened to has impacted my day to day journey in this world, always for the better.
Brother John, thank you for teaching and exhorting us followers of Jesus with the Beattuides that we're blessed and complete in Christ regardless of where or what we may be going through.
With these words of Jesus, I give myself to HIM to be his hands and feet to those who are broken, as Dallas Willard spoke of.
good morning ☀️ aaaahhhh…learned something new about who Jesus was really speaking to during the beatitudes…
feeling blessed and loved even if I have lack…🙏🏻💕🍃
Thank you John, a blessing to hear you speak from your own vulnerability - heart to heart with us! Like me, I am sure you will appreciate this reminder from Dallas Willard: “The “interior castle” of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow.” ― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God.
Why are my eyes wet? Tissues, please. For John and myself. Thank you and my God's Love be with You... Always.
This is simply so powerful and so encouraging. Though we may feel we have insurmountable problems, we really do not have insurmountable problems because we have an insurmountable God who call us blessed! What a blessing. Thank you, John, and praying that you find rests and may you not be awake in the hours of the moon.
Thank you, John. I learn so much from your teachings and insights! But most importantly I come to know my Lord more deeply. This is truly a blessing!
13:13 Thank you John.You are such a blessing with such words of truth and comfort.❤
This made me think of the adjectives for my life that qualify me for Dallas’ list…and then how Jesus turns to all of us on the list with an invitation to his “party.” We’re in! We qualify for the blessed life that Jesus offers.
Struck by the words again today. How that Jesus, the King of Mount Calvary, overcame the sins of the world and therefore our heretofore insurMOUNTable problems. Because of Him, we have no insurmountable problems.
A very encouraging and compassionate message. Praise God that He sees us and understands our frailties and welcomes all.
A message straight to the heart - once I faced the comment , maybe yours is the face in the mirror of unworthiness….
Grief is powerful. The emotions that surround living backwards, rather than accepting the need to move forwards, seem insurmountable. This message allows no one to run from the need to not only extend grace, but to receive it as well
Outstanding. You take something, so familiar, that I tend to stop looking deeper and shine a beautiful light on it to see something fresh.
Love these podcasts!
Blessed are you, John.
Man! King of the hill comes so natural! But the upside down kingdom resonates in such a sweet deep place!
Hard to write a comment after listening to John and reading comments from our fellowship of WH people. Unbelievably incredible…Jesus’ total embrace of all of us in our inadequacy.
Insurmountable problem: being cast to the “sidelines of life” due to uncontrollable circumstances. “God’s power, presence and care (the Kingdom of God) is available to me right where I am. TY, Jesus.
"The mountains are where Heaven and earth come together." Just like the availability of God's rule and righteousness coming through Jesus, the mountains are free but require faith and effort to experience their glory.
What an encouraging message for my soul today.
We're blessed in Jesus Christ!Praise The Lord!
Oh John thank you how you transform timeless truths
I expect and learn from each of your episodes for right at 3 years. Thank you for keeping on.
WOW❤ The way you make pictures out of words. King of the hill, on an old rugged cross😭 so Powerful. Thank you
thank you...new light and insight to the heart of Jesus
My son is so mad at me for leaving Bible and Christian books at his house - even when he asked me not to share my faith with him or his family. He told me he doesn’t want Jesus’s love and he said the only way I could have a relationship with him is if I was not a Christian. I know that it’s really not insurmountable but right now it feels that way.
thanks for sharing, Robin. praying for you
Although I have surrendered this problem to Jesus and I truly have faith that He will take care of it on His time, it is my relationship with my son and daughter. I want that relationship to be healed and for me to be able to love them as Jesus wants me to love them. Through the Forgiveness Series I came to realize that it wasn’t just that I should forgive them but that THEY should ALSO forgive me for not loving them as they want me to love them. And so that’s the problem I have given to Jesus. I definitely cannot solve it. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you! Encouraging and uplifting!
Thank you for your messages that relate God's word to our daily lives.
Thank you for sharing your gift of loving God well.❤
Beautiful. Thank you 🙏
Beautiful reflection
Thank you, John🕊️❣️
Wise words! ❤
I just can’t hear this enough.
Thank You!
Love you!
Thank you deeply for the heartfelt words. You said: God will help anybody who is willing to receive. How does one truly become willing to receive in order to act righteously? To be able to hear your expanded thoughts on “willing to receive” will be helping. Peace.
Thank you for asking such a good question. I believe the priority in being able to truly receive begins with surrender; surrender of what you believe is "right" (your righteousness), and allowing what is right to Jesus (his righteousness, true righteousness) to prevail in your mind and heart. This process is how we find such freedom and life and hope of Jesus! Thank you for your note here. You are loved! - Brad
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Needing to get a FT job with medical benefits by June, while also caring for family and at my age with few skills. I don’t know how to stretch myself so thin. My family comes first but yet I need good medical and I’m 9 years away from receiving Medical. Insurmountable…but not for Jesus. And so I trust, follow, obey, while waiting for His timing for me. ❤ thank you Jesus that I can trust you completely.
Our family is in the same situation. My husband needs a FT job with good benefits too. He's had many good interviews, yet no offers. We've been hanging onto Jesus since October. I will pray for you and your situation.
You are so kind, thank you! I’ll pray for your husbands job search ❤ my sister is battling cancer and I’m her support/dog sitter/ caregiver so her husband can work. She comes first. ❤ my job search won’t start for a few months (if that). The worry hangs on me tho. I continue to put my trust in Jesus, because He knows what lies ahead even tho I don’t. ❤
One of mine is the inability to truly love others. And it is mostly because I don’t love myself. As a child and young adult I never knew the love of a parent or sibling and even though now I experience the love of God, it doesn’t seem to have pierced the wall I have built around my heart. Though, at the age of 77 I can see glimpses through the wall as my Father keeps chipping away and I am forever grateful.
Judith, thanks for your vulnerability. Much love to you
Also, I'm not sure what hat you have on in your picture, but it's AMAZING
Thank you and thank you John and crew for your love of our Father which allows others to experience it also. @@BecomeNew
Thank you for another good lesson ❤
We all fall short, none of us are “good.” I should know better, so I am more guilty than most. The question is should we bless people who are not repentant. On the one hand, they may need it the most, but is it a stumbling block for people to see a priest or minister blessing people who are not repentant? I am not saying I know or I am right, but it seems Jesus blessed people who were sinners, but these people acknowledged their sins and did not want to sin again.
My wife has stage 4 cancer and has entered hospice.
I'm praying for you both right now, friend
@@BecomeNew thank you
Seems insurmountable-mental illness, family discord, dear Lord….for the blessing of wholeness and reconciliation!