Category Archives: Blessings

Blessings of Embracing Jesus’ Purpose

“I tell you the truth, 

I am the gate for the sheep. 

All who came before me were thieves and robbers. 

But the true sheep did not listen to them. 

Yes, I am the gate. 

Those who come in through me will be saved. 

They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. 

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. 

My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.”

John 10:7-10

Blessings of Believing The Blind Man Who Sees

…So the man went and washed and came back seeing! 

His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar 

asked each other, 

“Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 

The pharisees asked the man all about it. 

So he told them, 

“He put the mud over my eyes, 

and when I washed it away, 

I could see!” 

The Jewish leaders still refused 

to believe the man had been blind and could now see…

“Look!” 

the man exclaimed. 

“I told you once. 

Didn’t you listen?” 

“He healed my eyes, 

and yet you don’t know where he comes from?” 

“Ever since the world begain, 

no one has been able to open the eys of someone born blind. 

If this man were not from God, 

he couldn’t have done it.”

John 9:8, 15, 18, 27, 30, 32-33

Blessings of Listening and Obeying

Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly 

to the words of God. 

But you don’t listen because you don’t belong to God.”


The people retorted, 

“You Samaritan devil! 

Didn’t we say all along

that you were possessed by a demon?”


“No,” 

Jesus said, 

“I have no demon in me. 

For I honor my Father—

and you dishonor me. 

And though I have no wish to glorify myself, 

God is going to glorify me. 

He is the true judge. 

I tell you the truth, 

anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!”

John 8:47-51