Moraine Valley Church

 Being Thankful Various passages November 20, 2022    Introduction:Psalm 127 says that children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward…. how blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.  We have a God who not only delights to bless us but who has joyfully bound himself to bless us and even pursues us to bless us! It all started with Abraham when God blessed Abraham, told him to be a blessing and then said that through his seed, Jesus the whole world would be blessed!  He took that promise and turned it into a covenant just to assure Abraham of how serious God was about blessing.We learned just a few weeks ago in the new covenant that God has given some unbelievable life changing at the core of our being types of blessings to his children – things like forgiveness, the removal of the old heart and giving us a new heart and placing his Holy Spirit within us to enable us to live in his ways Because of Jesus, we learn in Ephesians 1 that we have already been blessed with every spiritual b