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Your Blessings Are Here for the Taking {Psalm 91:15-16}

May 25, 2020 by Lisa Burgess 4 Comments

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Open your eyes to see. Open your hands to receive. Your blessings are here for the taking.

Finish Psalm 91 with us today.

The Gifts Are Here

It’s your partner’s birthday. You spend time thinking about a gift, spend money buying it, spend energy wrapping it to give.

You set it on the kitchen table. But it goes unnoticed. Day after day.

Your present is never opened. The blessing is never received.

Do we do this with God’s gifts to us?

As we finish Psalm 91 this week, we see a multitude of blessings that God is ready to give.

When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
Psalm 91:15-16

Why don’t we accept these gifts? Why do we block our own blessings?

Can’t Receive If Don’t See

We often don’t see the gifts. Our blindness causes us to miss out on God’s good gifts.

  • Maybe we’re too proud to notice.
  • Or we’re too ashamed to admit we need help.
  • Or too afraid to expose ourselves to disappointment.

We can’t receive what we don’t see.

But we don’t have to stay blind.

Be Expectant

Instead, we can wake up expectant every morning.

How? By humbling ourselves. By stepping out in faith to trust God more. By dwelling in the shelter of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1).

Then we will discover God’s grace in our relationships, in our provisions, in our circumstances.

Once we see the blessings, we can open our hands to receive God’s gifts. To tear off the wrapping paper, rip open the box, and use the present inside.

The more we accept God’s love, the more our hearts are open to receive His blessings.

Psalm 91:14-16 lists these blessings from God to His children.

  • His deliverance
  • His protection
  • His answers
  • His presence
  • His rescue
  • His honor
  • His satisfaction
  • His salvation

I don’t want any of these gifts to be left sitting on the table, unwrapped, unused. Let’s receive God’s gifts and be blessed by them.

Don’t leave your gifts of grace unopened.

They’re here for the taking.

Don’t leave your gifts of grace unopened. Your blessings are here for the taking. #Psalm91

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Thanks for journeying through Psalm 91 with us for eight weeks. If you’ve also been memorizing, great job! May God continue to remind you of these truths again and again.

Have you left a gift unopened? What gift of God do you want to open today? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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About Lisa Burgess

Lisa looks for God in ordinary people and in everyday moments, then shares where she finds Him on her blog LisaNotes.com. She is a wife to Jeff and a mother to two girls here, one in heaven.

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  1. Gina Glennon says

    May 25, 2020 at 12:44 pm

    Looking forward to the next memorization verse!!

    Reply
    • Lisa says

      May 25, 2020 at 1:44 pm

      Glad to hear it, Gina! We’ll take a little break first, but we’ll let you know when we’re ready for the next challenge.

      Reply
  2. Suzanne Bradley says

    May 25, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Yes, I’m ready for another challenge as well. This has been so good for me. I’m trying to retrain my aged brain. I can’t wait for the next challenge.

    Reply
    • Lisa says

      May 26, 2020 at 8:00 am

      Yay! Glad to hear this, Suzanne. Memory training has definitely been good for my aging brain too, as well as my soul.

      Reply

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