As we can read from various writting, God's specific reasons for extra blessings are promised (the original word in the Bible translated to English as "blessed" meant "happy"). This happiness/blessedness is presented in all nine beatitudes, from the fifth chapter of Matthew in The Bible (in the New Testament). Jesus Christ was speaking to his twelve apostles, hundreds of disciples and a crowd listening the best they could.
“Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed” (Psalm 41:1–3).
“He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor” (Proverbs 22:9).
While it's not wrong to want to be blessed, the moment we chase after the blessing more that we do God, that's going to be a big problem. Consider Paul's warning:
"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evil. While coveting after money, some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:9-10)
Following are best steps or things to do/follow in order God to bless us in our life in this world:
1. Repent, be sorry for your bad deeds, accept responsibility, and be willing to change for the better. "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."(Matthew 5:4)
In this beatitude Jesus puts value on grief and repentance evidently that would be helping the suffering of others and grief for your own flaws. So mourn and--in the first beatitude--you were told to become humble, "smaller" in your own eyes, and rely on God.
Ordinary activities of life do not bring real joy, not like faith, hope and God's Love do. Daily life may leave you thinking: "If only I had ____" (fill in the blank); it leaves you feeling your regrets, for what has been lost: lost peace, joy, hope -- and you may find yourself with "a broken spirit" -- a hurting attitude about life.
Regret your past sins, such as your damages to others -- and the time that you may have been against or ignoring and lacking God's blessing. Forgiving others removes selfishness and the guilt of "self-centered" life.
2. Keep God's commandments
God loves to bless those who obey Him. While He's a fierce enemy to those who hate Him and commit sin, He's a wonderful Father and friend to all who love Him. He said in Exodus 20:6 that He loves "showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."
3. Humble yourself as Jesus said:
"Blessed are the 'poor in spirit': for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."(Matthew 5:3) Read this and the other eight blessings for you as they were explained by Jesus, in Matthew 5, which are keys to unlocking such personal blessings.
Jesus promises that the poor in spirit can enter His Kingdom in this life! The Kingdom of God, Jesus said, "is within you" as Christ "lives there" -- as his presence, his Spirit, can be vital to you. Jesus said that "I must go to my Father"... [and shall] "send you another comforter to abide with you forever."
The words "poor in spirit" mean not finding special pleasure in yourself/your-life, and though you have been taught to be self-sufficient and proud of your reasoning and independence: still you may become smaller in your own eyes. If you are ready to depend on God's will for your blessings -- not ignoring God and not managing your own life and not making your choices all alone, not to be merely limited by "self", then you are ready to be blessed.
4. Be pure through faith. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."(Matthew 5:8)
Purity is found by concentrating on and dedicating to and seeking to right what is wrong, first in your own life, by God's will and purpose. But realize that Jesus said, "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5) -- which points out that one has to not judge others' behaviors, or be a hypocrite.
Your loving God will reward you in his presence by spiritual means. So it lets you "see" God, free from the pollution of mixed up desires in thoughts, words and deeds.
"Cleanse your mind; clean up your act" and in the fullest sense as God himself removes your desire for impure thinking and impure ways of acting. God purifies your being from the inside.
"Seeing" God: knowing him as your Father (by being in His presence) is the blessing promised in this beatitude.
5. Honor your parents
This has been forgotten by many. God wants us to honor our father and mother no matter how imperfect they may be. When we do that, we are promised that our "days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you." (see Exodus 20:12)
6. Giving
“Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops” (Vs. 9) – When we give God the “firstfruits of our crops”, we are giving Him our best in terms of our time, money, and talent. We honor Him when we have a generous heart and give God the best that we have to offer. As a result, “your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.”
When we follow God’s principles in life, we can prepare ourselves to receive all of His blessings. He loves us more than we can possibly imagine and He wants nothing more than to give us happiness and fulfillment in this life, but we have to do our part. Praise Him for his goodness and for His grace today, and thank Him for all of your blessings already received, and the ones yet to come.
7. Ask God for it
Why be jealous of other Christians when we can ask our Father God to bless us too? James tells us not to covet what others have. Instead, we are to ask God for blessings.
"You lust and do not have, so you kill. You desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have, because you do not ask." (James 4:2)
Some Helpful Bible Verses About Blessing:
Psalm 35:27:
“Let those who favor my righteous cause, and have pleasure in my uprightness shout for joy and be glad and say continuously, Let the Lord be magnified, Who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”
Psalm 84:11:
“For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
John 10:10:
“The thief comes in only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life and have it in abundance (to the fill, till it overflows).”
2 Corinthians 8:9:
“For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (His kindness, His gracious generosity, His undeserved favor and spiritual blessing), [in] that though He was [so very] rich, yet for your sakes He became [so very] poor, in order that by His poverty you might become enriched (abundantly supplied).”
Deuteronomy 8:18:
“But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
Proverbs 3:9-10:
“Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the first fruits of all your income; So shall your storage places be filled with plenty, and your vats shall be overflowing with new wine.”
Malachi 3:10:
“Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
Proverbs 19:17:
“He who has pity on the poor, lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him.”
James 1:27:
“External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.”
“Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed” (Psalm 41:1–3).
“He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor” (Proverbs 22:9).
While it's not wrong to want to be blessed, the moment we chase after the blessing more that we do God, that's going to be a big problem. Consider Paul's warning:
"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evil. While coveting after money, some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:9-10)
Following are best steps or things to do/follow in order God to bless us in our life in this world:
1. Repent, be sorry for your bad deeds, accept responsibility, and be willing to change for the better. "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."(Matthew 5:4)
In this beatitude Jesus puts value on grief and repentance evidently that would be helping the suffering of others and grief for your own flaws. So mourn and--in the first beatitude--you were told to become humble, "smaller" in your own eyes, and rely on God.
Ordinary activities of life do not bring real joy, not like faith, hope and God's Love do. Daily life may leave you thinking: "If only I had ____" (fill in the blank); it leaves you feeling your regrets, for what has been lost: lost peace, joy, hope -- and you may find yourself with "a broken spirit" -- a hurting attitude about life.
Regret your past sins, such as your damages to others -- and the time that you may have been against or ignoring and lacking God's blessing. Forgiving others removes selfishness and the guilt of "self-centered" life.
2. Keep God's commandments
God loves to bless those who obey Him. While He's a fierce enemy to those who hate Him and commit sin, He's a wonderful Father and friend to all who love Him. He said in Exodus 20:6 that He loves "showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."
3. Humble yourself as Jesus said:
"Blessed are the 'poor in spirit': for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."(Matthew 5:3) Read this and the other eight blessings for you as they were explained by Jesus, in Matthew 5, which are keys to unlocking such personal blessings.
Jesus promises that the poor in spirit can enter His Kingdom in this life! The Kingdom of God, Jesus said, "is within you" as Christ "lives there" -- as his presence, his Spirit, can be vital to you. Jesus said that "I must go to my Father"... [and shall] "send you another comforter to abide with you forever."
The words "poor in spirit" mean not finding special pleasure in yourself/your-life, and though you have been taught to be self-sufficient and proud of your reasoning and independence: still you may become smaller in your own eyes. If you are ready to depend on God's will for your blessings -- not ignoring God and not managing your own life and not making your choices all alone, not to be merely limited by "self", then you are ready to be blessed.
4. Be pure through faith. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."(Matthew 5:8)
Purity is found by concentrating on and dedicating to and seeking to right what is wrong, first in your own life, by God's will and purpose. But realize that Jesus said, "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5) -- which points out that one has to not judge others' behaviors, or be a hypocrite.
Your loving God will reward you in his presence by spiritual means. So it lets you "see" God, free from the pollution of mixed up desires in thoughts, words and deeds.
"Cleanse your mind; clean up your act" and in the fullest sense as God himself removes your desire for impure thinking and impure ways of acting. God purifies your being from the inside.
"Seeing" God: knowing him as your Father (by being in His presence) is the blessing promised in this beatitude.
5. Honor your parents
This has been forgotten by many. God wants us to honor our father and mother no matter how imperfect they may be. When we do that, we are promised that our "days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you." (see Exodus 20:12)
6. Giving
“Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops” (Vs. 9) – When we give God the “firstfruits of our crops”, we are giving Him our best in terms of our time, money, and talent. We honor Him when we have a generous heart and give God the best that we have to offer. As a result, “your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.”
When we follow God’s principles in life, we can prepare ourselves to receive all of His blessings. He loves us more than we can possibly imagine and He wants nothing more than to give us happiness and fulfillment in this life, but we have to do our part. Praise Him for his goodness and for His grace today, and thank Him for all of your blessings already received, and the ones yet to come.
7. Ask God for it
Why be jealous of other Christians when we can ask our Father God to bless us too? James tells us not to covet what others have. Instead, we are to ask God for blessings.
"You lust and do not have, so you kill. You desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have, because you do not ask." (James 4:2)
Some Helpful Bible Verses About Blessing:
Psalm 35:27:
“Let those who favor my righteous cause, and have pleasure in my uprightness shout for joy and be glad and say continuously, Let the Lord be magnified, Who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”
Psalm 84:11:
“For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
John 10:10:
“The thief comes in only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life and have it in abundance (to the fill, till it overflows).”
2 Corinthians 8:9:
“For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (His kindness, His gracious generosity, His undeserved favor and spiritual blessing), [in] that though He was [so very] rich, yet for your sakes He became [so very] poor, in order that by His poverty you might become enriched (abundantly supplied).”
Deuteronomy 8:18:
“But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
Proverbs 3:9-10:
“Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the first fruits of all your income; So shall your storage places be filled with plenty, and your vats shall be overflowing with new wine.”
Malachi 3:10:
“Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
Proverbs 19:17:
“He who has pity on the poor, lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him.”
James 1:27:
“External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.”
