How to Really be Happy
Biblical instructions just for You
Did you know that the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 are instructions, directly from your Heavenly Father, on how to be happy right now ?
We are going to take a look at those beatitudes and explore how easy it is to apply these simple directives to your life right now .
But first I have a question for you . Where do you turn for counsel on something so vital to your quality of life ?
Many turn to their TV. There you will find numerous 'go-to' self-help celebrity's looking fly and sounding like a personal angel just for you. Those catchy sugar coated one liners they say sound so good.
With any sugar high follows a sugar crash. All the talk shows are produced for ratings.
All fathers want their children to feel better and improve their health and your Heavenly Father is no exception .
Matthew chapter 5 verse 3 . Our Lord Jesus Christ teaching is about to teach us about how to be blessed . These are the 'Beatitudes'. This is gold .
First off the word 'blessed' here in your King James really translates 'Happy' .
Our Lord Jesus Christ will point out not only the characteristics that get you blessed but also what is the greatest moral and ethical good for you .
1) Matthew 5 v:3 Christ states "Blessed are the poor in spirit" .
- This means you have submitted to our Lord with unquestioning obedience in all humility and humbleness.
- Meek in the original Hebrew language means to 'afflict' in the sense of self discipline.
- Meek means saying 'No' to oneself. Meek means staying true to ones own convictions in the face of vain curiosity's.
- Meek means saying 'No' to others and their vanity's. One could say "I'm meek towards God but not towards you". Christians are not second class doormat citizens
- This means they have unwavering faith while seeking God's wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge and strength .
- This means they act selflessly without thoughts or intents of gain or reward .
- This means they have detached themselves from the fruit of their actions and offered them to God .
- They divert their instincts to serve God
- They submit to God by sublimating vain activities and thoughts into productive works for God with no malice .
- This means being compassionate
- Seeking peace between individuals, i.e. harmony, concord
- You seek to be part of a security, safety, prosperity, felicity, because peace and harmony make and keep things safe and prosperous
- Your journey is dedicated to a place of peace
- Humble yourself
- Have unwavering faith in God
- Always put God first
- Seek a working knowledge of God's word, the Bible .
- Always give thanks to God
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