The Book that Blessed Our World and Us

Passage: Genesis 12:1-3, 18:18; Deuteronomy 8:3; Hebrews 4:12; 1 Peter 1:23

At the beginning of every year out of care and concern for your eternal souls I make a pastoral appeal for all of us to take prayer and Scripture reading more seriously.  Along with corporate worship, these are God’s greatest gifts of grace to us.

There is nothing more practical and profitable or more beneficial and important to us and our soul, our success and our future than reading the Bible and praying.  God wants to listen to you and God wants to speak to you for your eternal benefit and blessing.

I want to spend time this morning showing you how great a blessing the Bible is to you in the earnest hope and prayer that you will want more of that blessing in your life and family.

The Book that blesses our physical, material world.

In Genesis God makes an astonishing promise to Abraham.  God promised Abraham would be a blessing to all nations.