{"id":12666,"date":"2025-10-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12666"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:31:12","slug":"for-this-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12666","title":{"rendered":"For This Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And What Reason Is That<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 9, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That God Would Bless Us?<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The Spirit Works Where God Wills<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 12:1-3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the Lord said to Abram, \u201cGo from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Galatians 3:9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace for Today –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God calls and says \u201cGo!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God promises a great nation, blessings to be blessings to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Abram and Sarai, go, and manipulate, cheat, and lie their way to wealth, security, and fame (or infamy to their victims). But they cannot make a great nation, starting with a family unless God blesses them with a child, and for that …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

well they are humbled, most humbled. They cannot do it on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late in life, they finally have a child, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A history of a nation growing and strong, then corrupted and overrun, and reestablished but still weak, then dispersed across the earth, and oppressed, killed and driven out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we want to join that family?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe not so much, eh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, by baptism into Jesus, the Christ, we are made a part of that family of God, a family larger than just Abraham\u2019s blood descendants. A family bound together by the fire-wind-spirit of God, pouring gifts upon us all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

all so that we can be blessings to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how are we brought into this family? Do we do what is right and good and just and earn our way in. Not on your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, like Abraham and Sarah, can do nothing, except wait for the gifts of the Holy Spirit to bring us home, into the family of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, namely, that we are saved not by our works, not by our own hands, not by our own hearts or minds; that we are saved by faith given to us by God;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for this humble reason, that we do none of it on our own, that God must do it all for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, this humbling reason, we are blessed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

not for our benefit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but that we can be a blessing to others, many times over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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