08/30/2026
Good morning! We hope you can join us for worship today, Sunday, August 30th.
Our subject for today is: "You Will Be A Blessing"
Here are a few materials to help you to participate in the service today. May the Lord bless you!
READINGS FROM THE WORD
Genesis 12:1-9
Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
Matthew 6:19-21
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 5:1-12
And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
Secrets of Heaven #10409
When we become a spirit after a life in the world we are - so far as the affections composing our love, and our thoughts and firm beliefs are concerned - exactly the same as what we were when we lived in the body.
[Some people] suppose that being raised to eminent positions and obtaining greater wealth than others is the real good that the Divine confers on a person, and so they suppose that a Divine blessing, as they also call those gains, lies in such things alone. But those gains are more of a curse to those who love self and the world above all things. For to the extent that people rise to important positions and obtain wealth by their own application and skill, they rise into self-love and love of the world, till at length they set their whole heart on those things and regard them as the only possible forms of good, thus the only possible forms of happiness and bliss for a human being. But those things come to an end with our life in the world, whereas the forms of good, happiness, and bliss which the Divine gives us and provides us with are eternal and do not come to an end, so that these are the true blessings. What is temporary bears no comparison with what is eternal. What lasts to eternity has being, in comparison with which what comes to an end does not have being. The Divine provides that which has being, but not that which does not have being, except insofar as it is of use to the former.
TASK CARD
Sermon Title: “You Will Be A Blessing”
Message: The Lord called Abram to leave his country, his family, and the familiar life he knew, and to journey toward a new land that the Lord would show him. Abram did not know exactly where he was going or how everything would turn out, but he trusted the Lord and went. The Lord promised to bless Abram and said, “You shall be a blessing.” Abram’s journey was not completed all at once. It unfolded gradually, as he continued to trust the Lord and take each next step.
Meaning: Our spiritual life is also a journey. The Lord calls us to leave behind the things that keep us from becoming the people He wants us to be, things like resentment, pride, selfishness, unhealthy habits, or the need to always be right. We may not know exactly where the journey will lead, but if we can trust the Lord and take the next step forward we will find that we are blessed and we are a blessing in the lives of others as well.
Task: This week, ask yourself each morning:
What is one thing the Lord is asking me to leave behind today?
What is one step I can take toward something better – toward living differently?
How can I be a blessing to someone today?
Then take that one step—and notice what happens.
