Notes from Sunday Church service
5/26/02 Eddie & Delicia Family Fellowship Sunday AM service

Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the Lord--it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it].(AMP)

When the Bible was translated by the Greek for the Septugenuit. they translated blessing, praise.

Rich mcans accumulate

Psalm 34:1 I WILL bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.(AMP)

Here the psalmist tells us always give thanks. David had a bad family, 2 children tried to take his kingdom by annointing themselves King, one brother raped his sister. His employees killed people they were not s upposed to. Yet, through it all he praised God.

2 Sam 5:10-11 David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of hosts was with him. Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. (AMP)

David praised and God provided the best man and the best wood to build a house for him.

James 3:8-10 But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God's likeness! Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so.(AMP)

You expect one or the other but not both blessings and curses. We need to walk in the blessings.

My own notes on what was taught.
I do not disagree with the premise of the sermon, I do agree with the first verse being used. It is not us blessing the Lord that is being talked about in this verse, it is the Lord blessing us. Numerous other translations have this as the thrust. This is what the Lord is doing for us, not what the Lord does in exchange for us blessing Him.