The Irish people have a deep spiritual knowing of what is best in life, in all of its joys and sorrows. Take a deeper look into life and all of the blessings that God has waiting for you.

May this video bless you with friendship, love, joy and the peace that lasts.

Praise of God’s Power and Providence.

God’s power to protect and bless you go far beyond your imagination to understand. Listen to these words reflecting on what God does for those who love and honor Him. He has the power to do the same for you, right now, whatever your life situation may be.

Psalm 33

Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all who dwell in the world show reverence.

For he spoke, and it came to be, commanded, and it stood in place.

The LORD foils the plan of nations, frustrates the designs of peoples.

But the plan of the LORD stands forever, wise designs through all generations.

Happy the nation whose God is the LORD, the people chosen as his very own.

See New American Bible

 

 Blessing from Psalm 33:8-12: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Life does not always give you want. And because of the lack of manifestations of their desires, many people felt empty and unhappy about life. Thus, if you want to stay happy in life, there is one thing you need to know and accomplish with ease, to love and appreciate yourself.

If you look carefully in life, it is not the lack of those materialistic things in your life that makes it miserable. The whole is full of rich, famous yet unhappy people.

Indulging in materialistic items may seem as one of the ways to stay happy. However, you know that happiness obtained from those items is only temporary.

True and genuine happiness arises from you working inside out, not outside in. Being happy is an inner feeling and it does make sense to work out the issue from the place called ’self’.

Unhappiness usually stem out of your lack of self esteem and self appreciation. At home, your parents have taught you to appreciate others and be grateful to people who assisted you along the way. You are taught to say “Thank you” to others, present gift to others as a token of appreciation etc.

However, have you been taught how to appreciate yourself? How to acknowledge your own success and give praises to you? Do you love yourself for who you are?

To love is to accept. More often than not, we tend to choose what we want to accept about ourselves:
Talents
Strengths
Ability…

However, that is not love. Ask any parents or a couple deeply in love, they will tell you that they will accept their children or their spouse as who they are, for their strengths and weakness.

Others like you for your strengths, well your loved ones love you for your weakness.

To choose to only accept your strengths is definitely not one of the many ways to stay happy. No one can seek to be perfect in this world.

And because of lack of self love and self appreciation, it resulted in you having to seek affirmations from others by indulging yourself in the role of the victim where you will do things to:
Gain other people’s attention
Gain others’ sympathy
To affirm yourself that you are not capable or lovable…

The truth is your improvement will be much faster and greater when you focus on your successes, your wins and the things you do right rather than overly concerning yourself with your past mistakes.

Thus if you want to stay happy, stay in love with yourself!

Invest 15-30 minutes every night and review the successes you accomplish in the day. I call it the “Appreciate Self Game”.

And like all other games, this game also has its own set of rules:
Write out at least 10 accomplishments for the day
Do not repeat the accomplishments from the previous days. By not repeating your accomplishments, it forces you to be more aware of your different successes and winnings in the day.

Self appreciation and self love is not something you want to eliminate from your life if you want to stay happy, constantly.

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What do blessing prayers really do? Do they work? Who knows for sure?

There are hundreds of questions that arise when we begin talking about spiritual matters, especially the power of prayer. After all, spiritual power that comes from God’s blessing is often invisible. It’s like the wind – you may feel it on your skin, hear it rustle in the trees or watch leaves blow across the street. But the wind itself, the power driving the changes, is invisible and hidden.

Blessing prayers are like that. In the Christian religions, the belief in God’s blessing is rooted in the Bible – both the New Testament and the Old Testament. The stories of God’s promises to bless Abraham are found in the Book of Genesis. The blessing words from God toward Abram (Abraham) are powerful indeed and included a covenant – a solemn oath that the blessing would be fulfilled.

For example, Chapter 15 of the Book of Genesis, Abram hears the word of God in a vision, “Fear not Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great.” At the time, Abram had no children and challenged God what good would it be to have marvelous gifts, since there were no children to enjoy those gifts. God took Abram outside and told Abram to look at the stars in the heaven, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, shall your descendents be.”

Abram is the father of the Jewish people, thousands of years later, have yielded that blessings with millions of descendents. So, when you think of consider whether to offer blessing prayers for others, think of generations of good that come when you say, “God bless you!”

A prayer poem offers a unique way to remember to bless others and, in doing so, to bless yourself. This site is dedicated to reviewing and offering blessing prayers so that your blessing words will reflect the love and kindness that God has for all of humanity.

Blessing poems are a form of a prayer poem that use verse, meter and even rhyme to let others know they are loved and respected. When I wrote song, Blessing Prayer, I wrote the verses in poem form. Many Christian songs are poems set to music. A blessing poem can be recited, sung or said silently.

For example, the song Blessing Prayer includes three verses with a refrain that each rhyme. The refrain is:

May the Love of God abide in you.
May the dawn of praise arise in you.
May your heart rejoice, receive a blessing choice,
May you hear God’s voice, alive in you.

Notice that the blessing words of the refrain are a spiritual blessing to the listener. This prayer poem is directed toward the good and well-being of another person. The strongest and most powerful blessing prayers are those that ask God to bless others.