I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. GENESIS 12:2 Various forms of the word bless are used over four hundred times in the Bible, and we often use them in our ministries and conversations—and especially in our prayers. A blessing is something that God is, does, or says that glorifies him and edifies his people. The apostle Paul didn’t think his thorn in the flesh was a blessing and asked God three times to remove it, but the thorn
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