Blessing: Spiritual, from God

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.

Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.

You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.

He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

The LORD is the strength of His people, a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.

The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.

O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.

He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the inheritance reserved for those who fear Your name.

My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.

He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

Summon Your power, O God; show Your strength, O God, which You have exerted on our behalf.

O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

I will come in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. …

Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.

I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.

By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

…when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”

O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.

…a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

…bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

…and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.

With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon. …

GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.

On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.

I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.

…but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

…placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

…being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

…being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

…giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

…who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. …

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—