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Overflowing Blessings Beyond Our Expectations
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Jan 3, 2010 (message contributor)
Summary: THIS SERMON IS ABOUT OVERFLOWING BLESSINGS BEYOND OUR EXPECTATIONS AND HIGHLIGHTS THE FOLLOWING 1. ANSWERED PRAYER 2. PROVISION 3. MERCY 4. JOY 5. GUIDANCE 6. FAMILY BLESSING 7. SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS
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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,
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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OVERFLOWING BLESSINGS BEYOND OUR EXPECTATIONS
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OUTLINE
1. ANSWERED PRAYER
2. PROVISION
3. MERCY
4. JOY
5. GUIDANCE
6. FAMILY BLESSING
7. SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS
THE MESSAGE
OVERFLOWING BLESSINGS BEYOND OUR EXPECTATIONS
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1. ANSWERED PRAYER
The Lord wants to answer our prayers beyond our expectations. When Hannah prayed for a son, the Lord granted her more than
she expected and made her the mother of a great prophet. When we remember the cross of Calvary , He who gave His Son for us
will surely grant everything else that we need. The Lord encourages us to ask so that we can receive. Our heavenly Father
enjoys giving good gifts to His children. We must live in close fellowship and intimacy with God and our hearts must be in
tune with Him. Then the Lord will grant the desires of our heart.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all
things?
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven
give good gifts to those who ask him!
What the wicked dreads will overtake him; what the righteous desire will be granted.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
LUKE 18 : 1-8
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men.
And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ’Grant me justice against my adversary.’
"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ’Even though I don’t fear God or care about men,
yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with
her coming!’ "
And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says.
And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the
earth?"
There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham,
the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and
Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD.
Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons
and daughters.
But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb.
And because the LORD had closed her womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.
This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and
would not eat.
Elkanah her husband would say to her, "Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean
