Blessed

Matthew 5:3 Blessed... - Before we dig into what are commonly called the Beatitudes, I want to share with you something off the charts about the word “Blessed.” We toss this word around pretty carelessly. If someone sneezes we say “Bless you!” or if we are real spiritual we might say “Ga bless you!” But this Greek word “Blessed” is pregnant with meaning. If you read the beatitudes in the Amplified Bible you will see the word “Blessed” rendered 14 different ways in these 8 statements. 

• Happy
• Blessed
• To be envied
• Spiritually prosperous
• With life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions
• Enviably happy
• With a happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace
• Blithesome (who knows what that means in this day and age – but you get the idea.)
• Joyous 
• Fortunate
• In that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation   
• Enviably fortunate
• Possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions.  
• Enjoying enviable happiness.
• In the state in which the born-again child of God enjoys and finds satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of his outward conditions.

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