After discovering the word “blessed” is a plural word and means “doubly happy” I wanted to tell you all the passages where this word is used in the Bible. I think it’s important to know what God says will make us happy, don’t you? Here’s another one for today.
Isaiah 32:20 says: “Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters.” This Scripture has practical application in that it says that those who sow their seed beside the water will have a great harvest. But it is also spiritual. To receive a harvest in our own lives and the lives of our children we also must sow by the waters. It is water that brings growth.
The Word of God is likened to water as it washes and cleanses us (John 15:5 and Ephesians 5:26). We must sow the Word of truth into our lives. We must sow God’s precious word into our children’s lives. If we do not diligently sow God’s Word into them, we reap nothingness.
It is sad to see this in many young people today. They are brought up in a “Christian” home, but they don’t know the Word. Therefore, as they go out into the world they are easily deceived and swayed by the lies and deceptions that lie in wait for them. They begin to think like the humanists and leftists rather than being filled with the convictions of God’s eternal truths.
The Holy Spirit is also likened to water as He rains His refreshing anointing upon us and washes us. I love the promise in Isaiah 44:3, 4: “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon they seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.”
If we want our children to grow up like beautiful willow trees—luxuriant and providing shade and rest to many hurting along the way, we must sow the anointing of the Holy Spirit into their lives. Every morning and evening we should gather our families to read God’s Word, pray and ask again for the renewing of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
When the prophet Balaam described the children of Israel, he saw them as “gardens by the river’s side . . . and as cedar trees beside the waters” (Numbers 24:6). We’ve got to be people who live by the water and sow by the water.
Please read John 4;14 and 7:37-39.
Sow by the waters, lovely ladies, and you will reap a beautiful harvest. That is sure to make you happy. But it doesn’t just happen. You have to sow first.
Love from Nancy Campbell