TRUTH SPEAKERS FOR TRUTH SEEKERS: Be Blessed

• The opening words to you all is: Be blessed in this 2025 to all of you truth seekers who has been following this Truth Speakers column. We all want to be blessed and have a certain picture in mind of what that means but what would be the real definition of “Blessed”?
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• In the Bible, the most common one is “bârak” (Old Testament) meaning “to praise, salute, be adored, kneel as an act of adoration to someone”.
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• In the New Testament, there are two words: “eulogeō” meaning “to speak well of, to bless, ascribe praise and glorification to, invoke a blessing upon or to be an object of favour or blessing”.
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• The second word used is: “Makarios” meaning “blessed, happy”.
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• In modern times, we still have the word “eulogy” meaning, “a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, especially a tribute to someone who has just died.”
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• As you can see, blessing someone has to do with the words you speak. Either to someone or about them.
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• In Historical times, especially among those who believed and followed the One True God, spoken words were a sacred thing, and just as good or better than an official contract or written will today.
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• Has our language evolved or deteriorated? I would say, although our dictionaries contain many more words now, the way we speak them over other people, has taken a nose dive. We often don’t seem to take words serious saying: “I was just joking. I didn’t really mean it.” But our own brain, our own bodies are listening to what we are speaking and think we mean them and our bodies or the ones you spoke over now tries to make it come to pass.
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• Try it on two plants. Have two nice green plants, one on the right and one on the left side as you enter your house. Every time you enter your house, you bless one with kind words, and curse the other with bad words.
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• You will see one plant will thrive and bloom, the other will wilt quickly (treat them with water and nutrients the same); it makes you think twice the next time you crack jokes over or to people. Living things and human beings react to your words. So, let the coming year be a year where you bless as many people as possible with spoken kind words to and over them.
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• We all probably have goals and desires for this New Year.
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• As far as desires: In Lamentations it says: His Mercies are NEW every morning so when you stepped into a New Year, you can look forward to at least 360 God given New Mercies.
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• How else to look at 2025? We will look at a 2025 Kingdom job description,  a Kingdom attitude description  and a Kingdom wisdom description.
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• If you will wonder this year, whether you are in the right place doing the right thing, just go over this list and use it as a guide or checklist to see if you are on the right track. The reason you might be feeling off balance or simply feel bad is because you were on the wrong track not matching up with the 3 descriptions that could be your peace saver!
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• 1-            KINGDOM JOB DESCRIPTION
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• In Luke 4:18, Jesus proclaimed what He came to do amongst us: 1) To proclaim good news to the poor; 2) to heal the broken of heart; 3) to proclaim deliverance to the captives; 4) receiving of sight to the blind; 5) deliverance to the bruised.
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• That covers everyone with a need. And that is in a nutshell the job of all of us no matter where you are and what you do. If there are people, there are plenty of opportunities to carry out this Kingdom job for all of us! Bless them with your words, pray over them, encourage them and tell them His Good News 
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• 2-            ATTITUDE JOB DESCRIPTION                                                   
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• When it comes to attitudes, let’s resolve to have good ones no matter what people do to you or say to you, you can decide to respond with a good attitude.  This you can find in Matthew 5 and 1 Cor 13- Here the BE-Attitudes (AKA beatitudes) (from the Passion Translation).
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• “What wealth is offered to you when you feel your spiritual poverty! No charge to enter the realm of heaven’s kingdom.
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• “What delight comes to you when you wait (serve) upon the Lord! For you will find what you long for.
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• “What blessing comes to you when gentleness lives in you! For you will inherit the earth.
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• “How enriched you are when you crave righteousness! For you will be surrounded with fruitfulness.
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• “How satisfied you are when you demonstrate tender mercy! For tender mercy will be demonstrated to you.
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• “What bliss you experience when your heart is pure! For then your eyes will open to see more and more of God.
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• “How blessed you are when you make peace! For then you will be recognized as a true child of God.
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• “How enriched you are when you bear the wounds of being persecuted for doing what is right! For that is when you experience the realm of heaven’s kingdom.
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• “How ecstatic you can be when people insult and persecute you and speak all kinds of cruel lies about you because of your love for me!”
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• 3-            WISDOM  JOB DESCRIPTION                                                    
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• Wisdom increasers are found in the book of proverbs and the Epistles of Paul.
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• But for now, here is just one quotation from the book of James: And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.
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• And lastly: Whatever job or ministry you have, stay in the sweet spot of servant hood no matter what. Like Jesus did: “Jesus existed in the form of God, yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his supreme prize. Instead, he emptied himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant. He became human! (Php 2:6.7)”
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• Having a Godly servant attitude will keep us all on the right track!
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• Be blessed when you speak those precious Words of true blessings!
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• Akhrienuo