And the Lord said unto Abram after that Lot was separated from him Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward and southward and eastward and westward For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever

And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred years old neither yet the deadness of Sarah 039 s womb He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to God And being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform

I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance

And God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters assuaged

This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it Save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity

O Lord I have heard thy speech and was afraid O Lord revive thy work in the midst of the years in the midst of the years make known in wrath remember mercy

Gad a troop shall overcome him but he shall overcome at the last

Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits

Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts which dwelleth in mount Zion

A Fathers blessing is the permission and authorization to prosper

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God

But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly

And of Naphtali he said O Naphtali satisfied with favour and full with the blessing of the Lord possess thou the west and the south

Be glad for all God is planning for you Be patient in trouble and prayerful always

My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord

A bruised reed shall he not break and smoking flax shall he not quench till he send forth judgment unto victory

Moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you which also ye have received and wherein ye stand By which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures And that he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some are fallen asleep After that he was seen of James then of all the apostles And last of all he was seen of me also as of one born out of due time

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in the way And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried saying Hosanna to the son of David Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest

Therefore I say unto you Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feedeth them Are ye not much better than they Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature And why take ye thought for raiment Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin And yet I say unto you That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these

Again the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field