Who is Really Blessed? | The Poor in Spirit

• Manifesto: A

of policy and aims, especially one issued before an election by a political party or candidate.
• What do you think a blessed life

like?
• The beatitudes reinforce the principle that

precedes doing.
• The favor of God is related more to who you

than what you do.
• The “

and then” pattern of thinking.
• Jesus teaches that happiness is an

job.
• The blessing of God doesn’t depend on the right circumstances and conditions, it depends on having a right

in our hearts.
• It’s not about how much I have, it’s about accepting who I

that allows the blessing of God to rest upon my life.

The poor in spirit …

• Know they

have it all together.
• They know they are spiritually

.
• They

the real state of their condition before God.
• It’s the poor in spirit who experience the

of God.
• It’s the poor in spirit who receive His

and power.
• It’s the poor in spirit in whom God’s Spirit comes to

.
• This is where the blessing is – not in the condition alone, but in the