Prayers That Activate Blessings

Sometimes we can get so caught up in strife that we begin to think that it's normal to have problems. But it's not. Command good days in your life to be at peace and full of blessing and prosperity. Speak blessing and prosperity over your neighbor, your troubled family member, and your coworkers. He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. —1 Peter 3:10-11 Some don't think they are living unless it's hard. But that is not what Jesus died for you to have. You can have a good life, especially when you "refrain your tongue from evil." Watch your mouth. Don't gossip, argue, fight, or add to confusion. And don't keep company with people who take part in that behavior. Seek peace. Peace is prosperity. You cannot have prosperity if you don't control your tongue. A blessed person is someone who knows how to guard his tongue. The kingdom of God is a community of peace. Saved people are peaceful people. You can disagree with somebody and still be peaceable. Contention does not belong in the house of God—or in the lives of His people. James 3:17 says, "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield ["easy to be entreated" (KJV), approachable], full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy." When you're walking in God's wisdom, hearing from heaven and hearing the voice of God...when you're getting your wisdom from above, not earthly or fleshly wisdom...