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Blessed (338 Occurrences)

Luke 11:27-28 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

27 While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.” 28 But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

Isaiah 8:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

19 When they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

John 20:29: Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

Genesis 22:18 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

I believe and am Blessed just as God told Abraham that all would be blessed through him, but please don’t pray to me.

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1) Jesus was not putting Mary down, he was deflecting a reductively biological view. Mary is certainly included in --- I would say leading the line --- in hearing the word of God and keeping it. She heard the Word directed to her and kept it so deeply she got pregnant. She received this Word in her heart before she received Him in her womb.

2) God forbids consulting with mediums and spiritists --- some translations say sorcerers and necromancers --- because they conjured (or said they conjured) the presence of spirits, and went to them for fortune-telling. God forbids conjuring and fortune-telling. He does not forbid asking other members of the Body of Christ to help us spiritually, because we do depend on each other spiritually. That's the very meaning of "Body of Christ."

IN fact, Paul says you should never say you don't need them. " The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"" (1 Corinthians 12:21)