Receive a Family Blessing Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Receive a Family Blessing -------------------------- Date: 3/16/2001 Keywords: "forgiveness" "prayer" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passages: 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13* 11. Now may our God and Father Himself and Jesus our Lord direct our way to you; 12. and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; 13. so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Questions 1. Stop and count your blessings.   2. How many blessings are connected to people, and how many are connected to events, circumstances and things?   3. How can we bless one another as Christian brothers and sisters?   Practical help Though we are apart and communicate through a Web site, our concern for you as you struggle with sexual temptations is as strong as if you were a blood relative living right next door. The fact that you are reading our message is an answer to our prayer that sounds a lot like the one in verse 11 above. We have been able to come to you, even though it has been electronically. We thank God for you and desire that love would abound in you for others. And as you look at the people around you that God has given you to care for, we pray that you will put away harmful sexual material that devalues them in your mind and heart. We pray that your heart will be put right because you have acknowledged your problem to the Lord and have asked for forgiveness knowing He can make you clean (1 John 1:9). Remember, as Paul states in verse 13, Jesus is coming again. The life you now live will be over sooner than you think, and a new world will dawn. We look forward to that wonderful day when we can meet you in person and rejoice over the miraculous way our Lord delivered you from temptations on this particular day. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."