1)      May you fully admit your emptiness and helplessness.

2)      May your knowledge about your unworthiness draw you to cry out and mourn.

3)      May all of your fleshly confidence and pride be fully smashed that you may trust no one but GOD.

4)      May you be fully convinced that your are disgustingly sinful and crave for genuine righteousness that comes from Christ alone.

5)      May you realize that you ought to show mercy because you have received mercy too.

6)      May you not be satisfied on outward acts of holiness only but have genuine purity of heart.

7)      May you be an agent of peace and reconciliation between men and between man and GOD.

8)      May you face tons of persecutions from those who can't stand with your display of Christlikeness.

9)      May others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely because of Christ.

The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-11)

1)      Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

2)      Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

3)      Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

4)      Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

5)      Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

6)      Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

7)      Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

8)      Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

9)      Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

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