According to the Bible, we are to ask for God's face to shine on his people.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

If you have the smile of God, then you can survive the frowns or the rejection of any human figures.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamud, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest for January 4th, 2018. I hope 2018 will be a blessed year for you.

What does that word blessed mean, really?

Nancy began to explain this biblical concept of a blessing yesterday,

and she's continuing in a series called,

The Lord bless you and keep you.

We're looking at the priestly blessing in Numbers chapter 6.

The Lord bless you and keep you, that prayer that we're familiar with.

And we're starting today to look at some of the specific petitions and blessings

that God tells the priests to pray for the people.

And as we look at these particular blessings

that are requested, you realize that in this prayer, we're not asking for the things that we

usually consider blessings. There's no request for anything material here. There's no prayer

for good health, for money, for a bigger house.

Some would consider having a husband, say that's a blessing I'd really like to have.

And some who have a husband would qualify that and say, well, well, I'd love to have as a

godly husband. That's a blessing that you'd like to have. And those things are blessings.

And it's not wrong to have them. It's not wrong to ask for them. But it's interesting that the blessings sought here in Numbers

chapter 6, the blessings asked for are far greater than those earthly temporal blessings.

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