Sometimes, it is good to pray for giving thanks sake. We don’t have to ask to receive. We can also give him praise because of what he has done but also for who he is. Or we can give thanks because of what he means to us.
Prayer is our way of talking to God. We should make the most of it.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will i praise him.Psalm 28 verse 7.
I was glad when they said unto me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord. Psalm 122 verse 1.
It is a privilege, even an honor, to be able to worship the Lord. If we have the opportunity to meet with others and be together to sing unto the Lord and give thanks to him, that, too, is a blessing.
We don’t have to wait for the Lord’s day, but we have that grace to approach him at all times.
Let us never squander this freedom, this blessing, but let us do it to please our God.
Sing aloud unto God our strenght…Psalm 81 verse 1.
God sits on His throne in heaven, and yet he thinks of me.
He makes a path in which there is no way to walk.
He provides when there is little to receive.
He makes big my progress when I am pushed down.
He is my strength.
I will praise him forever.
Oh Lord my God, how majestic is thy name in all the earth.
The Lord is worthy to be praised.
Blessings and honor are due to his name.
The Lord is high, and we will lift him up to the father and show him all his beauty.
Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty;… thou art exalted as head above all. 1 Chronicles 29 verse 11
Sometimes, our minds grow stale, and we get tired. Not that we do not love the Lord, but we truly do.
Routine can be mundane, unevenly, and, at times, boring.
We need revival in our spirits. We need to zip up our hearts and feel that love and commitment surging through our veins again.
The only way we can get that is through prayer. Our deeds are not enough, but our hearts need to be engaged with the Lord. In close contact with praying and diving into his word is the way. A special shout out to the Lord who doesn’t hold anything from us.
Revive us, oh Lord.
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. Psalm 80 verse 18.
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever; we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. Psalm 79 verse 13.
We have a privilege to call on the name of the Lord at all times, not just to make requests but also to praise him and to give thanks.
Thanks giving is forgotten when we have needs. We look to him for help so easily, and yet to thank him, we have to have a reference point.
How selfish are we to put our needs forward everytimewe approach him.
For a moment, take time to give the Lord a word of praise and thank him not just for what he has done but because he is God and worthy to be praised.
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name , to take away our reproach. Isaiah 4 verse 1.
A true marriage of convenience. This is a prophesy from ancient times, and it fits so well in today’s modern society.
It is good to be strong and not to be dependent on people. Our dependence should be on God, not on a man or anyone, but God is our resource.
He provides people to help us in our time of need. He prepares a path for us to walk where we encounter many folks to help us and to be there for us. We are never alone.
We can be self-sufficient, but we need to call upon the Lord for our needs.
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fearth the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 30 verse 31.
Fearing the Lord does not always mean to run and hide away from him because he is a God of judgment.
There is reverential fear. This is when you own him as Lord. You praise him. And you bow the knee in adoration.
It is when you understand his holiness and that it demands your honor and praise and love.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name.
That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Amen and Amen again.
Philippians 2 verses 5 to 11.
And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. Isaiah 2 verse 2.
The last days before the Lord returns and calls his waiting people home will be a time when there will be worship worthy of his name.
His people will not forget him. He will find us praising him.
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