It’s Good To Give Thanks!

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Psalms 92:1-2

“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most high; To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and they faithfulness every night.”

Thanksgiving is a time of giving thanks.  As you gather with your family and friends to give thanks remember it’s all about God.  Don’t focus on the negative things of the past but on the wonderful blessings of God.

Psalm 103:2 says “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.” Well, what are those benefits?  The psalmist goes on to say, “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles” (Ps. 103:3-5).  Wow! When we consider all these blessings we can’t help but give thanks.

When you give thanks for what God has done for you, you are giving thanks for those things that you have yet to see.  Whatever God says is done in the now and He doesn’t alter the thing that is gone out of his mouth (Ps. 89:34).  While you are giving thanks give thanks for those things that are yet seen.   Being thankful releases more grace in your life.  Think about this, when you do something for someone and they show their appreciation by saying thank you, it causes you to want to bless them again.

Therefore, as you give thanks to God for His blessings this season don’t forget to say thank you to those that God has used to be a blessing in your life.  “Oh give thanks unto the Lord for He is good and His mercy endureth forever” (Psalm 107:1).

Let’s Get Soaked!

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Last week while walking in the rain the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said “Do you notice how the earth soaks in the rain? It doesn’t cover up it opens up and soaks it in.” I thought Wow! And here we are with our umbrellas, raincoats, hats and boots.

It’s like this, the earth understands and receives the blessing of rain from its creator but we on the other hand are not always open to receive the blessings of our Father. Oh yes! The blessings are falling and even with all our cover up we still get wet but we’re not getting soaked and our Father wants us drenched and soaked with His blessings.

At first I thought, I should just pull down my umbrella and walk in the rain, but then I said it’s too cold and my hair will get wet, and I might catch a cold and so on and so on.  Then I thought this is why we’re not getting soaked in the blessings of God. We’re too busy worried about what if.  What if this happens or what if that happens.  If we want to get soak were going to have to let down the umbrella’s of fear,  doubt and what if.  And I’ve found that one sure way of doing that is to be thankful.

Being thankful is like walking out from underneath the cover out into the open space because being thankful says I receive.  The more thankful you are the more grace you receive.   James 4:6 says, “But He giveth more grace.  Wherefore He saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Therefore, let’s pull down the umbrella’s and removed the cover ups and get soaked in the blessings of God by being thankful for not only the blessings that we can see but for every blessing that our Father has given to us.  Because truly He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 1:3).

It’s Good To Give Thanks!

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Psalms 92:1-2

“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most high; To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and they faithfulness every night.”

Thanksgiving is a time of giving thanks.  As you gather with your family and friends to give thanks remember it’s all about God.  Don’t focus on the negative things of the past but on the wonderful blessings of God.

Psalm 103:2 says “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.” Well, what are those benefits?  The psalmist goes on to say, “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles” (Ps. 103:3-5).  Wow! When we consider all these blessings we can’t help but give thanks.

When you give thanks for what God has done for you, you are giving thanks for those things that you have yet to see.  Whatever God says is done in the now and He doesn’t alter the thing that is gone out of his mouth (Ps. 89:34).  While you are giving thanks give thanks for those things that are yet seen.   Being thankful releases more grace in your life.  Think about this, when you do something for someone and they show their appreciation by saying thank you, it causes you to want to bless them again.

Therefore, as you give thanks to God for His blessings this season don’t forget to say thank you to those that God has used to be a blessing in your life.  “Oh give thanks unto the Lord for He is good and His mercy endureth forever” (Psalm 107:1).

Don’t Frustrate Grace!

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Galatians 2:21

“I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”

Whenever I find myself being frustrated about something, I know that it is because I have allowed myself to move from grace to works.  God’s grace is what He freely gives to us regardless of whether or not we deserve it.  And since He freely gives it we can never earn it.

Therefore, we become frustrated when we try to earn what is freely given.  In all our efforts of trying to obtain the blessing of God through our works, we still come up empty handed because we’re not receiving what God is giving.  Paul tells the church in Galatians that they were foolish and bewitched (Gal. 3:1).  It’s foolish to think you can work for what someone is giving to you for free.  The devil is always trying to deceive God’s people into thinking that God is not that good.  To believe that God wants you to work for His blessings makes God out to be harsh and unkind.  God knows that we would never be able to reach His requirements that’s why it would be harsh and unkind.  But thank God that Jesus has meant all the requirements necessary for us to receive the blessings of God.  Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law and release us to the blessings of Abraham (Gal. 3:13-14).

Therefore, stop frustrating the grace of God that’s flowing in your life by trying to earn what has been freely given.  You’re efforts can’t bring prosperity, nor can they bring good health.  Your efforts will only hinder those things from flowing in your life.  Don’t be deceived it’s not by works but  by the faith of the Son of God that we are prosperous, healed, and blessed.

God’s Already Done It And You Already Have It!

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Ephesians 1:3

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.”

God gave us everything that we will ever need when He gave us Jesus.  We just need to realize that we already have it!

Truly, I mean everything, healing, deliverance, love, joy, peace, prosperity, if it has a name and you need it God has already supplied it through Christ in you.  However, as long as you think that you have to obtain those things they will remain unattainable.

God is not going to do anything else, He has done His part and Jesus has done His part but we just keep asking God to do what He has already done.  While we’re crying and begging God to prosper us, to heal us , to deliver us, God is saying okay I’ve already done it!  The scripture says, who “HATH blessed us with all spiritual blessings.”  It took me a while to get it but I’ve got “hath” means it’s already done.  Listen,  I’m not that smart if I can get so can you.  God has already blessed us with everything we need through Christ Jesus.

In Ephesians 1:17-18 Paul is praying for the church and he prays, “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Notice Paul is not asking God to give them anything is praying that they would recognize what they already have in Christ.

Now that you know that God has already done His part and Jesus has done His part and that you already have what you need, it’s time to change your way of thinking.  See yourself as having all, as being blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ.  No longer do you have to cry “Oh Lord prosper me” you can now cry “Oh Lord I thank you that you have already prospered me through Christ and I receive now.”  

Abounding In Blessings

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Proverbs 28:20
“A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”

The scripture says a faithful man shall abound in blessings.  Faithful to what? Faithful to the word of God.  A person that is faithful to the word shall abound with blessings.

Our faithfulness to service will get us rewards but only the word of God can release the Blessings of God in our lives.  To be faithful to something is to stay with it until the end to go all the way and not give up regardless of any and all adverse situations or circumstance.

Joshua 1:8 says, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”  God was telling Joshua to be faithful to the word because it was the word that would bring him good success.  And Jesus said in Matthew 13:23, “but he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” To get an understand of the word takes meditating upon it, holding it in, turning it over and over, not letting it go regardless of any and all adverse situations or circumstances.  It’s that kind of faithfulness to the word that causes a person to abound in blessings.  Trying to lay hold on the Blessing any other way will only result in your losing what you thought you had to begin with.  Matthew 13:12, “for whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”

Sure it may take a little longer to finish when you  slowly digest your food, but it also takes  less to fill you up.  What am I saying?  I’m saying that if you are faithful with just one word from God that one word  will produce a harvest in your life that is exceeding abundantly above all that you can ask or think (Eph 3:20).   You can be faithful to the word of God because God is faithful to His word.