Developing a thankful heart and lifestyle is based on knowing that God loves us far more than we deserve. I’d like to think that I am a self determined independent type person but much of life is out of our control. How we handle difficulties and predicaments demonstrate where we are with our love for Him. It’s easy to be angry, resentful, divisive, and victimized. It takes courage, determination, and child like faith to rest in His love.
The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfold, as it were , with no sense of direction, and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
Prayer is NOT telling God things he doesn’t know.
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. —Psalm 139:4
Your Heavenly Father knows that you need all this. He knows what you need before you ask. —Matthew 6:32
Prayer is NOT encouraging God to do what he has promised to do.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?—Numbers 23:19Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. —Hebrews 10:23
Prayer is NOT urging God to do what he doesn’t want to do.
The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” —Isaiah 14:24
Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear. —Isaiah 59:1
This, then, is the truth: God doesn’t need me to explain to him what is happening in my world. He knows my needs better than I even know them myself. God is a covenant making, covenant keeping God. He is willing and able and committed to keeping his promises. I do not have to get his attention and remind him. God will do all his holy will. I am not able to get him to do something against his will nor stop him from doing anything that is his will.
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