Thank Me for the glorious gift of y Spirit. This is like priming the pump of a well. As you bring Me the sacrifice of thanksgiving, regardless of your feelings, My Spirit is able to work more freely within you. This produces more thankfulness and more freedom, until you are overflowing with gratitude.
I shower blessings on you daily, but sometimes you don’t perceive them. When your mind is stuck on a negative focus, you see neither Me nor My gifts. In faith, thank Me for whatever is preoccupying your mind. This will clear the blockage so that you can find Me.
Now the One who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. ~2 Corinthians 5:5
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ~2 Corinthians 3:17
Sacrifice thank offerings to God,
fulfill your vows to the Most High, ~Psalm 50:14
My thoughts:
So very true about how He showers blessings on us but we don’t perceive them. How many times have we begged for a simple day? A day without any arguing from our children, a day where we get along with our spouses like we did when we were dating? Then the times we get it we don’t always remember to give thanks to our Father for His blessing!
Those are His blessings… for the times He knows we are so tired, so weary, and want that simple, wonderful, loving day. He provides it for us!
He has been blessing our family with these wonderful, simple, loving days for a while know. At first I forgot to even give Him thanks! I really hate to admit that but I did. Now I know that I need to remember to thank Him for those simple things. They mean the world to me so they aren’t really simple. 
I pray so often for things like safe travel, good fellowship with friends, a good doctor appt. etc. Then when these prayers are answered, I sometimes forget to thank Him! I'm ashamed to say that when I want something from God...I always ask, but I don't always show my appreciation in return. I need to work on this!
ReplyDeleteI'm praying that since He knows my heart He also understands that there are days when I am so beaten down that the only cry my heart can manage is "help!" I guess that's when the utterances of the Spirit chime in ... filling our empty spaces when all we can see is pain. I know the grace is there. Just having trouble really grabbing on to it today!
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