Psalm 116:1-19
Well it's Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. so I kind of had thanksgiving (the act, not the holiday) on the brain as I read Psalm 116 today. Verse 1 starts beautifully with the Psalmist proclaiming his love for the Lord. Then when we get to verses 16 and 17 we see this "I am your servant" and "I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving."
So a couple of things today. First, would you take a moment, right now, and tell the Lord that you love Him? Then, let's consider what being the Lord's servant and offering to Him our sacrifice of thanksgiving might/should look like? Tami W.
I am thankful for my salvation. The very idea that a sinner like me can be forgiven and be granted eternal life is almost unimaginable. It is the very starting point upon which every aspect of my relationship with the creator of the universe begins. I am thankful also for God's omniscience and His sovereignty over all people and things. The fact that a good God has my back in every situation of life is a great comfort. I know that NOTHING can happen to me that is apart from God's love for me. That is something for which to be very, very thankful.
Hi! I am most thankful for his faithfulness. He is worthy and faithful to be trusted. That is base for me. I grew up being a skeptic with trust issues, maybe that has something to do with it.
Today's reading gave me something to think about. I am so thankful that He has freed me. I kept reading in verse 17 how our thanksgiving is a sacrifice to Him. I thought how awesome is that. And how easy! Then I kept thinking about it, yes it's easy to give thanks for being freed, but what about my thanksgiving for everything else. That is hard! There are some things in my life currently that I have been complaining about big-time. For quite a while my heart has been worried, frustrated, and miserable about certain things in my life. But I feel encouraged, or nudged, to obedience by reading it here in the scriptures. So thank you for the devotional today. God Bless you Tami.
Today. I am thankful for: God displaying characters of love,and grace.
Thanks be to God for the blessings bestowed on our country, for the friends and support we find in our church fellowship, for our children's pursuit of your will.
I am thankful for God being in my life and for his son who gave his life for my sins , I love God for all you have givin me.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Some of the many things i hve to give God thanks for is his FAITHFULNESS AND HIS PATIENCE that he has continually bestowed upon me.Thank you JESUS!
I would like to thank GOD for sending JESUS to cast the devil out of me and raise me from the dead as i lay dying on the roadside back on 9/24/2004. I was a total sinner , drug addicted , with 2 oz. of crystal meth with me when had a wreck on a backhoe. As i lay there i became aware that i was lying on a fresh dug grave. About this time i started to burn all over my body.I then heard a voice that told me : This is death , hell , and the grave ; look around in here big boy, you have wondered if this is real all of your life. It was as if HE took me by my hair and shoved my head down into hell. It is the worst thing imaginable, screaming and the smell is of rotten meat.Then i heard JESUS voice say to me ; Son all your life you have denied me , you have trampled on all my commandments, and if you walked up to anyone who mentioned my name , you turned tail an ran. I knew this was the Truth, and i was exactally where i should be.I remember
he was not mad or angry , just Truthful. I asked HIM if HE would forgive me and said i would never deny HIM again.
Next thing i knew my eyes were open and i saw thousands of fire ants all over me. But these ants were like the horses in Revelation 9:17. As i watched they turned back into ant sand i heard my brother in law , who was with me that day , Praying for my soul. HE was not praying for my life , he was praying for my soul. Next thing i remember he put his hands in the shape of a cross and knelt down to pray over me. Out of his mouth came the most beautiful language i have ever heard. Then heaven opened and i was in the Spirit, i saw the most wonderous light pulsating all over.I saw an uncountable number of , for lack of words ,souls. One of them , and i don't know if i am right or not but this i believe , was my Granny Brooks . She was the most kind and humble person i ever knew. Well she came to the front of them all and looked on me as if to say fear not.After this i heard JESUS speaking to me again. HE said, I have shown you heaven and hell , you must choose
I have made a promise that i would spend whatever time HE gives me in Praising HIS name and giving HIM Thanks everywhere i go.
I want people to know that HE is REAL and the TRUTH.
Every thing i have told you is True. I have shortened it down because there is so much more that has happened that i would have to have a week to write it all down.I just want to say that i love the LORD JESUS and am Thankful for HIS mercy and Grace.
That day was the best day of my life and i Thank HIM for revealing HIMSELF to me.
I'm thankful for salvation. I'm thankful for my family and friends. God has blessed me greatly. Delivering me from sin. Happy Thanksgiving.
I am so thankful to God for his love expressed in mercy! Because of the ultimate price Jesus paid, unlike say, humpty dumpty, he did not leave in a state of brokenness and shame, but made a way of escape. For that I am so thankful and grateful. What a loving and merciful Father we get to serve!
I am just thankful for God, just who HE IS and all He gives us. Because without Him I am nothing. Thankful for His Word. I am in awe of Him and His love for me, for us, even though we are sinful He still loves us. Happy Thanksgiving to you all.