Pastor Sue’s Pearls From Above
IN EVERY THING GIVES THANKS, FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS CONCERNING YOU, 1Thess. 5:18
In everything gives thanks, in other words, in spite of everything, give God thanks for his help, strength and hope.
Count your blessings, bring back to your remembrance what God has already done.
Get your focus off of what prayers haven’t been answered yet, and remember what God has already done. If He’s answered prayers, took care of you, protected you, helped you, healed you in any way at any time from anything, then He will do it again.
Psalm 29:11; The Lord will give strength unto his people, the Lord will bless his people with peace..
Psalm 36:7-9; How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They are abundantly satisfied with the fatness (fullness) of thy house, and you shall make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life, in your light shall we see light.
Isaiah 54:10; For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that has mercy on you.
The first psalm says, we are blessed with Gods strength and peace, the next psalm says we are covered by his shadow, we are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of all that is in his house. We are blessed that we are able to drink of God’s river of pleasure, because in him is the fountain of life and light.
All this is possible because of his loving kindness towards his children, as God said in Isaiah, that his kindness and peace shall not depart or be removed from us!
Give him thanks that he loves you so abundantly, you are blessed with Gods peace, his loving kindness, his presence, his house full of goodness, rivers of living water. Count your blessings..name them one by one!
Bring back to your remembrance every time he picked you up when you fell, when his mighty hand held back evil forces, his hand stopped danger, and death, when he pulled you back to the fold when you started straying, or when you did stray from him, and he let you go your own way for a time, then left the ninety nine, and found you again, because it’s not His will that you should perish and go to Hell!
Psalm 40:1-5; I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet up on a rock, and established my goings, (steps), and he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God, many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that makes the Lord his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies, (your trust is in the Lord and not man). Realize that GOD has been faithful, and you will see that all along, it was the LORD by your side.
God bless.