"Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him, and bless His name, 5. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting."
Thinking about all that we have in the Lord, we should be the most thankful people in the world. It would be a good thing for us to pause here and ask ourselves about our own thankfulness. The psalmist said to enter into the gates of His temple in a spirit of thanksgiving. Think about your own "spirit of thanksgiving." Are you thankful when you pray? Think about what a great opportunity it is for us to take our thoughts and needs as prayer requests to God, and that He has promised to hear and answer our prayers. I read about a berry in Africa that is called a "taste berry." Whenever one eats this taste berry, everything eaten afterward tastes good. Thanksgiving is such a "taste berry" for us. When we meet life with thanksgiving, the rest of life tastes good to us. We are to offer thankful praise to the Lord when we pray. In a sense, every prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. When I think of what God has done in my life in spite of me, I have to be thankful. You can also offer thankful praise whenever you pray. Think of it! When we go to the Lord in prayer, we have His undivided attention. Think of what it would be like to have the undivided attention of the President of the United States. We would have the undivided attention of the most powerful man in the world. Now think about this: When you go to the Lord in prayer, you have the undivided attention of the God of the Universe. We are to thank God for His goodness and mercy. Have you ever given a lot of thought to what this means for your life? God loves us and listens to us in spite of our sins. It would be good for you to think about God's goodness and mercy toward you. That's enough to be thankful for, if you will think of the alternative. Think of it! We should be thankful for God's goodness and mercy. Pause here and thank God! Bro. Joe
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