PRAISE THE LORD IN AND THROUGH ALL THINGS!

ENTER HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING; GO INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE. GIVE THANKS TO HIM AND PRAISE HIS NAME. FOR THE LORD IS GOOD. HIS UNFAILING LOVE CONTINUES FOREVERER, AND HIS FAITHFULNESS CONTINUES TO ALL GENERATIONS.” PSALM 100: 4 & 5

Our Lord God in heaven loves to hear praise and thanksgiving from all of his children. We should not only be praising our Lord for all of the good and great things he does for us, but we should also be giving him thanks for all of our prayers being answered and our needs being met. I still find myself going back to the Lord each day with some of the same prayer requests that I had been laying before him for days, months and sometimes years. If I keep bringing them back each day, then I must pick them up after I pray each day and take them with me. What I have learned and what I am still learning, is that if my faith is strong enough then I should believe that he has answered my prayer. I should be able to take my prayer request to him and leave with him, with complete confidence that he has followed his promise of answering our prayers. When I come into his presence again, I should be thanking and praising him for that answered prayer and not praying over and over again for the same thing. He wants to work in our lives, he wants to answer our prayers and he wants to hear our praise and thanksgiving for that answered prayer. Whether we see immediate results or delayed results, our prayers have been answered. Remember that we should be praising our Lord in and through all things. Praise him, thank him and give glory to him each and everyday! PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS!