As our 30 Day Prayer Challenge comes to a close we can reflect on each day. what we have learned through Jesus Christ, and how much we’ve grown spiritually just this month alone by feeding our spirit with prayer and God’s word daily. Prayerfully, these past 30 days have served as a sort of “acceleration lane’ to a new and improved prayer life. This Is just the beginning, yet we have so much to be thankful for.
Being thankful, for the average person, is showing gratitude for receiving material goods, receiving kind words, or being the recipient of a good deed. But for the Christian, it goes much deeper than this. 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 says to pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. So while we thank and praise God for our material blessings, we must also thank and praise him in the midst of our storms. Our lives will not always be sunshine and rainbows. We, being spirit wrapped in flesh, will have to deal with sickness, death, financial blows, scandals etc. Though we walk through dark valleys, we are NEVER alone. God comforts, strengthens and sustains us, and for that we must be thankful. This is what we call the Sacrifice Of Praise. Praising God when your world is crumbling around you is a difficult thing to do, because we are not always going to understand God’s ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9) It is a personal sacrifice to surrender our burdens to God and thank him. Yet, through faith we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)
So today, and everyday, and continuously as a matter of fact, we give thanks to God.
I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1
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