Friday, April 17, 2015
Sacrifice Thank Offerings To ...
SACRIFICE THANK OFFERINGS TO Me. Tell of My works with songs of joy! Bearing your circumstances bravely - even thanking Me for them - is one of the highest forms of praise. I have been training you in the discipline of thankfulness for a long time. Yet you still find it difficult to thank Me for suffering - your own or others'. Sometimes you are able to do this, and when you do, you find that you relax and feel closer to Me.
Thanking Me for adversity requires a deep level of trust: in My goodness, My mercy, My Love. People who are leaning on their own understanding cannot achieve this depth of trust. So, handling difficulties courageously involves relinquishing your demand to understand.
You are learning to endure your circumstances bravely - with thankfulness - and you have experienced personal benefits from this. But there is more - much more! Your grateful acceptance of adversity has major repercussions far beyond yourself: in heaven as well as on earth. Besides having divine Power to weaken spiritual strongholds of evil, your sacrifice of thanksgiving rings bells of Joy throughout heavenly realms. On earth, your patient endurance of suffering sends out ripples of good tidings in ever-widening circles to strengthen and encourage My people.
- Jesus
(Jesus Lives / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Psalm 107:22; Ephesians 5:20; Proverbs 3:5 and
2 Corinthians 10:3-4
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"Let (the redeemed of the Lord) sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy" (Psalm 107:22 / New International Version)
ReplyDelete"Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 5:20 / New International Version)
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5 / New International Version)
"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds"
(2 Corinthians 10:3-4 / New International Version)