FAITH CAPSULE: Know understanding to be giving thanks to God instead of thinking thanks.
Luke 9:1-17
It is the privilege of God but not anyone’s right that keep’s man alive. It is important to know understanding that life should not only be about what you expect from the Lord. Today, know understanding that expressing your appreciation to God for all things will provoke all things to work together for the glory of God. Man, with understand expresses appreciation to God by giving thanks instead of thinking thanks. Turn to giving thanks but not thinking about thanks to God!
By grace, the hand of the Lord has been keeping you from day to days, week to weeks, month after months and year after years. The hand of God upon you is not because of merit but mercy. Living life is not a right but a privilege bestowed upon us by God. Why not turn from expectation to expression of appreciation? Are you consciously aware that God expects our appreciation more than we offer Him? When there is a failure to appreciate it becomes an evidence of foolishness. Foolishness is like saying there is none to appreciate. A failure to appreciate God for His goodness is foolishness; it is an act of saying there is no God. Foolishness says there is no God. (Psalm 14:1) The book of Psalm 94:8-9 buttressed, “Understand, you senseless among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?” Do not be foolish not to express to Him your appreciation.
Are you expecting from the hand that has been keeping you by grace, and not by work?
Today, be encouraged and not be discouraged that your location or situation can delay but will not deny your expectation. Express your appreciation of God for His grace over your life. Disallow worry but engage worshiping God. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He will extend His hand concerning location and situation which is militating against your expectation. Jesus at the desert of lack with multiplied, five loaves and two fish answered with abundance. At the desert of lack Jesus gave a command, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.” And they did so, and made them all sit down.” (Luke 9:15)
After He observed obedience, “Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.” (Luke 9:16-17) People obeyed His command. In every obedience to the word of God, expectation is bound for manifestation.
Are you having challenges but ready to obey His commands?
Prayer for today: Ask God to direct your heart into appreciation of His hand upon your life.