FAITH CAPSULE: Doing what is right wrongly delivers no right answer.
Psalm 92
Truly, engaging prayer is right and is certain to get God’s attention because God is a prayer answering God. However, engaging prayer wrongly will lead to a miss prayer. James 4:3 buttressed, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss…” With understanding and knowledge, man cannot get wrong when man engages God rightly.
Understanding is definitely a right way to be getting God’s attention. Praising God demands understanding and not praising amiss. With no understanding in praising God it is certain that such praising will not deliver expected answer. Psalmist identified as stated, “For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding”. (Psalm 47:7)
In attempt to get through to king on his throne, there is a process and the process is in traveling through the gate which leads to the court where the king sits and reigns. The psalmist clearly understood this when he stated in Psalm 100:4, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name.” There is hardly any other means which access man to the presence of God better and faster than giving thanks and praising God with understanding. Man should understand it that praising God cannot be separated from thanking Him. However, when man praises God, man will glorify Him (Psalm 50:23) and when man gives Him thanks, man will magnify Him (Psalm 69:30). With man’s understanding in praising and giving thanks, God performs to perfect in response to man’s understanding praise and thanks giving.
God is worthy of our praise and thanksgiving for all He has done, all that He is doing and all He will do. Psalmist prescribed, “It is good to praise the Lord, and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.” (Psalm 92:1-3) God is a gracious God and deserves to be consciously and continuously given all praise. The psalmist pointed out, “How great are your works, Lord, how profound your thoughts!” (Psalm 92:5) God’s thoughts for man are of good and not of evil. God’s whose thoughts were demonstrated in His work. The same God yesterday, today and forever told the Israelites, “I will visit you and perform My good word toward you and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:10-11) Interestingly, what He says to one speaks to all if man will know Him as God that is true to deliver. This ongoing month, believe and begin to expect that God will visit you and perform His good. In expectation by doing His word, manifestation shall become one’s portion.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of strength thanking God without ceasing.