| Lifting up your hands and thanking God is
spontaneous and easy when you have just received a wonderful blessing:
“God, I can’t thank You enough for this miracle!” |
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| “Thank You
Father, for answering my prayer!” |
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| “Father,
thank You for the windfall!” |
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| Perhaps you came
close to being in a fatal accident, but God plucked you out of danger
just in time. Or your grandmother, an unbeliever for many years, finally
received Jesus as her Savior and got healed of a long-term disease. |
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| But there are
times when you don’t feel like lifting up your hands to thank and praise
God, yet you do it. Perhaps you feel very discouraged lately. Perhaps
everything is going wrong for you and you feel like your life is in a
mess. You can’t hold back the tears. Yet, you make a conscious decision
to lift your hands and thank God for being in the situation with you.
You open your mouth and begin to praise Him even though you really don’t
feel like doing it. |
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| In the midst of the trial that you are going
through, you praise Him that He is your righteousness in spite of all
the mistakes you have made. You thank Him that He is your Prince of
Peace, and that His peace will arise in you and still the storms in your
life. |
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| My friend, God sees and appreciates such times when,
despite feeling so discouraged, you offer a freewill thanksgiving
offering to Him. In fact, your thanksgiving during such times is more
highly prized by Him than your thanksgiving during those times when you
are feeling joyful because you have just been blessed. |
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| And when you
choose to thank Him for His unfailing love, and His faithfulness to
deliver, protect and provide for you even when you don’t see the
blessings yet, before long, you will find yourself
experiencing and enjoying the blessings! So lift your hands and praise
the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever! (Psalm 106:1) |
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