DAILY PRAYER AND SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY.
When we pray, God hears and answers! Engaging in Daily Prayer and Scriptures is our unfailing platform for bringing to God all that pertains to us, while we watch restfully as he steps into situations to bring out beauty and colour in our lives. Today, as you commune with God, we urge you to know that God has settled all that concerns you, Just believe and pray with faith in your heart. Remain blessed in Jesus name, Amen.
Today’s Prayer is written by: Tiffany Thibault
Prayer Focus For Today 22nd November 2022: A Prayer of Thanks to the Lord
“Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all His benefits — who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion.” – Psalm 103:1-4 NKJV
Life is hard, struggles are real, but the Lord is still good. In our lives, in the midst of all our hard places, we can still find so much that we can be thankful for. God calls us to be a thankful people. True thankfulness stems from living in a place of praise, where we have our eyes, our heart and our souls completely focused on the Lord. In this place of praise, thankfulness can freely flow, changing our lives and the lives of those around us.
Psalm 103:1-4 NKJV says this: “Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all His benefits — who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion.”
It is through these words that the writer is telling himself what he should be doing, as he makes his life one of thanksgiving.
He tells his mind to determine to not forget the Lord’s benefits.
He is telling his heart and emotions to trust that the sovereign God, who controls the wind and the waves of the ocean, has everything in control.
He is telling His lungs to breathe in and out the peace of God
He is correcting his posture and actions, embracing where God has him physically and geographically.
He is controlling his tongue to speak words of praise to God in the midst of every battle he is fighting.
The writer is encouraging us to praise the Lord and to not forget his benefits. Our Lord is a very generous Lord. He forgives all our sins. He died, taking all of our sin upon him, he was bruised for our transgressions, nailed to that tree, the weight of it crushing him, the sin on him so great that even God forsook him. All of that He did with perfect, complete love for you. You are forgiven.
Another benefit we can praise Him for is that he heals all our diseases. It says that “by his stripes we are healed.” He endured whipping, a shredded back so that we can be healed. As we praise him through the dark moments, we can be so thankful that He is with us, that He will see us through the pain and that someday we will be healed.
We can praise Him because He redeems our life from the pit. He has paid for your freedom. You are free from the darkness, the pit of depression, the stabbing pain of rejection. You are so loved, so important to the Lord that He redeemed you. As you praise the Lord, the darkness will dissipate, the chains will be loosened, and joy will fill you.
As we praise the Lord with all our being, we will be crowned with love and compassion. To be crowned is a high honor, to be crowned with love and compassion is the greatest honor we can receive. Jesus was crowned with an earthly crown of thorns. It was shoved onto his head with words of mockery. He was crowned with pain and hatred. Jesus, though, crowns us with love and compassion. He loves you. He is there with you, he is guiding you, protecting you and making a way for you. He has compassion for you. He will never leave you or forsake you.
So as you examine the things for which you are thankful, I challenge you to go deeper, to focus on reflecting these benefits that the Lord has given you. Praise the lord, praise his holy name, with all your being praise the Lord. We can not be truly thankful if we are not praising the Lord. He has given us everything that we need, he is our Shepherd, our Savior, our Redeemer, our hope, our anchor. For all He has done for us, we can praise him with a life of Thanksgiving. He is worthy of our praise, he is the reason we give thanks.
PRAYER FOR TODAY.
Dear Lord,
I praise you for who you are. I praise you that you forgive my sins, heal my diseases, redeem my life from the pit, and crown my life with love and compassion. I am so thankful for who you are and for all that you have done in my life. I love you Lord.
In Your name I pray,
Amen
This Is the Assurance of Answers to Your Prayers – Matthew 7:7-11
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!
Please pray with faith in your heart and remember to lead someone to pray with these prayer points!
