GOD loves to bless people who are grateful…

another key for GOD’s blessing on your life is to celebrate HIS blessing in worship

what do i mean by that? thank GOD for what HE’s already done for you. GOD loves to bless people who are grateful for what they’ve already got. GOD’s not really excited about people who are always saying, “what’s next, GOD? what are you going to bless me again?” when you’re not even pausing to thank him for what HE’s already given you.

when you do that, that’s called worship. GOD loves it when we thank him for the blessings he’s already bestowed on us. and when we thank him for what he’s given us he blesses us with even more. because he loves to bless his worshippers.

worship is far more than just a church service or music. worship is a lifestyle. it’s an attitude of gratitude where you continually thank GOD for everything in your life. that’s worship. you can worship all day. you get up in the morning: “GOD, thank you that i’m alive. YOU gave me another day.” you start taking a shower: “GOD, thank YOU for hot water.” there are some places i’ve been i’m really grateful for a hot shower. you put on your clothes: “GOD, thank YOU for the clothes YOU’ve given me.” you go downstairs and cook breakfast and say: “GOD, thank YOU for the breakfast YOU’ve given to me. YOU’ve given me food.” as you get into your car and drive to work you go, “thank YOU that i’ve got a car to drive and i’ve got a place to go to work and i live in a free country.” you live in an attitude of perpetual thanksgiving. that’s called worship.

when GOD sees you do that, HE wants to bless you more. because you’re grateful for what you’ve got, HE wants to give you more.

if you’re ungrateful why would HE want to bless that? HE doesn’t. so you celebrate the blessings that you do have through thanksgiving and through worship. so thanksgiving is to be everyday.

romans 5.11 (lb), now we rejoice [we rejoice – that’s the celebration part] in our wonderful new relationship with GOD all because of what our LORD JESUS has done for us in dying for our sins making us friends of GOD. it says JESUS CHRIST died for our sins. HE paid for our blessings with HIS life. everything you have in life, that blessing is because of JESUS. grace is free but it is not cheap. because it cost JESUS his life. JESUS said, “I never want you to forget the sacrifice that I gave for you when I died for you on the cross. I never want you to forget that everything in your life is because I paid for it with my life. all the good things.”

just a thought from the front porch…