Grateful – Hezekiah Walker
Scripture: (NKJV)
Lamentations 3:23
Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Hebrews 12:28-29
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
Psalm 86:12-13a
I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore. For great is Your mercy toward me …
1 Timothy 6:17
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
Thank You, Lord …
For showing me, sitting at a football game, how much is gained just being a spectator. To get out of oneself and be able to support another, to cheer them on, to feel for them and with them, to want them to win / be successful, to desire they be spared the pain of losing, to hope that they learn / grow in all they are doing, to want to be proud of / for them, to be disappointed when things don’t go well...
Thank You, Lord …
For showing me where I think too highly of myself, and the thoughts and actions of lawlessness spawned by this errant perception. Thank You again for Your goodness which brings me to repentance, for Your clarity with which I am able to see the truth, for Your tender rebukes, convictions, corrections…
Thank You, Lord …
That You know all of my limitations: that I, in my flesh, am but dust – no good dwells within me - that I cannot do anything without You, that my own righteousness is as filthy rags. I thank You that You want and have better for me in Christ; You have given me eternal life, given me Your Spirit to reside in my heart by faith, removed limitations as nothing is impossible with You. You have covered my nakedness with Your righteousness, having bridged the chasm of separation from You with the cross of Christ, reconciling me to Yourself. You have given me victory where there was only defeat, life where there was only death, light where there was only darkness. Thank You for Your faithfulness to forgive my sins and purify me from all unrighteousness by the blood, the sacrifice of Jesus. Thank You that through Christ alone I am a new creation...
Song: From the Inside Out (Everlasting) – Hillsong
I am in awe, Lord God, of Your greatness, delivered and demonstrated in Your faithfulness, Your power, Your goodness, Your wisdom, Your mercy, Your grace, Your unconditional, everlasting, overarching love… Hallelujah!
... and my journey with Him continues ...
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