Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 29

 

To Pray is better than to Thank.

 

There is no question that a thankful heart, full of gratitude, is most noble and honorable in light of our world filled with thankless and ungrateful people who think they are where they are by their own effort and initiative.

Thankfulness is for our good.

It makes us love God the Father of every blessing. It can also make us relate to God more for what he does for us than for Who he is. Blessings can eventually replace the blessed one himself.

Many people who experience the blessings of God end up only seeing the miracle, ignoring the miracle worker.

Nobody has eaten or drank thankfulness. It is like recognition or credit. What do you do with it? If you accept it, you are robbing God of his glory.

When was the last time that you agonized in prayer at the feet of Jesus and poured out your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and in so doing declared that he was “Our Father who art in Heaven?”

If you have done so, then know that you have lifted his holy and blessed name high, and have behaved as a citizen of the Kingdom, doing on earth that which is done in Heaven.

There is one act of prayerful adoration that our Lord Jesus perpetuated by saying what he said of the woman who anointed Jesus by breaking an alabaster jar of perfume. “What she did will always be remembered.” There is something more costly than nard or spikenard. That is your time. Spend some of it in prayer. Jesus is waiting. Prayer is it. Thankfulness is part of it.

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

Gerry Gutierrez.