Heart of Gratitude (3)

"Giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." (col.1:12)
Having established from scriptures in my last post that redemption is the predicate of ceaseless gratitude to God; it follows therefore that it takes a good understanding of God's word to be able to praise and thank God well. Bible says we should rejoice IN THE LORD always not in our circumstances (Phil.4:4).
The mistake we make most times is to look for reasons for thanksgiving within the confine of our circumstance/experience;if for instance I failed in a venture which God had previously warned me not go into; I cant thank God for such failure but in the failure I can still give Him thanks because a good understanding of God's word will make a man see that inspite of his failures God still loves him and still believe the best of him. He therefore that must thank God well must inevitably be versed in the word of God because only in the word of God can we find the reason to constantly thank God and not in our circumstances (Please read John 16:33).
Ever wondered, why your heart and mouth are always filled with complaints, it must have been that you have not discovered thanksgiving from the Bible; if you will give yourself over to the study of God's word, you will discover for yourself what great thing the Lord has done for you in Christ and the wonder of His unfailing love (IJohn 3:1); and by the time the knowledge of God's word fills your heart through and through, you will definately find praise, worship and thanksgiving well-up from your heart unto the Lord without interruption in all circumstances ...this is how to thank God well! got it?

Burning Passion For God (3)

" But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." (Heb.11:6)
Emphasy is 'here' placed on diligently seeking God.
Seeking, not as of searching for what you don't have, but in context, cultivating fellowship with Him who has found you.
To love God is to seek Him, and is to do it diligently - in ceaseless prayer and constant meditation in His word.
At the very foundation of our love for God lies communion with Him. Whoever you don't have time for or spend time with, you don't really love. Whatever you are preoccupied with that's making you too busy to spend time with God is what you love more than God.
You couldn't come near the saints of yester years and not feel the heat of their desire after God - they tarried with God in solitude, day and night, in and out of season; their hearts were filled with torrent of burning desire after God. What an example!
I recommend the cultivation of this mighty longing after God, for the believer's soul is originally designed by God to be ablaze for Him ...to love and serve Him!