Thinking and Thanking

by Andy Wood on November 26, 2008

in Enlarging Your Capacity,Five LV Laws,Insight,LV Stories,Life Currency,Principle of Abundance

Oh, my Father, I enter into Your presence in the name of Jesus to express my eternal gratitude to you.

Thank You for ACCESS – the unfathomable privilege of entering directly into Your presence.

Thank You for BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE – those wonderful growth experiences that look at first like obstacles or curses.

Thank You for CHILDREN – for the ways they remind us that You are big, life is good, and pleasing You isn’t all that complicated.

Thank You for DREAMERS – those who saw the possibilities when no one else did, and who risked failure to make their dreams come true.

Thank You for EXAMPLES – for people who are just as willing to practice as they are to preach.

Thank You for FREEDOM – to worship, to obey, to live, to serve, to vote, to speak, to love.

Thank You for Your GUIDANCE – that “the ways of a good man are ordered of the Lord.”

Thank You for Your HEALING – that whether it’s here for a season or there for eternity, You’re still the Great Physician.

Thank You for IMAGINATION – for the miracles that can happen with a pen, a crayon, or a picture in the mind.

Thank You for JESUS CHRIST – the Second Adam, our Great High Priest, the Author and Finisher of our faith.

Thank You for LAUGHTER – Your built-in therapy of the heart.

Thank You for MISSIONARIES – the modern-day foot soldiers of the Kingdom.

Thank You for NEEDS – those daily reminders of Your great sufficiency and care.

Thank You for OPPORTUNITIES – those doors that continue to open up for us, even when we have failed in the past.

Thank You for PARENTS – living or dead, who gave us life and left a trail before us that we could either follow or forsake.

Thank You for QUIET TIMES – when I can remember what the wind sounds like when it blows through the pines, when I can be still and know You are God.
Thank You for REST – for the way you restore my strength, and the irreplaceable comfort of my own bed.

Thank You for SALVATION – for the forgiveness of past sins, power over present sin, and deliverance from future sin.

Thank You for TEACHERS – who worked, studied, and gave themselves in order to make me a better person.

Thank You for UNITY – for the all-too-rare and unique joy of being one in heart with another person.

Thank You for WEAKNESS – the only sure way to connect with Your supernatural power.

Thank You for XENOPHILES – those who reach across cultural, racial, and political barriers and love others who are different.  God, give us more!

Thank You for YEARS – filled with seasons, sunshine, and surprises, each one a little shorter, it seems, than the one before.

Thank You for ZEAL – for giving us a cause worth dying for and a life worth being spent for that cause.

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