Thanksgiving: Try it Sometimes!

Instead of asking God for what we want, how about we give Him what He deserves. He deserves thanksgiving from us. That's praising Him and when the praises go up the blessings come down.  We shouldn't ask all the time. It is good but He knows our desires before we even ask. I had challenged some people to just do a prayer of thanksgiving a day. I did it earlier last week and the prayer took up four pages in my journal. That's amazing isn't it? I mean that's a whole lot of gratefulness as it should be. There are things that we take for granted on the daily basis and we forget to thank God for. Instead of asking, let's be thankful. He is worthy of it and worthy of the praise and glory. This post may not be as long, but think about what you overcame, what you may have missed on the way of going somewhere whether an accident or a bullet. It is only the grace of God that I know I am here today. I should have been dead but God kept me and this means that He sees me as valuable. That's something to most definitely be thankful for. People that don't even realize how blessed they are don't thank God but it doesn't matter how they thank God it matters about how you thank God. It is a relationship between God and us. We must show our love and our appreciation for Him. This is the man who came down and wrapped Himself in flesh for you and I. When I think of the many MANY things that He has done for me, I get so happy and joyful. For the joy of the Lord is my strength. I have to give Him all the praise and glory. Your thanksgiving for Him may just be your way of receiving your breakthrough that you have been waiting on for a while. So, don't stop and never allow people to get to you. They don't have who you have so they want to laugh you to scorn. But they surely laughed our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to scorn  too. So, who are we? Let us just thank Him for all He has done and all He is doing. You can start with saying:
Lord I thank You for a healthy body
Thank You for life
Thank you for Grace and Mercy.
These are only just a few of the things if you dig deep and you don't even have to dig deep but just touch the surface then surely you will see the benefit of praising and thanking Him. Speak of that, I have to journal my thankfulness to Him today. I have today in prayer but this I should set aside. If you don't do it daily where you set it aside, it is okay because if you do it in prayer then that's thankfulness. 




God bless! 
HOAW<3 

Pray! Pray! Pray!

When I say PRAY, I mean PRAY!

Like never before we must pray. It is time to take a stand and show people that the church is not having it. God wants to be glorified and lifted up so that people can draw to Him. It is only God because for New Years Eve, my Pastor brought the word forth and he said that the church needs to get back to praying. Prayer is not done as much as it ought to be done. So, it was a warning to say that this year we need to pray like never before. I say Amen to that. Then, one of my sisters from this online website that I'm apart of called PINKY PROMISE which was founded by Heather Lindsey put up something in the group chat that I am involved in about #TagTeamPrayer started by #SavedinStyle. I checked it out and to pray on at least one thing for 40 days is AMAZING!!!!! I mean the founder of Saved in Style started doing this challenge on her own and she says that God moves in a ways that are unspeakable and in a way that you have never experienced before. This prayer challenge is so great and I feel like I am closer to God than I was before. Just like I was talking about in another blog with the book Romancing the King. God desires us. He wants to come to Him for EVERYTHING no matter how ridiculous or how little it may seem to us. When we are upset, pray. When we feel like giving up, pray. When we feel happy, pray. No matter what we must not stop praying.

Pray is essential. It is our communication with God. We give ourselves away to Him in prayer. 

So if you want to do something different, then pray to the Creator our God who made everything around us. 

"In order to get something different, you have to do something that you've never done".

HOAW <3