Thankful

We are never to old to learn. God has given us that gift if we decide to receive it. We learn everyday something new. This week I have been listening to Keith Moore on the Believers Voice of Victory. Wow, how awesome he has been. He has been teaching on Thanksgiving Victory. He has said that "You can't see the miracle when you see the problem." We gripe, complain and grumble about everything. It was an eye opener for me. It stirred my spirit severely. I have decided to stop looking at the problems in front of me. I have been praying for many things for months now. God has heard my prayers. I know that He has because He said that He does and that He will answer them. Keith said that we need to stop crying and complaining. We need to start giving thanks. To start the prayer off by saying, "Thank you God for..." I have been doing that all this week. Boy, has it changed my way of thinking and has given me hope. It has given me peace. Don't walk by sight. Walk by faith. The way to do that is to start by giving thanks even though things look bad. It was so hard for me to start doing this. But I started. In
1 Sam. 1:7,8, Hannah would go to the temple everyday. She cried and wept. She sinked into a deeper depression because she could not conceive. She had a hard time believing because of her situation. Unbelief is an evil preditor. It can rob of you so much in your life. Jesus is the light. We must move forward, toward the light. When we concentrate on what we do not have, we miss what we do have. We are so blessed with so much. I was starting to have a hard time seeing it because I was focusing so much on the problems and situations before me. All I could see was that I did not have the money to buy groceries, pay a bill that was overdue and life with my family. All I could see was desperation and sadness. I was losing my joy because of my feeling sorry for myself. This study has changed me and the way I was thinking. "Thank you Lord for helping me to see what I was doing wrong and helping me to change it." The problems may still be there at this time but that doesn't change who God is. It will get better. God has promised in His Word that He will pour out a blessing from heaven and that we will not have room enough to retain it. Wow. Just think about it. The priest saw Hannah everyday, finally spoke to her and gave her word. She immediately got up and just started thanking God and became joyful. She went home and became a wife to her husband, took care of her household and gave thanks. She received word. She was not with child, yet. She decided to have a thankful heart. When she had changed her mindset, she soon became pregnant. With her thankfullness God blessed her. A prophet was born. He became a great man of God. When Hannah stopped crying, her breakthrough came. The devil loves us to stay where we are at because we do not progress. He hates progress in our spiritual walk. He hates it because he cannot control it. I have choices in life. I have the choice to resist anything that he throws at me. I cannot stay in self pity and feeling sorry for myself anymore. It is a dangerous thing. It robs us of our blessings and our joy. It strips us of everything that God wants us to have. I have decided that I am going to change. I am going to get my mind and heart off of the problems. I know that God will appear and will deliver. I am not going to gripe, complain, cry, and feel sorry for myself anymore. It's deadly to me and my family. God has ignited a fire in me. Wow! Thank you God for helping me to see. I am victorious. My family is victorious. God is my life, strength and my redeemer. Praise the Mighty name of Jesus. Thank you Jesus.