Dear Friends,
PRAISING AND THANKING GOD REVEALS HIS POWER
During one of the retreats which I attended I heard the preacher saying if
any one of you had a good job in the past and right now has no job. Thank
God the days when He blessed you with a good job and also the blessings you
received when you had this job and also thank God that right now you are
suffering without a job and then tell all your sufferings to God and pray to
God to fill you with His Holy Spirit. You will see the power of God when
you praise and thank Him all the more.
These sentences touched me and I felt like thanking God in this way for my
problems and I felt the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. I would like to
share few of my experiences.
I was one of them who had no job at that time and unemployment brought many
other problems in my life. My relationship with my relatives was getting
affected. There was need for money for family expenses. So I thanked God
for the good days when I had a good job and all the problems I did not
suffer which I was suffering at that moment. I thought of all blessings I
received from Abba Father when I had this job and I also thanked God for
the unemployment problem and all pains I was going through at that moment
and telling and giving it to Lord Jesus all my sufferings, hurts and
sadness. Very soon I got a job and all the blessings which I received when
I was working in the past I got back the same blessing back. Praise you
Father, Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit Lord.
Last Christmas I just could not think of buying new clothes because the
income we get is just sufficient for all our expenses. I thought of the
good days just four years back I received bonus before Christmas and my mom
forced me to buy a saree which costed Rs.3000. I thought of those days and
thanked God for his mighty blessings which I never thanked Him at that time
and I also thought of the present situation where I could not buy new
clothes and thanked God. One good thing I learnt was that I should never
waste so much of money only on myself and think of the others who cannot
afford to buy clothes and I also thanked God for this revelation. I kept
on praising and thanking God that this Christmas my concentration will not
be clothes and other odds things. One side the evil one was making me feel
sad that I could not buy new clothes for Christmas and I was giving this
sadness to Lord Jesus and telling Him Lord I love you and thank for allowing
all this in my life to prune me and make a better person. Just one day
before Christmas I found a grand saree on the bed and when I asked my mom
she said Lord Jesus has given you new clothes for Christmas and gave it
through your aunt. I found the price tag and checked and found the price of
the saree to be Rs.3000. Praise and thank you Abba Father, Lord Jesus and
Holy Spirit Lord.
Just few months back I had few hundred rupees notes in my purse and after
the prayer service I went to leave my grandmother in her house. Since she
is 80 years old trying to hold her with all caution that she should not fall
I missed my pursue and only when I came back home I realized that I had lost
my pursue. I went back and searched on the road and could not find it. The
money I had in my pursue was to run the house hold expenses for one week.
Though I felt so miserable and sad I just started thanking God the time when
this money was safe with me and also thanked God that I had lost it and it
was no more with me and asked Lord Jesus if it was His will to get back the
purse or provide me for the week. All the miserable feeling I gave that
night to Lord Jesus and I kept on thanking and praising God for a long time.
The very next morning my servant maid who works in my house and my
grandmothers house said that the purse was found by the neighbour and gave
it to my grand mother this morning. Not a rupee was lost. Praise and
thanks to Abba Father, Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit Lord.
Recently past two months my mom and myself had been planning to go to
Vellankanni Our Ladys Church at Nagapatinam but each month some expense
would fall and we could never think of making the trip. I just thanked God
the days when we had no problem going to this church and the number of
trips we made and right now also thanked God the blocks that were coming
each month not allowing us to go for the trip. We gave our plans and
desires to Lord Jesus and to Mother Mary and could not believe that last
week we went to Vellankanni the trip which was arranged by our parish priest
and my aunt who meet all our expenses. It was a free trip for us with no
expense. Praise and thanks to Abba Father, Lord Jesus Christ and Holy
Spirit Lord.
FOR NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.
LORD WILL DO BIG THINGS FOR US.
GIVE THANKS TO GOD IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD.
PRAISING AND THANKING GOD AT THE TIME OF SUFFERING, OPENS HEAVENS FOR MIGHTY
BLESSINGS TO BE RECEIVED FROM ABBA FATHER.
WHAT EVER BLESSINGS WE HAVE RECEIVED IN THE PAST THE LORD WANTS TO GIVE US
THE SAME BLESSING IN THE FUTURE IF WE ARE ABLE TO PRAISE AND THANK WHAT EVER
BE THE SITUATION.
Fatima Sharmila
Chennai
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