So Thankful

“Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God!” Revelation 19:1

 I’m overwhelmed by our Lord’s goodness and grace. I’ve been a believer for many years, but I am continually so grateful for His forgiveness, deliverance, and protection. My early adult years before I knew Jesus as my Savior and Lord were awful. I had a nightmare recently of the awful feeling of my sin, and when I woke up, I was so thankful I’ve been delivered from that lifestyle and completely forgiven, washed in the blood of the Lamb. When I’ve felt the shame that the enemy tries to remind me of, I’m overwhelmed at the depth of the riches of Jesus’ love and grace (feelings too deep for words).

This causes great concern, and I’m compelled to pray so much for our teen and young adult women today that find their security and identity in worldly things (and people) other than Jesus. So many live today thinking that the pain and destruction is normal. No wonder their values are so far from what the Lord desires.

In our study of prayer this season, I can press into the Lord by identifying the forgiveness I feel and extending joy available to the lost and hurting. I pray that they could grasp and understand God’s continual outstretched hand of love and rescue. In my morning prayer time, I’m fired up and ready to share this love, but then I get out in the world and I’m abruptly stopped by the brick wall of unbelief and lies of the enemy. Where to begin? One prayer at a time. Constant prayer. Jesus hears, He loves, He rescues. He breaks down the walls of unbelief and hopelessness. We press on, one prayer at a time.

To continue in His goodness, “Commit your way to the LORD, trust in Him, and He will act” (Psalm 37:5). I can trust His word is truth and He will break through and act. In sharing His love and grace, delighting in Him as we go, “He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday” (Psalm 37: 6).

He goes before us. Each person we see, or even think about is for a reason. We can pray for them to be open to God’s love and desire truth. To be brave to take the step of faith and look to Him. May we be brave because of the great salvation given to us to share with the blind, lost and hurting all around us and turning our grateful hearts to prayer.

Lord, I love you and am so thankful for salvation and rescue. May we be people who live in this goodness by extending it to the lost and hurting through prayer and words of Your goodness. Give us eyes to see and love to share truth and rescue. In Jesus’ glorious Name.