"His Voice Today"
September 9
🔸️ The Grateful Heart is filled with Praise! 🔸️
The heart that filled with gratitude could always be full of praise! To those who are filled with gratitude in their hearts for every deed that God has done, God will rejoice in giving His infinite salvation!
We all know that when 10 lepers came to the Lord Jesus and cried out, "Lord have mercy on us," Jesus healed them all (Luke 17: 12-14). Yet did they all find “salvation”? No... Jesus wanted to give "salvation" for those ten. But, only one Samaritan came back to Jesus to convey his thanks! Even today, there are so many people want to receive "healing" or "goodness" through the Lord Jesus! But after receiving them, there are only a few who, like this Samaritan "come to Him with love." That is why these very few only receive the "Life" that He gives!!
Jesus said to the Samaritan who fell at Jesus' feet gratefully to worship Him, "your faith has saved you" (verses 16-19). Those 9-lepers were left without His "salvation"! Not just the healing.... The Samaritan received the Saviour, the One who would save him till the end!
Ephesians 5:20 says that the life of praising God "for all things" is possible only to those who live "with spirit filled live" (verse 18)! Jesus teaches the life of thanks giving "for all things" only for those who are filled with the Spirit.
I think it would be appropriate if God allows financial crisis for "the first three years of marriage" as His special gift to the spiritually "newly married couple"! Without grumbling God in their scarcity and without grumbling their husband or wife.... It is a unique gift from God, for they have learned in those three years of financial crisis to live a life of ever Praising!!
Prayer:
Our Heavenly Father! Thank You for teaching us that only if we are grateful, we can praise You for each and every goodness that we receive from You! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Author:
Brother Zac Poonen
Translated version of the Tamil "Family Meditation Book".
From:-
https://t.me/hisvoicetoday
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