God Taught Me

Have you ever tried to cheer someone up?  Your there asking them,  ”What’s wrong?”  ”Are you OK?”   “Come on it’ll be fine!”  I am sure you been there, maybe on both sides.

I picturing me trying to cheer up the Lord, as if I actually had to do that. What if that was my truly my assignment, what would I say to Him?

My hands behind my back, “Are You ready Lord,  I am about to give you something that is going to make You feel great, are You ready?”  Out with the hands yelling, “Surprise! Here it is!  What is it You ask? It’s a big old pile of Thanks!”

“Yup I am giving You thanks Lord for all that You do for me,  thanks You Father, I am grateful just to know You and I am grateful for who You are and I am sure thankful for how You always, always  take care of me!”  ”So Lord here it is, thank You!”

Actually if God’s your Dad via His adoption plan, Jesus Christ, then that is your assignment! Fulfil your assignment and enjoy the thought of making God smile as you do!

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His unfailing love
and His wonderful deeds for men,

Psalm 107:8  (NIV)

“Lord, forgive me for not being as thankful as I can be. Teach me how bless You everyday with thanksgiving!  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”

You may be the smallest of the small or the least of the least!  You may not know a single verse in the bible or where to even find the table of contents.  You may just have been adopted by God and recently come to know Him as your Father, but don’t have a clue how this whole thing works!

If that’s you welcome, because that was me!  When I first came to know who the Lord really was I attended a bible study and when the teacher asked everyone to turn to the book of Matthew I was like,”What?”  I looked at my wife and said,  ”Who’s Matthew?”

Yes Sir that was good stuff!  God truly works with beginners and a beginner can glorify God just as powerful as anybody can! Oh yea  just by being thankful!  Did you know that by being thankful to God you actually brings glory to Him?

In heaven you can go from zero to hero, simply by being thankful. And it’s regardless of what you know and regardless of your past!  Start thanking the Lord today and bring glory to His name!  You may regret a lot of things, thanking God is so powerful it won’t be one of them!

I will praise God’s name in song
and glorify Him with thanksgiving.  Psalm 69:30 (NIV)

“Lord, teach me how to bring glory to Your Holy name by being thankful!  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”

One time I was asked to give a power point presentation to a Superior officer, first I meet with the administrative staff and then was told to wait until I was called into the meeting.

When meeting certain people of a certain rank or position we want to look good and speak well don’t we?  We truly want to be our best, we want to be on our “A” game!   We need the proper approach, which is to be respectful, humble and thankful!

It’s no different with God, who happens to be above any one person or position!  And for us to be on our “A” game with Him we also need the proper approach!  So just how do we enter His presence, what is the most powerful way to approach the Lord?

Enter His gates with thanksgiving
and His courts with praise;
give thanks to Him and praise His name.   Psalm 100:4 (NIV)

Approaching the Lord with thanksgiving and praise is powerful!  Learn to do that and your life can’t help but change!

“Lord, teach me how to be more thankful, show me just how powerful it is!  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”

How can you catch a demon by surprise?  Well for starters not many of us are waking up praising the Lord, were usully in a rush, in fear or worried about something every waking moment.  But could you just imagine what it would look like if every morning folks woke up praising and thanking God?  Talk about the worst moment of the day!  That would drive those demons nuts and at the same time please the Lord, who is always worthy of praise!

You have to become determined to do this and not to let anything steal your praise. Oh, it’s not always going to be easy,  but then nothing powerful ever is!   A good time to start is when our eyes open and when there ready to close!

And each morning and evening they stood before the Lord to sing songs of thanks and praise to Him.

1st Chronicles 23:30 (NLT)

“Lord, teach me how to not let anything steal my praise for You!  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”

How much does God really love you?  Ever given that much thought?  He loves you so much He placed His own body on a cross so that you and I could be forgiven and adopted by Him!  How much does God really love you?  Wow, you ready for this?  Just as much as He loves Jesus,  He loves you!  And that’s no joke!

I am in them and You are in Me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that You sent Me and that You love them as much as You love Me.   John 17:23  (NLT)

“Lord, take the blinders off my eyes and heart, so You can teach me the truth about Your unconditional love.  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”

It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying—“he disappeared, because God took him.” For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God.  Hebrews 11:5  (NLT)

That brother was something wasn’t he?  Taken off the face of the earth without seeing death!  Enoch was said to have a reputation, what was it?  That he pleased God!  That’s what Enoch was known for, pleasing God.  That’s one powerful rep!

Your known for something,  what is it?  And what will it be a year from now?  Let it become something powerful by consistently praying this prayer!

“Lord, teach me how to be like Enoch, pleasing You with every breath I take!  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”

Open my eyes, that I may see
Wondrous things from Your law.  Psalm 119:18  (NKJV)

Simple prayer, powerful results!  If only I would take the time and really pound the pavement praying prayers like that!  Could you imagine where you’d be, if everyday you asked God to open your eyes and see great things from His word?  I wonder what we would see different, I wonder how it would affect our lives?

The next time you open your bible picture light bursting forth from the pages back to heaven, because that’s probably what it looks like to the angels, and then ask God to open your eyes so you can see things you never saw before!

“Lord, teach me to see things in your word that will change my life!  Amen.”

Ask God to teach you and you’ll always be able to say later, “God Taught Me!”