Great Possibilities With Jesus

Great Possibilities With Jesus

Praise be to you, Lord Jesus, my Shepherd and King, as I woke to find myself with you. My dreams were not very pleasant, havingĀ  one obstacle after another. Kind of like real life, but without your presence, so it was good to come back to reality with you!

Thank you for the wonder of knowing you, Lord Jesus, of having your grace, goodness and greatness in my life, of being continually offered rest and hope, a partnership of purpose and power in prayer, of being able to join you in what you are doing.

Thank you that this day before me will be filled with multiple possibilities of honoring you with faith, responding to disappointments, interruptions, problems and challenges with thanksgiving and the chance to thereby defeat frustration, impatience, selfishness, fear and worry.

To respond with faith is to do something that has eternal value, to fulfill the purpose you have given me in life of honoring you rather than focusing on myself and what is visible. Thank you that you have made faith the primary means of joining you, for anyone can do that: young and old, illiterate and highly educated, rich and poor, powerful and weak, new believer or old.

This is an exciting truth, for it shows how everyone in the spectrum of maturity, from the newest believer to the most seasoned saint, can all give you glory at each moment in time, simply by responding in faith, getting up the shield of faith by offering the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

I praise you for what you have before me today; help me to partner with you, knowing that all will flow from your hand of goodness, from your heart of wisdom and grace, from you desire for me to join you in your great plans. Help me to see each negative as a positive possibility to offer you honor through thanksgiving, to grow spiritually and to be a light to those around me. What a privilege! Thank you for it and for what you will do in and through me today.