Message: God’s giving deserves our thanksgiving.
Prayer, do you ask God for mercies. If they are not answered right away do you wonder why? Well, God’s mercies are given according to His timing.
Just when we need a mercy, and when the mercy is much more a mercy because it is so timely, that is when it comes. If it had come later, it might have been too late, or at any rate it would not have been so seasonable and thus not so sweet.
Who knows what is the right time? God, who sees all at a single glance, knows. He knows when to give and He knows when to take. In every godly life there is a set time for each event. There is no need to ask,”Why is the white here and black there? Why this gleam of sunlight and that roar of tempest? Why here a marriage and there a funeral? Why sometimes a harp and other times a trumpet?”God knows. And it is a great blessing when we can leave it all in His hands.
Let the plant come up in the night and it will be a good night. Let the plant wither in the morning and it will be a good morning (Jonah 4:6-7). All is well if it is in God’s hands. Let us all distinctly recognize God in all our comforts: when they come when we are unworthy, when they come in a form in which we most require them, and when they come when we are most in need.
My prayer for all is to love one another. Acknowledge our differences and be accepting of them. We are all made in the image of God. Every single human being, so do not think that one is better than another. Remember God loves you always, and God’s word + prayer = POWER.