To God be the glory, to God be the glory!
To God be the glory for the things He has done!
With His blood, He has saved me,
With His power, He has raised me,
To God be the glory for the things He has done!
A little prayer.
Father, I want to thank You for Your faithfulness to me – no matter what shakes me, no matter what makes me cringe; Yes, no matter what I remember that causes me to mourn, no matter what I think that causes me to tremble, You are faithful to me no matter what, and I just want to keep pouring out my gratefulness to You – You deserve all glory for Your faithfulness to us!
I want to thank You as well, Father, for never giving up on me – Yes, it’s a facet of Your faithfulness, but it’s something that I value. The world may lose all hope in me, and I may even lose all confidence in myself – but it doesn’t matter, because none of these things will ever separate me from Your love; Yes, Father, You LOVE me! Thank You, Father, for Your love! Thank You, Father, for your faithfulness!
Thank You, Father, that in my proclaiming Your faithfulness, I am reminded of Your presence – Yes, Father, Your faithfulness is proven by Your presence… and it’s what I appreciate and take in right now. Father, thank You! Even right now, as I write all this, You are with me. As You have been with me in the past, so You are with me now, and in the future and beyond – with me, close to me, and as close as I could ever be, that I could call You my Father. I understand, God, that I could call You my Creator, and be amazed by that already – however, You did all You did for me, that I would call You more than that – You ARE my Father!
I was as the Prodigal Son, and You ran to me before I knew I could run to Your throne of grace.
I was as the Elder Brother, and You chased me down to remind me that all You have is mine.
Gracious Father, You are for me, and not against me – nothing can ever separate me from Your love.
Thank You, Father! For it is not by my might, nor by my power – but it is by the Holy Spirit, by Christ and His finished work that I make such bold claims!
Thank You, Jesus, for all that You have done; You purchased me by Your blood, You confirmed my absolute redemption by Your resurrection, and You sealed me by Your ascension and the consequent outpouring of Your Holy Spirit!
…and life is Life, indeed – under the everlasting love of our Father, in the presence of the Son, and flowing with the Holy Spirit… Forever, and ever.
Amen.
Not a little prayer, unfortunately.
In the cycle of Trust and Revelations, we trust in our Father, and receive His revelations. Consequently, when we receive His revelations, it further bolsters our trust in Him. It is in prayer that we are able to enjoy this cycle in a more immediate fashion… for I have reason to believe that I am not the only one who receives insights, reminders, stirrings, and ideas, at the same time that I take time to talk to our Father.
In our talking to our Father about anything and everything, we demonstrate trust in Him; and it is almost automatic that in our conversing with Him, we are led to thanking Him.
When we have nothing to say, we thank Him… and the words, as revelations – they follow.
When we pray, we demonstrate trust, and we receive revelations. When we pray, we thank our Father for these revelations, and continue to build our trust in Him.
And in that case, it’s all not just a little prayer, when you have the time.
Through my recent walks, I feel that though they aren’t spent with me actively speaking or thinking of or ultimately communicating with our Father, that revelations come on their own. That’s where some of what I’ve prayed about earlier came from, actually.
In these walks there have been memories of times that I regret, and times that make me cringe, more or less. They’re composed of but not limited to words I’ve said, things I’ve done – reactions, and actions that have left me thinking, ‘I really did that?!’. They do leave me feeling embarrassed and oftentimes with a lingering feeling of remorse… but, see, this is where I’m thankful for the Holy Spirit – He reminds me that even during these times, I am in right standing with our God. He is and will always be our Father, no matter what pops up in our mind.
I remember these moments, I am brought to remember my righteousness, and it just naturally follows that we thank God, for Christ, who made it all possible.
Even the regrets are revelations at this point, and they have served their purpose – we’re brought to trusting God more, even if it is just a little bit more.
In these walks I’m being brought to see things as they are – I’m reminded of what I’ve been spending too much time over, and where I should probably spend less resources on. I’m reminded of things that ought to take more priority, and the reasons why things ought to be that way. See, it’s not just that I’m bring presented with knowledge, but now that I think about it, everything that does come from an eternal Father comes with His eternal wisdom.
I’m also brought to seeing people for who they really are – and not for what I think of them. There it is – I’m essentially, effectively being brought to differentiating who people are and what they have done, versus my own spin on them and what they do/did/will do. Speculations are defined.
There’s a lot more that comes out – in fact, you may not be walking around with your headphones. I don’t anymore, because there’s the high likelihood that a song would naturally make its way into my head anyway.
And I don’t really think too much about it – I just let whatever song that comes up, well, come up. If it plays, it plays… I don’t stop it to try to think about something else, nor do I try to exert any additional effort to determine why the song popped up, etc.
With all this being said, well, I’m actually doing what Naval Ravikant defined as meditation – thinking, nothing. Though he recommends doing nothing, as in not walking, it’s in these walks where I could do the next best thing – just being in the nothing, and letting everything pass by.
I shared last Sunday about how we’re not only blessed to give, but we give to be blessed – and the latter is more pronounced when you realize that your giving is the departure of something, leaving you with ‘nothing’: That is, space to breathe. Space to move. Space to think. When you realize ‘nothing’ is just as much a blessing as everything, you’re inclined to give more, inadvertently trusting in the Lord more to fill in the vacuum, the gap.
Even ‘nothing’ is revelation at this point, and it has served its purpose – we’re brought to trusting God more, thanking Him for willing to go deeper, and to take us deeper into our own thinking.
And in that case, they aren’t all just little revelations, when you have the time.
My point in all this, I suppose, is that it doesn’t take any effort at all to trust and receive revelations, nor does it take much focus on our part to discern revelations as they come. Christ’s finished work is the work that holds off our working; Through Christ’s finished work, the little things become very meaningful.
But, lest I forget to clarify – it’s not as if we’re to catalogue and archive every revelation as they come. Their only purpose is to continue to build our faith, our trust in the Lord. If something is meant to be remembered, it will be remembered.
I hope we are all blessed, as we continue through this week.
To God be the glory, to God be the glory!
To God be the glory for the things He has done!
With His blood, He has saved me,
With His power, He has raised me,
To God be the glory for the things He has done!
May the Lord continue to work in and through us, revealing new things to us, reminding us of eternal things – all for our faith, and for the glory of His name.
In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.
God bless you.
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