Monday, May 12, 2025

Gratitude!

So yesterday at church, the worship team played the song by Brandon Lake “Gratitude”. This song really gets me pretty much all the time, but yesterday it hit much harder for some reason.

So, while the song was being played, I started reflecting on the last 4 ½ months of this year. The things I have been able to do. The people that I have been able to meet. To minister too. The places I have been able to go! The concerts I have gone to. The bands that I’ve been able to see. The bands that I’ve been able to meet. What a blessing! As I thought about all this, the tears really started to flow. I don’t deserve any of this. From what I have done and sometimes continue to do, I deserve His punishment. But He is a gracious God! His mercy is new every morning.

2 John 3 New Living Translation

3 Grace, mercy, and peace, which come from God the Father and from Jesus Christ—the Son of the Father—will continue to be with us who live in truth and love.

Grateful for God waking me up every day! To be used by Him, for His purposes. To move me, position me in places or situations that He wanted me to be.

So how could my heart not be full of gratitude, my mouth full of praise for The One who deserves it all. It’s all because of Him I can do all these things!

Psalm 100:4 New Living Translation

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name.

Like Brandon sings in the song, all the words I have will fall short. All I can do is lift my arms and hands in praise to God! He has been so good to me and my family! I have felt His peace more than ever the first part of this year. He has placed me in situations that I thought I would never find myself. Meeting people I thought that I would never, ever meet! Praying for people that I have just met. Not the old cliché saying about how I’ll pray for you, and then never do it. No, He had me praying for people right on the spot, no matter where we are. Middle of the concert floor. Parking lot. Concourse.

Again, like the song goes, I have a lion inside. I cannot be shy about praising The Lord for what He has done for me. I must let it out. Let people hear the roar of praise! Hallelujah. With my arms stretched wide, I will worship You! The Alpha and Omega. The Beginning and the End!

The Great I AM!

Revelation 22:13 New Living Translation

13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

So I encourage you tonight. Be grateful in every circumstance. 

God bless.

Rev. Kev.

 

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