Thankful heart

I thank God for his love and faithfulness and for continuing to be true in all our lives.

(Jer 30:19 From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honour, and they will not be disdained). May God use the new year to fulfil all his promises concerning your lives. Your hearts desires within the will of God will be fulfilled. All the things that bring you joy will never bring you sorrow. All the areas of your lives that you need intervention from God will be attended too and you will have everlasting happiness and peace in your lives. (1cor 1:4 I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.)


God is love and he wants us to show love to one another. Tope Cole used an expression on her face book which I found very interesting: “Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down”

We all want friends we can rely on and also trust. Guess what the only one that is guaranteed is Jesus but he will like the same kind of friendship with us. The one where he can trust that we will always make the right decisions, the one where we will always choose his way or sin, the one where we seek him and dedicate ourselves to him when things are going very well and when they are not. Lets us search ourselves is this the relationship we have with him? Most of us tend to almost forget him when things are going well and run to him when the hiccups come. Imagine having a friend like that. You will feel used. We should not take God for granted and we should make every effort to live sinless lives, we all sin but there are obvious things we do that in our hearts we know are wrong, we should pray for the ability to say no to the wrong things (Psalm119:133 Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me). God is a merciful God but also a jealous one and does not like to be taken for granted.


Message Today is to show love to all your friends and not take them for granted, pull them up when they are down, smile with them when things are going well, be thankful for their lives and the fact that God has chosen these people to be part of your life. There is a lot of blessing in supporting your friends (Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before) More importantly have this sort of attitude towards God too, be thankful and prayerful always and make a conscious effort to avoid doing things that you know will hurt him. Can you do that?