THANK YOU LORD

A newly arrived soul in Heaven was met by St. Peter, and he took him on a tour around Heaven.  They walked inside a large workroom filled with angels working.  St. Peter stopped and said, "This is the Receiving Section.  Here is where all the prayer requests to God are received".  The soul looked at the section, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out prayer requests from all over the world.

They walked again until they reached the next section, and St. Peter told the soul, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section.  Here is where the graces and blessings the people asked for are packed and delivered to the persons who asked for them" The soul noticed there were just as many angels working in that room.

Finally at the next section the soul stopped, and to his surprise there was only one angel there basically doing nothing.  "This is the Acknowledging Section," St. Peter told the soul.  "How is it that there is no work here?"  "That's the sad thing”, St. Peter answered.  "After the people received the blessings very few send their acknowledgments".  "How does one acknowledge God's blessing?"  "Simple”, St. Peter answered.  "Just say, “'Thank you, Lord'."

DON'T DOUBT MY LOVE FOR YOU

My Child,

I love you, and I do care about you.  I know there’s so much going on in your life that you feel as though I don’t love you, that I don’t care about what you’re going through, and I’ve forgotten about you.  You know in your heart that isn’t true.  I love you with the same love that My Father has for you, for He loves you so much that He gave His only Begotten Son, Me.  My Father and I are one.  I love you so much that hung, bled, and died for you, and all I ask is that you believe on Me so that you can have eternal life.

My love for you is unconditional, it doesn’t change, I don’t change.  So I have to ask you, “Do you love Me unconditionally, or do you love Me only when things are going well for you?”  That is how the world treats Me.  You are not of the world, I chose you, I delivered you, I called you to be My own.  So why do you doubt My love for you?  Why do you doubt that I will provide for you?  Haven’t I always come through?  Haven’t I always kept you safe from dangers seen and unseen?

BELIEVE BEFORE RECEIVING

John 4:47 -53 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.  Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.  The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.  Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth.  And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.  And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.  Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend.  And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.  So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

Our situation today is no worse than what this father had to overcome.  And just like with this father, Jesus expects us to do something first before He responds to us.  He expects us to believe His word.  He expects us to walk by faith not by sight.  When Jesus saw the persistence in this man, He said to Him, “Go thy way; thy son liveth!”  The man believed right then without seeing his son, that he was healed.  This is the same response we must have in our lives today when the Lord gives us a Word. 

 

We must have complete faith in what Jesus has spoken into our lives and enter into a place of rest.   Our faith in God should acknowledge the truth of God’s word even when there is no sign to prove it.  We must realize that just like oil and water don’t mix, that faith and common sense can’t live together.