The Currency of Gratitude

From my book:

Keep a Gratitude Journal

Here is why . . .

Being grateful is one way we can protect ourselves from falling into the trap of thinking more highly of ourselves.  Everyday, take notice of the things that God has blessed you with.  Recognize that he is the provider of everything good in your life.  It is God that is most high and worthy to be praised for his creations.  Thank God for his goodness.  This will open your awareness of how little you had to do with anything.  Show God appreciation and he will bless you by expanding your capacity to understand more.

Transition in Thinking: I am successful and I work hard to have everything that I have.  My way of thinking is good and I never offend anyone.   The truth is:  You do a lot of things wrong and you don’t even realize it.  God wants to take away all of your misconceptions about the world around you.  He wants to get you back to a pure state of mind.  He wants you to have a teachable mind like a child.  He needs you to have a trusting mind, like a child. Bible Study: Much of the time when we think we are a good person, successful, and so called “blessed” we can take on an attitude of superiority.  Therefore we offend people all the time but we just don’t see it.  Instead we have to take on an attitude of gratitude, which will then allow us spiritual insight. Enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise Be thankful unto him and bless his name Psalms 100:4 Gratitude is a Currency A currency is something that you have, then you give it away in exchange for something you want to have.  If you know it or not, we want and need to have spiritual insight.  Giving God continual thanks allows for your eyes to be open.  Giving God continual thanks allows your trust in him to grow.  It allows you to believe everything that he says because he is the father.  Your belief becomes unfailing, you are humbled and trusting God for your every need.  This is faith.  This is a childlike faith. Verses: At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18: 1-6 Lesson to learn: When we have an active practice of showing our gratitude to God, we are showing him that we understand that he is the provider for all of our blessings.  We had nothing to do with our own well being.  When we give the sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise we are allowing our spiritual sight to open up to the blessings that surround us already. Give your gratitude to the Lord.  He will open up your eyes to God ideas.  You will be able to see what you want and the pathways of how to get there.  When you understand God’s nature, you will understand that he will not allow you to out bless him! God wishes to teach us humility through having the attitude of gratitude.

This world tries to rob us of our thanksgiving, our praise, our faith, our blind obedience.  To the world, these are things that seem foolish.  Therefore, we are trained not to do these things.  We have become a very self-reliant society and therefore a very selfish and adulterous nation.  It is no mystery why we think we have so little to give the Lord.  We are very confused in what he is asking from us.  God understands that it is a sacrifice to give what you feel you don’t have.

It is a sacrifice for us to give.  It is a challenge for us to give.

It is a challenge to give your first because you have been trained to take care of self first.  Remember when I told you that this was a spiritual thing.  This whole living life is about being prepared for God’s government;  the way that God does things is better than anything we can conjure up on our own.  God wants you to understand the currency of his government.

Your sacrifice is currency.  What you see as a challenge to give, God exchanges it as a faith payment.  A key factor to understand this is that, you’re not really “paying,”  you are simply exchanging what you have in the natural for your inheritance in the spiritual.  Your faith brings your spiritual inheritance into your current world.  You can’t see it yet, but it is there!

I thank God for Jerry Savelle’s message on “Expectancy.”  I used to have wrong thinking that prosperity type preaching was just a hoax.  Now I know that God has allowed them the insight to apply this principle to life.  This is not for fake.  This is real.  This is happening.  I pray that God opens up your heart to this understanding.

Faith is expectant of something that it can’t see!

When you are a believer, you are apart of God’s kingdom government.  You follow the laws because you are a citizen.  You do not have to follow the laws to get in, but you follow them to keep everyone safe.  For example, you follow the traffic law so that you don’t get into accidents.  It is because you are a citizen of the country and the state that you have the privilege to hold a license.  So, in order to keep our license to drive, we do what the law says to do.  If we happen to run a red light and hurt somebody, we may go to jail.

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.”

Revelation 12:10

God is the King of his government.  He is also the judge.  The enemy’s kingdom continues to present case after case after case to accuse you of breaking God’s law.  God’s mercy allows you not to be cast in the pits of hell at this time.  He continues to give us chance after chance.  This doesn’t mean that we continue to have all of our rights back.  We are cast into our own mind prisons and we lose our licenses to do the will of God.  Here is the good news- We don’t have to be in bondage anymore!  We have a counselor that will speak on our behalf.  He is ready to free us when we allow ourselves to be saved.  We are saved when we change our mind about defending ourselves.  Jesus Christ is our lawyer in the great court of the Heavenly Kingdom.

What can you do?

#1 Give your life to God

#2 Learn God’s word

#3 Practice keeping God’s word

 

It is really not a hard thing to do.  I want to give you a few more examples of sacrifice that may help you understand why Christians do what they do, say what they say, and live how they live. There is the sacrifice of

Thanksgiving

Praise

Obedience

First fruits

 

These things can be used for a faith exchange for your inheritance in the spiritual kingdom.  This also brings up the conversation about tithing.  Tithing is a spiritual practice.  You must understand that it is a sacrifice for you, but God doesn’t need your money.  Instead, it is the exchange of your faith, that you trust and believe that God is going to do everything he said he would do in his word.  You must trust his words as a child would trust his mom and dad to provide his needs.  God wants to teach you his way.  God’s way is the better way.

Until next time

-Tamorra

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