Holy Benefits Package~

Good morning,

One of the most important things job applicants look into when considering employment are the benefits.  Most every employer offers them, and sometimes the way future employees are wooed into a new company is by an extensive benefits package.

Health insurance, stock options, college tuition payments, and two weeks vacation are great  - if you can get them. However, as God's children, we all have a Holy benefits package that is the best one!

Psalm 103 provides a list:

• God forgives all our sins
• He heals all our diseases
• He saves our lives
• God crowns us with love and mercy
• He wraps us in goodness 
• The Lord renews our youth
• He makes everything come out right for us and our children
• God is not easily angered
• He is rich in love, mercy, and grace

God woos us as well.  He wants us to choose Him because He desperately wants to lavish us with His benefits.

Let's accept!

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for Your incomparable benefits; unlike the limitations of benefits on earth, Yours keep on giving. You continually forgive us, heal us, save us, crown us, and wrap us up in Your love.  Thank You that You are making everything right for us and those we love.  We receive all Your benefits, in Jesus' name! Amen~

A Prayer of Praise Will Follow~

TGIF Greetings :)

 

This past week I enjoyed a little get-a-way with my in-laws, affectionately known as Chini and Isa.  But Hannah's words - "Go into action for me" - and the Bible saying "God began making the necessary arrangements in response to what she had asked" - were front and center in my mind.  In between getting henna tattoos, posing for pictures all up and down the state of South Carolina, and even while taking a communal bubble bath, those words kept popping up in mind; they now hold a permanent place in my heart.

Even so, when Hannah initially prayed those words, her soul was crushed, and she was inconsolable.  But what a difference prayer makes!  Look at her prayer of praise after God answered her: (1 Samuel 2)

“My heart rejoices in the Lord! The Lord has made me strong. Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because You rescued me....No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one besides You; there is no Rock like our God. For all the earth is the LORD's, and He has laid out His operations on a firm foundation. He protectively cares for His faithful friends, step by step...No one will succeed by strength alone. The childless woman now has seven children. God will set things right all over the earth..."

Amen amen amen!  We may have moments when we think we will never enjoy life again, but if we can pray through our pain, a prayer of praise will follow! 
PRAYER: Dear Lord, We rejoice in You. You have made us strong. You rescue us. No one is Holy like You. You are our Rock. You care for us and our families. Thank You that You make it right!  In Jesus 'name, AMEN!