He has showered us with His love and forgiveness through Christ and we need to thank Him for His faithfulness and His grace!
Someone might say, I do not feel like I know it well enough, or perhaps they would say my emotions are not in it so it would not be genuine to speak anything to God concerning this.
Remember faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Making a declaration involves mere agreement with the truth revealed in Scripture, it does not require that our emotions are all caught up in it. Emotions will catch up in their own good time, sometimes we do obedience simply because it is right to do so.
Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1:15-23 NKJV)
So let's lift up our voices together to close this morning. Let's render unto God the thanksgiving and praise He is justly due!
Thank You Lord God, and all glory and honor be Yours for including us in the company of who You wish to show Yourself to be good, gracious and merciful to.
Through the face of Christ we behold Your glory! Truly there is no God like You! You alone are God and You alone are good!
We humbly acknowledge Father that we are Yours only by the working of Your mighty power which You released through Jesus on the cross and by raising Him from the dead.
We declare today that all praise belongs to You the Creator of all things and the to Jesus the Author and the Finisher of our salvation.
We praise You for the miracle that our salvation is and the mercy we have received from You because You chose to love us.Tim Atchley
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About The Author
- Tim Atchley
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
- I currently serve as Senior Pastor of Harvest Church in Knoxville, Tn. I was sent out from Trinity Chapel of Knoxville in 1993 accompanied by my wife Sheila our four children Sarah, Hannah, Josiah & Isaac and a handful of bold, brave and committed believers determined to plant our first church. Pioneering is hard work but well worth the journey. That is why we desire to make disciples of Christ who will, like us, also embrace the call to plant churches.
