True Forgivness - article Let's Be Thankful - article What Keeps Us from Blessings -article Secret Power of Being Thankful - article Life is better when you find companionship Ask questions, listen to answers Hope sees what faith will produce Should innocent party be punished? Are you sabotaging yourself? Have we covered up idolatry in our lives? Survival tactics for spiritual growth Get free by changing what you think Writers respond to "Divorced People Bad Risk" Exactly what does she mean by "secure"? Make a list of what you want in a partner What if "Love" makes you sick? Can your relationship pass the test? The beginning and the end of all love stories Toxic faith, new area of treatment Finding God's plan and purpose "Divorced people are a bad risk" Loneliness may open door to abuse Even if people reject you, God will not The glory is a revelation of Jesus What is being a doer of the Word? We change our lives with words Is your low-fat diet working for you? Who do you say Jesus is? It's dangerous to be foolish Give thanks with a grateful heart The sacrifice of thanksgiving God had antidote for depression Will He be able to say "Well done"? Return to HOME

The sacrifice of thanksgiving Jonah, when inside the fish. . . did his act of faith by saying, while still in the fish, "I will sacrifice with the voice of thanksgiving." And so, acting our faith by praising and thanking God in advance has been, throughout history, His appointed way for our appropriation of all His blessings. Hebrews 13:15 teaches us that our thank offering - our "sacrifice of praise" - is to be offered in advance for the blessing God has promised, and therefore we expect. Psalms 50:14, 15, says, "Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the Most High, and call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me." Here as elsewhere, we are required to offer thanksgiving while we are still in trouble, as Jonah did. Perhaps this was the very promise he claimed. "Let the needy praise thy name," that is praise God in advance while you are still in need. "Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving" does not mean to get healed and then go from His presence thanking Him, but to come to Him with thanksgiving for healing before being healed. "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise." We should go away with thanksgiving, but this is not faith. Faith is what we have before we are healed. "They shall praise the Lord that seek Him." "Thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise." Without praise we are up against a solid wall; but when we begin praising, and appropriating, we hang our own gate and walk through. . . - F. F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer   Copyright 2000, by Singles Scene/Spirit & Life Reproduction without permission prohibited   Return to HOME