When I first was learning this principle, I saw that thankfulness did not necessarily change my circumstance (immediately), however it did alter my attitude or outlook on life while I was awaiting breakthrough of that circumstance!
1 Timothy 4:4-5 NIV, “For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
Everything we go through is God-filtered. Whether we are learning a lesson from having made a wrong choice, and reaping the consequence – we can thank God for showing us the more excellent way to travel the next opportunity. Or as it says in the next scripture:
2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV, “16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
When we do the right thing, we must be careful that we do not grow so weary that we fail to activate our faith to hurdle victoriously over the ever present obstacles we are challenged with. Not as a means of punishment but as a stepping stone to enlarge us in our faith and reach higher than what our circumstances dictate to us at that time.
So often, I can attest to certain days that have been very difficult, yet I WILLFULLY CHOSE to have an attitude of gratitude over the route to doubt and pout. It was not easy at first.
However, the more I made a conscious decision each day to make the ‘right’eous choices in God’s Word even when it was not easy, I found my life becoming one that was more and more victorious in outlook, faith and personal pursuit!
What giant obstacle or little hurdles are you facing on today?
Are you enduring a persistent problem? Or are you experiencing an unexpected interruption? Whatever your day -either way – resist the urge to surrender to fear, doubt, and worry - the weights of this world. Whether you feel like it or not, speak those things that be not as though they were!
As you speak out loud the opposite of how you feel about your circumstance, your faith will be activated and before you know it, you will operate at a whole other level! Hearing yourself agree with God’s ways concerning your life diffuses the weakness to succumb to self-doubt and disbelief.
Instead of, “I know I always mess things up, so why am I trying?” I could have just as easily declared, “Thank you Lord that I can do all things through you so I take you at your Word today.”
Speaking out loud over your circumstance is not only an act of YOUR WILL, but an act of your FAITH. NO ONE ELSE can do it for you.
Declare your victory over your misery! As long as what you declare does not contradict with God’s Word and will for your life, before you know it, you will, not only be emotionally victorious over your situation, you will see and experience real breakthrough your situation.
However hard it seems at first, know that an attitude of gratitude always goes a long way, and keeps your eyes on the one that we should be thankful to anyway every day!
Thankfully His \O/
