GOD-TRACKING IS THANKING GOD FOR TOMORROW’S NEEDS MET, TODAY

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GOD-TRACKING IS THANKING GOD FOR TOMORROW’S NEEDS MET, TODAY

Philippians 4:6
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God

It is written in God’s Word that God desires to meet our needs and grant us the desires of our hearts. On several occasions Jesus tells us to ask in his name and we will receive. Prayer is simply talking to God - talking to him about our needs. Writing to the Philippians, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” It’s a great privilege to be permitted to pray to God in Jesus’ name, requesting that he meet our needs. However, the key word here is, thanksgiving.

With deep reverence, I think prayer is a bit like ordering a meal in a restaurant. You sit down at the table where you are presented with a menu. The menu contains a list of items you can order for your meal. It is your authority to make a request of the waiter. If you’re like me you’d meditate on the menu for some time before deciding what you want. Then, when the waiter returns to your table you make your request according to what is written. “I’ll have a pepperoni pizza with a salad on the side,” you tell the waiter, who notes your request. Then, immediately after you place your order you say, “Thank you.” You have made your request according to what was written, with thanksgiving.

At this point the waiter toddles off to the kitchen to process your request. Now, in some restaurants you may need to wait a long time for the meal to arrive, in others it may come very quickly. The truth be told, you have no idea when that pizza will arrive. Indeed, it could take 10 minutes, 30 minutes or 45 minutes to arrive, but, since you had faith in both the waiter and the kitchen, you placed your order with thanksgiving, believing that you would receive that for which you asked. When the waiter finally returns and places that steaming aromatic pepperoni in front of you, once again you say, “Thank you.”

I have learnt to thank God for my needs. No longer do I perpetually ask the Lord in prayer, I now thank God in prayer for the answer to my request, even before the answer occurs. We have three reasons to be thankful when making our requests to God by prayer and supplication: 1) thankful that he is willing to hear my request, 2) thankful that he has the power to meet my needs and 3) thankful that he has answered my prayer even before I receive the answer. God is beyond the limit of space and time; he encompasses space and time! Therefore, he is there already at the point where your need is met, the moment you prayed. All that is required is for you to wait for time to catch up with the answers to your prayers. So, pray with thanksgiving, in the present, that your needs are already met, in the future.

God-tracking is thanking God for tomorrow’s needs met, today

READ ALL ABOUT IT
John 14:12-14
Mark 11:20-25
Matthew 7:7-11
Philippians 4:6-7

You are already there with the answers to my prayers

“Dear God, thank you that you hear my prayers. Thank you that you have the power to meet my needs. I choose not to worry about my needs and pray according to what is written in your Word, with thanksgiving, that you will meet all my needs according to your riches in Jesus. I believe that you are already on the other side of this wall that I face. You are already there with the answers to my prayers. In faith, I place myself in your hands and wait patiently for my needs to be met. Thank you for answering my prayers. Amen.”

If you prayed this prayer today, please let me know by email me at dudley@godtracker.co.uk

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GOD-TRACKING IS PRAISING GOD IN THE FACE OF EVERY DILEMMA

Dudley Anderson

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19 February 2016

Dear God-tracker

GOD-TRACKING IS PRAISING GOD IN THE FACE OF EVERY DILEMMA

Psalm 146:1-2
Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, O my soul!
I will praise the LORD as long as I live;

I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

In his book, Prison to Praise, Merlin Carothers shares about how he ended up in prison for a crime he’d committed and how he found Jesus as Lord and Saviour behind bars. It was there that he discovered the power of praise. That is, he discovered that praising God for a need was even more powerful than simply praying to God for that need. He teaches that praising God in advance for the answers to prayers raises the levels of faith in the person praying. Praise anticipates what God can do. Carothers writes, “I have come to believe that the prayer of praise is the highest form of communication with God, and one that always releases a great deal of power into our lives.”

 

I have discovered that, like worship, praise is prayer. When we praise God we are actually praying. Praise proclaims the power and presence of God right into a situation. Praising God moves you from today, where your need is prevalent, into tomorrow, where your need is met. Praising God does not plead a case; praising God anticipates case closed! Praising God raises your levels of faith as you seek God, and faith pleases God who rewards the seeker. Praise is expectant of answers to prayers made in the morning. We are told to have no anxiety about anything but to let our requests be made to God with thanksgiving: thanking God that we have the privilege to pray; thanking God that he has the power to meet our needs and thanking God that he has already done it!

 

I have also found praise to be a powerful weapon in my battle against temptation. The devil levels temptation and trials against us to cause us to lose faith and fall away from God. But, God’s Word exhorts us to rejoice in tribulation. Listen: “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds.” Praising God takes us into the realm of joy. I have found that it is impossible to praise God and sin at the same time. Therefore, when I am tempted I will begin praising God for his presence and his goodness and his strength.

 

Whatever you’re going through today; whatever you’re facing tomorrow begin praising God now! Open your mouth and declare his goodness and his holiness. Confess that he is great and greatly to be praised. Begin singing praise songs to your Lord and proclaiming his glory right into your situation. Instead of praying for your needs, praise for your needs and you will be amazed at how God will release a great deal of power into your life.

 

God-tracking is praising God in the face of every dilemma

 

God bless you

 

Dudley

 

Read all about it!Hebrews 11:6
Psalm 5:1-3 (NIV)
Philippians 4:4-7
James 1:2-4

Don’t Give Up, Look Up!

 

As I praise you I believe that you release a great deal of power into my life

 

Pray
 “Dear God, I praise you that you are omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Thank you that already know all about my needs and worries and have the power to meet them. Thank you that you are already on the other side of this wall I face, preparing my way and meeting my needs. Today – here and now – I submit to your will and your purposes. I give my life to serve you and seek your plans. I praise you for your goodness, your power and your presence in my life. I will bless you and praise you with all that is within me. Thank you that your good presence and strength are here with me, even as I face every trial and temptation. As I praise you I believe that you release a great deal of power into my life. For yours is the Kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.”

 

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