Check Your “Ask/Worship” Ratio
During the Thanksgiving season we often emphasize the need to be thankful, grateful people. But how is our ask/worship ratio most days of the week? In other words, do we recognize God’s hand in our everyday life and thank and worship Him? Or, are we guilty of barely acknowledging God’s many blessings and only saying an occasional, “Thank you” over a meal? In other words, from God’s perspective, are we grateful or ungrateful? Second Samuel 22:14 records how David cried out to God. God’s response? “The Lord thundered from heaven, and the MOST HIGH uttered His voice.” David’s response? He worshipped God. His words of praise are found in 2 Samuel 22. Among the many ways David acknowledged God, one was as “the Most High” God. David’s example of worship should prompt us to examine our prayer life. Are we full of asks but short on worship? If so, consider journaling. Recording your prayer requests and then words of praise to God as He answers them will increase your “worship/ask” ratio. Follow David’s example, a man after God’s own heart.
Lord, Most High God, forgive us for asking but not worshipping You with thanksgiving. Holy Spirit, prompt us to be grateful, thankful believers who worship more than we ask.
Debbie, I give thanks to the Lord ‘every’ day, when I wake up at 5:00. It’s a ‘simple’: “THANK you, Lord. I ‘love’ you and I ‘thank you’ for loving ‘me’.” A new ‘day’, a new ‘day’ to love God and those He puts in front of ‘us’. Then, I get out of bed, put on that pot of coffee and ‘feed’ on His word. It often lasts until 7:00 AM. I go ‘treasure’ hunting, studying God’s ‘word’. It’s a great way to start the day.
God bless you, Debbie, Keith too, from your ‘brother-in-Christ’ in Corpus Christi.