My constant boast is God.
I can never thank you enough!”
Psalm 44:8 TLB
“How was your week?” a friend asked me at church last Sunday.
“Awful,” I said as I began sharing the details of my stressful week.
He interrupted me. “Well, did anything good happen? Isn’t there anything you’re thankful for?”
Ouch! It had been a tough week – a week where I’d been focused on the problems rather than on the Lord and the many, many reasons I had to be thankful. This week hasn’t been any easier. But then Jesus never said it would be easy to follow Him. What He has promised is always to be with us.
His faithful promises are your armor and protection.”
Psalm 91:4 NLT
- Thank You, Father, for Your promises.
- Thank You for the problems (yes, I know it’s better to call them “challenges”) that cause me to need to rely upon You.
- Help me to thank You for my computer especially when it exasperates me. It enables me to do so much more than the manual typewriter I used years ago.
- Thank You for the opportunity to teach the “Grow Your Writing Ministry” day-long seminar in New Jersey March 25 even though the prep is taking far more time than I anticipated. Click here for more info and to register.
- Thank You that I live in a nation where I am still free to live and to write Your answer.
What about you, friends? Have you remembered to say “thank You”?
Hallelujah! Thank GOD! Pray to him by name!
Tell everyone you meet what he has done!”
Psalm 105:1 MSG
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Yes, planning not one but two conferences is stressful, but thank You, Father, for all You are doing and will do.
Write His Answer 
Thanks Marlena. I needed this today 😊 Still love reading all your posts. A classmate of my sons committed suicide on Monday. We don’t know the family at all but he sat in front of my son in one of his classes. It’s tragic but God is always good. And I have so much to be thankful for! Love and hugs to all
Kim
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Oh Father, please hold the family and friends of the boy who took his life very close.
THANK YOU —this has been a week from ‘that other hot place (not Texas)’ and I trudge forward stalwart in my conviction that HE is aware, in charge, and is challenging me to ‘keep marching’ FORWARD. I’m praying for you, too.
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Yes, in His strength we keep pressing on!