Colossians 1:12 “Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.”
God wants us to communicate with Him. He also wants us to take account of all the things He’s done for us and continues to do for us. When we do, then we really know how to thank Him.
Thanking Him is easy because He has done all He can to establish a relationship with us in His unapproachable light. Besides that, He has made it possible for us to feel welcome there (Hebrews 10:19-26).
So, not only do we have a relationship with our eternal Father through Jesus; we have an inheritance. As a matter of fact we are joint-heirs with Jesus to that inheritance (Romans 8:17). Surely then, we have much to be thankful for.
Over the years I have attended numerous prayer meetings but, I have never attended a follow-up thanksgiving meeting. Think about it. We go to prayer meetings and make all kinds of requests, praise God for who He is and what He’s done for us and then leave. At the next prayer meeting we do the same again.
In the light of such action, let’s think about this for a moment. We call a prayer meeting and at that meeting we list two or three items to be prayed about and for the next hour or so that is all we concentrate our prayers on. Over the next week or two we note God’s answers to our prayers and then we hold a follow-up thanksgiving prayer meeting. At that prayer meeting we spend an hour or two thanking God for answering the prayers we offered up at the previous meeting.
Makes sense to me because it teaches us two things: God answers prayer which, in turn, encourages us to pray again and again with thankful hearts.
