When It's Good
Gratitude / Answered Prayer
For when you feel: God answered, thankful, He came through, prayer answered
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.
The MinuteHomily
Ten lepers were healed on the road that day, and one turned around. The other nine were not monsters, just people, hurrying back into their lives the way we all do the moment a crisis lifts. Answered prayers evaporate from memory faster than almost anything, which is why the psalmist commands his own soul: "forget not all his benefits." Gratitude, in Scripture, is a discipline of memory before it is ever a feeling. So today, be the one who comes back. Thank Him specifically, not for everything in general but for this thing, on this day, when you asked. Write it down, because an answered prayer recorded becomes courage for the next unanswered one. God has a track record with you now. Keep the receipts.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Lord, You actually answered. Before I rush to the next request, receive my full-hearted thanks for this specific gift. I will not forget. Amen.
“In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.”
St. Teresa of Ávila
Hymns for this moment
“Now Thank We All Our God” · Martin Rinkart
“In the Lord I'll Be Ever Thankful” · Taizé
One small step
Start an answered-prayer page today: entry #1, dated.
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