Psalm 50:23
He who brings an offering of praise and thanksgiving honours and glorifies Me; and he who orders his way aright, to him I will demonstrate the salvation of God.

How often do we praise God in our minds? How often do we praise God in the presence of our loved ones? How often do we praise God in the presence of acquaintances, or in the presence of total strangers? Never enough dear reader. We receive so many blessings from our Lord Jesus Christ, most of which we do not even recognise as blessings.

Let us try to count some of our blessings that we take for granted. Are you able to walk, talk, hear, see, feel, laugh, cry, and experience joy or anything else, which you need your senses for? How often do we praise our Lord for our senses?

Do you have a job, a home, a car, a wardrobe with clothes or decent meals to enjoy? Some of you may feel that you earn all of that. Without God's grace, none of those would have been possible. His blessings are beyond counting.

Psalm 111:1
Praise The Lord! Hallelujah! I will praise and give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart in the council of the upright and the congregation.

Why is it that we only appreciate something like our health after we become ill? Do we ever thank our Lord for the health we enjoy before something goes wrong with our health? Not even then we thank our Lord for the good health we had. Let us start right now to praise our Lord for every little (and big!) blessing we receive from His generous hand.

Thank You Lord for everything I have and receive daily! Thank You Lord for the honour to pray to You and thank You for letting me call You my Father! Praise Your Big and Holy Name! Hallelujah! Amen!

Nanette Esterhuizen.