So many prophecies fulfilled just in today’s verses from Matthew, Lord.
In so many ways, You made good on Your Word to send a specific deliverer by a specific pre-ordained way: a Savior who would be the Lamb of God and take away the sin of the world, if we would just accept and believe.
These were not easy promises to fulfill. They were quite costly. Jesus paid the ultimate price with His very life, in a painful and torturous way. And even after His death, more prophecies were satisfied.
So many people, so many years, so many ways the plan could miss the mark, be off the prophecy just a bit. But You brought Your plan down through the ages to fruition. You accomplished the saving of man’s soul and his reconciliation to Yourself.
For these reasons as well as Your faithfulness, Your trustworthiness to Your promises, Your Sovereignty and power in accomplishing all You set out to do, “I will extol You!”
According to a dictionary, that means I will praise You, exalt You, commend, admire and worship You. I will tell others of You with highest recommendations. “Your praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast in You!“
I will invite others to glorify You and lift up Your name with me in song, in prayer, to other believers and to anyone who will listen.
I will tell them how You heard my prayers and saved friends and family from illness and injuries, how You protected them from bad decisions and bad people and bad situations. I will share how friends at death’s door were returned to their loved ones, and how in Your mercy, others were spared from terrible pain.
I will let them know that You are in the business of revealing wisdom when I ask for help making decisions and don’t know the way to go. When I have felt trapped, You made a way out of the situation I had never thought of or considered.
I will recall times when I was too afraid of what was about to happen, but You gave me peace and the courage to make it through by giving me songs, or visions, or specific scriptures to help.
I will share how there were times when I thought things were going so wrong, but You worked them out and brought blessings out of them I never thought were possible.
These are the things, the testimonies that I have tasted, and have proven over and over again that You are good.
Thank You – for being there for me every time I knew I needed You. And thank You Lord for being there for me when I didn’t even know I was in need. Amen
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