Daily Sacrifice, September 23 (4:6)
“Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God”— Philippians 4:6.
WE would receive more from God if we were more grateful for what He has bestowed His us already.
Everything we have is the expression of His Fatherly care and the evidence of His love. Therefore we are exhorted to give thanks always for all things (Eph. 5:20), knowing that “all things work together for good to them that love God” (Rom. 8:28). And as we recognize His faithfulness in the past, we can pray with confidence, counting upon His loving care for the present and the future. If we fail to avail ourselves of the high privilege of bringing our petitions to Him in faith, we both wrong our own souls and dishonor His holy name, who bids us thus to ask and receive according to His royal bounty.
—Barbara C. Ryberg.