Nashville, Tennessee, United States - The Upper Room Daily Devotional “Keeping a Record” for Saturday, 15 November 2014 - Scripture: Philippians 4:4-7

Nashville, Tennessee, United States - The Upper Room Daily Devotional “Keeping a Record” for Saturday, 15 November 2014 - Scripture: Philippians 4:4-5 Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute!
6-7 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
The psalmist wrote, “I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me.”(Psalm 120:1 (NIV))
I can’t count the number of times the psalmist’s experience with prayer has been true for me. Keeping a record of answered prayers helps me call to mind quickly and easily instances when God unmistakably said yes.
It is important that we keep a record of answered prayer because we need encouragement from day to day. The best encouragement comes when we remember the good things God has done for us. As God has been faithful in the past, so God will be faithful now — and tomorrow. God doesn’t change. God is not fickle.
Whatever troubles we are experiencing today, we can take to God. When we cry out to our Creator, as the psalmist did, God hears our prayers. Then in absolute trust we can believe that God will answer us.
The Author: David Bowman (Texas, USA)
Thought for the Day: God is faithful and will answer when we call.
Prayer: Dear Father, help us to remember and be grateful for everything you have done in our lives. We pray as Jesus taught us, saying, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil” (Luke 11:2-4, KJV). Amen.
Prayer focus: Gratitude for God’s faithfulness
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