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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:27-28 KJV
The Message For Today (May 31, 2026):
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Rarely are we encouraged to thank God when things go wrong, when plans fail, when disappointment becomes a companion, and when life gets hard. We’re not encouraged to thank God for it. We’re not encouraged to be thankful for it.
We’re encouraged to be at peace.
We’re encouraged to be content whether abased or abound.
We’re content nd we’re encouraged to trust God. But rarely are we encouraged to celebrate the end, to celebrate the closed door, to give thanks and to praise for things ending and not working out and being delayed.
Had Martha and Mary known that Jesus was coming to actually restore the life of Lazarus, would their responses have been different upon seeing Jesus? Would there have been a heart full of gratitude and thanksgiving, knowing that all things would work for them, that everything would work out the way that God had already planned?
Of course not, because we occasionally celebrate in certain cultures in the face of a family member passing. But in many cultures, we are grieving, we are somber, we are in remembrance of the life that is lost. But we’re not giving thanks for the end of a thing. We’re not given thanks, and we’re not encouraged to give thanks for things that are lost, for situations that we feel are just wrong, sad, discouraging, and overwhelming.
We’re not encouraged to celebrate when we don’t get the job, when we don’t cross over, when we don’t win. But these are the very situations where being thankful in all things would make a major difference in the way that we respond, in the way that we perceive the Lord, and in the way that we ultimately receive ourselves.
Because the way that you see the relationship with Jesus also includes you. It includes your heart. It includes your healing or the lack thereof. It demonstrates fully where your heart is. All of these things show us exactly who a person is based on how they respond, based on how they engage with the loss of a thing, how they engage when a door is closed, and how they respond when a negative outcome is experienced.
This is what shows us the character of a person.
It shows us the heart of an individual. And so, giving thanks and learning to be content while celebrating that contentment? That is different. Not just being patient, but being passionately patient, full of glory, full of expectation, even with tears in our eyes and a broken heart. Lifting God up and saying: Thank you.
That is what giving thanks in all things looks like. That is what trusting that it’s all working looks like in the natural. And it’s okay if it seems so foreign and it seems so beyond imagining that you can’t even fathom doing that, because that just shows that it’s time to get before the Lord in prayer and fasting and develop the heart that celebrates in the midst thereof.
That lifts up God in the midst thereof, that despite the breaking heart and the eyes full of tears, despite deep sadness and disappointment, there is a will to bless God and a desire to please Him and an understanding that He is God alone.
He knows the end from the beginning. He knows the will that he has for you, the plans that he has for you to give you a future and a hope. No one can take that away. No one can remove the grace and glory of God over you. Nothing can keep you from experiencing the fullness of God.
Even when you’ve known lack, you’ve known disappointment, you’ve known denial and delays, God is still God. Even when our plans don’t work and when our hearts are broken, He is God alone. So lifting Him up, celebrating the end, worshiping and giving thanks in all things, because this is the will of God towards us, that is another opportunity to grow.
And that is an open door for us to step into deeper fellowship with the Lord, to know who He is, to trust in Him fully, and to release all things, knowing that He is God alone.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you:
Father, in the name of Jesus: thank you. Thank you for the mighty woman of God. Thank you for the weighted glory. Thank you, Lord God, that there is nobody like you. Have your way, King of Glory. Break down every wall, Lord God. Break up the fallow ground.
Show the mighty woman of God how to prepare for the blessings of the Lord, which make rich and add no sorrow. Show her, God, how to open her heart in the midst of disappointment and in the midst of pain, and in the midst of plans falling away.
Lord, I thank you that she will choose joy, she will choose thanksgiving, that she would choose to bless you, nevertheless, for God, all things work together for the good of those that love the Lord and are called according to your purpose. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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