Getting in the gates…

“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.” Psalm 100:4

What an amazing God we have!  When we have need, we can go directly to Him.  We can go through the gate.  We can enter the courts of the Most High and ask for whatever it is that we need.

By thanking Him and praising Him.

Seems backward doesn’t it.  If order to get something from God (I speak roughly here…) we need only to thank Him for it.  We need to praise Him.

Praise is a response to what God does.  (Worship is a response to Who God is.)

While in the world it would seem that we have to first get an audience with the one who has the means to provide, and then we need to make our case in the court in order to see if we will be granted our request…

In the Kingdom everything is upside down from what we know…

 everything is opposite.

We start at the end… WHY?... because  “It is finished.”

If you want to get through the gate… thank Him. 

Thank Him for everything He has done and for the things you want done.  Thank Him as though you already have what you ask for… because He is faithful to give.

And then… when you have passed the gate and are standing outside the courts… praise Him!  Celebrate the work He has done and the works He will do.  Cheer for Him!  Shout!  Let Him move in you and give you reason to rejoice.

You will shed off all of what you were worried about and begin to receive all that He desires to give you.

In the world we have to see to believe… but in the Kingdom we believe to see.

Believing is acting according to your confession.  If your confession is that Jesus is Lord and that nothing is impossible for Him… that He IS the Lord Who provides… act according to it and thank and praise Him!

It’s the only way in.

SDG