Grateful Psalms 18:49-50

49Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name. 50Great deliverance He gives to His king, And shows mercy to His anointed,


Listen to the writer of the Psalms…. He is struggling every day… but his trust is in the Lord regardless of the outcome… but… God is fighting his battles for him because David was a man after God’s own heart… and look at What David does and he does this over and over again in the Psalms…. I will give thanks to You, Oh Lord and sing praises to Your name,

David is thankful not only for the things that God has already done in his life, but he is thankful for what God is doing in His life as well as what God has planned to do for his as well! David knew that his strength came from the Lord. He knew that the blessings that he had in his life were all because of the Lord’s mercy and His grace to him. He gave credit where credit was due for his life and all that his life had become.

Perhaps one of the biggest problems we have as God’s children is the sin of ungratefulness… God blesses us and we go on about our living our lives with the “business as usual” attitude. It is so easy to receive a blessing from God and then think… I worked hard to get that or I really do deserve that blessing. It is easy to think, “it is about time!” It is no wonder that God is not able to bless us as He so much wants to!

We need to be like David and always be thankful for all that God has done and wants to do for us. It is not so much that God wants to be thanked as much as it is the attitude that we have which says… “I did this or I did that…” We have to learn to give God the credit… so that the whole world might know that it is God that we depend on and not our own ability…

It is impossible to pray without first being grateful!